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NO SACKINGS! NO COURSE CUTS! – demand London Met lecturers and...

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‘We will stand firm and if necessary we will escalate the fight because we will not let this university go under!’ This was the message...

Darling’s forecasts ‘too optimistic’, says Treasury Committee

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THE British capitalist economy and government finances are in a worse state than Chancellor Alistair Darling led everyone to believe when he delivered his...

Demoralised Labour has shot its bolt!

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TWO ex-Labour government leaders Clarke and Blunkett have now spoken up, true to form, to stab Prime Minister Brown in the back, just as...

WORLD REVOLUTION – the only answer to the capitalist crisis

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THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world. Under the conditions of the greatest...

Nationalise LDV and the motor car industry

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LDV, the Birmingham van factory said yesterday it would continue to look for funding until 6 May when it is due to formally go...

Rajapakse, the UK and the US will never crush the Tigers...

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CURRENTLY the UK and US supported Sri Lankan army is mounting an all-out assault on the besieged Tamil Tiger forces and the over 100,000...

Darling can’t look the capitalist crisis in the face

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CHANCELLOR Darling began his budget speech yesterday on a note of contrived optimism saying that ‘today’s budget will take Britain through the most serious...

£250 A SECOND – £1 million more unemployed will cost taxpayers...

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ON THE eve of today’s Budget, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned that if the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants increases...

O’Connor Looks For ‘social Dividend’ From The Crisis

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SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor has called for a Social Dividend to tackle the lack of adequate occupational pension coverage in return for trade...

A bankers budget from a bankers government

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DESPITE all the government statements against leaking government information before it is to go before the House of Commons, the Treasury was at it...

Prentis appeals to Brown in vain

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‘OUR time and patience is running out. The country is in a mess and we look to the Government to come up with serious...

Irish Teachers Strikes Loom

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Research carried out by the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) indicates that second-level schools will lose an average of 2.6 temporary and part-time...

Tuc Forms A Common Front With The Bosses

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The TUC has joined forces with the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), EEF the manufacturers’ organisation, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and The...

Brown boasts that he has assured the future of the banks

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THE Prime Minister revealed once again on BBC Radio 2 just what his priorities are and just what he is working night, noon and...

Cowen making workers pay for capitalism’s crisis in Ireland

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IN A third attempt within six months to save bankrupt Irish capitalism, Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s Fianna Fail government unveiled a draconian budget on Tuesday,...

HUNGRY KIDS IN UK – Save the Children takes action

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Save the Children has declared a ‘crisis for families’ in the UK, as today it partners UK charity Family Action to distribute cash grants...

60,000 March In Athens

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TENS of thousands of Greek workers from all industries and services took part last Thursday in the rallies and demonstrations staged in the capital...

One Demonstrator Dead – Girls Taken Away In Handcuffs

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Around 200 G20 protesters yesterday lunchtime mounted a vigil-assembly at the Bank of England demanding an independent public inquiry into the death of a...

Visteon Workers Show The Way – Occupy To Defend Jobs!

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THE Visteon plants in Belfast, Enfield, and Basildon, formerly owned by the Ford Motor Company, but now supplying parts to the motor car industry,...

BANK OF ENGLAND BLOCKADED! – by tens of thousands of youth

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TENS of thousands of people demonstrated from mid-day yesterday outside the Bank of England against bankers,capitalism and the G20 summit. They...

Forward to the socialist revolution – not the two-day week

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IT IS now accepted that the capitalist system is in its greatest crisis ever, bigger than the crisis created by the First World War,...

‘MOTOR INDUSTRY FACING ARMAGEDDON’ states Tony Woodley –Vauxhall could be gone...

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THE car industry in Britain is facing ‘Armageddon’, with GM Vauxhall set to close by the end of April unless it gets immediate financial...

Unison and EU public sector unions form ‘historic alliance’

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UNISON and other EU public sector unions have formed an ‘historic alliance’. UNISON declared yesterday: ‘The fight back has begun. And UNISON is...

