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NHS privatisation can seriously damage your health!

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NOBODY knows the number of botched or mismanaged operations being carried out by the private Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) businesses, funded by the...

Mubarak regime offers 15 per cent rise in pay and pensions!

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WORKERS and youth in Cairo held mass demonstrations yesterday following the release of the detained Google executive and facebook radical Wael Ghonim. The demonstrators in...

Brown and Blair’s grab for Africa

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BEFORE our eyes, the Live Aid movement has been transformed into a Live 8 movement, whose purpose has become to support the British Prime...

Coalition in crisis, bring it down

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The disarray, confusion and splits within the Tory/LibDem coalition government were brought out sharply over Monday’s announcement by Tory chancellor, George Osborne, that he...

West condemned to ‘irreversible decline’ – put it out of its misery with world...

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THE DECISIVE defeat of world imperialism at the hands of the Afghan people has caused a complete breakdown amongst the most ardent defenders of...

More Air Strikes As Israel Lashes Out At The West Bank And Gaza Strip!

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ISRAELI warplanes continued with their airstrikes on Gaza on Sunday morning, hitting a factory in Rafah. On Friday, an Israeli missile strike on Gaza killed...

Keep Tories Out – Forward To Socialism!

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THE UK capitalist economy is staggering along the bottom with a three month ‘growth’ to show, from January to March, of 0.2 per cent. The...

The Death Agony Of The Blair Government

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THE Blair government is now under attack from all sides, after its Prime Minister turned yellow and refused to attend the House of Commons...

Price Explosion threat to working class

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ENERGY bills will rise by more than 60% within the next few years, a report for the UK’s biggest domestic energy supplier Centrica said...

British Chambers of Commerce looks to class war in New Year

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FOR some days now, Minister Jowell has been campaigning in the cabinet to stop Gordon Brown being verbally beastly to the Tories, by bringing...

Speaker determined to stop Brexit! Organise the General Strike to shut Parliament down and...

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TORY leadership candidate Dominic Raab has threatened to prorogue Parliament, shutting it down at the end of October to ensure that the UK leaves...

World capitalism is set to crash – It must be replaced with the World...

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JUST five months after being elected with a landslide majority, a life or death political and economic crisis has engulfed British capitalism. Labour PM Sir...

A bankers budget from a bankers government

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DESPITE all the government statements against leaking government information before it is to go before the House of Commons, the Treasury was at it...

Britain Is Aiding US Torture Machine

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer questions yesterday as to whether the United States government operates CIA secret prisons outside of...

Oil companies fight to carve up Libya

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IT HAS not taken long for the hyenas of the giant oil companies to descend on Libya’s oil and gas resources intent on both...

Time to make war on Brown and Mandelson

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BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson, in the words of the bourgeois media ‘came out fighting’ over the weekend to ‘make war’ on the CWU leaders...

Mandelson is sacked! NOW Forward to a Workers Government that will nationalise...

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EARLY yesterday morning, Labour’s Foreign Office released a statement that announced the sacking of Peter Mandelson as the UK ambassador to the United States...

Tories & Labour are punished in council elections for refusing to carry out Brexit!

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BOTH the Tories and Labour suffered huge defeats in the council elections yesterday for their cowardly refusal to implement the 2016 EU referendum result. Polls...

Socialist revolution the only way to resolve the crisis

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THE head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Legarde, spelt out the task confronting the capitalist class of Europe last Thursday when she...

The working class faces the threat of state terrorism!

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TWO videos, one by the FBI and one by the British police, have just been issued giving advice to people about actions they should...

Socialist revolution only answer to capitalist debt crisis

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RACHEL Reeves is due to deliver her first Autumn Budget as Labour Chancellor next Wednesday, and is already promising ‘tough decisions’ on cuts and...

French workers move to bring down Sarkozy regime!

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YESTERDAY, the French railworkers’ trade unions began their indefinite strike action, to defeat the attempts of the Sarkozy regime to destroy their pension agreements,...

