Taliban attend intra-Afghan talks in Tehran

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AS TEHRAN hosted a round of intra-Afghan talks, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has told the representatives of the Kabul government and the...

‘Our members deserve fair pay – and will be taking action for as long...

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‘OUR members deserve fair pay and will be taking action for as long as it takes to get it,’ said Communications Workers Union (CWU)...

Shocking midwife staffing crisis

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A SHOCKING Heads of Midwifery (HOMS) survey published yesterday by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) reveals that nearly half do not have enough...

GLOBAL CATASTROPHE – US Treasury and IMF chief warn Obama

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THE US Treasury Department and the IMF have warned that if the US does not resolve its current crisis, it will unleash a global...

Parents demand judge-led inquiry

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday dodged the question as to whether the inquiry he announced into baby deaths at the Countess of Chester...

PFI – catastrophic waste of money!

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‘THE game is up for PFI, it is a catastrophic waste of taxpayers’ money,’ the GMB union said yesterday responding to the National Audit...
Students and workers rally in Manchester against tuition fees and cuts – a placard reads: ‘’Aaron Porter doesn’t represent me’

Porter Driven Out By Student Anger

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National Union of Students President Aaron Porter has quit, driven out by the fury of his members after he accused them of violence during...

WALK OUT! – RMT and TSSA take 24 hour tube strike action

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10,000 MEMBERS of the RMT and sister union TSSA walked out on 24-hour strike at 9pm last night over plans to axe 800 jobs...

Workers Kept In Dark Over Mandelson Visit

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Business Secretary Peter Mandelson is due at the GM Luton plant, Gate 2, at 9.30am this morning. He has been invited by the local Unite...

Putin Stabs Libya In The Back Again

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RUSSIA has recognised the counter-revolutionary Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as the only legitimate power in the country, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Ahead of...

Coulson Leave To Appeal

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PRIME minister Cameron’s former press secretary Andy Coulson yesterday won a ruling that he can appeal against News International’s refusal to pay his legal...

Labour Backs Knife Brexit Bid!

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THE LABOUR Party is backing a cross-party bid to ensure the UK cannot leave the EU without a deal, knifing in the back the...

Anti-monarchy protesters arrested in police state UK

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‘SOMETHING out of a police state,’ was how Republic director Harry Stratton described the way in which London’s Metropolitan Police arrested 52 anti-monarchy protesters...

Charge Israel with Gaza war crimes! – Palestinian PM Shtayyeh pledges to file...

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PALESTINIAN premier Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday pledged to file charges with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli leaders responsible for the Gaza onslaught. This came...
Nurses rally in central London on May 11 against cuts

THIRTY NURSES FACE THE SACK –UNISON threatens industrial action at North Devon NHS Trust

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Sixty health workers including thirty nurses are to lose their jobs at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple as the NHS Trust seeks to...
Protest outside a court hearing for Babar Ahmad in London in May 2005

Babar Ahmad was subjected to violent assaults and religious taunts by police

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The Metropolitan Police has agreed to pay £60,000 damages to IT analyst Babar Ahmad during a civil action hearing at the High Court which...
Sacked Greek Finance Ministry cleaners at the ERT rally. Their banner reads ‘We have taken up the gauntlet –  Re-employment now’

One year since Greek riot police broke up ERT occupation

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SACKED Greek ERT state TV and radio workers held a rally last Friday evening outside the main administrative and production building in a suburb...
Some of the demonstrators who marched through Norwich last weekend against the Arts Council cuts that threaten the future of hundreds of theatre groups across Britain

Arts Council To Decide On Cuts

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A CLOSED Arts Council meeting is being held in the Roundhouse in Camden, north west London on Tuesday at 1.30pm, to ratify swingeing ‘death...
Two hundred Serco workers at Bart’s NHS Trust outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel last week – they begin their week-long strike today

Hospital workers – week strike begins

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A WEEK-LONG strike across four London hospitals begins this morning as hundreds of low paid cleaners, porters and security guards working for private company...

Labour’s Winter Fuel cut has plunged pensioners into poverty

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall openly admitted on Tuesday that the Labour government cut the £300 Winter Fuel Payment to 10 million pensioners...

Strike At NHS Logistics

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TWO 24-hour national strikes by staff at NHS Logistics were announced yesterday, after the workers voted 3-1 for action against the government’s plans to...

Sanders campaign rally

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AT HIS first rally for the US 2020 presidential bid, Senator Bernie Sanders promised to defeat Donald Trump, calling him ‘the most dangerous president...

