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Cameron-Heseltine-Tuc Unholy Alliance

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The TUC has welcomed the government’s announcement that it will adopt most of Tory former deputy prime minister Heseltine’s plans for the privatisation...
Student nurses and midwives marching to demand their bursaries are restored – on A-level results day figures reveal student applications for nursing have plummeted

Students driven out of university

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AXING student grants while hiking up university fees to an eyewatering £9,500 a year has driven tens of thousands of students out of education,...

Call a general strike or resign – UCU CONEL demands of TUC

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UCU lecturers at their emergency branch meeting yesterday demanded that the TUC organise a national demonstration and march to parliament on its 1st February ‘Day...
Single mothers and disabled families lobby the High Court over benefit cuts

20 million on food banks!

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BENEFIT cuts have created a kind of famine’ one of the over twenty million people who have visited food banks this year said,...

Occupy North Mid Hospital to stop closure

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FOUR-HOUR waits in A&E at north Middlesex Hospital have increased by 380% while at the Royal Free Hospital in London, four-hour waits in A&E...
The police lines established themselves at Hackney Central station on Monday evening

CAMERON RECALLS PARLIAMENT – 16,000 police on London’s streets

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Parliament is being recalled again tomorrow, to debate the youth uprising that is sweeping Britain. After he had chaired a Cabinet Office meeting of the...

Unite to take BA to court

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The Unite trade union yesterday announced it is to take legal action to stop British Airways imposing its disputed new work contracts on 14,000...
The Secretary of the Greek Cinema and TV Technicians trades union Chrysa Daponte and her friends at the Syntagma rally. Daponte is showing the newspaper of the Revolutionary Marxist League, Greek Section of the ICFI, with the headline ‘for an indefinite p

Greek Workers March Against Merkel!

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OVER 60,000 workers and youth in angry and militant mood participated on Tuesday afternoon at a rally in front of the Vouli (Greek parliament)...

Hand over redacted UK torture material! – MPs committee tells US administration

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THE House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is to request that the US hands over any material documenting the UK’s role in the...

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...

Southern bailout stinks!

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‘THIS STINKS of another multi-million pound taxpayer subsidy to bail out the failing Southern rail part of the Govia Thameslink franchise,’ Mick Cash general...
A lively demonstration outside the Home Office yesterday demanding ‘Shut Yarl’s Wood down’

Stop indefinite detention!

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THE indefinite detention of asylum seekers must stop, a Parliamentary report on immigration detention, released yesterday has concluded. Following the report there was an angry...

Cameron’s Police State

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PM CAMERON addressed the House of Commons yesterday on the crisis with Russia, the IS movement in Iraq and security in the UK. On the...
A section of the 220,000-strong demonstration in Marseille against the Sarkozy government’s cuts

France – 3 Million Take Action

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Three and a half million took to the streets across France in the biggest anti-pensions law mobilisation yet on Tuesday, October 12 in 244...

Israeli forces assassinate three Nablus Palestinians

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ISRAELI special forces killed three Palestinians and arrested another in the city of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank yesterday....
An enthusiastic welcome for the marchers when they arrived in Glossop

Great Welcome In Glossop For Marchers

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The Young Socialists March from Manchester to London for Jobs and Free State Education reached Sheffield late yesterday afternoon after a massive reception in...
Last October’s TUC demonstration against the Coalition’s austerity cuts

INFLATION SET TO RIP! – pound under pressure after Moody’s downgrade

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THE POUND is set to fall dramatically when the money markets open in the City of London today, following Britain’s first ever sovereign ratings...

More child starvation and bombing deaths in Gaza!

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Two children starved to death at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza yesterday, bringing the total number of those who have died from malnutrition...

Kenyan Torture Victims Testify Today

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THREE victims of alleged torture at the hands of the British government during the Kenya Emergency in the 1950s and 1960s give evidence in...

£150bn MORE FOR BANKS – as B 0f E starts printing money

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The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee yesterday cut interest rates from one per cent to a record low of 0.5 per cent. Interest rates...

Ban zero hours! – New figures show massive rise

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‘ENOUGH is enough, it’s time to follow the successful policies of other countries and ban these contracts once and for all,’ GMB’s Tim Roache...

Tanks and commandos storm al-Shifa Hospital

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ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) stormed Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City at dawn yesterday, kidnapping dozens of injured, displaced people, forcing them outside undressed, blindfolded...
Part of a mass lobby of the Nigerian Embassy in London on Friday which insisted that the fuel subsidy must be reinstated

‘A FIGHT TO THE FINISH’ – Nigerian General Strike is launched

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday called on workers and the rural poor to be ‘prepared for a fight to the finish’. This came as...
Yesterday’s mass lobby outside the House of Commons demanding the prosecution of all those companies who have been involved in the blacklisting of workers

Prosecute Blacklisters!

