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SUNAK’S FLEXIBLE FURLOUGH! – to bring in wage and job cuts & part-time working

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‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...
Marchers with Luton MP KELVIN HOPKINS who voted against tuition fees in Parliament in 1997

Luton Mp Greets Ys March For Jobs

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education started the day yesterday with an effective early morning campaign outside the Luton GMM...

Prison staff at breaking point

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‘WE NEED a general strike before this government dismantles everything. The trade union movement must stand up as one. There is a breaking point...

Gate Gourmet workers support French strikers

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Locked out Gate Gourmet workers, on their picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, spoke out in support of the French airport workers who are...

Stop US Gp Take-Over

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The European arm of private US healthcare giant United Health is poised to take over two GP practices in Derbyshire covering 7,500 patients, one...
Hamas’s struggle has the support of the vast majority of UK workers – over 200,000 marched last Saturday to the Israeli embassy

Captured Israeli Soldier Killed In Raid

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The Israeli military yesterday bombed one of its own troops who Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, had kidnapped and taken to a safe...
Sacked Visteon workers in Basildon yesterday, demanding Ford terms and contract conditions

‘Take Action’ Unite Leaders Are Urged

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SACKED Visteon workers at the Enfield and Basildon plants yesterday demanded their union leadership take action to win their struggle. At the Enfield plant, Unite...

‘There Are No Safe Zones – They Are Zones Of Death!’

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THERE are no safe zones they are zones of death,’ UNICEF global spokesman James Elder said, as 700 Palestinians were slaughtered in Israel’s genocidal...
BMA conference delegates – determined to look after our NHS

GPs condemn £1.43 million Clinicenta contract

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LONDON GPs have complained that £1.43 million has been cut from their commissioning budgets for 2009/10 while £1.4 million is paid for a centrally...

McDonnell courts nationalists – and vows to defend Corbyn

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LABOUR shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has thrown a political bomb into the middle of the Labour Party with his pledge to the Scottish Nationalists...
Defiant striking busworkers outside the Lea  Interchange garage in north London yesterday

London Bus Strike ‘Solid’

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‘The strike was properly solid! Only four buses went out of 142 buses,’ Unite Rep Mickey Leachman said when he spoke to News line...

GAZA FOODSTOCKS ARE COMPLETELY DEPLETED – after 9 weeks of Israeli blockade

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THE UNITED Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP’s) food stocks in Gaza are completely depleted, as Israel’s aid blockade continues for a ninth week. The WFP...
Marchers demand the building of more council homes

‘Housing crisis requires building council homes’ says Labour’s shadow housing secretary Healey

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‘WE SIMPLY can’t fix the housing crisis without more council homes,’ Labour Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey told News Line yesterday, responding to...
CWU members on the Princess Royal Distribution Depot picket line at 6.00 am yesterday

CWU CALLS NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION! – All out on Tuesday August 21

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The Communica-tion Workers Union (CWU) has announ-ced a national demonstration in London in support of postal workers on Tuesday, 21 August 2007. A CWU spokeswoman...

24,000 schools are under Tory state control

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THE Education system is ‘sleepwalking towards centralisation’ with up to 24,000 schools and governing bodies accountable solely to the Secretary of State. New research, conducted...

Syrian forces seek to begin their withdrawal

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FRESH clashes broke out in Syria yesterday as the Syrian army attempted to withdraw its heavy weaponry from around several cities, while the ‘opposition’...
Tearful relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes including Patricia da Silva Armani and Vivian Figueiredo (centre) at the unveiling of the permanent memorial at Stockwell tube station

de Menezes Memorial Is Unveiled

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‘TO THIS day, not a single police officer has been punished for the deliberate shooting of an innocent man and the cover up that...

Corbyn stays silent over Second Referendum!

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn twice refused to rule out a second referendum yesterday when challenged during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons....

Leeds child heart surgery closure is halted!

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CAMPAIGNERS fighting to keep child heart surgery in Leeds yesterday won a legal challenge to the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts’ (JCPCT) consultation...

‘UK intends to withdraw from EU!’ – PM May writes to EU President Tusk

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PM May has written to EU President Tusk that ‘the referendum was a vote to restore, as we see it, our national self-determination.’ She added:...

Iran Accuses US & Britain Of Complicity In Carnage At The Al Nuseirat Camp

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THE spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has accused the United States and Britain of being complicit in the ‘terrible and inhumane’ crime perpetrated by...

Removing 2-metre rule risks second wave warn unions

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DESPITE announcing yesterday a seven-day rolling average of 130 people a day dying from Covid-19, Tory PM Johnson announced measures to ‘safely ease the...

