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Britain hardest hit by world capitalist crisis

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YESTERDAY’S reports on the state of the economy reveal more about the catastrophe gripping British capitalism, part of the world crisis. • The Bank of...

End The Cuts And Build Council Housing

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‘We look forward to see what the government’s economic recovery strategy is,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Any measures that ease the pressure...

THE HOUSING CRISIS: Nationalise construction companies and banks!

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AVERAGE house prices in Britain are now 10.5 per cent lower than they were a year ago, according to figures published yesterday by Nationwide,...

THREE MILLION FEAR FOR JOBS – TUC must act, says ATUA

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‘The TUC leaders must act to defend jobs or make way for those who will,’ Dave Wiltshire, national secretary of the All Trades Union...

‘WE HAVE TO OCCUPY WE HAVE NO CHOICE’ – say Chase...

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‘We must be ready to occupy Chase Farm Hospital,’ North East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers told trade unionists, local residents and...

Bankers gripped by fear are relying on ‘hope’!

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THE new Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Charles Bean said yesterday that when the so-called ‘credit crunch’ began last August central...

UK Economy Gripped By Slump And Inflation

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UK economic growth ground to a halt between April and June, according to the latest official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

Nationalise BAA – forward to a national transport system

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THE call has gone up in the Competition Commission report that three of BAA’s seven airports – two of its three in London, out...

MOVE SWIFTLY AND OPEN THE RAFAH CROSSING – Haniya urges Egypt...

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The Prime Minister of the Hamas-led government in Gaza, Ismail Haniya on Friday called on Egypt and Saudi Arabia to move swiftly and open...

Sterling disaster – it crashes against the $ and the €

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BANK of England governor King’s report, on the immediate prospects for British capitalism has produced a run on the pound – so precarious is...

BANK OF ENGLAND FEELS ‘ECONOMIC CHILL’ – Governor King forecasts ‘painful’...

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‘There is a feeling of economic chill in the air,’ Bank of England governor Mervyn King said yesterday. Introducing the Bank’s latest monthly inflation report,...

Time For Real Wage Rises

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YESTERDAY’S soaring inflation figures led trade union leaders to warn the government that members are demanding action against the wage-cutting three-year pay settlements. The Consumer...

‘WE NEED TO DEVELOP AN ENTIRELY NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH UNIONISM’ –...

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By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER IRISH republicans must re-negotiate their political relationship with unionists, the president of the North’s largest nationalist party, Sinn Fein,...

The ‘Duplicitous Traitor’ Strikes Again

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LABOUR MP Bob Marshall Andrews, recently called the Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband a ‘duplicitous traitor’, after Miliband published an article in the Guardian...

DEFEND MAIL CENTRES – with strike action across the country

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Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) leaders yesterday condemned Royal Mail’s announcement of major automated sorting centre closures affecting Liverpool, Oldham, Bolton, Stockport and Crewe...

Take Strike Action To Halt Closure Of Automated Mail Centres

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ROYAL MAIL, acting on its brief from the government has announced the closure of major automated sorting centres which will affect Liverpool. Oldham, Bolton,...

‘WE ARE TREATED LIKE PIECES OF COAL’ – Colombian miners tell...

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On an AFL-CIO Solidarity Center-sponsored exchange visit, Florida AFL-CIO Vice-President Mike Williams learned about Colombian workers’ constant struggle for social and economic justice – and...

£3 billion more of state aid for the Northern Rock

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THE Northern Rock bank, recently nationalised by the government has made a £585m loss for the first six months of the year, but the...

£3billion more for Northern Rock – while 1,300 to be sacked...

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The government is to inject another £3bn into Northern Rock, Chancellor Darling said yesterday. As the nationalised bank announced a loss of £585.4m in the...

Draft Lebanon Statement Supports The Right To Resistance

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Lebanese Information Minister Tariq Mitri has announced that the committee tasked with the job of preparing the draft policy statement that will guide the...

Banks are crashing while 140,000 repossessions loom at Northern Rock

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THE HSBC bank has just declared a 28 per cent, $3.9bn fall in half year profits. It has written off another $3.7 billion...

MIRED IN SCANDAL AND DEFEAT – Olmert to quit

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ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Olmert said on Wednesday he would step down after a September party leadership vote and tried to insist that he was...

