‘IT IS OVER’ SAYS WALLACE – as UK leaves nationals behind in Kabul

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‘IT IS OVER,’ Tory defence secretary Ben Wallace admitted yesterday over the UK’s Afghan debacle. He added: ‘It is with deep regret that not everyone...

‘Finances prioritised over patient care!’ – BMA reviews Scottish NHS

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A SUBSTANTIAL majority of doctors in Scotland feel that patient care is being given a lower priority in Scotland’s NHS than both finances and...

‘Everything In Spain Is Based On Oppression!’

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YESTERDAY Catalan president Carles Puigdemont held a noon press conference in Brussels to explain why he had left Spain, and to outline his perspectives. He...
Postal workers lobbying the Stock Exchange at 7am Friday morning angrily opposing the sell-off of Royal Mail

Strike to stop Royal Mail robbery

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POSTAL workers were very angry when they demonstrated outside the London Stock Exchange at 7.00am yesterday morning, on the day that Royal Mail shares...
One of the six lively picket lines of UCU strikers at Imperial College with students showing their support for the strike

64 Universities Pensions Strike

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‘WHAT do we want? Fair pensions! How do we get it? Strike! Strike! Strike!’ students and lecturers at Sheffield University shouted yesterday while taking...
In this period of vicious attacks on the NHS every hospital is fighting for survival

Critical Stroke Surgery Is Being Denied!

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THOUSANDS of patients are being put at risk of major strokes because the NHS is failing to give them critical surgery in time, a...
‘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....
Junior doctors refused to be intimidated by Hunt’s threats during their long dispute over an imposed contract

Hawking slams Tories over NHS privatisation!

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PROFESSOR Stephen Hawking has attacked the government’s NHS policies, and health secretary Jeremy Hunt in person, and warned they are seeking to bring in...

‘Working Poor’ Evictions Scandal!

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THE WORKING poor have now become the working homeless, as nurses, teachers and firefighters are among those being thrown out of their homes...
GMB Acting General Secretary PAUL KENNY speaking to a delegation of Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC on November  2nd

Unison Condemns NHS ‘Health Rationing’

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Britain’s biggest public sector union, UNISON yesterday condemned the decision of three Suffolk Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to deny operations to overweight patients. ‘It’s against...

Tories scrap 2 weeks cancer waiting times target – new boost for health...

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THE TORIES stepped up their onslaught on the NHS yesterday with the announcement of the scrapping of the requirement for patients with suspected cancer...

Russian trucks cross border!

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RUSSIA has accused Kiev of deliberately holding up the delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine, according...

3 days of Tube strikes – being discussed by RMT & ASLEF executives

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TUBE unions’ national executives are meeting today and are expected to announce a further three days of strike action over the Night Tube and...
Civil servants lobbying MPs last month against poverty pay

‘COMPENSATE LOW PAID NOW’ – Prentis warns Brown

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‘The abolition of the 10p tax rate has dealt a body blow to millions of low paid workers,’ UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis said...

Syriza Submits To Troika

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THE Greek government decided on Saturday to accept all terms laid down in a statement agreed at last Friday’s Eurogroup Finance Ministers’ meeting that...
Over 60 local residents, supporters and youth massed on the balcony yesterday morning in Southwark to stop the eviction of Aminata Sellu by bailiffs supported by the police

Aminata Eviction Stopped!

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‘I AM not going to give up, I am going to fight the council until they give me and my family somewhere to live...

Blair Threatens To ‘Close The Book’ On Ulster Power Sharing

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The British and Irish governments yesterday set a November 24 deadline for north of Ireland politicians to agree to work together in a restored...

Appalling Rough Sleeping Rise Says Crisis

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ROUGH sleeping is rising at ‘an appalling rate,’ said the homelessness charity Crisis yesterday, as it emerged that more than 4,000 people a night...
Teaching unions on the march. Teachers do a very large amount of unpaid overtime, they are very angry and there are  discussions taking place to form one very powerful teachers union

5.4m workers doing unpaid overtime says TUC

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EMPLOYEES across the UK worked a record amount of unpaid overtime last year, with over 5.4 million workers putting in around £640m worth of...
Workers and youth in the UK are fighting to lift the siege on Gaza and establish the state of Palestine

‘We have created a historic epic’ says Haniya

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ISMAIL Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister in Gaza, has saluted the Palestinian people for their steadfastness in the harsh battle. ‘They have become the...
Care UK workers lobbying the company offices in London during their strike action over their atrocious conditions – a quarter of the country’s 2,500 homecare providers are at risk of going bankrupt while almost 70 have closed down in the last month

Social care–brink of collapse!

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THE TORIES are ‘papering over the cracks in social care funding leaving services at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday. The comments come as...

Thousands Mourn 47 Dead

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Tens of thousands of Palestinians yesterday attended a funeral procession for 47 defenceless civilians who were killed on Tuesday when Israeli artillery shelled a...
PCS lobby outside the HMRC yesterday morning demanding that all the HMRC Enquiry Centres be kept open

All tax advice centres to close!

