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The campaign to keep Lewisham open is part of the struggle to defeat the privatisation of the NHS which was begun under Labour and is being carried on under the Tories

Labour wrong to privatise admits Prescott

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FORMER Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott has claimed he was against NHS privatisation when he was in government and that he still is. In...
Heathrow Terminal 5 building workers on strike last January supported by locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

BA PENSIONS CRISIS ‘HIGH NOON’ – warns GMB trade union

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The GMB trade union warned yesterday of a ‘high noon’ over British Airways (BA) pensions crisis and the big cuts it wants to make. Ed...

Heathrow workers back Gate Gourmet conference

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BRITISH Airways Terminal 4 workers yesterday gave great support to locked out Gate Gourmet workers campaigning at Heathrow for their conference on Sunday January...
SPECIAL CONFERENCE – Saturday April 6th

SPECIAL CONFERENCE – Saturday April 6th

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DEFEND EVERY HOSPITAL
Thousands of demonstrators on Westminster Bridge on Sunday demanding the scrapping of the Tory coalition’s Health Bill

‘OPPOSE HEALTH BILL!’ – Unison urges

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UNISON yesterday called on peers to oppose the Health Bill today, during its second reading in the House of Lords today. The UK’s largest public...

Almost 1m killed by US-led wars globally

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THE US ‘war on terror’ has taken almost one million lives across the globe and has cost the country $8 trillion over the past two...

Massive General Strike In Greece

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Some 100,000 workers demonstrated through the Athens city centre last Wednesday as part of the one-day general strike called by the GSEE (Greek TUC)...

‘WE MUST GET ON WITH BREXIT’ – TUC delegates tell WRP-YS lobbyists

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LARGE numbers of TUC delegates in Brighton yesterday stopped at the 60-strong WRP and Young Socialists lobby to say that they want the TUC...

‘March all over the world to condemn Israeli massacres in Gaza!’ says Hamas...

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THE HAMAS movement has called for organising angry marches all over the world to condemn Israel’s massacres and genocide in the Gaza Strip. In a...

‘Blair Lied Thousands Died’

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‘Blair lied, thousands died! Tony Blair, war criminal,’ chanted hundreds assembled outside the QE2 Centre, Westminster, yesterday. They were taking part in a demonstration organised...
Student nurses marching in London on Saturday demanding that their bursaries be maintained

‘Don’t cut our bursaries!’ say student nurses

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‘BURSARIES or bust! Jeremy bite the dust!’ chanted over a thousand student nurses as they marched to Downing Street on Saturday in their campaign...

Straw Rejects Ban On Rendition!

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THE government has rejected demands for new laws against ‘extraordinary rendition’: the practice of kidnapping and flying detainees to secret sites around the world,...
On November 30 over 2 million workers took strike action throughout the UK in defence of their pensions – the struggle is continuing

2012–The year for organising the working class to take power

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2012 to all our readers and to the working class...
Part of the BMA march against the Health and Social Care Bill becoming law – the BMA at their Annual Representative Meeting earlier this year called for the resignation of Health Secretary Lansley

Circle taking £1bn out of NHS!

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THE first private company to run an NHS hospital claims it has cut waiting times, improved care and delivered savings in its first six...

Savage attack on migrants – organised by PM Cameron

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday announced plans for a new raft of savage attacks on migrant workers. In a widely publicised speech given in a...

ISRAEL STEPS UP RAFAH BOMBING! – ahead of ground invasion

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AT LEAST 20 people were killed in Israeli strikes on homes in Rafah overnight yesterday, including nine members of the Abu Taha family. It was...

Great Support For WRP Candidates

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THE VOTE Hassan Zulkifal Workers Revolutionary Party Ealing Southall campaign got great support at Greenford Bus Depot and Hanwell Royal Mail Delivery Office yesterday...

Gp Commissioning Fraud Is Exposed!

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GP commissioning will not in fact be GP commissioning. This was brought home in a Channel Four news item on Monday night which publicised GPs’...

Unite-Rolls Royce jobs deal – includes a 10% pay delay for 1 year

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THE UNITE union has agreed a package with engineering giant Rolls-Royce to financially protect the 20,000 UK workforce during the coronavirus emergency by delaying...

3 More Mass Graves Found At Nasser Hospital!

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MORE tragedy keeps unfolding in the city of Khan Younis, with more mass graves found inside the courtyard of Nasser Hospital. Medical staff and international...

Greek State Of Siege Is Defied

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THOUSANDS of youth and workers participated throughout Greece in the annual Athens Polytechnic Uprising marches and mobilisations last Tuesday, defying a state of siege...

