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NHS privatisation in London could ‘cost lives’

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THE government’s Healthcare Commission published a report yesterday which called for National Health Service (NHS) hospital trusts to ‘do more to ensure they consistently...

Capitalism’s world crisis can only be resolved through socialist revolution

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THE LATEST latest annual report from the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) on the economic crises gripping world capitalism couldn’t have been clearer –...

Trade unions must take action NOW to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange!

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, the man who dared to expose imperialist war crimes, must be immediately released from Belmarsh high security prison where he...

Working class rising up in massive strike wave – time for unions to call...

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THE OFFICE for National Statistics (ONS) revealed yesterday that the number of days lost due to strikes last year was the highest since 1989. In...

Food Price Inflation Soars As The Capitalist Crisis Deepens. Demand The Tuc Call A...

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SOARING prices for bread, cereal and chocolate meant the cost of living rose more than expected last month – these are the fruits of...

GPs under the heel of Labour’s NHS ‘reforms’

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THE Brown government has bullied NHS GPs in the most brutal and cowardly fashion, and has given them an offer that they could not...

Workers Of The World Unite To Smash Capitalism And Imperialism!

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THE MURDER of Keenan Anderson, the cousin of a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, Patrisse Cullors, after he was repeatedly tasered by police officers...

Royal Mail getting ready for New Year war!

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BRENDAN Barber has won another battle honour from the employers. His first was at Gate Gourmet, which publicly congratulated him on its website for the...

Trump sends in National Guard to take over America’s capital city

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On Monday, US president Donald Trump declared a ‘crime emergency’ in Washington DC, the capital city of America, using this as a pretext to...

Smash anti-strike law by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick out...

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ON MONDAY, with the Tory anti-strikes Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, back in the House of Commons for its final reading before passing into...

With Parliament Ready To Defy The People Cromwell Becomes An Issue!

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OFFICIALS in the House of Commons have installed a tamper alarm to stop Labour MP, Stephen Pound, turning a bust of Oliver Cromwell to...

Bankers dump the dollar and shares and crave for gold!

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THE current heir to the Rothschild banking dynasty, Lord Jacob Rothschild, has pronounced that the game is up, the world’s central banks have shot...

The Republicans Are In A Desperate Crisis While The Democrats Have No Way Forward...

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US PRESIDENT TRUMP going down with the coronavirus has sharpened the crisis of the imperialist powers, including the UK, who were up till now...

Council election results weaken Labour in a self-inflicted wound and strengthen May!

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LABOUR’S hopes crashed to earth in the just-concluded council elections. The eve of poll predictions of the Tories losing Wandsworth, Westminster and then Kensington...

Production and wages falling while ‘pay-day’ loan sharks boom as Christmas nears

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THE UK’s industrial output fell 0.7% in October, its fastest fall for six months. It is now 1.7% lower than the same month in...

Obama’s Amnesty For Torturers – ‘They Were Just Obeying Orders’

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CENTRAL Intelligence Agency employees who tortured people in the Guantanamo Bay and Bagram Bay US concentration camps as terrorist suspects held without charge or...

US, UK, Karzai Drive To Bribe The Taleban

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ON the eve of the Afghan conference in London this week, UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take control...

March ban aimed at trade unions, youth and students

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THE news that the Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May, has issued a blanket ban on all marches and rallies in five London boroughs represents...

Miliband appeals to Tory and UKIP voters!

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FOR many years the Labour Party projected itself as the champion of the working class, hence its very close ties with the trade unions,...

Obama Looking For ‘Partners’

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PRESIDENT OBAMA’S annual State of the Union speech was dominated by the internal situation of US capitalism, and his search for Republican partners...

Hunt shreds Truss and Kwarteng budget and prepares for massive austerity war on working...

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NEWLY-INSTALLED Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday completely shredded the mini-budget announced just a few weeks ago by Kwasi Kwarteng. Kwarteng was unceremoniously sacked on Friday...

US imperialism ramps up attacks on Venezuela in order to effect regime change and...

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Last Saturday morning, US president Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he was closing down the airspace ‘above and surrounding Venezuela’...

Ruling class prepared to dump weak Johnson and move to dictatorial rule to wage...

