The front of the two million-strong demonstration in London on February 15 2003 against the war on Iraq

‘I MADE MY CHOICE . . . AND FULLY ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITIES’ says Straw...

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JUST before Jack Straw appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday, he released a 25-page memorandum which explained that his decision to support the Iraq...

Trump threat to invade Cuba!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened Cuba, warning on Sunday: ‘THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I...
Junior doctors on the picket line at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddingdon on 10th March – they have now stepped up their struggle

Junior doctors escalate struggle – after Tories refuse to talk

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The BMA yesterday confirmed an escalation of the junior doctors industrial action scheduled for April. This follows the continued refusal by the government to step...
Fighting 4 Grantham Hospital campaigners taking part in yesterday’s protest demanding the reopening of their 24-hour A&E

‘Save our NHS!’ – Huddersfield, Banbury, Stafford and Grantham join NHS campaigners in London...

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‘ALL the unions should take part in a Day of Action for the NHS,’ Steve Mathan of Hands Off HRI told News Line yesterday. Over...
The North-East London Council of Action picketing yesterday morning to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

‘WE NEED ACTION NOT WORDS’ – at Chase Farm

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Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...
Support staff facing compulsory transfer to the private sector and their supporters during strike action at Caxton House yesterday

PCS Votes For National Strike Action

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MEMBERS of the PCS civil service union yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favour of national strike action in a consultative ballot against job cuts, pay...

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...
Tony Hall at work in his studio

TONY HALL 12th November 1936 – 21st February 2008

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WE are very sad to have to announce the death from lung cancer of Tony Hall, a very good friend of the News Line,...

‘Charge police with murder’ say family of George Floyd

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MASS uprisings have broken out in Minneapolis as hectic protests over the police killing of an unarmed black man George Floyd escalated into violent...
A demonstration in Windrush Square, Brixton in solidarity with the Windrush generation. There is to be a Support Windrush  Generation demonstration in Parliament Square today from 4.00-7.00pm

Windrush promises must have legal backing

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MORE than 200 MPs have signed a letter to the prime minister calling for government promises to Windrush migrants to be written into law....
Workers from Basildon and Enfield Visteon plants on the Enfield Visteon picket line yesterday morning

Nolan Kept Out Of US Talks!

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THE Enfield Visteon plant convenor Kevin Nolan told News Line yesterday: ‘We have had a meeting with the company in New York. They are...

STRIKE GOING AHEAD – says Prentis

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‘The strike will go ahead,’ said Unison general secretary Dave Prentis yesterday as more unions announced their members will be joining the November 30...

Record 5.45m NHS waiting list – Nurses warn of staffing crisis

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A RECORD number of people, more than 5.45 million, are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England. Responding to the latest NHS England performance data,...
Junior doctors demonstrating against the new Medical Training and Application Service that leaves nearly 15,000  junior doctors without any jobs to go to

DOCTORS CRISIS – 13,700 face the axe

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Patient safety and the future career prospects of many thousands of junior doctors could be further jeopardised within the next two weeks, warned the...

‘No settlements in Gaza!’ – says UN sec gen Khaled Khiari

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THE Assistant UN Secretary-General, Khaled Khiari, has urged the international community to categorically reject any Israeli moves to establish settlements in the Gaza Strip...

General Strike in Palestine!

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A GENERAL strike was held in Palestine’s West Bank yesterday as part of a worldwide strike in solidarity with Gaza, which has suffered the...

Poisonous attack on immigrants

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MPs AND peers yesterday launched a poisonous attack on people coming to live in the UK. A new report says that ‘migrants’ should be ‘obliged’...
Junior doctors marching on Saturday to defend the NHS – NHS workers will not allow free healthcare to be abolished through privatisation by the Tories

Surge in privatisation threatens NHS – warn health unions

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‘A SURGE in privatisation is threatening free NHS treatment,’ unions say. With contracts worth £5.5bn going to private firms, health sector unions warn of a...

OUTPUT FALLS! – as food prices are set to rocket

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UK industrial output fell unexpectedly in June, the latest official figures revealed yesterday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said industrial output fell 0.5 per...
Part of Sunday’s 2,000-strong rally in Victoria Square, Birmingham, supporting striking binmen

SPEAK UP CORBYN – urged to condemn Labour council

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TWO THOUSAND Birmingham binmen and their supporters from all over the country demonstrated yesterday in a Unite national rally in Victoria Square in front...
Nurses rally in central London on May 11 against cuts

THIRTY NURSES FACE THE SACK –UNISON threatens industrial action at North Devon NHS Trust

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Sixty health workers including thirty nurses are to lose their jobs at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple as the NHS Trust seeks to...

