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Officers admit guilt in taking dead girls pictures

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TWO Metropolitan Police officers yesterday admitted taking and sharing photographs of the bodies of two sisters found murdered in north-west London. PC Deniz Jaffer, 47,...

McCLUSKEY CONDEMNS WATSON FOR ‘SABOTAGING’ PEACE EFFORTS

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UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey on Saturday issued an important statement refuting claims that Jeremy Corbyn was responsible for Tom Watson’s withdrawal from...

Starmer poised to clash with unions over pay rise demands

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LABOUR PM Keir Starmer is poised for a clash with the unions after downplaying the likelihood of real-terms pay rises for public sector workers...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at Heathrow – want the TGWU leaders to fight to win their reinstatement

SAVAGE CUTS – coming to Norfolk County Fire Service

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Norfolk County Fire Service faces savage cuts as a result of the County Council being starved of cash in the Blair government’s ...
Families marching through Enfield to defend the NHS and council housing, the two pillars of the welfare state that they rely on

Families going without food!

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Families with disabled children are going without essentials such as food and heating. This is the norm, not a temporary crisis brought on by the...

Starmer Calls For A Ban On Russia Today

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‘WE MUST do more to defeat Putin’s campaign of lies and disinformation,’ Labour leader Keir Starmer told the House of Commons yesterday at PMQs. ‘Russia...
Riot police attack MARIOS LOLOS the President of the Greek Union of Press Photographers (EEF) outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) on 15 December.(Photo courtesy of EEF)

‘WE ARE AT WAR!’ – PM Papandreou tells PASOK deputies

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The Greek Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou, speaking at a meeting of his party’s parliamentary deputies on Saturday, emphasised that ‘no-one likes emergency procedures but...

‘Today we set out to transform Britain’ says Corbyn

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AT THE party’s manifesto launch in Bradford yesterday Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: ‘Today we set out a vision to transform Britain for the...

Israel targets medics and aid workers – new videos show

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Israeli forces have issued an evacuation order to medical staff at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, one of the last remaining hospitals in the...

SPECIAL BRANCH COLLUDED IN 15 MURDERS – paid £79,840 to Loyalist killer

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Collusion between Special Branch officers and a loyalist death squad was made possible by support at the ‘highest level’, Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan said...

‘Our NHS is under siege!’

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THERE was a lively and enthusiastic picket of over 50 striking NHS workers at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel east London, yesterday morning. Speaking...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line yesterday

HOME OFFICE ACCUSED! – of alerting Berlusconi over Mills extradition

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‘Will the present inquiry by the Cabinet Secretary examine whether or not the Home Office acted improperly in relation to an extradition request for...

SPRINKLER SYSTEM NOT WORKING – in gutted warehouse

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With three firefighters still missing presumed dead and one confirmed dead, it emerged yesterday that the sprinkler system was not working in the central...

Threat To Arrest Pickets

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers had their picket stopped yesterday at the main gate of the Heathrow plant by the Heathrow Airport police and the...
A thousand POA members marched to Downing Street yesterday mid-morning to condemn the attack on their pensions

POA demands General Strike

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UP TO A thousand Prison Officers marched down Whitehall to a rally at Westminster on Budget Day yesterday. Prison Officer’s Association (POA) rep at HMP...

OBR predicts 4 million unemployed – as Furlough scheme begins winding down

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AS OF YESTERDAY the Tory government’s contribution to furloughed workers’ wages was cut, marking the beginning of the end of the scheme – with...

‘When we win power, it will be to give it to you’ – McDonnell...

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SPEAKING at a press conference on the ‘first hundred days’ of a Labour government, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell, pledged: ‘So let...
Royal College of GPs Chair CLARE GERADA (centre in black with dog) arriving last month in Whitehall with the ‘Bevan’s Run’ consultants opposed to the Health Bill

SCRAP THE HEALTH BILL SAY GPs – No to a two-tier NHS

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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the UK’s largest medical Royal College, yesterday wrote to Prime Minister Cameron calling for the complete withdrawal...
Delegates at yesterday’s BMA Consultants Conference in London, where they voted to fight to defend pensions

ACTION OVER PENSIONS – BMA Consultants Conference decides to ballot

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HOSPITAL doctors at the BMA Consultants Conference yesterday voted with just three against to ‘ballot the consultant membership regarding all forms of industrial action’...

Over 60,000 Junior Doctors To Strike This Week For 3 Days!

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MORE than 60,000 junior doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are going on strike for three days this week against massive 31.7%...

Polio Epidemic In Gaza

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GAZA'S Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic, blaming Israel’s genocidal military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a statement yesterday, the...
Junior Doctors to continue defending NHS

Junior Doctors industrial action – reject proposed new contract in full

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JUNIOR doctors are set to renew their strike action in a ‘rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September’. The new chair of...

Julian Assange Must Be Freed!

