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Troops Out Of Iraq By Christmas Says Unison Conference
Delegates at UNISON’s National Delegate Conference in Glasgow voted overwhelmingly yesterday to demand British and US troops are withdrawn from Iraq by the end...
Labour policy is pauperising graduates
FIFTY EIGHT per cent of graduates find they are still relying on their parents for financial support three years after graduation, a survey commissioned...
UK ‘control orders’ are illegal says EU rights body
EVEN the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles has condemned the issuing of control orders by the British Home Secretary as...
Labour and the bosses knifing pensions and pensioners
A SURVEY from pensions advisers Origen published yesterday shows that companies are continuing to either close their final salary pensions schemes or end admission...
Capitalism can’t afford common retirement age or decent pensions
CAPITALIST Britain is being driven backwards, not forwards by the deepening crisis of capitalism and the policies of the Blair-Brown Labour government, dedicated to...
Defend the NHS and the Welfare State!
YESTERDAY key Blairite cabinet ministers, Blunkett and Hewitt, launched a massive attack on the Welfare State. Hewitt promised to use the NHS budget to...
Britain Heads For Revolutionary Situation
BRITAIN is now being run by a weakened and discredited Blair government, which is however determined to speed up its right wing course and...
Blair listens only to the bosses
PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...
Stop Treating University Staff As Second-Class Citizens
AUT general secretary Sally Hunt is launching a manifesto for academic-related staff in Manchester on 12 May calling for more pay, reduced hours and...
Blair listens only to the bosses
PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...
VOTE WRP ON DECEMBER 12! BREAK WITH THE EU! FORWARD TO...
THE DECEMBER 12th election is a crisis election, in a situation where the worldwide crisis of capitalism is deepening rapidly to explosion point. Eleven...