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Blacklisted construction workers and their supporters, 200 strong, lobbied Parliament yesterday, demanding those who operated and used blacklists in Britain be prosecuted. In 2009 the...

Ealing Trade Unions Back Gate Gourmet March

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A DELEGATION of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers leafletted at Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday and won more support for their demonstration through Hounslow...

Truss to proceed with Budget & Benefit cuts for the poor!

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AS THE Tory Party Conference began in Birmingham yesterday PM Truss boasted that she means to proceed from last week’s huge tax cuts for...

‘This Summer’s Exams Should Be Regraded’ – Nut

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FOLLOWING the GCSE results fiasco, the National Union of Teachers is demanding the regrading of all results. Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the NUT,...
Junior doctors rally on September 28 – prepared to strike against an imposed contract. Photo credit: Steve Eason

JUNIOR DOCTORS DEMANDING ‘CONCRETE ASSURANCES’ FROM HUNT! – will march to Parliament Square on...

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JUNIOR doctors have demanded ‘concrete assurances’ from Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt before ‘considering’ re-entering negotiations. Junior doctors are furious at the Tory government’s attempts...

‘Greenland belongs to people of Greenland’ – that is a right says Starmer

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‘THE UK and the US are close allies and close partners. That relationship matters profoundly – not just to our security, but to the...
JEREMY CORBYN addressing the 100,000-strong ‘Refugees Welcome’ rally on the day he was elected Labour leader, last September

‘We’ll renationalise NHS!’ says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘THE FIRST thing that we will do is repeal the Health and Social Care Act. It must be repealed and that will effectively renationalise...

Emi – 2,000 Jobs To Go

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EMI is to announce tomorrow that 2,000 jobs are to go as part of a major restructuring plan. Jobs will go throughout the company,...
3,000 tenants march on London’s City Hall to demand an end to huge rent rises and evictions. There were two marches, one from north east London, the other from south east London

‘Social Housing Is Our Right’!

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‘SOCIAL housing is our right!’ chanted over three thousand protestors on the March to Defend Council Housing on Saturday. The march began at Shoreditch Church...

‘WE WON’T SIGN AWAY OUR RIGHTS’ says Gate Gourmet shop steward

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers received a report back yesterday morning on the picket line at Heathrow Airport from their shop stewards, of a...

Three weeks of Goldsmiths University strike underway

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THREE weeks of strikes at Goldsmith’s University in south London began yesterday morning and continue today by members of the University and College Union...
French youth rise up against Sarkozy, now the right-wing Presidential candidate

REVOLUTIONARY MAY DAY! – News Line Editorial Board Statement

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THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings on this May Day to the insurgent workers of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. The Iraqi insurgency...
Marchers on the 5,000-strong Nottingham demonstration against NHS cuts determined to keep their A&E services

DEFEND DISTRICT HOSPITALS! – NHS report says treat life-threatening conditions at home

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The GMB trade union yesterday condemned as ‘dubious’ a leaked NHS report recommendation that patients with life-threatening complaints be kept out of hospital and...

NHS Crisis: 82 ‘Ghost Wards’ Contain 1,400 Empty Beds

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YEARS of savage Tory cuts to the NHS have created the unprecedented situation where there are not even enough staff to run wards. It...

300 GP surgeries are facing closure

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ALMOST 300 GP practices are facing closure, a new BMA survey released today has warned. The crisis in general practice is set to worsen according...

70,000 Nurses Shortfall In Next 5 Years

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A LEAKED copy of the Tory government report into the NHS staffing crisis reveals that there is set to be a shortfall of nearly...
Palestinian youth carry a man injured after being shot by Israeli forces on the Gaza border

EXPLOSIVE BULLETS IN GAZA! supported by Israel’s Supreme Court

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THE Israeli Supreme Court rejected on Thursday night two petitions and fully adopted the Israeli military’s position, giving a green light to its continued...
FBU members from the Midlands with their banner on last October’s TUC demonstration against austerity

West Midlands firefighters strike looms – over 300 jobs threatened

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FIREFIGHTERS in the West Midlands have warned they could be forced to take industrial action over plans to cut 300 firefighting posts, leaving the...
The July 5th NHS Anniversary march showed the determination to defend the NHS by all means necessary

BMA opposes Health Bill!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) Council on Thursday decided to oppose the whole Health and Social Care Bill, the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA Council...

Syria – nationwide ceasefire proposed

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RUSSIA and Turkey have reached an agreement on a proposal for a nationwide ceasefire in Syria from midnight, Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency...

NHS Being Cut To Aid Private Sector!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the cancellation by an Oxford hospital of a routine heart procedure because of lack of...
Metroline, now bankrupt with its RMT workforce demanding nationalisation

King Warns About Intensifying Crisis

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In a paper submitted to the House of Commons Treasury Committee, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England warned yesterday: ‘The recent turmoil...