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Arab League Condemns US Veto!

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The Arab League has criticised the United States for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that sought to condemn Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip. The...

‘Labour won’t be able to spend its way out of the mess!’ – Starmer...

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LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer said yesterday that Labour ‘won’t be able to spend our way out’ of the ‘mess’ left by the Tories. While...
Protesters outside St Paul’s Way surgery in Bow last Thursday, demanding that the privateers be kept out

‘LABOUR PUSHING POLYCLINICS’ – BMAs Buckman condemns government

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday rebutted the government’s attack on the BMA leadership over family doctors’ opening hours. Laurence Buckman, chairman of the BMA’s...
Teachers marching to defend their pensions show that they understand just who the enemy is

IMF – British banks warning!

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THE IMF warned yesterday that the British banks have a ‘very large potential to originate global shocks’. As if that was not enough they added...

‘WE ARE LOSING IN IRAQ’ says US Senator Chuck Hagel

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Leading Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has warned the US is ‘losing in Iraq’. He slammed the George W Bush administration’s Iraq policy as ‘disconnected from...

Beaten To Death

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A leaked US Army Criminal Investigation Command report has revealed a catalogue of prisoner abuses, including two deaths, by the US military at Bagram...
CAROL DUGGAN (centre) with MARCIA RIGG (right) marching in Tottenham

‘ANOTHER SLAP IN THE FACE!’ – Duggan family slams cover-up

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‘ANOTHER slap in the face!’ was the verdict of Pam Duggan in response to Tuesday’s Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report which cleared ...

RESTORE OUR HARDSHIP PAYMENTS – demand Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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Locked out Gate Gourmet workers are looking forward to their six months anniversary picket this Friday between 1.30pm and 2.30pm. They have been picketing ...

Huge sussex education cuts!

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HEAD teachers from all 250 primary schools in West Sussex have written to Theresa May to demand an extra £20 million as they face...

FRESH JUNIOR DOCTORS STRIKES ARE LOOMING! – as Tories exclude them from ‘pay award’

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THE BMA is to survey junior doctors on possible action to take following massive anger over their exclusion from the NHS ‘pay award’. The BMA...
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...
Greek workers march during the General Strike against austerity measures – they are ready for revolution in 2012

‘SACRIFICES NEEDED IN 2012’ – EU workers are told by leaders

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German Chancellor Merkel, in her sombre New Year message yesterday, warned 2012 will be worse than 2011. Merkel said Europe was experiencing its ‘most...

Large scale assault on northern West Bank

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ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued a large-scale assault on the Tubas governorate in the northern West Bank for the third consecutive day on Friday,...

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’...
Families and friends of those who have died in police custody – over 1,000 have died since 1990 – there are now 2,600 armed police on the streets of London alone

2,600 armed police on London streets

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SIX HUNDRED extra armed officers are to be trained and put on the streets of London in case of ‘terrorist attack’, bolstering the...

FBU issued cladding warning eight years before the Grenfell Inferno!

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THE government did not act on advice from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to issue ‘a warning to housing providers’ about the danger of...

Ireland-Germany fear ‘no-deal’ Brexit

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IRELAND and Germany have issued warnings about the consequences of a ‘no deal’ Brexit. To ‘prepare for no deal’ the Irish deputy prime minister Simon...
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...
Workers listening to a classical music concert at the ERT grounds last Friday night

Occupiers won’t quit ERT

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‘COME and get it if you dare!’ was the defiant reply of the ERT (Greek state TV and Radio network) workers’ union POSPERT to...

US bank rule changes threaten a new crash

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is reportedly putting pressure on regulators to allow government bonds, known as Treasuries, be exempt from risk calculations. Economists have warned...
Passenger protest against rail fare hikes outside King’s Cross station on January 1st 2016

3.4% Rail Hike ‘Kick In Teeth’

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TRAIN fares in Britain will go up by an average of 3.4% from 2nd January, the biggest rise since 2013, and described by rail...

FBI charges Trump’s former campaign manager

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PAUL MANAFORT and his former business associate Rick Gates were indicted on Monday on money laundering, and tax and foreign lobbying charges, a...

World Stockmarkets Shudder!

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Billions of pounds were wiped off share prices in London yesterday, as oil prices surged back towards the March high of $57 a barrel. Brent...

