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96% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION – By British Airways cabin crews

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A 96 per cent vote by British Airways cabin crew to strike over management by imposition and the breakdown of respect and industrial relations...

Labour plans to criminalise the entire working class

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THE government is planning ‘behaviour orders’ for people considered to be at risk of committing a violent crime. Class prejudice, ie racial and working...

Rice Visit Is To Stir Up Wars And Civil Wars

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US Secretary of State Rice’s visit to the Middle East is to organise the conditions for US attacks on both Iran and...

BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION! – Save Chase Farm Hospital meeting urged

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A packed 400-strong Save Chase Farm meeting in Enfield last Saturday heard calls for Councils of Action to organise occupations to stop the closure...

‘GUANTANAMO IS A GULAG!’ – says Moazzam Begg

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ON THE day marking the fifth anniversary of the first detainees being transported to the US concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay, on the tip...

Blair’s generation of imperialist war

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After President Bush has informed the world that 20,000 more US troops are to be sent to Iraq, and his Secretary of State, Rice...

Rate Rise Shock – Condemned As Panic By Tuc

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BIG BUSINESS, the stockmarkets and the TUC were shaken yesterday midday when the Bank of England raised its interest rates by a quarter of...

‘ONE YEAR TO SAVE THE NHS’ – says the BMA

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‘WE HAVE one year to save the National Health Service (NHS). An awful lot of Trusts are in a dire financial state.’ This was a...

Free social care and care homes for the elderly

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THE just-published ‘State of Social Care’ report from the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) was greeted as ‘a damning indictment of a...

War from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa

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THE whole of the area from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa is now one great killing zone where US-UK imperialism either kills at...

BA Pensions Ballot!

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Details emerged yesterday of a deal, yet to be agreed by workers, which means the end of final salary pensions at British Airways. The TGWU...

Cabinet Office Leads Fight To Smash Royal Mail

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FOLLOWING instructions from the government’s Cabinet Office to government departments to put their mail out to tender to get the best cutthroat deal, ...

Brown and Blair – two sides of the same coin

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WITH Blair’s political reputation destroyed by the Iraq war, and the massive resistance to his attack on the Welfare State, and with the media...

President Ahmadinezhad Speaks To The Arabs Of Khuzestan

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IRANIAN President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad spoke to a gathering of the people of Ramshir in oil-rich Khuzestan Province, which has a large Arab population...

BROWN’S ‘NEW POLITICS’ – as Blair goes missing

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WITH Prime Minister Blair organising his post premiership job, Chancellor Brown stepped forward yesterday to promote the latest New Labour ‘vision’ of a ‘patriotic...

Saddam Lynching Anger Silences Blair

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ONE WEEK after the execution of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Prime Minister Blair has again refused to comment on the lynching. He said yesterday, trying...

Anger over Saddam’s death silences Blair

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AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...

‘IRAQI AUTHORITIES NOT ABLE TO PROVIDE BASIC PROTECTION’ – says UNCHR...

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The National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC) yesterday highlighted the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) latest report for the benefit of Iraqi asylum...

37,000 NHS Jobs Axe

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Trade unions and health professionals yesterday slammed as ‘very alarming’ and ‘staggering’, the government’s leaked draft NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2008...

US-UK Plays Sectarian Card In Iraq

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YESTERDAY the role model for US-UK imperialism was Pontius Pilate, as the US military and Prime Minister Blair sought to wash their hands of...

NO PAY CUTS FOR NURSES! – while BMA insists we need...

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Public sector union, UNISON said yesterday it will ‘strongly resist any attempt to cut nurses’ pay whether by moving to regional pay or by...

MEDICAL EDUCATION IS UNDER ATTACK! – Don’t lift fees cap says...

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‘Medical education is under attack on several fronts,’ warns Professor Michael Rees, chair of the British Medical Association’s (BMA’s) Medical Academics Committee. In a BMA...

