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Preston City Council passes significant climate change motion
| Preston City Council voted yesterday to recognise trade union "environmental representatives" to help the council set and meet carbon emission targets. The motion was part of a radical package proposed by Left Alternative councillor Michael Lavalette.
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Stop the War delivers letter to Downing Street
 | Stop the War Coalition delivered a letter yesterday to Downing Street calling on the government to stop encouraging the conflict between Russia and Georgia by encouraging Nato expansion.
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Defend Karen Reissmann
| Karen was suspended and subsequently sacked in June of last year for speaking out against cuts and privatisation of health care services. She will be bringing her case for unfair dismissal to an Employment Tribunal next week.
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The resignation of Pervez Musharraf
| Pervez Musharraf, the former general and president of Pakistan, resigned this week rather than face impeachment by the country’s parliament, amongst rumours of a deal brokered by the US, UK, and Saudi Arabia ensuring he doesn’t faces charges.
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Civilians pay for US and Russian imperialism
| Thousands have been killed in the recent fighting in the Caucasus after Georgia declared war on Russia. But the fighting is also the result of disproportionate aggression by an imperial power, and it must be condemned.
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More for Northern Rock, less for taxpayers
| After an initial £55 billion to bail out the bank last year, and the financial crisis turning into a more widespread economic crisis, the Labour government still prioritises propping up banks over propping up people.
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Climate Camp 2008: Protest not Profits
| The choice facing us is not between working people and the environment, it's between the solutions that will reduce our emissions and corporate profits. A network of renewable energy installations could produce all the electricity we need.
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The cost of privatisation
| Centrica, the parent company that owns British Gas, has reported profits of £992 million. Coming at a time when ordinary people are already struggling to pay increased petrol and food bills, the poorest will be hardest hit.
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Nobody likes New Labour
| With their third defeat in the mainly working-class constituency of Glasgow East, and not long after losing the London mayor to the Tories and suffering the worst local election results for decades, Labour is in crisis.
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Public sector workers fight back
| Major unions are resorting to strike action over New Labour's policy of capping public sector pay far below the rate of inflation. Despite growing discontent, Labour continues to cut the wages of millions of public sector workers.
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Left Alternative float at Pride Parade
 | The Left Alternative had a successful float and walking group at London Pride Parade on Saturday where we gave out 1000's of leaflets outlining our policies against homophobia and for full social and economic equality for all LGBT people.
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More disastrous election results for Labour
| It is true that New Labour is largely responsible for the economic problems facing Britain today. Despite rising oil and food prices globally, New Labour has continued the Tory tradition of privatising public services.
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Thousands join Unite Against Fascism demo
 | Up to 10,000 anti-fascist protestors took to the streets on Saturday as part of a demonstration, organised by UAF and LMHR, against the BNP, their presence on the London Assembly and their electoral gains in May this year.
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Boris Johnson: Committed to anti-racism?
| Londoners were told during Boris Johnson's election campaign that he was committed to anti-racism, but barely two months later we are now seeing his true colours. Even more worryingly, he has capitulated to the BNP’s racist politics of division.
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Break with Bush's wars
| Thousands came out in protest against George Bush's visit yesterday in Parliament Square. Break with Bush's wars was the message the protesters wanted to communicate to the government, but it seems the government doesn't want to know.
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We will defy the ban on peaceful protest
| Lindsey German, Convenor of Stop the War said, "We are still intending to march to Whitehall this Sunday. We don't accept that this is an issue of security, it's an issue of the right to protest against the greatest war criminal the world has ever seen."
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In support of Eddie Fleming
| Join us as we lobby alongside PCS members in support of Eddie Fleming, who was sacked from his job at Hastings Child Support Agency in February for carrying out his responsibilities as a trade union representative for the PCS.
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Desperate Brown wins 42 days vote
| Gordon Brown has narrowly won the vote over the Counter-Terrorism Bill but he is no more popular as a result. The increase in the limit under which terrorist suspects can be held without charge is yet another attack on our civil liberties.
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The 100th soldier and counting
| The Left List will be supporting the Stop the War demonstration against George Bush’s visit on Sunday, 15th June at 5pm, despite the ban, to send the message that we are against occupation and we want a change of foreign policy.
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New measures will not tackle knife crime
| Gordon Brown has issued even tougher measures on young people. The Left List believes that criminalising young victims is not the answer to safer neighbourhoods and opposes more funding for tougher measures.
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