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British capitalism ‘heading for disaster’ as Labour government fails to impose capitalist crisis on...

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THE HUMILIATION heaped on prime minister Keir Starmer and his chancellor Rachel Reeves by the rebellion of backbench Labour MPs over their plans to ‘save’...

Nationalise the pharmaceutical corporations!

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A REPORT into the expenditure of the National Health Service on drugs, published by the government’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday, reveals that...

Moroccan Lawyers Demand Cancellation Of Israel Normalisation Deal!

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MOROCCAN lawyers have severely censured the Rabat government over its recent agreement to normalise relations with Israel, and are demanding an immediate reversal of...

UK and US have lost the war and now they want to steal any...

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AFTER a tortuous series of talks in Geneva the Russian Foreign minister Lavrov has announced the signing of five documents which include agreements reached...

Tories have driven NHS to breaking point! The trade unions must call a general...

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THE NHS is at breaking point! This is the warning from doctors, nurses and NHS staff, furious that the Tories did absolutely nothing to...

Simpson Aims To Prop Up The Brown Government

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AT a time when the working class is starting to roar like a lion and demand and vote by over 90 per cent majorities...

National emergency declared in NHS as waiting lists soar!

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Senior NHS doctors declared a state of national emergency in the NHS yesterday as waiting lists soared, with thousands of patients being treated in...

‘Moderate anti-extremist’ seeks talks with US

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HASSAN Rouhani has hailed his election as Iran’s president as a ‘victory of moderation over extremism’. The cleric won just over 50 per cent of...

Police want to use water cannon and rubber bullets

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THE Metropolitan Police is considering its tactics after the failure of its containment and ‘kettling’ policies in Parliament square last Thursday, when...

Tory Party Turns On Cameron Over Syria

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PRIME Minister Cameron said last Thursday night that he would respect the defeat of his ‘strike Syria’ government motion by 285-272 in the House...

King sees nothing but the ‘black cloud of uncertainty’

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THE Governor of the Bank of England yesterday poured gallons of ice cold water over the prospects of British and world capitalism. King cut the...

‘Vile police’ and Tory grandees battle it out!

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A PETTY incident – the refusal of Downing Street police officers to allow the Tory chief whip to ride his bicycle through the gates...

US launches the new grab for Africa!

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PRESIDENT Obama has hailed the ‘new Africa that is emerging’, as US imperialism seeks to re-grab Africa after its destruction of the Libyan Jamahiriyah....

The ‘Peace Process’ is a Fraud!

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THE long-serving Palestinian prisoners whom Israel has pledged to release, and whose pledge prepared the way for the Palestinian leader Abbas to reopen the...

Scottish Labour Call For A Gaza Ceasefire Must Be Supported By All Trade Unions...

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FORMER Mossad official, Rami Igra, has said all Palestinians in Gaza over the age of 4 deserve to face Israel’s collective punishment policy of...

Demand for national strike action growing over NHS Logistics

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TONIGHT at 10pm the five NHS Logistics distribution centres will be picketed by striking staff fighting to stop the privatisation of the NHS supplier. They...

Bomb Gadaffi Out Of Power Urges General Richards

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THE NATO war that was supposedly being waged to defend Libyan civilians must be stepped up and Libya’s infrastructure destroyed if Colonel Gadaffi is...

Duncan Smith’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Peddles Lies!

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THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...

Workers will not get any ‘new deal’ from the Tories! Make the TUC call...

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THE WINDRUSH scandal, missiles launched at Syria without even seeking permission from Parliament, the Grenfell fire disaster, the winter NHS meltdown, homelessness and rough...

US debt ceiling deal – a declaration of war on working class

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On Saturday, president Joe Biden rushed to sign off the deal reached with the Republican Party to suspend the $31.4 trillion US debt ceiling...

Hunt stays silent over whether government was informed of plot against Khashoggi by...

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IT HAS got very hot in the warmongers’ kitchen when reputedly fire-proof US militarists like US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, and Secretary of State...

Sack the government not doctors and nurses

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A REPORT leaked this weekend spells out exactly how the Tory-led coalition means to destroy completely the National Health Service and is preparing to...

Labour’s six months of work is no solution to the jobs crisis!