Bailing out banks and sacking public sector workers splits the unions

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THE UNISON and Unite trade unions have split. The former has formed an alliance with the EU public sector trade unions ver.di and CGIL and...

50,000 March For Jobs And Justice

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THE TUC-organised ‘Put People First’ march over jobs, justice and climate attracted up to 50,000 workers and young people in central London on Saturday. Trade...

Only A Socialist Revolution Can Defend Jobs, Homes, Basic Rights And...

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THE TUC’s ‘Put People First’ march on Saturday brought 50,000 workers and youth onto the streets marching behind powerful contingents from the GMB and...

Obama Expands The War Into Pakistan!

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US President Barack Obama yesterday announced a further 4,000 US troops will be sent to Afghanistan this summer, in addition to the 17,000 earmarked...

‘TAX HAVENS ARE SUNNY PLACES FOR SHADY PEOPLE’ says Lord Oakshott

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THe Liberal Democrats Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott has delivered a broadside against prime minister Brown and the secretive activities of Barclays Bank. He used parliamentary...

Irish Congress of Trades Unions ‘defers’ March 30 General Strike

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THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has ‘deferred’ the strike action it has called for March 30 following a government offer of...

Huge food inflation as bosses and unions agree on wage cuts...

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WORKERS in Britain are now feeling the ‘benefits’ of the British government’s policy of printing money to rescue the banks while allowing the pound...

The battle for public opinion has been won – now take...

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THE postal workers have the support of the mass of the British people, the public sector trade unions and the other trade unions making...

‘We will stop the closure at Chase Farm’ – states second...

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‘We’re determined to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments, we will occupy if they move to close them,’...

No Fees Or Loans And Restore Student Grants For All!

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AFTER Blair and Brown abolished students’ grants and introduced a regime of fee paying for university education – putting an end to free university...

ROYAL MAIL IS NOT FOR SALE! – say 1,000 marchers

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‘If Royal Mail managers don’t back off we are going to have to ask our members again to take strike action,’ Communication Workers Union...

Mandelson’s Secret Business Interests!

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PETER Mandelson is one of five Labour government cabinet ministers who insists on his business interests being a secret and for that purpose has...

Revolution emerging in Pakistan!

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EX-PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF has not been lying in his political grave for six months and already the lawyers are marching against the new regime of...

Unite Helps Bosses Cut Workers’ Wages

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THE UNITE trade union leaders yesterday were in full flight praising Toyota workers for taking their advice and assisting the bosses by accepting a...

MARCH AND RALLY WITH US TO DEFEND ROYAL MAIL! – Letter...

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Dear Editor, The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is working with other Trade Unions, politicians and members of the public to retain a wholly publicly owned...

Social Revolution Is The Issue Not Terrorism!

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THE Continuity IRA and the Real IRA have opened fire and killed and wounded soldiers and policemen in the north of Ireland, breaking open...

‘CONSIGNING EDUCATION TO THE SCRAP HEAP!’ – Teacher training to be...

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government proposals to cut teacher training to just six months were condemned by unions yesterday as consigning the ‘vision of a world class education...

Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism

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EVERYWHERE capitalism is crashing! Yesterday the FTSE 100 index fell to 3472.68 points making a 50 per cent crash from the FTSE’s...

British shoot to kill forces return to the North

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THEY were withdrawn from the north of Ireland because there could not be a ‘peace process’ and a power-sharing regime while they were there,...

Only the banks matter for Mandelson

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MANDELSON began his speech to the City of London magnates at the Mansion House last Wednesday night by declaring his continuing support for the...

£150bn MORE FOR BANKS – as B 0f E starts printing...

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The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee yesterday cut interest rates from one per cent to a record low of 0.5 per cent. Interest rates...

Smash Yellow Trade Unionism

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TODAY the working class is fighting against a crisis-ridden capitalist system whose banks and industries have collapsed, and whose political leaders, such as the...