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ISRAELI FORCES KILL SCORES IN GAZA AND JENIN! – including doctors and children

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SEVEN Palestinians were killed and 13 others injured yesterday morning when the Israeli occupation forces stormed Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank and...
Junior doctors defending the NHS from Hunt and the Tories

Government failing NHS – says BMA leader Mark Porter

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THE BMA doctors’ union and the RCN nurses’ union joined hands in denouncing the Tory government’s onslaught on the NHS yesterday, after the...
Protesters outside the Culture Committee in July as Rupert Murdoch appeared

‘CHILLING AND UNBELIEVABLE’– News International tailed entire Culture Committee – allegation

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all members of the House of Commons Culture Committee were tailed by journalists or private investigators employed by the News of the World, it...

Netanyahu Bans Al Jazeera

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IRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel yesterday. Netanyahu announced the decision on X. ‘The government, headed...
Banner with a vivid message on the powerful 20,000-strong march against the closure of Lewisham Hospital last November

OCCUPY LEWISHAM HOSPITAL! – Administrator threatens closure

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Unions and local campaigners responded with fury yesterday after the Coalition’s ‘special administrator’ Matthew Kershaw called for the winding up of the South London...
The front of the march to the News Line Anniversary rally which got an enthusiastic response throughout the route through East London

‘Forward to workers power’

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OVER 300 workers and youth marched from the Altab Ali Park in Aldgate East yesterday afternoon through Whitechapel to the News Line Anniversary Rally...

25% of CCG members – with £65bn of NHS funds–linked to private healthcare

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A QUARTER of Clinical Commissioning Group board members, who are responsible for £65bn of NHS money are linked to private healthcare companies. Unite has called...

Osborne knifes working families & slashes Welfare!

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IN a savage attack that will cost workers hundreds of pounds a week, Chancellor Osborne has said he will use Wednesday’s Budget to announce...

Military Testing In Three Towns!

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THREE UK towns are to have hundreds of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force military personnel mobilised onto their streets organising mass...
Demonstrators marching on the London mayor’s office in January demanding more council homes

50 people an hour at risk of losing home!

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ALARMING new figures from housing charity Shelter have revealed more than 8,300 people in England were put at risk of losing their home every...

5 WARDS AND 300 STAFF FACE THE AXE – in Lincolnshire hospitals

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Staff at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust have been shocked by the sudden announcement on Monday of plans to close five hospital wards and...

17 More Universities Vote For Strike Action!

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Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at 17 more UK universities have voted to strike over pay and working conditions, meaning that...
Delegates applauding at the GMB Congress yesterday morning

MIGRANTS HAVE RIGHTS – GMB warns bully bosses

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THE GMB yesterday at its annual Congress in Blackpool demanded that the owner of the American Dry Cleaning Company, Julian Stone, reinstate two...

1,250 Manchester Firefighters To Be Sacked!

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FIREFIGHTERS are furious at plans to sack the entire workforce of Greater Manchester. All 1,250 firefighters in the area are to be sacked. Only those...
RCM midwives came out on strike in Belfast in April 2015 for the first time in their history – they will shortly be out again, fighting for a living wage increase

NHS unions demand pay rise!

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THE RCN and other unions representing health service employees in the UK yesterday called on the NHS pay review body to recommend an above-inflation...
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Nurseries Crisis!

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NEW government funding proposals will force nursery schools to close, warns the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT). Yesterday was the deadline for submissions to...
Mounted police charge at sacked printers marching to News International’s Wapping Fortress during the 1986-87 printers struggle for jobs and union rights

Coulson In Custody!

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Police investigating phone hacking and corruption allegations yesterday arrested former News of the World editor Andy Coulson. Former News of the World royal editor Clive...

54,000 Mothers A Year Lose Jobs

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AHEAD of the House of Commons debate yesterday, the GMB Trade Union says an estimated 54,000 women lose their jobs every year due to...

‘time For Apologies Over’ – Barclays Bank Boss Tells Mps

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THE Tory-LibDem coalition has given the banks an assurance that they are at liberty to continue to pay unlimited bonuses, with no government regulation. The...

Iran’s retaliatory operation dispells Israeli invincibility myth

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COMMANDER of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force, Brigadier General Kioumars Haydari, says Iran’s retaliatory operation against Israel has further dispelled the ‘threadbare myth that the...

Abellio bus strikers win 18%!

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THE LONG running industrial dispute involving over 1,800 bus drivers employed by Abellio in London has ended after workers accepted a greatly improved pay...

