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Euro Crisis Crunch Time

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US TREASURY Secretary Timothy Geithner held emergency meetings with German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday. Markets had...

42-Day Detention Crisis For Brown!

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A number of Labour MPs have tabled an amendment to the government’s Counter-Terrorism Bill in a bid to block plans to extend pre-charge detention...

MASS GRAVES AT GAZA HOSPITALS – EU & UN call for war crimes inquiry

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THE EU and the UN called for an official probe into mass graves at hospitals in Gaza, where hundreds of bodies have been discovered,...

US terror raid on Libya!

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US WARPLANES launched a major airstrike in Libya early on Friday morning killing, 40 people in one hit. The terror raid was launched from the...
Cadbury workers fought against the Kraft takeover

Cadbury’s Jobs Blow!

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The Unite union yesterday angrily condemned plans by Cadbury’s new owner, US giant Kraft Foods, to move jobs out of the UK to ...

14,000 babies at risk of dying in Gaza TODAY! – warns UN’s Tom Fletcher

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FOURTEEN thousand babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours if aid doesn’t reach them,’ United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs...

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...

Israeli Air Strikes Kill Seven

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ISRAEL hit Gaza with air strikes yesterday afternoon. Palestinian medical sources said at least seven Palestinians were killed. This includes a 5-year-old girl. 44 others were...

PENSIONS STRIKES! – at 7 major UK airports in january

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WORKERS at BAA’s seven airports across the UK have voted for strike action to defend their final salary pension scheme. Results of the secret strike...
Cousins VIVIAN FIGUEIREDO, ALEX PEREIRA (speaking) and ALLESANDRO PEREIRA (right) with chair ASAD REHMAN at yesterday’s press conference

‘SHAMEFUL COVER-UP!’ say Jean Charles de Menezes’ cousins

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‘We waited a year and now they tell us this. It’s a shame,’ said Alex Pereira, the cousin of the young Brazilian, Jean...

‘Don’t Play Games With A&E!’

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‘NO more games with our A&Es,’ doctors demanded yesterday in the wake of the intense A&E crisis over the winter. Doctors union, the BMA, said...

Gate Gourmet Workers Confront Tony Woodley

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‘VICTORY to Gate Gourmet workers! TGWU sack Tony Woodley!’ shouted angry locked-out Gate Gourmet workers as they confronted TGWU leader Woodley before the...
Parkside estate tenant CAROL SWORDS (second from left) with supporters outside the High Court yesterday morning

Parkside Tenants Picket The High Court

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TENANTS from the Parkside council estate in east London went to the High Court yesterday, demanding the cancellation of the estate’s transfer to a...

RMT Pledges ‘Fierce Resistance’ To Attempt To Reduce Rights!

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‘Grant Shapps needs to stop smearing the RMT and unshackle the rail operating companies so they can come to a negotiated settlement that can...

Royal Mail Wants To Sell Mail Centres

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ROYAL Mail is about to break its truce with the CWU that has lasted since before Christmas through January and February. Latest reports suggest that...
Thousands of parents on May 3rd took their children out of school to boycott the SATs – over 10,000 call for Education Secretary Morgan to quit

MORGAN MUST GO! – Demand 10,000-strong petition & NUT

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TORY Education Secretary ‘Nicky Morgan has failed and must resign!’ teachers union NUT demanded yesterday. Teachers, parents and school students are furious at the chaos...
The front banner on Saturday’s 20,000-strong demonstration in support of a Palestinian state

Cash for Israeli army scandal!

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ON HER return to the UK after her secret visit to Israel, Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel, asked her department...
Nurses demonstrating on the last TUC march on October 18th

NHS New Year’s Strike!

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AMBULANCE workers are to strike for 48 hours on January 29th 2015, across the whole of England and northern Ireland as their pay dispute...

No deal on March 29 means leaving the EU says Brexit Secretary Barclay

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THE UK will be leaving the EU with no deal on March 29th if there are not sufficient changes to the backstop and any...
Delegates at the Annual BMA Consultants Conference yesterday morning voting for action to defend their pensions

BMA to fight on pensions

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BMA Consultants at their Annual Conference yesterday made it clear they were determined to fight for their pensions. The tone was set by the Consultants...

Stock Market Panic!

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AS panic gripped investors on the world’s stock markets, it emerged yesterday that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment company has sold more than 245...

Famine is tightening its grip on Gaza

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THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned yesterday that Gaza’s food system has completely collapsed, as famine tightens its...
One of the marches through Enfield organised by the Council of Action calling for the occupation of Chase Farm Hospital if there is any attempt to close it

‘WE ARE READY TO OCCUPY CHASE FARM’ says Bill Rogers – Secretary of the...