COVER UP! – no action over the killing of journalist Terry...

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The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) yesterday condemned the British state’s refusal to prosecute US Marines over the ‘unlawful killing’ of ITN journalist Terry...

OCCUPY CHASE FARM TO STOP IT CLOSING! – urges 1,000-strong...

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A THOUSAND people – hospital staff, local residents, trade unionists and other groups from as far away as Crawley and Cambridge – joined the...

Civil Servants Start 3 Day Strike

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CIVIL servants picketing the London Identity and Passport Service Office (IPS) by Victoria Station, in London, had run out of leaflets yesterday, such was...

TREAT MIGRANT WORKERS FAIRLY demands UNISON

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UNISON has welcomed new research showing the value of trade unions to migrant workers. The report by social policy charity the Rowntree Foundation was launched...

Labour victimises the unemployed!

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INCAPACITY Benefit will be abolished under the Welfare Green Paper just published by Works and Pensions Minister, James Purnell. The 2.7 million people receiving Incapacity...

LABOUR, THE BANKERS FRIEND – turns on the unemployed

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‘With the economy slowing down, and many commentators expecting unemployment to rise, now is not the time to start blaming the victim,’ said TUC...

Labour squeezing poor and cutting services to prop up the banks

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CHANCELLOR Darling has told his cabinet colleagues there will be no more money made available for schools, hospitals or transport. These vital services face cuts,...

‘lives Will Be Lost If Chase Farm Closes’

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‘I HAVE to come on the march to save my job and to save lives. If Chase Farm closes, lives will be lost,’ nurse...

CUT MY PAY – NO WAY! – 800,000 council workers strike

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Picket lines were out across the country on Wednesday morning as 800,000 UNISON and Unite council worker members began the first day of a...

COUNCILS OUT! – 800,000 take strike action

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OVER 800,000 Unite and UNISON council workers in England, Wales and the north of Ireland are taking strike action today and tomorrow, furious at...

Trade union action to beat ‘stagflation’

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TODAY 800,000 local council workers, members of the UNISON and UNITE trade unions, begin a two-day strike against a government-imposed wage cut, an offer...

‘FRY CRIMINALS’ – demand Orangefest leaders

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Orangefest’s family fun dissolved into political Orange fury as demonstration speakers blasted homosexuals, the Irish language and even called for volunteers to execute criminals...

Britain Is Ripe For Socialist Revolution

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THE British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) quarterly report has just discovered a situation that every worker and every shopper has been acquainted with for...

Anti-union laws and wage cuts will stay – Brown tells trade...

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday gave a fitting reply to all those trade union bureaucrats who were saying that he could be forced to...

TIME TO DEFEND NHS! – message for BMA ARM

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DOCTORS will be challenging the government’s privatisation of the NHS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh, which starts today. On this...

Museum Staff Fight ‘Derisory Pay Offer’

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REVOLUTION is brewing, in the most unlikely of places, as staff walked out last Friday from the British Museum’s cultured halls to strike....

Hauliers Have Had Enough!

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Over 900 road hauliers and independent truckers, descended on Parliament yesterday to lobby their MPs to urgently and immediately reduce the price of fuel....

SHARES CRASH! – GM down $51bn in 3 years

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YESTERDAY’S shares collapse across the globe was blamed by economists on record inflation, record oil prices and fears of more banks...

News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance Conference – Forward To A Workers...

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‘IT is very clear that the collapse of the capitalist system has collapsed New Labour, that is the modern Labour Party’, News...

Chagossians must have the right to return – the US base...

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A BIG delegation of the 2,000 Chagossians who are living in Crawley, plus delegations from the FBU, GMB and POA trade unions will be...

US Unions Gear Up To Elect Obama Into The White House

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THE US trade unions are gearing up for the battle to get Barack Obama elected as the president of the United States, believing that...

£400 Energy Rise On Way!

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HUGE hikes in gas and electricity bills are coming this year, the energy privateers flagrantly announced yesterday. ‘Big Six’ energy bosses told MPs on the...

Brown pleads in Jeddah for more oil and £100bn of...

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FÎRST of all we saw the Bush-Blair attack on Iraq, whose strategic purpose was to expropriate Iraq’s oil in order to lower the world...