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US-UK Being Driven Out Of Afghanistan!

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CURRENTLY, the ‘Friends of Syria’ conference in Tunis is considering the best way for the imperialist powers to intervene in Syria to overthrow president...

US to arm Ukrainian coupists

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US imperialism has reacted to the breakdown of talks at the weekend of the Contact Group on Ukrainian reconciliation with threats to massively intervene...

TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws!

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Following the passing of the Strikes (Minimum Service Level) Act in July, the Tories on Friday launched a six week ‘consultation on the reasonable...

Re-nationalise the Railways

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Yesterday’s announcement that the Tory-led coalition government’s much heralded investment in the railways is to be financed solely through fare increases is a catastrophe...

European capitalism hits the rocks

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THE capitalist EU is being battered senseless this week by an economic crisis that is relentless and a working class that is refusing to...

Brown’s bonanza for City speculators

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ALMOST a third of Britain’s 700 biggest businesses paid no corporation tax in 2005-2006, according to a study carried out by the official National...

The capitalist state cannot be reformed – it must be smashed and replaced with...

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IN THE TORY leadership campaign, of the six candidates left after the first round of voting five went to Oxford University and every one...

Entente Cordiale Is Binned As The UK Backstabs France Which Vows To Form A...

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IT HAS emerged that the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the UK and the US, to supply Australia with nuclear submarines was agreed in...

Forward to a Workers Government in both the UK and Palestine!

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HAMAS has commented on the statements of the Zionist War Minister Katz that blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza ‘is a pressure method’. The Hamas...

200,000 Civil Servants taking strike action

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ON Wednesday over 200,000 civil servants and over 200 government departments will be strike bound for the day. Civil servants...

End all complicity with Zionist genocide and war – Demand TUC’s October 10th ‘day...

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ON THURSDAY, the Israeli Defence Ministry in a statement revealed that the US had given $8.7 billion of military aid to the Zionist state...

Dockers in 20 Mediterranean ports call an International General Strike on Friday against Zionist...

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THIS FRIDAY, workers in over 20 Mediterranean ports will take coordinated strike action to oppose the genocidal war waged by Israel to drive Palestinians...

French And UK Workers Must Unite To Bring Down Macron And Johnson With Socialist...

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THE imperialist powers are not only in their greatest crisis ever, they are completely split and divided. The UK is prepared to take legal action...

Trade unions in the US and UK must support Palestinian hunger strikers

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SEVENTY-FIVE Palestinian inmates have gone on hunger strike in support of two of their fellow prisoners, who have been on hunger strike for several...

Time to nationalise the banks – the only way to prevent another crash and...

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THE BANK of America’s March survey has openly warned that another 2008-type worldwide crash is on the way. Its March survey polled 200 investors...

Coalition forcing in education commodity market

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that the government was organising an ‘NHS-style crash’ pushing through ‘reforms’ to create an education...

Millions of children face hunger under Tory austerity – TUC must act!

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A SHOCKING study carried out by the GMB union released yesterday showed that almost one in ten school staff bring in their own food...

Take Strike Action To Defend The NHS

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THE Royal College of Nursing, the nurses trade union, yesterday announced that it is seeking a judicial review to force the Blair government to...

Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism

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EVERYWHERE capitalism is crashing! Yesterday the FTSE 100 index fell to 3472.68 points making a 50 per cent crash from the FTSE’s...

Obama Compares Bp With Osama Bin Laden

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US PRESIDENT Barack Obama said yesterday that the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have the same impact on the US...

Britain, once the workshop of the world, collapses to be the 12th biggest manufacturer!

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BRITAIN, where modern industrial capitalism began and which became the workshop of the world, has now collapsed to being the world’s 12th biggest manufacturer,...

Reid goes into opposition to a Brown government

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IT MUST be a grave crisis indeed when Reid the Home Secretary – who only a week ago was posing as carrying the entire...

The Tories new proposed anti-union laws must be smashed – Defend the right to...

