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US Trade Unions Ready To Take Action To Bring Down Trump!

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IN AN unprecedented move, the American trade union AFL-CIO federation (the US equivalent of the TUC) issued a statement last Friday warning that the...

US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Agreed – Awaits Trump’s Signature!

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LAST week the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said Washington is not seeking a permanent military presence in Afghanistan, after the Taliban said...

Tories rip up workers health and safety as their bankrupt economy disintegrates!

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TORY CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak did the rounds of press interviews yesterday preparing the way for today’s reopening of non-essential shops and businesses and he...

GM-Opel-Vauxhall crisis deepening

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NICK REILLY, the GM executive who closed down Vauxhall Motors in 2002, unveiled, yesterday in Frankfurt, the GM plan for Opel...

There will be no ‘Maidan-style counter-revolution’ in Belarus declares President Lukashenko

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CONGRATULATIONS to President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. He received over 80 per cent of the vote in the Belarus presidential election and saw off...

Well done BA cabin crew – Now Unite must use its full strength on...

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AT Gatwick and at Heathrow on Sunday morning pickets got tremendous support from passing motorists, coaches and lorries, and fellow airport workers. The lines of...

Only answer to capitalist crisis – build WRP and sections of 4th International to...

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THE CRISIS in the Tory party sharpened over the weekend, as the requirement to dump the economic collapse of British capitalism onto the backs...

Blair And Brown Crippling African Health Care!

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THE current Blair drive to have Gordon Brown and himself depicted in the media as the saviours of the African continent has hit the...

Tories Plan Huge Increase In Military Spend While The Masses Go Hungry!

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PROFESSOR Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute, has authored an analysis of the plans necessary for a major war...

Tory Chairman Quits While Johnson Skulks In Rwanda Hoping That Something Will Turn Up

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THE TORY wipe-out in the two by-elections has left the great leader skulking in Rwanda, while his Tory Party chairman Dowden has resigned, writing...

Ukrainian Workers Reject Putin Plea To Accept Kiev Coup Regime

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PRESIDENT Putin on Wednesday urged Ukrainian workers to postpone their referenda on self-determination. He said: ‘We are calling on representatives of regions in southeastern...

US assembles imperialist navy in Red Sea to attack Yemen

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ON MONDAY, the US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, announced the creation of a ‘multinational security initiative’ – including the UK and major imperialist...

Tories plan poverty and austerity for workers to bail out bankrupt capitalism!

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LAST week, the outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, bluntly warned that the rapid increase in inflation would make the...

King’s Fund Warning Must Be Acted On!

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THE Quarterly Monitoring Report of the King’s Fund does not pull any punches about the future that the Tory-led coalition has planned out for...

Open up the NHS demands Bush and the US drug companies

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NOT content with wrecking Iraq, the US administration is moving in to wreck the British NHS on behalf of the US drug companies. ...

Staffing cuts causing ‘avoidable’ maternal deaths

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AN independent inquiry into the unusually large number of maternal deaths in London over the past two years has confirmed that the government policy of...

Tories aim to drive NHS back to 1930s – bring the coalition down with...

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Dr Mark Porter, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) Hospital Consultants Committee, in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, has spelt out clearly...

The Bully State and forced labour is to replace the Welfare State

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TWO hundred thousand young people aged between 16 and 18, 11 per cent of that total age group, who are unemployed with no...

Us Capitalism Is On The Rocks! The US Working Class Is Faced With...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump yesterday unveiled his three-phase plan for opening up businesses in America proclaiming, ‘We’re starting our life again. We’re starting rejuvenation...

The trade unions must sack Starmer and dump Labour’s right wing! Now is the...

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THE HARTLEPOOL by-election result and the council by-election results mean that Starmer and Labour’s right wing must be dumped by the trade unions at...

Ukrainian Right Wing Draws Closer To Nato

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THE decision by the Ukrainian government to offer joint use of missile attack and space early warning systems to the Western powers...

McCluskey promises illegal action!