Jobs For Youth – Smash The Cheap Labour Economy

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Youth unemployment is now higher than it was in 1997, with 702,000 young people aged 16-24 jobless, according to official figures released just before...

‘ASSASSINATING THE LEADER WILL ONLY STRENGTHEN THE WILL OF THE BA’ATH...

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Saddam’s deputy,      Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, issued a statement on 1 January, mourning his ‘brother’ and calling for unity. ‘The criminal evil hands of the...

Unite The Masses In The Gulf Against Imperialism

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SADDAM HUSSEIN went to his death bravely and heroically, executed by agents of imperialism – the leaders of a puppet government that came to...

2007 – The Year For Revolution!

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THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2007 to the working class and youth of the world,...

Time For Debate On Bosses’ Pay And Perks – Says Barber

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In his New Year message released on Thursday, 28 December, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber calls for a national debate about top pay. This is...

Saddam Murder Within Days

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THE decision to hang the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, and also the Iraqi Vice-President, Taha Yasin Ramadan – whose sentence was increased from life...

Putin lays down law to Soviet states

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THE Putin regime has infuriated the British bourgeoisie by its strengthening of the state owned gas and oil sectors of the Russian economy, at...

Browne echoes Bush on need for bigger army

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PRESIDENT Bush, on Wednesday, called for a major expansion of the US army, and yesterday, the British Defence Minister, Browne, slavishly echoed his master’s...

Bush Plans To Expand US Army

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PRESIDENT Bush’s decision to expand the US military is a direct attack on the masses of the Middle East and Iran, and on the...

Blair’s call for an ‘alliance’ to attack Iran

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair told businessmen from Britain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dubai yesterday: ‘We must mobilise our alliance of moderation...

Bush Boosts Troop Levels

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US President George Bush yesterday announced a permanent increase in the size of the US Army and US Marines. He made it clear that the...

‘PALESTINIAN BLOOD SHOULD NOT BE SPILLED’ – Haniya urges unity

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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, on Tuesday, called on Palestinians to ‘remain united’ in a common cause after days of clashes between Haniya’s Hamas...

PATIENT CARE AT RISK! – BMA slams ‘rushed-through reforms’

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‘Rushed through reforms’ to doctors’ training will see ‘risks to patient care’, warns the British Medical Association. The BMA said that under the government’s ‘Modernising...

Palestinian government rejects Blair’s plotting

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THE leaders of the Palestine National Authority (PNA) government yesterday rejected the interference of British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Palestinian internal affairs. Dr Mousa...

Amnesty Slams Rejection Of de Menezes Challenge

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Amnesty International has condemned last Thursday’s High Court ruling to dismiss the legal challenge brought by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes against...

‘CUT THEIR BENEFITS!’ – Hutton threatens the unemployed

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Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton yesterday declared war on the unemployed, saying Labour will cut off benefits from those who reject...

Hutton to starve the unemployed into cheap labour jobs

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Hutton asked a question at the start of his verbal onslaught on the unemployed yesterday morning. It was: ‘People want...

Blair Opposes Right To Strike!

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The Blair government has intervened in a European Court of Justice (EJC) test case to insist that the right to strike is not a...

Bring down Blair; bring in a workers’ government

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THE crisis of the Blair government has intensified to the point where the government is now more deeply split and divided than ever, while...

CLOSE DOWN GUANTANAMO! – Amnesty week of action

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Last Saturday, 16 December, 2006 marked the start of a series of protests across the world with renewed calls on the US government to...

Law cannot be allowed to get in the way of profiteering

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THE Attorney General – the same official who ruled after much equivocation that the war with Iraq was legal – on Thursday told the...

CWU must take action to stop post office closures

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2,500 POST OFFICES are to be closed by 2009 and all that the CWU post office workers union is doing about this massacre is...

Plan Action To Keep Hospitals Open –Bma Urged

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The British Medical Association (BMA) Central Consultants and Specialists Committee (CCSC) is meeting today at BMA House, Tavistock Place, London. One of the resolutions before...