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The North East London Council of Action is holding a picket of Chase Farm Hospital today as news emerged that huge cuts...
Libyans demonstrate outside Downing Street on Thursday against the NATO-imposed rebel regime in Libya

‘Killings on a daily basis’ in Libya

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Over forty Libyans demonstrated at Downing Street on Thursday evening to express their anger at the British government’s role in the war on their...
Striking dock workers march in the port of Piraeus

Greek Dockers Strike Against Privatisation

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GREEK dockworkers at the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki began 48-hour ‘rolling’ strikes on Thursday against the privatisation of the ports. Athens...

Unison Rejects Virgin Private Health Centres!

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday told News Line it is opposed to a bid by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to build and administer NHS...

PC Couzens will die behind bars – MP Harriet Harman calls for Met Commissioner...

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PC WAYNE Couzens, who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard was sentenced yesterday to a ‘whole life order’, which means he will never be...

Murder in Syria was for ‘self-defence of Iraq’–claims ambassador

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FOLLOWING the uproar questioning the legality of the UK drone assassination of a British citizen in Syria, a letter to the UN casts doubt...

RCN Opposes Health Bill

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THE UK government has ignored a catalogue of warnings about the nursing workforce crisis since 2016, a new report from the Royal College of...
Workers and young people march on a Tories Out! demonstration last year

Johnson & Davis Quit Cabinet

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BORIS Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary, the third minister to walk out of the May government rather than back Theresa May’s plans...
A busload of Care UK workers demonstrated on Wednesday outside Bridgepoint Capital private equity company that is seeking to slash their wages and jobs

Doncaster carers march today

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UNISON members working for Care UK are marching through Doncaster today at 2pm after 30 days of strike action against Bridgepoint Capital, the private...

Walthamstow Public Meeting: Quit EU in October! – October 24th, 2019

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News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st! For a workers government and...
A delegation of Gate Gourmet  sacked workers outside TGWU headquarters on November 22 after meeting Brendan Gold TGWU national secretary, and insisting that they will not accept the Compromise Agreement

PEMBROKE RALLY – called by Welsh TUC

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The Welsh TUC is supporting a rally at 1.30 pm tomorrow at Pembroke Dock in solidarity with the Irish Ferries workers fighting attempts...
Syrians in London show their support for President Assad

MPs QUESTION AIR STRIKES!’

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday claimed it is ‘in our national interest’ for the UK to launch air strikes on Syria. He made a statement to...

Eurozone ‘tearing Itself Apart’

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BANK of England Governor King admitted yesterday that risks to the UK economy from ‘difficulties facing the euro area’ are ‘impossible to quantify’. King was...

BANK’S XMAS BOMBSHELL! – 5% interest rates are on the way

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Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Paul Fisher dropped a Christmas bombshell yesterday. He revealed that the Bank’s policymakers would like to see...

CLASHES IN NANTES! – for the third night running

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CLASHES have continued between French police and protesters in the western city of Nantes for the third night running over the killing of a...

Youth Pay Price For Occupation

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ON the eve of International Youth Day, the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian youth,...

AMBULANCE CRISIS – Handover delays put patients at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm

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PATIENTS are being put at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm due to ambulance handover delays, NHS managers warned yesterday. West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has raised...

Amersham Defeat Crisis Hits Tories

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THE TORY government has been plunged into crisis by last Thursday’s Amersham by-election defeat. Around 100 Tory MPs have reportedly joined a WhatsApp group called...
Passengers and rail staff united in their call to renationalise the rail network – fares were hiked up, in some cases by up to 43%

Renationalise the railways –demand passengers after massive fare hikes

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‘SOUTHERN Rail is an example of privatisation gone rogue, backed by the Department for Transport. Public ownership of the railways is long overdue,’ NOR4NOR...

‘It is illegal to leave home and travel abroad for leisure purposes!’

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‘WE MUST take additional steps to strengthen our borders,’ said Tory PM Johnson in Parliament yesterday, outlining the new Hotel Quarantine system. The system means...
Teachers marching in London last November 30 during their strike action to defend their pensions

Tories In ‘Head-On Collision’ With Classroom Teachers

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Teachers have been ‘angered, alienated and attacked’ by coalition ministers who are determined to engage in a ‘head-on collision’ with the profession, delegates to...

Birmingham strikers lead 20,000-strong march on Downing Street!

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STRIKING Birmingham bin workers led a 20,000-strong march of workers, students and youth on Downing Street on Saturday. The ‘Welfare not Warfare’ demonstration assembled outside...

Disabled cutting back on food and heating

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THOUSANDS of disabled people are cutting back on food and heating as a result of the Bedroom Tax, says a group of leading charities. The...