Blood Cuts Will Harm Patient Care

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Patient care in West Yorkshire will be under threat if plans for swingeing cuts to the blood service in Leeds go ahead, the Unite...

‘We’Re Not Signing Compromise Agreement’

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‘WE are not signing the Compromise Agreement. It’s one big con. It’s daylight robbery. There’s no other word for it.’ ‘I sent in my application...

Assad gives orders for a peaceful transition in Syria

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PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad left office in Syria yesterday after giving orders for a peaceful transfer of power, as ISIS terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al...
Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes outside Downing Street recently to protest over his

COMMANDER DICK GAVE ‘AMBIGUOUS’ ORDERS – De Menezes inquest is told

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OPERATIONS commander, Cressida Dick, gave ‘ambiguous’ orders in the run-up to the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the inquest into his death...

Flammable wooden cladding found on 20 blocks!

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AN URGENT investigation has found that there are at least 20 housing blocks using the same wooden cladding and wooden structure as the block...

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...

Inflation Lets Rip!

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Inflation rose to 4.8 per cent in March, according to the latest RPIX index – which includes all items excluding mortgage interest payments. The latest...

Unemployment set to soar

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UK bosses yesterday warned that the deepening UK slump will see unemployment soar further to 2.9 million next year. The manufacturing sector turned in its...

‘This is a fight we have to win’ says UCU

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IMPERIAL College staff were boosted on their picket line yesterday morning by the support of an engineering student and a vintage bus. The nationwide strike...

‘The Israeli killing machine must be brought to a halt!’

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HAMAS has outlined the group’s counterproposal to a draft truce deal worked on by Qatar, Egypt, Israel, and the US. ‘The proposal was received by...

GRANGEMOUTH SACK THREAT 6.00pm TODAY

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FOURTEEN-hundred workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland face the sack at 6pm today if they refuse to sign a wage- and conditions-cutting...
Bob Crow, RMT members and commuters rally at Waterloo Station yesterday to denounce double inflation rise in rail fares and call for re-nationalisation

No fare rises – re-nationalise!

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RAIL fares are set to rise by a whacking 6.2% next January, about double the official rate of inflation, though some ticket price rises...

Safe staffing dumped!

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THE MAY government has dropped its key NHS ‘safe staffing’ measure. This means that nurse staffing fill rate data are no longer being published. This change...
PAUL KING, stepson of Ian Tomlinson, addressing the press outside the office of the Crown Prosecution Service yesterday

G20 Policeman To Face Manslaughter Charge

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‘We welcome today’s decision to bring a charge of manslaughter against the officer,’ said newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson’s stepson Paul King on behalf of...

‘Greenland belongs to people of Greenland’ – that is a right says Starmer

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‘THE UK and the US are close allies and close partners. That relationship matters profoundly – not just to our security, but to the...
West London Council of Action picket at Ealing hospital determined to keep it open and calling for a big turnout for Sunday’s ‘Big Bike Ride’

Join Our Big Bike Ride!

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‘CALLING all cyclists – join our Big Bike Ride from Ealing Hospital to Charing Cross Hospital on Sunday morning. And if you’re not...
Business Secretary Mandelson with a manager at GM Luton  – he is now presiding over a shutdown of industry

Gas and grit rationing!

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GAS for industry and grit for the roads were being rationed yesterday as British industry began to shut down. Vauxhall, Ellesmere Port, Jaguar Land Rover,...
Part of a mass lobby of the Nigerian Embassy in London on Friday which insisted that the fuel subsidy must be reinstated

‘A FIGHT TO THE FINISH’ – Nigerian General Strike is launched

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday called on workers and the rural poor to be ‘prepared for a fight to the finish’. This came as...
There were a large number of pickets at the East London Mail Centre in Bow on Friday morning

‘WE NEED THE REST OF THE COUNTRY TO JOIN THE FIGHT’ – say London...

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Postal workers were out on strike across London, Essex, Scotland and the West Midlands yesterday, the first of a number of days of strike...

Queen’s Hospital workers are striking for fair pay

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THERE was a lively well attended picket line at Queen’s Hospital Romford yesterday. A number of issues have brought the Unite union membership of the...

SERCO STRIKE – battle against low pay & exploitation

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HUNDREDS of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, will stage a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust in...

100 Tories rebel over ‘Plan B’

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JOHNSON’S ‘Plan B’ measures to attempt to slow the advance of the new Omicron strain of coronavirus only passed in Parliament yesterday with the...

Russia Today fined £200,000!

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BRITISH broadcast regulator Ofcom has just slapped Russia Today (RT) with a six-figure £200,000 fine for allegedly breaching impartiality rules. The fine comes before a...

