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Labour terrorism against the unemployed

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UNEMPLOYED council and housing association tenants must be made to sign a new tenancy agreement under which they will agree to have their skill...

END GAZA SANCTIONS! – Palestinian Return Centre steps up campaigns

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The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) has stepped up the international campaign to get the sanctions and siege of Gaza lifted. In its latest ‘update on...

Army is ‘sick’ from Iraq & Afghan campaigns

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ONE in every fourteen British soldiers, almost 7,000 are sick or injured at a time when every regiment of 600 faces a shortfall of...

Furious Parents Fight Plans To Close After-School Clubs And Play Centres

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FURIOUS parents and staff belonging to Unison public sector union have forced Crawley Borough Council (CBC) to issue letters to parents to deny it...

Labour’s Banker Kicks The Disabled!

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INVESTMENT banker David Freud is the adviser behind Prime Minister Brown’s plans to slash the benefits of the sick and the disabled. This is at...

MASSACRE OF THE ARTS! – Arts Council withdraws grants from 184...

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A total of 184 arts organisations have had 100 per cent of their funding withdrawn, Arts Council England announced yesterday. While it said that 17...

DRIVE THE PRIVATEERS OUT OF THE NHS! – demands demonstration of...

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LOCAL residents, trade unions and doctors have joined together to fight the privatisation of the National Health Service in Tower Hamlets. Two hundred people staged...

HANDS OFF OUR GP SURGERY! – 200 residents & GPs protest...

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‘PATIENTS before profits, defend the NHS!’ shouted around 200 demonstrators outside St Paul’s Way General Practice yesterday, opposing the take-over of the doctors surgery...

EGYPT ATTEMPTS TO RESUME FRONTIER CONTROL – as Israeli forces invade...

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Egyptian security forces attempting to resume control of the Egyptian frontier with the Gaza Strip began using barbed wire to close gaps in the...

Defend the Tamil people! Unite the Sri Lankan workers! Bring...

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THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...

Further Education Unions Demand 6 Per Cent

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The six trade unions – ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, UNISON and UNITE – representing 250,000 further education staff yesterday submitted a pay claim for...

Now is the time to build the Workers Revolutionary Party

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THE deeper the crisis of the capitalist system gets, the more desperate the measures that it takes to sustain the bosses and bankers’ system,...

FREE GAZA NOW! FREE GAZA NOW! – shout 5,000 demonstrators on...

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‘FREE Gaza now! Free Gaza now!’ was the cry of 5,000 mainly young people who swelled a mass picket opposite Downing Street on Saturday,...

Ashdown – Not Wanted In Afghanistan

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FOLLOWING the recent expulsion by the Afghan puppet government of two British diplomats – they were carrying out secret negotiations with the Taleban in...

Boycott Israel Lift Gaza Siege

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ISRAEL has turned Gaza into a ‘concentration camp’, demonstrators warned on Thursday night, at an emergency picket opposite Downing Street attended by over 50...

Hain resigns after police are called in!

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PETER HAIN – the former Young Liberal radical, and then leader, in the 1970s of the Anti-Apartheid campaign and then the Anti-Nazi League –...

Step Up The Struggle To Keep Chase Farm Open!

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TUESDAY’S mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital heard that the decision to close the hospital’s A&E, Maternity and Paediatric Departments has been ‘put on...

Police don’t serve the public–they oppress it

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ON the eve of yesterday’s 15,000 strong Police Federation demonstration through London, against the staging of their 2.6 per cent pay award, reducing it...

Brown’s Planned ‘Reforms’ A Recipe For Ending The NHS

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On January 7th 2008, prime minister Gordon Brown made a key policy speech on the NHS, in which he called for ‘continued reform’ and...

Chase Farm Closure ‘On Hold’

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THE 10th picket by the North East London Council of Action outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday heard that the closure of the hospital has...

Russia Gives Nuclear Warning

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RUSSIA’S military chief of staff General Baluyevsky has said Russia is ready to use force, pre-emptively if necessary and with nuclear weapons, to defend...

‘THIS IS A WORTHLESS AND FALSE PARLIAMENT’ – Iraqi puppets administer...

