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Joint Statement From Gmb And Laboursource

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GMB and LabourSource Ltd have reached agreement over the pay, conditions and treatment of the company's migrant workforce that resolves all misunderstandings and issues...

‘COME AND TALK TO LABOUR PARTY’ – Watson urges May!

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DEPUTY Labour Party leader Tom Watson yesterday urged Tory leader May to ‘come and talk to the Labour Party’. ‘If she cannot get...

Barts & St Thomas’ solidarity action!

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UNITE Rep at Barts and Whipps Cross hospitals, Leonard Hockey spoke to News Line about the delegation that joined the St Thomas and Guy’s...

97% of teachers oppose SATs – National strike is looming

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NINETY seven percent of 54,000 primary school teachers polled are opposed to the SATs exams, their union the National Education Union reports today, the...

‘Tories out of control!’ says Labour as pound crashes

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‘THEY'VE lost credibility, they’re losing confidence, they’re out of control,’ Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as the pound...
Nurses rallying against job and pay cuts a year ago

PAY NURSES IN FULL! – demand 186 MPs

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Nearly 200 MPs, including former Labour ministers, have joined calls for the government to give nurses this year’s pay award in full, instead of...

Private company dumps half a million NHS patient letters

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‘LET’S be under no illusions this is a catastrophic breach of data protection,’ Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s shadow secretary of state for health told Parliament...
Lecturers fighting Labour cuts – will do the same or more under a coalition government

Lib Dems Head For Tories

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BRITAIN remained without a government yesterday, as the Liberal Democrats prepared to dump their proportional representation policy in order to strike a dirty coalition...
Ambulance and patient transfer crews lobby South London Healthcare NHS Trust Board yesterday morning

Gmb Fights Privatisation

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Yesterday morning over 100 ambulance crew turned out to lobby the board of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust to warn them to stop...

Israeli mass murder continues

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THE Palestinian Mission in London reported yesterday that ‘In the past year Israeli government forces have further intensified their provocations and attack against Al-Aqsa...

Racists driven off the streets!

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IN A powerful display of unity and solidarity on Wednesday, thousands of youth and workers gathered across the UK to form human shields to...

‘Reinstatement For All – And No Victimisations’

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TALKS are taking place between Gate Gourmet management and the Transport and General Workers Union today. Locked out Gate Gourmet workers told News Line on...

Kwarteng declares war on the working class – after humiliating turnaround

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FOLLOWING his humiliating U-Turn in the small hours of yesterday morning, when Chancellor Kwazi Kwarteng’s announced the abolition of the 45p rate of tax...
Labour has already shut down 30 Remploy factories, putting large numbers of disabled workers out of a job

LABOUR, THE BANKERS FRIEND – turns on the unemployed

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‘With the economy slowing down, and many commentators expecting unemployment to rise, now is not the time to start blaming the victim,’ said TUC...

Free, free Palestine! – chants 30,000 Glastonbury crowd as Cooper prepares ban

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‘We understand colonialism and we understand how important it is to support each other internationally,’ Belfast rap group Kneecap singer Mo Chara told a...
Barricades outside the White House on Sunday

Clashes outside the White House – as debt decision day looms

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ANGRY crowds in Washington DC have clashed with riot police in front of the White House over the current government shutdown. A number of rallies...
Unite banners assemble on London’s Embankment at the front of Saturday’s 150,000-strong march

150,000 marchers demand action to kick out Tories!

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150,000 WORKERS, trade unionists, students and youth marched from Embankment to Hyde Park in central London on the TUC’s ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’...

BA Bid To Make Strike Illegal!

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British Airways yesterday initiated legal action in a bid to stop the 12-day strike from December 22, announced by the Unite union. Refusing...

DEFIANT SADDAM – refuses to recognise stooge court

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Saddam Hussein yesterday insisted he was the president of Iraq, and refused to recognise the US appointed court, declining to give his name or...
Junior doctors marching against contract imposition and the Tory government’s attempts to destroy the NHS

NHS WINTER CRISIS – government NHS cuts are the cause

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THE NHS in England will struggle this winter without more beds in care homes and other community settings to ease hospital pressures, Nuffield Trust...
The London and Eastern Region banner of Unite on the massive student demonstration in London on December 9

‘Turmoil Ahead’ Predicts Union Leaders

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‘Working people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life’, say the...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers campaigning on Southall High Street for next Monday’s May Day march

RCN OPPOSES ‘RELENTLESS’ NHS ‘REFORM’ – UNISON Health Conference to demand action

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A Royal College of Nursing (RCN) survey of senior nurses, released yesterday, says 13,000 NHS job losses have been announced in the last six...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line at Heathrow – demanding action from the TGWU leaders for their reinstatement and that of the sacked BA shop stewards

‘WE WANT ANSWERS!’ say furious West Virginia mining families

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US miners’ families’ relief turned to fury yesterday when they heard that only one of 12 trapped miners was alive when their bodies were...

