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Youth on the street in Port-au-Prince – thousands are now homeless in the capital

‘MILLIONS IN URGENT NEED’ after Haiti’s biggest earthquake in 200 years

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SURVIVORS of Haiti’s biggest earthquake for 200 years yesterday appealed to the world for urgent food, water and medicines as the death toll continued...

‘Europe will pay the bill for the US supplying Ukraine with weapons!’

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called on the United States to continue supplying Ukraine with weapons in its war against Russia, assuring that...
Part of the contingent of Gate Gourmet sacked workers with their historic banner outside the TUC Congress yesterday

‘THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS CASUALISED’ – Woodley admits TUC responsibility

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Delegates voted unanimously for Composite 3: ‘Agency Workers’ at the TUC Congress yesterday calling for ‘legislation to outlaw discrimination against agency workers’. It called on...
Ten thousand turned out in Ealing on September 15 on the march to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital

Hunt signals more NHS cuts

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THE British Medical Association yesterday expressed concern for the future of the NHS, after Health Secretary Hunt signalled more savage cuts. A BMA spokesperson said:...
Postal workers demonstrated at the Labour Party Conference, but their case has been dismissed by Brown and Mandelson

‘We Must Take Strike Action’ –Cwu Reps Tell News Line

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Communication Workers Union reps yesterday hit back at Royal Mail’s decision to hire up to 30,000 temporary workers to break the union’s planned 48-hour...

PCS taking legal action against Home Secretary Braverman!

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A HOME OFFICE whistleblower has revealed that the Tory government is recruiting supermarket customer services reps and employing them as asylum claim processors with...

Corona spreading through England’s school system!

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DESPITE warnings from unions the Tories re-opened schools last week, and now coronavirus has begun spreading through the school system across England. Five teachers at...
Corus workers in the front of the ‘Unite for Jobs’ march in Birmingham on May 16

NATIONALISE CORUS – to defend every job

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THE Community Union described as ‘devastating,’ yesterday’s announcement of 2,000 more job cuts in Corus plants across the UK, and said there was now...

‘LIVES AT RISK’ – warns Patients Association over Ambulance Review

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‘Sending lay first aiders could be dangerous and in some cases risk lives,’ Michael Summers, chairman of the Patients Association told News Line yesterday. He...
JJB Sports striking GMB members lobbying the DTI in London yesterday with the ‘dog that did not bark’ to demand that the Employment Agencies Standards Inspectorate enforce the law in their dispute

‘Enforce the law’ against strikebreakers demand GMB

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STRIKING JJB Sports warehouse staff from Wigan went to London yesterday, to demand the government takes action to uphold the law against strike-breaking by...

Hamas welcomes call for an immediate ceasefire!

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THE OVERWHELMING United Nations vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday night was welcomed by the Hamas Movement and the Palestine Liberation...

Athens Law School occupied!

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STUDENTS and unemployed youth have occupied the Law School building of Athens University in the centre of the city demanding the closing down of...

Saif Al-Islam Gadaffi Freed

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SAIF AL-ISLAM GADAFFI, son of murdered Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has been released from prison, according to the militia that has held him for...

Itv Strike Ballot!

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ITV staff are to ballot for strike action over pay. BECTU said: ‘Union officials at ITV have rejected the company’s latest pay offer for 2015...

OUTSOURCING FOR TORTURE – House of Commons Committee demands investigation

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THE House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has called for an investigation into whether the British Labour government outsourced British nationals to countries such...

UK Threatened By Global Shocks – Says Bank Of England Report

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The UK economy is under threat of collapse from ‘global shocks’, and has no real independence and little room for manoeuvre. This subordination of...
NEWS LINE ANNIVERSARY RALLY: SUNDAY 2nd DECEMBER

NEWS LINE ANNIVERSARY RALLY: SUNDAY 2nd DECEMBER

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The News Line Anniversary Rally takes place on Sunday December 2nd from 2-6pm at Skeel Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary university, Mile End, London E1 For...
Protest outside a court hearing for Babar Ahmad in London in May 2005

Babar Ahmad was subjected to violent assaults and religious taunts by police

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The Metropolitan Police has agreed to pay £60,000 damages to IT analyst Babar Ahmad during a civil action hearing at the High Court which...

Unite offer to accept the anti-union laws!

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UNITE is prepared to accept the Tories’ plans for thresholds for industrial action ballots. The union said in a statement yesterday: ‘The prime minister has...

POMPEO VISITS LONDON – after Iran suspends nuclear deal

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IRAN has suspended its commitments under the 2015 international nuclear deal, a year after it was ripped up by President Trump. President Hassan Rouhani said...
Lecturers during a strike at Lambeth College – they are among sixteen colleges on strike next week

UCU members to strike next week at 16 colleges

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STRIKING staff at Abingdon and Witney College will be on picket lines outside both the Abingdon and Witney campuses from 8am on Tuesday...

GMB legal win over Lidl!

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GMB is celebrating a landmark legal victory over German-owned, low-cost supermarket Lidl. The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), the independent tribunal with statutory powers over trade...
John McDonnell took the lead after the 2017 general election to organise a demonstration to Parliament to bring the Tories down, urging ‘Not One Day More ’

McDonnell advocates Customs Union pact with PM May!