£3bn of savage education cuts

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CHILDREN will pay a terrible price for £3 billion of savage Tory school budget cuts, education unions warned yesterday. State schools in England will have...
Marchers in central London last Saturday demanding ‘End the siege of Gaza’ cheered the resignation of Foreign Office Minister Warsi

SECOND MINISTER QUITS – Another considering his position

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A SECOND Foreign Office Minister, Mark Simmonds, has resigned from the government, 10 Downing Street said yesterday. His resignation follows that of Foreign Office Minister...
A section of yesterday’s North East London Council of Action picket determined to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

‘We must keep Chase Farm open!’

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THERE was a lively picket of at least 40 workers and youth, including sacked Visteon workers, organised by the North-East London Council of Action...
Last November’s 3,000-strong march through Enfield organised by the Council of Action to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

‘March With US To Stop Chase Farm Closure!’

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THE North-East London Council of Action yesterday called on everyone opposed to the threatened closure of Chase Farm Hospital’s Accident and Emergency department and...

Series of 48 hour postal strikes

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POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...

UK deporting Zimbabweans

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LAWYERS and rights campaigners say the UK government has been working with Zimbabwean authorities to deport asylum seekers who are wanted back home for...

‘Get rid of all privatised companies’ urge the striking Junior Doctors

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Junior doctors manned a lively and determined picket outside the Maudsley Hospital in south London yesterday, determined to defend their patients and the NHS. Laith...

EVICTIONS PROCEED – for those with pre-pandemic arrears

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DESPITE the Tories’ assurances that no one will be evicted during the pandemic, any renters who have built up arrears before the pandemic face...

1,000 Southern trains a year: Driver Only!

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SOUTHERN are running the equivalent of a 1,000 trains a year with just a driver and no other member of staff on board, RMT...

SUDDEN AND CATASTROPHIC – OILC leader Jake Malloy describes Morecambe Bay disaster

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‘Last night’s event appears to suggest that something sudden and catastrophic happened,’ offshore workers’ union, OILC leader Jake Malloy told News Line yesterday. Six bodies...

Scotland Yard To Be Investigated!

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SCOTLAND Yard is to be investigated over its failure to deal with an allegation of two acts of indecent exposure by a serving police...
Demonstrators condemn Israel outside the Houses of Parliament on Friday evening

HAMAS IS READY TO FREE SOLDIER – but Israel baulks at prisoner release

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ISRAEL blitzed Gaza from the air Sunday early morning, setting the interior ministry ablaze and killing a Palestinian fighter in the latest offensive aimed...

Royal Mail Job Security Crisis

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ASSURANCES about the future job security of Royal Mail managers are being sought by Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, following the company’s ‘poor’...

US READY TO BOMB IRAQ – but Straw rejects Hersh warning as ‘nuts’

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Yesterday two warnings were given as to the critical situation in Iraq and of US plans to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran. Award-winning US...

Abu Ghraib Contractor Producing Drones For Usa

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THE defence contractor which reached a settlement with alleged victims of torture in the notorious prison of Abu Ghraib is now again at the...

‘Renationalise!’ Urges RMT

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AS Southeastern rail franchise passes into public ownership this Sunday, the RMT transport union has revealed the true cost of private sector failure and...

RMT pickets call for general strike!

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MICK LYNCH issued a defiant message from the RMT picket line at Euston Station in central London yesterday morning, saying: ‘I’ve just heard Huw...

Pfi=Robbery

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HOSPITAL closures across the country were threatened yesterday, after it was revealed that PFI hospital buildings costing a total of £11.4 billion will cost...
The picket line at Harrow yesterday morning – RMT members respected the picket line

BUS STRIKE ‘GREAT TURN-OUT!’ – RMT refuses to cross picket lines

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LONDON bus workers took their second 24-hour strike yesterday demanding that all drivers are paid the same rate of pay. There are further strikes planned...

Corbyn Condemns Pm Johnson Over Customs Union

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IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...
YS National Secretary JOSHUA OGUNLEYE addressing ‘Block the (Westminster) Bridge’ protesters yesterday afternoon

‘WE HAVE TO KEEP NHS FREE!’ – say workers and youth

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THOUSANDS of young workers and students occupied Westminster Bridge yesterday, determined to defeat the Health and Social Care Bill (HSCB), due to be read...

Bosses ‘can hire and fire at will!’ – says Unison leader Prentis

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TRADE unions yesterday reacted angrily to the latest attack on employment rights announced by Business Secretary Vince Cable. The TUC warned: ‘Government plans to reduce...

‘Withdraw UK troops from Iraq immediately’ – PCS conference decides

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‘Iraqi people do not want a foreign occupation of their country,’ Paula Kennedy, Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester Branch, told the conference of the Public...