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Trump Supporter Shot Dead In Portland

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A MAN was shot dead in Portland, Oregon as a large demonstration of supporters of President Trump clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters. The city...

All Out For Gate Gourmet Demonstration

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‘WE want all trade unionists and everyone who supports the working class to come to our march next Saturday,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Raksha...

Jobless Student Midwives!

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More than 90 per cent of final year midwifery students are struggling to find a job, a new survey published today by the Royal...
Supporters of the Carnegie Library in Lambeth gather outside on Saturday night in support of the round-the-clock occupation inside the building

Carnegie Library in Herne Hill is occupied

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CARNEGIE Library in Herne Hill, south London, is occupied. Over 30 people, including campaigners, supporters and local people have been in occupation since Lambeth...

Junior Doctors Want Their Pay Restored!

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‘EVERY day junior doctors despair as they see operations cancelled and treatment postponed for the millions on the waiting lists because our health services...
Domestic workers demonstrating outside Parliament demanding ‘No return to slavery’

Forced Labour Challenged!

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Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) have begun a legal action challenging the coalition government’s ‘Mandatory Work Scheme’ which it argues amounts to unlawful forced labour....

NHS – 15% Rise Now!

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PROTESTS took place outside hospitals yesterday morning after the call by unions to turn April 1st into a day of action for NHS staff...

Bring All Airport Workers Out Now!

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FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) Unite members came out on strike yesterday, with many demanding that the action should be united with British...
Student nurses marching in London last month shouting ‘Hand off our bursaries!’ – the RCN calls for all the cuts to be halted

Reverse NHS funding cuts! – RCN responds to new health report

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‘YEARS of squeezing more and more out of an overstretched workforce has left the NHS in a perilous position,’ the Royal College of Nursing...
Workers marched to Parliament to get the Tories out – now some Labour MPs are considering voting for May’s EU policy

DUP to vote against Tory Budget!

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THE Democratic Unionist Party is prepared to vote against the Budget on October 29, if their red lines for an EU deal are ignored...

Bank of England – Serious Fraud Office investigation!

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THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...
NUJ protest against the BSkyB takeover outside the Culture Ministry last year

Cameron hiding behind Hunt

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PRESSURE mounted on prime minister Cameron yesterday over his refusal to refer the actions of Culture, Media and Sports Secretary Jeremy Hunt to...

Red Cross issues dire warning over Israel’s siege & starvation

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THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a dire warning that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is nearing total collapse, as...

‘SEIZE OUR SHIPS!’ – demand sacked P&O workers outside Parliament

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OUTSIDE Parliament yesterday a two hundred-strong rally of P&O workers and their supporters shouted: ‘Seize our ships!’ and ‘P&O we say no!’ The rally was...
Defend the NHS demo at Barts Hospital in central London

Unison condemns A&E charges for migrants

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TORY-LIBDEM Coalition plans to charge fees to immigrants and overseas visitors attending District General Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments were condemned by Unison yesterday. ‘The...

Crow Slams Hunt On NHS

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‘THIS government can’t wait to destroy the NHS,’ RMT general secretary Bob Crow told News Line yesterday. The rail union leader was responding to a...

BA sack BASSA branch secretary – Unite condemns bullying and intimidation

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The Unite union yesterday condemned the sacking by British Airways of a senior Unite official, BASSA branch secretary Duncan Holley, as ‘another act of...
Ritzy Cinema strikers battling for a living wage – they have voted by an overwhelming 92% for more strike action

Ritzy Cinema 92% Strike Vote

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CINEMA workers demanding the Living Wage have overwhelmingly re-newed their mandate for strike action, their union BECTU announced yesterday. Cinema workers at selected Picturehouse Cinemas...
Ex-British SAS soldier Ben Griffin addressing a ‘Troops Home’ rally in March 2006. He said UK special forces still operate in Iraq, at a London press conference hosted by the Stop the War Coalition which has called another demonstration for March 15

THOUSANDS HANDED OVER TO THE US FOR TORTURE – by the British armed forces

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THOUSANDS of people in Afghanistan and Iraq have been secretly detained by British armed forces and handed over to the United States for torture,...

WORKING CLASS MUST TAKE POWER IN 2020! New Year’s Day Manifesto

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2020 to all our readers, and to the working class, youth and the poor who...

Axis of evil – Blair meets Olmert

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PRIME Minister Blair shook hands with Israeli leader Ehud Olmert at Downing Street yesterday, saying that there were the strongest links between Britain and...

Government NHS Reforms Impossible To Deliver – RCN

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A HUGE increase in nursing staff quitting the profession early will make government NHS ‘reforms’ impossible to deliver, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)...

