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Junior doctors rally in Westminster last Monday

Medical students support Junior Doctors

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MEDICAL students’ leaders yesterday defended final year medical students against threats to their careers if they demonstrate against the government ...
Deptford ambulance workers on the picket line during their nationwide strike in 2014 – they are overworked, understaffed and underpaid

Tory ambulance cuts kill – A&Es are in meltdown!

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A SHORTAGE of ambulances and paramedics along with a ‘meltdown’ of A&E services has lead to an extremely alarming spike in patient deaths, as...
Part of the huge demonstration outside the Israeli embassy on Tuesday night

Doctors Denounce Israel!

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MORE than 20 leading doctors and scientists from the UK and Italy have denounced Israel’s ongoing aggression in Gaza in a letter to The...
GMB members employed by private company Medirest are organising to join tomorrow’s march from Southall Broadway to Ealing Hospital

Defend Ealing Maternity!

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EALING Hospital workers and other workers throughout Ealing and Southall are stopping work for two hours tomorrow and joining the march to keep the...

‘WE WILL STRIKE TO DEFEND PENSIONS’ – UNISON leader Prentis pledges

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‘WE will take strike action, across all our sectors, to defend our pensions,’ UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis pledged at the union’s National Delegate...

Patel’s ‘Pushback’ policy is ‘unlawful’ claims PCS

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CIVIL SERVANTS’ union the PCS, representing Border Force staff, has joined Care4Calais in their legal fight to prevent Home Secretary Priti Patel from pushing...

Wildcat Strike Spreads!

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Thousands of construction workers around the UK have walked out in support of 200 workers who began a wildcat strike on Tuesday at the...
Forest Gate community turned out to condemn the massive armed police raid and shooting of Muhammad Abdul Kahar last June

POLICE GUNMAN EXONERATED – Scotland Yard arrests the victim

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yesterday the capitalist state exonerated the police gunman who shot and wounded Muhammad Abdul Kahar during the dawn police raid in Forest Gate last...

Biden discussing plans to strike Iranian oil industry

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US President Joe Biden has stated that his administration is ‘discussing’ potential Israeli plans to strike Iran’s oil industry in response to the recent...
UNISON members campaigning to defend the NHS against a government bent on privatising it

‘END BOTTOMLESS PFI PIT’ – demands the UNISON trade union

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UNISON yesterday demanded ‘an end to this bottomless PFI pit’. The Treasury’s decision to pump an extra £2bn of taxpayers’ money into recession-hit PFI...

‘The government needs to make a credible offer!’ says Junior Doctors Chair Rob Lawrenson

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‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to sit down and make a credible offer so we have a health system that works,’ BMA Junior Doctors Committee Co-Chair,...
Members of the Transport and General Workers Union issued a call to ‘Defend our Public Services’ outside parliament yesterday

TAKE ACTION – to defend the Public Sector

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OVER 1,000 trade unionists from all the public services joined a TUC rally at Westminster yesterday, where they demanded that their leaders call action...
Sacked BBC canteen workers demonstrating outside Bush House in Central London yesterday

Bbc World Service Workers Back Caterers

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‘THE BBC says it subscribes to “BBC values”, but it would appear BBC Values do not apply to contractors such as Aramark.’ BECTU General Secretary...

Petrol Prices Rocketing!

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SOARING fuel and domestic energy prices led to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate rising from 2.7% to 2.8% in February, the Office...
Campaigners fighting to stop the closure of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals at a lobby of the council last Wednesday

Halt NHS Privatisation By Stealth!

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THE Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has written to health minister Lord Howe expressing grave concern that the government is planning to privatise large...

Youth demand at least £10 an hour

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‘YOUNG workers are missing out on £200 million in minimum wage pay,’ the TUC says, while demanding at least £10 an hour regardless of...

Sussex University Students Reinstated

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STRIKING lecturers and students at Sussex University celebrated yesterday when six suspended students were reinstated. The six were suspended by the university’s management for taking...

RMT opposes the TUC over 2nd referendum!

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RMT leader Mick Cash hit out to oppose the TUC General Council statement on Brexit saying that it was a staging post to try...

Evictions Up!

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GROWING numbers of private sector tenants are turning to Citizens Advice after facing eviction despite being up to date with their rent, the national...
Protesters outside St Paul’s Way surgery in Bow last Thursday, demanding that the privateers be kept out

‘LABOUR PUSHING POLYCLINICS’ – BMAs Buckman condemns government

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday rebutted the government’s attack on the BMA leadership over family doctors’ opening hours. Laurence Buckman, chairman of the BMA’s...

KEEP LEWISHAM HOSPITAL OPEN! – march today

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HEALTH workers, trade unionists, pensioners and residents from the SE London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley are marching today against plans to...
Railworkers defy the bosses and the government and demand renationalisation

Forward To The World October!

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New Year’s statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2017...

