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Tory Government Is Making War On The Rail Trade Unions – TUC Must Be...

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THE RMT has revealed that the private rail companies war on the rail trade unions is being financed by the UK government, who are...

Foxconn to replace its Chinese workers with a million robots

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TAIWANESE electronics manufacturer Foxconn, which assembles products for Apple, plans to have a million robots, by the next three years, in operation in its...

30th anniversary of Malvinas war – reject imperialist war hysteria

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Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas (Falklands) war, a war involving a tiny island with a population in 1982 of less than...

Tory party split over huge NI tax rise – It is time for the...

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THE TORY government is being ripped apart from top to bottom, with every day bringing new reports of ministers fighting amongst themselves in a...

Capitalism cannot be reformed – forward to socialist revolution

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THIS week sees the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in the Swiss town of Davos, perched high in the Alps, ideally situated for...

Unions Must Take Action To Defend The NHS!

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HOSPITAL managers are to shut an NHS accident and emergency department down at night in order to combat a staffing crisis, caused by the...

Trump and Pompeo encourage Zionist Israel, while Biden prepares to accept land seizures!

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ISRAEL is in a race against time to create a fait accompli in Palestine before US President Donald Trump leaves office, Palestinian Prime Minister...

‘Big Society’ a cover for destroying jobs and life-saving services!

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TORY leader Cameron yesterday delivered his speech on the ‘Big Society’ but had a problem defining what he meant. He said: ‘You can call it...

War on welfare – revolution the only way forward

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Yesterday, more than two million people on Incapacity Benefit found themselves officially labelled by the Tory-LibDem coalition as scroungers and parasites living off the...

Palestinian government rejects Blair’s plotting

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THE leaders of the Palestine National Authority (PNA) government yesterday rejected the interference of British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Palestinian internal affairs. Dr Mousa...

MI5 and labour witch-hunters attack torture exposers

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HOME Secretary Johnson and MI5 director general, Evans, yesterday launched a hysterical witch-hunt against the exposers of the fact that both MI5 and the...

Bourgeoisie Trembles At The Approaching Catastrophe!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, made it clear this week that the banking system faces total collapse due to ‘systemic...

Banks tremble at the thought of the end of Quantitative Easing

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THE pound fell below $1.49 against the dollar on Friday, close to a three-year low. Sterling traded as low as $1.4858 at one point. The...

Requiem For The British Economy !

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GORDON Brown, the man who sold off a good portion of the British gold reserves for a relative pittance, and boasted that he had...

Israel Steps Up Its Genocide. The TUC Must Call A General Strike Now...

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THE Palestinian Civil Defence Society (PCDS) reported on Tuesday that it has received numerous appeals regarding people trapped alive under rubble from homes and...

On May Day, on the TUC march on May 12, & on Nakba Day...

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THE ‘GREAT March of Return’ has become the beacon for all Palestinians and the workers of the world to unite in the struggle...

Unions must purge Brown cabinet!

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THE defeat of the Labour Party in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election – by 7,860 votes, making a 17.6% swing to the Tories from...

Throw out Tory NHS pay offer – Bring down the Tories to secure decent...

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THE DEAL reached last week between the majority of health unions and the Tories must be thrown out by NHS workers. The deal, which...

Obama hosts Afghanistan and Pakistan war summit

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ON THE eve of a meeting between US President Barack Obama, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari in...

NHS not living with Covid but dying from it

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‘THE GOVERNMENT must be honest about the threat the pandemic still poses,’ the editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Health Service Journal...

American Terrorists Launch Murderous Attack On Syria

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SYRIA has protested angrily to both the US and Iraq after a terror raid by four US helicopters inside its territory killed eight Syrian...

No gagging of Pitchford Inquiry into police spies and police provocateurs!

