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FBU demands emergency funding – London Fire Brigade is facing £20m cuts

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PM Johnson has been urged to deliver emergency funds to protect London from £20m of fire cuts. The London Fire Brigade faces £20m of cuts...

‘Real value’ of pay in freefall

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THE ‘REAL VALUE’ of pay is in freefall, collapsing by 3% between April and June, according to the latest report from the Office for...

Tories, Labour & SNP join forces to attack China!

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TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s latest attack on China – suspending the UKs extradition treaty with the country, was supported by all Parties, turning...

20,000 are threatened with eviction during corona crisis

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THE TORIES had promised a ‘complete ban’ on evictions from both council and private social housing. However, anger erupted yesterday as it emerged that...

‘SHAME ON YOU TOWER HAMLETS’ – workers fighting mass sackings and wage cutting

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‘TOWER Hamlets, shame on you!’ shouted the 40-strong picket of striking council workers outside Albert Jacob House on Roman Road in east London yesterday...

‘HISTORIC WIN’ FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS – tens of thousands entitled to Uber compensation

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THE GMB union scored an ‘historic’ win on Friday when the Supreme Court passed judgement in the union’s landmark workers’ rights case against Uber. This...

‘A Perfect Storm’ Of Pressures Engulfing Social Care!

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A PERFECT storm of pressures risks engulfing health and social care services in England in the coming months, a comprehensive analysis by the RCN...

3rd day of BEIS strike 100% solid

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PCS CATERING workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark were in confident mood on the third...

Manchester indefinite bus strike!

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MANCHESTER Go North West strikers were out yesterday mass picketing the depot as part of their indefinite strike. Go North West Unite branch secretary Pat...

Sixth Forms strike: ‘urgent funds now!’

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A LONDON march and rally marking the fifth day of strike action in over 30 Sixth Form Colleges took place yesterday, with union leaders...

Stop BA Jobs Massacre

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HILLINGDON TUC is holding a ‘Stop the BA Jobs Massacre’ Rally in Defence of Jobs at 12 noon in Cranford Park, near Heathrow Airport...

43% of doctors have absolutely no eye protection! – Nurses have no face masks!

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NURSES are forced to ‘hold their breath’ because of inadequate face masks during dangerous operations, while doctors have absolutely no eye protection, it was...

Truss Condemns Militant Trade Unions & Nationalisation!

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PRIME MINISTER Truss declared war on ‘militant trade unions and nationalised industries’ in her speech at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday morning. Her...

Lib Dems Vote For Ananti-Brexit Coup!

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THE LIBDEMS voted for an anti-Brexit coup at their conference in Bournemouth yesterday, pledging to revoke Article 50, reversing their previous policy of campaigning...

2021 – Year For World Revolution!

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New Year statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2021 to all our readers, and to...

3.5% NHS pay rise a ‘sick joke’ says Unite

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DISMISSING the government’s 3.5 per cent proposal on NHS pay announced on Tuesday as a ‘sick joke’, Unite said yesterday that ‘this will accelerate...

Unite union claims partial BA U-turn – draft agreement to be put to ballot

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UNITE union said yesterday that it welcomes what it has called British Airway’s ‘partial U-turn on fire and rehire’ but warns issues are ‘not...

Facilities Staff Battle On!

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OVER 100 striking NHS facilities workers shouted ‘30p, No,no,no, ISS Shame on You’, as they marched along the quay at Canary Warf beating drums...

March of the 4-year-olds demands no test

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SOME of the youngest protesters ever rose up yesterday in the ‘march of the four-year-olds!’ where over 200 parents accompanied an army of children...

Johnson gags the SAGE scientists!

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TORY PM Johnson during the daily Downing Street press briefing yesterday, repeatedly blocked journalists from asking his scientific and medical advisors about the ongoing...

Lancs biomedics refuse shift work – as part of month-long strike

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BIOMEDICAL scientists, who have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing at a Lancashire NHS trust, will stop doing night, weekend and late shifts...

‘People are supporting our demand to reopen all closed NHS services!’

