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Sister students union to Coventry, Warwick, on the march for free education – Coventry SU President Francis Ahanonu said: ‘Companies which are employing young graduates for free must be threatened with legal action’

Prosecute companies who exploit graduates

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‘ASKING students to work for free is exploitation. Companies which are employing young graduates for free must be threatened with legal action against them,’...

‘We’re striking to defend the NHS from the Tories!’ say RCN pickets

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NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...
MARK WALSH Branch Secretary CWU Merseyside and ANGELA PEELING Assistant Regional Secretary NW CWU welcome the marchers to Merseyside and sponsored a pizza meal for the marchers

CWU welcomes Marchers to Merseyside!

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WHILE the marchers stopped to get their picture by the statue of the leader of the English Revolution, Oliver Cromwell, yesterday morning, the local...
PCS lobby outside the HMRC yesterday morning demanding that all the HMRC Enquiry Centres be kept open

All tax advice centres to close!

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PCS members held a lively protest outside HM Revenue and Customs Whitehall headquarters yesterday opposing the closure of 281 tax advice centres. Chris Baugh, PCS...

‘Unite the West Bank & Gaza’ demand masses of Palestine

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THE Hamas leader in Gaza, Dr Khalil al-Hayya, arrived in Egypt yesterday to begin negotiations on the mechanism for a ceasefire, withdrawal of occupation...

Cases of police sexual abuse are rising! – Warns Independent Office for Police Conduct...

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CASES of police abusing their role for sexual gain have risen sharply, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) warned yesterday, revealing the fact...

THE GREAT PENSIONS ROBBERY! –But Labour leader Miliband opposes strikes

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FINAL salary pensions will be scrapped and public sector workers forced to work for longer, under plans unveiled yesterday by John (now Lord) Hutton. The...

‘Performance-related’ pay NHS deal must be rejected!

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GMB rightly recommended their members to reject the Tory government’s NHS pay offer, as a 6.5% pay increase over three years, when compared with...
Teachers marching against the Tory government’s attacks on state education

Teachers 60-Hour Week ‘Unacceptable!’

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‘TEACHERS working 60 hours a week is totally unacceptable and is exacerbating the teacher shortage,’ warns Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union...

‘We are striking because people are dying!’ – says RCN’s Cullen!

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‘PEOPLE aren’t dying because nurses are striking, nurses are striking because people are dying,’ RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said yesterday. ‘Today’s record number...

‘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...

Guys & St Thomas’ theatre nurses are set to take strike action over dangerous...

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GUYS and St Thomas’ theatre nurses are to strike over a dangerous rise in hours. Burnt out nurses warn that a further hour extension to...

Kwarteng’s mini budget is a major attack on the working class

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CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...

‘People’s vote remains an option’ – Corbyn

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‘WE HAVE called for a new customs union, with a say in future trade deals, a strong single market relationship and a guarantee to...
Striking junior doctors say that the NHS is everyone’s fight

‘Crude, expensive and dangerous’ – scrap referral management centres

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‘CRUDE, expensive and dangerous’ warned doctors yesterday, describing the privately run ‘Referral Management Centres’. They further warned that the Referral Management Centres act as...

Eu Must Represent Millions Who Are Opposed To Brexit Says Tusk

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THE President of the European Council warned yesterday that anti-Brexit British voters who want to remain in the EU must not be ‘betrayed’. Treating Britain...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers yesterday angrily confronting their TGWU convenor Dhillon, outside the Hillingdon TGWU office demanding that their dispute must be made official and that they must also receive dispute pay

Cornered!

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers cornered their TGWU ex-convenor Dhillon when he came out of the TGWU Regional Office in Hillingdon yesterday midday, where they...

Free Palestine! No war on Iran! – demand 350,000 on London march

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OVER 350,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Downing Street on Saturday, in one of the largest demonstrations...
Passengers and unions have been fighting for some time now for the renationalisation of the railways

PASSENGER FURY OVER rail fare rises!

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RAIL ticket prices will soar by up to 10% next January, in price hikes described by the RMT railworkers union yesterday as...
NE London Council of Action picket outside Chase Farm hospital last Tuesday against the threat to close the maternity unit

Johnson To Close Rochdale< Salford< Trafford & Bury Maternity Units

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Health unions yesterday expressed concern after health secretary Alan Johnson endorsed plans to close maternity units at four Greater Manchester hospitals in Rochdale, Salford,...

Imf Orders More Irish ‘Repossessions’

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THE International Monetary Fund has delivered a brutal assessment of Ireland’s economic situation, complaining of a lack of progress by banks, and dangers of...
Migrant domestic workers campaigning against coalition plans to change their status outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday midday. See feature in tomorrow’s News Line

We’Re Workers Not Slaves!

