Part of the delegation of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC yesterday morning. The whole delegation was angry at the TGWU leaders  who would not allow them to have visitors credentials

BIG SUPPORT FOR GG LOBBY – But TGWU leaders refuse locked-out workers visitors credentials

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TRADE unionists from many unions backed the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ lobby of the TUC in Brighton yesterday morning. A lobby of over 100 workers...

Two Koreas ‘Cease All Hostile Acts!’

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HAILING a ‘new era of peace’, North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, sealed their talks on Friday with a...

British Steel on the Brink – 4,500 jobs threatened

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BRITISH Steel is seeking a further loan off the taxpayer of a whopping £75m as it teeters on the brink of collapse, with the...

MEDVEDEV WARNS GEORGIA –Insists US is still arming Saakashvili

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RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev warned yesterday that Georgia’s leadership will ‘pay the price’ for its attack on South Ossetia one year ago. He also condemned...
Birmingham students yesterday demonstrated against the coalition government’s decision to bring in unlimited university fees

‘THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN!’ Coalition’s unlimited fees plan condemned

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Student, lecturers and university staff unions yesterday angrily condemned former BP boss Lord Browne’s recommendation that universities in England should be able to charge...
Hospital defence campaigns marched on Downing Street in October to demand an end to NHS cuts and closures

STPs TO CLOSE 19 HOSPITALS!

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THE NHS is facing its biggest shake up in a generation with 19 hospitals marked for closure, and care from cradle-to-grave put through a...
Youth on a march against austerity, benefit cuts and in-work poverty – 800,000 workers are on zero hours contracts

‘Workless’ families fall – child poverty soars!

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THE PROPORTION of households in the UK where no-one is working is at its lowest point for over 20 years, the Office for National...
Post workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference last month demanding an end to job cuts and privatisation plans

Royal Mail Bosses’ Bonus Scandal

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Postal workers yesterday condemned as ‘obscene’ over £10m in ‘performance-related bonus’ payments to Royal Mail executives for pushing through ‘efficiency savings’. Royal Mail Group has...

23 Russian diplomats expelled!

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‘MOSCOW had no motives for poisoning former GRU Colonel Sergey Skripal and his daughter, while those who are trying to push ahead with the...
Confident pickets at Whitechapel – determined to defend the service

‘THE EXISTENCE OF THE CWU IS AT STAKE’ – CWU calls national ballot for...

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CWU leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward announced the timetable for a national postal strike ballot to a meeting of 500 Communication Workers Union...
Demonstrators outside Broadcasting House yesterday lunchtime demanding an end to BBC bias in favour of Israel

Nearly 100 Palestinians Killed In Israeli Air Raids

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‘ISRAEL is the one who started this when they assassinated (commander of Hamas’ military wing) Ahmed Jabari. Hamas didn’t start the issue,’ Hamas political...
Firefighters demonstrate in central London in July against the attack on pensions

Only one fire engine for Hove! – warns East Sussex FBU

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THERE will only be one fire engine based at Hove in East Sussex by April 2016 and just 12 firefighters to cover the whole...

70,000 workers to be balloted over 1.75%! – Unite, Unison & GMB demand 10%...

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SEVENTY thousand council workers are to be balloted in every borough in England and Wales in preparation for a strike action against a ‘derisory’...

Save Lewisham Shopping Centre! – demand hundreds on local march

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MORE than 200 Lewisham residents turned out on Sunday afternoon to march and protest against the collaboration of the south east London Labour Council...
Youth join the march through Enfield Town on the day before the A&E at Chase Farm Hospital was closed last December

Intensive care beds crisis 440 emergency operations cancelled

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EMERGENCY operations are being cancelled putting hundreds of critically ill patients in danger as hospitals run out of intensive care beds, official figures have...

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...
Postal workers fighting against privatisation under the Blair/Brown government, so far there has been no battle against the Tory-led Coalition

Cable Prepares To Privatise!

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DATES for the planned privatisation of Royal Mail before Christmas are expected to be announced in the House of Commons by Business Secretary Cable...

CALL THE WHOLE AIRPORT OUT! – to defend jobs, pay and conditions

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‘CALL the whole airport out to defend all jobs, pay and conditions,’ striking Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) worker, Jarnail Singh, said yesterday ahead of...

LABOUR WILL VOTE TO REVOKE ARTICLE 50 – rather than accept ‘No Deal’

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THE LABOUR Party would ‘consider very, very strongly’ voting to revoke Article 50 to block a no-deal Brexit this Friday, Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca...

EU says NO! to May’s Brexit re-negotiations

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EUROPEAN Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker yesterday ruled out re-opening the Withdrawal Agreement after meeting with Tory PM May, making it crystal clear that legally-binding...

