Lead story

GMB move to expel new Labour faction

by Daphne Liddle

PAUL Kenny, the general secretary of the general union GMB, last week announced to the union’s annual conference in Brighton a proposed rule change that would expel Progress — a Labour Party faction that still closely adheres to Tony Blair’s New Labour policies — from the union.

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Irish anger over new household tax

by Theo Russell

THE IRISH government is facing a mass revolt as anger against the bankers, rampant corruption and austerity has crystallised around opposition to a new €100 household charge.

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Editorial

Goodbye Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

AS THE CURRENT global economic crisis rolls on with austerity being inflicted ruthlessly on the working class, the bourgeois ruling class culture is rapidly abandoning all of its former high-minded values of liberty, equality and fraternity, the ideas of the French and American revolutions that all people are born free and should have an equal chance of finding “happiness”. It was, of course, all a hypocrisy and a sham most of the time and even giving people from lowly backgrounds the opportunity to make it to the top of society implied that most would stay at the bottom.

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