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    <title type="text">Press Releases</title>
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    <updated>2012-02-02T10:13:24Z</updated>
    <rights>Copyright (c) 2012, Andrew Fisher</rights>
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      <title>Event &#45; LGBT Lives: Achieving our Equality, Challenging Faith&#45;based Homophobia &amp;amp; Transphobia</title>

      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://l-r-c.org.uk/events/detail/lgbt-lives-achieving-our-equality-challenging-faith-based-homophobia-transp/" />
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      <published>2012-04-21T10:00:09Z</published>
      <updated>2012-01-19T22:47:10Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

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        Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL (<a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=WC1R+4RL&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;hnear=London+WC1R+4RL,+United+Kingdom&amp;gl=uk&amp;t=m&amp;z=16&amp;vpsrc=0" title="see map">see map</a>)
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    <entry>
      <title>Event &#45; Save our NHS rally</title>

      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://l-r-c.org.uk/events/detail/save-our-nhs-rally/" />
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      <published>2012-03-07T18:00:39Z</published>
      <updated>2012-01-31T13:18:40Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

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        Westminster Central Hall, Parliament Square, London

The rally has been organised by the All Together for the NHS Campaign and brings together a range of unions, professional bodies, patients and members of the public who are opposed to the Bill.
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      <title>Event &#45; Essex LRC: inaugural meeting</title>

      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://l-r-c.org.uk/events/detail/essex-lrc-inaugural-meeting/" />
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      <published>2012-02-23T19:30:52Z</published>
      <updated>2012-02-08T18:59:53Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

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        At the Red Lion pub, 147 New London Road, Chelmsford CM2 0AA (<a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=CM2+0AA&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;hnear=Chelmsford+CM2+0AA,+United+Kingdom&amp;gl=uk&amp;t=m&amp;z=16" title="see map">see map</a>)
      ]]></content>
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      <title>Event &#45; Time for Housing Alternative</title>

      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://l-r-c.org.uk/events/detail/time-for-housing-alternative/" />
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      <published>2012-02-21T18:30:50Z</published>
      <updated>2012-01-29T21:17:51Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

      <category term="Defend Council Housing"
        scheme="http://l-r-c.org.uk/site/campaign/defend-council-housing/"
        label="Defend Council Housing" />
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        Government attacks increase homelessness / No evictions - Cut rents not benefits / Build the homes we need now
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      <title>Event &#45; New Unionism: How workers can fight back</title>

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      <published>2012-02-18T11:30:47Z</published>
      <updated>2012-02-04T15:21:48Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

      <category term="Trade Union Rights"
        scheme="http://l-r-c.org.uk/site/campaign/trade-union-rights/"
        label="Trade Union Rights" />
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        A dayschool hosted by Workers&#8217; Liberty

Highgate Newtown Community Centre, 25 Bertram Street, London N19 5DQ (Archway tube)
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      <title>Event &#45; HOPI solidarity screening &#8216;A Separation&#8217; with John McDonnell MP</title>

      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://l-r-c.org.uk/events/detail/hopi-solidarity-screening-a-separation-with-john-mcdonnell-mp/" />
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      <published>2012-02-11T17:30:51Z</published>
      <updated>2012-02-06T17:20:52Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

      <category term="International solidarity"
        scheme="http://l-r-c.org.uk/site/campaign/international-solidarity/"
        label="International solidarity" />
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        Fundraising solidarity screening of Asghar Farhadi’s award-winning film ‘A Separation’. The film will be introduced by John McDonnell MP.
      ]]></content>
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      <title>Anti&#45;poor ‘prejudice and political posturing’ reigns in Parliament, says John McDonnell MP</title>

      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://l-r-c.org.uk/press/anti-poor-prejudice-and-political-posturing-reigns-in-parliament-says-john-/" />
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      <published>2012-02-01T21:34:23Z</published>
      <updated>2012-02-02T10:13:24Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

      <category term="Stop Welfare Reform"
        scheme="http://l-r-c.org.uk/site/campaign/stop-welfare-reform/"
        label="Stop Welfare Reform" />
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        The Government today (1 Feb) reversed seven House of Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill, and invoked a rarely used parliamentary statute to prevent any further consideration of the Bill. Restrictions to disabled people’s benefits, including cancer patients, and a cap on the amount a household can claim were the centrepieces of the government’s bill – despite massive opposition from the House of Lords, the Labour Party, welfare organisations, charities and disability campaigners.
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      <title>URGENT ACTION: Stop the Welfare Bill</title>

      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://l-r-c.org.uk/news/story/urgent-action-stop-the-welfare-bill/" />
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      <published>2012-01-29T08:06:03Z</published>
      <updated>2012-01-30T09:00:04Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

