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Palestinians supporting their hunger strikers picketed the Israeli embassy on Saturday

MAY DAY MANIFESTO – Russian Revolution Centenary – Forward to world-wide October!

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the youth of the world. This year’s May Day is...

NHS WORK FOR NOTHING MEMO CONDEMNED! – by BMA and UNISON

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‘It’s outrageous – asking workers to work more hours for nothing and hand back a day’s pay,’ Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust UNISON...
NEU joint general secretary MARY BOUSTED (centre) leads a delegation of six unions, parents, pupils and councillors to present a petition demanding proper funding for Special Educational Needs and Disability pupils to the Department of Education

Children with special needs: savage cuts to SEND funding!

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PARENTS, councillors and education unions descended on the Department of Education yesterday to demand that children with special needs are not left high and...
Scott (second on the right) the WRP candidate for Acton and Ealing Central, plus supporters made a big impact in Acton yesterday

Miliband Doesn’t Blame The Banks

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LABOUR leader Ed Miliband yesterday pledged a Labour government would abolish the non-domicile rule that allows some wealthy UK residents to limit the tax...
Tangmere House residents CISEM STAINES her mother and young son

‘They won’t tell us if our block will be demolished’ – Tangmere resident

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‘THEY haven’t told us how long we are moving temporarily. They haven’t even told us whether they will demolish the block,’ Cisem Staines from...

‘UNAFFORDABLE!’ £718–average monthly rent in England & Wales

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‘AVERAGE private rents are unaffordable for ordinary working families in over half (55%) of local authorities in England,’ Shelter the housing charity said yesterday....

‘Malnutrition is a big part of the everyday experience of children!’

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CHILDREN are starting school underweight, hungry and anaemic, a committee of MPs warned yesterday, and teachers’ union NUT blamed Tory cuts as responsible for...

£12bn NI RISE MUST GO AHEAD! – say Johnson and Sunak

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THE £12bn rise in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) from April is ‘the right plan’ and ‘must go ahead’, Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak...

Police to use plastic bullets, firearms and water cannon

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A report published yesterday says that police will be allowed to use water cannons, baton rounds and even firearms to combat any repeat of...

‘Go North West’ buses continuous strike today! – Company plans strikebreaking force

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THE UNITE trade union, which represents over 400 bus drivers at Go North West, has written to the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham,...

‘Renationalise!’ Urges RMT

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AS Southeastern rail franchise passes into public ownership this Sunday, the RMT transport union has revealed the true cost of private sector failure and...

Officer who shot Chris Kaba ‘standing to front of vehicle’

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THE AUDI car that Chris Kaba was driving was brought to a halt through ‘contact’ with marked police vehicles, after which: ‘An officer standing...

Judges back Parliament against the people!

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THE JUDICIARY yesterday sought to rescue the Parliament from the people with its ruling that the House of Commons must agree before the process...

‘Stop shameful deportations!’ of people who came to the UK as children

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THE GOVERNMENT must end the deportation of foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children, according to a draft report into the Windrush...
Police attack demonstrators in Ladbroke Grove, North Kensington

Thatcher Used Riots To Boost The State!

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Margaret Thatcher considered arming the police during the riots of 1981, whilst a section of her government counselled that Liverpool should be abandoned to...

Al Shifa hospital runs out of fuel today!

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THE al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest hospital, will run out of fuel today, or tomorrow at the latest, with 35,000 men, women and children crammed...

‘Where will the staff come from?’ – BMA demands answers over Nightingale facilities

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THE BMA (British Medical Asociation) has asked the government for more clarity on staffing of new Nightingale facilities. Commenting on the planned new Nightingale facilities...

£15bn PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS, PLEDGES DARLING – as unemployment leaps by 177,000

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Chancellor Alistair Darling announced £15bn public sector ‘efficiency savings’ and slave labour schemes for youth in yesterday’s Budget. This came as the latest figures showed...

Unemployment in Gaza rises to 52%!

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THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate in the Gaza Strip sharply increased in 2018 to reach 52% compared with 44% in 2017, while in the West Bank...

OCCUPY TO DEFEND JOBS! says Vauxhall ex-convenor

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‘I totally support the call to occupy GM Luton to defend jobs’, former Vauxhall Luton TGWU convenor, Arthur Lynn told News Line yesterday. He...
Students battled to keep the fees and loans regime out and to keep grants

Students and youth are struggling!

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ONE in five students is living in vermin-infested homes, a new study published by the National Union of Students revealed yesterday. The shocking new research...

UK ECONOMY NOSEDIVES! – biggest fall in modern times

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THE UK economy nosedived by a record 9.9%, the biggest slump in modern times, with the contraction in 2020 ‘more than twice as much...