Starmer eager to work with the bosses and the military

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LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer followed up his refusal to support the £15-an-hour motion carried by the conference on Monday by boasting in his...
The special relationship between Murdoch and the Metroplitan Police began with the organisation of strikebreaking at Wapping

YATES REFUSES TO RESIGN! Murdoch and Brooks to appear!

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EVIDENCE from Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates to the Parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee was scorned as ‘unconvincing’ by its chairman Keith Vaz...

Dangerous Clinicenta brought back into NHS

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THE Clinicenta private treatment centre at the Lister hospital, Stevenage, is to be brought back into the local NHS trust because of dangerous care...

14,000 babies at risk of dying in Gaza TODAY! – warns UN’s Tom Fletcher

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FOURTEEN thousand babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours if aid doesn’t reach them,’ United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs...
Striking NHS Logistics workers on the picket line in Maidstone on Tuesday night

STOP THE SALE OF NHS LOGISTICS! – crushing defeat for Blair at LP Conference

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THE Labour government yesterday suffered a massive defeat of its plans for NHS privatisation at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, with delegates backing...

Israel launches major offensive!

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THE ISRAELI regime has deployed its entire standing army infantry and armoured brigades to the Gaza Strip amid a serious escalation of its 19-month-old...

Universal Credit Attack On Poor

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UNISON yesterday warned the government that its ‘botched roll out’ of Universal Credit, less than 18 months away, will make it more difficult for...
Over 100,000 marched in London to demand that refugees be welcomed to the UK – May wants to see them deported

SPEED UP DEPORTATIONS –May demands of EU!

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HOME Secretary Theresa May has called for an overhaul in the EU asylum rules saying the bloc must speed up deportation of ‘economic migrants’...

US, Japan & France to hold military drill to ‘send message’ to China

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JAPAN, France, and the United States are reportedly set to hold joint military drills for the first time in May next year, as part...
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,...

BofE cuts interest rates to 0.1%

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THE BANK of England cut its base rate to a record low of 0.1%, a sliver above zero, warning the coronavirus pandemic will result...

Obama OKs murder of US citizens by drones

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A JUST-LEAKED United States Justice Department memo gives details of the ‘legal basis’ for authorising unmanned drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad. The document,...

Mordaunt replaces Patel Johnson next for sack!

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THE BREXIT-supporting minister for disabled people, Penny Mordaunt, yesterday was promoted to International Development Secretary by PM May replacing Israeli backed Priti...

Sudan’s civil war escalates – RSF leader bids for power!

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WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...
Last December’s march in Enfield demanding that Chase Farm Hospital be kept open

‘No return to Poor Law!’ –now is the time to rise up says Ashton

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Professor John Ashton, who was threatened with discipline over raising concerns about the Health and Social Care Bill, has warned of a return to...

Vital local council services collapsing

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VITAL local services are collapsing, council workers have warned in a new survey conducted by their union, Unison. Unison warned that Tory cuts have...

Gate Gourmet locked-out workers are aiming for a New Year victory!

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‘OUR fight is continuing and so is our picket,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line yesterday. ‘We have rejected the Compromise...

Royal Mail Job Security Crisis

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ASSURANCES about the future job security of Royal Mail managers are being sought by Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, following the company’s ‘poor’...

Catalonia Declares Independence!

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CROWDS outside the Catalan parliament erupted in celebration, letting off fireworks as Catalonia declared its independence from Spain yesterday afternoon, after a vote of...
Hamas flags on a demonstration in Ramallah against the Israeli occupation

‘A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR SENIOR DOCTORS’ – awarded just 1% ‘wage rise’...

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday said it was astonished at the vindictive and petty treatment of consultants by the government awarding them a...

Tube pickets call for a general strike to bring down the Tories

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‘I HOPE this action is the beginning of a wider movement of the working class standing together in solidarity and working towards a general...
JEREMY CORBYN with a number of trade union leaders at the front of a recent steelworkers demonstration in London

100% behind Jeremy Corbyn says BFAWU, RMT, ASLEF, PCS, GMB and FBU

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‘I AM absolutely 100% behind Jeremy Corbyn,’ BFAWU Bakers Union General Secretary Ronnie Draper told News Line yesterday, as the attempted coup by a...

Royal Mail Wants To Sell Mail Centres

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ROYAL Mail is about to break its truce with the CWU that has lasted since before Christmas through January and February. Latest reports suggest that...