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A section of Monday’s lobby of the London Fire Authority when it voted against the cuts and closures

MAYOR DETERMINED TO SHUT FIRE STATIONS – FBU will resist cuts and closures

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ANY ‘Mayoral Directive’ issued by London mayor Johnson to force through savage cuts and closures in the London fire service will be fought ‘vigorously’,...

Afghan war a ‘lost cause’ – Glenton hands back his medal

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Most UK troops ‘thought it was a lost cause ten years ago’, ex-soldier Joe Glenton told a Westminster press conference yesterday before handing back...

Gate Gourmet Conference Campaign Going Well

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GATE Gourmet workers held a successful campaign yesterday for the News Line/Gate Gourmet-Locked-Out Workers Conference on the 29th January. They visited Greenford Council depot and...
Angry trade unionist taking part in the TUC march in October – they want to see the TUC taking action to bring down the government and bring in a workers government and socialism

CAMERON HUMILIATED! – Tories routed in Rochester

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UKIP has its second elected MP at Westminster after Mark Reckless won the Rochester and Strood by-election yesterday. Reckless took 16,867 votes, 2,920 more than...

Steel Crisis Meeting At The Tuc

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STEELWORKERS’ representatives from the Community, Unite and GMB trade unions met at the TUC yesterday to demand action to save their jobs and industry. They...

Sheikh Jarrah resident is threatening to blow up his home rather than leave it!

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ON MONDAY a Palestinian man carried a gas canister onto the roof of his home in occupied Jerusalem as his family faced eviction. The Sheikh...

‘WHATEVER MEASURES NECESSARY’ – Blair backs shoot-to-kill

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‘The police say they have a “shoot-to-kill-to-protect policy”. Were you made aware of that policy and is it something that parliament should have been...
The police lines established themselves at Hackney Central station on Monday evening

CAMERON RECALLS PARLIAMENT – 16,000 police on London’s streets

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Parliament is being recalled again tomorrow, to debate the youth uprising that is sweeping Britain. After he had chaired a Cabinet Office meeting of the...

‘END ALL FEES’ –demands YS National Secretary

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‘IT is not enough for tuition fees to be reduced they must be abolished in their entirety!’ said Joshua Ogunleye, national secretary of the...
On last Saturday’s TUC demonstration there was a great determination to defend the NHS. Picture shows a disabled campaigner  who blocked the road at Marble Arch to show her anger at the way disabled people are being treated by the coalition

GPs ‘stunned and angry’ at imposed contract changes

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GPs are angry that the government intends to impose changes to their contracts. There are huge implications in the Department of Health’s proposed imposed changes,...

Braverman ‘repeatedly broke the law’ – claims Labour’s Yvette Cooper

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TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman was accused in the House of Commons yesterday of ‘repeatedly breaking the law’ over her treatment of asylum seekers...
Trade unionists demand ‘Save the NHS’ and ‘More Midwives’ – but the Tory-led coalition is out to smash up the health service and hand services over to private businesses

Privatisation Threat To Midwives Jobs

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Pregnant women living in the borough of Wirral, northwest England, face being put under the care of a private healthcare company rather than the...
Chase Farm Hospital Demonstration

Chase Farm Hospital Demonstration

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Saturday 2nd February 2013
Palestine Ambassador to the UK MANUAEL HASSASSIAN was the first speaker. He condemned the outrages that Israel is committing in Palestine

‘Bring Down The Tories!’

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OVER 200 workers and youth marched to the 44th News Line anniversary rally yesterday afternoon with flags flying and slogans calling for the Tory-led...
Conference to defend the NHS

Conference to defend the NHS

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THIS Sunday, 23 September, NE London Council of Action have called a Conference to discuss national action to defend the NHS. It is being...

Stop the gap between rich and poor!

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UNITE leader Sharon Graham warned yesterday morning that the union is likely to disaffiliate from the Labour Party if Chancellor Rachel Reeves does not...
Lecturers during a strike at Lambeth College – they are among sixteen colleges on strike next week

UCU members to strike next week at 16 colleges

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STRIKING staff at Abingdon and Witney College will be on picket lines outside both the Abingdon and Witney campuses from 8am on Tuesday...
Locked-out Vivergo workers from Hull marching in London last month for support for their struggle. One of their union officials has been arrested

GMB official arrested

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A GMB National Officer was arrested at the protest against the lockout of 430 workers at BP Saltend, in Hull yesterday morning. GMB national officer...

Israel Intensifies Its Assault On Gaza Strip

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THE Israeli military has intensified its assault on the Gaza Strip, with at least 25 civilians killed and dozens injured since the early hours...

