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UN poverty expert slams Tory ‘hypocrisy’ over austerity – end poverty with socialist revolution 

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THE UNITED Nations rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston, has issued a damning attack on the Tory government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic describing...

PM May hammers the poor as 7,585 families receive 50p housing benefit!

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PM MAY makes a lot of noise about her concern for the ‘just about managing’, ie the middle classes in crisis-ridden Britain. In fact,...

Tories split over massive debt crisis! Make the bosses pay for their crisis through...

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THE TORY Party split over how to pay off the massive debt run up bailing out the bosses during the coronavirus pandemic is now...

Tories wage starvation war against children of immigrant families and the entire working...

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THE children of immigrant families are being deliberately starved by the Tories as part of their ‘hostile environment’ policy towards immigrant workers. Headteachers and...

Top US banker warns of global capitalist crisis that ‘could eclipse anything since World...

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JAMIE DIMON, boss of JP Morgan, the largest,bank in America, has issued a stark warning that the US is facing its worst crisis since...

Israel responds to UN resolution calling for ‘sustainable ceasefire’ by ramping up genocide!

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ISRAEL intensified its bombardment of Gaza over the weekend hitting 200 targets in a single 24-hour period on Friday and Saturday. Just one of these...

Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight and are begging Tories to extend...

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FROM TODAY the Tory furlough scheme starts to unwind with businesses forced to contribute 10% of furloughed workers’ wages, rising to 20% in August...

Darling ignored over short selling

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BRITISH capitalism is staring disaster straight in the face. Motor car sales in December 2008 were 47.5 per cent lower than in December 2007. Yesterday,...

We Salute The Heroes Of Paris Who Stood Up To 9,180 Riot Police Who...

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IN PARIS, on Saturday, against the advice of the more moderate members of the ‘Yellow Vests’ movement, 10,000 French workers and youth demonstrated their...
London firefighters demonstrating against cuts earlier this year

The PM’s wife can speak out on rights – but the TUC cannot!

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THE scale of the crisis that has hit capitalist Britain is now so great that it has forced the Prime Minister’s wife, Cherie...

Mamdani’s Victory Must Be Followed By The Victory Of Gaza And Its Starving People

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ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S victory winning the race to become New York City’s first Muslim mayor came as Democrats swept through the first major elections of...

British Capitalism At The Centre Of The Capitalist Crisis

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THE worldwide capitalist crisis drove the pound down on Friday into an unprecedented collapse. The pound slumped 9.6 US cents to $1.52 at...

Israeli land robbery continues as Human Rights Watch condemns Hamas!

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ISRAEL has ordered Palestinian landowners to evacuate their land in the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli authorities...

Miliband wants to break with unions so Labour can form a national government...

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STANDING with the ‘One Nation’ Tory slogan behind him, Labour leader Miliband yesterday outlined his intention to wrest the Labour Party completely away from...

After November 5th rout build new leadership in the FBU

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THE News Line salutes the London FBU membership which has stood firm in its defence of terms and conditions against a pre-planned massive onslaught...

‘Left’ Tsipras government humiliated as workers abstain in general election

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SYRIZA (the coalition of the left) party crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party in the...

Arrogant Trump Assumes His Bonaparte Pose While Threatening The Lives Of Hundreds Of...

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THE ARROGANT would-be dictator Trump has issued the workers of the world with his ultimatum that they must either stand and deliver to him...

France gripped by nationwide strike against Macron government!

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FRANCE was gripped by a nationwide strike yesterday with schools closed and trains grinding to a halt as workers walked out in anger at...

Tories Have Just Borrowed Billions While Doctors Say That They Are Being Treated Like...

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PM JOHNSON has put the blame for the coronavirus firmly on the people, when he warned on the TV that the NHS could be...

Treasury Secretary’s insistence that America will not run out of cash only increases fears that...

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ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, felt compelled to appear on a US news channel to insist to the public...

Another British Retreat From Kabul

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PM Cameron has told MPs that 3,800 British troops – almost half of the current force serving in Helmand province – are to be...

Strikebreaker Hunt demands ‘call off NHS strike!’

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‘BRITAIN needs a pay rise!’ These were the cynical words of PM Cameron last Friday in Washington, after five years of remorseless wage-cutting in...

Junior doctors must call new strike and the BMA and TUC must stop with...

