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Post Office workers rally yesterday afternoon in Westminster while striking to keep Crown Post Offices open

Crown Post Office Massive Strike Action

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CROWN Post Office workers, all over the country walked out at 12.30pm sharp yesterday, in an effort to persuade the government to halt...

Lift Gaza Blockade!

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ISRAEL must immediately lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, allowing the delivery of fuel and other essential supplies into the territory without restrictions,...
Business Secretary Mandelson with a manager at GM Luton  – he is now presiding over a shutdown of industry

Gas and grit rationing!

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GAS for industry and grit for the roads were being rationed yesterday as British industry began to shut down. Vauxhall, Ellesmere Port, Jaguar Land Rover,...

National strike to defend HE jobs! – call from Brunel University picket line

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‘WE have to step up the fight and unite in action across the country to defend all jobs in higher education,’ Hermione Xanthopoulou, Director...
Young workers marching against the Tory-LibDem coalition. Mass sackings and cuts to services are causing mass unemployment

Jobless Shock!

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TRADE unions slammed the government’s mass sackings and cuts to services as being directly responsible for the shocking unemployment figures released yesterday. These showed that...
Cadbury’s workers singing Christmas carols outside the Cadbury Schweppes headquarters in Berkeley Square yesterday. The company wants to export their jobs to Poland

Factory Price Inflation Spurs Jobs Crisis!

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Price inflation of goods leaving UK factories reached its highest rate in 16 years, driven higher by petrol and food costs, official figures published...

TsIpras rebuffs coalition call

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Despite immense pressure the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), Alexis Tsipras, refused to join or support a ‘grand coalition’ government...

Kick The Tories Out Today!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday hit back at Tory PM May’s declaration that she will tear up the human rights laws, allegedly to combat...
Residents of Newham take to the streets to condemn the police shooting of Muhammad Abdul Kahar during an assault on the family home in the early hours of June 2 this year

Muslims Take Reid To Task

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HOME Secretary John Reid was denounced as a ‘tyrant’ on a visit to east London yesterday, where he delivered a speech against ‘Islamic extremism’. A...

Striking SA miners defy sack threat

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STRIKING platinum miners at Lonmin’s Marikana mine in South Africa defied the company’s sack threats yesterday and refused to return to work. The 3,000 striking...
School youth on the 1,000-strong march in North Kensington on 14th October remembering the victims of the Grenfell Tower inferno

‘PLAYING WITH CHILDREN’S LIVES’ – 700 school fires in England annually

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THE LONDON Fire Brigade has accused the Tory government of ‘playing with children’s lives,’ by barring the installation of sprinklers in schools. There are about...

Police spied on Lawrence family –convictions took 18 years

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A JUDGE-LED public inquiry will be held into the work of undercover police following a review into the original Stephen Lawrence murder investigation. It found...

Bring us back ‘in-house’ – demand Barts SERCO strikers

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BARTS Hospital Trust workers organised a march from the hospital to a meeting at Altab Ali Park on the final Friday of their two-week...
Ambulance workers picket at Waterloo – four more years of 1%wage ‘rises’

SACK HUNT! –80,000 sign petition for action

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A PETITION to remove Tory Health Secretary Hunt from his post is already heading towards the 100,000 mark. Some 80,000 people have signed a petition...

Capitalism has reached the end of the road – it’s time for a...

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THE economic and political crisis gripping capitalism is causing despair and despondency amongst the bourgeoisie and its media representatives at the highest levels. This week,...

Transport workers’ lives at risk – ‘Come into work’ TfL tells workers in S...

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TRANSPORT union RMT has blasted Transport for London (TfL) for calling on staff in South African variant postcodes to ‘come into work as normal’...

Patient diverts neither safe nor effective – Confirms new EMJ research

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DIVERTING patients, who are ‘not seriously ill’, away from emergency departments is neither safe nor effective, new research published in the Emergency Medicine Journal...

TUC denied seat at Tories trade table

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THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) complained yesterday that they have been barred from a seat at the table, demanding involvement in the trade negotiations...

Surgeons Condemn Targets!

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THE NHS must address the significant variations in care experienced by the 170,000 patients who have major emergency abdominal surgery each year, says a...

Civil Servants Vote To Strike Against 2 Per Cent Pay Cap

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Hundreds of thousands of civil servants, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over pay. A PCS...

Nationalise P&O says RMT

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ON THE day the owners in Dubai are set to pay hundreds of millions in dividends, RMT has called for P&O Ferries to be...

‘Unite the West Bank & Gaza’ demand masses of Palestine

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THE Hamas leader in Gaza, Dr Khalil al-Hayya, arrived in Egypt yesterday to begin negotiations on the mechanism for a ceasefire, withdrawal of occupation...