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‘PEOPLE are really supporting our cause to reopen all the closed services at Ealing Hospital,’ Ealing Southall WRP general election candidate Hassan Zulkifal said...

MAY SURRENDERS! READY FOR EU ELECTIONS! – Pledges to carry out indicative ballot

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ON FRIDAY, PM May wrote a grovelling surrender letter of complete capitulation to the EU President Donald Tusk, in which she agreed that the...

KHAN CALLS FOR NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT – Corbyn only one of the options

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LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the Labour Party to consider backing the creation of a government of ‘national unity’ to stop Brexit. He...

‘There’ll be an uprising in the working class’ – says CWU’s Peter Francis

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‘THERE’LL BE AN UPRISING IN THE WORKING CLASS’, CWU telecom executive member Peter Francis told News Line yesterday, speaking at the picket line outside...

Fresh Rail Gourmet strikes called

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TRANSPORT union RMT confirmed yesterday that Rail Gourmet staff at Edinburgh Waverley will be going ahead with a new phase of strike action in...

GPs DEPORTATION THREAT – RCGP warns of visa crisis

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THE RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the government must act ‘urgently’ to prevent newly-qualified...

Labour Budget Hits Out At The Low Paid

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced National Insurance (NI) and income tax thresholds will be frozen for an extra three years beyond 2028 in her...

Labour Shadow Ministers Prepared To Join Nurses On The Picket Line!

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WITH THE Royal College of Nursing launching a £35 million strike fund to defeat the Tory government’s 1% NHS pay insult at the weekend,...

Mass picket at British Library

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‘What do we want? Fair Pay!’ ‘When do we want it? Now!’ chanted a mass picket of over 150 PCS strikers outside the British...

Corridor care ‘unsafe, undignified, unacceptable’ says RCN

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‘CARE delivered in corridors and other non-clinical spaces is unsafe, undignified and unacceptable,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday in response to...

Assange to be Extradited!

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THE HIGH Court ruled yesterday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited from the UK to the US, where he faces a sentence...

Tories on collision course with nursing staff

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‘THE government is setting itself on a collision course with nursing staff,’ the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has warned. The RCN, which represents over...

PROBATION PRIVATISATION COSTS ELECTORS £500m!

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THE CRISIS caused by the privatisation of the probation system in England and Wales has cost taxpayers almost £500m, the government’s National Audit Office...

Gatwick Airport Faces Default!

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GATWICK Airport is in talks with bank lenders to try to avoid defaulting on multi-million pound loans, as Covid restrictions contribute to huge losses. The...

250,000-strong London march for Palestine

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OVER 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine from Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy in Kensington west London on Saturday afternoon. There were...

London, Essex and York tough restrictions imposed – while Liverpool intensive care beds reach...

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MILLIONS of people in London, Essex, York and other areas face tougher Tier 2 Covid measures from Saturday, Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock said...

‘We’ll fight cuts with national strike action’ – FBU leader Steve Wright

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday that following a meeting on proposed cuts to services in Oxfordshire it is to hold a strike...

BMA & RCN condemn Starmer’s NHS ‘Plan for Change’

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PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...

Unite will fight brutal Tory school cuts

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UNITE General Secretary Sharon Graham pledged her union would stand against the Westminster government’s ‘scorched earth’ approach in imposing brutal cuts on schools and...

NHS winter crisis is ahead warns Dr Boyle

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SPEAKING ahead of the three-day strike of tens of thousands of NHS Junior Doctors which begins at 7am on Wednesday morning, the leader of...

‘More Children Than Ever Are Homeless!’

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THE homelessness charity Crisis said yesterday that what was already an emergency now risks becoming ‘a growing catastrophe’. Chief executive Matt Downie said: ‘The Scottish...

Labour Budget Will Drive 250,000 Into Poverty!

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a vicious £4.8bn cuts onslaught on the working class and poor in her Spring Statement yesterday. According to the government’s...

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...

‘We must come together to stop no-deal’ – says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘WE MUST come together to stop no-deal. This week could be the last chance. We are working with other parties to do everything necessary...