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THE BMA warned yesterday that ‘Politically driven mismanagement is undermining patient care in England. It was responding to a report from the King’s Fund...

NATO plans for war on Russia as capitalism crashes! Forward with world revolution

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IN WHAT was described as a ‘historic first’, a UK navy destroyer, HMS Duncan, was placed under the direct command of NATO and ordered...

US workers mobilise in fight for trade unions and unionisation!

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STARBUCKS, the world’s largest coffee chain, has been stunned by an explosion of its workers demanding trade union rights across America. Last year, a group...

Sa Police Massacre Platinum Miners

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SOUTH AFRICAN workers have been shocked by the ANC government’s police force shooting dead over 30 miners at the Lonmin UK-owned platinum mine. Fifty...

Socialist Revolution is the only real answer to the capitalist crisis!

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NEARLY one million people in Britain are just £10 away from falling into poverty according to the new analysis from the leading poverty charity,...

No To Propping Up Backward Capitalism – Overthrow It With Socialist Revolutions

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BOTH Washington and London were yesterday involved in a desperate race against the clock. Labour let it be known, Sunday mid morning, that it will...

Turn The November 30Th Strike Into An Indefinite General Strike

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THERE can be only one demand for next week’s one-day strike by public sector workers and that must be for the TUC to call...

Biden has China and Russia in his sights! End imperialist wars by putting an...

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THROWING TRUMP’S ‘America First’ economic policy out the window, the new US administration under President Biden is reinstating the interventionist policies which dominated during...

Labour splits emerging as Starmer faces ‘mother of all rebellions’

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FOLLOWING Prime Minister’s Questions session in Parliament on Wednesday left wing Labour MP Richard Burgon went on social media warning that Keir Starmer will...

UK War Crimes

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LAST night’s BBC Panorama programme revealed yet more evidence of unlawful killings of Afghans by members of the Special Air Service (SAS) during the...

NATO States To Deliver War Planes To Kiev As US And UK Plan...

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THREE NATO countries will deliver more than 70 warplanes for the use of Ukraine, military representatives in Kiev announced yesterday morning. According to a statement...

USA tells Sunak that the UK must increase its military spending as NATO gets...

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THE UK has just been given its marching orders by the USA that it must boost the size of its armed forces in response...

Ireland – hurtling towards a socialist revolution

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THE right-wing Fine Gael party is set to form a coalition with its traditional partner, the right-wing Labour party, after a ‘political revolution’ which...

Tory war on refugees is a class issue for the working class

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IN THEIR latest attack on refugees the Tories are preparing to use nets to disable boats and dinghies attempting the dangerous Channel crossing. This tactic...

New head of IMF warns $19 trillion debt time bomb will crash world economy

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THE NEWLY-appointed head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued the starkest warning yet that world capitalism is on the point of...

Gates and Rice go calling on Putin

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin threatened on Friday in talks with top US administration officials, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates,...

‘The world is witnessing the false calm before the Middle East Energy Storm’ says...

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‘OIL currency and equity markets are treating the all out war between Israel and the revolutionary Iranian regime almost as if it were a...

Wealthiest 5 richer than poorest 20%

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THE report by the charity Oxfam entitled ‘A Tale of Two Britains’ puts definite figures on the simple fact known by every worker that...

Revolution On The March In The Eu!

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THE working class pushing forward against the EU’s austerity programmes has thrust the Eurozone into crisis, and created the conditions for the collapse of...

The TUC Must Give Full Support To The Palestinian Freedom Fighters And Ban All...

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THE Arab League Council yesterday condemned Israeli crimes and massacres of Palestinians and demanded the provision of international protection to the Palestinian people. The Council...

Sack the Hayes-Ward CWU leadership!

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LAST Wednesday postal workers delivered a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend their jobs, terms and conditions, and for a pay...

CRISIS-RIDDEN UK CAPITALISM MUST BE OVERTHROWN – NO RETURN TO THE HUNGRY 1930s!

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THE TORY Chancellor has had to borrow another £13bn to unveil a series of desperate measures in order to attempt to keep UK capitalism...

NATO’s arms being exported from Libya to terrorists everywhere

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THE NATO armed intervention that supported the Islamist revolt in Libya succeeded in murdering Colonel Gadaffi and smashed up the most advanced and prosperous...