LABOUR WILL VICTIMISE LOW PAID – insists Hutton

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Business Secretary John Hutton yesterday ruled out a rethink on the decision to scrap the lowest tax band, amid claims that the Brown government...
RCN yesterday condemned the privatisation of primary care. Nurses demonstrate to defend the NHS

Labour plans for private companies to take over primary care

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‘CARE in the NHS should be driven by patient need, and not by profit or financial gain,’ a BMA spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She...

‘NO TIME FOR NATIONALISM!’ – 5,000 car workers march to Antwerp plant

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5,000 European workers marched to the Opel plant in Antwerp yesterday afternoon to demand that it must not close as a result of the...

LABOUR-LIB DEM TALKS BREAK DOWN – Tories and Liberals get ready for coalition

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A TORY-LIB DEM savage cuts coalition government was being assembled last night, after coalition talks between the Labour Party and the Lib Dems broke...
Some of the 300 demonstrators outside the Whittington Hospital yesterday lunchtime who are determined it will not be closed

Keep Whittington Open!

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Over 300 people rallied outside the Whittington Hospital, north London, yesterday lunchtime, against the closure of the hospital’s A&E and maternity departments. Organisers ‘Defend the...

‘Rampant Capitalism & Wage Robbery!’

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THE proposed merger between energy giants SSE and Npower is for the sole benefit of shareholders, with scant concern for the workforce and the...

Low pay ‘endemic’ 4.1m in serious debt

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AN EXTRA 94,000 people were in work at the end of the latest three-month period, however it now emerges that the unemployment figures have...

‘WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF TALKS WE WANT ACTION’ say Gate Gourmet locked out...

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The Gate Gourmet pickets at Heathrow Airport yesterday had a Transport and General Workers Union shop stewards report back on a meeting held with...

Bank of England votes 5-4 to keep interest rates at 5.25%

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UK interest rates have been left unchanged after the Bank of England said price rises were slowing faster than expected. Interest rates were held at...

Remainers launch a legal challenge!

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‘THE CANDYFLOSS of outrage we’ve had over the last 24 hours, which I think is almost entirely confected, is from people who never wanted...
Thousands of protesters dressed in Panama hats & Hawaiian shirts in London on Saturday demanding ‘Cameron Must Go!’

‘UK is heart of tax avoidance’–Corbyn

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‘THE public no longer have the trust in him,’ Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn said of PM Cameron after he attempted to justify his involvement...

Assad Warns West

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western nations will pay a ‘heavy price’ for supporting al-Qaeda in Syria, warning that the terrorist group...

Steelworkers are resisting TATA plan – while unions stay on the fence

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A DEAL to change Tata’s pension scheme has proved harder to sell to staff than was expected. It is being resisted by steelworkers who have...

RBS BANK CRASHES! – from £5bn pfofit down to £802m loss

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The Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday revealed a half-year net loss of £802 million, the second biggest in British banking history. This was after...
Junior doctors demanding training posts and calling for the defence of the NHS; many are very angry at the BMA for not defending them

BMA BOOSTS BROWN’S PLAN FOR ‘INDEPENDENT’ NHS – before BMA conference even discusses it

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THE BMA yesterday, on the eve of its Annual Representative Meeting in Torquay, sought to impose Gordon Brown’s plan for an ‘independent board to...
Demonstration in Wembley against Copland Community School being forced to become an Academy

‘FAILING TOO MANY PUPILS!’ – biggest Academy chain in England condemned

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THE biggest academy chain in England has been accused by Ofsted of ‘failing too many pupils’. Inspectors say that almost half of pupils at secondary...

Doctors condemn £55 ‘bounty’

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DOCTORS have condemned a ‘bounty’ scheme launched by NHS England at the beginning of this month under which GPs receive a payment of £55...

Reject ‘John Lewis’ NHS!

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‘The GMB is opposed to a John Lewis partnership running the NHS, and so would the 1.4 million staff employed by the service,’ GMB...

Coventry Council sacks hundreds!

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THE UNITE union has described the decision of Coventry council to press ahead and fire and rehire its entire refuse collection workforce as totally...

Ryanair Mass Sackings

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RYANAIR is planning to make 3,000, 15% of its workers in Europe, redundant and is also planning 20% pay cuts for employees. Unite national officer...
The front of last October’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration – Miliband is determined to drive the organised trade unions out of the Labour Party

Labour special conference to attack the unions!

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THE Labour Party is to hold a Special Conference in London in March next year in which the Miliband leadershipwill seek the abolition of...

Stormy Syriza Meeting

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GREEK Prime Minister and leader of SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) Alexis Tsipras convened a meeting on Wednesday of SYRIZA’s 149 parliamentary deputies...
Jeremy Corbyn marches with steel workers through London

Corbyn will fight any bid to keep him off ballot paper!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn told the BBC yesterday that he was ‘disappointed’ Angela Eagle had chosen to run against him and would fight any...