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Brown & Mandelson are not talking down the pound, they are...

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THE EU Commission’s President Barroso has been told by the ‘people who matter’, ie by members of the Labour government, that they now...

NO RESCUE FOR CAPITALISM– FORWARD TO THE WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION! –...

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THE Labour leaders are terrified the whole capitalist system is going to go, News Line Editor Paddy O’Regan told an audience of 200 youth...

Build Revolutionary Leadershp

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‘As ordinary trade union members are fighting for their jobs they must have a leadership with a policy of “not one job sold, not...

Nationalise Bankrupt Companies – Under Workers’ Control And Management

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THE Labour government, after handing tens of billions of pounds to the Northern Rock and the other major banks, in an attempt to save...

Resolve Crisis Of Leadership In Working Class

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THERE is nothing like the crisis of the capitalist system to bring out the essence of the Labour and trade union leaders, as labour...

Brown must end UK support for Rajapakse – Victory to the...

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THE government of Sri Lanka led by President Rajapakse is currently fighting a war on two fronts, on behalf of US and UK imperialism. On...

‘WE WILL NOT LET CHASE FARM HOSPITAL CLOSE’ – message from...

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The North East London Council of Action held another successful picket of the Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, with passing cars tooting...

IRISH WORKERS SIT-IN – Fighting 90 redundancies

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WORKERS are occupying the Calcast car parts factory in Campsie, just outside Derry in the north of Ireland. The plant, a subsidiary of the...

Chase Farm Picket Wins Big Support

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‘WE ARE having a successful picket again today,’ North-East London Council of Action secretary, Bill Rogers, told News Line outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. ‘Everyone...

Labour stands by crumbling capitalism to the end

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ON Monday Chancellor Darling opened his pre-budget report with a piece of cheerful idiocy, saying that he was ‘confident that the UK, as an...

Brown and Darling saving the bosses by savaging the workers

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AS is his way, the Prime Minister addressed the CBI bosses organisation yesterday, just hours before his Chancellor was due to declare to the...

Capitalism is a broken system – nationalise the banks and the...

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British Banks have been recapitalised by the working class, who were not consulted by the government before the Prime Minister took the decision...

STOP THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF TAMILS IN SRI LANKA – demands...

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‘WE want Tamil Eelam!’, ‘Don’t kill Tamil people!’ shouted more than 1,500 people demonstrating opposite the Houses of Parliament in Westminster on Wednesday evening. It...

FBU Angry Over Cuts

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FIREFIGHTERS joined members of Unison and GMB trade unions yesterday in an angry lobby of a London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) meeting...

PLYMOUTH HOUSING TRANSFER – ‘fraught with dangers’ warns Unite

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‘We continue to believe that stock transfer is fraught with financial hazards,’ Unite said yesterday after it was announced that Plymouth council tenants have...

Nationalise The Motor Car Industry

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US and European car employers yesterday warned that ‘their’ industry faced wipeout, ‘victims’ of the slump in the motor car industry and the financial...

REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION DEVELOPING IN ITALY! – as Cossiga calls to put...

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‘THE forces of law and order should massacre the demonstrators without pity’ was the ruling class response from former Italian Prime Minister and president...

Obama allies with Clinton and McCain, and ignores the unions

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US WORKERS will be asking themselves what the recent presidential election campaign was all about when Obama was fighting for change and saying that...

ONLY ONE WAY OUT – sanctions-busting boat gets doctor out of...

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OVer the past year, Muhanad Omar al-Helo has twice petitioned the Israeli government to leave Gaza in order to study in Europe for a...

Take action to defend jobs. Occupy and organise a general strike!

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FACED with the crash of the pound and the enormous 182,000 leap in the number of unemployed in the three months to October, the...

Closure Threat To ‘failing’ NHS Trusts!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the threat of closure hanging over a number of NHS hospitals. This followed data published yesterday...

£550m PRE-PAY TAKEN FROM POOR

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The GMB trade union yesterday condemned the huge profits being made out of the poorest customers by gas and electricity companies. New watchdog Consumer Focus,...

