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‘WE NEED NEW LEADERS’ – say Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers were very angry on the picket line at the weekend after many of them had received special delivery letters informing...

Arrest of 2,000 Palestine Action supporters challenged in Court!

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THE co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, will begin a legal challenge against proscription of the group as a ‘terrorist’ organisation before London’s High...

Students packed in like sardines–used as cash cows

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REPORTS have emerged of students, despite paying thousands of pounds in fees a year for their tuition, are forced to sit on the floor...

‘Obscenely inflated prices paid for unusable PPE’ by the Tories

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£4 BILLION of unusable PPE bought in the first year of pandemic will be burnt ‘to generate power’. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also voices...

MUBARAK GOES! – chased out by the masses

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THOUSANDS of striking doctors and medical students, dressed in their white coats, marched through central Cairo yesterday to join the movement of millions of...

Aamer Freed!

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AFTER 13 long years languishing in Guantánamo Bay concentration camp without trial or charge, Shaker Aamer is finally free! A plane carrying Shaker Aamer touched...

Dead Bodies Are Piling Up Near To Aid Sites!

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ADDAMEER Human Rights Association has reported that 54 Palestinians are missing and unaccounted for after approaching Israeli-American aid distribution centres in Gaza, raising alarm...

FRANCE PARALYSED BY GENERAL STRIKE! – as workers defend pensions

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FRANCE is paralysed by a nationwide general strike by transport workers, teachers and other trade unions, supported by the mass of the working population. This...

Vote for the deal or we leave with no deal – Johnson tells MPs

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THE DEBATE on the European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill began yesterday with Tory PM Johnson confirming that if it is not voted through, the...

US, Japan & France to hold military drill to ‘send message’ to China

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JAPAN, France, and the United States are reportedly set to hold joint military drills for the first time in May next year, as part...

London housing crisis is spiralling out of control!

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LONDON’S housing crisis is ‘spiralling out of control’, warns the Centre for London (CfL). Last Wednesday, the independent think tank hosted the London Housing Summit,...

100,000 besieged in northern Gaza!

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ABOUT 100,000 people are besieged in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza without medical or food supplies, the Palestinian Civil Emergency...

Israel Slaughters Gaza Women And Children!

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A PALESTINIAN mother and her three children were among the ten latest victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. A barrage of...

Prosecute George Floyd’s murderers – demand millions of workers across the world

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‘WE SEND solidarity to the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) members and support the AFT’s call for the US Justice Department to conduct a...
McDonald’s restaurant strikers from Cambridge and Crayford take their demand for £10 an hour to Parliament yesterday

First UK McDonald’s strike in history!

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WORKERS at McDonald’s went on strike on Monday for the first time since the burger bar came to the UK in 1974. About 40 workers from...

Tories slash another £250m from social care!

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FRAIL and vulnerable people will go without the care they need, the union Unison warned yesterday, after the Tories slashed social care funding by...
Chagos Islanders and their supporters lobbying Downing Street last November 10th

Chagos IslandS Community Association

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MEETING & FILM – Saturday March 15, 5pm @ International Student House, 229 Great Portland Street, W1 (next Great Portland St tube) speakers include: John...

Nut Strike In Week Of June 23

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) voted overwhelmingly yesterday in favour of holding a one-day strike in England and Wales in the week...
Unite leaders WOODLEY and SIMPSON (left of picture), on the London May Day march, were yesterday unable to give a

Jaguar – 1300 Jobs To Go!

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The Unite trade union yesterday confirmed it is in talks with Jaguar Land Rover over fears of a further 1,300 job cuts. Unite sent News...
FBU control staff in Essex in the South East Region – East Sussex FBU has voted unanimously no confidence in their bosses

No confidence in Sussex fire bosses – FBU votes unanimously

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THE FIREFIGHTERS’ East Sussex union branch has unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in the senior leadership team of East Sussex Fire and...
Speakers address the occupation as part of the struggle for a ‘Liberated LSE’

‘LSE is occupied!’

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LSE occupation statement ‘Why we are occupying We have occupied the Vera Anstey Suite, the central meeting room of the university administration, to demand a change...
WIL, MOHAMMED and RICARDO, three unemployed youth were fully in support of the defence of GM Luton jobs by an occupation

ANGER IN LUTON – over 20-hour week plan

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A MASSIVE anger is growing at GM Luton and throughout the town against the threatened closure of the car plant. Workers at GM Luton were...

Entire RCN leadership sacked by membership – Members vote of no confidence at Extraordinary...

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THE ENTIRE leadership of the nurses union RCN has been sacked by the membership! A vote of no confidence at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)...

