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A personal website bringing together comment, articles and photos. Health and Social Care. Social Ownership / Nationalisation. Ending right to buy full stop. Tackling the Housing Crisis. Tackling the Housing Crisis. The document offers no expressed reason as to why RTB should be maintained and it appears to represent a retreat from Jeremy’s own opinion expressed in an interview with the Housing Blog ‘Red Brick’. There, in response to a question on ‘right to buy’ he said:. If his campaign is not. Thatcher...
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SOLIDARITY Magazine: August 2005
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005. Workers Advice Centre, Monthly report, August 2005. Israeli terrorist murders 4 Palestinians. WAC delegation mourns the victims. Gazan workers left without work and without rights. Wisconsin plan' in Israel - The wrong programme in the wrong place. Israel's poverty report shows disastrous effects of neo-liberal reforms. 1 Israeli Terrorist Murders 4 Palestinian Workers in a settlement near Nablus. Four Palestinians Killed by Israeli Settler in the West Bank. Http:/ www.pgf...
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SOLIDARITY Magazine: November 2005
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Friday, November 25, 2005. Ireland ‘Campaign for an Independent Left’. The current issue of. Issue 15) carries a report by. Reproduced below) on discussion on a left alternative in Ireland. The political platform, amended through disussion, and agreed at the founding meeting, is reproduced here for the first time. The task now is to bring the message to working class communities that there is now a real possibility of building a movement that belongs to their class. The groups involved come from varying ...
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SOLIDARITY Magazine: December 2005
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005. New York Transit Workers Strike. The 34,000 members of the Tranport Workers Union are on illegal strike in New York, under the most difficult of conditions. Remember two tier pensions? Workers of the Metropolitan Transit System were faced with the demand of management that they agree to a retirement age of 62 for all new starters, compared to 55 for current staff. Juan Gonzalez: Arrogance of the MTA made strike a certainty. The timing was especially tough for Casiano, who la...
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SOLIDARITY Magazine: February 2006
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Friday, February 24, 2006. SOLIDARITY News Bulletin February 24th 2006. The campaign for the ‘fourth option’ and the right to build council housing. After the rally and parliamentary lobby in support of the ‘fourth option’ (direct investment in Council Housing) attended by 1,300 people, the Labour Party has announced a working group within the National Policy Forum to address the motion passed ‘almost unanimously’ at the Labour conference. Jack Dromey of the TGWU is on the new working group. The governme...
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SOLIDARITY Magazine: August 2006
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006. Pensioner Wins GP Privatisation Battle At Court of Appeal. The decision is a stunning victory for a pensioner who dared to stand up to the might of the government, the NHS and a multi-national corporation. It is a blow for the governments reform programme of bringing in private companies to run GP services, and may discourage other private companies from involvement in the scheme. Pam Smith said: This just shows what people power can do. It was a real case of David and Gol...
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SOLIDARITY Magazine: June 2006
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006. CWU to Ballot for Strike Action. The Communication Workers Union has agreed to hold a ballot for industrial action with Royal Mail workers. Notice will be issued to Royal Mail on Monday July 3. Ballot papers will be despatched to CWU members from Monday July 10. Ballot will close Monday July 31. Ballot affects 136,000 CWU members. Posted by Martin Wicks @ Tuesday, June 27, 2006. Thursday, June 22, 2006. Five day strike by GMB ASDA members. GMB Shop Stewards National Council meetin...
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SOLIDARITY Magazine: October 2006
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006. Cout Rules Firefighters Cannot be forced to attend 999 Medical Emergencies on behalf of the Ambulance Service. A legal case brought by two fire authorities seeking to force firefighters to answer 999 medical emergencies on behalf of the ambulance service has been dismissed by the High Court today. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU), who were defendants in the case, welcomed the decision. But they failed to call any witnesses from the national employers who negotiated that agreemen...
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SOLIDARITY Magazine: May 2006
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006. Defend Council Housing Conference launches Open Letter to Tony Blair. A DCH conference on May 22nd has agreed to step up the pressure on the government by launching an open letter to Tony Blair demanding the right for direct investment in Council Housing. Jack Dromey reported to the conference that the Labour Party working group to address the 'Fourth Option' motion passed at their September conference was due to meet for the first time. Download copies of the open letter to use in...
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