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G8 WILL NOT MAKE POVERTY HISTORY – admits Blair

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‘Blair is no saviour for the African people,’ G8 Alternatives movement spokesman Mike Arnott told News Line yesterday. He was responding to Blair’s statement on...

NHS Being Cut To Aid Private Sector!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the cancellation by an Oxford hospital of a routine heart procedure because of lack of...

Met ‘failed to perform its legal duty’ when it banned Sarah Everard vigil

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THE Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard, two judges have ruled. The group had to cancel...

London Hospital strikers demand safe staffing and a decent wage!

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THERE was a very lively and well-attended rally at the front of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday lunchtime, with delegations of Unite...

‘Save The Children’ Condemn Israeli Army Child Killers!

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SAVE the Children has condemned the excessive use of force by Israeli forces against children in the occupied Palestinian territory, which has resulted in...

Israeli forces attack ambulance crews!

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ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday prevented Red Crescent ambulances and their medical teams from entering the Tulkarm camp and reaching the casualties. The Red Crescent told...

‘END THE OCCUPATION!’ urges the Hamas resistance

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HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement, has issued a call for an end to Israeli occupation and terrorism against Palestinians on the International Day of...

Osborne plans £20bn more cuts

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SEVERE Tory spending cuts are putting the future of local government, children’s services, health care and care for the elderly at risk of collapse,...

PATIENTS CHOICE = HOSPITAL CLOSURES say UNISON

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday condemned the government’s extension of Patient Choice as a policy that will lead to the closure of good local...
Ahmad Chalabi, a Pentagon favourite

May Day manifesto! Keep the Tories out! The working class will deal with Blair!

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THE Editorial Board of the News Line, the daily socialist paper of the WRP, sends its greetings to the workers and youth of the...
EBZ factory workers demonstrating against closure and for payment of their wages on Monday in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Photo credit: left.gr.

Greek Workers & Small Farmers Occupy!

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WORKERS and small farmers are in occupation for over a week now of the large state owned EBZ sugar-beets factory in Thessaloniki, northern Greece,...
Statue erected in Tripoli of a giant Libyan fist crushing an American warplane, following the  US-UK bombing of Libya in 1986

‘Halt Nato Barbarism’ Libyan Government Calls For Ceasefire!

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LIBYAN government spokesman Dr Moussa Ibrahim told the world’s press yesterday: ‘We are here to sincerely, as always, appeal for an immediate ceasefire, an...

RMT CALL FOR GENERAL STRIKE – to confront Trade Union Act!

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THERE was an RMT call for a general strike to confront the Trade Union Act and all anti-union laws at at the TUC Congress...
Angry tenants marching to Downing Street determined to stop the New Era Estate evictions

‘WE WILL NOT BE MOVED!’ – New Era Estate tenants march to Downing Street

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‘WE will not be moved!’ declared 600 furious residents of the New Era Estate in Hoxton, Hackney and their supporters at a mass lobby...
Students marching in London on October 29  demand the abolition of fees

STUDENT RENTS UP 23% – Stop privatisation of university accomodation says the NUS

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THE COST of student accommodation is spiralling out of control, the National Union of Students (NUS) said yesterday, warning that private landlords were ‘setting...

Series of 48 hour postal strikes

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POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...

TUC Special Congress December 9th – call General Strike to smash Tory anti-union...

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THE TUC said yesterday it will hold a special Congress to discuss the next stage of the campaign against the Tories’ anti-strike laws. The event...

Lift Gaza Blockade!

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ISRAEL must immediately lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, allowing the delivery of fuel and other essential supplies into the territory without restrictions,...

MPs SLAM BLANKET BANS – Blears refuses ‘evidence’

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PARLIAMENT is being taken ‘into very dangerous and damaging waters,’ Labour MP Alan Simpson said yesterday. He was speaking after the Blair government presented MPs...
Striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday morning

SOLIDARITY SATURDAY! – for BA strikers

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TODAY is ‘Solidarity Saturday’ when striking British Airways Mixed Fleet cabin crew are being visited by trade unionists and supporters from different trade unions...
Teachers demonstrating through the streets of Nea Smirni, Athens. Banner reads ‘When injustice becomes law, resistance is a duty’

Millions strike against Greek government

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GREEK public sector workers launched a decisive 48-hour national strike against mass sackings and closures of hospitals, schools and social services yesterday. The strike, called...

‘LEAVE WON’T BE ON ANY BALLOT’ says John McDonnell

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SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell spelt out yesterday that Labour wants to form a ‘caretaker government’ with the other opposition parties which would organise a...
Postal workers on the picket line at Bow E3 delivery office in east London during last year’s strike action over low pay and the threat of 40,000 sackings in Royal Mail

TAKE ACTION NOW! – POA calls for one-day general strikes

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The Prison Officers Association is calling for a series of one-day general strikes to force the repeal of the anti-union laws. Its motion on Trade...

