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Famine is tightening its grip on Gaza

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THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned yesterday that Gaza’s food system has completely collapsed, as famine tightens its...
Southall College students give their support to tomorrow’s march to Ealing Hospital to occupy the maternity unit

Ready To Occupy!

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‘IT’S BABIES, the newborns coming into this world, they must be protected and they must continue to be born in Ealing Hospital,’ Southall College...

Serco Altered Data For Out Of Hours Gp Service

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PRIVATEER Serco failed to provide enough staff for the out-of-hours GP services it is contracted to run in Cornwall, the National Audit Office has...
Striking civil servants applauding a call from the Prison Officers Association for a general strike

POA call for general strike outside parliament

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STRIKING civil servants clapped and cheered a call for a general strike at a rally outside parliament yesterday. A message of support and solidarity was...
15,000 teachers on yesterday’s march determined to save state education by bringing down Gove and Tory-led coalition

GOVE MUST GO! – demand 15,000 teachers

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‘GOVE must go!’ was the common chant of tens of thousands of teachers taking part in a second series of joint NUT-NASUWT regional strikes...

IRANIAN DISASTER – 140 killed as plane crashes into flats

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140 people were killed yesterday when an Iranian military aircraft crashed into a block of flats in a residential area in the south of...

NHS Unions Must Occupy North Mid Hospital

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THE General Medical Council (GMC) has threatened to close North Middlesex District General Hospital including its Accident & Emergency Department. The GMC, which regulates doctors,...

Hewitt Prepares To Close Bart’S

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LABOUR’S Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt said yesterday that London’s St Bartholomew’s Hospital could face closure. She was being interviewed about her decision to carry out...

Bromley Workers Defend Jobs

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COUNCIL workers in Bromley, south London, are engaged in ten days of strike action to halt the privatisation of their services which threatens thousands...

ABBAS CLOSES PARLIAMENT – Israel and US pledge full support

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Hamas yesterday condemned as an illegal ‘coup’ the formation by decree of an ‘emergency government’ by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. Hamas said Abbas had suspended...

Israel sentences child to 10 years – Syria launches new offensive in Idlib

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ISRAEL has sentenced a Palestinian child, Hammoudeh Khader Sheikh, to 10 years in prison, Quds News Network reported yesterday. The boy, 15, from occupied East...
Doctors on Wednesday’s march in Athens

3,000 Greek Doctors Fight Health Bill

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Over 3,000 medical doctors and health workers demonstrated on Wednesday through the Athens city centre against the government’s Health Bill, shouting ‘Loverdo (Health Minister)...

‘Blair Lied Thousands Died’

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‘Blair lied, thousands died! Tony Blair, war criminal,’ chanted hundreds assembled outside the QE2 Centre, Westminster, yesterday. They were taking part in a demonstration organised...

EU tightens the screw! – Johnson dumps ‘do or die’

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EU ambassadors yesterday agreed to delay Brexit, but will not make a decision on a new deadline date until next Monday, just three days...

Gaza War Crimes Exposed!

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ISRAELI forces slaughtered Palestinians, including women and children, during their Gaza onslaught, under rules of engagement drawn up by the military and approved by...

Ealing strikers in high spirits

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THERE were high spirits on the parking services workers’ picket line outside Ealing Town Hall in west London yesterday morning, with dhol drummers keeping...
Health workers determined to defend their hospital and jobs demonstrating in Nottingham – the trade unions must take action to defend both

KEEP ALL DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS OPEN! – unions must take strike action

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NO TO PRIVATISATION! SAVE OUR DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS! BLAIR AND BROWN OUT! THE Blair government is gunning for District General Hospitals – David Nicholson, the Chief Executive...
Single parents outside the High Court protesting against the savage cuts in benefits

Huge Welfare cuts –Duncan Smith proposals condemned

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Unions and children’s charities yesterday condemned Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith’s offer to raid the Welfare Budget by another £3 billion a year...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers yesterday campaigning for their First Anniversary March

Gate Gourmet workers campaign for anniversary march

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were interviewed by the Heathrow Airport free newspaper Skyport yesterday. Parmjit Bains told News Line: ‘All Heathrow Airport workers read it. ‘They...

MAY DAY MANIFESTO – Corona crisis tips capitalism over the edge! Forward with the...

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Statement by the News LIne Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of...
Determined Brentford and Isleworth delivery office pickets on Thursday morning

We Need A Public Sector Alliance

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‘The strikes are strongly supported, our members are determined to continue the strike action until Royal Mail seriously negotiates,’ a Communication Workers’ Union (CWU)...
John McDonnell took the lead after the 2017 general election to organise a demonstration to Parliament to bring the Tories down, urging ‘Not One Day More ’

McDonnell advocates Customs Union pact with PM May!