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LABOUR has pledged a ‘jobs guarantee’ scheme for young unemployed people, that will last for the whole of next parliament, if it wins the...

May humiliated and powerless – only socialist revolution can achieve Brexit!

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ON TUESDAY night, Theresa May suffered yet one more humiliation at the hands of her own party when almost 100 Tory MPs voted against...

Gove declares war on state education! Kick the Tories out!

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THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has unleashed yet another broadside against state education and the teaching profession in a speech on Monday where...

Greek Austerity Measures Will Drive Socialist Revolution

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THE Greek ‘socialist’ Prime Minister George Papandreou has announced austerity measures to attack the country’s working class, youth, urban middle class and small farmers,...

Unite the public sector TUC must call indefinite general strike

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TODAY'S four-hour national strike by firefighters is just the tip of a gigantic iceberg of working class hatred steadily bearing down on the leaky...

Tory Crisis Deepens As Economy Crashes And Coronavirus Surges!

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‘WE WERE hoping for a V: a rapid economic bounceback. We would have probably settled for a W: a wobbly recovery, with dips along...

Rising Fuel Bills Mean Many More Unnecessary Winter Deaths!

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THOUSANDS of people die each year from illnesses linked to fuel poverty. Last year was a very cold winter, and this year’s winter is already...

Massive support for Tube workers’ strike – Now forward to a general strike

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London Underground is closed down today as Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) members staged another 24-hour strike over jobs, pensions and in defence of...

Arm The Palestinian Masses Now!

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ISRAEL has set Palestine ablaze yet again with the death in an Israeli prison of Maysarah Abu Hamdiyeh, a 64-year-old prisoner, who had been...

Trump’s economic miracle is in fact a mountain of debt that US workers will...

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IN HIS State of the Union address last week, US president Donald Trump boasted that under his leadership the American economy had undergone a...

Forward To The British Socialist Revolution!

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THE DAILY Telegraph has been speculating on: ‘What would a 21st century British coup look like?’ in an opinion piece written by Paul...

No Sackings! Re–Nationalise Steel Industry!

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STEEL firm Corus, a subsidiary of India’s Tata Steel cut 3,500 jobs yesterday, 2,500 in the UK out of its 24,000 employees here. ...

Soros financing Pro-EU campaign in UK – Workers must demand that the UK quits...

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US-HUNGARIAN billionaire George Soros has denounced Brexit as an ‘immensely damaging process’ for both the United Kingdom and the European Union, and has arrived...

Brown gives billions more to the banks

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AMID banks posting further huge losses and their share prices collapsing, after the near extinction of the world’s largest banks last October, Prime Minister...

General strike to defend the NHS

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NHS trade unions have slammed the ‘poverty’ 3.3 per cent NHS pay ‘deal’ which was imposed on NHS workers by the government on Thursday,...

Special treatment for the servants of the Murdoch empire!

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YESTERDAY, the convicted News of the World journalists who had carried out ‘industrial scale’ hacking on behalf of Murdoch’s News International received lenient sentences. At...

Miliband wants a US style Democratic Party not a Labour Party

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THE kind of party that Labour Party leader Miliband wants will be no different from the US Democratic Party, if he is allowed to...

Brown’s National Economic Council ‘war cabinet’ will be making war on the workers

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‘WE have agreed to make a solemn engagement as heads of state and government to support banking and financial institutions faced with the crisis,’...

May’s Britain a hostile place for workers and youth – Now is the time...

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DESTITUTION under May’s crippled Tory government is soaring to levels not seen since the Victorian times. The roll-out of Universal Credit has created...

Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’

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TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...

Tories to make hundreds of thousands homeless – only socialism can solve housing crisis

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THE policy of the Tory-led coalition to slash housing benefit for the unemployed and low income families will result in hundreds of thousands being...

With Parliament Ready To Defy The People Cromwell Becomes An Issue!

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OFFICIALS in the House of Commons have installed a tamper alarm to stop Labour MP, Stephen Pound, turning a bust of Oliver Cromwell to...

Corporations and businesses face bankruptcy across UK & Europe as loan defaults double in...

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A WAVE of companies across the UK and the rest of Europe will be forced into bankruptcy as new figures show that the default...