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Tube Strike On!

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Strikes by 10,000 Tube workers will begin on Monday after talks at conciliation service ACAS broke up yesterday. This followed a failure on the part...

Trade unions need their own political representation

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AMID the media frenzy surrounding the publication of former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s autobiography, A Journey, ballot papers were sent out for the Labour...

STOP TUC TALKS WITH TORIES – Barber must be sacked!

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‘The TUC-Tory talks must stop’, Dave Wiltshire the All Trades Union Alliance Secretary told News Line yesterday. Wiltshire said: ‘Brendan Barner is discussing with Cameron...

End TUC collaboration with Tories

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The news this week that Unison, the largest public sector union, has launched a legal challenge to the coalition government’s white paper on the...

Demand TUC call a General Strike!

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The leaders of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have refused to condemn Labour right-winger Alan Milburn for accepting a position with the Tory-led coalition...

Bank Alarm Over Inflation Rate – Prices Still Above Target

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BANK of England Governor Mervyn King was rattled yesterday after the latest UK inflation figures showed that prices are still soaring. Although the figures for...

18-59% food prices hike!

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The price of staple foods has shot up by between 18 and 59 per cent over the past three years, as world supply problems...

RMT demands inspection of all fire detection equipment

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TUBE union RMT is to leaflet rush-hour passengers at Euston station tomorrow morning, Wednesday, August 11 over cuts to safety and safety-critical jobs. This follows...

Call a general strike – build Councils of Action – forward...

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THE Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said yesterday that the government should ban strikes by workers in essential services, adding that this...

Fight 40% Bus Cuts!

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LONDON Bus reps are meeting at the Unite union office at Woodberry, Manor Park, north London at 11am today, to plan coordinated action to...

Police officer who attacked Tomlinson will not even be charged with...

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HARRY STANLEY was shot dead by armed police in Hackney in September 1999. They said that they thought that he was carrying a shotgun...

STOP CAMERON ADDRESSING TUC! – RMT begins a national campaign

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THE RMT transport union confirmed yesterday that it is mobilising grassroots opposition amongst rank and file trade unionists to an invitation to Tory Prime...

Labour Pressing Ahead With Heygate Estate Demolition!

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ANGER IS growing at the attack on council housing and in particular because the drive to destroy big estates like the Heygate Estate in...

‘We will mobilise unions and communities!’ says PCS leader Serwotka

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GMB national officer Sharon Holder yesterday called for ‘a coordinated effort organised by the TUC to defend public services and jobs.’ She was responding to...

Pick Up The Tory Libdem Gauntlet And Call A General Strike

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THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday issued a ‘call to arms’ to the entire Labour and Trade Union movement and to all the communities under...

CROW CALLS FOR GENERAL STRIKE! – no mandate for coalition cuts!

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THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday called for ‘general coordinated strike action allied to community direct action’ to resist the ConDem coalition government’s...

‘A DISHONEST BUDGET AT EVERY LEVEL’ – says NASUWT

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COMMENTING on the Chancellor’s budget statement, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the major teachers’ union, said: ‘Despite the Chancellor’s opening remarks that...

Answer The ‘Shock And Awe’ Budget With A General Strike

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THE Tory-Lib Dem shock and awe budget is due next Tuesday. Already workers, pensioners and youth are calling for action against this savage attack that...

Greek Hospitals Collapse!

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THE Greek government have stopped financing hospitals and the result is that patients cannot receive even the most elementary of treatments due to a...

CHINESE STALINISTS PROP UP RAJAPAKSE – as India and US compete...

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TAMILNET reports that the Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang last Saturday morning called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse at the Presidential residence House....

Greek Workers March Against Zionist Piracy

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Over 5,000 workers and students demonstrated through Athens city centre on Thursday evening against the Zionist pirates and their murders of the Freedom...

TRADE UNIONS CONDEMN TORY COALITION’S £6.25bn CUTS –but have no plan...

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THE INITIAL £6.25 billion spending cuts announced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government on Monday, that will lead to thousands of sackings and closures...

Tory-Lib Dem Butchers Outline The Task Ahead

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TORY CHANCELLOR Osborne provided an outline of his £6.2bn of spending cuts for 2010-11 yesterday, with Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laws...

Defend the right to strike with a general strike to bring...

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YESTERDAY the RMT rail workers trade union warned that an all-out assault on workers’ rights was taking place as BA used the Network Rail...

‘We need tougher regulation for oil giants!’ – says USW leader...

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‘The governors of the Gulf Coast states, all Republicans, asked the federal government for help dealing with the BP oil spill – yeah, the...

Socialist Revolution Is Now On The Agenda Of Greek Workers

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ON Wednesday workers in Greece staged the biggest ever 24-hour general strike against the IMF–European Commission’s imposed austerity measures with millions participating. Planes remained...

‘Peoples Of Europe Rise Up!’

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GREEK workers in the public and private sectors are preparing for today’s 24-hour general strike which is certain to be one of the biggest...

HUGE WAGE AND PENSION CUTS – hundreds of thousands to lose...

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IN a press conference on Sunday afternoon, May 2nd the Greek Finance Minister Yiorghos Papakonstantinou announced yet another set of austerity measures verified later...

‘This is the generation that is going to end capitalism!’

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THE WRP held a 150 strong rally at the end of the London Sertuc (TUC) May Day march from Clarkenwell Green to Trafalgar...

Keep Whittington Open!

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Over 300 people rallied outside the Whittington Hospital, north London, yesterday lunchtime, against the closure of the hospital’s A&E and maternity departments. Organisers ‘Defend the...

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....

Bankrupt airlines need to be nationalised!

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YESTERDAY BALPA, the pilots’ union, sounded the alarm at the crisis of the major airlines. This has been immeasurably sharpened by the eruption and continuing...

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...

Vote Wrp! Vote For Socialism!

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The WRP is standing seven candidates in the May 6 parliamentary elections and below is the party’s election manifesto. VOTE WRP ON MAY 6th! VOTE FOR...

Vote WRP, forward to the socialist revolution!

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PM Brown yesterday announced that the general election will be held on 6 May and told voters Labour will take the ‘big decisions’ that...

Smash The Anti-Union Laws!

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THE RMT has called off its Network Rail strike action of signal workers after the judiciary declared it to be illegal, using the ruling...

RMT STRIKE BANNED! –Ruling class justice at work

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THE High Court yesterday followed up its decision to ban strike action at British Airways at Christmas by banning strike action at Network Rail...

Capitalist State Prefers Brown Over Cameron

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LABOUR Prime Minister Brown is the choice of the capitalist state should there be a hung parliament on May 7, even if the...

‘WE ARE WINNING!’ – cabin crew in determined mood on day...

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The British Airways cabin crew strike is gathering strength as the management fails to keep the airplanes flying through the dispute. During the Saturday of...

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,...

‘WE NEED TO UNITE WITH OTHER PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS’ – hundreds...

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Up to a quarter of a million civil servants were out on strike on Wednesday, expressing their anger at the threat to thousands of...

‘THE FIGHT FOR JOBS IS ON!’ – civil servants rally outside...

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Parliament Square yesterday reverberated with the slogans of hundreds of Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) workers who had joined hundreds of thousands of...

‘Shameful Brown’ Wants To Sack Workers On The Cheap

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‘WHAT a shameful act by a Labour prime minister as possibly his final act – opening the door to the Tories to come in...

This Is A War That Has To Be Won!

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UNITE co-leader Tony Woodley stated yesterday that it was not possible to get an agreement with BA and cancel the BA cabin crew...

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...