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Jenin refugee camp ‘completely destroyed’

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‘THE Israeli occupation has completely destroyed the Jenin refugee camp and forcibly displaced over 20,000 Palestinian residents, leaving behind their homes, personal documents and...
School youth demonstrating in Paris against government attacks on teachers and pupils

50,000 School Youth March In Paris

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For the second time in a week 50,000 school youth demonstrated in Paris on Thursday against the cutting of teaching posts in colleges and...

Gaza mass graves–hands tied behind their backs!

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GAZA Civil Defence Units have found mass graves of another 50 Palestinians at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with many of the...
The Workers Revolutionary Party-Young Socialists contingent marching on May Day for what workers want – a general strike to bring down the government and create conditions to bring in a workers government

Tories Plot ‘Regime Change!’

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CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday said he will take the Tories’ local elections disaster ‘on the chin’, as his own MPs were calling for his and...

Tories step up attacks on refugees & their lawyers

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THE TORIES threatened refugees who refuse to board the Bibby Stockholm ‘death-trap barge’ with destitution yesterday, while Home Secretary Suella Braverman described their legal...

Rolls Royce jobs massacre! – Unite calls for National Recovery Council with Tories

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THE UNITE trade union has responded to the news that Rolls Royce is to cut 9,000 jobs globally, 3,375 of them in the UK,...
Vast crowds massed outside the Greek parliament in Athens last Wednesday night

Greek Workers Vow To Bring Down Government

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250,000 workers, youth and professionals demonstrated outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in central Athens last Wednesday evening against the Austerities Measures Bill and demanding...
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...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers outside Hillingdon TGWU office on Friday insisting that their dispute is still on and that they need their hardship pay

Gmb Shop Stewards Decide On Strike Action Ballot At Asda

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The GMB trade union shop stewards at a meeting yesterday in Manchester voted unanimously to ballot for a national strike in Asda Wal-Mart. The GMB...
Firefighters who tackled the Buncefied blaze picketing 10 Downing Street against plans to severely cut the Herts fire service

Herts FBU Striking Against Massive Cuts!

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Hertfordshire fire crews are today striking from 2pm to 10pm against cuts in frontline personnel and fire stations. Hertfordshire Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has also...

‘We won’t sign rotten deal’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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YESTERDAY was the deadline for locked out Gate Gourmet workers facing compulsory redundancy to sign the ‘Compromise Agreement’, surrendering their claim for unfair dismissal...

Syria Is Winning!

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THE Syrian army has scored ‘major victories’ against ‘rebels’ and now holds ‘the balance of power’ in the conflict, President Bashar al-Assad told a...

Truss announces crackdown on the rail trade unions

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TORY PM Truss threw down the gauntlet to the TUC at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons yesterday lunchtime, announcing: ‘We will...

‘LABOUR WILL CONTINUE WITH BREXIT!’ –‘If we win snap election’ says Corbyn

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ANTI-BREXIT Labour MPs have responded with fury to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s insistence on Saturday that it is Labour Party policy to leave the...
Christmas under the Israeli occupation in Bethlehem

Pre-dawn raids in Palestine

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ISRAELI authorities issued administrative detention orders, without charge or trial, against 22 Palestinians on Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported. PPS said that 16...

Corbyn woos CBI bosses

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn began his speech to the CBI yesterday by declaring his loyalty and enthusiasm for business. He said: ‘And if a Labour...
Postal workers at Hanwell Sorting Office gave their full support for the march to and occupation of Ealing Hospital maternity department today

Workers support Occupation!

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EALING Hospital workers are ready to welcome the occupation of the maternity unit today. Today, the hospital management intends to commence turning away expectant mothers...
Greek workers during general strike action in Athens in May

Greek Hospitals Collapse!

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THE Greek government have stopped financing hospitals and the result is that patients cannot receive even the most elementary of treatments due to a...
WRP candidate ANNA ATHOW (centre) got a lot of support in her campaign outside Haringey sixth form college yesterday

Support for WRP’s Anna Athow in Hornsey & Wood Green

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ANNA ATHOW, WRP candidate for Hornsey and Wood Green, was campaigning with a team outside Haringey Sixth Form College yesterday. Talking to youth about their...

Netanyahu warrant

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A JUDGE in Spain has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and seven other former and current Israeli officials over...

‘Vote For Strike Action This Year’ – Urges Rcn

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ROYAL COLLEGE of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen has responded to NHS data showing nurse vacancies have jumped to a record level by urging...

Trump Puppets Johnson & Farage Fall Out!

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THE TORY government has defended its proposed Brexit deal with the EU, following criticism from President Trump, who suggested a Johnson-Farage alliance. Trump told LBC...
RCN leader BEVERLY MALONE with UNISON health official KAREN JENNINGS at the centre of the ‘NHS Together’ platform yesterday morning

‘A PAY CUT OF 7-10 PER CENT’ – NHS unions don’t rule out industrial...

