‘No Blood for Oil’ chanted a lively picket of the Bank of England demanding the bank returns $1.3bn worth of gold to Venezuela

‘Give Venezuela back its gold!’

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‘BANK of England you’ve been told – Give Venezuela back its gold’ chanted a 60-strong picket line outside the bank yesterday lunchtime....

‘WE REJECT WAGE CUTS!’ – say UNISON & GMB spokeswomen

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‘We reject public sector pay cuts,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday. She was responding to remarks by chancellor Darling yesterday, where...

Sixth Forms strike: ‘urgent funds now!’

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A LONDON march and rally marking the fifth day of strike action in over 30 Sixth Form Colleges took place yesterday, with union leaders...
Jean Charles de Menezes’ mother, MARIA OTONE DE MENEZES (centre) and his brother GIOVANI arriving at the inquest last week

NO WARNING SHOUT! – De Menezes inquest told

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The firearms police who shot Jean Charles de Menezes dead in a tube carriage at Stockwell ‘gave no warning’, a passenger on the train...

Nigerian General Strike!

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Nigeria’s main trade unions, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trades Union Congress (TUC), have declared mass backing for an indefinite general strike and...

STOP NO-DEAL BREXIT ‘BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!’ – urges John McDonnell and Shami...

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LABOUR Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti yesterday called for uniting with ‘moderate’ Tory MPs to stop a no-deal Brexit...
March around Sussex University Campus during the occupation on 25th March 2013 – they have now resumed their occupation

Birmingham Occupation Spreads To Sussex

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THE occupation by University of Birmingham students of the Aston Webb building is continuing in defiance of the High Court Injunction secured by the...

‘DON’T SIGN ANYTHING AT ALL!’ – NEU leader Kebede

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‘DON’T sign anything at all’ the leader of the NEU teachers union told striking teachers and support staff who are threatened with ‘fire and...

Patient records now open to state

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FOR the first time, the Department for Work and Pensions will have access to patients personal GP records, including their ‘fit notes’...
Large numbers of people are being made homeless annually. This includes evictions because of rent increases due to the bedroom tax

5,000 A YEAR BEING MADE HOMELESS – as unsecured consumer debt reaches £160 bn

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MORE than 5,000 people a year are being made ‘homeless’ as a household debt crisis deepens, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) warned yesterday. More...
Greek youth marching in Athens against the privatisation of education

Greek Students March Against Privatisation

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TENS of thousands of students have been participating in a series of rallies and demonstrations all last week throughout Greece, protesting against the right-wing...
JEREMY CORBYN addressing the 100,000-strong ‘Refugees Welcome’ rally on the day he was elected Labour leader, last September

‘We’ll renationalise NHS!’ says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘THE FIRST thing that we will do is repeal the Health and Social Care Act. It must be repealed and that will effectively renationalise...

Renegade Blair predicts a UK civil war!

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THE Former and completely discredited prime minister Blair, who took the UK into a war with Iraq that was based on lies and brought...
North East Lodon Council of Action pickets of Chase Farm Hospital said everyone was opposed to the closure

Chase Farm Picket Wins Big Support

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‘WE ARE having a successful picket again today,’ North-East London Council of Action secretary, Bill Rogers, told News Line outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. ‘Everyone...

Hounslow Council Leader To Speak At Rally

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Gate GOURMET locked out workers were yesterday campaigning for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. At Hounslow Civic Centre, where the rally is...
BA cabin crew strikers on the picket line at Heathrow last March

Unite Retreats From Cabin Crew Strike

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Unite yesterday cancelled plans for another strike at British Airways, and announced there will be a fresh industrial action ballot. In a statement, Unite general...

‘Special Place In Hell’ For The Brexiteers!

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EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk dropped his mask of reasonableness yesterday in Brussels when he declared that there is a ‘special place in hell’...
A local resident holds up the charred remains of Grenfell Tower cladding – 468 buildings across the UK are clad in the same flammable aluminium composite – the Tories refuse to ban it

Tories refuse to ban Grenfell cladding on 468 buildings!

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FLAMMABLE cladding is not going to be banned from existing buildings, Tory Housing Secretary James Brokenshire announced yesterday at the Conservative Party conference. This...
The enthusiastic Young Socialists lobby made a big impact with their demand for a general strike to bring down the coalition and their demand to end all zero-hour contracts

Call A General Strike Says Poa

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THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth yesterday, to calls from the Young Socialists lobby and delegates for a General Strike, to bring...

Arrest of 2,000 Palestine Action supporters challenged in Court!

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THE co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, will begin a legal challenge against proscription of the group as a ‘terrorist’ organisation before London’s High...

Reinstate All P&O Staff – Demands Haigh

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‘WE MUST send a clear message that rogue employers cannot get away with trampling over the laws of this country, it is time to...
Visteon workers on the Enfield picket line yesterday stand together but the company is making different redundancy offers

Anger At Visteon Settlement!

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‘WE’VE been shafted,’ ex-Visteon Enfield Unite branch chairman Steve Parenti told News Line yesterday. He explained that sacked workers on Ford Mirror Contracts, which were...