MPs hear BHS ‘death threat’ allegations over £1.5m

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FORMER owner of BHS Dominic Chappell was accused yesterday of being ‘a liar’ with his ‘fingers in the till’ who ‘threatened to kill’ the...
Seafarers with their union banner calling for a ‘block to fascism’ at the head of Thursday’s march in Kokkinia, Athens

Greek Teachers Vote For 5-Day Strike

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GREEK teachers voted on Thursday by clear majorities for another five-day national strike starting Monday. The final decision will be taken by the OLME (teachers’...
PCS national executive member ZITA HOLBOURNE letting everybody know that the PCS will not accept the government destroying their redundancy agreement

‘WE ARE DEFENDING OUR JOBS!’ – PCS pickets the High Court

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‘GORDON BROWN hear us say – our contracts are here to stay! shouted eighty Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members and officials outside...

Public sector workers at breaking point!

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‘PUBLIC sector workers are at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that inflation has hit...
The Duggan family release doves at the end of the vigil outside Tottenham police station to emphasise the peaceful, but very determined nature of their protest

Apology for Duggan family! – from the Police Complaints Commission

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THE Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has apologised to Mark Duggan’s family for ‘wrongly’ telling the media he had fired at police before he...

Grenfell – Schmidt says not his priority to understand fire safety tests!

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CLAUDE SCHMIDT, president of Arconic that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, has said it was not his ‘priority’ to understand fire safety tests and...
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday morning are determined to be reinstated on their original terms and conditions

Young Socialists march in Birmingham

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MORE THAN 100 youth won enthusiastic support from shoppers as they marched with the Young Socialists through Birmingham city centre on Saturday afternoon, as...

98.7% NO CONFIDENCE IN LANSLEY – frightened Miliband urges ‘junk the Bill’

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NURSES passed a motion of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley and his Health and Social Care Bill, with a vote of 98.75% in...
Greek workers who every day have been resisting and fighting the savage austerity programme imposed on them by the EU Troika

May Day 2014 greetings – BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – Forward with the World...

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the world capitalist...
Part of the lively picket by trade unionists and youth determined to keep open Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield

Chase Farm Closure ‘On Hold’

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THE 10th picket by the North East London Council of Action outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday heard that the closure of the hospital has...

General Strike in Palestine!

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A GENERAL strike was held in Palestine’s West Bank yesterday as part of a worldwide strike in solidarity with Gaza, which has suffered the...
Wembley anti-academy campaigners at the Easter NUT annual conference where they were given full backing by the union

Academies Out!

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‘Academies are about Blair’s obsession with privatisation’, said NUT president Baljeet Ghale yesterday during a visit to the anti-academy occupation at the sports ground...

Sixth Forms strike today across UK

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TWENTY five Sixth Form Colleges take their second day of strike action today against savage cuts to pay, funding, courses and staff. The strikers, who...

Tories unleash savage cuts on South Western Railway – RMT launches week of action...

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TRANSPORT union the RMT is stepping up its campaign today against ‘swingeing cuts’ on South Western Railway which will unleash an attack on rail...

‘Call general strike’ UCU CONEL chair Anglin tells mass rally of striking college lecturers!

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‘TRADE unions must call a general strike to kick out this Tory government,’ Chris Anglin, College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (CONEL)...

6 children killed in water tanker massacre

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Ten people, including six children, were killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza yesterday. Their bodies were...
BA mixed fleet cabin crew Unite strikers were joined on the Heathrow picket line by other trade unionists supporting the strikers ‘Solidarity Saturday’

‘Real Hardship Among Strikers’

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STRIKING British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew at Heathrow Airport welcomed other trade unionists on their Hatton Cross picket line on Saturday, dubbing it...

GENERAL STRIKE FOR PALESTINE! – across Spain today

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A GENERAL STRIKE for Palestine takes place in Spain today, with the different unions maintaining their calls for worldwide action to end the genocide...

Victory To Striking Nurses!

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‘THE damage that you’re doing to families like mine is terrible,’ the mother of a sick three-year-old girl told Tory Health Secretary Stephen Barclay...

Cameron’s Five Points

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FOLLOWING the release of a video showing the killing of hostage David Haines by Islamic State militants, PM Cameron yesterday announced ‘five points’, for...

PAKISTAN BLOCKS NATO ROUTE! –after US gunship kills three Pakistani soldiers

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Mounting fury over a number of NATO air strikes into Pakistani territory, yesterday saw Pakistan seal its border with Afghanistan blocking the NATO supply...

3.5% NHS pay rise a ‘sick joke’ says Unite

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DISMISSING the government’s 3.5 per cent proposal on NHS pay announced on Tuesday as a ‘sick joke’, Unite said yesterday that ‘this will accelerate...