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Keep Tories Out – Forward To Socialism!

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THE UK capitalist economy is staggering along the bottom with a three month ‘growth’ to show, from January to March, of 0.2 per cent. The...

‘WE ARE DEFENDING OUR JOBS!’ – PCS pickets the High Court

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‘GORDON BROWN hear us say – our contracts are here to stay! shouted eighty Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members and officials outside...

NAHT and NUT boycott of SATs to go ahead

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Following a successful ballot of both unions’ leadership members, the NUT and NAHT executives have decided that the boycott of this year’s SATs will...

Greece Can’t Pay – Workers Won’t Pay!

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ACCORDING to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, Greece has a much bigger budget deficit than that reported by the Greek government last year....

Unemployment and inflation rising, as British capitalism crumbles!

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THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 43,000 to 2.5 million during the three months to February, the highest figure since...

43,000 Jobless Rise!

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The number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 43,000 to 2.5 million during the three months to February, its highest level since...

Workers hit by inflation leap and huge jobs crisis

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THE UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate rose sharply to 3.4% in March from 3% the month before, official figures show. The Retail...

Inflation Lets Rip!

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Inflation rose to 4.8 per cent in March, according to the latest RPIX index – which includes all items excluding mortgage interest payments. The latest...

Palestinian Prisoners Day protests in the West Bank and Gaza

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THE Israeli army announced Saturday that the West Bank will be sealed off from midnight until Tuesday, ahead of Israeli Independence Day. A statement from...

US Unemployment Rises Along With Repossessions!

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THE number of US workers signing up for unemployment benefits and leaving non-farming payrolls has risen sharply for the second consecutive week. The US Labour...

FINANCIAL CRISIS HITS GAZA! – as the deadly siege is tightened

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The Gaza government is facing a financial crisis in light of a ban imposed on bank transfers to the Hamas-led government by Egypt and...

US REFINERY INDUSTRY MUST LEARN FROM PAST DISASTERS – insists USW...

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The United Steelworkers (USW) Union on Monday said that the US refinery industry has failed to learn from past disasters. The USW said that...

Set The Strike Dates Now! Demand Cabin Crew

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‘We want the next strike dates set now,’ a female British Airways cabin crew member at Heathrow told News Line yesterday. She was responding ...

NHS NOT FOR SALE! – defend the Welfare State

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‘NHS NOT FOR SALE – Keep Our NHS Public!’ declared the banner which led the Defend the Welfare State march on Saturday, alongside that...

Build the WRP!

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AT SATURDAY’S march to defend the Welfare State, workers from across the country were clear that action will have to be taken to defend...

Welfare State ‘Not For Sale!’

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thousands of workers, trade unionists, students and youth are marching through London this afternoon, against 13 years of Labour attacks on public services and...

Political Revolution In Kyrgyzstan

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THE Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, spoke by phone Thursday with the new interim leader in Kyrgyzstan whose ‘peoples government’ has been placed in...

Palestinian youths killed by Israeli military

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FOUR Palestinian youths from Nablus, aged 19 and under, were killed by the Israeli occupation army on March 20 and 21. An Israeli military statement...

4.5m ON WAITING LISTS – privatisation creates housing disaster

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THE privatisation of housing has been a complete disaster. Completely inadequate numbers of new homes have been built in every region in England since...

Chagossians Are Furious At Miliband Stab In The Back

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‘IT’S UNACCEPTABLE. All they are doing is making their own decisions and taking away our rights,’ the chair of the Chagos Islands Community Association...

‘TAKE OUT A WRIT AGAINST FORD’ –demand 500 ex-Visteon workers

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500 sacked Visteon workers demonstrated outside the Unite London headquarters on Wednesday to demand the union immediately takes out a writ against Ford motor...

PAY FREEZE – NO WAY! – unions demonstrate outside LGA

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More than 100 members of the three local government unions, Unison, GMB and Unite, held a noisy demonstration over pay, job and service cuts...

Protests Erupt In Bethlehem

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Israel detained eleven Palestinians in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, amid protests over restrictions preventing Christians from performing religious rites in...

RAIL STRIKE IS ON! – to defend safety

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Four days of national strike action against job cuts and in defence of safety were announced by the RMT and TSSA rail unions yesterday,...

Workers strikes hit the Sarkozy regime

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FIRST of all the French electorate gave the right wing Sarkozy regime a bloody nose, and now yesterday’s general strike by the public sector...

PCS-Budget Day Strike!

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UP to a quarter of a million civil and public servants from across the UK will be taking part in a one day strike...

BA Continues Cancelling Flights

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BRITISH Airways’ deepening crisis showed yesterday as it still cancelled flights in the aftermath of a three-day strike by cabin crew. The airline’s website shows...

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...

ALL OUT ON THE 27th

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AT Gatwick, on Sunday morning, pickets at the South Terminal roundabout got tremendous support from passing motorists, coaches and lorries, and fellow airport workers,...

STRIKE ON! ‘WALSH LOOKING FOR A WAR’ – says Unite leader...

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British Airways cabin crew are taking three-days of strike action today, tomorrow and Monday and a further four-days strike action starting on March 27th. After...

British Government Seeks To Hide Its ‘Torture Policy’

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‘AFTER a full year, the British Government still refuses to reveal its “Torture Policy’’ – reneging on assurances that it would be published before...

BA ‘Rambo’ Walsh Returns To Talks

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MASSIVE, worldwide support for the British Airways cabin crew yesterday forced BA boss Walsh back to the negotiating table with the Unite union. Aviation unions...

Sussex University Students Reinstated

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STRIKING lecturers and students at Sussex University celebrated yesterday when six suspended students were reinstated. The six were suspended by the university’s management for taking...

Maliki supporters threaten ‘insurrection’ if he is not made Premier

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IRAQ’s election race tightened between the two main rivals Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the former Premier Iyad Allawi, after a count, of 79...

Power Cuts Hit Greek Cities

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GREEK workers of the State Electricity Corporation staged a solid-rock 48-hour national strike on Tuesday and Wednesday and occupied several power plants as well...

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...

BUDGET DAY STRIKE! – by 270,000 PCS civil servants!

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THE PCS civil service union yesterday announced that members across the UK will be walking out for a third day of strike action on...

BA WANTS A WAR! – says Tony Woodley

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a back-stabbing attack on the British Airways workers and their union, demanding that their strike planned to...

Support BA workers! Forward to a general strike!

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LABOUR PM Gordon Brown yesterday condemned the BA cabin crew members of Unite for the seven days of strike action due to take place...

COSATU demands: End PPPs, Ban ‘labour brokers’ (gangmasters) and expand state...

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COSATU’s 1st Deputy President, Tyotyo James addressed South Africa’s Public Sector Summit on March 12 2010. He said: ‘COSATU is pleased to have been...

Labour strikebreakers back BA’s anti-union drive

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British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union has...

O’LOAN REPORT CONFIRMS YARL’S WOOD ABUSE – ‘and the failure to...

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‘THE O’Loan Report confirms Yarl’s Wood abuse and the failure to investigate it,’ says Public Interest Lawyers. Public Interest Lawyers said: ‘Today’s report by Baroness...

Labour attacks BA strike

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THE Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis yesterday demanded that Unite cancel the planned strike action by British Airways cabin crew, despite an overwhelming vote...

BA Union Busters!

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UNITE, Britain’s biggest trade union, yesterday warned that British Airways bosses are out to smash the union at Heathrow and Gatwick. The union said it...

‘Rail Cuts Cost Lives’–RMT

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‘ACT now to stop another rail tragedy’, demanded the RMT rail union yesterday, in a demonstration alongside members of sister union TSSA outside the...