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Issue - 1944
Dated - 26 Mar 2005
Voices on the election from the anti-war demo

‘I’m here today with people I work with. It’s about supporting the whole anti-war movement and about being a leftist. This is supposed to be a democracy, but none of the parties are really left wing any more. I voted Labour last time, but this time round I’m definitely voting Respect. It’s a working class vote.’Gus Jakhu, postal worker from Leicester

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Voices on the election from the anti-war demo
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Voices on the election from the anti-war demo

‘I’m here today with people I work with. It’s about supporting the whole anti-war movement and about being a leftist. This is supposed to be a democracy, but none of the parties are really left wing any more. I voted Labour last time, but this time round I’m definitely voting Respect. It’s a working class vote.’Gus Jakhu, postal worker from Leicester
26 March 2005
Anger as London fire authority moves to cut service
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Anger as London fire authority moves to cut service

Firefighters in London are to continue their campaign against cuts following a decision by the fire authority to press ahead with closing a station and removing ten pumps from the centre of the city.
26 March 2005
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Lecturers’ action

Swansea University Lecturers the AUT union are organising protests at the suspension of Colwyn Williamson from Swansea University. The university vice chancellor has used discretionary powers to push through what union activists see as a case of victimisation. Colwyn has been banned from entering university premises and denied access to his university e-mail account.
26 March 2005
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Defend Council Housing

The ballot papers are out and tenants and leaseholders are beginning to vote on the Arms Length Management Organisation (Almo) proposal for council housing in Haringey.
26 March 2005
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Defend Asylum Seekers

Some 30 supporters of Bristol Defend Asylum Seekers Campaign, Student Action for Refugees, Respect, Bristol NUT teachers’ union branch and other organisations protested outside Downing Street on Monday.
26 March 2005
Respect’s challenge to New Labour
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Respect’s challenge to New Labour

Left to Tony Blair and Michael Howard we have six weeks of rancid reaction ahead.
26 March 2005
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Strikes off as government retreats on pensions

The threat of a strike by 1.25 million workers this Wednesday, escalating to involve others across the public sector, has forced a climbdown by the New Labour government over pensions.
26 March 2005
Michael Rosen: ‘Hold thy bloody hand’
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Michael Rosen: ‘Hold thy bloody hand’

In Shakespeare’s play King Lear we see the old king speaking some incredible sanity just at the moment that he appears to be going mad. He is having visions and sees "the great image of authority" as a "dog obeyed in office".
26 March 2005
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What We Think

Condoleezza Rice rachets up the tension in the Pacific

We caught a glimpse of the real face of the Project for the New American Century last weekend when Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, sent a sharp warning to China.
26 March 2005
We’ve marched – now let’s vote to punish Tony Blair
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We’ve marched – now let’s vote to punish Tony Blair

There was a deep feeling on last Saturday’s demonstration that people should use the expected general election to punish Tony Blair.
26 March 2005
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Features

Coming events

Thursday 7 AprilLaunch meeting of ASBO Concern, 7pm, Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London (Euston station).
26 March 2005
Anti-war protest round-up
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Anti-war protest round-up

Students occupy their school Hundreds of school students staged a sit-in against the war on Iraq, and to demand the right to protest, at Alexandra Park School, north London, last week.
26 March 2005