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1 million forced onto Universal Credit while another 2 million get nothing – Tories...

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THE NUMBER of people forced to claim Universal Credit soared by nearly a million in the past two weeks. According to the Department for Work...

Syria goes to the polls – a great victory for the Syrian people and...

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YESTERDAY, millions of Syrians were casting their votes in record numbers in parliamentary elections against the backdrop of a ceasefire that is generally holding,...

Forward to the victory of the World Socialist Revolution!

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WHEN he defected from the Tory Party to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK on Wednesday, MP Robert Jenrick, former Tory shadow justice secretary, launched a...

Tories declare war on unions

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THE Tory-led coalition, faced with this Thursday’s one-day strike by two million workers, is driving forward preparations for new anti-union laws which will make...

US Begins Serious Peace Talks With Taliban – It Now Knows It Cannot Win...

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THE 2001 SEPTEMBER 11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York was seized on by President Bush as the green light for...

BIS warns new ‘Lehman Brothers’ crash under way

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THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued yet another warning that the world’s banking system is heading for a monumental crash. The BIS,...

A Revolutionary May Day

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THE News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers and the oppressed peoples of the world on this historic May Day. The world...

Government determined to destroy District General Hospitals

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THE HSJ (Health Service Journal) has done a service to the NHS, and its tens of millions of users. It has revealed just how...

The Iraq war, the world crisis and the socialist revolution

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MARCH 2008 sees the US and UK armed forces and governments irreparably damaged as a result of their failure to subdue the Iraqi people...

Forward with the Egyptian revolution

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HUNDREDS of people are reported to have been killed in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities throughout Egypt, and thousands injured after the army leaders...

Israelis wound hundreds in attack on Kitziot prisoners

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WHILE Olmert and Bush have been, and are, posing as peacemakers with their forthcoming fraud of a peace conference, a most violent and vicious...

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...

Record unemployment, record poverty and misery – socialist revolution the only answer

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THE number of young people out of work has reached a record high of almost one million, according to the latest unemployment figures. ...

Claimant count rises as UK economy carries on sinking!

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UK unemployment fell by 36,000 in the three months to the end of March, to 2.46 million. However, the number of people receiving...

Never mind the claimants – use lie detectors on the politicians

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WORK and Pensions Minister John Hutton said yesterday that lie detectors will be used to help root out benefit cheats in job centres later...

Hancock’s claim that ‘no NHS workers died from lack of PPE’ must be met...

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TORY Health Secretary Matt Hancock was grilled for four hours by two Parliamentary Committees on Thursday, in which he insisted that ‘There was never...

British capitalism is in its death agony – working class must put it out...

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TORY Prime Minister, Liz Truss, unveiled her package of measures to deal with the cost-of-living crisis yesterday. Her ‘bold’ new plan was nothing more...

Capitalism’s Greatest Crisis Driving World Revolution!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, finally admitted publicly that British and world capitalism faced their ‘worst crisis ever’, a crisis...

US moving to ground war in Iraq and Syria

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THE United States is poised to step up the war in Iraq and Syria with the sending of more US ground forces. Speaking to...

Oecd Calls For A Giant Firewall!

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UK economic growth for the last quarter of 2011 has been revised downwards to a 0.3% contraction, another body blow to those who had...

Capitalism Is On Its Knees – Time To Organise World Socialist Revolution!

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THE UK’s Oxfam said yesterday that Israel has already destroyed more than 80% of the water and sewerage networks in the Gaza Strip, leading...

By-elections spell out depth of the coalition crisis

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LABOUR has won three by-elections, holding Croydon North, Middlesbrough and Rotherham, while the coalition governing parties were wiped out. The Tories came behind UKIP, their...

Workers Must Take Action To Permanently Prorogue Parliament And Bring In Socialism!

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NEXT Tuesday the Supreme Court is to hear the government’s appeal against last Tuesday’s verdict of Scotland’s highest civil court that PM Johnson’s proroguing...

Reactionary Gove wants a pro-imperialist syllabus

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THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has advanced his plan to rid the GCSE English exam of classic books and plays he considers to...

The capitalist state cannot be reformed – it must be smashed and replaced with...

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IN THE TORY leadership campaign, of the six candidates left after the first round of voting five went to Oxford University and every one...

Sunak mulls over how to slash pensions to ‘rescue’ British capitalism!

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AT THE weekend, The Telegraph newspaper reported that Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak is ‘mulling’ over his options for breaking the triple lock on pensions...

Osborne pledges balanced austerity budgets

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CHANCELLOR Osborne used his annual address at the Mansion House on Wednesday night to announce that he will be selling off the government’s share...

ANC in crisis as workers and poor demand their liberation from capitalism

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YESTERDAY the South African president Thabo Mbeki said that the acrimony in the African National Congress, the mainly black ruling party in South Africa,...

Record inflation and record borrowing as British capitalism’s crisis worsens

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THE UK CPI inflation rate rose to to 4.4% in February from the January figure of 4%, while the RPI inflation rate which includes...

British capitalism faces a financial disaster and economic collapse

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INTERNATIONAL financiers, hedge-funds and speculators took just one day to savage Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget on Wednesday with interest rates on UK...

Greek blood money debt bonds for sale!

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BANKRUPTED Greece, still up to its neck in debt, is to sell five-year bonds, in the country’s first long-term debt sale since its international...

US Ruling Class Admit Strategic Defeat In Iraq

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WITH 400 billion dollars already spent on digging US imperialism into a very deep hole in Iraq, the Baker committee of elder statesmen or...

Sack Starmer Not Corbyn – No National Government!

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FORMER LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the Labour Party’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and pay damages of over £500,000 to so-called party...

Unite cuts funding to Labour. All unions must break with Labour and call an...

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YESTERDAY Unite, the trade union with 1.4 million members, announced it will cut political donations to the Labour party and divert the money to...

Australian workers defeat Abbott government over GP tax

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AUSTRALIA’S biggest health union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), is celebrating the defeat of the Tory Abbott government, which has had...

Support the Junior Doctors – no imposed NHS contracts!

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JUNIOR DOCTORS are to be turned into slaves by Health Secretary Hunt who is carrying his threat out to impose a contract on them...

Tories intend to put an end to the NATIONAL Health Service

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IT IS crystal clear with the Tories seeking to impose even bigger cuts if they are re-elected in May, that under their rule the...

Scourge of privatisation opens the NHS up to fraud!

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ACCORDING to the BBC Panorama programme, broadcast last night, the NHS is being defrauded of £5 billion a year, a massive loss to a...

War on homeless must be answered with a revolution against the ruling class!

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A WAR on homeless people has begun, with moves to make begging illegal, effectively criminalising poverty, while using the police to drive homeless people...

Privatisation destroys infrastructure

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BRITAIN’S infrastructure was reduced to complete meltdown over Christmas through a combination of high winds and heavy rainfall. Not because of blinding snow storms, hurricane...

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...

Eu On The Brink!

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THE entire capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step towards total meltdown with the admission last Thursday that agreement on a Europeanwide bail-out...

Tories Are Returning To Their ‘Starve The Workers’ Tactic!

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WITH the capitalist system in its greatest ever crisis, the British Tories are beginning to debate about what is the best way out of...

Libya disintegrates as robbers ‘privatise’ its wealth

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IT IS now obvious that the NATO-inspired and organised ‘revolution’ to overthrow the Gadaffi regime in Libya has resulted in a complete catastrophe for...

Leave the EU with no deal! Forward with the socialist revolution!

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THE VOTES in Parliament on amendments to Theresa May’s Brexit deal saw the counter-revolutionary plots by MPs from all parties to smash the 2016...