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the Accountability and Justice Law is a ‘worthless’ piece of paper, approved by a ‘worthless and false parliament’, a ‘Ba’ath party spokesman’ in Iraq...

The world must act to defend Palestinians

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YESTERDAY morning Israel announced that all the crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel were closed. Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak...

STOP THE AXE! DEFEND THE ARTS! – Norwich march today!

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‘It will be the biggest march against the funding cuts imposed by Arts Council England so far,’ organisers of today’s march through Norwich ...

£300 TO CHANGE A SOCKET! – unions slam ‘obscene’ PFI profits

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Public sector unions yesterday condemned the huge fees being charged for making ‘operational changes’ to contracts by PFI privateers. This followed a National Audit Office...

Nationalise the PFI parasites!

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EVERY year the Labour government is handing over £40bn to the consortia of financiers, property developers and construction giants in payments for Private Finance...

Millions denied NHS dental care under Labour

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IT IS estimated that 7.4 million people in England and Wales have not been to a National Health Service dentist since April 2006, because...

Bush talks peace as Israeli tanks kill eleven in Gaza

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THE content of the Bush ‘peace offensive’ was yesterday revealed for the whole world to see when Israeli tanks, supported by artillery fire ...

Nut Reject Three-Year Pay Cutting Deal

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday rejected a proposed three-year pay deal for teachers as a pay cut and warned there will be...

STOP THE THEATRE CLOSURES! – actors to march today from Piccadilly

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ACTORS will demonstrate in the centre of London today against a wave of threatened theatre closures. Actors in white masks will take part in today’s...

END GAZA SIEGE! – demands 400-strong Downing Street vigil

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‘Free, Free Palestine! Palestine will be free from the river to the sea!’ shouted demonstrators at a 400-strong picket and vigil opposite Downing Street...

Unison Rejects Virgin Private Health Centres!

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday told News Line it is opposed to a bid by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to build and administer NHS...

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...

Cwu Ready To Accept End Of Final Salary Pensions

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‘We are unlikely to vote “Yes” unless Royal Mail changes its proposals’ to end final salary pensions, Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary...

MPs VOTE TO BAN PRISON STRIKES

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The Prison Officers Association (POA) yesterday expressed anger and disappointment after MPs in the House of Commons voted by 481 to 46 to back...

Fire Service Cuts And Station Closures Threatening Public Safety

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Humberside fire crews are warning that cuts and station closures will compromise public and firefighter safety. The warning came as local fire crews launch their...

Bankers’ Man Brown Wants Three Years Of Wage Cuts

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PREMIER Brown says he wants three-year pay deals for public sector workers, rather than the traditional annual deals, to help keep UK inflation low. ...

Brown Wants 3 Years Of Wage Cutting

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THE GMB and PCS unions came out against Prime Minister Brown and Chancellor Darling’s plan to impose three-year pay settlements on public sector workers...

NPOWER HUGE PRICE RISES – gas up 12.7% – electricity up...

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Britain’s fourth largest supplier of gas and electricity, Npower, yesterday announced huge new energy price hikes for its four million domestic customers. The average increases...

Build The Wrp In 2008!

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THE TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, in his New Year’s message said that his two fears for 2008 were the dangers of a banking...

‘SPEND MORE ON FRONT LINE FIRE SERVICES,’ NOT COSTLY REGIONALISATION –...

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Plans to close down all forty six of the fire service’s 999 command and control centres in England and move to nine regional centres are...

RENATIONALISE THE RAIL – demands RMT rail union

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Rail union RMT yesterday called for the renationalisation of the railways. A union statement said: ‘The post-Christmas chaos caused by major engineering overruns on the...

The NHS must be free and available to all at the...

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RECENTLY there have been a few years of increased government spending on the NHS, after many years of chronic underspending. Most of the new...

TGWU stops BAA strike while Virgin says get other jobs!

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THE TGWU leadership, (now sheltering under the Unite label) has once again dropped a decision by its members to take strike action to...

2008 – The Year For Revolution!

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BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its revolutionary New Year’s greetings for the year 2008 to the workers and...