Tag: parliament
Imperialist aggression is the roots of terrorism
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that there is to be more new repressive legislation, on top of the huge powers that the government and...
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...
Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan to end terrorism
NEWS LINE sends its condolences to the families of those who were killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks on London, and its best wishes for...
US fears its forces can’t fight war on two fronts
THE scale of the insurgency in both Iraq and Afghanistan has got the Pentagon rattled. It fears that the US strategic requirement, to be...
Gaza ‘withdrawal plan’ aimed at entrenching settlements – warns Erekat
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will hold a summit meeting in Damascus on Thursday, 7th July, adviser to the Palestinian...
Government Of National Unity ‘Not Serious’ Says Hamas
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei said Tuesday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has ‘no objection to the creation of a temporary government of...
Huge increase in ASBOs
Human rights group Liberty yesterday condemned the huge increase in the number of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) issued as the government steps up its...
‘Single Status Used To Cut Wages’
PUBLIC sector union UNISON finds itself in conflict with employers using equal opportunity legislation supposed to protect the most vulnerable workers, to oppress them...
5 US marines killed – near Ramadi
Five US marines have been killed near Ramadi, western Iraq, when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, the US military said in a statement...
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...
UK ‘control orders’ are illegal says EU rights body
EVEN the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles has condemned the issuing of control orders by the British Home Secretary as...
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...
The Eu Crisis Is Exploding!
THE 61 per cent ‘no’ vote in Holland, on a 62 per cent electoral turnout, against the EU constitution was no surprise after the...
Greek Telecom Pensions Crisis
Greek Telecom’s OME-OTE trade union leadership succeeded last weekend in pushing through the union’s congress a most reactionary agreement which had been worked out...
MORE PALESTINIANS KILLED – as America and Israel pressure PNA to...
WHILE the US was piling the pressure on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to force the Palestine National Authority to disarm all the anti-occupation groups,...
US-UK’s man in Uzbekistan ‘slaughtering protesters like rabbits’
YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary Straw condemned the repressions by the Karimov regime in Uzbekistan. It has already killed 500 Uzbeks and is getting...
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...