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LABOUR’s plan for a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit can secure a Commons majority, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday. He called...

RMT calls National Rail Strike!

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THE RMT has called a National Rail Strike on Tuesday June 21st, when over 50,000 railway workers, including Network Rail, 13 train operating companies...

May undermines Parliament!

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‘WHAT I am setting out today is a simple democratic demand, it is not taking an opinion one way or the other of what...

MURDER AT STOCKWELL – Police shoot to death unarmed Asian youth

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YESTERDAY plain clothes police shot dead an unarmed Asian youth with five bullets to the head at Stockwell Underground station. He was shot at close...

Strong Picket By Gate Gourmet Workers

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WELL over 100 locked out Gate Gourmet workers were picketing yesterday near to Heathrow airport. TGWU member Manny Odedra told News Line: ‘The people the...

PCS condemns job cuts!

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to go ahead with the closure of 93 offices...

Israeli bombers target schools

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THE Palestinian Hamas resistance movement strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s targeting of schools sheltering internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, describing the...
Platform of Saturday’s packed ‘Save Chase Farm’ meeting, (L-R) consultant ANNA ATHOW, Maternity Liaison Committee member Gail McCONNELL, Ambulanceman Jonathan FOX, chair STEPHEN ARMSTRONG, Save Chase Farm councillor KIERAN McGREGOR, local GP Dr NICHOLAS P

BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION! – Save Chase Farm Hospital meeting urged

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A packed 400-strong Save Chase Farm meeting in Enfield last Saturday heard calls for Councils of Action to organise occupations to stop the closure...
Palestinians in Athens climb on top of police buses and defiantly wave their flags

Nakba March In Athens

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Over 1,500 workers and youth marched through Athens on Tuesday evening to the US and Israeli embassies in commemoration of the Nakba and against...

Cabinet Minister Gove Broke The Law Rules The High Court!

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THE HIGH Court has ruled that the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove broke the law by acting with ‘apparent bias’ in handing a £560,000...
Marchers demand the building of more council homes

‘Housing crisis requires building council homes’ says Labour’s shadow housing secretary Healey

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‘WE SIMPLY can’t fix the housing crisis without more council homes,’ Labour Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey told News Line yesterday, responding to...
London demonstration in May 2004 calling for an end to the occupation of Iraq

Hamas Landslide!

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Jubilant Palestinian masses were yesterday celebrating the historic election victory of Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas. The final results declared at 5pm yesterday saw Hamas take...

Junior Doctors fighting for NHS!

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‘ACTION now to defend the NHS!’ demand thousands of Junior Doctors as they begin another three-day strike at 7.00am today. At the end of it...

GPs reject imposed contract! – 99.2% vote NO!!

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GENERAL Practitioners (GPs) across England have voted overwhelmingly to reject the new 2024/25 national GP General Medical Services (GMS) contract that was imposed on...
Palestinians in Gaza mourn the victims of the savage Israeli air attacks

Stop the Gaza slaughter! – Ambassador appeals to Security Council

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ACCORDING to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 100 Palestinians have been killed and over 600 injured in Israel’s assault on the besieged coastal enclave. The Palestinian...

‘WE WANT ACTION FOR JOBS’ says YS leader ’

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OFFICIAL unemployment figures released by the Office for National Statistics yesterday, revealed that nearly two-and-a-half million people remain unemployed, one million of them youth. The...

Israeli forces raid occupied West Bank cities!

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ISRAELI forces have launched their most intense raids yet on cities in the occupied West Bank as they pressed on with one of the...

TORY CRISIS DEEPENS AS SUNAK SET TO BORROW £598bn MORE

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CHANCELLOR Sunak began his Budget speech by drawing attention to the £280 billion already spent on Covid-19 rescue measures saying, ‘I said I would...

Day four of Harland & Wolff occupation – South African unions send international solidarity...

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THE OCCUPATION of Harland and Wolff, in Belfast in the north of Ireland, is going from strength to strength, now into its fourth day...

Kwarteng’s mini budget is a major attack on the working class

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CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...

‘Spectre of Iraq’ hangs over debate!

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PRIME minister Cameron repeatedly refused to apologise, as he opened the debate on bombing Syria, for calling Labour MPs who oppose the bombing ‘a...

2,800 Tata steel workers will lose jobs today as blast furnaces cease!

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APPROXIMATELY 2,800 employees out of Tata’s 8,000-strong workforce will lose their jobs as Blast Furnace 5 ceases operations today. Loud noises and large plumes of...
Chagos Islanders campaigning in Crawley last Saturday for today’s picket of the Court of Appeal and next Saturday’s demonstration in Crawley

‘WE HAVE RIGHT TO RETURN!’ – Chagos Islands hearing begins today

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Chagos Islanders are at the High Court in London today, where the British government is making a second appeal against the ruling that they...