‘WE WILL DEFEND OUR MAIL CENTRES’ – say Milton Keynes marchers

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OVER 300 postal workers, their families and supporters defiantly marched in defence of their jobs from the Milton Keynes Mail Centre and on to...

Al-Sadr Calls To End US Occupation Of Iraq

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THE White House has finally endorsed the text of the US-Iraq unequal treaty that will allow the US to keep 150,000 troops in Iraq...

‘THE MOST SERIOUS BANKING CRISIS SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST...

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MERVYN KING, the Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), said on Wednesday that Britain was already in a recession. He added that he expected...

The GMB understands the need for redundancies

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JCB has announced 400 more redundancies, blaming a ‘significant’ reduction in incoming orders. The redundancies are made up of 297 shop floor jobs and 101...

Defend Milton Keynes Mail Centre!

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Hundreds of postal workers and their families are today joining the business community, politicians and members of the public in a march through Bletchley,...

‘PUT MORE MONEY INTO ORDINARY PEOPLE’S POCKETS’ – TUC urges Brown

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‘The newly unemployed face a bigger cut in their living standards in this recession than those who lost their jobs under the previous government’,...

Nationalise the major industries to defend jobs

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GERMANY, the world’s biggest exporter of commodities, and the strong man of the EU, has begun to slump with government figures showing that its...

10,000 Bt Job Cuts!

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The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) yesterday said that job cuts in BT ‘must not be met through compulsion’ and pledged it will ‘oppose any...

SLUMP SET TO DEEPEN WARNS BofE GOVERNOR

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The Bank of England governor Mervyn King yesterday admitted that the UK entered a recession in the middle of 2008. Stunned by the...

1.82 MILLION OUT OF WORK – while Brown fawns on the...

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Official figures out yesterday showed that UK unemployment has hit an 11-year high, with the number of people out of work in the three...

Nationalise car industry and the banks to defend all jobs

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GLOBAL action to save the motor industry from crisis, and above all to stave off bankruptcy at General Motors, has been urged by Unite...

Defend Council Housing – Bring Down The Brown Government

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FOR SOME time Labour has been promoting the theme that the very idea of a job for life is reactionary, and has been glorifying...

Labour May End Secure Tenancies – Attack On Council Housing Condemned...

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CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has labelled proposals by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), to end secure tenancies and all other current council tenancies in...

‘WE DON’T WANT OUR DETAILS ON ANY DATABASE’ – public tell...

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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s claim that people ‘just can’t wait’ to get ID cards has been rubbished by campaign group NO2ID. NO2ID national coordinator Phil...

British Military Opposes Any Petraeus Surge In Afghanistan

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GENERAL Petraeus is now the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, and has declared that he intends to organise a NATO ‘surge’ in...

Firefighters Deaths Rise

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Firefighters from every station in Hertfordshire are joining a national rally and lobby of Parliament in Westminster on Wednesday, 12 November. They are urging politicians...

Jobs And War Crisis Piles Up For Obama

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YESTERDAY afternoon Barack Obama was in discussion with his economic advisers and with his allies as the crisis of US imperialism intensified on the...

RESTORE WORKERS LIVING STANDARDS – demand US trade unions after Obama’s...

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THE American trade unions, who invested heavily in Barack Obama’s election campaign, have called on the newly-elected US president to give a voice to...

Obama selects his bourgeois team to save US capitalism

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BARACK OBAMA has just been elected by an explosion of popular support and anger that has united the working class and brought the majority...

‘THE TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION TO DEFEAT ACADEMY PROGRAMME’ –...

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A NINETY-children-to-a-class City Academy, where three-hour lessons are the norm, has been roundly condemned by leading anti-academy campaigner and NUT and ATL Executive member...

‘KEEP YOUR PROMISES’ – US unions tell Obama

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American trade unions who campaigned for Barack Obama’s landslide election victory, yesterday told the new US president to keep his promises to working families. Service...

BARACK OBAMA: ‘Change has come to America!’

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BARACK Obama, the Democratic Party candidate, was elected the 44th President of the United States of America on Tuesday, with an overwhelming vote giving...

Johnson’s new attack to break up the NHS

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LABOUR’S Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans yesterday to allow well-off patients to make so-called ‘co-payments’ for drugs and extra treatments, while still receiving...