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SEVEN US TROOPS KILLED – despite Iraq crackdown

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Seven more US soldiers were killed in Iraq on Wednesday, the US military revealed yesterday, as US and UK troops, backed by Iraqi puppet...

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...
Chagossians demanding the right to return to their homes in the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia marching alongside the West London campaign to keep Ealing Hospital open

Junior Doctors Still Being Left To Fight Alone

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OVER 10,000 trade unionists and youth took part in the London May Day march yesterday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. As well as trade...

‘A tragic milestone’ says Johnson as death toll passes 150,000!

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PM JOHNSON shed crocodile tears on Saturday as UK Covid-19 fatalities passed the 150,000 mark, with the BMA doctors’ union warning that ‘still the...

UCL Condemned For Going To The Law Courts!

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‘UCL Stand for Justice’ has condemned the north London university for going to the courts and smearing its campaign in support of Palestine and...

Angry Nurses To Escalate Strikes!

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NURSES’ strike action will escalate and spread across the UK in the new year, after RCN Scotland members overwhelmingly voted to reject the Scottish...

NHS SPENDING FREEZE! – decreed by Finance Director

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An email sent last month from chief medical officer Sir Ian Donaldson’s chief of staff to DoH officials orders a freeze on NHS spending...

Scores more killed in Gaza waiting for aid!

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MASSIVE aerial and artillery strikes pounded neighbourhoods, homes, shelters and aid convoys yesterday, killing scores of civilians, mostly children and women, as the US-UK-backed...

Nato Murders Gadaffi

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COLONEL Gadaffi was yesterday badly wounded by a NATO air attack on a convoy of vehicles outside the city of Sirte. It was...

Sylvester Killing – No Action Against Police

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THE family of Roger Sylvester are disappointed but not surprised by the decision of the Independent Police Complaints Commission that the police officers involved...

Private equity bosses ‘planned sackings’ – Dromey

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‘WE’RE sticking up for members who are the victims at the sharp end of what is a growing scandal,’ TGWU deputy-leader Jack Dromey said...
Marchers in London during the 2006 Israeli attack on the Lebanon demanding ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘Don’t attack Iran’

COMPLY OR ELSE! – US, UK, France warn Iran

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‘COMPLY or face the consequences,’ was the message delivered by President Obama and his puppets Brown and Sarkozy to the Iranian government yesterday morning. Iran...

MACRON OUT! – demands 287,000 workers

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MORE than 287,000 people attended marches and clashed with police across France again on Saturday, wearing yellow vests to oppose tax rises on fuel...

BIG SOCIETY A BIG CON – says Unison

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PRIME Minister Cameron explained to an audience of ‘social entrepreneurs’ in London yesterday that the ‘Big Society’ means ‘opening up’ public services to being...

Sweeping emergency powers are unveiled! – Police given powers to arrest suspected corona...

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NEW emergency powers were outlined yesterday by the Tories as they published the Emergency Coronavirus Bill. The sweeping new powers which will last as...

‘CRADLE OF DISEASE’ – 4,000 packed into ASOS warehouse

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JAM-PACKED ASOS clothing warehouse is a ‘cradle of disease’, terrified workers in the GMB union warned yesterday, calling for their entire operation to be...

School Youth Climate Change Demo

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HUNDREDS of school youth staged a strike for climate change in Parliament Square yesterday. Lana Daly came with friends from west London and said: ‘The...
Demonstration outside Parliament against Universal Credit

LABOUR COULD VOTE WITH MAY SAYS THORNBERRY – who helped draw up Universal Credit

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LABOUR’S Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry confirmed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning that Labour could vote along with PM May on...
UNISON Head of Health KAREN JENNINGS (left) with other UNISON members handing in the UNISON prescription for the NHS to the Department of Health yesterday mid-day

CABINET REELING – from massive constituency health cuts

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Public sector union, UNISON, yesterday published a new report showing that each of the 21 elected cabinet ministers in the government faces severe health...
Junior doctors and nurses demonstrate outside the Department of Health against the imposed contracts and the ending of bursaries

‘We have a duty to support junior doctors!’

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‘WE have a duty to stand up for our junior doctors. We cannot allow them to be bullied in such a way,’ Ian Hodson,...

Strike At NHS Logistics

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TWO 24-hour national strikes by staff at NHS Logistics were announced yesterday, after the workers voted 3-1 for action against the government’s plans to...

Ellesmere Port And Luton Plants – Premier Brown To Meet Gm Bosses

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THE announcement that German Chancellor Merkel has clinched Magna’s bid for GM Europe with 5bn euros of guarantees has set the alarm bells ringing...

