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One Demonstrator Dead – Girls Taken Away In Handcuffs

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Around 200 G20 protesters yesterday lunchtime mounted a vigil-assembly at the Bank of England demanding an independent public inquiry into the death of a...

STATE SPYING: Police launch facial recognition app – UN slams state spying on disabled!

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SOUTH Wales Police have launched a facial recognition app which is to be installed on their officers’ phones, prompting human rights campaigners Liberty to...

‘Dismantle Zionist Settlements’

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POLICE yesterday arrested several protestors who were laying siege to Downing Street, demonstrating against the visit of ‘war criminal’ Binyamin Netanyahu. They were also demanding...

University wages strike ballots

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UCU members at Coventry University are being balloted for industrial action in a row over pay. The ballot opened yesterday and closes on Tuesday...

Anger Over Housing Scandal!

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‘MINISTERS are colluding in a growing scandal. Their promises about Grenfell, about new council homes, and action on safety are proving hollow,’ said Eileen...
Firefighters lobby the London Fire Authority on February 11 demanding ‘No cuts’

FBU fighting pension cuts!

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FIREFIGHTERS’ leaders are meeting this week to discuss an industrial action ballot over the government’s attack on their members’ pensions. The FBU is being...

Darzi Is Rejected!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday angrily rejected health minister Lord Darzi’s claims that they are ‘lagging behind’ and resistant to innovation to...

Cladding Lobby

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TENANTS came from all over the country to lobby Parliament yesterday demanding that the tower blocks they live in are immediately stripped of flammable...
MICK WHELAN, Aslef general secretary (ASLEF T-shirt) and Unite leader LEN McCLUSKEY (3rd from left) at the front of the National Austerity Protest last

Defend right to strike!

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THE TRADE Union Bill, to be outlined tomorrow in parliament by the Tory government, is designed to railroad through legislation which will make it...

Italy Vote Sends Shudders Through Markets

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EUROPEAN stock markets fell sharply yesterday, with the election result in Italy producing no government, but marking a massive vote against austerity. Italy’s FTSE MIB...

WORKING CLASS MUST TAKE POWER IN 2020! New Year’s Day Manifesto

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2020 to all our readers, and to the working class, youth and the poor who...

‘We’re NHS workers – bring us back in-house’! – demand striking St George’s staff

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STRIKING cleaners, domestic workers and hostesses employed by the public services privateer Mitie, got great support from local people as they held a powerful...

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Students battled to keep the fees and loans regime out and to keep grants

Students and youth are struggling!

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ONE in five students is living in vermin-infested homes, a new study published by the National Union of Students revealed yesterday. The shocking new research...

‘Close down the Island if they try to evict us’ say Vestas occupiers

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‘I’M not leaving,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith told News Line yesterday. He was speaking in the wake of a hearing at Newport Court where...

13 schools with RAAC had funding to rebuild – ruled out by Tories!

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At least 13 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had funding to rebuild approved under a Labour scheme which was later...
The NUT on the march through central London during their strike last year

Teachers Out Today!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers are striking against government attacks on their terms and conditions today, with mass marches planned in towns and cities...
West Midlands delegation standing by a CWU campaign banner outside the CWU Policy Forum in central London showing their determination to stop privatisation

‘No Way Is This Industry Going To Be Privatised’

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THE Communication Workers Union Policy Forum of over 500 CWU reps in central London yesterday voted unanimously for a national strike ballot of Royal...

NO STRIKES–WAGE FREEZE – agreed by Unite

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CALLUM MacLean, Ineos Grangemouth chairman, was exultant yesterday as he told the media that Unite the union had agreed to a three-year pay freeze,...
Trade unionists marched in their hundreds of thousands to defend the NHS and all public services in London on March 26

Child Heart Op Crisis!

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Opponents of a proposal to end child heart surgery at the Royal Brompton Hospital, west London, expressed their concerns at a public meeting on...

‘THEY ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THEIR LIES!’ – Menezes family hails Blair inquiry

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‘This will be the start, they are going to pay for all their lies, all the shootings,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles...

PULL TROOPS OUT CALL! – as army chief demands more

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‘We are opposed to more troops going into Afghanistan,’ a Stop the War Coalition spokesman told News Line yesterday. He was responding to a...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the Hillingdon office of the TGWU urging all workers not to sign the notorious ‘Compromise Agreement’

Teachers Strike!

