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Saturday, 18 May 2013 Defend the fire service with occupations, strike action and a general strike FIREFIGHTERS at their conference yesterday decided to put a seven-point pensions plan to ministers and seek new talks to try to avoid strike action over the massive changes the coalition has planned for their pensions.

The FBU said yesterday: ‘The proposed changes are unworkable and not fit for purpose, the Fire Brigades Union conference decided today in a unanimous vote.’ Read More

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Friday, 17 May 2013 Reformists and Stalinists seek to break Greek teachers’ struggle THE confrontation between Greek teachers and the Greek state and its EU masters has erupted this week after all teachers were served at the weekend with ‘civil mobilisation’ papers, signed and stamped by an army brigadier.

Declaring a state of emergency in the education system, teachers have been subject to ‘civil’ conscription and placed under virtual martial law with striking declared illegal while they are forced to work on pain of imprisonment. Read More

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Thursday, 16 May 2013 South African socialist revolution underway! THOUSANDS of mine workers have downed tools at South Africa’s Marikana Lonmin mine after an AMCU union leader, Mawethu Steven, was shot dead at the weekend, along with a number of other workers who took part in the recent strike movement. This movement was met by the South African state which organised the Marikana police massacre, in which 34 miners were killed, and many more wounded.

Yesterday, the workers were singing and dancing in the streets as the whole of South Africa watched their struggle, with more and more sections of workers and youth joining the developing strike wave. Read More

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Wednesday, 15 May 2013 Obama and Cameron’s heart eating allies EVEN the Human Rights Watch group – veterans of the struggle to remove and liquidate the Gadaffi regime in Libya, and now immersed in the follow-up taking place in Syria – have had to separate themselves from the spectacle of a ‘rebel’ leader cutting out a Syrian soldier’s heart with a view to eating it.

The Obama and Cameron sponsored ‘rebels’ are battling to reduce Syria to the same level of medieval chaos that they have imposed on Libya. Read More

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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 A&E closures cost lives For the first time since the process of closing accident and emergency units in hospitals up and down the country was started by the last Labour government, and driven forward by the coalition, statistics about the effect closures have on patient mortality have been produced.

Until now every closure has been justified by the government as being in the best interest of patients.
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Monday, 13 May 2013 Smash the Bedroom Tax with a general strike! A GRANDMOTHER, who because of the Bedroom Tax, had to pay an extra £20 a week, has thrown herself in front of a motorway lorry after leaving a note blaming the Cameron-led coalition government and its Bedroom Tax policy for her decision to end her life.

Stephanie Bottrill left notes to her loved ones. She wrote in her letter to her son Steven, ‘Don’t blame yourself for me ending my life. The only people to blame are the Government.’ Days before, she had told her neighbours, ‘I can’t afford to live any more.’ Read More

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