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LABOUR’s plan for a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit can secure a Commons majority, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday. He called...

3rd Day of Palestinian hunger strike!

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OVER 100 Fatah-affiliated prisoners in Israeli jails entered their third day on hunger strike yesterday, prisoner representatives said. The 120 prisoners, all held in Nafha...
Junior doctors took strike action to stop an imposed contract and to save the NHS – their struggle must now be continued to bring the Tories down

‘GP collapse’ in North of Ireland! – put the Tories out on June 8th...

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GENERAL Practice in the North of Ireland is close to collapse with the General Practitioners Committee (GPC) seeking to collect enough undated resignations to...

Teachers ready for further strike action from July 3rd

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THE NEU (National Education Union) has written to the Secretary of State for Education ahead of its National Executive meeting on the 17 June. ‘We...
School youth marching to demand the reinstatement of the Education Maintenance  Allowance – the collapse of the retail industry is making it much more difficult for school leavers and youth to get jobs

Retail Collapse Hitting Youth

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THE British Retail Consortium warned yesterday that after zero growth in 2011 and a disappointing Christmas, the new year is seeing a spate of...
A section of the platform at the Gate Gourmet sacked workers 2nd anniversary rally with film maker KEN LOACH speaking

REJECT THE DEAL! – CWU rep urges at Gate Gourmet anniversary rally

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‘Reject this agreement and carry on with the industrial action,’ Billy Colvill, CWU rep from south east London, yesterday urged the union’s postal executive,...

Firefighters role under attack

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A PROPOSAL by fire chiefs to expand a firefighter’s role at will and without boundaries has been overwhelming rejected by firefighters by 97%. The proposals...

Tory plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda illegal!

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A COURT RULING that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful has been welcomed by the charity that challenged...
GPs, local residents and trade unionists rally against the privatisation of St Paul’s Way surgery in Bow on January 31

GPs GIVEN AN OFFER THEY CAN’T REFUSE! – BMA condemns Labour dictatorship

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The British Medical Association has condemned the government for putting GPs into an impossible position and forcing them to choose between ‘two bad...

GOOD ON THE GRANGEMOUTH WORKERS! – say Road Hauliers

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‘I think, good on the striking workers at Grangemouth,’ said Simon Gough, from A E Gough and Sons in mid-Wales, as more than 100...
Demonstrators in London last May against Labour’s immigration controls

Byrne Announces Immigration Crackdown!

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Immigration minister Liam Byrne yesterday announced that all visitors to Britain requiring a visa are now having their fingerprints taken in their home country. Byrne...
Yesterday’s picket of Chase farm Hospital with Unison Regional officer DEREK HELYAR (at left of banner)

Unison picket at Chase Farm Hospital

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Unison – the biggest health workers union – yesterday staged a picket of Chase Farm Hospital against the threat to close the hospital’s A&E,...

Blair Whitewash –

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‘The way things are going they are going to wrap everything up – they are covering up everything,’ the cousin of murdered Brazilian Jean...

Public Health Time Bomb!

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DOCTORS’ leaders warned yesterday that the UK is facing a ticking time bomb in public health, with a lack of leadership on improving...

CORBYN WELCOMED – while right wing refuses to serve

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TRADE unions yesterday welcomed the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. This was after the explosion of working class anger inside and around...

Hunger strikers for Palestine are defiant & determined to continue

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‘I WAS admitted into A&E on Tuesday afternoon and was returned to Pentonville by Friday evening,’ said pro-Palestinian hunger striker Kamran Ahmed yesterday. Ahmed, one...
SHAHIDA BEGUM and children meet WRP candidate JONTY LEFF

Vote Wrp Vote Leff In Hackney And Shoreditch

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‘I AM joining the fight to elect Jonty Leff because we must defend the NHS, defend Homerton Hospital and defend the Pathology Lab,’ RCN...
Disabled demonstrators against the Welfare Reform Bill

SMASH WELFARE REFORM BILL! – children, disabled and poor targeted

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THE Welfare Reform Bill will ‘undoubtedly’ cause great harm to children and the poorest families in the country, the Children’s Society warned yesterday. The charity...
2 Years Since Grenfell

2 years since Grenfell – June 14th & June 15th, 2019

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Silent march Friday, June 14th Meet 7pm at Methodist Church and march through North Kensington. Solidarity march Saturday, June 15th Meet 11am at Portland Place, off Regent Street W1A...
Baha Mousa after UK soldiers tortured him – Dr Keilloh did his best to cover the torture up

KEILLOH STRUCK OFF MEDICAL REGISTER – after Baha Mousa torture

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THE Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) yesterday struck off the medical register former British Army doctor Dr Derek Keilloh after his misconduct over the...

‘Don’t lecture us about wage restraint’ – ‘the alarm bells are ringing!’ says Unite’s...

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‘Don’t lecture us about pay restraint,’ the Unite and GMB unions retorted to appeals from Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey yesterday,...

Half a million on London Nakba march for Palestine

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MORE than half a million workers, students and youth joined London’s Nakba 77 march on Downing Street in support of Palestine on Saturday. As it...

‘Pandora’s Box is about to be opened’ says BMA’s Banfield He adds: ‘This is...

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DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...