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FORCED MIGRATION USED TO DEFLECT SOCIAL REVOLT – says Philippines health...

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‘Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is like a poster girl promoting migration of Filipinos in the name of dollar remittances, at the expense of the poor’, the...

Oligarchs Go Bust As World Crisis Hits Home

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Russia’s super-rich oligarchs, who made their fortunes by stealing or purchasing for a pittance chunks of the Soviet nationalised and planned economy under the...

IRAQ – MILLI0NS AT RISK FROM foul WATER, FIVE YEARS AFTER...

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THE International Committee of the Red Cross has issued a damning report that millions of Iraqis’ lives are threatened by foul water and diseases...

Internally Displaced Persons’ Lives In Danger

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TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Vavuniyaa has held back for weeks a vehicle bringing 52 oxygen cylinders from Colombo to...

Occupy To Stop Chase Farm Closure

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‘WE’RE having a good picket today, with plenty of support for an occupation of Chase Farm Hospital,’ said Bill Rogers, North-East London Council of...

The Bank Of England Drops Its Debt Bombshell

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THE world’s banks have now lost £1.8 trillion the Bank of England has reported in its Financial Stability Report. This is as a result of...

Health Workers Facing Severe Hardship

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Health workers across the NHS are facing severe hardship due to the current economic crisis and the effect of a below inflation pay deal,...

American Terrorists Launch Murderous Attack On Syria

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SYRIA has protested angrily to both the US and Iraq after a terror raid by four US helicopters inside its territory killed eight Syrian...

Stop this wholesale closure of NHS hospitals and GP surgeries

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THE government is activating a mass hospital closure programme. 30 to 40 ‘failing’ NHS trusts could be handed over to new management, which could...

‘WE WILL KEEP THE MAIL CENTRE IN CREWE OPEN’ insists local...

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Up to 700 Crewe postal workers, their families and supporters braved the rain on Saturday for a march and rally in the town in...

British Capitalism At The Centre Of The Capitalist Crisis

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THE worldwide capitalist crisis drove the pound down on Friday into an unprecedented collapse. The pound slumped 9.6 US cents to $1.52 at...

The Trade Unions Must Defend Every Job!

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THE London and New York stock markets were in free fall yesterday, losing hundreds of points, with tens of billions of dollars and pounds...

WE WILL FIGHT UNTIL WE RETURN TO OUR ISLANDS – say...

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OVER 150 Chagos Islanders and their supporters – including a delegation of Chagossians who had flown from Mauritius – were at the House of...

POINTS INCORRECTLY SET UP – were the cause of Grayrigg disaster

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Rail union RMT yesterday renewed its call for a joint public inquiry into the Grayrigg and Potters Bar rail crashes and a reversal of...

SA hunger can only be ended by a socialist revolution

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ONE in four South Africans are unemployed, and poverty is rife eighteen years after the release of Nelson Mandela and 14 years after he...

Greek Trotskyists Call For Indefinite General Strike

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THE Greek working class delivered a most powerful notice to all concerned last Tuesday with a militant 24-hour general strike called by the GSEE...

Law lords rule for US imperialism to keep the Chagossians in...

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THE House of Lords appeal court yesterday reversed the three decisions taken by seven senior judges, in previous court hearings, that the Chagos Islanders...

HOUSE OF LORDS RULES FOR US IMPERIALISM! – Abolishes the right...

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‘WE WILL return to the Chagos Islands – it’s our right!’, ‘We will return to Diego Garcia – it’s our right!’ shouted more than...

Brown, Keynes and revolution

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AFTER actively assisting in the creation of trillions of debt, and showing its contempt for the concept of value by selling almost half of...

Labour is going to bring a co-payment system into the NHS

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AS the economic crisis deepens, the drive to privatise the NHS is being stepped up on a number of fronts. One is the growing...

‘ALLOW US TO SPEAK!’ – demand French Tamils

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TAMILNET reports that the French Tamil diaspora has been demonstrating, demanding ‘Allow us to speak’. ‘Allow us to speak! We are not terrorists. What is...

Banking Panic In The Ukraine

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THE Abkhazian and South Ossetian parliaments have been unanimously granted permanent observer status at the 34th session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia...

Labour Becomes The Anti-Immigrants Party

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THE number of immigrants allowed into the UK under the current ‘points system’ will have to be reduced because of the economic crisis, and...