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IN a full-page article in Thursday’s Guardian newspaper, the leader of the country’s biggest union, Len McCluskey, announced that the Unite executive had unanimously...

PNA leaders bankrupt – unions must boycott Israel

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The leak of confidential documents covering the ‘peace’ negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel reveals starkly the bankruptcy and futility of...

Osborne Mugs The Pensioners!

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WEDNESDAY’S budget left no room for doubt about who the coalition government intends should pay to bail out the bankrupt British economy – pensioners,...

Defend state education, stop privatisation!

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TODAY'S joint strike by two unions at Middlesex University must be the start of action to defend jobs and the very existence of a...

US capitalism in crisis – war at home and abroad is its only way...

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US CAPITALISM, the most powerful in the world, is teetering on the brink of collapse under a tidal wave of debt. This dire warning was...

Abbas Meets With Trump Delegation In Ramallah!

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday met with a US delegation representing President Trump, headed by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner at his Ramallah headquarters, and...

Obama and Cameron’s heart eating allies

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EVEN the Human Rights Watch group – veterans of the struggle to remove and liquidate the Gadaffi regime in Libya, and now immersed in...

Half a million children of public servants condemned to poverty by wage and benefit...

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550,000 CHILDREN (1 in 7) with a parent working in the public sector will be forced to live in poverty by the end of...

Workers Arise – May, Johnson And The Entire Tory Regime Must Go Now!

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ON Tuesday evening, Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, announced, concerning the materials used to...

Palestinian PM calls on UN to act against Israeli apartheid, while Hamas insists that...

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on United Nations bodies, particularly the Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to follow up on the recent Human Rights...

More fare rises! Re-nationalise the railways!

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YESTERDAY the main rail unions held a series of protests at rail stations which involved the handing out of postcards to commuters detailing the...

Corbyn sets out to unrig and transform the ‘rigged’ capitalist system

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LABOUR Leader Corbyn opened the Labour Party general election campaign yesterday by stating: ‘We have four weeks. Four weeks to take our message to...

Labour government splitting apart as ministers prepare for a national government!

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YESTERDAY, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that splits had erupted in the heart of Keir Starmer’s Cabinet between deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and...

Smith Commission’s anti-working class Trojan Horse

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THE Smith Commission has proposed, with the support of all the major parties, that the Scottish Parliament should have the power to set income...

BA workers reject wage cuts! Renationalise BA Now!

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A MASS meeting of more than 3,000 British Airways cabin crew workers yesterday threw out by a massive majority the airline’s plans to slash...

Osborne launches permanent austerity war against workers

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CHANCELLOR OSBORNE underlined the precarious nature of his ‘recovery’ when he told the House of Commons yesterday ‘the job is not done…we don’t squander...

Union leaders pledge total support – time for action has arrived!

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YESTERDAY the trade union bureaucracy was skating on the thinnest of thin ice at the TUC Congress. With one hand, trade union leader after trade...

Output Down As Banking Crisis Deepens

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THE CBI bosses organisation said yesterday that UK manufacturers expect to reduce output over the next three months, driving another nail into the coffin...

Kick May And The Tories Out Now With A General Strike! Forward To...

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PM MAY yesterday morning announced she was resigning as Tory leader and Prime Minister in two weeks on June 7. May said that the...

Gm-Fiat Shock For World’s Motor Workers

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GENERAL Motors is about to end its ‘honeymoon’ relations with the US motor workers’ trade union, the UAW. Up till now the UAW leaders have...

Greece On The Brink!

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THE Greek working class has been pushed right to the brink of revolution this week with the passage of a bill in the Vouli...

Speak English Or Else – Minister Tells The Poor!

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UNEMPLOYED people who cannot speak English will have to show they are learning the language or lose benefits, the government has announced. This is...

Bring Down The UK-French-US War Lords

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BRITISH IMPERIALISM was run out of Basra and Iraq, and is about to be run out of Afghanistan. However, it is still organising new...

Ttip Is Dead Says German Economy Minister!

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BLURTING out the truth, the German economy minister, Sigmar Gabriel, has pronounced the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a free trade deal long...