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West London Council of Action picket of Ealing Hospital demanding trade unions support an occupation of the hospital to stop the closure

‘SAVING EALING MATERNITY IS VITAL!’ – workers tell the News Line

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AT EALING Hospital yesterday morning, midwives, nurses and other workers told News Line that they want trade union action to stop the closure of...

FBU strike ballot on pensions

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The Fire Brigades Union says the government’s pension proposals are ‘unacceptable’ and are consulting fire crews with a recommendation there is a rapid move...
Marcher with a clear message on the two million-strong demonstration in London on February 15 2003 against the war on Iraq

CHILCOT INQUIRY– ‘COME THE DAY YOU’LL BE THERE’ – Rumsfeld was sure that...

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‘NO matter how many times you said to senior American officers, and indeed Mr Rumsfeld, that we were not committing our forces until we...
Lead banner on Saturday’s 10,000 strong march to defend Ealing, Charing Cross, Hammersmith and Central Middlesex hospitals

PUT AN END TO CAPITALISM! – Only way to defend jobs, wages and the...

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings on this 2013 May Day to the workers and the oppressed nations fighting imperialism throughout...

Debt will bring ‘nasty surprises!’ – Chancellor Sunak gets a warning

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WITH MILLIONS of new Universal Credit claimants expected when the Tory ‘job retention’, or ‘furlough’, scheme ends over the next three months, the government...
West London Council of Action campaigning to save Ealing Hospital’s A&E – picketing alongside junior doctors during their last strike

Tories use ‘winter crisis’ to scrap thousands of ops!

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THE TORY war on the NHS is continuing with thousands of operations to be cancelled and senior doctors diverted from operating theatres under the...

SNP ready for Corbyn-led interim National Government

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THE SCOTTISH Nationalists have reached out to Labour to form a National Government with the sole purpose of remaining in the European Union. Yesterday, chief...
Greek seafarers demonstrate at the port of Piraeus on Wednesday morning

Piraeus port blockaded!

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ATHENS – Thousands of Greek seafarers supported by other workers as well as students blockaded, from early on Wednesday morning, the ships and ferries...

STOP TUC TALKS WITH TORIES – Barber must be sacked!

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‘The TUC-Tory talks must stop’, Dave Wiltshire the All Trades Union Alliance Secretary told News Line yesterday. Wiltshire said: ‘Brendan Barner is discussing with Cameron...

Hunt Accused Of ‘lying’

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CULTURE Secretary Hunt was accused of ‘lying to Parliament’ in the House of Commons yesterday, during the debate demanding that Hunt’s conduct over the...

‘No breakthrough’ in Russia/Ukraine talks

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RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke yesterday about his talks with the Ukraine regime’s Foreign Minister, earlier that morning. At a press conference, attended...

Corbyn-Watson differ over Trump and Brexit

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LABOUR Party deputy leader Tom Watson yesterday claimed that right wing shadow ministers who quit Labour’s front bench in a row over the...

Maternity cuts despite baby boom

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HALF of the English regions have cut their spending on maternity services despite the ongoing baby boom, according to new figures obtained by the...
Demonstration against a forced academy at St Andrew & St Francis School in Brent

Large Scale Academy Cuts!

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LARGE cuts are looming at the TBAP multi-academy trust, which runs schools in London, Essex, Cambridgeshire and the North West, following accusations of financial...

Parliament undermined – after British pilots bomb Syria

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BRITISH personnel have already conducted air strikes in Syria, despite the government’s assurance that there would be a vote in Parliament before any such...

CAMPSFIELD BREAK OUT! – FOURTEEN PRISONERS FREE – Shut down illegal camp!

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‘All these centres should be closed down, there should be no immigration controls,’ Teresa Hayter of the Campaign to Close Campsfield told News Line...
Part of a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital on Tuesday to prevent its A&E and Maternity departments being closed

Bma Debates Call For Industrial Action

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The BMA Consul-tants Conference yesterday heard a call for trade union action to defend the NHS from cuts and privatisation. Moving Motion 138 from North-East...

US BEGINS NEW ARMS RACE! – as Senate agrees to spend £1.37 trillion next...

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THE US has begun a new arms race with President Trump’s announcement of the US’ formal withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). This...

Mau Mau Torture Victims Victory

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THERE was jubilation among a group of fifty former Mau Mau freedom fighters in Nairobi yesterday as news broke that a torture victims compensation...

Scottish Schools Re-0Pening Failure

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DESPITE the Scottish experiment of opening schools in August proving to be a total failure, the Tories proceeded with the re-opening of schools in...
Patricia da Silva Armani (centre) addressing Thursday’s press conference by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, with Vivian Figueiredo (right) – both cousins of Jean Charles

POLICE MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT – insist de Menezes family

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The family of Jean Charles de Menezes on Thursday demanded action be taken to hold individual police officers to account for the killing of...

