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‘NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ACTION!’ say firefighters and control staff

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‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...

US & ISRAEL STOKING GAZA CLASHES says Hamas call for national unity

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THE political leader the Hamas Palest-inian liberation movement has said that the US and Israel are responsible for last week’s clashes between Hamas...

Dramatic Slump In GP Numbers!

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DOCTORS union the BMA yesterday responded to the shocking latest England GP workforce data and Health Foundation forecasts, showing a dramatic slump in the...
Overseas doctors picket Downing Street after the government changed the rules of their employment last April

‘SHABBY AND UNFAIR!’ – BMA slams treatment of overseas doctors

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The British Medical Association yesterday renewed its condemnation of ‘shabby’ and ‘unfair’ rules, that will cost many loyal overseas doctors their jobs. Most of those...

Action Is Needed To Defend Royal Mail Jobs And Pensions

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CWU members working in Royal Mail are facing the greatest threats to their jobs and conditions in the entire history of the postal service. With...
Health workers on the TUC march on May 12th – thousands of patients have been discharged too soon because of a lack of beds

Thousands of patients sent home too soon!

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THE NHS is so short staffed, with such a lack of beds that patients are being sent home too early, as a result...

Unite – Significant Victory For The Lower Paid!

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UNITE has secured a significant victory on behalf of low-paid cleaners employed by outsourcing giant Mitie at Heathrow airport. The mainly migrant workforce whose first...

‘IN A QUEUE TO DIE!’ – South Africa’s nurses work in fear and exhaustion

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NTHABELENG, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid-19 pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. Each day, she begins her shift haunted by...

Cabin Crew 100% Solid

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‘HUNDREDS of planes are grounded,’ Unite said yesterday, on the third day of the strike action by its British Airways cabin crew members. Unite said...
West London Council of Action picket at Ealing hospital determined to keep it open and calling for a big turnout for Sunday’s ‘Big Bike Ride’

Join Our Big Bike Ride!

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‘CALLING all cyclists – join our Big Bike Ride from Ealing Hospital to Charing Cross Hospital on Sunday morning. And if you’re not...

Tuc Calls For Inquiry Into ‘Back To Work’ Regime

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THE Department for Work and Pensions yesterday released shocking mortality figures in response to a number of Freedom of Information requests concerning ‘the number...

Energy Price Rise Bombshell

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UNISON leader Dave Prentis has warned that the massive 10 per cent price hike announced by the British Gas energy privateer yesterday will lead...

Italy Vote Sends Shudders Through Markets

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EUROPEAN stock markets fell sharply yesterday, with the election result in Italy producing no government, but marking a massive vote against austerity. Italy’s FTSE MIB...

52 Palestinians killed!

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ON THURSDAY alone, at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Eighteen were massacred in Jabalia when a residential home sheltering displaced...
Teachers and doctors called a joint march at which PCS, RMT, FBU and ASLEF attended – all unions must strike together to defend the NHS

Junior Doctors must not fight alone – TUC call a general strike!

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ALL day yesterday the junior doctors were under heavy attack with Tories demanding that their strike be made illegal and suggestions being made that...

2023 – Will be the year for World Socialist Revolution! – New Year’s greetings...

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2023 to all our readers, and to the working class, youth and the poor, who...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside BALPA offices yesterday campaigning for their first anniversary rally

Balpa Leader Buys Ticket For August 20 Rally

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BRITISH Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) chief negotiator Pete James bought his ticket yesterday for the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers anniversary rally in Southall...

Nato Kills Hundreds Of Civilians

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NATO air raids have killed more than 700 civilians and injured over 4,000, many of them seriously, since bombing of Libya began in March,...
BA mixed fleet cabin crew Unite strikers were joined on the Heathrow picket line by other trade unionists supporting the strikers ‘Solidarity Saturday’

‘Real Hardship Among Strikers’

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STRIKING British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew at Heathrow Airport welcomed other trade unionists on their Hatton Cross picket line on Saturday, dubbing it...
Picturehouse cinema workers striking for the ‘Living Wage’ – they have had enough of austerity

Workers Demand ‘End Austerity!’

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SURVATION – who accurately predicted the hung parliament – also now shows Labour storming to a 7 per cent lead over the Conservatives. ...

‘BIG SUPPORT FOR US’ – In London region say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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GATE GOURMET locked out workers are winning great support in the London Region TGWU, and attended a meeting earlier this week. Locked out worker...

