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WE'VE GOT ministers in this area like Stephen Byers, Alan Milburn and Peter Mandelson. It would be brilliant if people who are a real socialist alternative could stand against these New Labour types....

HUNDREDS OF workers face job cuts as two giant employers announced redundancies last week...

THE MORNING Star (the paper of Britain's very small Communist Party) and the mainstream press found themselves in full agreement last week...

AS THE demonstrations in Belgrade were taking place on Thursday of last week, the mainstream media were ecstatic until around 3.30pm...

March for pensions

"ALL WE want for the Serbian people is what we want for people everywhere-the right to choose their leaders." So said US president Bill Clinton last week, hailing the mass demonstrations and strikes that toppled Slobodan Milosevic...

TOWER Hamlets New Labour council in east London is attempting to deprive its workers of smoking breaks...

TWO POUNDS 25p a week extra next year. That's what pensioners will get if the government continues with its present pensions formula, it was announced this week...

AROUND 15,000 people marched in Athens on Tuesday against privatisation and free market policies...

THE PRESENT clashes stem from the Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people for the last 52 years. The state of Israel was founded after the Second World War in 1948...

SOME 32 care workers in two elderly people's homes in south London's Wandsworth struck on Friday of last week. The workers, members of the UNISON and GMB unions, were striking against their employer...