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Israel is an ‘apartheid regime of Jewish supremacy!’ says Israeli human rights group B’Tselem

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THE Israeli Human Rights group B’Tselem has issued a paper stating that Israel is not a democracy but an ‘apartheid regime’ that systematically oppresses...

Banking parasites still riding high off of the public purse

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THE Committee of Public Accounts today publishes a report which reveals in the words of its chair Margaret Hodge that: ‘The peak of the...

Trump Coup Attempt Fails

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ON WEDNESDAY afternoon thousands of US president Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington before storming the US Congress to put a stop to the...

Answer jobs massacre at Vauxhall with occupations and a general strike

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AFTER weeks of speculation it was finally confirmed yesterday that the giant but bankrupt General Motors was pulling out of Europe, selling off its...

Unprecedented video reveals 15 Palestinian medics and humanitarian workers executed by Zionist troops

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TWO British Labour MPs were detained and deported by Israel on Saturday after they had attempted to enter the country as part of a...

Labour leaks its Fabian draft programme for keeping capitalism and the EU!

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THE leaked draft of Labour’s election manifesto yesterday brought out the predictable headlines in the press warning of the dangerous ‘socialist’ Jeremy Corbyn. But a...

Wage freezing, wage cutting, redundancies and revolution ahead for workers!

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THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says that if there is a capitalist government in office in 2016 it will have to find an...

Heseltine Looks To Corbyn’s Labour To Stop Brexit!

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MICHAEL HESELTINE, a Tory Deputy Prime Minister under John Major and a notorious enemy of the trade unions, has revealed that he prefers a...

Carillion pension fund looted to pay billions to shareholders and bosses

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THE collapse of the construction company Carillion has again thrown a spotlight on the systematic theft and looting of billions of pounds from workers’...

From Thatcher to Blair and Cameron – a common determination to smash the Welfare...

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THE just-released Thatcher papers confirm that the Tory leader had a very real hatred of the NHS and the Welfare State and, along with...

Mv Rachel Corrie Nears Gaza!

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NOT content with destroying its ‘alliance’ with Turkey by murdering nine of its citizens and wounding many more, the Israeli government has let it...

Food Prices Rocket, With Energy Price Rises To Come!

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UK CPI consumer price inflation remained unchanged at 2.7% in November, according to official data, despite the fact that there were big rises in...

Israeli Murder Machine Continues Operations Despite Phony ‘Peace Plan!’

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at...

Coronavirus sparks biggest crash since 2007/8 threatening to derail Trump and sink the Johnson...

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CORONAVIRUS is spreading around the world, sparking a global economic collapse. For seven days in a row financial markets have fallen. The crisis has...

UN condemns Tory government for its onslaught on the disabled!

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THE UK government’s welfare ‘reforms’ amount to a ‘systematic violation’ of the rights of disabled people, according to an inquiry by the United Nations...

Labour right-wing plot with Tories to close down Parliament to prevent Brexit

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IT EMERGED at the weekend that the latest stage in a coup to overturn the Brexit referendum result by an alliance of right-wing Labour...

Fatah calls for a general strike and ‘Day of Rage’ – UK workers must...

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AT LEAST 40 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison of ‘Megiddo’ have joined the prisoners’ open-ended mass hunger strike, said the strikers Media Committee...
Pickets were demanding yesterday that the Gate Gourmet boss Siegel should be sacked as a troublemaker

The issue is the shoot to kill policy says de Menezes campaign

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THE family of Jean Charles de Menezes, murdered by police on the Tube on July 22, have called for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir...

THE TUC leaders who have deserted junior doctors and the NHS must be kicked...

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YESTERDAY the Tory offensive against not just junior doctors but the entire foundation of the National Health Service reached a ‘watershed moment for the...

Tories plan to replace national pay bargaining for public sector workers with performance-related pay...

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THE TORIES are determined to put an end to trade union-negotiated across the board pay increases for all public sector workers and replace national...

Labour Party leaders knife Corbyn to prepare way for National Government with...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party over his remarks on Thursday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn’s...

