£3,500 CUT IN BASIC PAY – West Midlands & Shropshire Ambulance workers to strike

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Ambulance crews in the West Midlands and Shropshire are set to start industrial action, beginning with an overtime ban next Wednesday, followed by a...
CT Plus busworkers on the picket line in East London yesterday

‘LOW PAY NO WAY’ say CT pickets

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Shouts of ‘Low Pay, No Way!’ rang out at a 50-strong, lively picket of busworkers outside CT Plus garage in Hackney in east London...

Trump imposes new 12.5% tariffs

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DONALD Trump has imposed fresh tariffs on more than 80 countries, replacing a blanket 10 per cent duty hours before it lapsed. The new levies...

Eurozone Collapsing!

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Tory prime minister Cameron’s decision to veto an EU-wide treaty change over eurozone financial rules was ‘largely political’, Business Secretary Vince Cable said yesterday. He...

CIVIL SERVANTS TO STRIKE – 250,000 to come out for 48 hours

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OVER quarter of a million civil and public servants will stage a 48-hour national strike on March 8-9. Up to 270,000 members of the PCS...
Demonstration in Wood Green, north London on January 28 this year against the forcing of Academy status on schools

‘UNACCEPTABLE ON EVERY LEVEL’ – Academies to employ unqualified ‘teachers’

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unions have angrily condemned the news that Academies can now employ unqualified ‘teachers’. The change, announced late last Friday afternoon, is immediate. Until now, state-funded...
A big part of the 60-strong picket at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

March to save Chase Farm today!

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YESTERDAY’S 60-strong mass picket to save Chase Farm Hospital drew big support from patients and local residents who all said they would join today’s...
Police escort resident to his door in Lansdown Road, Forest Gate, yesterday midday, with number 46 hidden by plastic sheeting

Raid Police Broke Into Neighbour’s Home

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) issued an update yesterday on its investigation into the Forest Gate police shooting of 23-year-old Abdul Kahar. The IPCC...
Cleaners outside the blockaded Finance Ministry building in central Athens

Athens Cleaners Defiant!

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SOME 1,500 workers marched through the Athens city centre on Thursday evening, in a militant demonstration of solidarity with the nine-month-old fight of the...

BALPA FIGHTING BA’s WAGE CUT PLANS

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BALPA (the British Airline Pilots Association) is going to the High Court in London on Monday to fight a British Airways (BA’s) strike ban. BALPA...

May Day March

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Monday May 1st MAY DAY MARCH
Doctors at the British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting in June voting to keep privateers out of the NHS

PRIVATE CENTRE ‘RISKED PATIENTS’ SAFETY’ – alleges GP

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A privately-run NHS walk-in centre has been forced to launch a probe after complaints by a doctor about the safety of patients were...

Welsh NHS Cuts!

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‘We are very concerned for our members and our communities,’ Wales UNISON head of health Dave Gallaghan told News Line yesterday. He was responding to...
Young people at the front of the 3,000-strong NE London Council of Action march against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield last November

DEFEND CHASE FARM – decision day on closure is July 31

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THE moment of truth is fast approaching for action to be taken to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, north...

US sends warships to Egypt

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The US is sending warships, including one with 800 troops, and other military assets to Egypt as the revolution in the North African country...
Doctors voting at yesterday’s GPs conference where they rejected the government’s NHS privatisation plans

NO TO PRIVATISATION! – SAY GPs

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THE BMA GPs conference yesterday voted unanimously, but for a couple of abstentions, for Motion 153: ‘The Market and Any Willing Provider’. The motion from...

UK Troops For The Ukraine Says Shapps

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TORY Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK troops are to be sent to the Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’...

Corbyn makes May an offer

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in his speech to the party conference yesterday, made Tory PM May an offer: he said that Labour would give...

Draconian police state powers

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DRACONIAN emergency powers contained within the Coronavirus Bill were debated during the bill’s second reading in Parliament yesterday. Police state measures were outlined to detain...

Israel still obstructing vital supplies for Palestine!

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THE United Nations has renewed its call to expand humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Israeli restrictions continue to block vital supplies...

Corus Sacks 3,500 – Llanwern To Be In Mothballs

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TRADE unions yesterday called on the government to bail out the manufacturing bosses in the wake of steelmaker Corus’ confirmation that it is cutting...

Letters sent to 1922 Committee calling for Johnson to go – 54 needed for...

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TWO TORY MPs, Sir Roger Gale and Douglas Ross, have publicly confirmed that they have submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime...
Students, who are part of the first year to pay £3,000 fees, showing their opposition to all fees

‘DISASTROUS’ DROP IN STUDENT NUMBERS – says National Union

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THE NUS has described a drop in the numbers of students going to university as ‘deeply worrying’, and has called on the Government to...

Striking Nurses To March On Downing Street!