FOODBANK USE ROCKETS! – huge demand for emergency food supplies

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THE number of emergency food supplies given out by Farnborough Foodbank has risen by 5.27% in the last year. Farnborough Foodbank is part of The...
A large and lively picket of striking teachers outside Copland Community School in Wembley yesterday morning

NO ACADEMY! COPLAND 5th STRIKE

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COPLAND Community School workers took an unprecedented fifth day of strike action yesterday to stop the ARK academy chain taking over their school in...
Ambulance staff taking strike action at Deptford Ambulance Station were concerned at the way cuts were affecting the service

Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!

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EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...

‘The Tories have left us with a black hole of £22bn this year’ Labour’s...

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LABOUR PM Sir Keir Starmer, after a few warm words about how special Brighton was to him, got down to business to tell the...
Demonstration against ARK taking over schools and turning them into academies

PLAYING FIELDS SELL-OFF! – an absolute disgrace say GMB

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WANDSWORTH Council’s plan to sell off four acres of playing fields at Elliot Secondary School in Putney is an absolute scandal, said the GMB...

NHS CATASTROPHE – BMA warning over developing crisis

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THE chairman of the British Medical Association’s Consultants Committee has written an open letter to Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, warning that the NHS is...
The 32-strong picket line at Bilborough College in Nottingham yesterday

Nottingham school strike!

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NUT members at Bilborough College, Nottingham went on strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies, downgrading of teachers’ jobs and workload, with a picket from 7.45am...

Met ‘failed to perform its legal duty’ when it banned Sarah Everard vigil

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THE Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard, two judges have ruled. The group had to cancel...
Young Socialists marchers arriving at the TUC Congress in Liverpool demanding No slave labour, no zero-hours contracts and proper jobs for youth

Miliband pledges £8 minimum wage

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ADDRESSING the party’s annual conference in Manchester yesterday, Labour leader Miliband pledged to increase the National Minimum Wage to £8 an hour over the...

UK £120bn banking shortfall!

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THE Bank of England has warned that the biggest banks and building societies operating in Britain face a £120bn shortfall in their finances. In a...

RMT Pledges ‘Fierce Resistance’ To Attempt To Reduce Rights!

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‘Grant Shapps needs to stop smearing the RMT and unshackle the rail operating companies so they can come to a negotiated settlement that can...
A section of the delegates at the Torquay  conference

Bma Row!

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AT a stormy morning session of the BMA Annual Representative Meeting yesterday, Birmingham BMA demanded the resignation of the chairman and deputy chairman...

Israel still committing war crimes in Gaza

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HUMAN Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, with US President Joe Biden’s administration criticised for...
The badly beaten face of Baha Mousa

AITKEN ‘WHITEWASH’ – condemned by Daoud Mousa lawyers

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The report by Brigadier Aitken on British Army abuses of Iraqi civilians is ‘a complete red herring and a whitewash’, said lawyers Phil Shiner...

Lloyd’s braced for euro collapse!

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LLOYD’S of London has made preparations for the collapse of the euro. Richard Ward, its chief executive, has publicly admitted that the world’s...

TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE – Corbyn slams pre-trial no jury courts

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Government plans for secret no-jury ‘pre-trial’ trials before ‘security cleared’ judges are ‘totally unacceptable’ Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn told News Line yesterday. He added: ‘All...

‘DON’T RETURN US TO SLAVERY!’ – migrant workers demonstrate

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HUNDREDS of migrant domestic workers will be gathering in Old Palace Yard, Westminster at 11.00 am this Sunday to demonstrate against the government’s proposed...

Pandemic 2018 simulation warnings totally ignored!

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AN EXERCISE simulating a coronavirus outbreak in Scotland, which was shared with a UK government advisory group in 2018, showed a ‘clear gap’ in...
Protest against the Housing Act outside Parliament as Tory Chancellor Hammond delivered his Autumn Statement

Tory War On Workers

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CHANCELLOR Hammond used his Autumn Statement in the House of Commons yesterday to warn that the Tory war on the working class and poor...

WITHDRAW FIXED PENALTY NOTICE! – Patsy Stevenson to issue proceedings against Cressida Dick

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PATSY Stevenson has warned the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in a pre-action letter that she intends to initiate legal proceedings against the Metropolitan...

50 MILLION REFUGEES! – warns Amnesty

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‘IN 2013, for the first time since World War II, the number of those forcibly displaced from their homes exceeded 50 million,’ warns an...
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...
Sister students union to Coventry, Warwick, on the march for free education – Coventry SU President Francis Ahanonu said: ‘Companies which are employing young graduates for free must be threatened with legal action’

Prosecute companies who exploit graduates

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‘ASKING students to work for free is exploitation. Companies which are employing young graduates for free must be threatened with legal action against them,’...