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PM Johnson Set To Put Brexit Deal With The EU To A Vote Today...

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ANYTHING and everything is being used to try and prevent the House of Commons voting to give its support to the government’s Brexit deal...

Cameron Touches Off Tory Leadership Dog Fight!

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CAMERON is now going into the May 7th general election with a declaration that he does not intend to serve a third term, that...

British trade unions must take action to support Palestinians

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PALESTINIAN doctors reported on Wednesday evening that five Palestinians, including a child and a woman, were killed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the...

World Crisis Blowing US Trade Union Leaders Apart

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THE American workers are facing major problems, caused by the deepening crisis of the world capitalist system. Among these problems are the export of millions...

Council of Action takes up the challenge to defend NHS

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THE News Line congratulates the North East London Council of Action for its march through Enfield on Saturday and its occupation of Chase Farm...

Coaliton Policies Put The Elderly On The Breadline

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RISING costs and rampant price inflation are leaving half of older people living on the breadline. According to the AGE UK charity nearly half are...

Capitalism is dead in the water!

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ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...

Petrol Market Working Well, Says The Oft

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WITH petrol poised to rise to £7.40 a gallon, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has intervened to rub salt into the gaping wounds...

Tories and military show contempt for Parliament

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THE ‘sovereign will’ of parliament was shown to be a complete fiction with the exposure of the participation of British pilots in bombing raids...

Boom-time for bailiffs

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APART from the bankers and speculators, there is another group looking to make huge profits at the expense of the human misery being created...

Tories continue to tear each other apart! Time for the working class to bring...

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THE government on Thursday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over Johnson’s unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal...

Bush Visit To Form Alliance With ‘Axis Of Evil’

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THERE has been a spate of hectic diplomatic activity in the Middle East, since the Israeli defeat in the Lebanon and the Congressional mid-term...

Stock markets crash in US and across the world – socialist revolution is only...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s tariff increases imposed on China, Mexico and Canada come into effect today but already this has set off a massive...

The Massive Human Price Of Boeing’s Profits – The Only Solution Is Expropriation...

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THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has the responsibility for aircraft safety, did nothing to ground Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft despite their own...

Sack TUC traitors who collaborate with Tories and bosses – Build a new leadership...

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CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak opened his Budget speech on Wednesday with an appeal to ‘put aside party politics, and act in the national interest’ in...

Johnson’s ‘Defiance’ Of The EU Will Not Fool Workers – He Voted For May’s...

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THE NEW Tory PM, Boris Johnson, now has a cabinet dominated by ‘Leavers’ after his massive clear-out of ‘Remainer’ ministers, following his victory in...

Nationalise The Energy Companies – The TUC Must Call A General Strike To Defend...

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MICHAEL Saunders, a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), is warning that households, and million of workers must brace themselves...

No amount of pressure will force the Tories to even talk about pay –...

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TENS of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers across England walked out yesterday at the start of two days of strike action. Members of the...

Russia responds to NATO moving eastwards

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A RUSSIAN foreign ministry statement issued on Tuesday evening said: ‘If a US strategic anti-missile shield starts to be deployed near our borders, we...

The Working Class Must Intervene To Ensure That Parliament Is Not Allowed To Smash...

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THE British ruling class is in big trouble indeed when it has to turn to Karl Marx and his ‘18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon’...

Macron desperate to reassert French imperial rule in Lebanon

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FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron stepped up his blatant interference in Lebanon on Sunday when he issued Lebanese politicians an ultimatum that they must form...

University Fees £9,500 and rising! Socialist revolution will end all fees!

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NOT one, but two tuition fee hikes have been announced by the Tory government in the last two weeks: first to £9,250 and then...

Capitalism Is In Its Greatest Ever Crisis – Forward To The General Strike And...

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THE SAME British capitalism that has been egging on the Ukraine to start World War III by attacking Russia is now shivering with fear...

King George’s Ilford cancer unit to close for lack of nurses – Get the...

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THE CEDAR CENTRE, the chemotherapy unit at the King George Hospital in Ilford is to shut down on November 12th, because it cannot find...

Nigerian workers revolution has begun – it must expropriate the oil companies!

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NIGERIA’S bourgeois government has pledged to the IMF and World Bank that it will push ahead and end oil fuel subsidies regardless of the...

Hunt tells workers to let their families freeze to support the war on Russia!

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has issued the call for workers to go without heating this winter to support the imperialist war on Russia. Appearing before...

Stop the great pensions robbery!

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2.5 million public service employees are being told how much extra the coalition government intends to force them to pay in pension contributions from...

Trump splits US ruling class with demand they give up vast profits in China

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ON THE eve of the G7 Summit in France over the weekend US president Donald Trump ordered US companies to leave China and move...

‘Hostile environment’ alive & kicking! Tories deport another 13 to the Caribbean. Stop all...

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A LAST-DITCH legal attempt by two children to stop their father being forced onto a plane and deported to the Caribbean failed on Tuesday,...

Disorientated Johnson quotes Lenin to CBI while Starmer tells bosses we will do what...

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BOTH Tory prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer spoke at the annual conference of the leading bosses’ organisation, the Confederation of...

EU torn apart by Covid pandemic – forward to Socialist United States of...

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THE DEADLY third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is ripping the EU apart over vaccinations and lockdowns. In Germany, with 9,549 new cases and 180...

Sack Ian Blair and disband police death squads

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YESTERDAY’S De Menezes family press conference gave its view of the Stockwell 2 document drawn up by the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission). ...

Kiss of death for Deutsche Bank and the world banking system

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THE writing is most definitely on the wall for Europe’s largest bank, with the kiss of death being delivered over the weekend when German...

TUC and Labour leaders call for ‘unity’ with Tory plan to make working...

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WORLD capitalism was reeling yesterday as the economic sanctions, imposed to strangle the Russian economy and pave the way for regime change in Russia,...

Trump And The US Ruling Class Up To Their Necks In The Afghan Quagmire!

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THE US ruling class and its leader President Trump (allegedly much versed in the ‘art of the deal’) are now up to their necks...

After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!

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PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...

Tories abolish youth housing benefit! Resolve the housing crisis with a socialist...

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THE TORIES have stepped up their war on youth, pushing through legislation last Friday which strips all young unemployed people under the age of...

Workers must use their power to smash capitalism and put an end to the...

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SINCE the onset of Israel’s brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli military’s use of live ammunition to kill and wound Palestinian...

Defend jobs, pay & services: Lobby the TUC! Build councils of action!

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THE Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee decided yesterday to make no change in its base interest rate and to leave it at...

British workers must make the TUC call a general strike to bring in the...

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THE United Nations has confirmed that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city...

Put Blair On Trial!

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THE Fern Britton interview with Tony Blair on the BBC yesterday, squashed all of the notions that are being peddled that Blair was just...

The Tory recovery is a fraud! Time to bring them down!

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UK registered unemployment from April to June 2015 was at 1.85 million, up 25,000 from the previous quarter while the ONS figures showed that...

A Palestinian state – Not in our lifetime say Zionist leaders

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MORE than 15 Israeli air strikes on Thursday, Friday and early Saturday destroyed Gaza Strip water, power and roads and killed seven Palestinians. Yesterday,...

Corbyn comes out on top as May is jeered, laughed at and heckled!

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THE separate questioning by SKY’s Faisal Islam, Jeremy Paxman and a small audience, of Labour leader Corbyn and PM May showed just how disorientated...

No safe zones in Gaza as Israel steps up war in the south

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SINCE the start of the Israeli genocidal war in Gaza, the Israeli regime has ordered the forced evacuation of Palestinians from the north of...