Corridor care ‘unsafe, undignified, unacceptable’ says RCN

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‘CARE delivered in corridors and other non-clinical spaces is unsafe, undignified and unacceptable,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday in response to...
‘One hundred per cent solid’ said pickets at the Princess Royal Distribution Centre in Willesden yesterday morning

GLASGOW WALKS OUT! – unofficial CWU strike action spreads to Edinburgh and Liverpool

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Around 5,400 postal workers walked out in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool yesterday in the face of management provocations. Glasgow Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) officials yesterday...

ROYAL MAIL PROFITS DOUBLE! –CWU determined to halt privatisation

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‘Our members are really angry,’ Bow, east London Communication Workers Union (CWU) E3 Unit Rep Vince Micaleff told News Line yesterday. He was responding to...

Reintroduce Covid restrictions now! NHS Confederation warns of looming winter crisis

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COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis,’ health leaders have warned. The NHS Confederation said a...
Firefighters from all over Britain marched through Merseyside almost a year ago against massive cuts to the fire service in the region. They warned cuts cost lives

‘WE COULD’T GET PEOPLE OUT!’ – Newquay pays the price for fire service cuts

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‘Lives were lost because there wasn’t enough equipment to get people out – it’s our fire service,’ said Chris Findon yesterday, the owner of...

STRIKERS CALL FOR UNITED ACTION –to defend the public sector

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Civil Servants on the second day of their successful 48-hour strike yesterday called for all public service workers to join in united strike action. Over...

Hunt dissolves Mid-Staffs Trust!

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt announced yesterday that he is to dissolve the trust that runs Stafford General Hospital, with services set to be downgraded or...
TUC leader FRANCES O’GRADY at the TUC Congress with firefighters, nurses, midwives and Ritzy cinema workers who have all been on strike this year

Preemptive strike to defeat Trade Union Bill!

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TRADE UNIONISTS have called for pre-emptive strike action to defeat the anti-union laws that the Tory government are attempting to push through parliament. The Trade...

Unions To Fight The Bbc Cuts!

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BBC WORKERS and unions and many artists and cultural figures, have condemned the massive cuts announced by BBC Director General Mark...

Corbyn woos CBI bosses

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn began his speech to the CBI yesterday by declaring his loyalty and enthusiasm for business. He said: ‘And if a Labour...

Ford’s Redundancies!

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UNITE’S leadership said it wants ‘full involvement’ in the negotiations over the axing of 275 managerial, supervisory and engineering jobs announced by Ford in...
Angry fishermen outside DEFRA (the Department of the Environment, Fisheries and Rural Affairs) yesterday

BLOCKADE THE PORTS – say fishermen after no progress in talks

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‘BLOCKADE the Ports’ was the cry that went up from up to 300 fishermen, at the outcome of their meeting yesterday with Jonathan Shaw,...

South Africa warns Israel over genocide

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SOUTH AFRICA filed an ‘urgent request’ at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Israel’s planned ground invasion of the city of Rafah yesterday. The...
Steel workers march past parliament in May demanding action to save the steel industry

Unite demands Guarantee for Port Talbot steel!

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TATA steel at Port Talbot in Wales is being allowed to ‘wither on the vine’ while the specialised side of the business...

NURSES DEMANDING A DOUBLE DIGIT PAY RISE – says RCN leader Cullen

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NURSES require a ‘double-digit’ pay rise! This was the message of the leader of the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) Pat Cullen yesterday, ahead of...
Greek workers during general strike action in Athens in May

Greek Hospitals Collapse!

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THE Greek government have stopped financing hospitals and the result is that patients cannot receive even the most elementary of treatments due to a...

BBC unions to ‘trawl for volunteers’ for the sack

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‘The BBC unions agreed ‘a trawl for voluntary redundancies’ during last Wednesday’s four-hour meeting with BBC Director General Mark Thompson. Thompson would give no guarantee...

Back to Work regulations are ruled illegal!

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IN A LANDMARK decision yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal ruling of last February that the Regulations governing the government’s ‘Back...

Starmer & Tory PM Johnson arm-in-arm against Russia!

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‘IF PRESIDENT Putin were to choose the path of bloodshed and destruction he must realise it would be both tragic and futile,’ Tory PM...
Yesterday afternoon’s angry protest against the Channel 4 programme ‘Benefits Street’ insisting that it be taken off the air

‘Take Benefits Street off the air!’

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PROTESTERS from across the UK gathered outside the offices of the production company behind Channel 4’s cynical ‘Benefits Street’ at 3pm yesterday, to protest...
Picket line at West London Mail Centre in Paddington – closed after the wage and flexibility strikes

Crozier, Leighton Shutting Down Mail Centres

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The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Postal Executive has put forward an emergency motion for possible strike action by Mail Centre members for debate at...
Gate Gourmet workers from Dusseldorf and Heathrow  join together to protest outside Texas Pacific offices – the parent company acific

Gg Dusseldorf Strikers In London Today

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers, at Heathrow Airport, are welcoming Gate Gourmet striking workers, from Dusseldorf Airport in Germany, to London today. The British Gate Gourmet...
RMT and TSSA Tube strikers on the picket line at King’s Cross last month

‘Outrageous discrimination’ – Tube workers strike ballot opens

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‘IT IS outrageous that London Underground have decided to discriminate against their Night Tube drivers,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday as...