I'd be surprised if such a proposal ever got through, to be honest. There's a million and one vested interests stacked against it.
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Over 14 million people could find themselves in fuel poverty in the near future, if new figures from gas giant Centrica predicting a 70% rise in gas prices prove accurate - nearly a quarter of the population.
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"Jimmy was the baddest motherfucker..." - George Jackson.
Afterword to Bad: the autobiography of James Carr, Pelagian Press, UK, 1995.
A look at the life and times of James Carr and the Black Panthers and their relationship to the prison struggles and wider social movements of the 1960s.
1968
History of the widespread mutiny of US troops in Vietnam that brought the world's most powerful military machine to its knees.
Tea Break
First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.
what does this mean for unions if it gets through? what does it mean for radical unionising? what will it mean for the labour 'left'?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6175937.stm