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Issue - 2094
Dated - 29 Mar 2008
Back the left challenge to New Labour

The crisis sweeping through the world’s financial markets threatens millions of people here in Britain.

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Revolt spreads across Iraq

A mass revolt has broken out across Iraq against attempts by the US and its allies to crush the Shia Muslim resistance to the occupation.
28 March 2008
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Strike called on London Underground

The RMT and TSSA rail workers’ unions have called three days of action on London Underground that will bring the tube system to a juddering halt. The strike over safety and staffing issues will begin at 6.30pm on Sunday 6 April and run to 6.30pm on Wednesday 9 April.
28 March 2008
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Protesting at Heathrow

Campaigners for the Left List were set to join a protest against airport extension at Heathrow airport in London on Thursday this week, Terminal Five’s opening day.
25 March 2008
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What We Think

Mortality report shows inequality from the cradle to the grave

New Labour has a well deserved reputation for "burying bad news". During budget week earlier this month the government released its report into health inequalities in Britain since 1997. Its damning verdict was that life expectancy and child mortality for poorer people has got worse since Labour came to power.
25 March 2008
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City traders are even ripping each other off

It was just one more crisis in the constant turmoil in the financial sector – last week Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, HBOS, nearly went bust. Someone started rumours that the bank was in trouble – and then bet on the falling share price. One speculator is thought to have made £100 million.
25 March 2008
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Royal Mail ups pensions attack

Royal Mail this week threw down the gauntlet to postal workers and their union by deciding to implement its proposed closure of the final salary pensions scheme with just seven days notice.
25 March 2008
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Get the army out of our schools

Teachers at the NUT union conference highlighted the issue of army involvement in education by voting on Tuesday to oppose army recruitment in schools.
25 March 2008
The migrant workers sleeping rough in Peterborough's boom town
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The migrant workers sleeping rough in Peterborough’s boom town

Peterborough has one of the fastest economic growth rates of any city in Britain, and for decades that growth has in part been based on the sweat of immigrant labour.
25 March 2008
Teachers to give Gordon Brown a lesson
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Teachers to give Gordon Brown a lesson

Teachers took the lead in the revolt against Gordon Brown’s public sector pay limit last weekend when the NUT union’s conference voted unanimously to call for more strike action.
25 March 2008
Sally Hunt writes: 'Lecturers are set to join the battle'
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Sally Hunt writes: ‘Lecturers are set to join the battle’

The UCU union is balloting members in further education (FE) colleges in England to take strike action in support of a better pay deal. Our pay claim, agreed with other FE unions calls for a 6 percent increase or £1,500, whichever is the greater.
25 March 2008
Maternity services saved at Horton hospital in Oxfordshire
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Maternity services saved at Horton hospital in Oxfordshire

Campaigners for the NHS in Oxfordshire were celebrating this week after winning their campaign to save maternity services at the Horton hospital in Banbury.
25 March 2008
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Reports round-up

Pitiful fines for corporate deaths The majority of large companies convicted of health and safety offences involving a death are fined at a level which is less than one 700th of their annual turnover, new research shows.
25 March 2008