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‘A positive response’ says Bush on Iran

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US President George W Bush has welcomed Iran’s initial reaction to a proposal from the EU states designed to achieve a deal with...

Victory to the insurgency – puppet regime splits into rival gangs

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WHILE Blair continues to try and claim that there has been some partial victory for ‘democracy’ in Iraq, worth the ‘price’ of the many...

Blair, Brown Step Up War On The Public Sector

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BLAIR and Brown stepped up the new Labour assault on the public sector yesterday. Brown even had the cheek to blame service sector workers’...

British Trained Forces Run Amock In Basra

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WHILE British troops are sheltering in their heavily protected barracks, the puppet army and police forces that they have trained in Basra are running...

No evidence behind police terror raid

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IN the early hours of Friday morning a police raiding party of up to 250 officers broke into a home in Lansdown Road, Forest...

Johnson moves to put the skids under Prescott

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THE Blairite cabinet, faced with the working class rejecting Blair, his war on Iraq, his onslaught on the Welfare State, and with popular revulsion...

US Ruling Class Offers Iran A Rotten Deal

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday said that the US would talk to Iran if it will suspend its nuclear programme. Rice made...

UK CONTINUED TO ERODE HUMAN RIGHTS IN 2005 – says Amnesty...

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In 2005, the UK ‘government continued to erode fundamental human rights, the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, including by persisting...

‘The Wind That Shakes The Barley’

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The Wind That Shakes The Barley Directed by Ken Loach Written by Paul Laverty Starring Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald On General Release from June...

British Soldiers Die In Basra

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Two British soldiers were killed and two others wounded, by a roadside bomb in Basra last Sunday evening, the Ministry of Defence revealed yesterday. The...

Blair – Bush’s Servant To The Bitter End

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THE knives were out for disgraced Deputy Prime Minister Prescott yesterday. He is the man who was important to the Prime Minister because he...

Bush, Blair Admit Stupidity And Incompetence

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PRESIDENT Bush and Premier Blair have admitted their chronic incompetence over the prosecution of the war in Iraq, and have appealed to the rest...

Aziz Defends Saddam

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IRAQ’s former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz took the witness stand Wednesday to defend Saddam Hussein and his associates from charges that they massacred...

WORLD HAS PAID A HEAVY PRICE FOR ‘WAR ON TERROR’ says...

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The world’s poor and disadvantaged pay the price of war on terror, says Amnesty International in its annual report 2006 published on Tuesday. Introducing the...

Ruling class moves to try to restore order

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THE Labour government is pushing through the Houses of Parliament a bill that will make desertion and refusal to serve in an occupied country...

Desperate Blair dashes to Baghdad

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WITH British troops in the south of Iraq in danger of taking heavy casualties at the hands of an insurgency that has taken over...

Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the...

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YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...

One Day Under The US/UK Occupation

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BETWEEN 1300 and 2000 gmt on Sunday 14 May, Baghdad Al-Sharqiyah Television in Arabic reported on ‘a new setback’ in the security situation...

Chavez Visit Poses World Revolution

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THE visit of the left bourgeois nationalist leaders Evo Morales of Bolivia and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to Europe is much appreciated, and is...

Blair seeking legislation to overrule the courts

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THE Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has had his plans for a government veto over the law courts made public after a leak of his...

Nurses Call For National Strike Action To Defend The NHS

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NURSES and other National Health Service workers called for national strike action from all unions to defend the NHS last Thursday. RCN and UNISON health...

PROVOCATION – AUT denounces threat to cut lecturers wages

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University of Strathclyde Association of University Teachers (AUT) representative David Blieman yesterday described as ‘provocative’ a threat to dock lecturers’ pay if they don’t...

I’m Staying Put Says Brian Haw

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‘I’M NOT going to be shut up. I want the whole people of Britain to raise their voice against this,’ said peace campaigner...