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STRIKING nurses are marching on Downing Street today, leaving UCLH (University College London Hospital) at 2.30pm, as nursing staff go on strike in what...
The demonstration to back the Orgeave Justice Campaign’s call for a full inquiry into the police attack on thousands of striking miners at Orgreave thirty two years ago

Orgreave ‘never forget, never forgive’

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OVER 700 trade unionists, former miners and determined supporters, demonstrated on Saturday in Sheffield to back the Orgreave Justice Campaign’s call for a full...

NO ‘COMPROMISE AGREEMENT!’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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SHOP Stewards representing the 670 locked out Gate Gourmet workers are meeting Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley at the union’s...

Wages being slashed!

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PAY ‘nosedived’ last month, as the quarterly rate of earnings growth crashed to 0.7% from 1.9% the previous month. The government’s preferred CPI monthly inflation...
Horton Hospital campaigners from Banbury at the NHS Together lobby of Parliament on November 1st

Campaigners Reject Ippr Insult

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NHS DEFENCE campaigners were outraged yesterday at the comments by the Blairite Institute for Public Policy Research that their campaigns to defend District General...

Al-Araqib Village Stormed By Israeli Police

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Israeli police on Tuesday stormed a Bedouin village that was completely razed in July, levelling efforts to rebuild homes for the third time in...

Mugabe Resigns!!

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‘ROBERT Mugabe has handed me his letter of resignation,’ the speaker of Zimbabwe’s Parliament announced yesterday, sparking wild celebrations. Cheers, singing, shouting and dancing erupted...
Serco strikers on the picket line are demanding that Unite call a national demonstration in support of the strike and bring other Serco workers out to win the dispute

‘Unite needs to call a nationwide demo’ – Serco strikers

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‘OUR members are standing firm and determined to win,’ striking Royal London Hospital Unite rep Ebrima Sonko told News Line yesterday on the morning...
JOHN WALKER, PADDY HILL, HUGH CALLAGHAN, Labour MP CHRIS MULLEN, RICHARD McILKENNY, GERRY HUNTER and BILLY POWER outside the Old Bailey after their convictions for the Birmingham pub bombings were quashed on March 14, 1991

‘BIRMINGHAM POLICE ARE ROTTEN!’ – Paddy Hill says

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INQUESTS into the deaths of 21 people in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings are to be reopened, a coroner ruled yesterday. Louise Hunt, the senior...

French and Dutch workers poised to reject united capitalist Europe

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NEXT Sunday, France will be voting in a referendum on the proposed EU constitution, and to the astonishment of the leaders of the Gaullist...

APPALLING CAPITA FAILURE! –fails to send screening letters to 48,000 women

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THE BMA has criticised the ‘appalling’ failure by health privateer Capita to send cervical screening letters to up to 48,000 women. It has written...

‘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...

HUGE US UNEMPLOYMENT RISE – as Obama meets his advisors

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US president-elect Barack Obama discussed the financial crisis and other big problems with world leaders yesterday. He spoke by telephone with the...

Covid measures reintroduced tomorrow – Javid under fire for not testing for new variant...

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TORY Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said face masks will be compulsory in shops and on public transport in England from tomorrow in response...

3.7m FAMILIES ARE JOBLESS!

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THE UK economy will contract by 0.7 per cent this year, the OECD said yesterday, in a sharply revised prediction from that made in...

Assange hearing adjourned after Covid fears for lawyer – his supporters block the street

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ON DAY four yesterday of the Old Bailey hearing deciding the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the proceedings were adjourned until Monday while...

SPECIAL BRANCH COLLUDED IN 15 MURDERS – paid £79,840 to Loyalist killer

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Collusion between Special Branch officers and a loyalist death squad was made possible by support at the ‘highest level’, Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan said...
‘We all support Colonel Gadaffi’ demonstrating Libyan students insisted outside Downing Street yesterday

LIBYA DEFIANT! – After Gadaffi assassination attempt fails

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‘DOWN, DOWN Cameron, Down, Down Sarkozy, Down Down Obama,’ chanted hundreds of angry Libyan students outside 10 Downing Street yesterday afternoon, holding up pictures...
Refugee family – trying to keep alive from cold in a flimsy shelter. Photo credit: Panos Papanikolaou

Greek workers battle cuts–while refugees freeze

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ALL this week, poor Greek farmers intensified their struggle against the government’s policies of high taxation and pension cuts by setting up dozens of...
The ‘Keep Ealing Hospital Open’ picket insists that only the WRP’s Arj Thiara will keep Ealing Hospital open

Vote Wrp – Vote Arj In Ealing

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THE VOTE Arj Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital, Greenford Bus Garage and Southall Mosques,...

‘WE ARE NOT THE AGGRESSORS’ – Putin condemns US support for Georgia

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Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the US of trying to disrupt the Russian military operation in South Ossetia by transporting Georgian troops...

Global protests over assassination of Gaza journalists!

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ISRAEL’s continued assault on Gaza has killed at least 89 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, including 31 people seeking aid, and injured 513...