Capital City lecturers strike

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STRIKING Capital City College Group (CCCG) lecturers rallied outside the CEO’s office in Victoria yesterday on the second day of their eight-day strike. The strikers...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers angrily lobbying a member of the TGWU National Executive at their meeting yesterday

Woodley Refuses Gate Gourmet Workers Hardship Payments

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‘WOODLEY said “You can stand outside the T&G office for as many years as you want to, it’s not going to change anything’’,’ Gate...

FBU condemns strikebreakers!

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The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) yesterday expressed ‘deep concern’ over secret plans to hire Group 4 private strike breakers in a £100m contract. A FBU...

Duncan Smith Condemns The May EU Elections!

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FORMER Tory Party leader Iain Duncan Smith called for Prime Minister Theresa May to quit before the European elections in May. Appearing on Sky’s Sophy...

BROWN’S 2.5% VAT CUT – borrowing to be increased by £150bn

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Chancellor Darling is set to announce a 2.5 per cent cut in Value Added Tax (VAT) from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent...
Palestinian youth battle with Israeli troops and settlers on the West Bank

Ashrawi Denounces New Israeli Settlements Move

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HANAN ASHRAWI, a Member of the PLO Executive Committee, has strongly condemned the so-called Israeli Civil Administration’s decision to grant the approval for the...
Young doctors with a clear message on NHS cuts and privatisation

Medical companies sold NHS defective pacemakers!

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PRIVATE medical companies have been selling deficient pacemakers to the NHS knowing full well that they have failed tests, the Royal College of Surgeons...

53rd anniversary of the launch of the Palestinian revolution!

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas will light a torch next Sunday evening in Ramallah to mark the 53rd anniversary of the launch of the Palestinian...
Doctors applaud one of the speakers at the BMA conference yesterday, where NHS privatisation was loudly condemned

DEFEND NHS GENERAL HOSPITALS! – demand BMA delegates

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DOCTORS at the British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to oppose the government’s ‘local hospital model for London’. They voted instead...
Palestinian youth prepare to set fire to piles of tyres on yesterday’s massive ‘Great March of Return’ on the Gaza border

Lethal force used against Palestinians

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LETHAL force was used again yesterday against unarmed Palestinians demonstrating on the Gaza border as Israeli forces open fired, killing two Palestinians. Thousands of protesters...
Council tenants demonstrate against the sale of their homes on Heygate and Aylesbury estates in Southwark, south London

End The Cuts And Build Council Housing

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‘We look forward to see what the government’s economic recovery strategy is,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Any measures that ease the pressure...

Defend NHS!

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GPs in Harrow are up in arms against plans to close down health centres and combine GP practices into large units, turning them...

EXECUTING AFGHAN CIVILIANS – SAS unit is accused

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A unit of the British Army’s Special Air Service (SAS) has been accused of carrying out night missions in which they executed civilians in...
The South-East London Council of Action marching to defend tenants on Heygate and Aylesbury council estates

4.5m ON WAITING LISTS – privatisation creates housing disaster

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THE privatisation of housing has been a complete disaster. Completely inadequate numbers of new homes have been built in every region in England since...
Demonstrators on last Saturday’s 100,000-strong demonstration through central London characterise the leaders of the imperialist alliance

Hezbollah Halts Israeli Advance

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Hezbollah said its fighters killed or wounded 15 Israeli soldiers trying to advance towards the border village of Aita al-Shaab yesterday morning, as fighting...

£1,000 A Year Energy Bills!

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Consumer and pensioners organisations yesterday slammed massive inflation-busting gas and electricity price rises announced by energy giant Powergen. Watchdog Energywatch warned that consumers face...

38% increase in A&E waiting times – caused by government staff cuts

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A KING’S Fund report has warned that government cuts and staff shortages led to a 38 per cent increase in A&E waiting times in...

21 firefighters leave UK to help fight Greek wildfires

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TWENTY-ONE firefighters from the UK left yesterday evening for Greece to assist firefighters out there, in an international effort to tackle the raging wildfires. Tony...
The locked-out scientists and support staff refuse to be intimidated and are demanding that the ‘sign or be sacked’ ultimatum be withdrawn and that they return to work

‘Stop war on NHS workers’

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UNITE leader Len McCluskey visited locked out NHS biomedical staff yesterday to highlight the appalling treatment they’ve received at the hands of their NHS...

BA pilots strike!

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BALPA (British Airline Pilots Association) yesterday gave notice to British Airways that it calls on its members to strike on 9th, 10th and 27th...

Southall Public Meeting: Quit EU on October 31! – October 24th, 2019

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News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st! For a workers government and...

Gaza and West Bank deaths surge to 3,866!

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IN the wake of the devastating Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, the death toll has surged to...