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A section of Saturday’s 25,000-strong ‘Gaza Flotilla March’ makes its way towards the Israeli Embassy in Kensington

‘Break The Siege’ Call From Gaza

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A call has come from the University Teachers’ Association, the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel and 31 other Gaza civil...

DOWNING ST LAWBREAKERS – to be named by Civil Service boss Gray

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SUE GRAY INTENDS TO NAME civil servants who broke Covid rules at lockdown parties in and around Downing Street. The senior civil servant will publish...
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...

Polar storm rips through Gaza

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A POLAR low-pressure storm poses a serious danger to displaced families and residents amid the massive destruction caused by the Israeli genocide that has...
A strong and confident picket line at the Brockley Delivery Office yesterday morning

‘OUR LEADERS MUST LEAD’ – demand London postal workers

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LONDON postal workers took 24-hour strike action yesterday, with pickets across the capital demanding that the action is stepped up and that the union...

‘GREEN LIGHT TO TORTURE’ – Amnesty condemns Algerian’s deportation

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Yesterday’s immigration panel ruling to deport an Algerian man as a threat to national security is ‘an affront to justice and a green light...

Trump plans Gaza military base to control the Strip

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THE Donald Trump administration is planning a large military installation in Gaza capable of housing up to 5,000 personnel as part of a multinational...

‘WE ARE FIGHTING TO PRESERVE NHS’ – says BMA

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday insisted it is ‘fighting to preserve the NHS’. Responding to a news article in Pulse magazine on the BMA’s...

Lebanese village ‘massacre’

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With the encouragement of Bush and Blair, Israel continued its murderous air, land and sea bombardments on Lebanon yesterday, striking central Beirut for the...

Ambulances waiting crisis!

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About 300,000 ambulances were left queuing outside hospitals last year, with patients waiting up to eight hours, or even longer, to be transferred into...

PATIENT CARE AT RISK – from private treatment centres

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Senior doctors yesterday renewed a warning that private treatment centres are putting patient care at risk and destabilising the NHS. The British Medical Association (BMA)...
UNISON general secretary DAVE PRENTIS (centre)  at the NHS Together lobby of parliament on November 1st

STOP THIS CLOSURE! – Maidstone Hospital A&E threatened

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A senior consultant at Maidstone Hospital in Kent last Saturday publicly announced that he has resigned his managerial post because of plans to close...

FOOD PRICES SET TO SOAR! – Gas privateers making huge profits

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Further heavy snowfalls are forecast today, piling more pressure on Britain’s already-stretched winter resources. Prime Minister Brown has convened the Cobra emergency committee as forecasters...
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...

Fierce fighting in Jabalia refugee camp

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FIERCE fighting is taking place in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Palestinian soldiers battle Israeli troops after they launched another deadly...
Students joined lecturers’ picket line during their strike action earlier this month

Gate Gourmet workers win support for march

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers are campaigning every day for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. Lakhinder Saran told News Line yesterday: ‘I went...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers outside the local TGWU offices in Hillingdon demand the scrapping of the Compromise Agreement

Strike At Terminal 5

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Fifteen hundred construction workers employed by civil engineers Laing O’Rourke on the Heathrow Terminal 5 site, yesterday launched the first of two 24-hour strikes...
On the 70th anniversary of the NHS millions of workers who depend on the NHS must organise to bring down the Tories to save it!

Celebrate 70 years of the NHS! –by bringing down the Tories

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70 YEARS of the NHS are being celebrated with a mass demonstration today in central London supported by the TUC and 11 other health...

NHS contracts to be imposed

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NHS England Medical Director Keogh has announced that hospitals are to be forced to change the consultant contract and institute so-called ‘seven day working’...

Starmer & Tory PM Johnson arm-in-arm against Russia!

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‘IF PRESIDENT Putin were to choose the path of bloodshed and destruction he must realise it would be both tragic and futile,’ Tory PM...

Inflation Lets Rip!

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Inflation rose to 4.8 per cent in March, according to the latest RPIX index – which includes all items excluding mortgage interest payments. The latest...

Imf Orders More Irish ‘Repossessions’

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THE International Monetary Fund has delivered a brutal assessment of Ireland’s economic situation, complaining of a lack of progress by banks, and dangers of...

Osborne hammers poor!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne launched his vicious class war budget yesterday, signalling massive Tory attacks on the working class, with the young and the poor his...
Palestinian funeral – there are going to be many more after Israel’s barbaric attacks on the Great March of Return on the Gaza border

8 Killed & over 500 injured – by Israeli troops and tanks in Gaza

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ISRAELI forces opened fire on Friday afternoon at thousands of Palestinians who participated in the Great March of Return along Gaza borders, killing at...
Trade unionists and youth lobbied the TUC yesterday afternoon demanding ‘No pensions Sell-out!’

NO DEAL! – says PCS

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THE pcs civil servants union yesterday rejected the government’s pensions plan to force public servants to pay more and work longer for less in...
Nurses rally against low pay which is driving them out of the NHS –  A&E targets have been missed due to staff shortages

Smokers and obese patients banned!

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SMOKERS and people suffering from obesity will be barred from surgery under plans which the Royal College of Surgeons warn tear up the fundamental...
Junior doctors in a mass sit-down protest outside Downing Street in 2016. Hunt’s imposed contract is now up for renegotiation

New Junior Doctors’ Contract Negotiations

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THE BMA (British Medical Association) announced at the annual junior doctors committee meeting on Saturday that it is participating ‘in a collaborative review and...
Demonstration to defend the NHS marching from Bart’s Hospital on Thursday evening

NHS AT RISK! – warns Public Accounts Committee

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MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned that the disproportionate growth in spending on specialised services poses a risk to the financial...
Lambeth College strikers at their lunchtime rally yesterday

‘LET’S CONTINUE!’ say Lambeth College strikers

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LAMBETH College UCU began an indefinite strike yesterday in their escalating struggle against the imposition of new contracts. The new contracts would take away both...

Government rides roughshod! – Cameron excludes health professionals

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‘DON’T you dare lie to me!’ angry pensioner June Hautot shouted at Health Secretary Lansley as she confronted him at the entrance to Downing...
As military chiefs called for ‘boots on the ground’ in Syria and Iraq thousands marched in the rain in London on Saturday against the war

Ex-Army Chiefs Beating War Drums

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FORMER senior military commanders are runnng a campaign to strengthen the British army for a war in Syria. The former head of the armed forces...

Abbas calls for emergency session of UN to discuss Israeli mass murder at the...

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Israeli regime’s recent carnage in...

UNIONS MARCH AGAINST MACRON – day after French election

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TRADE unions, students and youth marched through the streets of Paris yesterday against Emmanuel Macron’s proposed ‘Labour Reforms’ on the very next day...
The struggle of the Egyptian workers is an inspiration to the workers of the world

‘A MILLION TO MARCH TODAY’ – as Suleiman appeals for 200 days of calm

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EGYPTIAN anti-government protesters yesterday fought the regime to a standstill and pushed the supporters of President Hosni Mubarak out of the streets near...
Finance Ministry cleaners in Athens have spent 267 days fighting to get their jobs back and are now determined to return to work

Athens Cleaners Want Jobs Back

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THE new Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), announced his government on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the sacked...

Easyjet Pilots Will Fight For Every Job – Balpa

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MORE than 2,000 easyJet pilots (99.9%) have voted overwhelmingly to express no confidence in the company’s Chief Operations Officer, Peter Bellew. BALPA, which organised the...
MICK WHELAN, Aslef general secretary (ASLEF T-shirt) and Unite leader LEN McCLUSKEY (3rd from left) at the front of the National Austerity Protest last

Defend right to strike!

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THE TRADE Union Bill, to be outlined tomorrow in parliament by the Tory government, is designed to railroad through legislation which will make it...

APPALLING CAPITA FAILURE! –fails to send screening letters to 48,000 women

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THE BMA has criticised the ‘appalling’ failure by health privateer Capita to send cervical screening letters to up to 48,000 women. It has written...

Rail & Busworkers Support Call For A General Strike

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RAIL and bus workers are supporting the call for the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories. On the picket line...
CWU leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward visited the picket line at Mandela Way, SE London yesterday, which was supported by local NUT branches

WE WILL WIN! say CWU leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward

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‘THIS has been the best-supported strike I’ve ever seen,’ CWU General Secretary Billy Hayes told striking postal workers on the picket line at Mandela...

Labour launches savage attack on unemployed!

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LABOUR launched a new extreme attack on the unemployed yesterday, announcing that if they do not find a job within a year they will...
West London Council of Action pickets – determined to keep the Maternity Department open

‘We have to stop Ealing Maternity closure!’

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TRADE union members working at Ealing Hospital yesterday bought their tickets for next Tuesday’s meeting and pledged to march and occupy to defend the...

Bmw Ready For Strike Ballot!

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Workers at BMW’s Mini plant in Oxford have overwhelmingly rejected a ‘strings attached’ pay offer, raising the prospect of the first strike since 1984. In...

12 Palestinians killed in the West Bank!

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TWELVE Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces in several areas in the occupied West Bank yesterday, including nine youths. Two youths and a child were...

Capitalism is crashing – Build revolutionary leadership! – News Line 55th Anniversary rally is...

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‘CAPITALISM is crashing in Britain and all over the world,’ Workers Revolutionary Party Central Committee member Frank Sweeney told the News Line 55th Anniversary...