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RMT ‘Will Fight Pay Cap!’

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RMT General Secretary Mick Cash yesterday warned Transport Secretary Grayling against trying to impose a ‘pay cap’ on railworkers. Transport Secretary...

Syrian government absolutely rejects allegations

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THE SYRIAN government absolutely rejects the allegations ‘that the army used in the past or uses now or will use in the future any...
CWU pickets outside the delivery office in Acton during the August 3rd strike – they were due to be out today

Cwu Members Oppose Secret Talks!

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Communication Workers Union members have been telling News Line what they think of the ending of their strike actions in order to...

Labour Launches Anti-NHS Plan For Change!

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THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s ‘Plan for Change’ attack on the NHS which it is unveiling today. Professor Phil Banfield,...
Greek riot police attack a young female demonstrator in Athens last Saturday. Photo credit: Left.gr

Greek riot police act as occupation army

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ARMED riot police unleashed a pre-planned pogrom of sheer violence against mass marches of mainly school and university students in all the main cities...

Children and civilians deliberately targeted by Israeli drone attacks!

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A RETIRED British surgeon recently returned from Gaza, testified to British MPs that he treated children and civilians who appeared to have been deliberately...
Cameron has earned intense hostility of workers with his savage cuts policy

BRING DOWN COALITION IN 2013 – victory to World Socialist Revolution

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2013 Manifesto – STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the year 2013 to the...

BROOKS RESIGNS! – Murdoch disarray continues

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NEWS International chief executive Rebekah Brooks resigned yesterday morning, thrown overboard by Murdoch as he sought to get a grip on News International’s runaway...

Hundreds of students join lecturers’ struggle at Goldsmiths!

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HUNDREDS of students have joined their lecturers at Goldsmiths University fighting the cuts to education and the introduction of casual labour. The students and lecturers...

Southall FBU Sending Delegation

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers have been getting tremendous support for their campaign for their march through Southall demanding the reinstatement of all the...

30% Wages ‘Sabbatical’ For Vauxhall Ellesmere Port

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General Motors, the owner of Vauxhall, has put forward a plan for its Merseyside workforce to ‘take a break’ from two to nine-months from...

Power to shut Parliament approved if No-Deal Brexit

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LABOUR Party MPs, supported by other opposition parties and some Tory MPs, pushed through an amendment to the Finance Bill last night which gives...

Gaza Protest Youth Being Jailed

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THE whole trade union movement must demand the immediate release of young protesters jailed over the Gaza demonstrations last year – and the dropping...
Ten thousand turned out in Ealing on September 15 on the march to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital

Hunt signals more NHS cuts

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THE British Medical Association yesterday expressed concern for the future of the NHS, after Health Secretary Hunt signalled more savage cuts. A BMA spokesperson said:...

Corbyn makes May an offer

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in his speech to the party conference yesterday, made Tory PM May an offer: he said that Labour would give...
Marchers in Nottingham last September demanding no cuts to NHS services

Barnsley Nurses Strike!

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Forty-five striking Operating Department Practitioners and theatre nurses were joined by other staff at lunchtime yesterday outside Barnsley Hospital. The Barnsley nurses, members of the...

Labour vows to fight for Remain!

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LABOUR is now promising to campaign for Remain in any new EU referendum against ‘no deal or a damaging Tory Brexit’. The shift in Labour’s...

Israel kills 45 women and children in Rafah tent camp massacre

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ISRAELI forces bombed a camp housing displaced people in a designated ‘safe zone’ in Rafah on Sunday night, killing at least 45 Palestinians, most...

END OCCUPATION! – Resolution goes before Security Council

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THE PLO on Wednesday presented a draft UN resolution laying out terms for a final peace deal with Israel but sought to avoid a...

Unions Pensions Surrender

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LOCAL government trade union leaders yesterday called off this month’s planned pensions strikes and accepted Deputy PM Prescott’s abolition of the Rule of 85...
CWU Pickets at the Wood Green delivery office last Friday

Rolling Post Strikes Called

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After days of indecision, the Communication Workers Union leadership yesterday announced a series of rolling strikes over two weeks, instead of the indefinite national...

