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Arab League – accomplices of imperialism

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The leaders of the 22 member Arab League meeting on Saturday came out decisively on the side of imperialism when they issued a call...

Shooting at the UK’s Afghan Sandhurst!

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THE ‘row’ that left an Afghan officer cadet dead and three NATO troops injured at the UK-established ‘Sandhurst in the Sand’ in Helmand province...

GM jobs crisis hits UK-EU!

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THE week long closure of the two remaining GM owned Vauxhall plants in the UK at Luton and Ellesmere Port which started yesterday marks...

100 years since the start of the great imperialist slaughter!

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YESTERDAY, August 4th, saw the leaders of the major imperialist powers remembering the centenary of the start of the first great imperialist slaughter, the...

Data bases and electronic spying won’t save the bourgeoisie

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THE inventor of the genetic technology behind the national DNA database has said that the database’s unlimited expansion to include millions of people who...

Vote ‘NO’ and organise Greek Socialist Revolution!

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THE Syriza party won the last Greek general election with its declarations that once elected it would put an end to the austerity dictatorship...

Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any attack on the country

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THE commander of Iran’s armed forces Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard said on Tuesday that Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any...

Sunak demands police crack down on all opposition to Zionist genocide.

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has summoned the country’s police chiefs to tell them they must use all the existing and wide-ranging police powers...

Defend the Tamil people! Unite the Sri Lankan workers! Bring down the Rajipakse...

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THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...

Imperialism In Crisis – As Islamist Clients Turn On Their Masters

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IMPERIALISM is in disarray. Tens of thousands of Islamist fighters – initially assisted by western governments, such as the UK government, and their secret...

The Desperate Housing Crisis!

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IT WAS Frederick Engels who said that the housing problem and capitalism were inseparable, and that to get rid of the former you would...

Restore the free NHS! Halt privatisation & kick out the profiteers!

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THE House of Commons Select Committee on Health published a report yesterday that set out to legitimise charging for healthcare within the National Health...

Innocent Until Proven Guilty To Be Binned!

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DRACONIAN repressive measures are now being proposed, off the cuff, thick and fast, as the Blair government races to put an end to the...

Europe Is Rising Up!

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YESTERDAY millions of workers across Europe took strike action against the austerity programmes of ‘their’ bosses, bankers and governments. These programmes are creating millions...

Out with Hunt, out with the rotten coalition!

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LABOUR is to demand a parliamentary vote over Culture Secretary Hunt’s breaching of the ministerial code, by refusing to take responsibility for the actions...

Occupy UK Car Plants! Call General Strike To Bring In Workers Government To Nationalise...

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THE UNITE union, representing car workers, said yesterday that its members will fight ‘tooth and nail’ to safeguard Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant, and urged...

Novelist Sally Rooney wins massive support for boycotting Israel

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BEST-SELLING Irish novelist Sally Rooney has won massive support from fellow writers and artists for her support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS)...

Rice calls for US-Africa open markets deal

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THE US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, is currently touring Africa, putting forward the US plan to establish free trade and open markets with...

Occupy to stop car plant closures – nationalise the motor industry to defend...

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YESTERDAY, US carmaker Ford announced it will close the car engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, throwing all 1,700 workers out of a job...

Darling can’t explain the crisis and he cannot resolve it

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YESTERDAY at the Labour Party conference the leaders who not so long ago announced to the world that they had conquered the essential tendency...

America on verge of ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

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NEARLY 42 million American workers and their families face losing access to food stamps as funding for what is officially called the Supplement Nutritional...

Moroccan leaders stab Palestine in the back with another ‘normalisation’ deal with Israel!

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ISRAEL and Morocco announced they are to ‘normalise ties’ in another US-brokered deal. On Thursday, Morocco became the fourth Arab country since August to strike...

Bailing out banks and sacking public sector workers splits the unions

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THE UNISON and Unite trade unions have split. The former has formed an alliance with the EU public sector trade unions ver.di and CGIL and...

French Socialist government turns on the workers

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THE French Socialist government has said it will raise Value Added Tax and cut public spending, kicking the working class and the poor in...

Western-Backed Syrian Opposition Committing War Crimes!

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THE US, UK, French, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari-backed ‘Syrian rebels’, who have been armed, equipped, financed and recognised as the representatives of the Syrian...

Action needed to defeat Royal Mail privatisation

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NOTHING demonstrates the complete bankruptcy and downright treachery of the reformist trade union leadership more clearly than the gyrations being performed by the leadership...

Johnson wants Labour to junk the unions!

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LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor has declared that it is time for the Labour Party to completely dump the union bloc vote in future leadership elections. Johnson,...

US Imperialism desperate to dominate its rivals

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INTERNATIONAL ‘free trade’ agreements represent the attempt by the vast multi-national capitalist corporations to completely dominate the globe. The domination they seek is over...

Councils to be given more police state powers!

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HOME SECRETARY Alan Johnson is introducing new police state powers for councils next week. These will not be discussed in the House of Commons...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers in high spirits welcomed Father Christmas at their mass picket yesterday

Public sector unions must take strike action over pensions

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THE Fire Brigades Union said yesterday that it will consider industrial action over government plans to ‘reform’ its members’ pensions by dramatically extending the...

Labour plans to criminalise the entire working class

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THE government is planning ‘behaviour orders’ for people considered to be at risk of committing a violent crime. Class prejudice, ie racial and working...

Boots Joins The NHS Privatisation Drive

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CHEMIST giant Boots wants to breach the NHS system by bringing GPs and consultants into its stores as part of an alleged drive to...

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...

SA hunger can only be ended by a socialist revolution

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ONE in four South Africans are unemployed, and poverty is rife eighteen years after the release of Nelson Mandela and 14 years after he...

Defeat paramilitary policing in UK with socialist revolution

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THOUSANDS of workers and young people in cities throughout the country, peacefully protesting against the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, were met...

Fitch strips UK of triple-A rating

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LAST Friday, Fitch ratings agency became the second of the world’s three big credit agencies to strip Britain of its top notch triple-A credit...

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...

Blears Speaks With Forked Tongue

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HOME Office minister Blears has had a strenuous week. On the one hand she has been working to support British Transport Police Chief Johnston....
NHSTogether demonstration in November 2007 against NHS privatisation

NHS pharmacy services under threat – warn unions

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Unite is seeking an urgent meeting with Health Secretary, Andy Burnham ‘as NHS pharmacy services are threatened by a government decision’. Burnham is being asked to...

Bosses see mass unemployment as the whip to discipline working class!

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A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE Australian property tycoon, Tim Gurner, speaking at a property summit on Tuesday, spoke out clearly revealing the contempt these mega rich bosses...

Trump champions the police and launches his war against communism and socialism!

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US PRESIDENT Trump, in his desperate attempt to win the November presidential election, has stepped up his war against the working class, branding all...

Obama revamps US imperialism’s war cabinet

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BARACK OBAMA, United States President-elect, announced the latest appointments to his White House cabinet on Monday. He made Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, confirmed that...

RENATIONALISE NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS FIELDS! Bring down the Brown government!

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YESTERDAY road hauliers made it crystal clear that the Labour government had seven days to make a big cut in fuel duty, to save...

Heseltine joins Blair’s campaign for an anti-Brexit uprising!

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LORD Heseltine is notorious for his closure of the mining industry in 1993, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the Major...

US capitalism faces fiscal ‘heart attack’ – socialist revolution is the only way forward

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AT midnight (US time) on Monday, US president Trump made good his threat to impose his long-threatened 25% trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada...