Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Global economy heading 'down for the count'

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Stark warnings from the International Monetary Fund about the risk of financial collapse in Europe have coincided with indicators from ...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Fear not, the TUC remains 'vigilant' as Osborne attacks rights

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Chancellor George Osborne’s plan for workers to sell off their employment rights, making it easier and cheaper for bosses to sack people, ...
Monday, October 08, 2012

Venezuelans choose Chavez over the corporations

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Hugo Chavez’s fourth election victory in a row was achieved on a turnout of 81% of the 19 million Venezuelans registered to vote, which is...
Friday, October 05, 2012

Unfinished business of England’s October Revolution

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In the early days of October some 365 years ago, the Levellers movement began drafting two documents that would become the political high ...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

ATOS profits pile up while misery for disabled grows

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At last, the big bucks to be made out of forcing disabled people through humiliating tests to cut their benefit are out in the open, thank...
Wednesday, October 03, 2012

The end of growth 'heresy' raises its head

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Has the truth about the nature of the deepening global slump finally begun to make its mark in the brains of the system’s chief analysts...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

By jingo, Labour is the true patriotic party!

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A party of true patriotism, making tough decisions in the “national interest”, hiring top business figures as advisers and a party that wi...
Monday, October 01, 2012

Midwinter sends Scottish Labour into the freezer

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If you want to know what a future Labour government at Westminster might look like, the leader of the party in Scotland , Johann Lamont, ...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Drone attacks are state-sponsored terrorism

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On March 17, 2011 some 40 individuals – including 35 government-appointed tribal leaders known as maliks , as well as government officials...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

India's nuclear expansion at the people's expense

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Opposing the expansion of nuclear power is always dealt with ruthlessly. But the Indian state of Tamil Nadu’s charges of treason laid ag...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Point of no return in Europe

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Impasse. Tipping point. Crisis. Boiling point. Point of no return. Explosion. What words can convey the profundity of the present moment o...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Revealed: those Cable-Miliband texts

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We have been offered details of some the frequent texts exchanged between Vince Cable, the business secretary and leading Lib Dem, and Ed...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Policing and mental health body is 'cosmetic exercise'

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The Commission on Policing and Mental Health has been set up following concerns about “how police respond to people with mental health con...
Friday, September 21, 2012

An Agreement of the People for 2012

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In the light of the ConDems plan to turn Britain into a total market state and Ed Miilband’s plan for Labour to “ save capitalism from it...