Crs Riot Police Attack Weather Service Workers

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CRS riot police were used against striking Meteo-France weather service workers who were picketing and blockading the organisation’s Toulouse site at 22.30 on...

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...

Gmb Fights Victimisations

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The GMB on Wednesday welcomed the reinstatement at Heathrow Airport’s Arora Hotel of ‘a father sacked for fulfiling family commitments’. GMB said the hotel management...

IRISH WORKERS SHARE BURDEN OF ECONOMIC CRISIS – says Irish Congress...

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THE one per cent economic crisis levy on the wages of every worker in the Irish Budget was described as ‘a crude instrument that...

HUGE JOBLESS RISE! – warning of 3 million unemployed

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The number of unemployed people in the UK rose by another 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, according to the latest government...

To fight mass unemployment bring down Brown government

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The number of UK unemployed rose by 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, taking the official unemployment rate to 5.7% from...

Union leaders in Brown’s top pocket

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The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure leapt from 4.7% in August to 5.2% in December, with the Retail Prices Index (RPI), which includes the...

DEBT CRISIS! – UNISON writes to all local councils

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UNISON has written to all local councils demanding to know what steps they are taking to recover cash invested in Iceland banks and how...

No sackings, or wage ‘holidays’ for bankrupt banks and councils

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YESTERDAY the Brown government was emphasising that it had no interest in running the three banks that it was ‘part-nationalising’ (rescuing) with £37bn of...

42 Writers Oppose 42 Days Detention

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FORTY TWO leading writers will join Liberty in opposing government plans to hold suspects for 42 days without charge. The 42 ‘Writers for Liberty’...

‘WE ARE VERY CONFIDENT OF VICTORY’ – say Gate Gourmet sacked...

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300 people attended a special Third Anniversary concert for the sacked Gate Gourmet workers at Hambrough Primary School in Southall, west London, on Saturday...

Northern Ireland – Massive NHS Cuts On The Agenda

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MORE THAN 700 nursing posts are under threat in Northern Ireland as part of wider plans to cut almost 2,500 health service jobs over...

‘SORT OUT OUR WAGES!’ – demand London busworkers

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Over 6,000 bus drivers were out on a 24 hour strike yesterday to protest at the huge pay disparity between the eighteen London bus...

Busworkers Demand Fair Pay And Fair Treatment

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BUS drivers across London and Crawley, working for First Bus, Metroline and Metrobus, are staging a 24-hour strike today, demanding a fair pay rise...

ZIMBABWE TEACHERS ON INDEFINITE STRIKE! – as ZCTU condemns power sharing...

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SCHOOL exams in Zimbabwe should be cancelled because strike action by teachers has left pupils unprepared, a teaching union said on Tuesday. ‘For the record,...

Free The Miami Five Now Demands Rally Of 500 Trade Unionists

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Over 500 trade unionists, youth and supporters rallied outside the US Embassy in central London on Wednesday evening to demand the release of the...

RAJAPAKSE WAR CRIMINAL – declare 6,000 Tamil Eelam demonstrators

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WE WANT Tamil Eelam!’, ‘Don’t kill Tamil people!’, ‘Let us live in peace!’, ‘Rajapakse – war criminal!’ and ‘Sri Lanka – terror government!’ shouted...

Afghan Fall Out – Gates Attacks UK Defeatists

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US Defence Secretary Gates has condemned as ‘defeatist’ a comment by the British commander in Afghanistan that the war there cannot be won. Speaking...

Brown’s National Economic Council ‘war cabinet’ will be making war on...

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‘WE have agreed to make a solemn engagement as heads of state and government to support banking and financial institutions faced with the crisis,’...

Brown brings back Mandelson to fight the trade unions

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WITH the financial storm clouds starting to burst around him, Prime Minister Brown has established with his cabinet reshuffle that he means every word...

DEFEND HINCHINBROOKE HOSPITAL – 1,300 doctors, nurses, and health workers’ jobs...

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Doctors, nurses and health workers will take to the streets with local people today, Saturday 4 October, to defend the future of Hinchingbrooke Hospital,...

RESTORE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS – ACTU urges Rudd government

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Turmoil in the global economy has increased the urgency for a fair and balanced industrial relations system, said Australian Council of Trade Unions (actu)...