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1.92 Million Unemployed

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UK unemployment rose by 131,000 to 1.92 million between September and November, the highest total since September 1997, figures from the Office for National...

Jaguar – 1300 Jobs To Go!

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The Unite trade union yesterday confirmed it is in talks with Jaguar Land Rover over fears of a further 1,300 job cuts. Unite sent News...

Unreal capitalism deserves to perish!

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THE crash of the British banks continued yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland declared a £27bn loss for 2008 on Monday and its share...

BANKS MELTDOWN – Taxpayers to foot the bill

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The government yesterday extended its stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland to 70 per cent as RBS headed for a record UK £27bn-£28bn...

200,000 March On Israeli Embassy

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OVER 200,000 people joined the largest-ever demonstration in Britain in support of the Palestinian people, when they marched in London on Saturday. About 10,000 people...

‘Action must be taken against the officers responsible for my...

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THE Justice4Jean Campaign said on Friday that Coroner Michael White ‘has presided over a complete whitewash’, following the conclusion of the inquest into the...

Gate Gourmet Loses BA Short-Haul Contract

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Northern Foods has won the British Airways contract to supply meals and sandwiches for short-haul flights from Heathrow airport, replacing Gate Gourmet. Northern, the food...

HALT NHS OUTSOURCING! – urges the Unison trade union

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THE NHS is wasting precious time and money introducing reforms that are failing to deliver better services to patients or value for money, says...

PCS condemns job cuts!

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to go ahead with the closure of 93 offices...

SCOTLAND’S HEALTH BOARDS NOT READY FOR 48-HOUR WEEK – warns BMA

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With less than 250 days to go until all junior doctors in Scotland will be restricted to working a maximum of 48 hours a...

Bank Of England Panic Rate Cut

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A realisation of the depth of the slump, yesterday drove the Bank of England to make a panic 1.5% cut in interest rates...

Civil Servants Vote To Strike Against 2 Per Cent Pay Cap

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Hundreds of thousands of civil servants, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over pay. A PCS...

BANKS FACE WIPEOUT! – Labour hints at state takeover

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The first banks to get money under the UK government’s £500bn bank rescue plan are expected to do so this morning. Over the weekend, the...

The Capitalist System Deserves To Perish

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THE run on shares last Friday, particularly bank shares, devastated capitalists and capitalism. The Royal Bank of Scotland saw its shares crash by 25 per...

BANK SHARES COLLAPSE! – Brown and bankers meet at 10 Downing...

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Billions more pounds were wiped off UK bank shares, yesterday, in the wake of Monday’s falls which saw £93bn wiped off the London Stock...

Eu Shares And Banks Crash

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UK share prices crashed yesterday, wiping over £85bn off the London Stock Exchange, with the FTSE 100 index crashing 391 points or 7.85% to...

Police Have No Regrets And No Remorse Say de Menezes Family

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THE Metropolitan Police chief, Blair, has already gone, his going made inevitable by the disgraceful attitude that he took to the police murder of...

NO PRIVATISATION! – Postal workers march on LP conference

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MORE than 800 postal workers from all parts of the country, from Plymouth to Scotland, marched on the Labour Party conference in Manchester yesterday...

Inquest Into The Death Of Jean Charles de Menezes Starts Monday

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The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes will begin next Monday 22nd September at 10am at the Oval Cricket Ground, The...

HBOS share price falls 50% in two days – as world...

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QUEUES formed around the Singapore offices of an AIG subsidiary yesterday, as the world’s biggest insurance company collapsed, losing 70% of its share price. At...

Bank shares fall while AIG and HBOS live on borrowed time!

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SHARE price collapses continued yesterday after the bankrupting of the fourth largest US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and the ‘rescue’ of Merrill Lynch by...

Stormont ‘On The Brink Of Collapse’

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By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER STORMONT stands on the brink of collapse – a political dilemma the North has not faced since 2002 when...