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THE Pitchford Inquiry into police undercover operations directed against various protest movements – trades unions, political movements and MPs – is to be gagged...
Gate Gourmet locked out workers on their successful lobby of the TUC last Monday morning

Action not words required to win Gate Gourmet struggle

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LAST Thursday afternoon, at a meeting attended by TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, TGWU leader Tony Woodley told the Gate Gourmet shop stewards that...

Crown won’t prosecute police killers

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AT a briefing on their investigation into the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station on July 22, the Independent Police...

Sterling disaster – it crashes against the $ and the €

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BANK of England governor King’s report, on the immediate prospects for British capitalism has produced a run on the pound – so precarious is...

Lammy, Labour’s Foreign Secretary, Is Whipping Up War Fever Against Russia!

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THE UK’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State have both been very busy whipping up a ‘war fever’...

Make the TUC call a general strike to bring down Labour and to bring...

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DESPITE Labour’s election manifesto pledges and repeated promise of ‘No tax increases’ on income, National Insurance or VAT, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning a...

Crisis Deepening – Revolution Not Recovery Is On The Agenda

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THE CBI bosses organisation yesterday foresaw a ‘recovery’ from the capitalist crisis, but was forced by circumstances beyond its control to admit that, at...

Stop Royal Mail privatisation – No to mass sackings!

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THE CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes yesterday warned that the Brown government and the Royal Mail top management are planning to sack...

Massive strike wave as wages fall and prices soar – time for a general...

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On the eve of Tory chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn budget tomorrow, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published figures revealing that the number of...

Victory to the South African socialist revolution!

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Public sector unions in South Africa, supported by the whole of the working class, are in conflict with the ANC government over a decent...

Smash Imperialism To Get Rid Of Nuclear Weapons!

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WORLD leaders at the Washington summit on nuclear security have heard the direst warnings yet from President Obama of the danger of nuclear...

The eurozone is a pack of cards ready to collapse, says the economist who...

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THE man who is credited as the principle architect of the single European currency 14 years ago has just warned that his ‘project’ is...

UK-France Moving To Partition Libya

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FOREIGN Secretary William Hague yesterday ordered the Libyan charge d‘affaires out of the UK along with all Libyan diplomats. Hague said: ‘We’re inviting the...

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...

The Real Tory Voice Speaks Out

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THE declaration by Tory grandee, Lord Young – a key member of the Thatcher and Major governments that fought the NUM and supported Murdoch’s...

Stop The Police Chiefs Taking Over The Fire Service!

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JUST a few weeks ago the Grenfell Tower inferno burnt men, women and children to death, because the fire was able to take...

Palestine Faces Starvation! Now Is The Time For The Workers Of The World To...

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ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued their assault on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp for the 97th consecutive day on Sunday, carrying...

CHILDREN ARE DYING EVERY DAY! Hospitals have been bombed! Doctors say that they have...

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THE UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned that already low levels of aid trickling into Gaza have dwindled further, with the situation...

Tory Party On The Rocks!

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THE Survation poll for the Mail on Sunday shows that UKIP, with turncoat Tory MP Carswell as their candidate, will win the October Clacton...

Trump escalates trade war with China – Only Socialist Revolution can end crisis of...

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THE WORLD’S stock markets fell dramatically on Tuesday following US president Donald Trump’s latest move to ratchet up US capitalism’s trade war with China...

Israel withdraws its 98th Commando division from Gaza as Cairo talks are due...

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SIX months into Israel’s criminal war on Gaza, Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters have been engaged in intense combat around the city of Khan...

The Workers Of The World do Support Palestine – Now Is The Time...

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TENS of thousands marched through central London on Saturday reiterating their calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, for the UK to stop arming...

Unions must take action! Occupy Bombardier! Bring down the coalition! Nationalise to...

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THE proposed sacking of 1,500 Bombardier workers in Derby is the beginning of the end for the train construction industry in the UK, and...

Special relationship goes up in the smoke of burning Basra

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WITH more US troops dying and the numbers of Iraqi civilians being killed and injured rising throughout Iraq, the US military surge has failed...