Refugee crisis doubles

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THE number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has doubled to 1,255,600 during 2015, figures released yesterday show. Imperialist wars in Iraq Afghanistan and...

Unite supports the pro-Palestine boycott movement against Israel

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UNITE has declared its support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli regime, condemning the new legislation barring institutions...

Lecturers attacked on eve of their strike

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‘TREATING staff with such contempt only hardens their resolve,’ University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Sally Hunt said in response to a new...
Refugee family – trying to keep alive from cold in a flimsy shelter. Photo credit: Panos Papanikolaou

Greek workers battle cuts–while refugees freeze

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ALL this week, poor Greek farmers intensified their struggle against the government’s policies of high taxation and pension cuts by setting up dozens of...
Delegates voting during the NUT conference in Harrogate at the weekend

Angry Teachers Vote For Strike Ballot Against Pay Cut

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Harrogate voted unanimously on Saturday for a one-day strike against a pay-cutting two per cent...

Hamas demands that US must support the state of Palestine

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THE Hamas Movement has called on the US administration to rescind its proposals for Palestinian displacement and alternative homelands that align with Israeli plans...

Gaza air raid was response to jail break – Hamas

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PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas yesterday denounced the latest Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, describing them as a desperate attempt by the regime to cover...

Israeli tanks surround Gaza hospital – forcibly remove staff and patients!

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ISRAELI occupation forces have encircled the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, demanding the immediate evacuation of all those inside. Gunfire has been reported...
BMA delegates during a break at their Annual Representative Meeting

NHS CO-PAYMENTS DEFEATED – at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting

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THE BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) on Wednesday morning narrowly voted against part five of motion 269, which ‘demands that the government must permit...
Camden librarians on Saturday’s march

‘Keep Our Libraries Open’

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OVER 5,000 library campaigners, trade unionists, their families and supporters marched against cuts and closures from the British Library through central London to Trafalgar...

Gm Crisis Meeting Today

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said yesterday that the Merkel government was seeking clarity from General Motors on plans for Opel. This came on the...

NHS CATASTROPHE – BMA warning over developing crisis

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THE chairman of the British Medical Association’s Consultants Committee has written an open letter to Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, warning that the NHS is...

Health Bill ‘is a Privateers Charter’ says Shadow Health Secretary Ashworth

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LABOUR said yesterday that it will oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill. ‘With more than one-in-10 people on waiting lists for treatment in...
Students enthusiastically joined their striking lecturers on the picket line outside Lambeth College in south London yesterday

Colleges Strike For 5% Pay Rise!

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‘WHAT do we want? Five per cent! When do we Want it? Now!’ rang out on the picket line outside Lambeth College yesterday morning,...

Court of Appeal finds for Bell Hotel asylum seekers!

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THE COURT of Appeal has overturned a High Court injunction that would have forced asylum seekers to leave the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. Giving...

Over 700 Killed In Lebanon!

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INTENSIVE Israeli air strikes smashed into homes across southern Lebanon yesterday, levelling schools, destroying infrastructure and overwhelming hospitals. Nine members of the same family were...
Confident UNISON pickets at Brent Town Hall during the strike over pay on July 16th

COUNCILS CRISIS – government refuses to guarantee funds

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The Brown government has pledged to do all it can to help recover public money held in failed Icelandic banks but has refused to...

GPs sent instead of ambulances!

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NURSES and GPs in County Durham are being told to act as first responders ahead of ambulances as North-East paramedics struggle to cope with...

Emergency GP surgery appointments only!

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SURGERIES are in such crisis that one in six GPs have cancelled all routine appointments at some point over the last year, seeing emergency...

Palestinians battle on!

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FIVE Palestinians were killed on Friday, including two who died from injuries sustained in earlier Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza...
Workers from Basildon and Enfield Visteon plants on the Enfield Visteon picket line yesterday morning

Nolan Kept Out Of US Talks!

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THE Enfield Visteon plant convenor Kevin Nolan told News Line yesterday: ‘We have had a meeting with the company in New York. They are...

Dump NHS early discharge plan!

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FOLLOWING massive opposition from the public, patients and staff, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has temporarily suspended plans to pilot a scheme to...
Striking firefighters at Holloway Fire Station, Hornsey Road on the picket line yesterday mid-day

Government is provoking firefighters strikes!

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FIREFIGHTERS taking strike action this weekend are angry that a leaked letter reveals that the government consciously provoked the action rather than negotiate...
News Line Anniversary Rally

News Line Anniversary Rally

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Sunday November 29th
The Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaign team in Southall High Street yesterday

Gate Gourmet Workers Rally

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers are campaigning every day up until their first anniversary march and rally in Southall this Sunday, 20th...