UNSUSTAINABLE! – says EU Central Bank President Draghi

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EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi yesterday warned eurozone leaders that current financial mechanisms are ‘unsustainable’. Addressing the European Parliament, Draghi asked: ‘Can the...
RCN nurses marching on a TUC demonstration last October – there are now fewer nurses than there were in 2010

‘Fewer Nurses Providing More Care’– Rcn

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‘WHOEVER forms the next government must grow the nursing workforce,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Chief Executive & General Secretary Dr Peter Carter warned...
Half a million public sector workers demonstrated in London against the Tory-LibDem coalition on 26th March 2011

No Fault Dismissals ‘a Bad Bosses Charter!’

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‘NO fault dismissal will allow employers to sack people where their faces don’t fit,’ Paul Kenny, leader of the GMB public service union warned...

Scrap Capability Assessments! – the cause of ‘needless misery’

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Damian Green is today set to announce a consultation on reforming the hated Work Capability Assessment Tests of claimants of...

Cameron-Heseltine-Tuc Unholy Alliance

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The TUC has welcomed the government’s announcement that it will adopt most of Tory former deputy prime minister Heseltine’s plans for the privatisation...
The North East London Council of Action on the the recent march to defend Ealing Hospital and to stop the NHS from being privatised

HARMONI – ‘SHORT STAFFED AND UNSAFE’ – NHS privateer is slammed

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HARMONI, the out-of-hours GP services privateer, is often so short-staffed that it is unsafe. Managers regularly send out desperate texts to doctors and nurses...

Israeli Military Attacks Kamal Adwan Hospital

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THE Israeli military has once again attacked the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, brutally abducting medical staff and patients before taking...
Worker in Athens stands his ground against a riot police attack

TANKS ON ATHENS STREETS PREDICTS McSHANE

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The British MP Denis McShane has given a serious warning about the situation in Greece. He said: ‘When I first visited Greece I saw...

Hospital penalised for fast treatment

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UNISON Eastern regional head of health Geoff Reason yesterday condemned Labour over £2.5m in penalties imposed on Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust for treating patients...

16 Illegal Events Were Held In Downing St

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SENIOR civil servant Sue Gray’s anticipated report into illegal lockdown gatherings held in and around Downing Street by members of the government has been...
Above: Pickets at King’s Cross station were in a determined mood with one picket stating ‘we need a general strike against austerity’.

Tube Strike 100% Success!

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‘WE’RE out because the fight is over jobs, conditions and work/life balance. And although it isn’t primarily about money, we do expect to be...

Greece 24hr national strike

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GREEK public sector workers launched a 24-hour national strike yesterday against the SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left)- ANEL coalition government’s new austerity accord...

Locked-out workers ‘disgusted’ with TGWU leaders

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‘I am hurt very badly when I see that report in The Guardian,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line. ‘The union refused...

‘Mobilise to defeat this imperialist aggression’

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‘THE entire country must mobilise to defeat this imperialist aggression,’ the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela declared in a defiant statement yesterday. It said: ‘The Bolivarian...
Firefighters from all over Britain marched through Merseyside almost a year ago against massive cuts to the fire service in the region. They warned cuts cost lives

‘WE COULD’T GET PEOPLE OUT!’ – Newquay pays the price for fire service cuts

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‘Lives were lost because there wasn’t enough equipment to get people out – it’s our fire service,’ said Chris Findon yesterday, the owner of...

Trade unions must draw up their own cost of living index

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YESTERDAY the UNISON trade union pointed out what most health workers know from hard experience, that; ‘Huge increases in the basics of life eat...

CWU to be reformed to suit Royal Mail

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A DOCUMENT, entitled ‘Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond – a National Agreement Between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union’, is to go before...
Palestinians marched with the WRP and the Young Socialists supporting the hunger strikers and demanding that the UK apologise for the Balfour Declaration and recognise Palestine

Get the Tories out! Victory to Palestinian hunger strikers! say London May Day marchers

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UP to 10,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched on May Day in London from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square, carrying banners and...

Olmert Resumes Strikes At Palestinians

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered a resumption of military strikes against Palestinian militants, and was accused of breaking the truce...

HANDS OFF OUR PENSIONS! – 37 Universities to strike!

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STAFF at 37 universities are to strike over an ‘unprecedented attack on their pensions’, it was announced by their union University College Union (UCU)...

Cotton Goes – Savage Fire Cuts In Surrey

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LONDON Fire Brigade Chief Dany Cotton is to leave the service four months early. Cotton, 50, previously announced she was standing down from the London...

‘HALT ALL CUTS AND OUTSOURCING!’ – unions confront Academies Enterprise Trust

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SEVEN UNIONS have warned about their dispute with the UK’s largest academy trust over staff cuts, low pay and outsourcing. The unions have now registered...

THREE MILLION FEAR FOR JOBS – TUC must act, says ATUA

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‘The TUC leaders must act to defend jobs or make way for those who will,’ Dave Wiltshire, national secretary of the All Trades Union...