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THIS WEEK the Tories were warned by leading financiers and bankers that a quarter of a million firms in the UK will be crushed...

Occupy Grangemouth to defend the union, jobs, wages and pensions

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UNITE has urged Grangemouth workers not to give in to Ineos’ ‘menacing’ tactics to sign away their rights, saying it was looking to take...

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...

The Oxford Blood Money Must Be Returned To Sender At Once!

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IN ITS LATEST ATROCITY, the University of Oxford has grabbed with both hands more than £12m in dirty money from the Alexander Mosley Trust. This...

CORBYN, McDONNELL SET TO BETRAY AS BREXIT ‘DAY OF DECISION’ APPROACHES!

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SENIOR Labour Party leaders are at war with each other over the best way to betray the 2016 referendum result, when PM Boris Johnson...

Osborne to slash £5bn from welfare – answer with general strike

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In today’s Autumn statement on the economy, the Tory chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, will announce that he intends to ‘kick start’ British...

Clinton pledges continuing war to ‘get rid’ of Assad

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DEMOCRATIC Party Presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, is to order a ‘full review’ of the United States’ strategy on Syria as a ‘first key task’...

Blair Fended Off Caution With Resignation Threat

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LABOUR MP Jack Straw yesterday announced that he is to run Gordon Brown’s campaign for the Labour leadership. Straw’s declaration was answered in...

Stop All Arms Supplies To Israel – Impose Worldwide Trade Boycott

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HAMAS has accused Israel of violating the temporary ceasefire on Tuesday. It’s spokesman Moussa Abu Marzouq said on Wednesday that Israel ‘ended the truce...

MAY DAY 2009 – A movement for World Socialist Revolution!

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MILLIONS of workers took to the streets on May Day in countries throughout the world, from Los Angeles to London, Havana to Harare. Several May...

Ukraine dumped by an imperialism too weak to defeat Russia

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IT HAS become clear over the past days that Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky have been unceremoniously dumped by the imperialist powers and...

New right-wing party to replace Tories being organised as spectre of revolution haunts British...

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AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the...

Tory Class War Budget!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday moved his ‘emergency budget’. He outlined the gravity of the situation by saying that ‘Questions that were asked about...

Crisis of European capitalism deepens – Down with the EU! Forward to the Socialist...

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THE Bank of England delivered its first announcement of 2017 on the economy yesterday, claiming that British capitalism had defied all expectations of a...

Civil Rights lawyers closed down by Tories

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THE law firm that has spent ten years representing the Iraqi victims of the brutal imperialist invasion of their country and the subsequent occupation...

Yellow jacket uprising spreads across Europe and inspires the masses in the Middle East

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ON MONDAY night, French President Emmanuel Macron used a televised address to the nation to try and head off the insurrectionary wave sweeping the...

US bombings condemned as a War Crime

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THE medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has rightly denounced the targeted bombing by US planes of its medical centre in the...

Amazon & Deliveroo pair up to super-exploit workers! Capitalism must go!

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ONLINE retail giant Amazon is to invest hundreds of millions of dollars, it was announced yesterday, into the gig economy delivery service Deliveroo in...

Work Till You Drop – the Tories’ plan for a ‘sustainable’ capitalism

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THE DRIVE to raise the state pension age (SPA) even higher has stepped up with the issue of two separate reports which call for...

The bosses refuse to back May! Now is the time for a general strike...

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A PLAN by the Tories to demonstrate that the bosses of Britain’s leading companies are firmly behind the chaotic Brexit negotiations blew up in...

Unions Must Call Action To Halt Tory Law Equating Journalism With Terrorism! They Must...

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THE NUJ is warning that Home Office plans to ‘reform’ The Official Secrets Act ‘are a severe threat to journalism’. It is calling on...

Throw the paltry Tory NHS pay cut ‘offer’ out! Nothing less than 3.9%+£800 will...

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NHS staff who have suffered a 15% pay cut since 2010 have been offered a ‘new deal’ from the government. A leaked document shows...

With their anti-migrants and anti-trade union laws the Tories are the common enemy of...

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On Monday, over 180 UK health professionals and representatives from leading medical bodies sent a letter to Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak denouncing the...