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Teachers and their supporters demanding ‘save our pensions’. More public sector workers are expected to join the struggle in the coming months

Pensions Strikes

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AHEAD of today’s TUC Congress, the leaders of two of the country’s biggest unions warned that their members’ anger over cuts in their jobs,...
Junior doctors recently came out to defend the whole of the NHS – they were allowed to fight alone

‘General Practice–is in danger of going under!’

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HELEN Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs Council, the UK’s leading doctor, warned yesterday that General Practice is in danger of...

2025 – Victory for Palestine and World Socialist Revolution

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NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD NEW YEAR STATEMENT 2025 THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2025 to all our readers and to the...
FBU demonstration in London against Fire Service cuts

NORTH KEN FIRE HORROR!– FBU – ‘It should not be possible for a fire...

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EYEWITNESSES, local people and neighbours of the residents of Grenfell Tower who perished in the fire yesterday morning, reported that ‘within five minutes it...

‘WE WILL WIN!’ – call for support at News Line-Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ conference

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‘WE MUST not allow the Gate Gourmet workers to be starved. ‘The whole trade union movement must rally round and provide the funds and make...

Barber Warning!

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TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday warned of ‘widespread industrial action’ over public sector pensions. Speaking at a press conference in Congress House, central London,...
Young Socialists in London last November at the end of their three week march for jobs and Free State Education

CAMERON BLAMES JOBLESS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT – says TUC’s Barber

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‘Long-term unemployment has doubled, not because of a sudden increase in work-shy scroungers, but as an inevitable result of economic policies based on cuts...
Dr CHAAND NAGPAUL, BMA GP Committee chair (2nd from right) at a march in Tower Hamlets last June against the closure of GP surgeries

‘GP services at breaking point’ – warns BMA

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‘GP SERVICES are already at breaking point,’ British Medical Association (BMA) GP Committee chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, warned yesterday, demanding that PM Cameron ‘get...

Poorest children hit the hardest by education cuts

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NUT/CPAG research confirms that schools with the poorest children will be hit hardest by the May government’s school funding proposals The research using DfE data,...
Striking civil servants, school teachers and college lecturers on the march to defend pensions in June this year

‘Pensions Robbery’ – Challenge By Unions

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SIX unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their...

BMA predicts £54bn NHS shortfall!

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THE Chair of the British Medical Association has warned of an increasing financial shortfall in NHS funding. In his New Year’s message to doctors, Dr...
Ealing Conference On The NHS

Ealing Conference On The NHS

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EALING CONFERENCE GOES AHEAD: On the eve of the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital, due to take place on...

Reinstate The Strikes!

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THERE is no deal so reinstate the strikes, frustrated Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials said yesterday. This came as yet another day of talks...
A section of the mass demonstration outside Parliament of road hauliers from throughout the UK demanding Brown act on high fuel prices

Hauliers Have Had Enough!

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Over 900 road hauliers and independent truckers, descended on Parliament yesterday to lobby their MPs to urgently and immediately reduce the price of fuel....

Failed Labour leaders quit!

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APOLOGISING to his party, Labour leader Miliband resigned yesterday mid-day following his party’s wipe-out in Scotland compounded by losses in England. He told supporters: ‘Earlier...
Thousands marched through east London in 2006 to protest at a massive police raid on homes in Forest Gate, in which one young man was wounded, before being detained with his brother. Both were eventually released

NO SECRET INQUESTS! – NO 42 DAYS! – urge human rights groups

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MPs were urged yesterday to vote against government proposals for ‘secret inquests’, and to reject plans for 42-day detention without charge by both human...

‘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...
UCU lecturers ‘Fair pay in FE’ lobby during their pay talks last month

Unions Go For One-Day General Strike!

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THE PCS trade union is having a consultative ballot asking members to back its ‘We all need a pay rise campaign.’ This calls for a...

Royal Commission ‘to break up the NHS’ says KONP

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KEEP Our NHS Public (KONP) is demanding that Labour oppose the setting up of a Royal Commission to look at the NHS and...
Students and teachers join together in a Westminster demonstration last July against the coalition’s ‘Big School Fiasco’

School buildings axe challenged

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A Judicial Review into the government’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future scheme opened yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice. Six...
Greek hospital workers demanding free health care for all. Their banner declares ‘All together we will win!’

Greek workers march against cuts and privatisation!

