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Budget Signals Countdown To The General Election

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CHANCELLOR Alastair Darling yesterday delivered his Budget speech in the middle of the civil servants’ strike action, starting it by claiming that the UK...

PA Cabinet will not allow ‘a return to violence’ – but...

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DURING its weekly cabinet meeting on Monday, the Palestinian government in Ramallah condemned the killing of four Palestinians in Nablus in less than 24...

AFL-CIO launches ‘Make Wall St Pay’ campaign

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THE American trade union federation, the AFL-CIO, is this week launching a ‘Make Wall Street Pay’ national campaign in protest at soaring unemployment in...

1,000 Days Of Gaza Seige

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Protests against the crippling siege imposed on the Gaza Strip should spread across the world, said Palestinian lawmaker Jamalh Al-Khudari yesterday, as the blockade...

British capitalism’s crisis of rule

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THE inability of the Tories to pull ahead in the opinion polls, proves that 13 years of Labour rule has not been enough to...

Palestinian People Fiercely Resisting The Israeli Occupiers

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THE Palestinians of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are surrounded by barriers, as a desperate Israel tries to turn Occupied Palestine...

Inflation Letting Rip As Darling Fiddles

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CONSUMER Prices Index (CPI) inflation has been driven up to 3.5 per cent in January by, amongst other factors, VAT returning to 17.5...

Workers Must Take Action To Put An End To Capitalism

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THE TIME is here when workers must respond to the growing chorus from the professional servants of the bourgeoisie for savage, and even more...

Record Breaking Inflation!

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RECORD BREAKING UK inflation rate statistics were reported by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) yesterday. Inflation rose at its fastest annual pace for nine...

HAITI 200,000 DEAD! – one million people homeless

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ESTIMATES of the death toll in Haiti rose to more than 200,000 yesterday, with warnings of more people dying of hunger and disease following...

FIELD-CAMERON LOVE-IN – while Tories plan NHS payments

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Right wing Labour MP Frank Field yesterday appeared alongside David Cameron at an election event, suggesting that he would serve in a Cameron government....

DON’T LET PUBLIC SECTOR PAY FOR GREEDY BANKERS – Prentis warns...

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UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis has warned politicians against making ‘selfless’ public service workers pay the price for the economic slump. In his New Year...

PENSION CAPS AND PAY CUTS – in Darling’s pre-Budget speech

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Chancellor Darling yesterday confirmed that VAT will be restored to 17.5 per cent on January 1st, and that inflation will rise to 3.0 per...

Labour can only offer youth police state repression

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THE Labour government is bringing in additional legislation under which children as young as 14 years old will be banned from wearing hoods or...

GAZA FREEDOM MARCH DECEMBER 31st – thousands gather to break the...

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The Gaza Freedom March that will take place in Gaza on December 31st is an historic initiative to break the siege that has imprisoned...

Shock Inflation Rise!

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THE Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rate of inflation rose to 1.5 per cent in October, up from 1.1 per cent in September. As...

Israel Steps Up Jerusalem Demolitions

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Israeli bulldozers demolished two Palestinian houses in the Ath-Thuri neighbourhood of Jerusalem on Monday morning, according to a statement from the Al-Quds Centre for...

Clinton, Netanyahu make a bloc on settlements

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PALESTINE Authority President Mahmud Abbas has been completely undermined by the latest declaration of US Secretary of State Clinton. In it she supported the Israeli...

Councils to be given more police state powers!

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HOME SECRETARY Alan Johnson is introducing new police state powers for councils next week. These will not be discussed in the House of Commons...

Fatah Calls General Strike!

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Fatah’s top leadership called for a general strike throughout the nation for yesterday, in protest against the ‘fierce and planned Israeli attacks’ that have...

Southwark Council Prepared To Evict Heygate Estate Tenants

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SOUTHWARK Council says it is prepared to take action to evict remaining tenants from the Heygate Estate, if they refuse ‘reasonable’ offers to leave...

