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Workers Fury Forces Brown Retreat!

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Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday called for the 10p tax rate to be restored in full. He was speaking after Prime Minister...

The BoE and Brown gamble with workers wages jobs, homes...

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THE Bank of England yesterday launched its government-backed scheme to allow the major banks to swap their dodgy mortgages for UK Treasury Bonds, in...

State to give bankrupt bankers cash in exchange for their paper...

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PRIME Minister Brown has made an appeal to the Wall Street bankers to be honest, surely a contradiction in terms. He wants them to publicly...

One Day General Strike On April 24Th!

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OVER 100,000 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), will be on strike at the same time as the NUT teachers and...

100,000 CIVIL SERVANTS OUT ON APRIL 24th

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Over 100,000 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), working across 10 government departments and agencies will be on strike at the...

San Francisco Nurses Fight For Patient Care

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A strike by 4,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) at ten San Francisco Bay Area, California, Sutter facilities has concluded with nurses walking together back into...

MORTGAGE SQUEEZE! – 2.8 Million homes are under threat

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The squeeze on the availability of mortgages is expected to continue and get worse in the next three months, the Bank of England has...

Indefinite united strike action needed by public sector workers

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MEMBERS of the 270,000-strong National Union of Teachers (NUT), Britain’s largest teaching union are to take strike action on April 24 over pay. They...

Teachers Vote For National Strike

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‘NUT members have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the campaign to stop cuts in the real pay of teachers,’ Steve Sinnott, General Secretary of...

Stop The Whole Public Sect0R On April 24

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THE NUT conference has made it perfectly clear that teachers have had enough of the wage cutting and privatisation policies of the Brown government....

GREEK WORKERS DEMAND ALL-OUT GENERAL STRIKE – to halt attack on...

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LAST Wednesday’s general strike in Greece, against the government’s reactionary Pensions Bill, marks a most critical turning point in the fast developing revolutionary situation....

Greece On Road To Revolution!

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Workers participated in their millions last Wednesday in the biggest one-day general strike in Greece. It was called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) against the...

Anger grows against Royal Mail’s pensions onslaught

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ROYAL MAIL managers have overwhelmingly rejected changes to their pensions in a ballot. Their union, Unite, revealed yesterday that there was an 85-per-cent vote...

NORTHERN ROCK JOBS SHOCK! – Unite pleges to fight compulsory redundancies

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The Unite trade union yesterday told Northern Rock that they will oppose any plans for compulsory redundancies at the publicly owned bank. Following the announcement...

WE WON’T ACCEPT WAGE CUTS – says PCS

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THERE were picket lines outside Jobcentres and benefit offices in London and across the country yesterday, at the start of a two-day strike by...

Chagossians Demand Right To Return!

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OVER 400 people attended the Chagos Islands Community Association rally in central London on Saturday evening, to demand the Chagossians’ right to return to...

80,000 Civil Servants Out!

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Up to 80,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), today begin a...

Soaring oil prices and the banking collapse mean class conflict on...

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ON SATURDAY more than 1,000 British Airways pilots marched on BA’s Heathrow headquarters over plans by BA to use non-BA pilots, in its new...

Labour Mounts Attack On Disabled

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Disability charities yesterday expressed concerns over Labour’s plans to introduce harsh work tests and force almost two million people off incapacity benefit. In his Budget...

GPs ANGRY OVER PENSIONS CAP!

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A JUDICIAL Review sought by the British Medical Association to challenge the government’s decision to cap the pensions of GPs will take place in...

CWU leaders organise a consultative ballot !over pensions

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TRUE to form the CWU leadership is declining to give any kind of leadership to its massive membership on the vital issue of the...

PCS CONDEMNS JOBS MASSACRE – while Purnell turns bounty hunters onto...

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement that Labour will slash a further 12,000 jobs and close an additional...

DOLLAR PLUNGES AGAINST EURO – as private equity boss warns of...

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The dollar plunged to another record low against the European single currency yesterday in the face of new US recession fears. In morning deals,...

Remploy Factories Being Closed

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THE LABOUR government is proceeding with its disgraceful closure programme of Remploy factories for disabled workers. Twenty-eight of the 83 Remploy factories around the country...

British Gas – 500% Profits Rise

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‘This greed has got to be stopped and the government should step in now and levy a windfall tax on the company,’ said UNISON...

Labour Attacks Youth, Workers, Sick And Immigrants

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Yesterday the government launched major attacks on workers and immigrants. Ministers announced plans to strip unemployed people of their benefits, force long term sick and...

It’s a Labour heaven for bankers but a hell for workers,...

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THE class message of the Labour government is clear. It is that if you’re a banker, you can do no wrong and are...

‘Unite Will Resist Compulsory Redundancies’ At Northern Rock

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Unite (Amicus section) yesterday expressed fears for the jobs of thousands of its members currently working at Northern Rock, as Chancellor Darling introduced emergency...

‘SKYROCKETING COSTS OF FAILING US HEALTHCARE SYSTEM’ HITTING WORKERS – warns...

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‘The skyrocketing costs of our nation’s failing health care system are hitting employers hard and that means higher costs for all of us,’ says...

Trade unions must act to defend workers’ standard of living

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THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has proclaimed that the crisis of capitalism means huge ongoing cuts in the standard of...

Massive General Strike In Greece

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Some 100,000 workers demonstrated through the Athens city centre last Wednesday as part of the one-day general strike called by the GSEE (Greek TUC)...

FBU anger mounting – strike action on the way!

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FIREFIGHTERS risk their lives every time they are called out. They never know what they are going to have to tackle, and often do...

Jordan On The Brink Of Revolution

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JORDAN has announced huge 76 per cent fuel price increases. In a statement the Jordanian government said that domestic fuel and kerosene prices had...

Labour’s Banker Kicks The Disabled!

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INVESTMENT banker David Freud is the adviser behind Prime Minister Brown’s plans to slash the benefits of the sick and the disabled. This is at...

Now is the time to build the Workers Revolutionary Party

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THE deeper the crisis of the capitalist system gets, the more desperate the measures that it takes to sustain the bosses and bankers’ system,...

Brown in partnership with McDonalds is going to bring in forced...

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TRUE to form, Brown the bankers’ prime minister, opened his speech on apprentices yesterday by hailing the employers saying: ‘I am delighted to join...

BROWN PLANS FORCED LABOUR – condemns TUC call for £110 a...

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‘WE’RE opposed to workfare, our position has not changed on that,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. He was responding to speeches by Prime...

HAIN QUITS! – after police called in

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Work and Pensions Secretary and Welsh Secretary Peter Hain yesterday quit the Cabinet after his late declaration of £103,000 of donations to his Labour...

Hain resigns after police are called in!

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PETER HAIN – the former Young Liberal radical, and then leader, in the 1970s of the Anti-Apartheid campaign and then the Anti-Nazi League –...

Bank Keeps Rate At 5.5%

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The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday voted to keep the official Bank Rate on hold at 5.5 per cent. The Bank had been...

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...

Cwu Ready To Accept End Of Final Salary Pensions

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‘We are unlikely to vote “Yes” unless Royal Mail changes its proposals’ to end final salary pensions, Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary...

TGWU stops BAA strike while Virgin says get other jobs!

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THE TGWU leadership, (now sheltering under the Unite label) has once again dropped a decision by its members to take strike action to...

2008 – The Year For Revolution!

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BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its revolutionary New Year’s greetings for the year 2008 to the workers and...

Barber’s two ‘big worries’, the crisis of capitalism and workers’ anger!

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BRENDAN Barber the TUC general secretary in his New Year message confesses that he has two ‘big worries’ for the year 2008. He...