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Thursday, 20 June 2013 Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the working class, the youth and the poor of the country.

The Brazilian revolution is the latest in the chain of revolutions by the working class, the youth and the poor that have erupted as the world crisis of capitalism has slashed their jobs and wages and made their lives unbearable in every part of the world. Read More

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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 UK flees Afghanistan – and sacks 4,500 troops NATO has handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan to the Afghan puppet government for the first time since the Taliban were ousted in 2001. Read More

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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 Labour sells out on state education THE Labour shadow education minister, Stephen Twigg, made a speech yesterday that was billed as ‘wresting’ the initiative on education from the Tories – in fact, it represented the wholesale acceptance of their policy to force academy status on every single primary and secondary school in the country.
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Monday, 17 June 2013 ‘Moderate anti-extremist’ seeks talks with US HASSAN Rouhani has hailed his election as Iran’s president as a ‘victory of moderation over extremism’.
The cleric won just over 50 per cent of the vote, and so avoided the need for a run-off after a campaign that held one hand out to the large numbers of Iranian workers and youth who have been hit very hard by the imperialist sanctions, are sick and tired of government privatisations and rising prices, and are growing very tired of the current theocratic stranglehold on power, exercised through the Supreme Leader. Read More

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Saturday, 15 June 2013 Hague, Cameron will join Obama’s war on Syria PRIME MINISTER Cameron and Foreign Secretary Hague, despite the fact that the Tory cabinet and party are split on the issue, yesterday gave their full support to President Obama’s assertion that Syria had used poisoned gas on its citizens.

Obama maintained that a ‘red line’ had been crossed, meaning that the US is now going to step up the arming of its counter-revolutionary bands in Syria, as a first step to reversing the series of defeats that its Islamist allies have suffered, and securing the removal of the Syrian government no matter how many corpses this requires. Read More

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Friday, 14 June 2013 THE SPARK THAT STARTED A REVOLUTION! OVER a million Greeks stopped work yesterday in a general strike while tens of thousands of Greek workers, unemployed and youth rallied in front of the ERT (Greek state TV and Radio network) building in Athens, which had been closed by the Greek dictatorship on the orders of the EU’s Troika.

The ERT is occupied and is still defiantly broadcasting through the internet after the riot police and other state forces took over the transmitters. Read More

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