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‘We Are Staying Till Our Demands Are Met’

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‘It was a really good march on Saturday,’ occupying Vestas worker Chris Ash told News Line yesterday. Workers have been occupying to stop the closure...
Convenors, shop stewards and Unite officials at Parliament Square awaiting the arrival of the nine-car ‘drive-by’ yesterday

‘NATIONALISATION IS NOT APPROPRIATE’ – for GM plants says national officer Osborne

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NINE Vauxhall cars and vans from the 1960s to the present day came to London yesterday for a ‘drive-by’ of parliament ‘to showcase the...
NHS workers and their families marching to defend the service from the privateers

DEFEND HINCHINBROOKE HOSPITAL – 1,300 doctors, nurses, and health workers’ jobs at stake

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Doctors, nurses and health workers will take to the streets with local people today, Saturday 4 October, to defend the future of Hinchingbrooke Hospital,...
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...

EU says NO! to May’s Brexit re-negotiations

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EUROPEAN Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker yesterday ruled out re-opening the Withdrawal Agreement after meeting with Tory PM May, making it crystal clear that legally-binding...
WRP Election Committee Rooms opened in the busy Walthamstow market last Thursday

Wrp Election Office Opens

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WALTHAMSTOW’S WRP election premises were opened on Thursday evening to a loud cheer from campaigners and supporters who had gathered outside the shop. Workers Revolutionary...

Savage Cuts To ‘Reset’ NHS Trusts

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A REGIME of ‘financial special measures’ has been announced for trusts and clinical commissioning groups to ensure the NHS lives within its means by...

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...

COVID IS BEING USED TO SACK TENS OF THOUSANDS says RMT leader Mick Lynch

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has accused the Johnson government and the privately-run train operating companies of ‘using Covid as a smokescreen’ to rip...
Part of the lively picket by trade unionists and youth determined to keep open Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield

Chase Farm Closure ‘On Hold’

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THE 10th picket by the North East London Council of Action outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday heard that the closure of the hospital has...

Labour MPs barred from entering West Bank

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TWO Labour MPs barred from entering West BanTWO Labour MPs were ‘astounded’ to be denied entry to Israel to visit the occupied West Bank...

Social housing landlords deny homeless access to properties

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HOMELESS people are being routinely ‘screened out’ and denied access to social housing by social landlords because they are deemed ‘too poor or vulnerable...
ScotRail RMT members on the picket line at Glasgow Central Station on the second day of their strike over safety

Railworkers fighting for safety!

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ON THE second day of the ScotRail strike, the RMT revealed that the Dutch-state parent company and top bosses are raking it in at...

Hague Sued Over US Drone Attacks

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Foreign Secretary Hague is being sued over the alleged UK policy of handing over GCHQ-sourced intelligence to the CIA to aid US drone...
London marchers made clear their contempt for the government’s 1% ‘pay offer’

‘We’re tired of annual pay cuts!’

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TWO million public sector workers took one-day strike action yesterday, against pay cuts and government attacks on pensions. There were rallies, and protests all...
The banner of the Coordination of Trades Unions at last Friday’s Athens demonstration. It reads ‘Down with the government and with any government that carries out the orders of the IMF-EC-Capital’.

Eu Jackboot Over Greece

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THE Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou won the confidence vote in the Vouli (Greek parliament) with a margin of just three last...

Polar storm rips through Gaza

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A POLAR low-pressure storm poses a serious danger to displaced families and residents amid the massive destruction caused by the Israeli genocide that has...

Infection out of control – ‘Isolation exemptions will spread Covid-19’ – BMA stark warning!

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STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...

Troika dictates its terms to Cyprus

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has set out the ultra-harsh terms of the ‘bailout deal’ that the Cypriot government has agreed. In order to receive...

Unite’s Grangemouth Surrender

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UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey yesterday said the union had decided to ‘embrace’ a survival plan at Grangemouth put forward by owner Ineos, ‘warts...

220,000 disabled to win back payments

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DISABLED people were thrown off benefits in their hundreds of thousands by private assessors Atos and then Capita, and left penniless to face eviction...

STRIKES GOING AHEAD! says London District Chairman

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‘Unless there is a substantial breakthrough the strikes are going ahead on Thursday, Friday and Saturday,’ CWU London District Chairman John Denton told News...
Over 100,000 workers marched through Dublin’s streets yesterday as the general strike shook the country in protest at slave labour being used on Irish Ferries

Gate Gourmet hardship payments – ‘No way will people be allowed to go without’...

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MORE than 20 locked out Gate Gourmet workers were picketing yesterday at Heathrow Airport determined to win their fight. Their lobby of the TGWU ...

Over Half Of All London Nurses Want To Leave The City!