Iraq – Time For Britain To Cut And Run

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SATURDAY’S engagement in Basra was a serious one for British imperialism. One Lynx helicopter was lost, shot down by a Strella missile and five British...

BROWN PROPS UP BLAIR! – while Byers warns against ‘forced removal’

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Chancellor Gordon Brown yesterday refused to call for prime minister Blair to set a date for his departure. Brown expressed his fears about the situation,...

IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT RUBBISH, TO BE USED AND THROWN OUT –...

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OVER 25,000 refugees, workers and youth marched through the centre of Paris on Saturday, demanding, ‘Withdraw the CESEDA’! and ‘Immigrants are not disposable like...

Woodley tells Blair to quit – Simpson urges policy change

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MAY DAY saw thousands of workers, among them Peugeot motor car workers, hospital workers facing the threat of redundancy, locked out Gate Gourmet workers,...

MAY DAY MANIFESTO: BUSH AND BLAIR IN CRISIS – as workers...

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MAY DAY 2006 is historic. It is taking place in a period of an enormous crisis of world capitalism and rapidly developing world revolution. This crisis...

Fight Barking NHS Jobs Massacre!

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THE UNISON public sector union yesterday reaffirmed it will back strike action to defend NHS jobs. It was responding to the news that the huge...

‘WE’RE SUFFERING BUT WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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THE Gate Gourmet locked-out workers May Day campaign team got great support from fellow Transport and General Workers Union members in west London bus...

The revolution in Nepal – part of the world revolution

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LEON Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution shows how ‘the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations lead directly, in our epoch, to the...

Hounslow Unison To March With Gg Locked-Out Workers

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THE Hounslow local government Unison branch banner will be with the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers banner on the TUC May Day march through London...

‘MARCH WITH US ON MAY DAY!’ – Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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‘WE want people to march with us on May Day,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Parmjit Baines said yesterday. She was on a campaign team that...

Make the TUC take action to defend the NHS

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YESTERDAY both Blair and Hewitt mocked NHS workers insulting their intelligence with the Hewitt line that this year was the best ever year for...

Bin Laden condemns ‘crusader war’ on Islam

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THE Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has said in a new audio tape attributed to him that the siege imposed on the...

Labour turns on Asian NHS doctors

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ANOTHER shameful page of British imperialist history has been turned. This time tens of thousands of Asian and African doctors, recruited to come to...

The Easter Rising a powerful blow against ‘the power of the...

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OUR theses were written before the outbreak of this rebellion, which must be the touchstone of our theoretical views. The views of the opponents...

Stop the pensions betrayal!

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THE membership, branch leaderships and regional leaderships of the local government trade unions must stop the betrayal of their final salary pensions by union...

Free Kendall-Smith! Stop the war against Iraq!

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THE Labour movement must salute the courageous action of Flight-Lieutenant Kendall-Smith who yesterday declared, after a court martial had found him guilty on five...

Blair ‘To Proceed’ – 100,000 NHS Jobs Axe Predicted

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday told hospital trust executives at a Downing Street meeting that his NHS privatisation ‘reform’ programme will proceed. That was his message...

Sack The Leaders Who Are Selling Out Pensions

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YESTERDAY the TUC leader Brendan Barber, who organised the betrayal of the 760 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers, and before that organised the betrayal of...

US READY TO BOMB IRAQ – but Straw rejects Hersh warning...

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Yesterday two warnings were given as to the critical situation in Iraq and of US plans to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran. Award-winning US...

Locked-Out Gate Gourmet Workers Picket The Tgwu

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TWENTY Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketed a meeting of TGWU sacked Gate Gourmet shop stewards at the Hillingdon regional office yesterday. Most of the shop...

EU moves to suspend all aid to Palestine

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YESTERDAY the European Union followed the example of the US and suspended its aid to the Palestine National Authority. The EU has given $400...

Herts Firefighters Ready For Action

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Firefighters in Hertfordshire are to vote on strike action against plans to axe job losses and close fire stations, Hertfordshire FBU has announced. The Fire...