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To defeat terrorism– withdraw from Iraq and smash imperialism
THURSDAY’S ‘bomb attacks’ – which did not cause a single serious injury but caused widespread alarm and panic – not least amongst the security...
LONDON ALERT! – Police ordered to shoot to kill
Yesterday, London was living off its nerves after reports of four explosions, three at underground stations and one on a bus. Police were given orders...
Rice calls for US-Africa open markets deal
THE US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, is currently touring Africa, putting forward the US plan to establish free trade and open markets with...
UK Troops In Iraq Made Britain A Terror Target
There is ‘no doubt’ that support for the US-led war on Iraq ‘puts the UK more at risk’ of terrorist attack. This is one of...
PNA police attack Hamas
‘The Palestinian Authority should seek to protect the Palestinian people, not the Israeli settlements,’ Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said yesterday, as gunbattles continued...
HSBC says Italy and Germany better off outside the euro
THE HSBC, one of the world’s major banks, has published a paper called ‘European Meltdown’ in the wake of the Dutch and French votes...
State Raising Terror Tensions
ON SATURDAY night, the city centre of Birmingham, the second largest city in the country, was emptied of more than 20,000 people by the...
Israeli Forces Bulldoze West Bank Villages
ISRAELI occupation forces demolished four houses, razed land and arrested Palestinians in the West Bank last Wednesday. They demolished one house that was still under...
UNISON condemns Blair for breaking NHS promise
UNISON Head of Health, Karen Jennings, has condemned Labour government plans to allow private treatment centres to poach NHS staff, breaking a Labour government...
‘WE WILL STRIKE TO DEFEND PENSIONS’ – UNISON leader Prentis pledges
‘WE will take strike action, across all our sectors, to defend our pensions,’ UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis pledged at the union’s National Delegate...
Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads
ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...
Glasgow Unemployment Crisis
Targets set by ministers for agencies trying to get Scotland’s long-term unemployed off benefits are making the problem worse, not better. That is the finding...
KEEP UP THE PRESSURE – say BBC workers
Alun Pugh, Minister for Culture, the Welsh Language and Sport, last Friday faced tough questions about the future of BBC Wales and stated that...
US-UK attack basic rights – says Amnesty Report
Amnesty International has accused the United States of effectively giving governments a licence to torture. In its annual report covering 2004, the human rights organisation...
‘We’re fighting for the future of the BBC’
Picket lines are out at BBC sites across the country today as 10,000 workers from all three BBC unions – BECTU, NUJ and Amicus...
STRIKE TO DEFEND PENSIONS! – FBU delegates demand
‘This union is not crushed, this union is not defeated, this union is united and it will be ready for a fight on pensions,’...
‘PROVOCATION’ – Marshall-Andrews condemns Blair appointment
Opposition to prime minister Blair hardened yesterday in the wake of his final ministerial appointments. Opponents have been especially infuriated at the appointment of one...
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...