Send Hospital ship to Gaza – 70,000 sign petition

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SEVENTY thousand people have signed a petition calling for the UK government to send the hospital casualty ship RFA Argus, currently based in Falmouth,...
PCS members on the picket line at the National Gallery – the union warned yesterday that welfare ‘reform’ will lead to more strikes

WELFARE ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ – says CPS civil servants union

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Welfare ‘reform’ plans aimed at privatising ‘help’ for the long term unemployed drew an angry response from civil servants’ union PCS yesterday. Union leader Mark Serwotka...
Striking prison officers outside Brixton prison yesterday

ILLEGAL STRIKE! – POA takes Labour by surprise

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Prison Officers Association (POA) members defied the government yesterday and walked out for the first illegal strike against Labour over public sector...

ASYLUM SEEKERS RIGHT TO WORK – TUC launches national campaign

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TUC delegates at their Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Motion 23, Asylum Seekers and Employment to launch a campaign to secure the...
Ys March For Jobs

Ys March For Jobs

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Youth are marching from Manchester to London to demand 'Jobs for youth' and 'Free State education'. The March started in Manchester on Saturday 30...
Workers listening to a classical music concert at the ERT grounds last Friday night

Occupiers won’t quit ERT

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‘COME and get it if you dare!’ was the defiant reply of the ERT (Greek state TV and Radio network) workers’ union POSPERT to...

World Stockmarkets Shudder!

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Billions of pounds were wiped off share prices in London yesterday, as oil prices surged back towards the March high of $57 a barrel. Brent...

Junior Doctors fighting for NHS!

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‘ACTION now to defend the NHS!’ demand thousands of Junior Doctors as they begin another three-day strike at 7.00am today. At the end of it...

Israeli warships approach the Gaza-bound flotilla!

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AS THE the Global Sumud Flotilla neared the Gaza coast yesterday an Israeli warship approached the leading Alma vessel, causing a disruption in communications...

Grenfell families rehoused in ‘high fire-risk’ building

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea council have re-housed Grenfell survivors and their families in a block found to have a ‘high risk’ of fire! A fire risk...

CIA Torture Centres In Lithuania!

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The CIA had at least two ‘black sites’ in Lithuania where they tortured illegally held victims of ‘extraordinary rendition’, a Lithuanian parliamentary inquiry has...

Tories Planning To Break ‘Trade Union Stranglehold’

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THE TORY government is drawing up plans for new anti-union laws to ‘break the stranglehold of the trade unions’, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper disclosed...
Civil servants and their children defending jobs and benefits in central London pointed out that there could be as much as £100 billion outstanding in tax fraud

Cameron ‘Bounty Hunters’ Condemned!

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The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) yesterday condemned the coalition government’s decision to use ‘bounty hunters’ to tackle alleged benefit fraud. The charity was commenting...
Israeli state forces clash with Palestinian youth in the West Bank

Israel Getting Ready To Annex West Bank

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ADALAH, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, warned on Monday that the Israeli government’s response to the petition, filed to the...

Monthly Magazine

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‘SORRY WRONG HOUSE!’ say Israeli soldiers after murdering 21-year-old

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‘We made a mistake in the house,’ said one of the Israeli occupation soldiers, trying to justify to the mother of Mohammad Ibrahim Shaham,...
Medical staff and other hospital workers marching from Royal London Hospital to Bart’s Hospital in March to defend the NHS

GOVERNMENT MUST TELL US THE TRUTH! – Meldrum to tell BMA conference

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‘I will remind the audience on Monday, at the BMA ARM that it is a huge privilege to have the trust of our...

Palestine and Lebanon erupt as Bahrain conference opens ‘US conference is to plan Gaza/West...

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THE FUTURE of Palestine cannot be drawn up by the White House, Jared Kushner or anyone else, Palestinian presidential spokesman Abu Rudeineh insisted in...
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...
BA cabin crew strikers march defiantly at Heathrow airport on the last day of their strike action, June 9

BA strike ballot cancelled – BASSA website is blacked out

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UNITE has cancelled its strike ballot of BA cabin crew stating that a new deal is now on the table, and the dispute could...

TUC will not be considering a general strike says Nowak!

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NEW TUC leader Paul Nowak has insisted that tomorrow’s meeting of the TUC General Council in central London will not be considering calls for...
Pickets out on the second day of their two day action at the Harrow Job Centre

‘FANTASTIC SUPPORT’ for day one of work & pensions strike action

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Yesterday’s strike by benefits and pensions staff was a ‘fantastic success’ said the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). Jobcentres, benefit offices, pension centres and...

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...
Lambeth College strikers at their lunchtime rally yesterday

‘LET’S CONTINUE!’ say Lambeth College strikers

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LAMBETH College UCU began an indefinite strike yesterday in their escalating struggle against the imposition of new contracts. The new contracts would take away both...