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‘Last Ditch Talks’ Over NHS Pay

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Health unions yesterday warned the government that if it fails to improve on its pay-cutting offer they will proceed with strike ballots. UNISON said: ‘New...
The picket line at East London Mail Centre during this month’s unofficial strike over Royal Mail’s imposition of new starting times

REJECT CWU SELL-OUT – call angry CWU members

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THE CWU (Communications Workers Union) yesterday accepted the Royal Mail offer on pay along with plans to modernise the company and reform the...

‘RAPID FIRE JUSTICE’ – Liberty slams ‘super ASBOs

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Serious Crime Prevention Orders dubbed ‘ASBOs for suspected criminals’ were unveiled at a press briefing by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker yesterday. The new civil...

ISRAELI INVASION THREAT – Lebanese army will fight alongside Hezbollah says Defence Minister

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Lebanese Defence Minister Elias Murr yesterday pledged that the Lebanese army will stand and fight against an Israeli invasion. Murr warned: ‘The Lebanese army...

NHS CATASTROPHE – BMA warning over developing crisis

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THE chairman of the British Medical Association’s Consultants Committee has written an open letter to Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, warning that the NHS is...

CROW CALLS FOR GENERAL STRIKE! – no mandate for coalition cuts!

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THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday called for ‘general coordinated strike action allied to community direct action’ to resist the ConDem coalition government’s...

BA Cabin Crews Vote For A 12-Day Strike

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British Airways cabin crew have voted by a massive 92.5 per cent, in an over 80 per cent turnout, in favour of strike action...

‘US Troops Must Leave Iraq’ Say 170 Lawmakers

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ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY IRAQI lawmakers have signed a draft bill, demanding the withdrawal of US military forces from the country following the assassination...
Young people condemn Israel in last Saturday’s 100,000-strong march in London

BIRRI REJECTS UN DRAFT – as 11 Israeli soldiers killed, many injured in Katyusha...

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At least eleven Israeli soldiers were killed and dozens more were injured, some seriously, yesterday when a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket scored a direct hit...
The Palestinian town of Jenin which was occupied by a large force of Israeli troops for 78 hours from the morning of December 29

Strike! To Reinstate BA Shop Stewards!

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British Airways (BA) yesterday sacked a second Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) shop steward ‘for his involvement’ in the unofficial strike last August...

Teacher Shortage Crisis Worsens!

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THE TORIES are failing to tackle the acute teacher shortage crisis in schools across England, a committee of MPs said yesterday. The Education Select Committee...

260 DEAD IN KENYAN FIGHTING – after Presidential election rigged

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As the death toll rose to 260, EU monitors yesterday cast doubts on the results of Kenya’s disputed presidential vote. This stepped up the pressure...

Jenin refugee camp ‘completely destroyed’

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‘THE Israeli occupation has completely destroyed the Jenin refugee camp and forcibly displaced over 20,000 Palestinian residents, leaving behind their homes, personal documents and...
Mass picket by bus workers during strike action at Metroline bus company in west London last November

A Damning Indictment Of The Bus Industry

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A SURVEY published yesterday shows that bus workers believe that the privatised bus companies are far more interested in making big profits than providing...

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...

More aid seekers slaughtered in Rafah

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ISRAELI regime forces killed at least 78 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, in bombing attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday. Palestine’s Safa news agency reported...

TORTURE NOT OK! Law Lords defend Iraqis’ human rights

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BRITISH troops were told to hood Iraqis and use banned ‘stressing’ techniques when interrogating them, human rights lawyer Phil Shiner claimed yesterday at...

READY FOR GENERAL ELECTION says Labour leader Corbyn

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JEREMY Corbyn has put Labour activists on ‘permanent notice’ amid rumours in Westminster of another general election. He said he would ‘absolutely welcome’ a...

National Dock Strike! Warns Unite

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UNITE is warning that the refusal of the nation’s port employers to make fair pay offers to their workers could result in a national dock...

Tribunal Fees Challenge

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UNISON public sector union has pledged to ‘fight on’ in the face of the High Court ruling rejecting Unison’s challenge to the government’s...
Picturehouse cinema workers rally in Hackney during their strike action last October

Picturehouse Cinemas Strike Action Today!

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IN A REPEAT of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history, that took place in February, five Picturehouse cinemas will be on...

Tory Party civil war escalates! – Sunak and Johnson trade insults

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THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...
Junior doctors taking strike action against an imposed contract said they were fighting to save the NHS. Now everybody must join this fight

Stop NHS privatisation! Stop bed cuts! Unions must act!