Israel moves to annexe the occupied West Bank

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THE Israeli parliament approved in a narrow vote on Wednesday a bill that would extend Israeli domestic law to the occupied West Bank. The move...
March in Ealing on April 26 against the closure of the Ealing, Charing Cross, Hammersmith and Central Middlesex hospitals

STOP NHS STAFF CUTS – says Safe Staffing Alliance

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SENIOR nurses have issued a warning about unsafe staffing levels on hospital wards in England. The Safe Staffing Alliance, which includes the Royal College of...
GPs in Tower Hamlets in a demonstration against the sell-off of GP surgeries

£850 A Day To Cover Gp Shortages

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MORE than half of family doctors say they are expecting to leave the profession early according to a new ComRes survey carried out for...

Largest School Cuts For A Generation!

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TWO National Union of Teachers (NUT)/YouGov polls of parents and teachers reveal the growing crisis in schools, the NUT said yesterday. The polls found: ...
Junior doctors on strike against the ‘unfair, unsafe’ imposed contract in 2016

JUNIOR DOCTORS DOG-TIRED 63,000 contract breaches

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TENS of thousands of junior doctors are working beyond contracted hours without a break, making them extremely tired which, in turn, puts patients’...
Police Riot In Athens

Police Riot In Athens

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GREEK workers and youth demonstrated in their hundreds of thousands last Wednesday throughout the country as part of a 24-hour general strike against the...
Southern Rail guards on the picket line at Brighton station yesterday morning

Big support for TUC lobby in Brighton

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DAVE Russell, GMB rep for council infrastructure at the Brighton and Hove refuse collection depot yesterday told News Line: ‘We are going to join...
Steel workers march past parliament in May demanding action to save the steel industry

Unite demands Guarantee for Port Talbot steel!

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TATA steel at Port Talbot in Wales is being allowed to ‘wither on the vine’ while the specialised side of the business...
Civil servants and other public sector workers demonstrated on March 26 defending their pensions and condemning the coalition

Coalition Pensions War!

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Trade unions yesterday reacted furiously to pension change threats by Treasury Secretary Douglas Alexander. He said that all public sector workers, bar the army, police...

Half Of Gaza Population Is Starving

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THE United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that half the population is starving in Gaza. UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini,...

Greek bosses stop wages!

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HUNDREDS of workers and youth demonstrated in front of the Greek Business Association (SEV) building in Athens on Wednesday afternoon demanding that firms pay...

‘NO DEAL WITH EU’ –demand Greek workers & youth

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THOUSANDS of workers and students took part in marches held in several Greek cities last Thursday evening against any agreement which will continue the...

No agreement over Brexit

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‘IT is not possible for us to reach an agreement today,’ Jean Claude Juncker, EU Commissioner said at a press conference yesterday as the...
TUC delegates demonstrate their resolve to do battle over the pensions issue

‘68 is too late’ – decides TUC Congress

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TUC DELEGATES yesterday voted unanimously to defend the Welfare State, pensions, and state education. They voted for Composite Motion 8: The Welfare State...

Home Office Wants To Send Rose To Her Death

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HER local Yorkshire community is defending Roseline Akhalu, a Nigerian-born kidney-transplant patient, from deportation and death. The UK immigration authorities have hounded her, an ill...

Johnson speaks as troops go in

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‘IT would be fatal if this sense of progress over vaccines was now to breed any kind complacency,’ Tory PM Boris Johnson said yesterday...
DAVID PITT (vice-chair West Midlands FBU) joined the Young Socialists March for Jobs in Wolverhampton

‘Time To Call General Strike’

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‘The TUC leaders must call a General Strike, everyone is being hit over pensions, pay, and conditions,’ said David Pitt, Vice Chair of West...

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...

WATERLOO DEBACLE – no compensation for delayed passengers

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RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government and private rail companies after it emerged that passengers facing delays and cancellations – because of the...

Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Homes

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ISRAELI forces yesterday made preparations for the punitive demolition of the family houses of three Palestinians suspected of carrying out a fatal attack outside...

NIGERIA SHUT DOWN! on Fourth Day Of General Strike

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THE GENERAL strike in Nigeria over the removal of gasoline subsidies, now in its third day, has shut down most shops and businesses, cut oil...
Evelyn with her daughter and supporters who came with the South-East London Council of Action to stop the eviction yesterday

Bailiffs Turned Away On Heygate Estate

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THE eviction of Heygate Estate tenant Evelyn Amahian and her two-year-old daughter was halted yesterday morning, when 40 tenants, trade unionists and youth arrived...
The campaign to keep Lewisham open is part of the struggle to defeat the privatisation of the NHS which was begun under Labour and is being carried on under the Tories

Labour wrong to privatise admits Prescott

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FORMER Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott has claimed he was against NHS privatisation when he was in government and that he still is. In...

‘EU let thousands drown in Med’ – Lawyers submission to International Criminal Court

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THE EUROPEAN Union must be hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and prosecuted ‘for crimes against humanity’ after letting ‘thousands of refugees drown...