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Finance Ministry cleaners in Athens have spent 267 days fighting to get their jobs back and are now determined to return to work

Athens Cleaners Want Jobs Back

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THE new Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), announced his government on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the sacked...

RMT CALL FOR GENERAL STRIKE – to confront Trade Union Act!

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THERE was an RMT call for a general strike to confront the Trade Union Act and all anti-union laws at at the TUC Congress...

Public sector workers at breaking point!

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‘PUBLIC sector workers are at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that inflation has hit...

‘SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA ARE NOT COST FREE!’ – Sunak warns UK Parliament

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‘THE ACTIONS we have taken to sanction Putin’s regime are not cost free for us at home,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday, outlining...

Council Tax imposed on poor!

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1.9 MILLION people who pay no Council Tax in the poorest households in England will pay an average of £140 a year tax from...
Campaigners outside Epsom Hospital on Friday  morning demanding a halt to closure plans

Stop The NHS Cuts!

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THE battle to stop all NHS cuts is now raging up and down the country. However, the private predators are gathering. Near Horsham last Thursday night...

LONGEST PAY FREEZE SINCE QUEEN VICTORIA says Unite

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WAGE growth is lagging behind inflation for the first time since mid-2014, official figures show. Average weekly earnings excluding bonuses increased by 2.1% in the...

47 Palestinians killed in intense Nuseirat air strikes

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NEARLY four dozen Palestinian civilians, including many women and children, were killed in central Gaza as the Israeli regime launched another wave of assaults...

Anti-monarchy protesters arrested in police state UK

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‘SOMETHING out of a police state,’ was how Republic director Harry Stratton described the way in which London’s Metropolitan Police arrested 52 anti-monarchy protesters...
Determined CWU members in Hampstead, north-west London, during strike action in the capital, which continues today

‘we’re Pushing For The National Strike!’

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‘We’re still on continuous strike until we get a sensible resolution and restore the correct adoption of the Managing the Surplus Framework Agreement,’ Stoke-on-Trent...

BA WANTS A WAR! – says Tony Woodley

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a back-stabbing attack on the British Airways workers and their union, demanding that their strike planned to...

Euro Crisis Crunch Time

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US TREASURY Secretary Timothy Geithner held emergency meetings with German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday. Markets had...
Residents have been campaigning very determinedly to stop the Haringey Development Vehicle privatisation scheme

‘We need council housing –not more privatisation!’

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HARINGEY workers and residents yesterday said they are glad to see the back of council leader Claire Kober and want her housing ‘regeneration’ scheme...
Defend Council Housing campaign insisting in Parliament Square during the Budget that council housing must be built to provide homes for everybody

‘A Government No Longer Fit For Office!’

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TORY Chancellor Hammond kicked public sector workers in the teeth in his class war budget yesterday, refusing to lift the seven-year pay freeze which...
TGWU DHL pickets outside Iceland distribution depot in Enfield are determined to win their struggle

‘OUR MEMBERS ARE STRONG’ – say T&G at Enfied Iceland depot

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‘Our members are solid’, Iceland distribution depot, Enfield, TGWU convenor Dave Brace told News Line on the morning picket line yesterday. The strikers are fighting...

SHELL TANKER DRIVERS OUT – from 6am Friday June 13th

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SIX HUNDRED Shell tanker drivers are to take four-day strike action from 6am on Friday, fighting for a £2,000 pay rise and a minimum...

‘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...
A busload of Care UK workers demonstrated on Wednesday outside Bridgepoint Capital private equity company that is seeking to slash their wages and jobs

Doncaster carers march today

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UNISON members working for Care UK are marching through Doncaster today at 2pm after 30 days of strike action against Bridgepoint Capital, the private...

NAO TO PROBE GREENSILL! – and how it collapsed the UK steel industry

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THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has launched a probe into supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital following its collapse, which threatens to end the...
GMB Carillion members on strike at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon – unions are calling for all contracts to be brought back in-house

INTERSERVE SHARES COLLAPSE 70% ‘Toxic bandit capitalism’ – RMT

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‘ONCE AGAIN, we see the reality of bandit capitalism and its toxic impact on our public services,’ Transport union RMT said yesterday, calling for...

Speaker rules out 3rd vote on May’s deal! – UK must leave EU March...

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‘WHAT the government cannot legitimately do is to re-submit to the House the same proposition, or substantially the same proposition as that of last...

Metro Bank Shares Crash!

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METRO BANK’S shares have crashed after reports it is seeking to raise millions to bolster its finances. The bank’s shares sank 27% in early trading...

US Kabul drone strike kills six! – including four children

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SIX people, including four children, were killed in a US drone strike in Kabul, Afghan TV reported yesterday, citing eyewitnesses. Earlier, US officials said that...
Health workers are in the front line of the struggle against privatisation, low wages and big cuts such as the 25% cut that ambulance workers face regarding their sick pay

Tuc Is Supporting Tube & Ambulance Workers Strike Action!