      <category term="Stop Welfare Reform"
        scheme="http://l-r-c.org.uk/site/campaign/stop-welfare-reform/"
        label="Stop Welfare Reform" />
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        MPs will be debating the Welfare Reform Bill on Wednesday 1 February 2012, which is the day after the Lords final debate. This is quite clearly a tactic to prevent campaigning and lobbying of MPs which is an attack on democracy. There are important issues at stake - protecting the disabled, including young disabled people and those with cancer, people on housing benefit, lone parents and larger families (details below).
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      <title>Nominate Gary Heather and Christine Shawcroft for the NEC</title>

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      <published>2012-01-28T07:24:41Z</published>
      <updated>2012-01-29T08:28:42Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

      <category term="Labour&#39;s Future"
        scheme="http://l-r-c.org.uk/site/campaign/labours-future/"
        label="Labour&#39;s Future" />
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        Your CLP is now able to make nominations for the Labour Party NEC elections, which will take place later in the year. The LRC is asking to you to seek nominations for Gary Heather (<a href="http://www.l-r-c.org.uk/files/GHeather12.pdf" title="download Gary's statement">download Gary&#8217;s statement</a>) and Christine Shawcroft (<a href="http://www.l-r-c.org.uk/files/CShawcroft12.pdf" title="download Christine's statement">download Christine&#8217;s statement</a>).
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>No war on Iran</title>

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      <published>2012-01-26T10:07:59Z</published>
      <updated>2012-01-26T10:47:00Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

      <category term="International solidarity"
        scheme="http://l-r-c.org.uk/site/campaign/international-solidarity/"
        label="International solidarity" />
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        The risk of a new military conflict with, or military strike on, Iran has intensified. A new oil embargo will bans all new oil contracts with Iran, and cuts off all existing deals. Also, all of the Iranian central bank’s European assets are to be frozen. The sanctions come into force on 1 July.
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      <title>Miliband and Balls are wrong to join the cuts consensus</title>

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      <published>2012-01-17T12:58:11Z</published>
      <updated>2012-01-17T14:47:12Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

      <category term="Their Crisis Not Ours!"
        scheme="http://l-r-c.org.uk/site/campaign/their-crisis-not-ours/"
        label="Their Crisis Not Ours!" />
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        Over the weekend Ed Miliband and Ed Balls came out with a succession of statements shifting Labour policy to within an inch of the coalition government. As well as refusing to pledge to reverse a single cut, Ed Balls said Labour would support the pay freeze and restraint on public sector workers. Today, the Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has written a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/16/ed-miliband-leadership-threatened-blairite-coup" title="powerful article in the Guardian">powerful article in the Guardian</a>, expressing his dissatisfaction with this &#8220;Blairite political coup&#8221; and warning it could lead to electoral disaster.
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    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>LRC TV &#45; Mark Serwotka (PCS) speaking outside TUC PSLG meeting 19Dec11</title>

      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://l-r-c.org.uk/lrctv/watch/mark-serwotka-pcs-speaking-outside-tuc-pslg-meeting-19dec11/" />
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      <published>2011-12-19T23:20:29Z</published>
      <updated>2011-12-19T23:21:30Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

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    <entry>
      <title>Stand Up, Don’t Sell Out. The Fight Goes On</title>

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      <id>tag:,2011:/2.971</id>
      <published>2011-12-19T23:06:21Z</published>
      <updated>2011-12-19T23:12:22Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

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        <strong>LRC Executive Statement on public sector pensions:</strong>

Leaders of the TUC and some trade unions have split the trade union movement today by capitulating to the Government, betraying not only their own members but also undermining the teachers’, civil servants’ and health service workers’ unions.
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    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>Labour MPs and councillors back 30 November strike and say ‘we won’t cross picket lines’</title>

      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://l-r-c.org.uk/press/labour-mps-and-councillors-back-30-november-strike-and-say-we-wont-cross-pi/" />
      <id>tag:,2011:/2.963</id>
      <published>2011-11-29T00:18:44Z</published>
      <updated>2011-11-30T06:44:45Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

      <category term="Labour&#39;s Future"
        scheme="http://l-r-c.org.uk/site/campaign/labours-future/"
        label="Labour&#39;s Future" />
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        On 30 November thousands of ordinary Labour members will be backing public sector workers in their dispute with the government. In Scotland all Labour MSPs have pledged their support and will not cross picket lines at Holyrood. Likewise Labour AMs in Wales will not cross picket lines at Cardiff Bay.
      ]]></content>
    </entry>

    <entry>
      <title>Towards 30 November &#45; Build the Resistance</title>

      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://l-r-c.org.uk/news/story/towards-30-november-build-the-resistance/" />
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      <published>2011-11-21T12:57:01Z</published>
      <updated>2011-11-23T09:16:02Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Andrew Fisher</name>
            <email>andygandhi@hotmail.com</email>
                  </author>

      <category term="Their Crisis Not Ours!"
        scheme="http://l-r-c.org.uk/site/campaign/their-crisis-not-ours/"
        label="Their Crisis Not Ours!" />
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        Up to 3 million public sector workers from 28 unions are planning to take co-ordinated action on 30 November. Every union that has balloted has returned a majority in favour of taking strike action in what will be the largest strike for a generation.
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