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Britain: An economic tsunami in 2005?
"Capitalism is the only system that works," pronounced Polly Toynbee, The Guardian columnist, as 2004 drew to a close.
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Britain: Saving pensions
Millions of public-sector workers are faced with huge cuts to their pensions – some from as early as April 2005.
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Britain: Civil servants show Blair they mean business
After a 1,200-strong demonstration through central London, a packed rally heard PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka report on how successful the day’s strike action had been. He outlined the next stages of the campaign.
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Britain: Militant 1964-2004 the socialist
Forty years fighting for socialism
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Britain: Can Blair see out a third term?
Tony Blair has announced that he will go on to serve out a third term as prime minister.
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Britain: Car industry under attack
Unite against the jobs massacre
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Britain: Time for a new workers’ party
TONY BLAIR may claim he is not the ’wobbling’ kind. But the long shadow of the Iraq occupation, the hostage crisis and Labour’s majority being reduced to less than 30 seats at a general election […]
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Britain: Jaguar crisis
Workers say -’we won’t pay the price’
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Britain: Uniting to fight New Labour’s cuts
Interview with general secretary of civil service union
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Britain: Wembley stadium workers score major victory
Locked-out workers "completely win everything they had stood out for"