Sacked in the ‘National Interest’ – shipyard workers condemn Cameron

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WORKERS yesterday condemned the shutting down of shipbuilding after the slashing of 2,000 jobs in Portsmouth and Glasgow. BAE Systems, the defence...
Generations of Chagos Islanders occupied Trafalgar Sq for 5 days during July demanding their right to return to their homeland – they protested at The Hague yesterday

Chagos Islanders protest at the Hague

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CHAGOS Islanders travelled from the UK to Holland yesterday to protest outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague to demand the right...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line over Christmas – confident of victory in 2006

WE WILL WIN IN NEW YEAR! – say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to support their conference in London on January 29th. On the picket line...

‘Hostile environment’ alive and kicking!

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LAST week the National Audit Office launched an investigation into the Home Office’s decision in 2014, when Theresa May was Home Secretary, to accuse...

Gate Gourmet anger over attack on BA stewards

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GATE Gourmet workers were very angry yesterday when they heard that BA has decided that three BA shop stewards are to face disciplinary...

‘WE WON’T INTERFERE IN UKRAINE’–Lavrov

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RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister Lavrov, said yesterday that Moscow will not interfere with affairs in Ukraine. The Kremlin has reacted with barely-disguised anger...

Victory To Striking Nurses!

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‘THE damage that you’re doing to families like mine is terrible,’ the mother of a sick three-year-old girl told Tory Health Secretary Stephen Barclay...

Pandemic 2018 simulation warnings totally ignored!

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AN EXERCISE simulating a coronavirus outbreak in Scotland, which was shared with a UK government advisory group in 2018, showed a ‘clear gap’ in...

Reverse Winter Fuel Allowance cut!

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A MOTION is set to be put to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this afternoon to oppose PM Starmer’s scrapping of the Winter...
An Iraqi resistance fighter ready for action

‘WITHOUT JERUSALEM THERE WILL BE NO PEACE’ says Qurei

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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei warned Tuesday that, ‘without Jerusalem there will be no peace’ with Israel. ‘Peace starts in Jerusalem and ends there. Peace...

Miliband condemns policy on Libya

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LABOUR leader Miliband yesterday indicted Cameron’s foreign policy in an attempt to win the support of the British bourgeoisie. He said of PM Cameron’s foreign...

UK-TATA £1.2bn DEAL – 3,000 JOBS TO GO!

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WELSH ministers and Tata bosses are due to continue talks this week about the future of the Port Talbot site. The UK government and Tata...

No date for next meeting – Merkel

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TORY PM May was slapped down again yesterday as German Chancellor Merkel said that no progress was made on Brexit and that a date...
News Line Anniversary Rally

News Line Anniversary Rally

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Sunday November 29th
WRP candidate for Camberwell and Peckham, AMINATA SELLU (holding poster), with some of her supporters

Vote Wrp Vote Aminata Sellu For Camberwell & Peckham

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ON THURSDAY evening workers in the Samlak cafe on Southampton Way, Camberwell showed support for Aminata Sellu, WRP candidate for Camberwell & Peckham. Aminata...

Thousands Of Parents, Pupils & Teachers To Defy Tories Today!

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THOUSANDS of teachers, as well as the parents of hundreds of thousands pupils, are set to defy the government’s instructions for Reception, Year 1...

1 In 5 Surgeries Face Closure

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ONE in five GP surgeries in London is threatened with closure within three years because of lack of staff, funding and pay, the Local...

Syriza Willing To Suspend Election Pledges

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THE Italian state TV and radio reported on Friday that according to the Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek government was prepared to...
WIL, MOHAMMED and RICARDO, three unemployed youth were fully in support of the defence of GM Luton jobs by an occupation

ANGER IN LUTON – over 20-hour week plan

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A MASSIVE anger is growing at GM Luton and throughout the town against the threatened closure of the car plant. Workers at GM Luton were...
Junior doctors, firefighters, public sector workers and supporters demonstrate in central Norwich against Hunt’s imposed contract

NO IMPOSED CONTRACT! – Hunt must resign

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TODAY junior doctors meet at their conference in central London to decide the next step in their battle against Tory health secretary Hunt’s imposed...
Junior doctors last Saturday joined forces with student nurses who are determined to defend bursaries and defeat tuition fees

Trade unionists to join junior doctors picket lines

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TRADE unionists are flocking to the junior doctors picket lines this morning. Matt Wrack, general secretary at the Fire Brigades Union, said: ‘Our people...

Wanted! An arrest warrant for Israeli Foreign Minister Sa’ar!

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AN ARREST warrant is being sought by two pro-Palestinian groups Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the Hind Rajab Foundation for Israeli Foreign Minister...