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Cuts to be met by sustained industrial action

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A delegation of over 40 Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members and officials lobbied the Treasury as Chancellor Osborne was making his budget...

Tories target workers, disabled and children to pay the bankers’ debts!

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OSBORNE said of his emergency Budget yesterday; ‘Yes it is tough; but it is also fair.’ Further on in his speech he allowed just...

Greek Decree For Mass Sackings & Wage Cuts

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The Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou has unveiled the contents of a Presidential Decree which would allow for mass sackings, at half...

VITAL SKILLED JOBS TO GO! – Government cuts aid to...

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the Tory-led government announced the cancellation of 12 funding projects worth £2 billion yesterday, as well as the suspension of a further 12 projects...

Defeat Tory-Lib Dem attacks on public sector pensions!

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TORY Prime Minister David Cameron and his Deputy Nick Clegg have declared war on six million workers in the public sector and their pensions. Clegg...

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...

Defend all GM jobs! Occupy and Nationalise UK’s Vauxhall plants!

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ON Thursday May 21, GM announced that ‘Representatives of Unite, the union, signed the UK Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and European framework agreement in...

NATO under the hammer – as Tories refuse to serve in...

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THE surge organised by President Obama and General Petraeus in Afghanistan has been turned into its opposite by the Taleban. The Taleban have now organised...

‘A CHILLING ATTACK ON THE PUBLIC SECTOR’ –Prentis condemns government cuts

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‘Prime Minister Cameron’s plans to slash public spending will hit the poor and the vulnerable,’ TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned yesterday. Commenting on ...

‘Walsh will never crush BASSA’

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‘THE rest of the British Airways workforce must be called out on strike to join us in our fight to beat Walsh,’ said striking...

‘MY UNCLE WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD AT POINT-BLANK RANGE’ ...

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‘MY uncle was shot in the head, at point blank range,’ the nephew of one of the victims of Israel’s massacre on the Gaza...

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...

‘we Are Fighting Union-Busting’

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STRIKING British airways cabin crew are completing their latest five-day strike at midnight tonight and will be resuming their next five days action at...

Free the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ volunteers! Organise an armada to break the...

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NINETEEN members of the six ship ‘Freedom Flotilla’ were yesterday murdered by Israeli special forces in a major war crime, and a larger...

Laws’ resignation holes the coalition!

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ON Monday May 25th, David Laws, the new Chief Secretary of the Treasury, standing next to his master Chancellor Osborne, announced that the £6.2...

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...

Tories Mount Jobs Assault

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Chancellor Osborne yesterday announced the first £6.2bn of savage cuts planned by the Tory coalition. At a press conference, Osborne confined himself to generalities, then...

Queen’s Speech leaked as axe set to fall on public sector...

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THE leaking of the Queen’s budget speech is unprecedented, and is an expression of the depth of the split and the cynicism in the...

BA–No Deal

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The five-day strike by British Airways (BA) cabin crew went ahead at midnight last night after talks between the Unite union and BA management...

150,000 Workers March Through Athens

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Trade unionists estimated that some 150,000 workers and youth participated in the two separate marches in Athens on Thursday. The GSEE (Greek TUC) stated that...

Capitalist state steps back from the brink!

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BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...

Down with the junta of the IMF!

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• No to the destruction of the state pension system • Down with the junta of the IMF-European Commission-Papandreou! • For an indefinite Political General Strike! Statement...

Cbi Tells Tories – Impose Two Year Wage Freeze And Privatise!

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THE CBI BOSSES organisation yesterday called for an immediate freeze in the public sector pay bill for two years and a ‘re-engineering’ (destruction) ‘of...

Cbi Calls For Two-Year Wage Freeze

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Public sector trade union Unison, yesterday condemned the bosses’ organisation, the CBI, for calling for a two year public sector pay freeze. Unison...

Tuc General Council Must Meet To Defend Right To Strike!

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COMMENTING on yesterday’s decision in the High Court banning the BA cabin crew strikes, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘This is a desperately...

Huge Leap In The Inflation Rate!

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RPI INFLATION soared by 5.3 per cent last month, indicating that a huge cut in workers’ wages and a major hike in the cost...

‘NO RIGHT TO STRIKE IN BRITAIN!’ – Brendan Barber of the...

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TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said yesterday that he was ‘desperately worried’ about the High Court decision to make the cabin crew strike at...

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 will return!’

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‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 800 protesters at a Nakba (Catastrophe) Day demonstration opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The protestors insisted that Palestinian refugees must have...

Vote Wrp – Keep The Tories Out– Forward To The Socialist...

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100,000 trade unionists and youth marched in Athens yesterday against the EU-IMF savage cuts programme being carried out by the Papandreou ‘socialist’ government. Today millions...

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...

MAY DAY MANIFESTO – ‘Permanent state of Revolution!’ says Greek...

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THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers of the world at a time of the greatest ever...

Down With The Imf Junta Say Athens Workers

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Over five thousand public sector workers marched through the Athens city centre last Tuesday evening against the government’s appeal to the IMF. Throughout the militant...

Form public sector alliance to defend the NHS – Forward to...

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THE just published survey of the NHS, carried out for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) trade union, found that 90 per cent of...

Richest are 30% better off!

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‘THIS situation cannot be allowed to continue,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday in response to this year’s Sunday Times Rich...

Piraeus port blockaded!

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ATHENS – Thousands of Greek seafarers supported by other workers as well as students blockaded, from early on Wednesday morning, the ships and ferries...

Unite Warns On Wage & Job Cuts

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THE Unite union is warning that workers must not be expected to meet the costs of the disruption brought by the erupting Icelandic...

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...

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...

Karzai talks with the Taleban as US policy comes unstuck

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THE situation in Afghanistan has gone from bad to worse as far as the imperialist powers and their plans for the region are concerned. Last...

Scrap the regional fire control centres!

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THE House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee report on the government’s plan, to replace 46 Fire Control centres with nine new...

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...

BRING OUT BA GROUND STAFF! – demand BA cabin crew

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UNITE cabin crew members at British Airways yesterday called on their union to ballot BA ground staff on strike action. They also said BA’s ‘bullying’...