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THE GMB has demanded answers over a plan to privatise services at Barnsley Hospital in a desperate bid to save cash. The trust which runs...
Young Socialists banner on the July 1st march to kick the Tories out demanding the TUC call a general strike

£490bn GOES MISSING! – as bosses move to crash UK economy

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REVISED figures from Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) ‘Blue Book’, which measures economic activity in the UK, show that Britain’s global investments have collapsed...
Thousands of health workers and their supporters marched through Nottingham last Saturday demanding the defence of the NHS. They called to stop the privatisation of NHS Logistics

‘A PRIVATISATION TOO FAR’ – UNISON leader Prentis urges suspend NHS Logistics sell-off

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UNISON members at four NHS Logistics depots began a second 24 hour strike, last night at 10pm. Runcorn depot stopped at 11pm. The workers are...

PRIVATISATION DRIVE – being stepped up by Brown

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‘It is appalling that this Labour government is now more obsessed with selling off our public services to put profits in the pockets of...

Assange Supporters Picket Media Conference

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AN angry protest by supporters of Julian Assange yesterday morning denounced a Tory government conference titled ‘Defend Media Freedom’. Maxine Walker from the Julian Assange...

French Workers March To Bring Down Macron

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FRENCH protesters downed tools and marched once again in Paris and other cities yesterday. They have been galvanised by President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to ram...

ISRAEL FORCED OUT OF KHAN YOUNIS! – leaving shattered landscape

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KHAN YOUNIS residents returned home yesterday to a landscape of shattered multi-storey buildings, charred overturned vehicles and their Nasser Hospital in a shambles, after...
GMB members and supporters outside the Great Western Hospital in Swindon yesterday to show their support for the Carillion workers

Victimisation At Carillion

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Carillion workers were supported by Unite workers from Honda and BMW and officials from GMB yesterday lunch time, outside The Great Western Hospital in...

Conservative Party ‘falling apart’ says John McDonnell

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YESTERDAY afternoon, when asked if Labour has plans to form a coalition to topple the government following the Queen’s speech today, Labour shadow chancellor...

University wages strike ballots

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UCU members at Coventry University are being balloted for industrial action in a row over pay. The ballot opened yesterday and closes on Tuesday...
No NHS privatisation!

‘Southern Cross-Style Threat’ To NHS

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Circle Health, the privateer which was handed control of Hinchingbrooke District General Hospital in Cambridgeshire last week, has admitted that patient care could suffer...
Staffordshire residents occupied Stafford Hospital grounds for eight months to stop the closure of the hospital’s A&E Department

Staffs Bed Closures – Lives At Risk!

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‘BED closures will put patients’ lives at risk,’ campaigners fighting to save community hospital beds across North Staffordshire declared yesterday. The claim that ‘patients...
Thousands marched for free education through central London – students are determined to drive the market out of education

University privatisation plan outrage

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STUDENTS will be ‘outraged’ at Tory proposals to raise tuition fees even higher and privatise education, the NUS said yesterday. Tory Universities Minister Jo Johnson...

CWU votes to Boycott Private Mail!

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Members of the Communication Workers Union representing 160,000 employees in Royal Mail Group yesterday morning voted unanimously in favour of a mail boycott if...
Remploy disabled workers picket to save their jobs from savage and heartless government cuts

GLUM KING ADMITS TO SLUMP! – while EU rows over Greek euro exit

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GOVERNOR Mervyn King announced yesterday that the Bank of England has cut its growth forecast to close to zero – from the 0.8 per...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbied the TUC yesterday, demanding the trade union leaders fight ‘private equity bandits’ and that they be returned to their jobs

DELEGATES CHALLENGE TUC LEADERS – as POA demands action

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THE TUC Congress in Brighton was divided yesterday over an amendment to Composite Motion 15: Public Sector Pay, which called on the General Council...
JEREMY CORBYN addressing the 100,000-strong ‘Refugees Welcome’ rally on the day he was elected Labour leader, last September

‘We’ll renationalise NHS!’ says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘THE FIRST thing that we will do is repeal the Health and Social Care Act. It must be repealed and that will effectively renationalise...
Greek workers who every day have been resisting and fighting the savage austerity programme imposed on them by the EU Troika

May Day 2014 greetings – BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – Forward with the World...

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the world capitalist...

‘Ofqual insulting teachers’

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TEACHERS and heads unions yesterday slammed a report by regulator Ofqual that claimed teachers ‘marked GCSE coursework too generously’ and this is why results...

3,000 Welsh JDs strike after 98% vote

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JUNIOR doctors across Wales began a three day strike over pay yesterday and continue until tomorrow, after almost every junior doctor (98%) who took...

Amesbury and Salisbury – Russian involvement ludicrous

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RUSSIA ‘categorically denied and continues to categorically deny the possibility of any kind of involvement’, in the attempt to assasinate Skripal and his daughter...

STOP TUC TALKS WITH TORIES – Barber must be sacked!

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‘The TUC-Tory talks must stop’, Dave Wiltshire the All Trades Union Alliance Secretary told News Line yesterday. Wiltshire said: ‘Brendan Barner is discussing with Cameron...

Police Commissioner Michael has questions to answer over the death of two youths!

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DESPITE thousands of people having seen CCTV footage on the BBC of Kyrees Sullivan, aged 16, and Harvey Evans, aged 15, being chased on...