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Reinstate sacked gas workers – demand union leaders call general strike to defeat fire...

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ON WEDNESDAY, up to 500 engineers were sacked by British Gas for refusing to sign a scab, wage-cutting new contract under the company’s fire...

Portuguese bailout accelerates EU disintegration

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THURSDAY’S announcement that Portugal had finally been forced into asking for a massive 90 billion euro (£79 bn) bailout from the European Central Bank...

Police spies inquiry reveals the capitalist state conspiracy against the working class and its...

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IN HIS opening statements to the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the lawyer acting for the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence condemned the inquiry for...

Tories moving to bring in Martial Law and a licence to kill for spies

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PM JOHNSON announced the latest draconian lockdown rules in the House of Commons last Tuesday, with the threat that, if not obeyed to the...

War on welfare – revolution the only way forward

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Yesterday, more than two million people on Incapacity Benefit found themselves officially labelled by the Tory-LibDem coalition as scroungers and parasites living off the...

Putin’s speech confirms the bankruptcy of the Stalinist bureaucracy

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RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin opened his annual State of the Nation address on Wednesday by highlighting that Russia has been able for the first...

Long Live The Libyan Revolution

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THE forty-year-old Libyan revolution is being celebrated with enthusiasm this week by the Libyan masses in Tripoli. The revolution, led by Colonel Gadaffi, put an...

Bankers’ bonuses are a diversion

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The headline news throughout the bourgeois media yesterday was that Stephen Hester, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had magnanimously bowed to...

Tories trying to stampede MPs into supporting war in Syria!

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THE tragic loss of the Russian airliner flying out of the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh killing 224 people, is being used by the...

Royal Mail Organises The Strikebreakers

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THE postal workers dispute intensified yesterday when, with Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool already out on unofficial strike, the action was spreading all over the...

Corbyn stabs Brexit in the back for the benefit of the bosses and...

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LABOUR leader Corbyn, in his response to PM May’s Monday update to the House of Commons ahead of this week’s European Council, made it...

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...

Peace Talks Begin With Attack On Ramallah Demonstrators

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THE Palestinian Israeli ‘peace talks’, officially began on Monday but actually the process began on the Sunday in Ramallah when Palestinian police ...

US explodes as workers and youth take to the streets to oppose Trump’s attacks...

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LOS ANGELES, the second largest city in the US, exploded over the weekend following a massive raid on Friday by federal agents from Immigration...

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...

Trade Unions Must Dump Starmer And Labour’s Right Wing And Call A General Strike...

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THE general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey has responded to Labour’s massive council election defeats and its disastrous loss in the Hartlepool...

Take action to halt the continuing murderous attacks on Gaza’s starving masses!

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THE Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has condemned the Israeli-American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and complicit governments, especially the US and British administrations, for the...

Israel prison service is beating and assaulting female Palestinian detainees inside Damon prison!

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IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned Israeli forces’ brutal aggression against Palestinian women at Damon Prison in the Palestinian occupied territories. ‘Beating female Palestinian...

Follow Holby City Equity Take Strike Action With Junior Doctors

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THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...

MODERNITY = mass murder, executions and ID cards

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BLAIR yesterday announced the latest line of government spin – that compulsory ID cards, state-run mass fingerprinting and DNA bases, along with no-jury trials...

St Valentine’s Day Massacre of eurozone economy

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OFFICIAL figures released yesterday show that the economy of the 17 nations that comprise the eurozone suffered an overall crash of 0.6% in the...
A lively delegation of Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside the TGWU offices in Hillingdon yesterday morning

Heathrow Battlefield

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TONY Woodley, the TGWU general secretary, commenting on the sacking of one of the leading members of the TGWU by BA yesterday, and the...

T&G & TUC must call strike action to reinstate Gate Gourmet workers!

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THE 670 Gate Gourmet workers, members of the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G), sacked over a month ago for taking strike action, know...

Terrified British Ruling Class Spies On The Workers

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THE ruling class’s national DNA data base has on it a sample of the DNA of every person in the UK who is arrested,...

Unite leaders drop any criticism of Starmer – now is time to build a...

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THE RULES conference of Unite, the largest union donor to the Labour Party, yesterday voted to reject a motion calling to disaffiliate from the...

Iraq and Afghanistan – imperialists coming under the hammer

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US CASUALTIES are now mounting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, while at home the anti-war and anti-Bush movement is growing by leaps and bounds,...

Build councils of action to support the postal workers

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‘THIS has been the best-supported strike I’ve ever seen,’ CWU General Secretary, Billy Hayes told striking postal workers in Peckham yesterday. This was after the...

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...

Not a very British revolution – just another attempt at a bourgeois coup

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THAT an ex-SAS officer from the 1970s, with current military-police commissioner connections through his succession of security businesses, as well as ‘strong connections to...

Tories plan to scrap hospitals and treat people at home

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YESTERDAY, the Tories announced their latest ploy to try and convince the country that in the face of all the evidence they actually support...

Blair Wants Government Control Of Judges

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THE Blair government announced yesterday through its Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, that it was going to bring in legislation that will tell judges how...

Record Breaking Slump Will Lead To Socialist Revolution In The UK!

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BRITISH capitalism is officially in recession as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday. In just three months, the UK economy shrank at a...

While the homeless sleep on the streets and workers battle to survive the rich...

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UK WORKERS have suffered privation and poverty ever since the 2008 financial crash, when the banks were bailed out by a Labour government at...

Youth jailed for protesting against Israeli atrocities

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IN DECEMBER 2008, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth marched to the Israeli embassy, in a number of demonstrations, denouncing the Israeli onslaught...

Murdoch’s Poodle Hunt Gets Health Privatisation Job

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HEALTH Secretary Andrew Lansley has been demoted to the role of Leader of the House of Commons. This is after his health goose was cooked...

Bankrupt Democrats unable to smash Trump – US trade unions must break with them...

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THE US presidential election is on a knife edge as Donald Trump confounded all the polls that predicted a landslide for his Democratic Party...

Corbyn, O’Grady and McCluskey are determined to prevent workers from getting rid of Cameron

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YESTERDAY, under orders from Tory leader Cameron, most of the King’s horses and most of the King’s men of the major trade trade unions...

Student nurses to be forced to pay for training!

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THE results of the ‘consultation’ launched by the Tories on the 7th April on the proposal to end NHS funded bursaries for student...

Labour’s drive for Foundation Trusts and privatisation kills!

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The Royal College of Nursing has described the Healthcare Commission’s investigation into emergency care at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust as ‘shocking’ and said that...

Greek bourgeoisie organising pogroms

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AS the economic crisis continues to tear Greece apart and drives forward a revolutionary surge amongst workers and youth, so it is driving the...

Full Support For The RMT And Tssa Strikers!

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THE RMT began the first of its two 48-hour strikes on Tuesday night against the plan of London Mayor Boris Johnson to close all...

Palestinians warn that UK troops on the ground in Gaza under pretext of supporting...

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PALESTINIANS have warned Britain and other Western countries backing the US, against deploying troops on the ground in the besieged Gaza Strip under the...

US vetos Ukraine ceasefire – tells Poroshenko to make war!

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ON MONDAY evening Russia invited Ukrainian border guards and international observers to oversee the Russian side of the border with Ukraine, in an 11th-hour...

Geneva Report Issues Dire Warning!

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JUST six years after the beginning of the 2008 financial collapse – at a time when Cameron and Co. are talking about a recovery,...

Tory plans for their police state! Step too far even for EU Courts

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THE Tories’ new mass surveillance laws got a setback this week when the European Court of Justice ruled that its snoopers’ charter, the Investigatory...