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FBU general secretary Matt Wrack has hit out at the government announcement that it will introduce new anti-union laws which will include the following...

G20 talks dominated by world crisis, and the fear of world revolution!

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THE initial stages of the G20 talks in China were yesterday dominated by the world crisis of capitalism, the sharpening antagonisms that this crisis...

Lift the ban on the Tigers – Stop the massacres of Tamils

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SUPPORTED by the US, the UK and India the Sri Lankan army is bombing and shelling Northern Sri Lanka in a frantic, ruthless and...

No War! Greek And Turkish Workers Must Unite – Their Enemy Is At Home!...

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WHILE President Trump is celebrating the Israel-UAE alliance against Iran and Palestine, and planning to extend it throughout the region, his NATO allies are...

‘History at a turning point’ – forward to victory of world socialist revolution

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THE ANNUAL meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos started yesterday on the theme of ‘history at a...

British imperialism filmed at work

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A COURT martial in Wiltshire yesterday heard that Corporal Donald Payne was filmed as he abused and swore at hooded Iraqi detainees, in September...

UK economy is crashing into bankruptcy under the impact of the world capitalist crisis!

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THE TORY Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride has refused to call for the resignation of Labour’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Asked by Camilla Tomney on GB News...

Nationalise Lonmin – forward with South African socialist revolution

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The massacre of 34 striking miners at the hands of the ANC government’s police last Thursday marked a decisive point in the development of...

Crunch Time For The Eurozone

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August is traditionally the month when politicians, bankers and bureaucrats across Europe take an extended break away from the chaos of the economic meltdown...

No Fees Or Loans And Restore Student Grants For All!

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AFTER Blair and Brown abolished students’ grants and introduced a regime of fee paying for university education – putting an end to free university...

Trade unions must bring down crisis-ridden Tories, break with the EU and bring in...

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THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...

Turn the imperialist war against Russia into a civil war to smash British Capitalism

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THE BRITISH ruling class has now made it crystal clear that it favours a class war on two interconnected fronts. On the home front it...

Defend Palestinians against Israeli military terror!

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TEN members of the Palestinian resistance movement, members of the Al-Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad, were killed in missile attacks by Israeli warplanes in...

China must scrap the ‘one country two social systems’ policy and declare for a...

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CHINA has condemned the counter-revolutionaries who stormed and vandalised the Hong Kong parliament building on Monday and raised the flag of the former occupying...

Defeat imperialist coup attempt in Ukraine

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THE refusal at the last minute by the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovich, to sign up to a ‘partnership’ deal with the EU has led...

Close the Israeli embassy and boycott all Israeli goods

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ISRAEL, on Saturday evening, committed over 200 tanks and 20,000 troops to an invasion of Gaza, covered by artillery fire and fire from warships...

CWU leaders capitulate to Royal Mail bosses – Time to build a new leadership...

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LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...

Tory Party Breaking Apart Over Eu Referendum

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LEAVING the EU could lead to the break up of the UK, said former Tory leader and former Foreign Secretary, William Hague yesterday. Since the...

UK capitalism is in its death agony – It is time to organise the...

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THE Bank of England yesterday raised interest rates by the most in 33 years from 2.25% to 3%, and accompanied its action with a...

Universities are for students, not big business!

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ALMOST a third of young people (31 per cent) starting at university this autumn are being forced to live with their parents, because they...

Britain Has Been, Is, And Will Continue Talking With The Taleban

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PRIME Minister Brown told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that British forces are ‘winning the battle against the insurgency’ in Afghanistan. Using...

US and Israel – Get out of Syria! Aid the Syrian people by ...

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SYRIAN air defences shot down one of four Israeli warplanes targeting a military site near Palmyra on Friday, the General Command of the Syrian...

British workers face massive crisis as capitalism lurches into the abyss – time for...

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THE wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth by the bourgeois media, and the way that the TUC has used this massive wave...