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THE UNISON leaders who originally accepted the three year sub-inflation pay deal for NHS workers, along with the RCN, without going to ballot, yesterday...

THE announcement by the Brown government that it is going to bring private managers in to run NHS hospitals is a concrete example of...

AT a time when the working class is starting to roar like a lion and demand and vote by over 90 per cent majorities...

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...

CWU members working in Royal Mail are facing the greatest threats to their jobs and conditions in the entire history of the postal service. With...

‘My personal view is the unions should be up in arms over the number of beds lost in the NHS,’ East Surrey UNISON official...

THE defeat of the Labour Party in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election – by 7,860 votes, making a 17.6% swing to the Tories from...

Prime minister Brown signalled more attacks on workers, the sick, unemployed and disabled people in his speech to MPs yesterday, outlining the government’s draft...

MEMBERS of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have been joined by over 50 angry pensioners and other local residents in a demonstration against the...

LEADING people at the centre of the three Blair governments have published their memoirs for big cash payments, knowing full well that...

THE class basis of the Blairite ‘Third Way’ politics is now being clearly revealed for all to see. It is a one hundred per...

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith yesterday announced a new state crackdown on working class youth and their parents. She said announcing ‘Operation Leopard’: ‘It’s exactly the...

HOME SECRETARY Smith yesterday revealed Labour’s master plan, at a ‘We’re Not Having It’ outrage conference, held to try to claw back its lost...

LABOUR suffered a net loss of 331 seats in local elections in England and Wales on 1 May. It also lost out to Tory...

BROWN’S ‘bad night for Labour’ was the direct result of a self-inflicted wound – Brown’s Thatcherite policies – that cost Labour up to...

MAY DAY MANIFESTO By the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE editorial Board sends its May Day greetings for the year 2008 to the workers...

A BATTALION of 600 British troops will be sent to Kosovo, Defence Secretary Des Browne announced yesterday, after NATO requested extra soldiers...

DAVID Miliband yesterday urged the Labour Party to rally behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is facing mounting opposition in the working class because...

Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN 7. Internal Forces of the Russian Revolution (Appeared in the New York daily paper...

Chancellor Darling admitted yesterday that ‘of course’ he knew that abolishing the 10p tax rate would affect five million low-paid workers. However, in an interview...

CHANCELLOR Darling yesterday admitted that the Labour government, cold-bloodedly, in the last budget, abolished the 10p tax rate for the lower paid, knowing that...

By Irish political journalist John Coulter THE racist British National Party has confirmed it will contest the next Northern Irish council elections. Mid Ulster, Upper Bann,...

PRIME MINISTER Brown said yesterday that he will not be diverted from taking ‘unpopular’ decisions to ensure Britain gets through the global credit crunch....

Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday called on the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) not to re-open its corruption probe into the 1986 so-called ‘Al-Yamamah’...

Former Deputy Prime Minister Prescott claimed £4,000 in a year expenses to purchase food, while his former boss Blair even...

AHEAD of MPs considering the Second Reading of the new Counter-Terrorism Bill in Parliament yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for extension of...

SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls and his predecessor Alan Johnson have given the go-head to the sell-off of 19 school playing fields over the past...

AS IS to be expected the imperialists, with Britain in the lead, are engaging in an economic blockade, black propaganda, etc to get rid...

GORDON Brown says Labour MPs will have a free vote on three ‘controversial parts’ of his embryo research Bill, thus giving way to the...

The government’s forecasts for the costs of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in this financial year have ‘increased significantly over the last three...

PREMIER Brown’s pre-budget comment piece in the Financial Times was written so that he could talk directly to his constituency, the bosses. He...

By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER THE three unarmed Provisional IRA members shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar two decades ago were allegedly sacrificed...

Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday admitted that on two occasions, both in 2002, UK overseas territory Diego Garcia had been used for US rendition...

FOREIGN Secretary Miliband yesterday admitted in the House of Commons that previous government denials that the island of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands...

THE Tory Party has been driven to the brink of hysteria by the fact that the capitalist world banking system is on the brink...

RAPIDLY rising food, gas, electricity and petrol prices pushed up the cost of living in January, even according to the government’s rigged inflation rate...

Prime Minister Brown had war talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Downing Street yesterday afternoon. The pair discussed tensions within NATO over...

UNEMPLOYED council and housing association tenants must be made to sign a new tenancy agreement under which they will agree to have their skill...

FURIOUS parents and staff belonging to Unison public sector union have forced Crawley Borough Council (CBC) to issue letters to parents to deny it...

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...

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...

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

TUESDAY’S mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital heard that the decision to close the hospital’s A&E, Maternity and Paediatric Departments has been ‘put on...

EVERY year the Labour government is handing over £40bn to the consortia of financiers, property developers and construction giants in payments for Private Finance...

THE TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, in his New Year’s message said that his two fears for 2008 were the dangers of a banking...