Obama OKs murder of US citizens by drones

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A JUST-LEAKED United States Justice Department memo gives details of the ‘legal basis’ for authorising unmanned drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad. The document,...
Over 100,000 Greek workers marched on April 2 during their general strike

WORLD REVOLUTION – the only answer to the capitalist crisis

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THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world. Under the conditions of the greatest...
‘The Building Worker’ memorial in Tower Hill

Ruling Class Snob Attacks Builders

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CONSTRUCTION union UCATT, has reacted with fury after their memorial to construction workers killed in the building of London was criticised on The...
Teachers marching in London during their strike action last year – they are very angry that they face another year when many teachers won’t get a pay rise at all

Zero Pay Rise For Many Thousands!

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‘THERE is to be a zero pay rise for thousands of teachers in 2015-16.’ So said Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, commenting on...
RMT organises oil workers and insists that it is going to fight the big job cuts that they are facing in the North Sea

RMT pledges to fight cuts in oil workers’ jobs

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FOLLOWING a global collapse in the price of oil, oil giant BP yesterday announced it is to cut 300 jobs in its North...

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...

Brighton & Hove Schools Are Staying Closed Says Council

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BRIGHTON and Hove primary schools in Sussex are staying closed today after the city council held an emergency meeting and ordered all primaries to...

‘SERIOUS DANGER TO PATIENT SAFETY’ –from Ambulance Service privatisation

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Public service union, Unison has warned of the serious dangers to patient safety if the Ambulance Services are privatised. This comes after the East of...

Pilots Won’t Accept BA Pensions Diktat

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The British Air Line Pilots Association (Balpa) warned yesterday that there is an increasing likelihood of a strike ballot over British Airways’ proposed changes...
ALEX PEREIRA (second from right) addressing a de Menezes family press conference in July this year

DE MENEZES EVIDENCE ‘JUSTIFIES A PROSECUTION FOR MURDER–say lawers

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‘We have to have a judicial review; you can see from the day he was shot, everything was wrong,’ the cousin of murdered Brazilian...

‘If other workers want to come out with us they are very welcome!’

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THE RMT strike action went ahead yesterday after talks on Wednesday broke down without agreement. John Gutteridge, RMT Learning Rep spoke to News Line on...

£16bn more welfare cuts! – before the next election

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PRIME minister Cameron yesterday revealed on the eve of the Tory Party conference that the government is planning to slash welfare by another £16...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers  on Southall Broadway yesterday campaigning for their march on Sunday

All Out For Gate Gourmet Rally!

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‘WE ARE marching for a future where no employer can sack 800 workers by megaphone at a minute’s notice and where trade union leaders...

£550m PRE-PAY TAKEN FROM POOR

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The GMB trade union yesterday condemned the huge profits being made out of the poorest customers by gas and electricity companies. New watchdog Consumer Focus,...
RCN members marching on a TUC demonstration – they are demanding that the NHS is properly financed and thousands of new nurses are brought in to the NHS and trained

Rcn Warning Over NHS Cash And Nursing Crisis

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COMMENTING on Tory Health Secretary Hunt’s plans to cap charges for NHS agency staff, Janet Davies, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the RCN...

Syriza Ready To Accept 70% Of Austerity Programme

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THE Eurogroup meeting of finance ministers on Monday evening ended without agreement between the EU and Greece, after the Greek Finance Minister...

SOAS cleaners join striking lecturers

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ON THE SECOND day of the three-day strike of 58 universities’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in central London yesterday...

Oxford CWU – out again on Wednesday

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POSTAL workers in Oxford who have been on unofficial strike for a week, yesterday returned to work. People are still very angry and a sizeable...

Tata steel workers vote to take strike action!

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TATA Steelworkers have overwhelmingly voted to strike with three quarters of them backing industrial action, the GMB union announced on Monday. The ballot ended with...
The banners of the ADEDY and of the ERT workers at Thursday’s rally outside the Vouli in Athens

Greek Parliament Votes For Massive Austerity

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THE Greek Vouli (parliament) approved on Friday morning by 222 to 64 votes, the new EC-IMF-dictated third austerity bailout accords, proposed by the SYRIZA-ANEL...

France rises up against Macron – Doctors, nurses lawyers and teachers join 36th strike...

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FRENCH doctors, nurses, lawyers and teachers were among the millions on the march yesterday joining the 36th day of transport workers strike action, bringing...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC demanding action to win their jobs back

No compulsory redundancies say Gourmet workers

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ON the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday Gate Gourmet workers told News Line that they were not going to accept compulsory redundancy. Mr Gurbaksish...

Frontline NHS staff must be vaccinated! – Many NHS staff have lost their...

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FRONTLINE health and social care workers must be given every opportunity to have the Covid-19 vaccine, BMA council chair Chaand Nagpaul has said. Dr Nagpaul...