Stop Nato Exercises In Ukraine!

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STOP The War yesterday condemned the government for blocking a petition submitted to its e-petitions website which called for an end to NATO exercises...
Ritzy Cinema strikers battling for a living wage – they have voted by an overwhelming 92% for more strike action

Ritzy Cinema 92% Strike Vote

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CINEMA workers demanding the Living Wage have overwhelmingly re-newed their mandate for strike action, their union BECTU announced yesterday. Cinema workers at selected Picturehouse Cinemas...
Unison conference delegates voting to oppose the coalition’s attacks on health, education and pensions

Prentis ‘Call To Arms!’

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UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday made a ‘call to arms’ at the union’s national delegate conference urging delegates to stand ready...

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...

Palestinian PM Shtayyeh calls for international action now! – Hunger striker Hisham Abu Hawwash...

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PALESTINIAN Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday called for international intervention to secure the release of a dying hunger-striking prisoner. He told the weekly cabinet session in...

Israeli tanks close Rafah crossing!

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AS the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 214 yesterday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different...

‘We are marching to defend the NHS’ say striking junior doctors

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AMID a heatwave in the heart of London, hundreds of junior doctors converged at Tavistock Square for a march from BMA House to Parliament...
Nurses, patients aand hospital staff marched through central London opposing the privatisation of the NHS

Hinchingbrooke Hospital privatisation disaster

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CIRCLE HOLDINGS, the first privateer to take over the running of an NHS hospital, quit the management of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire yesterday, leaving...

Israeli Tanks On Edge Of Damascus!

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ISRAELI TANKS reached the southwestern Syrian city of Quneitra yesterday, three kilometres away from the town of Qatana, near Damascus. Israel started the push to...

Tories plan NHS destruction

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OPERATIONS and drugs will be rationed in a ‘trade-off with improving care in other areas’, Head of NHS England Simon Stevens said yesterday,...

Savage attack on disabled planned!

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THE PCS union, which represents JobCentre workers, yesterday denounced as ‘appalling’ planned savage cuts to social security for sick and disabled people. It was commenting...
Junior doctors marched through central London three days before their second strike – they call for Jeremy Hunt to go!

‘HUNT MUST GO!’ – ‘No confidence’ petition reaches 284,244

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A PETITION calling for a vote of no confidence in Tory Health Minister Jeremy Hunt reached 284,244 signatures by yesterday afternoon, after his decision...

BAN ‘FIRE AND REHIRE’ – Manchester bus strikers demand of Mayor

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A PROTEST of striking Manchester bus drivers took place outside the Mayor’s Office yesterday afternoon, demanding that Andy Burnham takes action to stop the...

KEEP LEWISHAM HOSPITAL OPEN! – march today

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HEALTH workers, trade unionists, pensioners and residents from the SE London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley are marching today against plans to...

Average Weekly Wage £13 Lower!

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AVERAGE weekly earnings in the UK are £13 lower than they were a decade ago, a think tank study has found. Job insecurity is...

‘My task – open the economy’ – New Health Secretary Sajid Javid

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‘MY TASK is to return the economic and cultural life that makes this country so great,’ new Tory Health Secretary, Sajid Javid said in...

The Great Care Home Massacre!

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A series of ‘shockingly irresponsible’ government decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk and led to multiple violations of care...

TORIES SET TO USE ANTI-STRIKE LAWS! – against NHS and rail workers

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THE TORIES are set to mobilise their new anti-strikes law against railway workers and their unions as further strike action takes place during the...
Members of the Transport and General Workers Union issued a call to ‘Defend our Public Services’ outside parliament yesterday

TAKE ACTION – to defend the Public Sector

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OVER 1,000 trade unionists from all the public services joined a TUC rally at Westminster yesterday, where they demanded that their leaders call action...
Firefighters lobby the London Fire Authority against cuts and station closures

‘Thousands of firefighters face the sack!’ – thanks to Public Sector Pensions Bill

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‘THOUSANDS of firefighters face the sack’ as a result of the Public Sector Pensions Bill, which imposes a normal pension age (NPA) of 60...
Workers turned out in their hundreds of thousands on March 26 2011. They are determined to defend their jobs, pay, conditions and employment rights

‘WE’LL OPPOSE ATTACKS ON RIGHTS’ –pledges TUC

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‘Unions stand ready to oppose the attacks on workplace rights contained in the Beecroft Report,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Attacking workers’ rights...
Libyan workers and youth gather outside Buckingham Palace to demand of the Queen and Obama that their forces quit Libya

Sas Are In Misratah!

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WESTERN troops including British SAS troopers were supporting Libyan counter-revolutionaries in the vital port city of Misratah yesterday. The al Jazeera TV station...

80,000 on London march for victory to Palestine!