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THREE thousand hospital workers, Metro workers, primary school teachers and pensioners marched through Greece’s capital, Athens last Wednesday. The day of strike action was against...
CHRIS KAVANAGH (right) with fellow fire alarm engineers, they called for the TUC to act to defend the NHS

Hounslow Campaign Goes Well For Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers

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THE campaign team of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers was in Hounslow yesterday working for their mass picket this Sunday and their conference in London...

LABOUR SAVAGED! – Party pays the price for Blair-Brown policies

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LABOUR was savaged by voters in England, Scotland and Wales, in the regional and council elections as the party paid the price for the...

New Police Bill attacks right to protest! – Labour votes against

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‘THIS GOVERNMENT was elected a year ago on a manifesto to support the police and uphold law and order,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel...

Itv 24 Hr Strike!

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BROADCASTING unions at ITV have voted to go on strike next Thursday after management failed to budge from an ‘insulting’ pay offer of 2...

Labour PM reveals his class war Budget will cause ‘pain’!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer will focus on growth and wealth creation, he told selected guests and media in the Downing Street rose garden...

‘NO-FAULT EVICTIONS’ WILL BE MADE ILLEGAL – pledges Corbyn

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LABOUR’S next manifesto will include a pledge to reduce eviction powers for landlords and tip housing rules back in favour of renters, party leader...

LEBANON ERUPTS! – on the anniversary of port explosion

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HUNDREDS of Lebanese marched to mark the first anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people. Lebanese police clashed with angry...
Clashes between Greek workers and the capitalist state are taking place around the clock every day as workers defend their rights

Ecb Plan Sets Off Germany’s Alarm Bells!

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THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...

Nato Kills Hundreds Of Civilians

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NATO air raids have killed more than 700 civilians and injured over 4,000, many of them seriously, since bombing of Libya began in March,...

‘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...

£11.5bn of cuts & wage cuts – at the centre of Osborne’s budget

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CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a massive onslaught on public services and public sector pay in his budget yesterday, imposing billions more in cuts as well...

‘Strike together against anti-union laws!’

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INSTEAD of organising a general strike to smash the anti-union laws, the TUC leader Paul Nowak has decided to report the UK government to...

Climate change activists block central London

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THOUSANDS of ‘Extinction Rebellion’ protesters blocked key areas of central London yesterday demanding action from the government on the ‘climate and ecological emergency’. Traffic was...

GOVE ADMITS DRUG LAW-BREAKING! – as do six Tory leadership contenders

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TORY leadership candidate Michael Gove admitted on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he had acted illegally in relation to using cocaine. The former Justice...

NHS PAYMENTS! – warning from UNISON

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UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, yesterday raised concerns over the consequences of introducing individual budgets outlined in yesterday’s ‘Primary and Community Care’...

NHS buildings ‘verge of collapse’ – Risk of ‘corporate manslaughter’!

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AN NHS hospital has commissioned a report into the risk of corporate mans-laughter charges should a fatal roof collapse occur, leaked documents exposed yesterday. West...

Public sector workers at breaking point!

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‘PUBLIC sector workers are at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that inflation has hit...

Doctors’ strike out solid for pay and to save NHS

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Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...
Single mothers and disabled families lobby the High Court over benefit cuts

20 million on food banks!

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BENEFIT cuts have created a kind of famine’ one of the over twenty million people who have visited food banks this year said,...

Parliament taking control from government!

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‘THE APPROACH to today’s business sets an extremely concerning precedent for our democracy,’ Tory leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom said yesterday,...

French General Strike!

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A NATIONWIDE general strike took place yesterday, as Air France workers joined striking railworkers, civil servants, power workers and rubbish collectors in a...

21 firefighters leave UK to help fight Greek wildfires

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TWENTY-ONE firefighters from the UK left yesterday evening for Greece to assist firefighters out there, in an international effort to tackle the raging wildfires. Tony...
Student nurses and midwives marching to demand their bursaries are restored – on A-level results day figures reveal student applications for nursing have plummeted

Students driven out of university

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AXING student grants while hiking up university fees to an eyewatering £9,500 a year has driven tens of thousands of students out of education,...
London Met lecturers and students marching on 23 May against the savage cuts being imposed on the university

Met Lecturers And Students Protest

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Staff and students at London Metropolitan University will protest from 4.00pm on Monday in their ongoing fight to save over 550 jobs. Members of the...