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TEACHERS in four schools in Calderdale, Greenwich, Newham and Doncaster will take strike action this week to protect salary levels following a review forced...
The National Union of Journalists staged a protest against the takeover of BSkyB in March this year

STOP BskyB TAKEOVER!

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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been forced to delay any decision on the BSkyB takeover by News International until September, it emerged yesterday. This was...

Brexit: ‘There Is Pathway To Deal’

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THERE are ‘many issues’ still to be resolved before a Brexit agreement can be reached, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, as talks continued yesterday. He...

UK TROOPS GO INTO MALI! – FO tells Brits to quit Lebanon, Tripoli, Palestine...

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BRITAIN is to send 350 troops to Mali to be deployed as ‘advisers’ and ‘trainers’, Defence Secretary Hammond told an anxious House of Commons...

Famine is tightening its grip on Gaza

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THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned yesterday that Gaza’s food system has completely collapsed, as famine tightens its...
Local government workers in Athens demonstrating against austerity

‘There could be a Lehmans moment!’ – World Bank warning

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AS GREEK workers went to the polls yesterday, bourgeois commentators were warning of a ‘widespread contagion’ or even an ‘asteroid strike’ of an economic...
Part of the 400-strong lobby of Barnet council on Tuesday night against its savage cuts programme

Barnet Council Mass Lobby

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Over 400 workers, youth, pensioners and local service users lobbied Barnet Council on Tuesday, furious at the massive cuts and privatisation imposed by the...
Labour leader CORBYN marching with steel workers in defence of jobs

Labour To Abolish Zero-Hours Contracts

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JEREMY Corbyn speaking in Swindon yesterday confirmed that Labour will abolish zero-hours contracts. He said that, ‘Some one million people are on zero-hours contracts’ and...
The 500,000-strong TUC demonstration on March 28 last year – the march called for October 20 this year is set to be even bigger

Smash The Pay Freeze!

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Shadow chancellor Ed Balls provoked the fury of the unions at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday with his refusal to pledge a...

Brown Beefs Up Secret State

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced to MPs that ‘the security service is to double in size to 4,000 personnel’. In a statement to the House...

RCN calls 48-hour national strike

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a round-the-clock 48-hour strike from 8pm on Sunday 30th April to 8pm on Tuesday 2nd May,...

Fierce Clashes In Hebron!

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ISRAELI forces opened fired with live ammunition on a protest in Hebron yesterday hitting at least ten Palestinians. The ‘rally of anger’ erupted into fierce...

NHS IS BUCKLING BEFORE OUR EYES says RCN leader Patricia Marquis

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‘AS WE begin a new year, the NHS is buckling before our eyes. The pressures are immense with flu cases surging while staff absences...
Celtic supporters flew the Palestinian flag both outside and inside the ground last Wednesday evening

Celtic Flies Palestinian Flags

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CELTIC FANS displayed Palestinian flags in a demonstration against Apartheid Israel last Wednesday night, 17th August, during the Celtic v Hapoel Be’er Sheva match. Campaigners...

Ryanair ‘declaration of war’

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RYANAIR has made a ‘declaration of war’ unions said after it embarked on a campaign of closures and ‘fleet reductions’. This, according to pilot and...

‘Kill The Bill’ Demos Nationwide!

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‘KILL the Bill’ mass demonstrations took place against the Tory government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in cities around the country on Friday...

NHS White Paper Means Hospital Closures

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Hospitals could face closure to make space for private providers, warns a new report from the NHS managers’ organisation. Ahead of the publication on Wednesday...
Construction workers picketing outside the Isle of Grain power station in Kent yesterday morning

Power Workers Call For National Jobs Action

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Over fifty power industry construction workers demonstrating outside the Isle of Grain power station in Kent yesterday morning demanded national action to defend jobs...

Ford’s Redundancies!

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UNITE’S leadership said it wants ‘full involvement’ in the negotiations over the axing of 275 managerial, supervisory and engineering jobs announced by Ford in...
Pensioners and trade unionists at a Trafalgar Square rally. They are determined to defend all public services

‘MANIFESTO TO BREAK UP PUBLIC SERVICES’ – as Southern Cross goes bust

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‘This is nothing less than a manifesto to break up our public services, smuggled out while all attention is focused on the misdeeds of...

Tory borrowing breaks all records

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GOVERNMENT borrowing broke all records soaring to historic heights in November, figures released yesterday show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said borrowing hit £31.6bn...