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MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched for Victory to Palestine through central London on Saturday. The London march assembled at Embankment on the...
Hundreds of angry doctors at yesterday’s rally outside parliament against the government’s assault on their jobs and training

‘NHS CHAOS!’ – Junior doctors warn

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THERE will be total ‘chaos’ in the NHS by August – unless the government immediately scraps MTAS (the new Medical Training Application Service), a...

Serco Altered Data For Out Of Hours Gp Service

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PRIVATEER Serco failed to provide enough staff for the out-of-hours GP services it is contracted to run in Cornwall, the National Audit Office has...

Budget cuts every year – says Miliband imitating Osborne

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PARTY leader Ed Miliband yesterday set out how a Labour government would ‘deal with the deficit’. In a speech delivered at the New Economic Foundation...

Osborne plans £20bn more cuts

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SEVERE Tory spending cuts are putting the future of local government, children’s services, health care and care for the elderly at risk of collapse,...

Threat To Arrest Pickets

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers had their picket stopped yesterday at the main gate of the Heathrow plant by the Heathrow Airport police and the...

Johnson Gov Must Answer Over The 20,000 Care Home Deaths!

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THE Johnson government must answer for its actions over the 20,000 Care Home deaths says the GMB. Ministers ignored science, evidence and the GMB Union...

Livingstone Is To Appeal Against Suspension!

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FORMER Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has announced that he is to appeal against his two-year suspension from standing for office or representing...

Crucial Ballot To Continue Night Tube Strike!

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THE BALLOT for a new mandate to continue the powerful RMT Night Tube strike on London Underground has reached a crucial point, with the...
Student nurses marching in London last month shouting ‘Hand off our bursaries!’ – the RCN calls for all the cuts to be halted

Reverse NHS funding cuts! – RCN responds to new health report

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‘YEARS of squeezing more and more out of an overstretched workforce has left the NHS in a perilous position,’ the Royal College of Nursing...

‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength’ says Mark Serwotka

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THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...

TORY VACCINE POLICY CHALLENGED! – unregulated, unlicensed trial is condemned

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THE GAP between the first and second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine must be reduced to three or four weeks to ensure it...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet worker HARBINDER SINGH addressing the conference from the platform

Gate Gourmet workers support PCS strikers

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‘OUR conference will show the whole trade union movement that what the TGWU leadership has done to us is wrong,’ locked out Gate Gourmet...
Lobby of London Mayor Johnson’s office against the violent attack on all the emergency services in February

Firefighters Forced To Transport Patients!

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LINCOLNSHIRE Fire Brigades Union and the GMB trade union yesterday expressed concern over plans to use firefighters as A&E first responders. The FBU said it...

‘We are pushing back the enemy’ – Iran speaker Qalibaf

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PARLIAMENT Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf says Iran, relying on national unity, is pushing back the enemy in a ‘history-making’ war. He made the remarks on Sunday...
Thousands of workers rallied last year outside Whittington Hospital in north London to stop it from closing. Now the government is threatening to close NHS hospitals up and down the country

ADAPT OR BE CLOSED! – warning to NHS hospitals

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NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson yesterday warned that many hospitals will face closure in the ‘new world’ of funding cuts and privatisation. Nicholson told...

More than 125,000 skin infections in Gaza!

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MORE than 125,000 cases of skin infections linked to rats and parasites have been recorded in Gaza in the first five months of 2026. United...
Junior doctors marching last month through central London against the imposition of a new contract forcing them to work unsafe and unfair hours and a big cut in their pay

Junior doctors strike suspended

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AT THE eleventh hour, talks between the BMA on behalf of the junior doctors and the government at ACAS reached the following decision: ‘Following talks...

Fresh Round Of College Strikes Begins

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THE FIRST day of a five-day strike yesterday marked an escalation in the college lecturers’ struggle with eleven colleges out on strike. At the College...

May welcomes Trump victory

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EARLY on Wednesday morning Donald Trump’s Republican Party reached the all-important 270 electoral college votes, meaning that he had won the election to become...

‘MASSIVE VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION!’ – CWU leaders urge membership

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THE COMMUNICATION Workers Union is calling for a massive vote for strike action against Royal Mail management’s attempts ‘to virtually de-recognise the CWU and...

RIFKIND VOWS TO BRING DOWN JOHNSON – admits he has no powers over China

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FORMER Tory Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind spoke out in support of bringing down the Johnson government to prevent a no-deal Brexit yesterday. Appearing on the...
Angry teachers marching through London last Thursday when 400,000 teachers, lecturers and civil servants took strike action

Answer World Crisis With The World Revolution

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MAY DAY MANIFESTO By the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE editorial Board sends its May Day greetings for the year 2008 to the workers...