Great Response In Hackney And Kensington

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STUDENTS gave their full endorsement to WRP candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch Jonty Leff yesterday as a campaign team worked hard fighting for...

JUDGE BACKS WALSH DIKTAT! – ‘A disgraceful day for democracy’–Woodley

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‘It is a disgraceful day for democracy’, Unite joint general secretaries Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley declared after a High Court judge ruled the...
School children from the London Borough of Wandsworth at a demonstration on Tooting Common fighting Tory education cuts

KIDS GOING INTO SCHOOL HUNGRY! – Parents, children & teachers lobby Downing Street

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THE STATE education system in this country and the health service in this country are valued very highly by the vast majority of people...
The platform at yesterday’s News Line-ATUA Conference in London

BUILD REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP – forward to a workers’ government

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TWO HUNDRED trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference in Bethnal Green, east London, yesterday. Moving the main resolution, ‘After...
Young Syrians on a march called by Stop the War – UK special forces are now ‘illegally’ fighting on the front line in Syria

UK forces fighting in Syria ‘illegal’ – warns Stop the War

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UK Special Forces have been fighting on the frontline in Syria despite explicit assurances to parliament from Cameron that there would be ‘no...

Hamas-US in direct talks!

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THE White House has confirmed that the United States has engaged in direct negotiations with Hamas regarding American captives held in Gaza, despite Washington’s...
A section of the march in London on October 24 against the war on Afghanistan demanding troops out

More Than 20,000 Troops For Helmand Province

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced the UK is sending 500 extra troops to Afghanistan early this month. He revealed that, along with special forces operating...

BANK OF ENGLAND BUYS GOVERNMENT BONDS! – to try to restore orderly market conditions

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THE Bank of England (BoE) launched a huge intervention in government bond markets yesterday, as the UK financial crisis spiralled out of control following...

Teuta Hoxha – on Day 45 of her hunger strike! She may die...

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The 17-year-old sister of a pro-Palestine prisoner who is now on day 45 of her hunger strike says she fears she may die in...

Unions unite to defend RIGHT TO STRIKE!

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OVER one hundred RMT members, along with members of the PCS, UCU and Unite rallied outside Parliament yesterday to defend the right to strike. This...
The BMA took to the streets  with its banners in March this year, now its members are coming out on strike

BMA to strike on June 21!

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DOCTORS will take strike action in defence of their NHS pension scheme on Thursday June 21st, the BMA confirmed yesterday, following an overwhelming YES...

‘TANKS ON YOUR LAWNS’ – warns Olympics missiles solicitor

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‘If this is allowed to go ahead then the precedent that has been set is that tanks can turn up on your lawn, missiles...
Demonstrators in Norwich demand Work Capability Assessments are ended and that the privateer ATOS company is sacked

Scrap ‘cruel assessments’

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DISABILITY Rights UK yesterday welcomed the report published by the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee on the Work Capability Assessment. The MPs found that the Work...

SEND families take Tories to High Court over funding

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PARENTS taking the government to court over SEND funding were cheered by a crowd of over 40 as they entered the High Court yesterday...
Students joined lecturers’ picket line during their strike action earlier this month

Gate Gourmet workers win support for march

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers are campaigning every day for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. Lakhinder Saran told News Line yesterday: ‘I went...

The nail in ‘coffin UK!’ – Manufacturing output and Sterling falls

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UK manufacturing output fell by 1.5% in January indicating that the UK is heading for a ‘triple-dip recession’. Yesterday’s announcement led to an immediate fall...

Thousands Of Parents, Pupils & Teachers To Defy Tories Today!

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THOUSANDS of teachers, as well as the parents of hundreds of thousands pupils, are set to defy the government’s instructions for Reception, Year 1...
Hundreds of thousands took part in an anti-austerity march on June 20th – they will not take a rise in interest rates lying down

‘RATE RISE FEAR’ – Bank of England urges caution

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‘IT WOULD be foolish to pre-announce’ a date for an interest rate increase, the Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy Ben Broadbent...

Tories have taken no action to stop another Grenfell

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NEARLY two years since the Grenfell fire, in which 72 people lost their lives, the government has done nothing to adequately prepare fire and...

Special Forces Back In North

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Northern Ireland Assembly Deputy First Minister and Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness yesterday slammed the redeployment of British Army Special Forces in the North...

Ford Opposed Bush On Iraq

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As President George Bush prepared to discuss his next move in Iraq yesterday, he was delivered a posthumous blow from former President Gerald Ford,...

Israeli occupation forces open fire on families!

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THE Israeli occupation forces yesterday morning opened fire and executed at least two displaced families who were taking shelter inside a school run by...