FBU condemns Tory hulk deathtrap for asylum seekers!

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‘PRIOR to the Grenfell Tower fire, many concerns were being raised by many groups, including the Fire Brigades Union, about fires in high-rise buildings....

DOWN WITH GOVERNMENT OF MURDERERS! – shout 50,000 Greek workers and youth!

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‘DOWN with the government of murderers’ shouted over 50,000 enraged workers and students last Thursday in Athens in a most militant march on the...

Israeli forces carry out raids across West Bank and Gaza

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ISRAELI forces carried out sweeping overnight raids into yesterday morning across the occupied West Bank, detaining dozens of Palestinians, assaulting residents, and issuing new...

RMT WALKS OUT! –as King heaps praise on TUC’s Barber

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The RMT delegation walked out of the conference hall in Manchester yesterday as Bank of England governor Mervyn King stood up to warn the...
Friends and families of those who have died in police custody marching last October –  co-chair of the campaign, Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennett said the new police tactics will lead to more innocent citizens’ deaths

Police will shoot to kill drivers – ‘carte blanche to kill innocents’ says United...

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ARMED police have adopted a new shoot-to-kill tactic: fire sub-automatic assault rifles at moving vehicles to ‘neutralise’ the driver, sparking fears that many more...
Loyalists opposed to the Sinn Féin protest parade against the British army in Belfast

BRITISH ARMY ‘WRONG IN IRELAND, IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN’ – Gerry Kelly tells Sinn Féin...

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BY JOHN COULTER, IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST Sinn Féin and families of the victims of British state violence, yesterday held their rally in opposition to...
100,000-strong ‘Refugees Welcome’ march proposes a different kind of deal for Cameron

Gunboat diplomacy! – Cameron targets refugees

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TORY PM Cameron has been accused of ‘gun boat diplomacy,’ after the announcement that Royal Navy vessels will be deployed this summer to turn...

Bank Keeps Rate At 5.5%

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The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday voted to keep the official Bank Rate on hold at 5.5 per cent. The Bank had been...

CALL FOR £168bn OF CUTS – to reduce ‘Debt Time-bomb’

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THE Institute of Economic Affairs has called for draconian cuts by the government and has said that government spending will have to...

‘NO SPARE CAPACITY IN HOSPITALS’ warns BMA

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PATIENTS are suffering as pressure on the NHS reaches a historic high, the BMA warned yesterday. Tthe publication of NHS England’s ‘winter health check’...
Hundreds of angry doctors at yesterday’s rally outside parliament against the government’s assault on their jobs and training

‘NHS CHAOS!’ – Junior doctors warn

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THERE will be total ‘chaos’ in the NHS by August – unless the government immediately scraps MTAS (the new Medical Training Application Service), a...

2,450 sacked by email – 214 Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton shops shut

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TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...
Marcher makes her point about the coalition’s cuts – local government funding has been cut by over 40 per cent by the coalition

Hungry and Homeless!

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‘EMERGENCY support schemes’, used by vulnerable families threatened with homelessness or who are struggling to put food on the table, are to be...

Tottenham Public Meeting: Quit EU on October 31! – October 23rd, 2019

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News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st! For a workers government and...

Hunt Reveals A Bankrupt Britain

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CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has warned it is ‘unlikely’ that there will be room for any ‘significant’ tax cuts in the Budget. But Hunt said that...

Surrey Fire Services Facing Brutal Cuts!

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has branded proposed further cuts to Surrey fire and rescue service as ‘incomprehensible’, just months after a government inspection...

Palestinians rise up against Bahrain-UAE-Israel signing

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PALESTINIANS in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank rose up in anger to denounce the normalisation deals signed in Washington yesterday afternoon...
Greek workers have been demanding ‘not one step backwards’ in the struggle against EU austerity

Workers angry at Syriza retreat!

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ON Wednesday morning, the Greek government announced that it will be making an application to the Eurogroup for an extension of the loan agreement,...
Postal workers have been letting Royal Mail and the government know for some time that they will not accept imposed changes and the privatisation of the industry

STRIKE ON! – CWU Executive decides

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At 5.20pm yesterday CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes declared that the two days’ strike action today and tomorrow were going ahead and...

‘We hail the struggle of the Palestinian workers and youth’ editor Jonty Leff...

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NEWS LINE Editor Jonty Leff told the News Line 52nd Anniversary Rally on Saturday: ‘We hail the struggle of the Palestinian workers and youth. ‘We...
Students, lecturers and supporters marching against hundreds of job cuts at London Metropolitan University last summer

SAVAGE SPENDING CUTS – ‘will have serious consequences’ says UCU leader

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‘YOU cannot make savage funding cuts without serious consequences, despite Lord Mandelson’s insulting efforts to sell the cuts as an opportunity,’ said UCU general...