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PM Johnson’s 5-point ‘Living with Covid’ plan

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TORY PM Boris Johnson set out his five point plan for ‘Living with Covid’ yesterday saying that he expects the lifting of restrictions will...

Barristers strike gains support

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‘OUR CRIMINAL justice system is in crisis, it’s no exaggeration to say it’s in meltdown,’ Criminal Bar Association (CBA) Chairman Jo Sidhu QC told...
Ambulance staff taking strike action at Deptford Ambulance Station were concerned at the way cuts were affecting the service

Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!

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EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...

Israeli forces continue lethal Gaza operation

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ISRAELI forces continued lethal operations in Gaza and intensified repression across the occupied West Bank yesterday amid repeated ceasefire violations in the Strip and...

MASS HUNGER STRIKE! – began on Palestinian Prisoners Day

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MORE than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched an open-ended mass hunger strike yesterday morning on Palestinian Prisoners Day, led by imprisoned Fatah...

‘Ignore us at your peril!’ – nurses warn Tories

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SCORES of striking nurses spoke out angrily on the picket lines yesterday to condemn the Tory public sector pay cuts programme. Hundreds of thousands of...

Israel sentences child to 10 years – Syria launches new offensive in Idlib

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ISRAEL has sentenced a Palestinian child, Hammoudeh Khader Sheikh, to 10 years in prison, Quds News Network reported yesterday. The boy, 15, from occupied East...

Johnson gags the SAGE scientists!

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TORY PM Johnson during the daily Downing Street press briefing yesterday, repeatedly blocked journalists from asking his scientific and medical advisors about the ongoing...

Brown Attacks The Public Sector

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday outlined plans to slash government employees’ jobs and pay. He said public sector workers earning an ‘over-generous’ salary would be ‘named...

British drones may be used in illegal Yemen war

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DEFENCE Secretary Philip Hammond has refused to rule out the possibility that Britain will join the US’ covert drone programme in Yemen, despite...
Peugeot workers from Ryton taking part in the May Day march in London

FRENCH AND BRITISH WORKERS UNITE – to keep Peugeot Ryton open

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‘Save Peugot Jobs!’ demanded over 400 French and British workers in Paris yesterday. Peugot workers and a delegation of Renault workers from across France joined...

‘This war is America’s war against people of Palestine!’

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THE number of people killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since yesterday morning has now risen to at least 54, according to...

CORBYN VISITS DUNKIRK – as Brit haulage boss urges ‘send in troops’

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CONDEMNING the ‘dreadful conditions’ in Grande-Synthe refugee camp near Dunkirk, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Sky News that up to 3,000 people waiting...

Assange wins High Court ruling

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THE HIGH Court in London yesterday ruled in favour of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s right to appeal against the UK court ruling approving his...

Iran begins Zolfaqar-1400 military exercises

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THE IRANIAN Army has started large-scale military exercises in an area stretching from the eastern sector of the strategic Strait of Hormuz to the...
Young Socialists lobbying the TUC Congress last September when it carried a resolution to discuss the ‘practicalities of a general strike’

TUC to discuss general strike – At April 24 meeting

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THERE was consternation yesterday when a leaked Unite document revealed that a union report going before the TUC General Council on April 24 is...

Brixton Public Meeting: Quit EU on October 31! – October 16th, 2019

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News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st! For a workers government and...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

MASS PICKET – a huge success say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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AROUND 150 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters – including members of the PCS, CWU, UNISON and Amicus trade unions – staged a...

BANK BAIL-OUT! – as shares crash by £79 billion

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At 7am yesterday morning, Chancellor Alistair Darling issued a statement to the London Stock Exchange. He outlined plans to convert the £25bn of taxpayers’ money...
Southern rail pickets standing up for safety during recent strike action at London’s Victoria Station

Guards strike is on! – as Southern says it will sack every guard!

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THE BATTLE is on! RMT confirmed yesterday that the Southern guards’ strike is going ahead. Meanwhile Southern Rail confirmed it will carry...
Young NHS workers march against Tory government cuts

530 lifesaving cancer operations axed

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HUNDREDS of cancer operations were cancelled during the NHS winter crisis, meaning that for some patients, by the time they are treated, their cancer...
Drownings–Greece Accused!

Drownings–Greece Accused!

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THE shocking truth is slowly emerging of last Monday’s ‘several’ drownings of refugees off the Aegean island of Farmakonisi, close to the Turkish coast. The...

Hamas Leader Escapes Assassination Attempt

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Palestinian prime minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya escaped an assassination attempt yesterday. Haniya was unhurt after his convoy came under heavy gunfire in Gaza, witnesses...

