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		<title>Save Vestas!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[First a report from Workers Climate Action, who have displayed tremendous solidarity in their efforts to assist the struggle of Vestas&#8217; employees:
On Friday 3 July, Workers’ Climate Action and the Cowes Trades
Council held a public meeting attended by around 100 people, to oppose
the closure of the Vestas plant, Britain’s only wind turbine factory,
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		<title>Guns before butter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Socialist Appeal, the priorities of our ruling class:




Afghanistan: Guns Before Butter
 
 






 By Ewan Gibbs 


Wednesday, 08 July 2009


As the Pakistani army continued to be bogged down in a ferocious battle against the Taliban inside its own borders and yet another British soldier is killed in Afghanistan, to date the one hundred and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charliemarks.wordpress.com&blog=1042393&post=1272&subd=charliemarks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Rock &#8211; use it to set up a Post Bank, or sell it to Tesco?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government nationalised the ailing bank, formerly a building society, but only after many months of foot-dragging. And only on a temporary basis, natch.
Word is, Northern Rock could be sold to Tesco, handing the supermarket even greater power in the economy. Given that a majority of shareholders voted against plans to improve workers&#8217; rights at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charliemarks.wordpress.com&blog=1042393&post=1269&subd=charliemarks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glad to be gay, ashamed to be Anglican?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us pray for the repentance of Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, who is a troubled soul.
If he&#8217;s not knocking England&#8217;s Muslims, it&#8217;s our gay compatriots&#8230;
The editorial in today&#8217;s Morning Star, A message to the bigots, on the bishop&#8217;s response to Pride.
There&#8217;s a message to all of us contained in the distasteful pronouncements of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charliemarks.wordpress.com&blog=1042393&post=1267&subd=charliemarks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nationalised Express &#8211; public ownership for East Coast rail route</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great news, as it is a step towards ending the corporate domination of our railways which has cost us dearly both as taxpayers and passengers.
The general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union has backed the move:
&#8220;RMT welcomes todays announcement by the Government on the renationalisation of the East Coast route but this shouldn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charliemarks.wordpress.com&blog=1042393&post=1265&subd=charliemarks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Total victory as sacked strikers return to work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How outrageous! Workers voting by show of hands to withdraw their labour &#8211; no postal ballot, cooling-off period, or legal injunctions.
Democracy in action! For which hundreds of working men were sacked. But no more. The Morning Star reports on this historic victory for working people in this country:
Workers have voted to return to work at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charliemarks.wordpress.com&blog=1042393&post=1263&subd=charliemarks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the energy giants fail to pass on savings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Campaign for Public Ownership has issued the following press release explaining why we shouldn&#8217;t be too surprised:
Here we go again. A newly published report by the watchdog Consumer Focus says that Britain’s privatised energy companies are over-charging customers and failing to pass on billions of pounds of savings made from the falling price of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charliemarks.wordpress.com&blog=1042393&post=1260&subd=charliemarks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Total unity &#8211; sympathy strikes spread</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When fifty of their colleagues were sacked last week, hundreds of Lindsay Oil Refinery workers walked out in sympathy.
Transnational energy giant Total responded to their display of solidarity by refusing to recognise their grievance &#8211; and then by sacking all of them.
Up and down the land, construction workers in the energy industry have taken unofficial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charliemarks.wordpress.com&blog=1042393&post=1258&subd=charliemarks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banksters Paradise &#8211; govt allows bonus culture to continue at our expense</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s now consider decency. Or rather, the lack of it.
UKFI, which owns 70% of RBS on our behalf, has approved an obscene pay package for the bank&#8217;s boss.
Truly, Fred the Shred will be proud of his replacement.
Stephen Hester will be paid almost ten million pounds for his work &#8211; which will include sacking thousands of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charliemarks.wordpress.com&blog=1042393&post=1256&subd=charliemarks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty tricks against assertive workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, at Lindsay Oil Refinery an unofficial strike is ongoing as it&#8217;s revealed the Engineering Construction Industry Association, the employers&#8217; organisation, is trying to stop a ballot of construction workers for a national strike:
A confidential letter obtained by the Morning Star, sent to by ECIA employment relations officers to bosses at construction firms throughout Britain, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charliemarks.wordpress.com&blog=1042393&post=1254&subd=charliemarks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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