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Crazy air sale

THE government suffered another defeat in the House of Lords on Monday over its insane proposal to sell off National Air Traffic Services (NATS)...

Round-up

THE LIBERAL Democrat controlled council in Sheffield is threatening to privatise the direct services organisation following its decision to sell off its 63,000 council houses...

Higher education

STAFF ACROSS higher education plan a day of action next Tuesday, 5 December. Universities will be hit as lecturers, technicians, administrators and manual workers join forces over pay...

Poor pay most

THE POOR pay a far greater rate of tax than the rich. That is the truth about tax according to a new study by the ultra-moderate Fabian Society...

Anti-fees blockade the media ignored

I WAS one of the thousands of students who took part in the march against tuition fees in London on Wednesday 15 November. We did not get a fraction of the media attention given to the farmers and tr...

Cop slams jail

"LOCKING PEOPLE up is not the answer." So said the head of the Association of Chief Police Officers, Tony Burden, last week. His comments are in direct contradiction to New Labour...

'Macho' man Prescott is polluters' poodle

It is about the way Prescott did the dirty work for the multinationals that pull the strings of the US government...

Profit comes before planet

The United States has 4 percent of the world's population but is responsible for a quarter of the total emissions of carbon dioxide. Its leaders are against any real restrictions on US firms' rights ...

Refugees

SOME 400 workers at the British Gypsum factory in East Leake and Newark in Nottinghamshire held a one-day strike on Thursday of last week. The workers, members of the GMB union, are fighting for a pay rise.

Israel is allowed to murder

WHILE THE world looks on, the Israeli state is unleashing barbarity after barbarity against the Palestinian people.

Boom and battle for workers' share

* Train signallers were set to bring train services to a halt with a two-day strike for more pay.* Pilots at Ryanair are set to strike for the day on Friday against attempts by bosses to impose longer...

Lecturers

WORKERS IN the newsroom of the BBC's World Service have voted 66 percent in favour of a strike after management refused to negotiate over night shift working conditions.

Heat on US over Chile

The incident that best summed up this campaign came a fortnight ago. Three Israeli helicopter gunships attacked a four wheel drive vehicle in the Christian suburb of Beit Sahour in Bethlehem. If any ...

It's one damn case after another

Roger died after being "restrained" by eight police officers on his own doorstep in January 1999. But the CPS says there is not enough evidence to bring charges against the eight officers. They were ...

BBC

Help us raise �200,000

Help us raise �200,000 -to build the fight against capitalism-"I think it is important that a fighting socialist newspaper has the funds to keep on fighting, and I'd encourage other trade unionists to...

Partners in crime

THE HATED Margaret Thatcher was forced to resign as prime minister ten years ago this week in the aftermath of the Trafalgar Square poll tax riot. In 1997 Tony Blair won a landslide when millions vot...

Resistance halted US's brutal war

Instead, mainstream commentators sought to present both countries as victims of misguided government decisions. The Vietnam War was no battle of equals. To make sense of the slaughter you could do no...

Small business, a better option?

That description of how business spreads right across the world was written by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto over 150 years ago. It is an accurate picture of the world we live in today. A handf...

Eurotunnel

ROUND 70 members of the Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees held a protest outside Sainsbury's in Glasgow city centre last Saturday against the supermarket's support for the refugee voucher scheme.