DOCTORS TAKE PENSIONS ACTION!–following the lead of the firefighters

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AT least a dozen doctors are to take legal action against the government because they believe they were forced to join a pension scheme...
Local government workers – their banner reads ‘Overthrow the government and the Troika, No to a movement of compromise and submission’

RISE UP! – shout Greek workers!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, youth, self-employed and small shopkeepers took part last Wednesday in the mass and militant demonstrations throughout Greece as part...

Covid measures reintroduced tomorrow – Javid under fire for not testing for new variant...

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TORY Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said face masks will be compulsory in shops and on public transport in England from tomorrow in response...
Delegates to yesterday’s SRM vote to oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill which would smash up and privatise the NHS

LANSLEY MUST GO! – BMA SRM told

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DOCTORS at the British Medical Association Special Representative Meeting yesterday morning voted unanimously to oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill, and demand...
Marchers with Luton MP KELVIN HOPKINS who voted against tuition fees in Parliament in 1997

Luton Mp Greets Ys March For Jobs

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education started the day yesterday with an effective early morning campaign outside the Luton GMM...
Junior doctors outside Lewisham Hospital during their national strike – 8,000 doctors shifts were left uncovered in London alone last year

8,000 doctors shifts uncovered

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JUNIOR doctors are being left in charge of A&Es for entire shifts without a single senior doctor on the ward, new figures have revealed,...
The Young Socialists lobbying the TUC Congress in Brighton, leading the fight for a General Strike to kick out this government and stop the pauperisation of the working class

Coalition plans to slash benefits!

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IN A MOVE to devastate the finances of some of the poorest people in the country, the Coalition Government is planning to break the...

‘We will fight NHS sackings’

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‘We are going to fight the compulsory redundancies,’ West Midlands UNISON regional officer Opinder Tiwana told News Line yesterday, in the wake of University...

‘we Need Total Victory!’

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‘EACH and every one of you are victims of a cynical sacking. It’s not just an issue for you, our members, it is –...
Council tenants demonstrate against the sale of their homes on Heygate and Aylesbury estates in Southwark, south London

End The Cuts And Build Council Housing

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‘We look forward to see what the government’s economic recovery strategy is,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Any measures that ease the pressure...
Police viciously launch into the large crowd of protesters against the Israeli bombing in Gaza outside the Israeli Embassy in London.  Ten pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested

Warships Shell Gaza!

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Israeli warships shelled Gaza from the sea yesterday as jets continued to bomb Gaza from the air for a third day in an ‘all-out...

Nursery heads march on Downing Street!

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NURSERY heads marched on Downing Street yesterday, furious at the desperate lack of funding which is now so bad that nurseries are threatened with...

Johnson starts to do a ‘May!’

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EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk has said he has received ‘promising signals’ from Irish PM Leo Varadkar that a Brexit deal is still possible. His...

Darzai Private Nursing Plans

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The GMB trade union yesterday expressed serious concerns over plans for a nurse-led privatised NHS contained in health minister Lord Darzi’s review, due to...
Anti-cuts demonstrators in London in March this year demand: ‘Invest in housing’

HOUSING CRISIS! Middle classes will be on the streets

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HOMELESSNESS is spreading to the middle class, homelessness charity Crisis is warning, as mass sackings of public sector workers along with the government’s onslaught...

Richards Call For Libya Shock And Awe Campaign

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UK Chief of General Staff, General Sir David Richards has called for an easing of restrictions on NATO targets to allow the bombing of...

Israeli ground invasion of Jabalia – medics receiving pleas for help as soldiers shoot...

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THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics are receiving dozens of urgent pleas to evacuate casualties but are unable to respond because of...

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,...

‘SCANDALOUS’ 10.4% NPOWER HIKE – unions slam energy price rises

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UNISON yesterday slammed Npower’s ‘scandalous’ 10.4% energy hike that will ‘bring misery to millions of households this winter’. While the TUC said that energy prices...
The platform at Sunday’s News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance rally

UNIONS MUST TAKE BROWN ON – says News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance rally

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All the public sector trade unions must unite for action to bring down the Brown government and replace it with a workers government and...

Saddam Lynching Anger Silences Blair

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ONE WEEK after the execution of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Prime Minister Blair has again refused to comment on the lynching. He said yesterday, trying...

BIGGEST DAY OF STRIKE ACTION FOR DECADES! – over 500,000 workers strike

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MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...

EIGHT UNIONS SUPPORT VESTAS OCCUPATION! – as police crack down

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Workers staging the third day of a sit-in protest at the Vestas Wind Systems wind turbine factory in Newport Isle of Wight, yesterday said...