Brown announces massive council house building plan
Gordon Brown yesterday announced the biggest council house building programme for decades, as part of plans to kick-start the economy. The Prime Minister told council leaders in London that he would relax the rules that prevented them from building social housing and that they could help rescue the housing... [continued]
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Strikes over foreign workers spread
Wildcat strikes have broken out at oil refineries across Britain over the use of foreign contractors. The action began on Wednesday when staff at the Lindsey refinery at Immingham in North Lincolnshire walked out in protest over the arrival of hundreds of Italian and Portuguese staff who were to work... [continued]
Civil unrest is a shot across the bows of the ruling class
The social consequences of the recession could be explosive
Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through French cities as part of a day of strikes as workers called for pay rises and job security. Violence erupted in some areas as bottle-throwing protesters clashed with police, who used tear gas and batons on the rioters. It was the... [continued]
Civil unrest is a shot across the bows for the ruling class
Turkish PM storms out over Gaza
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been given a hero's reception in Istanbul after he stormed out of the World Economic Forum in Davos following a dramatic clash with Israeli president Shimon Peres over Gaza. Although he flew home in the middle of the night his plane was... [continued]
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Alexander Cockburn: Israel, Gaza and the US - what will Obama do?
New £50bn plan to save economy
Britain is using tactics smilar to those of "quantitative easing" as the Bank of England prepares to spend £50bn on buying up company debts and other assets in a bid to beat the recession. In a series of letters Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, says that... [continued]
Mervyn King is failing the British economy
We are all, quite possibly, doomed
The Mole: new measures could make Mandelson the country's most powerful banker
Civilians to flee Sri Lanka fighting
Sri Lanka's President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has pleaded with Tamil Tiger fighters to allow civilians to evacuate an area in the north of the country that has seen heavy fighting between government troops and rebels. He has announced a 48-hour window to allow a quarter-of-a-million Tamil civilians to escape the... [continued]
Sri Lanka's muslims under threat
Should sport be a casualty of conflict?
Picture past: Asian tsunami
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North Korea cuts ties with South
Communist North Korea has cut all ties with the South, and claims that the two countries are on the "brink of war". The Pyongyang regime's decision to nullify all military and political agreements, and declaring the maritime border between the countries as "void", increases the prospect of an armed... [continued]
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