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Fourteen trade unions representing nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers, occupational therapists and other NHS staff have joined forces to challenge the government’s 1.5 per cent limit...

LOCAL PAY! – Demanded by 31 NHS Trusts

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LABOUR is presenting new evidence to parliament today showing moves to break away from national pay in the NHS are spreading across England. A...
Unite leaders Woodley and Simpson alongside TUC General Secretary Barber marching with former CBI boss Digby Jones. The union leaders prefer to collaborate with the bosses and oppose occupations and nationalisation

GM defer Open Vauxhall choice – as GM Luton workers are kept in dark

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With just five weeks until the German elections, Chancellor Merkel yesterday expressed her anger and frustration at the failure last Friday of General Motors...

ISS hospital workers demand Living Wage

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OVER 30 GMB members held a lively picket of the private contractor ISS at the company’s HQ in the South Quay Building, Canary Wharf,...

Oecd Issues Slump Warning

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US economic growth will slow sharply in the second half of the year and the risk of it going into a full-scale slump cannot...
A section of yesterday’s shop stewards lobby of the TUC against pension cuts

Pensions crisis–Coalition pays tribute to the TUC!

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JUST AS LibDem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Alexander was thanking the TUC in the House of Commons yesterday claiming that the public sector...

‘Big support from Greenford Royal Mail’

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Locked out Gate Gourmet workers were out all day yesterday campaigning for Sunday’s march and rally in Southall to demand that all the locked...

UNIONS SLAM NOV 30th STRIKE BREAKING PLAN!

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Public sector union Unison yesterday hit back at Treasury Secretary, Danny Alexander’s, call for strike-breakers for the November 30th national pensions strike. Unison gave an...
Streatham Labour MP CHUKA UMUNNA, LISA LAWRENCE, LEE LAWRENCE, ROSEMARY SPENCER and CHARMAINE LAVILLE before handing the Groce family petition into No 10

Cherry Groce Family Demand Legal Aid!

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‘WE’RE here to hand in our petition with 130,000 signatures calling for legal aid to assist us and allow us to be active at...

Greek Students Fighting Privatisation

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BY MARY KECHAGIA FOR the sixth week in a row, last Thursday many thousands of Greek university and school students staged militant marches in Thessaloniki...

1,000 Barts workers voting to strike – no 2-tier NHS!

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Over 1,000 NHS workers at Barts Health NHS Trust in the City of London began voting for strike action yesterday in a fight against...

Palestinian Deaths Up 500%

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THE Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has condemned the latest escalation of violence by Israeli forces against Palestinians across the occupied territories, saying the Tel...

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...

Osborne hammers poor!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne launched his vicious class war budget yesterday, signalling massive Tory attacks on the working class, with the young and the poor his...

Tsipras visits Athens police HQ

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The leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras paid a long electioneering visit on Monday to the Athens area Police...
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...
Post workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference last month demanding an end to job cuts and privatisation plans

Royal Mail Bosses’ Bonus Scandal

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Postal workers yesterday condemned as ‘obscene’ over £10m in ‘performance-related bonus’ payments to Royal Mail executives for pushing through ‘efficiency savings’. Royal Mail Group has...
Palestinian AYSAR SHAMALLAKH (centre in white jacket) on hunger strike in solidarity with over 1,600 hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Picture shows Aysar and supporters demonstrating in Parliament Square on Wednesday evening

‘OUR CHAINS WILL BE BROKEN BEFORE WE ARE’ says Barghouthi

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‘ISRAEL cannot silence us, nor isolate us, nor break us, our chains will be broken before we are,’ Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has said...
Workers who marched to Parliament Square on July 1st understood that nothing can get better until the Tories are put out

No Punishment! Quit Eu Now!

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WARRING TORY Cabinet Ministers are set to deliver a series of speeches on the ‘road to Brexit’ culminating with one by PM May within...

BMA SLAMS DIRECT PAYMENTS – Healthcare as a commodity’

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The Health Bill introduced by the government yesterday ‘undermines the founding principles of the NHS’, warned Unison – while the BMA said the bill...
Domestic workers demanding a living wage on this year’s May Day march through London

Sacked workers win £964,537 – offered 40% wage cuts by Excelcare

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More than 100 care staff have received £964,537, after Excelcare sacked them and offered them new contracts with a 40 per cent pay cut,...

British Columbian longshore workers overwhelming strike vote

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Longshore workers in British Columbia have overwhelmingly voted to authorise industrial action, raising the prospect of a strike at the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s...

FIELD-CAMERON LOVE-IN – while Tories plan NHS payments

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Right wing Labour MP Frank Field yesterday appeared alongside David Cameron at an election event, suggesting that he would serve in a Cameron government....