Lead story

Tube strike 'rock solid'

by Caroline Colebrook

LONDON UNDERGROUND unions RMT and TSSA last Wednesday saluted their 11,000 striking members for a “rock solid” strike against proposed job cuts that would jeopardise safety for passengers and workers.

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Iraq: New Dawn or dawn of liberation?

by our Arab Affairs Correspondent

ON 31st August 2010 President Barack Obama officially ended the occupation of Iraq in an Oval Office address in which he told the American public that “the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country”.

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Editorial

Time for action

THE SILLY season, with all its distractions including Tony Blair’s childish and malignant book, is over. It’s time to get back to the real class struggle; the TUC conference in Manchester will start next Monday 13th September and the Labour Party conference will follow hard on its heels. There is a lot to be done and not much time.

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