Class Struggles Sharpen In France

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Postal workers in the Paris region are on an open-ended strike starting Monday, September 21, against the closure of 185 Paris post offices and...

Opening The Archives On The Miners’ Strike

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Part of the British Film Institute season: ‘On the Face of It: A Century of Coalmining on Screen’ (Also plays this month at the Showroom in Sheffield) ‘OPENING the Archives on...

Tuc Leaders Dine With Pm Brown

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Prime Minister Brown met 15 union leaders at his country residence Chequers for three hours yesterday afternoon, to discuss spending cuts ahead of next...

TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers

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THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...

NEW WEST BANK SETTLEMENT EXPANSION ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ – says Abbas

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Netanyahu’s planned approval of the construction of new homes for settlers in the West Bank is ‘unacceptable’, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday in...

LABOUR ‘IS MAKING THE POOREST PAY’ say CPAG

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‘THE new cap on local housing allowance goes against the government’s whole rationale for introducing it,’ Child Poverty Action Group Chief Executive Kate Green...

The slump deepens as Labour steps up attacks on the poorest

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UK Gross Domestic Product fell in the three months from April to June by 0.7% confirming that the slump is deepening and that the...

Israel Blockade Of Gaza Into Its Third Year

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The ongoing Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, now in its third year, has triggered a ‘protracted human dignity crisis’ with devastating humanitarian consequences,...

‘We will take action to keep Chase Farm open’

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Staff, patients and visitors on Tuesday welcomed the latest monthly mass picket by about 30 youth and workers of Chase Farm Hospital, organised by...

US Homeless Are Being Criminalised

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‘To some people, the Land of the Free doesn’t always seem so free. And America the Beautiful doesn’t look so pretty.’ This is the viewpoint...

Stop regeneration, and start the refurbishment and building of council houses

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THE Fire Brigades Union has called for a public inquiry into the fatal fire in the Camberwell high rise block which claimed six lives....

Israeli Military Admits To Killing Girl

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ISRAEL’S military just after midnight on Friday admitted their responsibility for the death of a teenage girl in Gaza. The announcement came following its insistence...

‘We Will Keep Chase Farm Open’

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A SUCCESSFUL picket to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital took place outside the hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, attended by over 50...

Bailiffs Turned Away On Heygate Estate

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THE eviction of Heygate Estate tenant Evelyn Amahian and her two-year-old daughter was halted yesterday morning, when 40 tenants, trade unionists and youth arrived...

Mother and child face eviction!

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HEYGATE Estate tenant Evelyn Amahian is facing eviction this Wednesday, putting her on the street with her young daughter! The Heygate Estate in south London...

Heygate tenants refuse to be driven from their homes

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TENANTS on the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle are furious at the way they are being treated ‘like cattle’ to be driven off...

Support For Luton Occupation!

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Talks between German government ministers and GM and US government representatives are resuming in Berlin today to decide who will take over GM...

SAVE LEWISHAM BRIDGE SCHOOL! demand parents, teachers and pupils

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MORE than 300 parents, teachers, students and schoolchildren marched through the centre of Lewisham, south-east London, on Saturday to save Lewisham Bridge Primary School. The...

‘Efficiency Savings’ Are Massive Spending Cuts

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) branded the efficiency savings announced in Wednesday’s budget as spending cuts which would damage services and lead...

TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GAZANS ARE STILL HOMELESS – and without...

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TENS of thousands of Gazans are still homeless and without basic services such as piped drinking water three months after the 18 January ceasefire,...

‘THE MOST CRUEL AND RACIST REGIME’ – Ahmadinezhad indicts Israel

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DOZENS of delegates walked out of a United Nations conference on racism after Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, Iran's president, correctly described the Israeli cabinet as a...

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...

‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK!’ – McAlpin sacked workers tell John...

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A COACHLOAD of sacked workers from Stead McAlpin and J H Birtwistle factories, formerly owned by John Lewis, yesterday lobbied the John Lewis Partnership...

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...