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ABUL KOYAIR and his wounded brother MOHAMMED ABDUL KAHAR after giving a press conference in Forest Gate yesterday

THE POLICE ACTED LIKE ARMED ROBBERS – they will do it to another family...

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THE two brothers released without charge after the massive state terror operation in Forest Gate told a press conference yesterday how they thought they...

‘VICTORY TO THE DOCTORS AND THE RAIL WORKERS!’ – RMT’s Mick Lynch tells BMA...

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ON SATURDAY, the BMA held a rally to launch its campaign for Pay Restoration. Balloting opened for strike action on 9th January and votes...
Thousands gathered late on Sunday night at the Athens city centre to hear a victory speech by SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras

Syriza Victory!

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SYRIZA swept to power yesterday in the Greek elections winning 149 seats, just two short of an absolute majority. After the final results came in...

‘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...

Four pro-Palestine hunger strikers continue into 54th day of strike action!

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FOUR pro-Palestine hunger strikers are continuing their hunger strike. Heba Muraisi is on her 54th day of hunger strike, Teuta Hoxha is on her 48th...

3,700 Palestinians killed in 60 days

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THE Israeli military has continued its intensive land, air and sea aggression on northern Gaza for 60 days now, during which 2,400 of the...
Young Socialist marchers making their way out of Birmingham on Saturday

Great Midlands welcome for YS March for Jobs

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THE YS March for Jobs set off yesterday from Coventry after winning great support when they stayed there on Saturday night. Coventry Unison’s branch administrator,...

‘WE REJECT WAGE CUTS!’ – say UNISON & GMB spokeswomen

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‘We reject public sector pay cuts,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday. She was responding to remarks by chancellor Darling yesterday, where...
Migrant workers  demonstrate against illegality on a march in London in May last year

POLICE TERROR RAID CONDEMNED – Derbyshire witch-hunt for illegals

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Border and Immigration Agency mass raids to round up alleged illegal immigrants were yesterday condemned as a publicity-seeking ‘cynical approach by government’ by GMB...

British drones may be used in illegal Yemen war

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DEFENCE Secretary Philip Hammond has refused to rule out the possibility that Britain will join the US’ covert drone programme in Yemen, despite...
RMT-led march on October 23 to the TUC headquarters where they called for the TUC to organise action against the coalition govenment’s just announced spending cuts

20% Vat Disaster!

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‘The VAT increase to 20 per cent, price rises and low wages are the ingredients for a disaster in the making for millions of...

Rail Companies Are Paying Massive Dividends Says RMT

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NEW RMT research has revealed that the private companies responsible for supplying trains to the railways have been paying massive dividends to their shareholders...

Assange Must Be Freed!

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ALMOST a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret US documents, a London court will begin hearings on Monday to decide...

2,500 march in Berne to support Gate Gourmet workers

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OVER 2,500 people marched in support of the locked out Gate Gourmet workers last Saturday in the Swiss capital of Berne. The march was...

UK Tax Havens Scandal

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‘The UK is responsible for one in five of the world’s tax havens – that’s more than any other country,’ stated Tax Justice Policy...

56 Palestinians killed & scores injured in Israeli assaults!

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AT least 56 Palestinians have been killed and scores more sustained injuries in Israeli assaults across Gaza since Thursday morning, according to medical sources. In...
Part of the mass picket at London Met University yesterday midday – see feature in tomorrow’s News Line

London Met Mass Picket

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BOSSES of London Met University were yesterday accused of acting like ‘19th century mill owners’ at a rally outside the Holloway Road campus in...

Johnson Treats Labour With Contempt

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‘THE MINISTERIAL Code says that ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament will be expected to offer their resignation,’ Labour leader Keir Starmer said during PMQs...

Israeli occupation massacres families in the Gaza Strip!

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least...

‘Heinous’ Israeli Crime Condemned

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THE Israeli army and Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah traded fire across the border yesterday, stoking fears that the war in Gaza could spark a...
Sacked BBC canteen workers demonstrating outside Bush House in Central London yesterday

Bbc World Service Workers Back Caterers

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‘THE BBC says it subscribes to “BBC values”, but it would appear BBC Values do not apply to contractors such as Aramark.’ BECTU General Secretary...

79% vote for London post strike

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Postal workers in London have voted by four to one (79 per cent) in favour of strike action against plans to shut three mail...

Huckabee OKs Israeli expansion from the Nile to the Euphrates!

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The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s claim that Israel has biblical rights over the Arab region and his...
UNISON delegates yesterday in a standing ovation to Thabitha Khumalo, Zimbabwe fraternal delegate

REJECT PENSIONS SELL-OUT call at UNISON Conference

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UNISON leaders came under fire from angry delegates at the union’s National Delegate Conference yesterday, over their decision to call off the local government...

Felixstowe dockers fighting bullying, threats and victimisations!