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JOE BRACK from the Julian Assange Defence Committee spoke to News Line yesterday after the Westminster Magistrates Court gave Home Secretary Patel the go-ahead...
Trade unionists rally in Trafalgar Square to defend the welfare state on April 14

£85bn cuts and tax rises in budget!

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Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls yesterday accused the Tories of wanting to take Britain back to the conditions of the 1930s. Trade unions are bracing...

ADAMS-PAISLEY DEAL – UK devolved local government for North by May 8

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Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams yesterday agreed a May 8th date for the return of devolved local government in the north of Ireland, after...

Serco Altered Data For Out Of Hours Gp Service

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PRIVATEER Serco failed to provide enough staff for the out-of-hours GP services it is contracted to run in Cornwall, the National Audit Office has...
25,000 workers and youth marched through Paris on Saturday against against new plans to impose racist immigration laws. A million-strong May Day march is expected today

‘WE’RE SUFFERING BUT WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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THE Gate Gourmet locked-out workers May Day campaign team got great support from fellow Transport and General Workers Union members in west London bus...
Part of a mass lobby of the Nigerian Embassy in London on Friday which insisted that the fuel subsidy must be reinstated

‘A FIGHT TO THE FINISH’ – Nigerian General Strike is launched

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday called on workers and the rural poor to be ‘prepared for a fight to the finish’. This came as...

Palestinian Red Crescent wants to know what happened to Hind Rajab!

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THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in the Gaza Strip has called on the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli regime to...
Tens of thousands have marched through London determined to fight for a Palestinian victory

Israel demands Hamas disarm! – in attempt to undermine the ceasefire

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EGYPTIAN officials said yesterday that Israel was demanding that the Gaza Strip be ‘demilitarised’, and Hamas be disarmed, creating uncertainty over whether the...
GPs and local residents join hands to stop the closure of GP surgeries in a demonstration in Rugby

REFORMS WILL HIT POOR – says BMA’s Dr Buckman

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THE chairman of the BMA’s GP committee has warned that the Tory-LibDem government’s health plans will leave poor, elderly, infirm and terminally ill patients...

French Police Chokehold Mutiny!

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NATIONWIDE demonstrations in France on Tuesday demanding better pay and resources for health workers were the subject of repeated police attacks. 18,000 people attended demonstrations...
Young Syrians on a march called by Stop the War – UK special forces are now ‘illegally’ fighting on the front line in Syria

UK forces fighting in Syria ‘illegal’ – warns Stop the War

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UK Special Forces have been fighting on the frontline in Syria despite explicit assurances to parliament from Cameron that there would be ‘no...
Junior doctors were out on strike time and time again, rightly insisting that the new contract imposed on them by Tory health secretary Hunt was making them work so many hours that they were extremely tired – a danger to patients and themselves

Doctors at risk from fatigue!

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LACK of sleep resulting from long hours and excessive workloads is jeopardising patient safety and doctors’ health, the BMA has warned, while reports...
Railworkers defy the bosses and the government and demand renationalisation

Forward To The World October!

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New Year’s statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2017...
Greek museum workers’ and secondary school teachers’ banners on the coordinated trade union march last Thursday

Greek workers and youth on the way to an unprising!

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ATHENS – Greek workers and youth are on the road to an uprising! Mass rallies and demonstrations are taking place throughout Greece as part of...

Tories Attack The Disabled

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HALF a million disabled people and their families are set to lose thousands of pounds a year under the government’s proposed Universal Credit, a...

May Silent Over Trident Misfire!

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TORY PM Theresa May yesterday refused four times to say if she knew about a Trident nuclear missile misfire just weeks ahead of...
‘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....

129 Million Americans Face Losing Health Coverage

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Without the Affordable Care Act, up to 129 million non-elderly Americans who have some type of pre-existing health condition, like heart disease, high blood...
Junior doctors in their strike actions warned that the Tories and Health Secretary Hunt were determined to privatise the NHS

STPs DRIVING NHS PRIVATISATION

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AN OUTSOURCING contractor, whose work for GPs was described by a minister as ‘entirely unacceptable’, and the UK arm of a private US healthcare...
Young Syrians join the thousands of protesters who took to the streets of London when ex-PM Cameron tried to get parliament’s approval for the UK to join a US-led war on Syria – he lost the vote and the UK and then the US were forced to pull back

Trump Beats War Drums!

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‘WE HAVE a lot of options militarily,’ US President Trump said yesterday banging the war drums against Syria, adding that a response would be...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and their supporters on the mass picket on February 10th – the six-month anniversary of the lock out

Gate Gourmet taking fight into the unions

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are taking their fight for reinstatement into the trade union movement and visiting Transport and General Workers Union and other...

Record Jobless Rise Of 46,000!

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THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate has risen by the biggest amount in almost five years, official figures showed yesterday. Some 1.47 million people were out of...

138 GP Surgeries Shut Last Year!

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ONE HUNDRED and thirty-eight GP surgeries shut last year, compared to 18 the previous year, the latest GP workforce figures from NHS Digital show,...