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Issue - 2100
Dated - 10 May 2008
Backlash hits New Labour

Simmering anger at years of New Labour policies that promote war, privatisation and inequality boiled over last week as Gordon Brown presided over his party’s worst local election results in decades.

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Reviews & Culture

Review of Donald Freed’s new play Patient Number One at the York Theatre Royal

It is December 2009. The American Empire's disastrous "war on terror" continues to fuel new terrorist attacks and in the name of "homeland security". The US itself is now under effective martial law.
09 May 2008
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Packed meeting in parliament backs sacked nurse Karen Reissmann

More than 200 health workers, trade unionists, service users and MPs packed into a room in the House of Commons yesterday to show their support for Karen Reissmann, the Manchester psychiatric nurse and leading union member who was sacked for speaking out against cuts and privatisation.
08 May 2008
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Crucial abortion vote on 20 May – mobilise for the demonstration outside parliament

On Tuesday 20 May the first vote on abortion law in 18 years will take place in the House of Commons. Anti abortionists are using the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill to table amendments that attack a woman’s right to choose – including cutting the legal time limit for abortion, imposing a compulsory "cooling off" period and counselling for women seeking abortion and removing the right of women who are carrying a foetus with severe disabilities to have access to abortion.
08 May 2008
London anti-Nazi protesters vow to drive BNP out of City Hall
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London anti-Nazi protesters vow to drive BNP out of City Hall

Around 300 people rallied at short notice outside City Hall in London on Tuesday evening to protest against the fascist British National Party (BNP) grabbing a seat on the London assembly in last week’s elections.
07 May 2008
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Pete Doherty and Jon McClure speak out against the BNP

Two of the musicians who played at the recent Love Music Hate Racism (LHMR) carnival attended the Tuesday evening protest against the BNP held outside London’s City Hall.
07 May 2008
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Features

Backlash hits New Labour

Simmering anger at years of New Labour policies that promote war, privatisation and inequality boiled over last week as Gordon Brown presided over his party’s worst local election results in decades.
06 May 2008
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What We Think

Storms and flooding aren’t just natural disasters

Thousands dead and more than a million homeless – a grim statistic from Burma in the aftermath of the severe cyclone that hit the country last weekend.
06 May 2008
Tim: Gordon Brown's meltdown
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Tim: Gordon Brown’s meltdown

06 May 2008
Tim: 'playing for laughs'
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Tim: ‘playing for laughs’

06 May 2008
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Teachers’ union must capitalise on momentum

Teachers in the NUT union are debating their strategy in the fight against Gordon Brown’s pay limit, following their hugely successful national strike on 24 April.
06 May 2008
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Debating the pay fight

Delegates to the PCS civil service workers’ union conference in two weeks’ time will discuss the next stage in the union’s fight for decent pay.
06 May 2008
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Health workers must throw out pay deal

After two consecutive years of pay cuts the government is telling more than a million health workers that we must tighten our belts yet again with our new pay deal.
06 May 2008