PARIS ERUPTS AS POLICE ATTACK WORKERS ON MAY DAY and the CGT union urges...

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THE major French trade union the CGT has protested at the massive attack on peaceful demonstrators by riot police and and vigilantes and has...

Imperialist Crisis Deepens

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JUST days after the mid-term elections dealt a decisive blow to his administration, Bush with the support of the Democrats has seen to it...

Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Shows Her Tory Hand, Declaring There Will Be No Wealth...

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WITH the Tory Party split and divided, Labour is now revealing its own pro-Tory proposals to make the working class pay for the continuing...

Nati0Nalise Gm Vauxhall And Ellesmere Port!

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VAUXHALL factories at Ellesmere Port and Luton will close if GM’s talks with the Labour government for the Treasury to take over the financing...

Labour reach new depths of treachery over NHS

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AT the weekend the new Labour shadow health secretary, Andrew Burnham, delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the NHS with the announcement...

Swiss National Bank puts the skids under the euro

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DEFLATION ran amok yesterday as Tullow Oil wrote off $2.2bn (£1.45bn), a direct result of the oil price collapse after the World Bank warned...

Italy’s financial ‘doom loop’ will strangle the entire banking system warns Carney

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THE FINANCIAL ‘doom loop’ that is tightening around the necks of the Italian banking system will send the Italian banks and the Italian...

TUC goes from lobbying the Tories to open support for the right-wing Ukrainian regime!

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ON TUESDAY, the TUC abruptly announced that it was cancelling a planned cost of living demonstration and march due to take place in Blackpool...

Keep out the Tories – bring down the Blair-Brown government! Forward to socialism!

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LABOUR was routed in Thursday’s regional and council elections losing by late yesterday afternoon 454 councillors and eight councils in England, while it lost...

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...

Queen Dumps Cameron And Ready To do The Same For The UK

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BRITISH CAPITALISM is on the rocks economically and politically, there is not the slightest doubt about that. The leaders of the three major parties have...

TUC leaders must call a general strike or be forced to resign!

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THE annual conference of the TUC, due to start a week tomorrow, is the first conference of the leadership of the trade union movement...

Starmer calls for ‘coalition of the willing’ as world capitalism tears itself apart 

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer addressed Parliament yesterday reporting on the emergency defence summit of European leaders he’d convened in London at the weekend. This...

Make sure you attend the ‘Save Ealing Hospital, Save the NHS Conference!’

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THE conference called tomorrow by the West London Council of Action and the All Trades Unions Alliance has come at a critical time. This week...

Words Are Not Enough! The TUC Must Take Action To Prevent Workers Being Driven...

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WITH 21 TORY MPS having the whip removed from them, now being joined by more Tory defectors like Amber Rudd, and while Labour makes...

Assad the main enemy, not IS say the US, France and the UK!

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ON Tuesday morning in New York President Putin said that determining the fate of Syria should be in the hands of the Syrians,...

Tories plan to axe half a million hospital appointments each year in drive to...

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HEALTH Secretary Steve Barclay did the rounds of the TV studios on Sunday to declare an all-out war on doctors, nurses and patients, as...
Marchers in London on the 3rd anniversary of the war on Iraq demand no attack on Iran

EU moves to suspend all aid to Palestine

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YESTERDAY the European Union followed the example of the US and suspended its aid to the Palestine National Authority. The EU has given $400...

Demand TUC call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws

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LAST November, the Tories were confidently predicting that when their anti-strike ‘Minimum Service Levels’ law was finally passed before Christmas, around 40% of rail...

Osborne’s regime of pay freezes and wage cuts

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IN his last budget speech before the general election, Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made the astounding claim that living standards will ‘grow strongly every...

UK trade unions must support the Palestinian people and assist them to establish their...

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PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi told European diplomats on Tuesday that relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to...

Tory donor scandal reveals not just the racism but the massive profits leeched from...

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When The Guardian newspaper on Monday reported the racist comments made by Frank Hester, the owner and sole shareholder of the Pheonix Partnership (TPP),...

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...

‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war

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THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...