Corbyn’s position: EU deal or Remain but no Brexit!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn presented his position on Brexit yesterday in which a deal with the EU or Remain are the only options and...

US-UK War Talk Over The Ukraine!

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LEADERS of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will meet in Belarus’ capital Minsk on Wednesday to discuss a peace plan for eastern Ukraine,...

Tories Starve The Disabled!

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DISABLED people in Scotland are being starved by the Tory government, with some people waiting as long as 15 months without receiving a single...

Labour is hit for six in Hartlepool

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STARMER’S LABOUR Party has been hit for six in the Hartlepool by-election, with a Tory MP elected for the first time in the current...
RMT marked two years of strikes by the union to ‘Keep the Guard on the Train’ with a demonstration opposite parliament yesterday

Safety Before Profits!

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SOME 200 railworkers and supporters demonstrated opposite Parliament yesterday morning to mark two years of strikes by the RMT union to Keep the Guard...
Tuesday morning outside Westminster Central Hall demonstrators urged the PCT meeting ‘don’t close our hospitals’ – the PCT board however agreed to do the dirty work for the Tories

Unions must stop A&E closures! – four North West London A&Es face shutdown

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‘WE’LL do whatever it takes to save our hospitals,’ GMB National Officer for the NHS Rehana Azam told News Line yesterday. She was responding to...

‘SMOKESCREEN FOR HUGE CUTS’ – Unions condemn ‘Localism Bill’

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‘The Localism Bill, promoting the “Big Society” concept, is a smokescreen, so that thousands of local government jobs can be axed’, the Unite union...

Labour attacks BA strike

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THE Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis yesterday demanded that Unite cancel the planned strike action by British Airways cabin crew, despite an overwhelming vote...
Travel Safe staff on strike against harassment and bullying of union members

We Have No Option But To Strike

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UP to a dozen travel safe officers yesterday lobbied a board meeting of Transport for London (TFL) at 197, Blackfriars Road, London. They told News...

‘MORE COPS WON’T SOLVE ANYTHING’ – say defiant French youths

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‘More repression means more destruction’, said defiant French youths yesterday, in answer to the state-of emergency announced by Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy. They said curfews...

Halt the Family Farm Tax!

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‘HALT the Family Farm Tax,’ demand thousands of farmworkers as they roll into Whitehall, many aboard their tractors, at 1pm this afternoon. Small farmers across...
Up to 1,000 workers and young people turned up to picket the Israeli Embassy yesterday afternoon and were faced by large numbers of police

‘IT’S LIKE HELL HERE NOW’ – Doctor Mads Gilbert condemns Israeli invasion

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Fifteen Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday and at least 40 others were wounded when Israeli shells hit Gaza City shopping centre. Among those killed by...

‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength’ says Mark Serwotka

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THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...

Miliband Hits Out At Unions

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband hit out at the trade unions yesterday, accusing Unite leadder Len McCluskey of being ‘wrong’ to oppose a public sector...

Javid’s plan is to privatise the NHS

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SAJID Javid, Tory Health and Social Care Secretary, has spoken to the Royal College of Physicians, on Health Reform. He claimed that there is not...
Workers turned out in their hundreds of thousands on March 26 2011. They are determined to defend their jobs, pay, conditions and employment rights

‘WE’LL OPPOSE ATTACKS ON RIGHTS’ –pledges TUC

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‘Unions stand ready to oppose the attacks on workplace rights contained in the Beecroft Report,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Attacking workers’ rights...
West Hendon tenants defending their homes condemning the private landlords who are trying to remove them

NO HOME FOR UNEMPLOYED! says Hastings council

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UNEMPLOYED workers will not be offered homes under a new council ‘re-generation’ scheme, sparking outrage and allegations that the move stinks of ‘social cleansing’. Hastings...
Banner with a vivid message on the powerful 20,000-strong march against the closure of Lewisham Hospital last November

OCCUPY LEWISHAM HOSPITAL! – Administrator threatens closure

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Unions and local campaigners responded with fury yesterday after the Coalition’s ‘special administrator’ Matthew Kershaw called for the winding up of the South London...

Osborne privatisation drive – but forced to retreat over tax credits

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CHANCELLOR Osborne announced a U-turn on the abolition of tax credits in his Autumn Statement yesterday, while massively extending Tory privatisation and cuts elsewhere. Nursing...

‘WE WILL STRIKE WITH NURSES!’ say Manchester bus strikers

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‘THE SUPPORT has been amazing,’ striker Peter Gleaves told News Line at the Queens Road Depot in Manchester yesterday, where Go North West bus...

Starmer announces militarisation of UK economy

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‘BOOTS on the ground, planes in the air,’ Labour Prime Minister Starmer declared in the House of Commons yesterday. In a speech to a packed...

Record numbers of children rely on food banks

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A RECORD number of children are being forced to rely on food banks in order to survive, with the numbers expected to surge...

BUSH – NO DEAL! – as capitalism crashes

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Bush made a two-minute statement on the White House Lawn yesterday following his failure to get agreement on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s massive $700...