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‘Unions will take to the streets’ – to defend N Ireland...

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MASSIVE health service cuts being proposed for Northern Ireland ‘will put patients’ lives at risk’, Dr Tom Black said yesterday. Dr Black who is chair...

Irish Rail Strike Could Escalate!

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IRISH rail unions on Monday warned that the dispute over pay cuts at Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail), which brought the country’s rail network to...

NHS Strike Ballot!

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MANY thousands of health workers have a chance from today to send a strong message of protest to health secretary Jeremy Hunt over...

May Hits Out At Liberties And Rights While Meyer Calls For...

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BRITISH Home Secretary May, driven by the desperate home and foreign policy crisis of British imperialism, is lashing out at basic rights in the...

NHS ‘slap in the face!’ – no pay rise in 2014-15

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NURSES, doctors and other health workers were ‘slapped in the face’ by the coalition government yesterday, as it emerged that NHS workers...

One million to strike

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OVER a million council workers and school support staff are to strike on 14 October over the government’s 1% pay ‘offer’. Unions representing over a...

Defend NHS with General Strike!

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THEY are smashing up the NHS as founded in 1948. The health service in England Wales and Northern Ireland is in huge crisis. Cuts...

‘We have to join with other unions’ say the firefighters

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THE Fire Brigades Union has welcomed an offer from the government in Northern Ireland that would allow firefighters to retire at 55 without financial...

Wages still being slashed by price rises!

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THE CPI rate of inflation fell to 1.5% in the year to May 2014, down from 1.8% in April, according to the Office of...

Ban all secret trials! Smash the capitalist state!

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AN unprecedented attempt by the government to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the UK has been blocked by the Court...

‘Free, Free Palestine’ Demand Hundreds Of Workers And Youth

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‘FREE, Free Palestine!’ shouted a crowd of over 400 workers and youth demonstrating opposite the Israeli embassy on Saturday. The protest was part of the...

‘Passionate speeches and words alone will not save NHS!’

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THE BMA’s conference of Local Medical Committees on the 22/23rd May 2014 exposed a huge crisis in UK general practice. This came out in...

GPs WILL DEMAND INCREASED FUNDING AND MUST REJECT NATIONAL CHARGING!

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THE conference of General Practitioners organised by the British Medical Association ( BMA) takes place this year at York today and tomorrow, 22nd and...

Inflation & House Prices Rise As Wages Fall!

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INFLATION has risen to 1.8% for the first time in 10 months further cutting the value of wages, as transport prices soared over March...

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...

Abolish NHS prescription charges! say GPs

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THE NHS prescription charge is ‘iniquitous’ and ‘outdated’ and should be scrapped, urge GPs in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB), edited...

PAY THE ‘LIVING WAGE’! – GMB to demonstrate at NEXT’s AGM

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THE GMB trade union will hold a public protest at the Annual General Meeting of NEXT in Leicester this Thursday, May15. They will call for...

‘We desperately need more midwives’ says RCM

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THE UK has one of the highest rates of death for children under five in Western Europe, according to new research published in The...

UK’s Afghan Detention Policy Is Declared Illegal!

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In a landmark judgment on Friday in the High Court in London, the UK’s detention policy in Afghanistan was declared unlawful. Since November 2009, the...

‘We support the call for a general strike’ – the RMT’s...

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10,000 WORKERS, trade unionists and youth were on the London May Day March on Thursday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. The march was led...

Leon Trotsky On The Easter Rising

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Written: 11 May 1916 First Published: Nashe Slovo, 11 May 1916 Source: Trotsky’s Writings on Britain New Park Publications Ltd, London 1974 THE Irish rising has...

‘We have children as young as four who are at school...

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CHILDHOOD is being eroded as children spend less time with families and friends, according to a survey of members of the Association of Teachers...

Even the right-wing bourgeois press is being threatened by the state!

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THE furore in the bourgeois press about the lenient treatment handed out to the Tory culture secretary, Maria Miller, who was found guilty of...

Eurozone crisis creating revolution – build the Fourth International

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THE barrage of propaganda from every mouthpiece of the capitalist class that the economic crisis of capitalism is over, suffered a blow last week with...