Shrewsbury Pickets conspiracy exposed

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The Shrewsbury Pickets Campaign, led by former pickets Ricky Tomlinson and Terry Renshaw, with Andy Warren (son of deceased picket Des Warren) yesterday...

May hands Parliament power to delay Brexit

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TODAY a motion is to be put to Parliament where MPs will vote on the sequence of events leading up to Brexit. On the eve...
Marching to stop the closure of the A&E at Lewisham Hospital

Special measures for more NHS A&Es says NHS England

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NHS Trusts performing poorly against the four-hour target could be placed in new ‘A&E special measures’ if their performance does not improve by June,...
Chagos Islanders campaigning in Crawley last Saturday for today’s picket of the Court of Appeal and next Saturday’s demonstration in Crawley

‘WE HAVE RIGHT TO RETURN!’ – Chagos Islands hearing begins today

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Chagos Islanders are at the High Court in London today, where the British government is making a second appeal against the ruling that they...

Bank Keeps Rate At 5.5%

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The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday voted to keep the official Bank Rate on hold at 5.5 per cent. The Bank had been...
GMB demonstration outside the London Tribunals Office yesterday morning demanding the Tribunal charges be withdrawn

Tribunal Charges Began Yesterday

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WHAT the government is doing is depriving ordinary people of their legal rights,’ GMB member Ake Achi told News Line yesterday. He was speaking on...

3 Years Of Guards Strikes

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HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...
A section of the march of PCS strikers and supporters as they headed from the National Gallery’s Sainsbury wing yesterday

NO PRIVATISATION! – demand National Gallery strikers

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‘NO privatisation!’ chanted over 70 PCS strikers and their supporters yesterday as they marched off from a rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar...

General Strike in Palestine!

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A GENERAL strike was held in Palestine’s West Bank yesterday as part of a worldwide strike in solidarity with Gaza, which has suffered the...

BMA condemns private management consultants

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned the government for spending £171 million on private management consultants, who have been hired to advise NHS...

‘This is a fight we have to win’ says UCU

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IMPERIAL College staff were boosted on their picket line yesterday morning by the support of an engineering student and a vintage bus. The nationwide strike...
Protest in Tower Hamlets against the privatisation of GP surgeries

Doctors demand vote on White Paper

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THE BMA council is set to hold a crunch vote on holding an emergency representative meeting to decide its stance on the government’s privatising...

‘When we win power, it will be to give it to you’ – McDonnell...

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SPEAKING at a press conference on the ‘first hundred days’ of a Labour government, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell, pledged: ‘So let...

Allies warn Russia to stop bombing ISIS

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TURKEY, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have called on Russia to stop its air strikes in Syria,...

Labour planning speeding up eviction of asylum seekers

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LABOUR Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is planning an overhaul of the asylum appeals system as it tries to cut the number of asylum seekers...
Barricades outside the White House on Sunday

Clashes outside the White House – as debt decision day looms

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ANGRY crowds in Washington DC have clashed with riot police in front of the White House over the current government shutdown. A number of rallies...

New Politics Equals Dictatorship!

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THE new Tory coalition government is facing an angry response to its plans to install itself for five years, and stay in power even...

GREECE–Government days are numbered

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ATHENS riot police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas at workers and youth near to the Athens parliament building during yesterday’s general strike....
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...

May appeals to Corbyn ‘join the talks!’

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‘FOLLOWING last week’s vote, it is clear that the government’s approach had to change, and it has,’ Tory PM Theresa May insisted, coming back...

Halt arms sales to Israel

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LABOUR leader Corbyn, on Friday has called upon the UK to freeze arms sales to Israel and to condemn it for killing Palestinian civilians...

PLANS TO PUNISH JOBLESS! – by Policy Exchange think-tank

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Civil servants union PCS yesterday condemned the latest attack on the unemployed by the Cameron-favoured right-wing Policy Exchange think-tank. Following its latest study, the Policy...
Health workers show their opposition to the privatisation outside parliament yesterday

‘NHS Not For Sale’

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‘NHS not for sale,’ angry health workers chanted outside parliament yesterday, as the Health and Social Care Bill got its second reading. ‘This bill is...

Gp Services Buckling Under Tory Attack

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PATIENT care is ‘deteriorating’ in half of GP practices as GP services buckle under rising workload, a new BMA survey warned yesterday. More than half...

All Cladding Samples Fail Safety Checks

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THE CLADDING samples from each and every one of the 34 tower blocks in 17 council areas in England tested up until yesterday have...

RMT demands inspection of all fire detection equipment

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TUBE union RMT is to leaflet rush-hour passengers at Euston station tomorrow morning, Wednesday, August 11 over cuts to safety and safety-critical jobs. This follows...