‘A Sense Of Fear & Panic’ In The Stock Markets

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STOCK indexes were recovering some ground yesterday after the huge record falls on Thursday. ‘There is a sense of fear and panic,’ said James Tao,...
Sacked News International print workers marching in Fleet Street with a defiant message during their bitter 1986-87 strike

BROOKS MUST GO! – insists Miliband

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Labour leader Ed Miliband said yesterday ‘it beggars belief’ that News International chief executive ‘Rebekah Brooks is still in her post’ and, ‘The least...
Greek workers and youth marching in Athens against mass sackings and demanding permanent jobs

2010 – year for revolutions! NEW YEAR MANIFESTO by News Line Editorial Board

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NEWS LINE sends its revolutionary greetings for 2010 to the working class and the poor of the planet. We especially greet the insurgent masses...

‘Bring companies guilty of corporate murder to justice’

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ONE HUNDRED and forty four workers have lost their lives while on the job in 2017-18, with the GMB at its Annual Conference in...
Migrant workers demanding no deportations and that all migrants should have basic rights including the right to free health care

TREAT ALL ASYLUM SEEKERS – demand doctors

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A group of doctors has challenged the UK government over plans to deny GP care to failed asylum seekers, saying they breach medical ethics...

UK TRADE DEAL WITH ISRAEL MUST NOT BE A BETRAYAL OF PALESTINIANS – says...

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AMNESTY International UK has warned that a new UK trade deal with Israel could allow Israel to consolidate its settler-colonialism and apartheid in the...
Unite members with their banner on the ‘Save Our NHS’ march against privatisation

Unite ‘reassures members’ over NHS pay claim!

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UNITE national officer for health Sarah Carpenter said yesterday: ‘A story appeared in The Guardian today (Friday 9 March) about an impending pay deal...

Miliband talks productivity to the bosses – wants partnership with business and bankers

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LABOUR leader Ed Miliband, put on his Tory hat yesterday when he launched his party’s Business Manifesto, at business news agency Bloomberg and...

Milford Hospital Is Set To Close

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The Board of Guildford and Waverley Primary Care Trust (PCT) in Surrey held an ‘extraordinary meeting’ yesterday where it decided to close Milford Hospital...
Bank of England workers began their first strike for fifty years yesterday morning

Bank of England begin 3-day strike

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STAFF at the Bank of England kicked off their three-day strike yesterday with a big picket and demonstration addressed by Labour shadow chancellor John...

Bank Raised Rates To 3% Predicts 2-Year Slump & Double Unemployment

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THE Bank of England has warned the UK is facing its longest recession since records began, as it raised interest rates by the most...

Yemenis strike Saudi pipeline

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SAUDI Arabia have been forced to halt pumping oil through one of their major pipelines after a successful Yemeni drone strike yesterday afternoon. Saudi Minister of...

Leap In Inflation – Prices Soaring!

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inflation leapt last month on the back of a 20% hike in education costs and soaring food prices. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said...
A strong and cheerful mass picket at Chase Farm Hospital on Christmas Eve morning – more than ready to occupy the hospital in the event of closure

Trafford A&E closure plan

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THE Trafford strategic programme board has announced its support for closing the A&E at Trafford General Hospital, the hospital from which Nye Bevan launched...

‘Unacceptable’ Says Bma

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GP LEADERS yesterday slammed as ‘unacceptable’ the decision by St Helens Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to suspend the non-urgent referral of patients to local...

UP TO THEIR NECKS IN DEBT! – Labour and Tories have £58.7m in loans...

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The Labour Party yesterday admitted it faces ‘acute cash flow problems’. It was responding to the publication of Electoral Commission figures showing that the main...
Women cleaners at their ‘Centre of Struggle’ camp outside the Greek Finance Ministry in Athens on Wednesday

Greek cleaners celebrate a year of struggle

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THE 595 women cleaners of the Greek Finance Ministry, sacked en masse on 17 September 2013 on the direct orders of the EC-IMF-ECB overlords,...
Royal Mail CWU pickets out in force at the South London Mail Centre, Nine Elms, South West London yesterday morning

CALL A GENERAL STRIKE! – as Royal Mail gets injunction declaring CWU strikes...

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POSTAL workers yesterday reacted furiously to news that Royal Mail had won an injunction at the High Court banning the next...
Chagos Islanders celebrating their victory outside the Court of Appeal yesterday

BLAIR ABUSED POWER! – when he ignored High Court decision on Chagos Islanders

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Chagos Islanders were yesterday jubilant after the Court of Appeal dismissed the government’s appeal against their right to return to their homeland. Following the ruling...

Patel responds to drownings by stepping up her attacks on refugees

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IN RESPONSE to the drowning of 27 people in the Channel on Wednesday, Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel yesterday pushed her Nationality and Borders...

Israeli settlers seize the land!

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ISRAELI military authorities yesterday handed 25 residents of al-Sawiyeh village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, demolition orders for their houses...