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Migrant domestic workers campaigning against coalition plans to change their status outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday midday. See feature in tomorrow’s News Line

We’Re Workers Not Slaves!

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‘NO return to slavery, we are workers!’ chanted over 200 migrant domestic workers and their supporters outside Parliament yesterday. The protest from 11am-1pm, Old Palace...
GPs demonstrating in Rugby against private polyclinics

Bma Slams Profits Before Patients

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed pressures being put on GPs by private companies running out of hours services to cut down on...

Free the hunger strikers now! – Lammy surgery protest demands

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A LIVELY demonstration was held outside the surgery of the Labour Justice Secretary and deputy Prime Minister David Lammy MP in White Hart Lane,...
Guinness Trust tenants outside Lambeth County Court yesterday supporting an appeal against repossession attempts by the Trust

Tenants defend their homes!

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TENANTS and trade unionists mobilised outside Lambeth County Court yesterday to support Marian Okanlowan who is appealing against the Guinness Trust’s intention...

Troops Out Of Iraq By Christmas Says Unison Conference

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Delegates at UNISON’s National Delegate Conference in Glasgow voted overwhelmingly yesterday to demand British and US troops are withdrawn from Iraq by the end...
CWU members and officials lobbying the Unite head office displayed their giant postcard to Unite leaders Woodley and Simpson

STOP THE STRIKEBREAKERS – CWU tells Unite

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Over two hundred postal workers from London, Edinburgh and Crewe lobbied the Unite head office in Holborn yesterday, to demand Unite leaders Derek Simpson...
Postal workers marched on Royal Mail head office in July demanding the resignation of Royal Mail chief executive  Adam Crozier

CWU TO LOBBY UNITE – stop managers scabbing!

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London, on Thursday. The...

Royal London Hospital Serco strike!

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WORKERS employed by outsourcing giant Serco, who work in the company’s back-of-house catering department at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, will stage a...

Russian military exercises along Ukrainian border!

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RUSSIA has begun extensive military exercises on its Ukrainian border following the escalation of violence in eastern Ukraine. ‘The order to use force against civilians...

Secret court & secret trial rejected by judiciary

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AN unprecedented attempt to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the UK has been blocked by the Court of Appeal. However the...
‘The Building Worker’ memorial in Tower Hill

Ruling Class Snob Attacks Builders

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CONSTRUCTION union UCATT, has reacted with fury after their memorial to construction workers killed in the building of London was criticised on The...

Israeli forces attack ambulance crews!

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ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday prevented Red Crescent ambulances and their medical teams from entering the Tulkarm camp and reaching the casualties. The Red Crescent told...
Striking BA Mixed Fleet Cabin Crew on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday morning

Striking cabin crews to meet TUC leaders today!

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STRIKING British Airways Mixed Fleet Cabin Crew are travelling up to the TUC headquarters in central London this morning to garner support...

‘No credible route to a zero Covid UK’ says Johnson setting out ‘road map...

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‘THERE IS no credible route to a zero Covid Britain or indeed a zero Covid world,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, setting out...

Barts Trying To Force Through Contract Changes!

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INSULTED Barts Hospital patient transport staff are demonstrating at 12 noon at Newham Hospital in east London today against management’s poor treatment of staff...

Rapidly rising support for ‘no deal!’

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WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...
Israeli state forces clash with Palestinian youth in the West Bank

Israel Getting Ready To Annex West Bank

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ADALAH, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, warned on Monday that the Israeli government’s response to the petition, filed to the...

Tories ‘concealed building safety risks’ – Grenfell inquiry hears

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THE GRENFELL Inquiry heard yesterday that the government ‘concealed the risks of building safety’ and that deregulation ‘should be regarded as one of the...
Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington John McDonnell holding the occupied banner with workers from Southall inside the maternity department

Occupied!

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Ealing Hospital is Occupied! Local residents, workers and youth occupied the entrance to the Maternity Department of Ealing Hospital yesterday to stop its closure. The...

TUC demands recognise the state of Palestine and permanent ceasefire!

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THE TUC unanimously passed Composite Motion C17 at its Congress in Brighton yesterday, demanding: ‘Immediately recognise the State of Palestine... end licences for all...

£20bn of NHS cuts are – Turning nurses into cleaners

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THE Tory-LibDem Coalition’s £20 billion NHS budget cuts are leading to nurses having to clean toilets and mop hospital floors it emerged yesterday. A survey...