Irish Courts Rule Siptu Strike Illegal!

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THE Irish courts have ruled that a four-hour strike action at airports due to take place today is illegal. The SIPTU trade union which...

Pogromist Johnson Speaks Up For The Security Services

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BORIS JOHNSON writes in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, in the wake of the Rigby trial, ‘the most important question now is how we prevent other...

Low paid Apex care workers ‘gagged & searched’

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UNISON on Monday condemned a range of draconian measures imposed on low-paid homecare workers by Apex Care, which include a gagging order, refusals to...

Local government employers cancel wage negotiations for 1.5m staff! 1,700 Environment...

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THE GMB  has   reacted furiously to the local government employer’s announcement that they have unilaterally cancelled pay negotiations for 1.5 million staff working in...

Inspired By Larkin, Irish Electrical Union Fights For Major Pay Increase

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SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor has said his union is engaged in a major push for pay increases across the private sector to recover...

Lobbying Act will have a devastating effect on unions

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TRADE union leaders were silent on proposing any action on Thursday despite a vote taken in the House of Lords on Tuesday being a...

A MAJOR ATTACK ON TRADE UNIONS – Lobbying Bill set...

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AFTER the House of Lords accepted the Lobbying Bill by just one vote the bill is now set to become law. The TUC Congress 2013...

Irish hospital to close–300 face sack!

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THE Irish trade union SIPTU has met with the provisional liquidators appointed to Mount Carmel Hospital in Dublin. SIPTU Organiser, Kevin Figgis, said:...

War Crimes Dossier Launched At A Packed News Conference

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A DOSSIER relating to a complaint delivered last Friday to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court regarding the responsibility of...

Belfast Hosptals Closure Crisis!

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HOSPITAL workers in Northern Ireland are prepared to take industrial action against hospital closures, Unison said yesterday, after a ‘major incident’ occurred at the...

Duggan Family Will Fight Inquest Verdict

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THE FAMILY of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by police in August 2011, said yesterday that the family will fight the inquest decision...

Get rid of capitalism in 2014! New Year’s Statement by the...

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its New Year’s greetings for the year 2014 to all our readers and to the workers and youth...

Bulgarians Hit Out At Cameron

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THE President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, has correctly rebuked Tory leader Cameron for peddling nationalism and isolationism. It is ironic that the UK – which...

Reconstitute The Ussr!

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UKRAINE’S decision to suspend a deal on closer EU ties and sign a Russian aid agreement instead has helped avoid bankruptcy, Prime Minister Mykola...

‘We will not be intimidated’ –2,000 students march against police violence

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A MASS of students over 2,000 strong rallied outside the University of London Students Union (ULU) on Wednesday, to protest the arrest of 41...

UK death squads in the north – a warning for today

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LAST night’s Panorama programme, entitled ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Force’, threw yet more light on the murderous activities of the British state in its war...

Prosecute army terrorists! –MRF murders in Ireland condemned

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‘MEMBERS of the “Military Reaction Force”, who murdered unarmed Irish nationalists, must be identified and prosecuted for murder,’ WRP general secretary Frank Sweeney told...

Champoor Tamil Families Demand To Return To Their Own Homes!

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A SECTION of uprooted Tamil families from Champoor, now staying at one of four so-called welfare centres in Trincomalee, staged a protest on Saturday. They...

NO CUTS TO CLEANERS’ PAY! – ‘We want the Living Wage’

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‘NO CUTS to Cleaners Pay! Our cleaners deserve a living wage, not poverty pay!’ demanded angry cleaners at the College of Haringey, Enfield and...

Irish Pensioners Protest Outside The Dail Against Dublin Government Cuts

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SIPTU members and officials took part in a protest rally outside the Dáil on Tuesday organised by the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament and other...

NAME THE DAY FOR A GENERAL STRIKE! –POA secretary urges General...

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‘WE SHOULD pool together and name the day for a General Strike and bring this government down’, Prison Officer’s Association (POA) General Secretary Steve...