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‘NO return to slavery, we are workers!’ chanted over 200 migrant domestic workers and their supporters outside Parliament yesterday. The protest from 11am-1pm, Old Palace...
A section of the RMT demonstration to the TUC on October 23 last year demanding action against the coalition government’s cuts

‘WE WILL NOT CHANGE COURSE’ – Cameron challenges trade unions

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Prime Minister Cameron yesterday refused to rule out increases in fuel duty, and said the VAT increase to 20 per cent is here to...
One of the six lively picket lines of UCU strikers at Imperial College with students showing their support for the strike

64 Universities Pensions Strike

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‘WHAT do we want? Fair pensions! How do we get it? Strike! Strike! Strike!’ students and lecturers at Sheffield University shouted yesterday while taking...
Postal workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday demanding no privatisation of Royal Mail

STOP THE CUTS! – Postal workers tell Labour Party Conference

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over 200 postal workers lobbied the heavily-fortified Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday, to demand the Labour government keeps the Royal Mail public and...

Johnson-Sunak Sought To Avoid Self-Isolation

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PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak were forced into a humiliating u-turn yesterday morning, having initially sought to avoid self-isolating after having been ‘pinged’ following...

BUSH – NO DEAL! – as capitalism crashes

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Bush made a two-minute statement on the White House Lawn yesterday following his failure to get agreement on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s massive $700...

Right-Wing Mobs Take To Arms In Ukraine

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As well as Lviv, the occupation of government buildings by anti-government activists and confrontations with police were reported yesterday in the western cities of...

Tories, Labour Unite To Beat The Unemployed

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The Brown government and the Tories yesterday joined forces to cane the unemployed. After Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell announced his ‘workfare’ Welfare Reform White...

TIME TO DEFEND NHS! say UNISON and the GMB

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‘We need an end to the privatisation of the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to government backing for the...

Kick The Tories Out Today!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday hit back at Tory PM May’s declaration that she will tear up the human rights laws, allegedly to combat...

Towers Threatened With Collapse

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TWO tower blocks on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham are at risk of a ‘catastrophic collapse’. After the horrific Grenfell fire, which left so...

‘Flawed algorithm’ throws unemployed to the wolves

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UNIVERSAL CREDIT claimants have been thrown into destitution, poverty, homelessness and starvation as a direct result of a ‘flawed algorithm’ a damning new welfare...

CROW CALLS FOR GENERAL STRIKE! – no mandate for coalition cuts!

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THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday called for ‘general coordinated strike action allied to community direct action’ to resist the ConDem coalition government’s...

Sajid Javid tells patients to ‘manage their own care!’

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ON Thursday, Sajid Javid, the Tory Health Secretary, made a euphoric speech to the Health Service Journal Digital Transformation Summit. He praised the Covid pandemic...

Parliament can stop UK leaving EU – says shadow chancellor John McDonnell

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PARLIAMENT can stop the UK leaving the EU without negotiating a deal, Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell claimed yesterday. He said he could ‘not countenance’...

EU IS SET TO SLUMP – OECD recommends Quantitative Easing

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Europe’s economic crisis ‘could evolve into stagnation, with negative implications for the global economy’, the OECD warned yesterday. The 34-nation Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation...

STOPPED 25 TIMES! –Stuart Lawrence accuses police of racism

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STUART LAWRENCE, the brother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, has complained to the Metropolitan Police that officers have stopped and searched him 25...

Met strip-searched 14-year-old girl as male officers looked on

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THREE-QUARTERS of the thousands of children who are strip-searched by police forces around the UK each year are black, the BBC’s File On 4...

Patient confidentiality breached!

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PATIENT confidentiality has been breached! Immigration centres, police stations and prisons have been given full access to hundreds of thousands of patients’ medical records,...
E15 Focus Mothers Group and their supporters outside the four empty flats on the Carpenter’s Estate which are now occupied

E15 Mums Occupy

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FIERCE local opposition has emerged on the Carpenter’s Estate, in the heart of Stratford’s Olympic Village, where tenants are being forced from their homes,...
Lively picket of midwives at King’s College Hospital on strike last Monday over the lack of a wage increase

NHS workers slam Hunt’s attack

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‘IF YOU want to talk about waste in the NHS, then stop outsourcing midwives and nurses to agency staff,’ Royal College of Midwives (RCM)...

PCS Universal Credit strike ballot

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PUBLIC and Commercial Services (PCS) union members working in Universal Credit are voting on whether to take strike action over workloads and staff recruitment. The...

Grimsby maternity support workers begin two week strike

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MATERNITY support workers in Grimsby began two weeks of strike action yesterday, over their employer’s failure to compensate them fairly for the many years...

‘When we start you will know’ – says Nasrallah

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THE head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has vowed that his militant group would oust militants from a region on the border with Syria, but declined...