Tube strikers determined to win

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TUBE drivers were on strike across London yesterday and are out again all day tomorrow, for 24-hours from midnight tonight, in their fight against...

‘Gate Gourmet Can’t Get Away With This!’

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Yesterday was the beginning of the third month since the more than 700 Gate Gourmet workers were locked out at Heathrow Airport. Speaking on the...

RELEASE MIGUEL ROLDAN! –Spanish firefighter faces jail for rescuing refugees

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UK FIREFIGHTERS protested outside the Italian embassy in London on Thursday in support of a Spanish firefighter facing prison for rescuing refugees....

Child heart surgery closures are threatened!

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CONSULTATION has begun into the closures of children’s heart surgeries in England after a review last year. There was a huge public outcry against the...

TUC condemns Trump’s attack on Venezuela

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THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the UK’s three largest trade unions, Unison, Unite and GMB, yesterday condemned the US kidnapping of Venezuelan President...
Demonstration through liberated Aleppo declares ‘Goodbye USA’

Turkey-US Deal!

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ANKARA and Washington have reached an agreement to work together in their occupation of part of northern Syria, where the two NATO allies have...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers with Greenford CWU rep GEOFF LOFTUS

Greenford Cwu To Join Gate Gourmet Lobby Of Tuc

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers got good support yesterday as they campaigned for their lobby of the TUC annual conference in Brighton next Monday morning...

All contact lost with the Al-Shifa Hospital

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ALL CONTACT with medical staff inside al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza City has been lost after Israeli drones bombarded the area around it. The Gaza...
Refugees at Wednesdsay’s march to the EU offices in Athens demanding ‘Freedom!’ Photo credit: voria.gr

Refugees March To Eu Offices Demanding ‘Freedom!’

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OVER 1,000 mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees marched last Wednesday through the Athens city centre to the EU Offices in Greece demanding free and...

Euro Crisis Crunch Time

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US TREASURY Secretary Timothy Geithner held emergency meetings with German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday. Markets had...

£4bn claim against RBS – taxpayers will have to pay bill

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THOUSANDS of investors have launched a joint compensation claim for more than £4.0bn against Royal Bank of Scotland, claiming the 82% state-owned bank deliberately...

Missile Attack On Israeli Forces In Occupied Golan

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THE SYRIAN army intercepted tens of incoming Israeli missiles and reciprocated the assault with a barrage of rocket attacks on Israeli military centres in...

Bank of England votes 5-4 to keep interest rates at 5.25%

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UK interest rates have been left unchanged after the Bank of England said price rises were slowing faster than expected. Interest rates were held at...

Israel Guilty Of Apartheid Crime!

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ISRAEL is carrying out ‘the crime of apartheid against Palestinians’ and must be held accountable for treating them as ‘an inferior racial group’, Amnesty...

SECOND CLASS CITIZENS! – elderly being mistreated

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Public services often fail to consider the special needs of older people, who are being treated like ‘second class citizens’, Age Concern said yesterday. It...
The over 200-strong demonstration against Legal Aid cuts outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London yesterday morning

No Legal Aid – No Justice!

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OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters yesterday morning demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid. Russell...
Greek youth marching against austerity

Terms Of Greek Bail-Out ‘No Longer Apply’

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THE leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras stated on Tuesday ‘the expression of the public’s will has made the...
Chagos Islanders at the Court of Appeal on May 23rd when it found for their appeal to return to a part of the Chagos Islands

Chagos Islanders head for 10 Downing Street

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Chagos Islanders are angry that the Blair government, in its dying hours has appealed to the House of Lords against the recent Court of...

Nurses and busworkers unite to bring down the Tory government

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RCN NURSES from King’s College Hospital in south London marched from their picket line to the Camberwell Abellio bus garage yesterday, to bring greetings...

59 killed & 296 wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza

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THREE days of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip left 59 Palestinians dead by noon yesterday local time, including 14 children and three women,...

US will fall off fiscal cliff

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THE US economy will fall off the ‘fiscal cliff’ when automatic spending cuts and tax increases kick in at the beginning of next year,...

QUEEN’S SPEECH WALKOUT! – by angry PCS members

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thousands of PCS members are walking out for one hour today, at 11.00am, coinciding with the Queen’s Speech, which will be outlining...
Thousands of Unison members took part in the TUC March 26 demonstration to show that they were determined to stop the privatisation of the NHS

NATIONAL DEMO! – called by Unison to defend NHS

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The Unison national delegate conference in Manchester yesterday voted to step up the fight to save the NHS and to call a national demonstration. Delegates...

Court rules against disabled!

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A HIGH Court Judge in London ruled yesterday that the government’s decision to close the Independent Living Fund (ILF) is lawful. The Tories plan to...