Al-Araqib Village Stormed By Israeli Police

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Israeli police on Tuesday stormed a Bedouin village that was completely razed in July, levelling efforts to rebuild homes for the third time in...

CAMPSFIELD REVOLT! – after ‘violent removal’ of Algerian detainee

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‘This will probably happen in other detention centres, the only time people listen is when there is a revolt,’ Bill MacKeith of Close Campsfield...

Rcn Demands Inflation Plus 5% Nurses Pay Rise

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) called for a pay rise of ‘inflation plus 5%’ for members over the weekend as it called on...

General Strike Shuts Down Greece

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GREEK workers last Thursday staged a massive and militant general strike against the right-wing government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, elected a year ago. Record...

STOP NO-DEAL BREXIT ‘BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!’ – urges John McDonnell and Shami...

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LABOUR Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti yesterday called for uniting with ‘moderate’ Tory MPs to stop a no-deal Brexit...
RMT delegation with Gate Gourmet pickets yesterday morning. All agreed that the TUC should take action to win the dispute

Extra Troops Sent To New Orleans

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THE New Orleans river front was hit by a massive blast yesterday morning, with fires raging in the area. The blast at a chemical plant...

GM HANDED TO MAGNA! – 10.000 to be sacked

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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel was first to announce yesterday that General Motors (GM) has chosen Canadian auto parts manufacturer Magna to buy Opel and...
Striking UNISON and Unite members demonstrating in the centre of London yesterday

PAY CUTS – NOW WAY! say council strikers

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‘CUT our pay – no way!’, ‘Two per cent is rubbish, so is Gordon Brown!’ and ‘Come on, come on Gordon Brown – raise...

Another mass picket at Gate Gourmet

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THE mass picket of over 100 Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow Airport yesterday were angry at capitalist press revelations that at least two of...

BARNET NHS CRISIS – faces £31m cuts in 2006-07

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Hospital trade unions and patient groups are demanding that the management of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust come clean on their plans...

Indian farmers: tens of thousands rise up!

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TENS of thousands of farmers drove in a convoy of tractors yesterday into the Indian capital during national Republic Day celebrations as part of...

COALITION LOOKING FOR NOVEMBER 30th STRIKEBREAKERS – to write to 2.5 million workers

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Treasury Secretary, Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander yesterday appealed for workers to scab on the November 30 public sector pensions strike. He told the Andrew Marr...

Syria Ejects Western Diplomats

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Syria declared the ambassadors and envoys from several western states unwelcome yesterday, ordering them out of the country. The move followed last week’s expulsion of...

800,000 fire-risk dryers in UK homes – Whirlpool admits to Parliamentary committee

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WHIRLPOOL admitted, when grilled by a Parliamentary committee yesterday, that as many as 800,000 recalled dryers known to be prone to sparking potentially lethal...

Hague plans ‘English Veto’

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PROPOSALS for English Laws for an English parliament were set out yesterday by Tory cabinet member William Hague, Leader of the House of...

Chronic NHS Staff Shortages At Guy’s And St Thomas’

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CHRONIC staff shortages, concerns about patient safety and plunging morale at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are the key findings of a...

1,500 Lorries Still Stuck

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ONE THOUSAND five hundred lorries are still stuck in Kent unable to leave the UK as Tory PM Johnson and French President Macron thrash...
Determined postal workers demonstrating outside Royal Mail head office in London’s Old Street last Friday

Oxford Cwu Out To Defend Rep

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Communication Workers Union (CWU) members in Oxford, who walked out on strike in defence of a senior rep, have voted to continue their unofficial...
Unison leader prentis (right) pledged to establish a public sector alliance to fight all cuts

Don’t Cut Public Services

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Public-sector union Unison yesterday cautioned against panic cuts in public services in the wake of record government borrowing. UK public sector net borrowing, which takes...

GPs demand 15 minutes per patient!

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GPs DEMAND a minimum of fifteen minutes to spend with each patient, rather than the current ten, which they rightly say is not enough...

LABOUR’S £26bn NHS ‘RESCUE!’

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LABOUR has announced a £26bn real terms Rescue Plan to deliver ‘real change in our health service’. The Labour Party is pledging to end the...

Israel now on blacklist of countries harming children!

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UNITED Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has informed Israel’s Defence Attaché in the United States, Major General Hidai Zilberman, of his decision to finally include...

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...