Ambulance Service ‘breakdown’!

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UNISON yesterday warned the ambulance service is on the verge of breaking down and that the consequences for patient safety are dramatic. Tight targets, long...

HEATHROW CHAOS – Passengers & staff at risk of infection

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CHAOS reigned at Heathrow Airport with five-hour queues reported over the last few days risking passengers spreading the virus to each other, as the...

‘We will win’ say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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‘It’s very good to see that the British Airways pilots are ready to strike – things are coming to a head,’ locked out Gate...

GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – for workers’ rights against privatisation

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A massive strike wave is taking place against the Greek right-wing government this week as workers are staging national strikes, including a general strike...

Williamson readmitted to the Labour Party – split widens as 90 MPs oppose his...

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LABOUR MP Chris Williamson was allowed back into the party yesterday morning after an investigation into comments he made about the party’s handling of...

Record Borrowing And Record Inflation Rate

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INFLATION soared upwards last month, with the government’s preferred Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure rising to 4.4 per cent, up from 4 per cent...

Fresh Tory council cuts – Vital services axed

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THE NEW financial year has kicked in, and with every council budget being cut to the bone the future of leisure centres, council run...
Mixed fleet cabin crew are starting a three-day strike today against poverty pay. Picture shows picket line at Heathrow on Tuesday January 10th

BA Cabin Crew Out Today

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BRITISH Airways mixed fleet cabin crew are striking against poverty pay today in the first day of a 72-hour strike. It follows last week’s two...

No agreement over Brexit

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‘IT is not possible for us to reach an agreement today,’ Jean Claude Juncker, EU Commissioner said at a press conference yesterday as the...
Homeless Youth Given Tickets  To Sleep On Night Buses

Homeless Youth Given Tickets To Sleep On Night Buses

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HOMELESS youth are being given bus tickets and told to sleep on the back of night buses because all the hostels are full. The New...
Marchers in Hammersmith determined to stop the closure of Charing Cross Hospital

‘REVERSE GP CUTS!’ – Dr Gerada warns coalition

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PATIENTS are bearing the brunt of savage cuts to GP surgeries, said the Royal College of GPs yesterday. The RCGP said: ‘GPs are facing a...
Junior doctors had a very good idea about the kind of NHS that health secretary Hunt and the Tories were creating – one whose main objective was to keep as many patients as possible out of hospital

Cash for GPs to keep people out of hospitals!

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A LEAKED memo has exposed a plan to slash the amount of patients referred by GPs to hospitals by 30%! After seeing the memo, Dr...

Stop Child Deportations

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‘A Rochdale head teacher, Jed Morgan, and the families of refugee children, travelled to London yesterday in a bid to stop the deportation of...
PCS members on the picket line outside the National Gallery demanding no privatisation

National Gallery strike today!

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NATIONAL Gallery staff are taking their 24th day of strike action today against the privatisation of the gallery. Today begins eleven more days of...
Striking sixth form teachers massed outside parliament yesterday against Tory cuts to education

NUT sixth form strike defiant!

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NUT SIXTH form teachers walked out on strike yesterday morning at colleges across the country against Tory funding cuts that are driving up...

Ukraine compromise offer – as right wing gunmen mass in Kiev

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UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday announced early presidential elections and a compromise agreement with the pro US-EU ‘opposition’. He said that the constitution of 2004,...
Sacked Stead McAlpin and Birtwistle workers outside John Lewis offices in London yesterday

‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK!’ – McAlpin sacked workers tell John Lewis

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A COACHLOAD of sacked workers from Stead McAlpin and J H Birtwistle factories, formerly owned by John Lewis, yesterday lobbied the John Lewis Partnership...
Teachers marching against the Tories’ forced academies – now the NUT conference has voted to scrap the ‘Prevent Strategy’

NUT rejects the ‘Prevent’ policy

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THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for the scrapping of the Tory ‘Prevent Strategy’. Delegates condemned the government’s...

Police hostile takeover of fire service opposed

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‘THERE’S no support for it among firefighters and there’s no support for it among police officers, there’s no support among local communities and yet...

GATE GOURMET – 37 claims dismissed

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THE Reading Employment Tribunal yesterday reported that as a result of its May 18th hearing it had struck out and dismissed 37 claims for...
Teachers marching to protect education from Gove and the Tory vandals during their last strike on October 17

NUT to strike on March 26

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THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday announced a national strike across England and Wales on Wednesday 26 March. The NUT said the strike is...

‘Tories out of control!’ says Labour as pound crashes

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‘THEY'VE lost credibility, they’re losing confidence, they’re out of control,’ Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as the pound...