Pm May Is Canvassing For Labour, Lib-Dem & Snp Votes

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JACOB Rees-Mogg Tory MP for North East Somerset yesterday warned that ‘Brexit is being watered down to the extent where you couldn’t really tell...

Summary Powers!

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Civil rights groups yesterday slammed calls from police chiefs for summary powers to dish out ‘instant justice’. Surrey Police chiefs went on television and gave...

Generals Demand Immunity From Prosecution

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THE generals who demanded a ruling from the Labour government’s Attorney General that war with Iraq was legal before they would send their troops...
ASLEF picket line at London Bridge Station earlier this week

ASLEF OUT TODAY – RMT announces more Tube strikes

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WHILE Aslef drivers are striking today against Southern rail’s attempt to impose driver only operation, the RMT union yesterday announced further strike action...

‘A SMOKESCREEN!’ a handful of aid trucks let into Gaza as babies starve

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THE few aid trucks let into Gaza are ‘ridiculously inadequate’ and nowhere near sufficient to meet Gaza’s vast needs, instead they serve as ‘a...

GG– great support in Southall

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LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers were out campaigning at the weekend for their mass picket next Sunday and their conference in London on Sunday January...

Abbas welcomes Trump as Palestine explodes

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed US President Donald Trump at the Palestinian presidential palace in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem yesterday morning. Some...

RAGE OF WORKERS AND YOUTH THREAT TO GREEK GOVERNMENT – thousands defy police teargas...

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THE RAGE of youth and workers in Greece over last Tuesday’s horrific rail crash is now threatening to overthrow the right-wing government of Prime...
Union leaders heading the March 26th 500,000-strong TUC march against coalition cuts

‘WE WANT THE HEALTH BILL SCRAPPED’ – Prentis tells Lansley

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Unison general secretary, Dave Prentis, yesterday pledged the union will ‘fight and fight’ until the Health and Social Care Bill is defeated and the...

Patel’s ‘Pushback’ policy is ‘unlawful’ claims PCS

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CIVIL SERVANTS’ union the PCS, representing Border Force staff, has joined Care4Calais in their legal fight to prevent Home Secretary Priti Patel from pushing...

Cuts Will Make 40,000 Families Homeless

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Labour is to put down an urgent question in Parliament this morning, after it emerged that Prime Minister Cameron was warned six months ago...

RCN Opposes Health Bill

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THE UK government has ignored a catalogue of warnings about the nursing workforce crisis since 2016, a new report from the Royal College of...

UK deporting Zimbabweans

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LAWYERS and rights campaigners say the UK government has been working with Zimbabwean authorities to deport asylum seekers who are wanted back home for...

‘STOP JUSTIFYING MURDER’ – De Menezes family urges Met Chief Blair

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The family of Jean Charles de Menezes have reacted with horror at Met chief Sir Ian Blair’s attempted justification of his ‘Shoot-to-Kill’ policy. The 27...
Banners of the campaigns of the Mark Duggan and Sean Rigg families on a United Families and Friends demonstration

Duggan family wins Judicial Review

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Mark Duggan’s family has won the right to challenge last year’s coroner’s court verdict that he was lawfully killed when he was shot dead...
Speakers address the occupation as part of the struggle for a ‘Liberated LSE’

‘LSE is occupied!’

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LSE occupation statement ‘Why we are occupying We have occupied the Vera Anstey Suite, the central meeting room of the university administration, to demand a change...

ISRAELI BOMBERS FLATTEN 3-STOREY HOME – 100 feared dead, many children

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AT LEAST 40 Palestinians only just displaced from Rafah were killed when a residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp was bombed by Israeli...

ASLEF & RMT TO STRIKE ON WED 1st FEBRUARY ALONG WITH CIVIL SERVANTS &...

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ASLEF and RMT railway workers are to strike on Wednesday 1st February, joining 100,000 PCS civil servants, 100,000 NEU teachers and tens of thousands...
Gambians told News Line there were still 80 people on death row in their country awaiting execution by order of the President

Gambians March On Downing Street

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OVER 200 Gambians and supporters marched from Parliament to the Commonwealth Headquarters in Pall Mall calling for the ousting of President Alhaji JJJ Jerehmeh...

Al-Awda Hospital Fire Rages As Doctors Call Out For Support!

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AL-AWDA Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, northern Gaza, has issued an urgent appeal to international humanitarian bodies after an Israeli airstrike ignited a catastrophic fire...

Back to Work regulations are ruled illegal!

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IN A LANDMARK decision yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal ruling of last February that the Regulations governing the government’s ‘Back...

Capitalism in its greatest ever crisis – Forward to British & World Revolution

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MAY DAY STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARDNews Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers, youth and masses of the world who...