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YESTERDAY’S 8.00am Unite mass protest at the Port of Felixstowe to end bullying management culture and to defend union reps was postponed at the...

‘The entire labour movement must fully support the RMT’

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THE RMT issued the following statement on the forthcoming rail and Tube strikes yesterday. ‘In the past few weeks, discussions have been taking place at...

GLOBAL MOBILISATION! – Hamas calls Friday-Sunday action against genocide

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THE HAMAS Movement has called for intensified global mobilisation to Israel’s genocide and starvation war against the Palestinian people referring to the ongoing Israeli...

Dozens of women and children brutally murdered by Israeli genocidal regime

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DOZENS of innocent civilians, including children and women, were brutally murdered and others injured yesterday as the occupying Israeli regime continued its genocidal war...

Syriza Submits To Troika

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THE Greek government decided on Saturday to accept all terms laid down in a statement agreed at last Friday’s Eurogroup Finance Ministers’ meeting that...

Devolving Manchester is wrecking NHS

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‘THESE plans for the devolution of the health budget to a Greater Manchester regional government truly lob a wrecking ball at the National Health...

Thousands of GPs tell BMA rescue package is ‘useless’ – BMA survey reveals

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THOUSANDS of GPs in England have told the British Medical Association (BMA) that Health Secretary Sajid Javid’s package of measures to supposedly rescue general...

HEATHROW CHAOS – Passengers & staff at risk of infection

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CHAOS reigned at Heathrow Airport with five-hour queues reported over the last few days risking passengers spreading the virus to each other, as the...
Eighteen year-old UMARO DA SILVA campaigning for the WRP

Vote Wrp In Hackney – Defeat Tory Cuts

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‘THE GOVERNMENT must not cut the funding for education, the NHS or council housing because these are the things that matter to us,’ Carla...

Virgin to axe 3,150 jobs! – and permanently leave Gatwick

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VIRGIN Atlantic is to cut a third of its staff in the UK and will keep its operation at Gatwick closed in response to...
Demonstration in Southall in July 2015 to stop the closure of the Maternity Department at Ealing Hospital – maternity closures have contributed to greater numbers of mothers and babies dying during childbirth

Lack of staff contributed to baby deaths

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LACK of midwives and the closure of maternity units have resulted in more babies suffering from brain damage, dying during childbirth, or dying soon...

Royal Mail ‘Hedge Fund’

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ROYAL Mail workers – whose jobs and pensions have been under sustained attack and are now threatened with privatisation – yesterday reacted with fury...
WRP candidate Arjinder Thiara and a group of his supporters are determined to defend the NHS and keep Ealing Hospital open

Mobilise unions to save Ealing Hospital – says WRP’s Arjinder Thiara

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THE VOTE Arjinder Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital workers and patients yesterday morning, following...

Resident doctors begin five day strike against falling pay

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RESIDENT doctors formed a large picket outside St Thomas’ Hospital on Friday morning as they began a five-day strike over falling pay and the...
BA mixed fleet cabin crew launch the first day of their six days of strike action at Hatton Cross, Heathrow yesterday morning

‘We won’t accept poverty pay’ say striking mixed fleet cabin crew

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‘WE WANT support from the whole airport and wider,’ striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew member and Unite rep Charly Bacon said yesterday. She was...
The front of Saturday’s  50,000-strong ‘Troops Home from Iraq – No war on Iran’ demonstration in London  leaving Parliament Square

HEWITT CALL TO TREAT PATIENTS IN THE COMMUNITY – to cut NHS deficits

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned against any ‘quick fix’ plan to keep asthma and heart patients out of hospital ‘just to...
Birmingham binmen and their supporters rally last Sunday

Binmen win legal action! – Labour Council ordered to withdraw redundancies

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THE UNITE union yesterday called on Birmingham city Labour council to honour the ACAS agreement and resolve the Birmingham bin dispute after the High...
TUC delegates demonstrate their resolve to do battle over the pensions issue

‘68 is too late’ – decides TUC Congress

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TUC DELEGATES yesterday voted unanimously to defend the Welfare State, pensions, and state education. They voted for Composite Motion 8: The Welfare State...
TGWU leader TONY WOODLEY was picketed by locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on May 1st

Woodley calls off cabin crew strike action

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At the last minute yesterday afternoon, the Transport and General Workers Union called off today’s 48-hour strike by British Airways cabin crew. The TGWU...

GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN! say Aslef pickets

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OVER 20,000 railway worker members of Aslef and the RMT unions were on strike yesterday, with powerful picket lines outside scores of stations all...
A section of Saturday’s rally in Hammersmith against the closure of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospital’s A&Es Photo credit: BETA LUCIANO

NHS HUGE BEDS CRISIS! – as government readies for more savage cuts

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ENGLAND’S hospitals have been dangerously full of patients during the month of January, the Labour Party warned yesterday. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘Too...