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Oil giants make huge profits off backs of workers – nationalise the oil and...

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AS MILLIONS of families face massive increases in their energy bills when the Tories raise the cap on prices by 54% in April, the...

Trades unions must take action to end NHS privatisation

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‘END this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare in England.’ This was the call from Dr Hamish Meldrum, the Chairman of...

Bankrupt Tories cook the books while TU leaders do nothing

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THE dust had barely settled on Tory chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement on the state of the British economy before the gaping holes in...

Dollar collapsing as gold reaches $1,000 an ounce

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ON August 15 1971, the then president of the United States, Richard Nixon ended the gold backing for the US dollar, which up till...

Disband The Police Death Squads!

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THE fact that armed police used internationally banned dum dum bullets, seven of which splintered, expanded and exploded inside the head of Jean Charles...

Britain ordered to slash spending on welfare benefits or face huge tax rises

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BRITAIN must cut spending on welfare benefits or face a miserable cycle of repeated tax rises every year, JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank,...

Forward to the political revolution in the Ukraine

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UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yushchenko has mounted a coup attempt in the Ukraine, dissolving parliament and calling a snap general election on May 27th. The parliament...

TUC must call general strike in support of the junior doctors!

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‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

THE TUC must take general strike action to support Palestine and bring in a...

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‘THE report issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhry, on the Israeli-induced starvation in the Gaza Strip...

Irish enforced bail-out will bring EU to breaking point!

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IRISH Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and the Irish government, are being forced onto their knees by the EU and the European Central Bank...

Defend North Korea’s right to defend itself from Imperialist War

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IN HIS New Year speech North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un warned US imperialism not to start a nuclear war against the country saying that...

Force the TUC to call general strike to bring down Tories!

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THE working class is being left with no alternative by the government than to take general strike action to prevent all of its gains...

TUC Must Take Industrial Action To Force The Tories To Oppose Trump’s Palestine Deal!

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THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the ‘deal of the century’, which they said was a plan for ‘transfer’...

Smash Trump’s ‘deal of the century’! Forward to the independent state of Palestine!

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THE US-sponsored three-day conference held this week in the Gulf state of Bahrain to unveil the first stage of Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the...

US is on the run as Hamas remain undefeated! Forward to the State of...

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ON Monday, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted a US-drafted resolution endorsing a Gaza ceasefire proposal that aims to end Israel’s eight-month...

Greek Crisis Set To Explode Under Eu!

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GREECE’S Syriza government has drawn up its plan to renegotiate with the EU. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won a confidence vote on Tuesday evening,...

Defend the Fire Service, the Ambulance Service and the Welfare State! Sack all of...

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THE general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), Matt Wrack, has warned that proposals from Home Secretary Theresa May, to bring fire and...

After levelling Mosul and Raqqa, the US-UK-French alliance is moving into northern Syria

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THE FALSE claims of the Ministry of Defence that there were no civilian casualties in UK air strikes on Iraq, namely on Mosul, have...

Occupations & a general strike needed to defend the NHS and bring the Tories...

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‘SLASH, Trash and Privatise’ – this is how the purpose of the Tories’ 44 Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) is now correctly understood. Drawn up...

It Is Time For The UK, EU And US Trade Unions To Recognise And...

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A SENIOR member of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has said that there is no real will on the part of the United States...

Tories and Labour unite to bar Bulgars and Romanians

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THE Tory Party yesterday called for restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania when these countries shortly join the EU. The Tory Party immigration...

Crisis deepens as shares crash worldwide!

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its concerns about Spain’s economy, saying ‘far-reaching’ reforms are needed to ensure its recovery. It said the country...

Unite’s ‘line in the sand’ must be enforced with strike action and occupations

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ONE of the leaders of Unite, the country’s largest union, yesterday stated that: ‘A line in the sand over further privatisation of the NHS...

Make the TUC call a general strike now to boot out the Tories and...

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RAIL, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) members will be joined by many other trade unionists today at 7.00am and on Saturday 26th March at...

French and Greek workers reject austerity

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The elections in France and Greece on Sunday demonstrated conclusively that Europe stands on the brink of a seismic revolutionary upheaval that will sweep...

Brown Won’t Retreat From Blair Agenda

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PREMIER Blair got his well deserved come-uppance at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, while the co-author of his policies Gordon Brown was welcomed like...

Trump caves in over tariff war as US capitalism faces collapse. It’s time for...

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US president Donald Trump caved in on Wednesday, after the financial world reacted in fear and dread over the rapidly unfolding collapse of the...

Down with the Anglo- French imperialist war plans!

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ON August 31 the Labour Party called on the Coalition to end the speculation that Britain is considering sharing its aircraft carrier capability with...

Five Tory advisors quit! Finish Johnson and the Tories off with a general strike...

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FIVE Tory advisors to Prime Minister Boris Johnson have now resigned. They are leaving the sinking ship while more Tory MPs have handed in...

NHS bed & staffing crisis is a ‘Grenfell Tower waiting to happen’ – Call...

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THE NUMBER of NHS beds has halved in the last 30 years and proposals to slash bed numbers even further will make the ‘NHS a...

US vetos Ukraine ceasefire – tells Poroshenko to make war!

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ON MONDAY evening Russia invited Ukrainian border guards and international observers to oversee the Russian side of the border with Ukraine, in an 11th-hour...

US Threatens China As It Seeks To Drive Back World Revolution!

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ON FRIDAY the foreign ministry of the Kuomintang- ruled territory of Chinese Taipei vowed to further deepen its close military alliance with the US...

Sack Woodley and Simpson over Royal Mail strikebreaking

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TODAY the Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London. ...

Trump Courts North Korea To Avoid A War On Two Fronts!

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THE SIGNED Joint Statement of US President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, issued from the Singapore Summit yesterday morning, commits Trump ‘to provide...

Forward to a national strike and a national demonstration on July 17

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DAY one of the London CWU’s three-day strike action was a massive success, after the move by the Royal Mail and the government...

Defeat Tory-Lib Dem attacks on public sector pensions!

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TORY Prime Minister David Cameron and his Deputy Nick Clegg have declared war on six million workers in the public sector and their pensions. Clegg...

Extend lecturers strike into a general strike to defend pensions and education

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TALKS began yesterday between the University and College Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK), the body representing all universities, at the conciliation service ACAS...

Bring down Blair; bring in a workers’ government

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THE crisis of the Blair government has intensified to the point where the government is now more deeply split and divided than ever, while...

Working class erupts throughout the EU – Forward to the Socialist United States of...

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THE CRISIS-RIDDEN EU is exploding as workers from the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Catalonia rise up against the open dictatorship of...

One thousand anti-ICE protests across US!

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OVER 1,000 protests erupted across the US at the weekend over the extra-judicial murder of Renee Nicole Good by an agent of Immigration and...

Brown Favours Bush’s ‘New World Order’

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has spoken of the need for a ‘new world order’. He is not embarrassed that this is what President Clinton and...

Russia must recognise the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ‘On recognition in the Russian Federation of the documents and licence plates of vehicles issued to...

Time to drive the Tories out! TUC must call a general strike to give...

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AFTER the Tory insult of a 1% pay offer to the heroic health workers, the working class and youth are boiling with anger and...

THE BANK looks to inflation to pauperise the workers and Middle Class

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THE pound fell sharply on Wednesday against both the dollar and the euro as the money markets were shaken to the core by the...

Defend Public Services through a general strike

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ON THE day that MPs were voting on going to war once again in the Middle East, a very senior civil servant made it...