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OVER half of London’s nurses want to leave the city as the cost of living devours their income. The majority of nursing staff blame the...
ROSE GENTLE (2nd from right) with other members of Military Families Against the War headed February’s march in London for troops out of Iraq and the rejection of a new Trident missile

‘TONY BLAIR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MY SON’S DEATH’–says Rose Gentle

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‘TONY Blair’s responsible for Gordon’s death,’ said Rose Gentle as the inquest opened yesterday into the June 2004 death in Iraq of her son,...

Met Commissioner Dick given 2-year extension – ‘Kick Dick out! Disband the police!’

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THE TORY government have offered the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, a two-year extension to her term in office with campaigners for justice furious...
BMA launches the ‘Look After Our NHS’ campaign at its Annual Representation Meeting last June

‘DITCH THE PRIVATEERS’ – if you really love the NHS say BMA to Labour

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Political leaders should ‘abandon pro-market policies’ and not just ‘love the NHS’, but look after it, said doctors’ leaders yesterday. The Chairman of the British...
Workers and youth turned out in their thousands last month to march against the planned closure of Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield

FIRST NHS TAKE-OVER – Heart of England Foundation Hospital swallows up Hood Hope NHS...

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This Sunday April 8th will mark the first takeover by a foundation trust hospital of a ‘bankrupt’ NHS hospital. Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust...

Devolving Manchester is wrecking NHS

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‘THESE plans for the devolution of the health budget to a Greater Manchester regional government truly lob a wrecking ball at the National Health...
Angry teachers marching through London last Thursday when 400,000 teachers, lecturers and civil servants took strike action

Answer World Crisis With The World Revolution

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MAY DAY MANIFESTO By the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE editorial Board sends its May Day greetings for the year 2008 to the workers...
A section of Tuesday’s Co-ordination of Trades Unions demonstration in Athens (Antonis Stamatopoulos on the left with arms folded)

Greek Medicines Crisis

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The Greek Chemist shops Association staged a 24-hour national strike yesterday demanding the payment by the Health Ministry of some 500 million euros owed...

Thousands denied benefits now driven to food banks!

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THOUSANDS deemed ineligible to receive Universal Credit have been driven to food banks to survive. The new study published yesterday by the Economic and Social...

No Wage Growth In 2018 Says Resolution Foundation!

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THE just-published Resolution Foundation report says that real wage growth will be flat in 2018 and that many households are already pessimistic about...

‘If you can work you must work’ – Kendall

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‘UNDER this Labour government, if you can work you must work,’ Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the House of Commons yesterday. Launching the...
UNISON General Secretary DAVE PRENTIS (second from left) alongside Unite co-leaders SIMPSON and WOODLEY backed by delegates. The three leaders of the two biggest unions in the country are refusing to call for bringing down the coalition government

TUC leaders refuse to call to bring down the coalition

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DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester on Monday voted almost unanimously – with just one dissenting voice from BALPA pilots’ union leader Jim...

STRIKE BALLOT – by Scottish doctors

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SCOTLAND'S hospital doctors began balloting for strike action yesterday, against the Scottish government’s attacks on the NHS pension scheme. If the ballot gives the go-ahead,...

AN EPIDEMIC OF THE GREATEST EVIL – Fallujah bombings condemned

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‘It’s not only in Fallujah, but all over Iraq that there are child deformities. ‘I’ve been in the medical profession for 30 years, I’ve...

Uni staff all out today

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STAFF in UK universities are out on strike today for a full day in opposition to an ‘insulting’ 1% pay rise offer. The UCU, Unison,...
Junior doctors on strike against the government’s attack on the NHS

NO BALLOT ON INDUSTRIAL ACTION – BMA leaders decide

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THE GENERAL Practitioners Committee has abandoned balloting GPs for industrial action despite being mandated by their own conference to do so. A motion at the...

Police demand mass stop & search powers

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HOME Secretary Sajid Javid has met police chiefs from seven forces most affected by the violent crime wave produced by the government’s decade of...
May Day rally in Athens

Greek May Day Strike

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Greek workers, youth and students in their thousands demonstrated in every city on May Day celebrating historic past struggles and showing their determination to...

CIA Torture Centres In Lithuania!

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The CIA had at least two ‘black sites’ in Lithuania where they tortured illegally held victims of ‘extraordinary rendition’, a Lithuanian parliamentary inquiry has...

Bectu ‘No’ To Bnp Broadcast

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MEDIA and entertainment union, BECTU, has today insisted that the BNP should not be given airtime to promote its racist politics. The union’s statement...

Half a million on London march for Palestine!

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HALF A MILLION workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through London on Saturday, assembling in Hyde Park and marching to the American Embassy...
CWU Pickets at the Wood Green delivery office last Friday

Rolling Post Strikes Called

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After days of indecision, the Communication Workers Union leadership yesterday announced a series of rolling strikes over two weeks, instead of the indefinite national...