‘Let them eat cake!’ Brown turns his back on the...

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ADDRESSING the bosses of the Scottish CBI, Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured them that his government will not be giving workers, the poor and...

UK Economy Gripped By Slump And Inflation

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UK economic growth ground to a halt between April and June, according to the latest official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

‘FURTHER ACTION IN THE NEAR FUTURE’ – pledges Matt Smith of...

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‘If there is no movement then we will have to look to further action in the near future,’ UNISON Scottish Secretary Matt Smith told...

Nationalise BAA – forward to a national transport system

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THE call has gone up in the Competition Commission report that three of BAA’s seven airports – two of its three in London, out...

DNA DATABASE ‘BY STEALTH’! – 40,000 innocent children among 4 million...

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The Brown government was yesterday accused of building up a national DNA database ‘by stealth’ by retaining profiles of nearly 40,000 children never...

RBS BANK CRASHES! – from £5bn pfofit down to £802m loss

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The Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday revealed a half-year net loss of £802 million, the second biggest in British banking history. This was after...

£3 billion more of state aid for the Northern Rock

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THE Northern Rock bank, recently nationalised by the government has made a £585m loss for the first six months of the year, but the...

Banks are crashing while 140,000 repossessions loom at Northern Rock

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THE HSBC bank has just declared a 28 per cent, $3.9bn fall in half year profits. It has written off another $3.7 billion...

TREAT MIGRANT WORKERS FAIRLY demands UNISON

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UNISON has welcomed new research showing the value of trade unions to migrant workers. The report by social policy charity the Rowntree Foundation was launched...

Restore free accommodation for junior doctors

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Around 300 medical students from across the country held a rally on Friday before holding an overnight protest against the removal of hospital accommodation...

The Brown Government Is The Enemy Of The People

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PREMIER BROWN told his monthly news briefing yesterday of the war that he is waging on the country’s youth and the 110,000 ‘problem families’...

Gadaffi Rejects ‘Med Union’ As ‘Crusaders Containment’

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LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi has strongly criticised Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposed Mediterranean union project, and rejected it as a ‘Crusaders’ containment of the Islamic...

Doctors Angry At NHS Privatisation

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DOCTORS’ anger at the drive to privatise the NHS dominated the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh this week. Delegates voted overwhelmingly for...

Darzi Rejected – Bma Conference Votes For No NHS Privatisation!

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DOCTORS at the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh yesterday voted to stop the privatisation of the NHS, and voted...

£400 Energy Rise On Way!

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HUGE hikes in gas and electricity bills are coming this year, the energy privateers flagrantly announced yesterday. ‘Big Six’ energy bosses told MPs on the...

SAFETY CRIMES ‘FILTERED OUT’ says report

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At least twice as many people die from fatal injuries at work than are victims of homicide, a new report from the Centre for...

Tankers Strike Troops Stand By

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Formal talks between Unite trade union officials and Shell suppliers are due to resume today, as hundreds of petrol stations have begun closing. Informal talks...

Support the Shell-HOYER tanker workers!

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IN the last few weeks we have seen the road hauliers take to the streets against the massive increases in petrol and diesel prices...

SHELL TANKER DRIVERS OUT – from 6am Friday June 13th

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SIX HUNDRED Shell tanker drivers are to take four-day strike action from 6am on Friday, fighting for a £2,000 pay rise and a minimum...

London Lecturers’ Pay Strike!

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COLLEGE lecturers in London, members of the University and College Union (UCU), will take strike action on Monday (9 June). And further action across England...

Ports Stop Across Eu!

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Several thousand striking fishermen from across Spain, as well as some of their counterparts from France, Italy and Scotland, protested outside the Ministry of...

Forward to a public sector general strike to smash Brown’s wage...

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GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...

BLOCKADES IN A WEEK! – road hauliers give Brown 7 days...

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ANGRY road hauliers yesterday spelled out exactly what they will do when the government tries to ignore their huge protest convoys against soaring fuel...