Stalinist bureaucracy Shanghaied by working class

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THE Chinese working class is definitely on the march. It has already compelled the Stalinist bureaucracy to start bringing in legislation forcing the western capitalist...

INDICATIVE VOTES ARE REJECTED FOR A SECOND TIME – UK MUST LEAVE EU ON...

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THE PLAN for a parliamentary coup against the 2016 Referendum result, that instructed the government  to leave the EU, by forcing through the House...

Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears

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AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...

Unreal capitalism deserves to perish!

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THE crash of the British banks continued yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland declared a £27bn loss for 2008 on Monday and its share...

Tories call junior doctors pay demands unaffordable while bosses gouge huge profits from workers...

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THE CLAIM that last week 196,000 hospital appointments were cancelled has been used by the Tories and their supporters in the media to put...

Put an end to bankrupt capitalism! Forward to the victory of the world socialist...

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THE CRISIS of capitalism is now acute. It has reached the point of explosion, with its very life blood – gas and electricity now...

Bank of England pledges to ride to the rescue of capitalism!

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THE BANK of England yesterday vowed that it would ride to the rescue of the world’s financial markets by joining with other central banks...

Build the WRP!

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AT SATURDAY’S march to defend the Welfare State, workers from across the country were clear that action will have to be taken to defend...

Israel to build rail link into West Bank

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IT IS well known that the desire of the Zionist ruling class in Israel to expand the area under its rule is unquenchable, and...

Universities are for students, not big business!

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ALMOST a third of young people (31 per cent) starting at university this autumn are being forced to live with their parents, because they...

Scrap the Hinkley Point C nuclear deal!

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THE unfolding saga of the proposed nuclear power station, Hinkley Point C in Somerset, reached a new level of farce late on Thursday when...

After the students national march . . .

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ALMOST 25,000 students marched through London on Sunday demanding free education, despite the lack-lustre campaign by the leadership of the National Union of Students...

The Desperate Housing Crisis!

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IT WAS Frederick Engels who said that the housing problem and capitalism were inseparable, and that to get rid of the former you would...

Pogromist Johnson Speaks Up For The Security Services

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BORIS JOHNSON writes in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, in the wake of the Rigby trial, ‘the most important question now is how we prevent other...

Bank of England under pressure as inflation runs riot – socialist revolution is the...

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THE UK INFLATION rate hit a nine-year high in August with prices increasing by 3.2%, a sharp increase from the 2% recorded in July,...

Haiti one year on – hungry masses live in tents, under threat from cholera...

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ALMOST one year after the Haitian earthquake that made millions homeless, the working class and the poor of Haiti are still suffering. They are still...

Forward with the French, British and German workers to bring down the EU and...

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WITH millions of workers and youth on strike or taking to the streets, where they have been joined by the masses of the Yellow...

We Must Welcome All Asylum Seekers And Expropriate The UK’s Boss Class!

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IN RECENT days, the Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman had come under fire for comparing immigrants and asylum seekers to ‘invaders’. Liberal Tories tut-tutted that...

Home Office is ‘institutionally racist’! The way to end the ‘hostile environment’ is to...

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THE HOME Office is ‘institutionally racist’. This is the verdict of the first draft of the ‘lessons learned’ review by Wendy Williams, HM Inspector...

Ending the capitalist crisis needs more than reformist policies

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JOHN McDONNELL the newly appointed Labour shadow chancellor, made his first speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday outlining the ‘new economics’ that he...

Saab goes bust as GM’s Opel-Vauxhall crisis deepens

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GM’S crisis has deepened with the collapse of its deal to sell Saab, and as the EU states do battle over whose plants are...

Anti-Russian Pogrom At The G20!

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PRESIDENT PUTIN has left the G20 summit in Australia early after a relentless attack on Russia was mounted by the USA-UK axis and its...

Examine practicalities of a general strike by organising it now!

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THE TUC Congress was dominated by the growing mass anger of the working class at the Tory-led coalition policy of wage freezing and massive...