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Heyday takes the government to court

25-10-2006 14:45

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Heyday, a not-for-profit membership for the over 50s, take the government to court over the MRA.

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Member of the strike comitee of Mercadona was brutally beatened

24-10-2006 14:32

"This is for Mercadona" they told J.C. member of CNT and of the strike comitee of Mercadona when five individuals came up to him in the street at night, while they beated and kicked him lying in a puddle of blood until he lost conscience. He was carried by an ambulance to the Red Cross where he recieved treatment of craneal traumatism and contusions and must be sutured in different parts of his body.

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All out to support the nurses' mass rally in Dublin on Wednesday, November 22nd!

23-10-2006 00:06

End the scandal of people lying for days on hospital trolleys! Ireland's 40,000 nurses are to step up their campaign for a pay rise by holding a mass rally in Dublin on 22nd November. Let’s go all out to support this mass rally in Dublin on Wednesday, November 22nd, this is going to be huge!

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The Price of Land

22-10-2006 20:47

...according to Reuters yesterday we are on the cusp of a recession after the 'Fed' declared its 17th successive hike in interest rates - which brings it to - 5.25% - oh - thats the same as ours - does this mean we are going into a Bust phase too?

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Train Insanity on Merseyside!

20-10-2006 20:27

At a time when the government are supposed to be worried about combating climate chaos, you might have thought they would want to encourage people to use public transport, instead of carbon-burning cars. And yet...

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Class War's Ian Bone 'Guardian' interview

20-10-2006 07:36

In the G2 section (pages 10 and 11) of today's Guardian, there is an interview with Ian Bone of Class War fame.

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Students' Union Presidents Opinion poll

19-10-2006 16:57

The first ever poll of Students' Union Presidents may serve as a wake up call to the NUS.

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John Bridle of Asbestos Watchdog: "lies, illegal tests and self aggrandisement"?

18-10-2006 16:46

Today, (18th October) Shari Vahl on BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme investigated a businessman called John Bridle. His company “Asbestos Watchdog” has claimed to be:

“The only UK organisation that can provide unbiased information about asbestos”

The BBC claim that two of the UK’s biggest house builders have been using an asbestos surveyor who is carrying out analysis which the Health and Safety Executive say is illegal.

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Clean Clothes Campaign Organiser to speak at Nottingham University

17-10-2006 18:27

Jeroen Merk, Sussex University academic and an organiser of the UK Clean Clothes Campaign wil be speaking at the CSSGJ Open Seminar series at Nottingham University on 26 October. all welcome.

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Save Perparim Demaj from Deportation!

17-10-2006 18:09

PRESS RELEASE/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/17th October 2006

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Call for the 3rd International Road-Building Brigade to Nepal

16-10-2006 15:43

Call for the 3rd International Road-Building Brigade to Nepal
For the last ten years, a People’s War has been raging in Nepal. Over 80% of the country has now been liberated by the Nepalese masses.

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Labour-affiliated unions attack their activists

14-10-2006 17:55

Have a look at this site - it has really interesting stories by journalists about the way New Labour-affiliated unions have been witchhunting union members who are anti-Blair

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confidence in Maliki government grows

14-10-2006 10:52

In the five months since Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki became Iraq's leader, the parliament and his ministries have formed hundreds of committees to address problems on everything from how to disarm militias to whether tainted meat caused a group of police officers to fall ill last week.

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Transatlantic passenger data deal a capitulation to US demands

12-10-2006 08:03

Speaking today at the European Parliament in Brussels, German GUE/NGL MEP Sylvia Yvonne Kaufmann attacked the recent EU-US passenger data accord and called for greater protection for passengers' privacy.

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CPP congratulates DPR-Korea for nuke breakthrough

11-10-2006 10:20

Kim Jong-Il
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today congratulated the people and government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for successfully and safely carrying out its first-ever nuclear test and hailed the successful test as a “militant assertion of national sovereignty and the right of an independent country to develop its own powerful self-reliant defense capability amidst constant efforts by the US to impose its imperialist hegemony over the world, maintain its monopoly of nuclear weapons along with a few other powerful countries, and subvert the sovereign will of the DPRK.”

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Battle of Cable Street - 70th Anniversary

10-10-2006 19:30

'They Shall Not Pass' and Cable St Mural
On Sunday the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, when Londoners massed and denied access to the East End to Masley's fascist blackshirts was celebrated in Cable Street with a parade and fair in the grounds of St Georges Town Hall.

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Olympian Victory for Laing O'Rourke Protesters

10-10-2006 15:56

cops waiting to arrest protesters
Protesters who scaled cranes, at the King's Cross Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) construction site to hang banners in solidarity with an ongoing workers' struggle, successfully appealed convictions for Aggravated Trespass last week, in a two-day hearing at the Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court.

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Feminist Fightback updated agenda

09-10-2006 17:33

The first Feminist Fightback activist conference will take place at the School of Oriental and African Studies, in London, on Saturday 21 October.

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7th October London - March for Migrants Rights

09-10-2006 06:52

Coming out of the shadows! - Migrants march for their rights in London

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October 7th: 'For freedom of movement and the right to stay'

08-10-2006 17:52

As part of the Transnational Day of Action for Migrants on Saturday October 7th, members of Birmingham’s Anti-Racist Campaign supported by Birmingham NoBorders, gathered in Victoria Square to lay wreaths to commemorate those asylum seekers who have died as a result of government immigration policies.