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PCS members held a lively protest outside HM Revenue and Customs Whitehall headquarters yesterday opposing the closure of 281 tax advice centres. Chris Baugh, PCS...

Russia demands joint investigation with UK

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‘TODAY, Scotland Yard and the British government are refusing to communicate with us, no answer, the telephones are switched off. And that brings...
Greek riot police attack a young female demonstrator in Athens last Saturday. Photo credit: Left.gr

Greek riot police act as occupation army

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ARMED riot police unleashed a pre-planned pogrom of sheer violence against mass marches of mainly school and university students in all the main cities...

B of E fears housing bubble

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HOUSE-BUILDING giant Baratt Homes’ share price crashed by ten per cent yesterday in an immediate response to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s announcement...

‘There was no chase!’ – before Met police shot and killed Chris Kaba

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‘THERE was no chase’ before the Metropolitan Police marksman shot and killed Chris Kaba on 5th September, his cousin Jefferson Bosela told thousands of...
Demonstration outside parliament on January 11th against the Welfare Reform Bill

Hands Off Child Benefits!

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TEACHERS’ unions and children’s charities yesterday condemned government plans to raid the Child Benefits of families whose children have unauthorised absences from school. Tory-LibDem coalition...

West Thames College strike action

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UCU (University and College Union) lecturers were on the picket line outside West Thames College in Isleworth, west London yesterday, demanding a 5% pay...

‘KEEP ROYAL MAIL IN PUBLIC SECTOR’ – but unions refuse to strike against privatisation

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‘Today’s positive results are more compelling evidence of why Royal Mail should be kept in the public sector,’ CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward,...
Tenant Joan Elsby and her son Kevin with Crown Properties executive Nick Wood, BBC cameras looking on.

Haringey Tenants Evicted!

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FURIOUS tenants remaining at Connaught House in Muswell Hill vented their anger at bailiffs yesterday at 12 noon as evictions took place of families,...
Junior doctors on the march last Saturday – they are furious at the government’s attempt to impose unsafe, unfair contracts

All Out With Junior Doctors

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‘WE NEED other unions who are being attacked by this government to take action,’ BMA junior doctors committee member Aislinn Macklin-Doherty told News...

Tackle Poverty Urges Bma!

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BMA DOCTORS want urgent action to tackle poverty and improve public health services after an official report found a strong connection between deprivation and...
With a police car blocking the road protesters are searched and filmed a mile from their camp

Downing Street Warning To Climate Change Camp

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Police yesterday stopped and searched youth arriving for the Camp for Climate Change a mile away from the protest camp at the northern perimeter...
Teachers, pupils and parents taking part in last Friday’s ‘Fair Funding for All Schools’ national mobilsation

Teaching Assistants face sack!

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THE GMB union will consult members in Brighton schools as to what action to take as 51 Teaching Assistant redundancies loom with many facing...
Tube workers on the picket line at King’s Cross during strike action last month

Unions Win Round One Of ‘Night Tube War’

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THE trade unions have won round one of the Night Tube war. London Underground announced yesterday that the launch date of London’s Night Tube is...
A section of the delegates at the BMA Conference which on its first day showed its determination to fight NHS cuts and closures and not to allow NHS charging

Bma Opposes NHS Cuts!

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DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Harrogate yesterday voted overwhelmingly in opposition to NHS privatisation and...

One million Gaza City residents are refusing to move!

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WHILE the Israeli regime escalated its ground invasion of Gaza City yesterday, around one million Palestinians are resisting the occupying force’s attempts to forcibly...
Part of the huge demonstration outside the Israeli embassy on Tuesday night

Doctors Denounce Israel!

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MORE than 20 leading doctors and scientists from the UK and Italy have denounced Israel’s ongoing aggression in Gaza in a letter to The...
Postal workers marching through Corby on March 20th against local MP Phil Hope reneging on his promise to oppose privatisation

‘WE WILL STRIKE TO DEFEND POST JOBS’ – say CWU reps

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‘We are not going to take this lightly. We will do whatever has to be done to hold on to every part of the...

BURNHAM RESIGN! – demand Mid-Staffs relatives

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CUTBACKS, implemented in order to comply with the government’s drive for Foundation Trusts, were to blame for the unnecessary deaths of more than 400...

Firefighters sign deal to respond to terrorist attacks!

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FIREFIGHTERS in London and Manchester have signed agreements that will see them committed to respond to Marauding Terrorist Attacks (MTA), following a ballot of...

ESCALATE ACTION – as Oxford walk out

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‘WE ARE going to escalate the strike action,’ a Communication Workers Union spokeswoman told News Line yesterday evening. However, she added that after a long...
Young Socialists marching through east London to last year’s News Line Anniversary on November 21. They had marched from  Manchester to London demanding jobs for youth and warning workers that the only way to deal with the Tory-led coalition was to bring

‘THROW COALITION OUT!’ – YS leader says angry workers will rise up

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JOSHUA Ogunleye, National Secretary of the Young Socialists, told News Line yesterday: ‘The huge rise in youth unemployment to over the one million mark...