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THE TUC Congress yesterday passed Emergency Motions against the Lobbying Bill, and against the attack on the right to strike of London...

St Mungo’s 10 weeks on strike – as rough sleeping soars

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TEN weeks into their indefinite strike for a 10% pay increase, over 200 St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers and their supporters held a festival...
Demonstration outside the American Embassy against any imperialist intervention in Syria – Cameron said he will be prepared to attack Syria without the consent of parliament

Parliament votes to bomb Iraq! – as Cameron claims the right to attack Syria

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SIX RAF Tornados were ready to go last night to begin raining bombs down on Iraq after an extraordinary session of parliament which...

HALT NHS OUTSOURCING! – urges the Unison trade union

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THE NHS is wasting precious time and money introducing reforms that are failing to deliver better services to patients or value for money, says...

Ukraine compromise offer – as right wing gunmen mass in Kiev

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UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday announced early presidential elections and a compromise agreement with the pro US-EU ‘opposition’. He said that the constitution of 2004,...
Health workers marching to defend the NHS last March

Publish Health Bill Risk Register!

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‘Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is deceiving the public about the true adverse impact of his health bill,’ Unite leader Len McCluskey insisted yesterday, as...
Relatives who lost loved ones at the hands of the British army and Sinn Fein MEP, Bairbre de Brun, and West Belfast Assembly member Jennifer McCann at the press conference

‘CALL OFF BRITISH ARMY PARADE THROUGH BELFAST’ by John Coulter

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Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún and MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann were joined by family members, who have lost loved ones at...

66% Of Students Refused Grants

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Two-thirds of university entrants in England and Wales who applied for maintenance grants – designed to assist poorer students – were turned down, according...

Oecd Issues Slump Warning

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US economic growth will slow sharply in the second half of the year and the risk of it going into a full-scale slump cannot...
Illegally striking workers and their supporters outside the Hellenic Steel plant in Aspropyrgos near Athens

Another Greek strike illegal

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THE seven and a half month old strike at the Hellenic Steel plant in Aspropyrgos, just 20 km from Athens, has been declared by...
Corus workers at the front of the recent Unite march in Birmingham – almost 3,000 of them face the sack. Both Corus and GM Luton must be nationalised

MASS LOBBY OF MPs NEEDED – to demand GM nationalisation

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‘What is needed is a mass lobby of parliament to demand nationalisation,’ former GM Luton TGWU convenor Arthur Lynn told News Line yesterday. Commenting on...

Air Attack On Lugansk Is A War Crime

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The Lugansk city authorities called the Monday airstrike on the city centre, which killed eight, a war crime by the Kiev authorities. In a statement...
Ealing Conference On The NHS

Ealing Conference On The NHS

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EALING CONFERENCE GOES AHEAD: On the eve of the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital, due to take place on...

National Post Strike!

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‘THOUSANDS of our Post Office members will strike next Thursday, against attacks on their job security and pensions and in defence of the Crown...
A lively demonstration outside the Home Office yesterday demanding ‘Shut Yarl’s Wood down’

Stop indefinite detention!

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THE indefinite detention of asylum seekers must stop, a Parliamentary report on immigration detention, released yesterday has concluded. Following the report there was an angry...

Tory split widens over £20 UC cut

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TORY PM Johnson faced splits in his ranks as Conservatives opposed the £20 a week cut to Universal Credit in a vote in Parliament...
Local government workers of the Paiania local council. Their banner reads ‘For a movement to overthrow government and  troika – not a movement of compromise and submission’

48-hour rolling strikes in Greece

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THE Executive Committee of YENOP (the trades unions federation of the Public Electricity Board), the biggest trade union federation in Greece, decided last Friday...

South Africa warns Israel over genocide

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SOUTH AFRICA filed an ‘urgent request’ at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Israel’s planned ground invasion of the city of Rafah yesterday. The...
Hampstead CWU pickets on Saturday morning were confident of winning

NATIONAL STRIKE IS VITAL – say CWU pickets

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Post workers were out on strike again on Saturday in defence of their jobs, working conditions, pensions and pay. The Communication Workers Union branded Royal...

Celebrate the News Line and build the WRP to bring in Socialism! – 50th...

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JONTY LEFF News Line editor told the News Line 50th Anniversary Rally, ‘TODAY we celebrate 50 years of the News Line, the only daily...
Youth demanding justice for the Grenfell inferno victims on last Tuesday’s silent march through North Kensington

71 died in Grenfell inferno! says Police Commander Cundy

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THE POLICE have claimed that the final death toll for Grenfell Tower is seventy one and have for the first time admitted that CCTV...
NASUWT is ready to fight against a coaltion government that is set to bully teachers out of their jobs

READY FOR ACTION! –over draconian attack on teachers

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The NASUWT union yesterday said it stands ready to take industrial action over ‘draconian’ measures announced by Education Secretary Gove to bully teachers out...