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Workers will demand Unite’s national action against fire and rehire be stepped up to...

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YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...

Meet Tory payback time for working class with a general strike to kick them...

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THE END of September is ‘payback time’ for the working class as far as the Tories are concerned. This is when all the debt incurred...

Developing Oil Crisis Makes It All The More Vital That The Working Class Takes...

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THE SAUDI REGIME, backed to the hilt by the US and the UK, yesterday admitted that the Houthi movement’s drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s...

1,002,296 have died from Covid-19 – Capitalism cannot deal with this crisis!

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THE number of people worldwide who have died from Covid-19 has passed one million, reaching 1,002,296 with 33,378,462 infected, the Johns Hopkins University reported...

40,000 Israeli reservists called up!

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel would ‘not tolerate the firing of rockets on our cities and towns’. His remarks came after...

Labour Reformism Is Rotten To The Core – The Working Class Needs A Revolutionary...

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LABOUR’S defeat in the 2019 general election is a historic one, since its central feature was the way that the safest Labour seats in...

On tenth anniversary of world banking collapse – Forward to Socialism!

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ON THE eve of the tenth anniversary of collapse into bankruptcy of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, which brought the world’s capitalist banking...

Tories join with Labour to dump Johnson and prepare way for a national government

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YESTERDAY, MPs debated the motion from Labour that would refer the behaviour of prime minister Boris Johnson to the Commons standards committee to investigate...

EU 750 billion euros ‘Recovery Fund’ nothing more than a Trojan Horse for...

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LAST Tuesday the emergency summit of leaders of the EU 27 member states finally agreed to a 750 billion euros pandemic recovery fund after...

Only one answer to mass unemployment – Socialist Revolution

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WHILE firms and businesses are closing down as furlough ends and millions of workers are being thrown out of work, the Tories launched their...

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...

Re-nationalise the energy suppliers – the only way to end preventable deaths

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FIGURES released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a dramatic increase in the number of preventable deaths among the elderly...

120,540 children live in temporary accommodation!

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THE scale of the housing crisis today is revealed in a report issued by the Local Government Authority (LGA) which exposes the scandal that...

Economic crisis of capitalism can only be resolved with socialist revolution

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THE PLUNGE of world capitalism over the precipice of an almighty crash has become so obvious that a sense of panic is gripping bourgeois...

After Bercow’s attempt to knife Brexit the UK must make a ‘No Deal’ exit...

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SPEAKER Bercow’s ruling, preventing PM May making a third attempt to get her deal with the EU through the House of Commons, was a...

Defeat Imperialist war with Socialist revolution

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THE TRUMP administration imposed its long threatened sanctions against Iran yesterday – a move that was greeted with dire warnings from market analysts that...

Tories boost their navy in the Gulf, part of a ‘Maritime Coalition’ against Iran!...

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TORY foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to ‘reverse cuts to the size of the Royal Navy’ if he becomes prime minister. Hunt has...

Tories rip up workers health and safety as their bankrupt economy disintegrates!

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TORY CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak did the rounds of press interviews yesterday preparing the way for today’s reopening of non-essential shops and businesses and he...

Tanker attack provocation in the Gulf – US looking to launch war on Iran...

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TWO oil tankers were attacked on Thursday morning in the Gulf of Oman. The Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous and Norway’s Front Altair were abandoned after two...

Lesson of the Shrewsbury Appeal victory and Mittings inquiry – capitalist state must...

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ON WEDNESDAY the leaders of 12 of the largest and most prominent trade unions issued a letter demanding immediate action to ensure transparency in...

Trump And The US Ruling Class Up To Their Necks In The Afghan Quagmire!

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THE US ruling class and its leader President Trump (allegedly much versed in the ‘art of the deal’) are now up to their necks...

Half a million children of public servants condemned to poverty by wage and benefit...

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550,000 CHILDREN (1 in 7) with a parent working in the public sector will be forced to live in poverty by the end of...

Labour must pledge to nationalise Bombardier to defend 14,000 jobs!

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PM May is said to be ‘bitterly disappointed’ that the US Department of Commerce and her friend President Trump have opted to impose a...

The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...

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MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...

Bosses planning to incite youth against pensioners!

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A £10,000 PAYMENT should be given to the young, while pensioners are taxed more, a new report by the Resolution Foundation into inter-generational fairness...

Broken Hague Stands Down While Gove Is Terminated By Cameron!

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WILLIAM Hague has stood down as foreign secretary, but will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons till the next...

US abandons Kurds in northern Syria and gives green light to Turkish invasion

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TURKEY has been given the green light to invade northern Syria by the US following the abrupt decision by the Trump administration on Sunday...

SOVIET WORKERS AND YOUTH WANT THE USSR RESTORED!

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THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...

Bolton Arrives To Boost Johnson And Open The Door For UK Troops In The...

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JOHN BOLTON, President Trump’s National Security Adviser, was in town yesterday recruiting mercenaries to the US cause, including its trade war with China and...

Abbas ready to break with US imperialism! UK workers must support the Palestinian...

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IN A huge development in the fight of the Palestinian people to establish their own independent state, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on...

LGA Warns ‘Extreme Cost-Cutting’ Is Destroying All Services!

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THE LOCAL Government Association’s (LGA) Richard Watts has written to Tory Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick (of the two houses) warning against ‘extreme cost-cutting’...

French and UK workers must unite to smash capitalism and fight for socialism!

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FRENCH workers and youth have risen up against the Macron-military police dictatorship and on Saturday launched massive attacks on the capitalist state’s police forces...

Gold Hits Record High As Trump Steps Up His War On US Workers!

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GOLD hit a record high on Wall Street on Monday as increasing numbers of frightened investors dumped the dollar and sought safety by purchasing...

Patients assessed, treated & sent home on same day! The Tories ‘Long Term ...

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THE TORY government, using their NHS Long Term Plan have stepped up their war against the health service, attempting to drive through measures that...

Eight Out Of Ten Academy Schools Are In Deficit!

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ACADEMY school budgets are in a desperate state with eight out of 10 in deficit, say their accountants. ‘Two more years like this and...

McDonnell: Those who died in Grenfell were ‘murdered by political decisions!’

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LABOUR shadow chancellor John McDonnell has come out and said openly what the vast majority of people in the country believe – that those...

Bankrupt capitalism is responsible for 100,000 deaths in UK – Only a socialist revolution...

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ON TUESDAY, the UK officially recorded 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 with half of these deaths being recorded since November 2020. Even this terrible number of...

‘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...

No Sell-Out Deal With Eu! Forward To Socialism In The UK And To The...

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THE government of Boris Johnson has reached decision point over the EU. It is to be made under conditions of a growing and terrible...

Workers must fight for Palestine and bring down the Tory government that celebrates the...

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THE NATIONAL march and rally demanding ‘Justice Now: Make it Right for Palestine’ is a massive demonstration of the support and solidarity that exists...

Bank of England pushes up interest rates as inflation spirals out of control!

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THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and decided to increase the interest rate by 0.25% to 0.75% in a futile attempt...

Workers must apply ‘French tactics’ against a parliament that is trying to steal Brexit!

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BRITISH parliamentary democracy was exposed as nothing more than a chaotic and rapidly collapsing sham on Tuesday when, for the first time in history,...

British Capitalism Is On The Rocks! All Life Support Attempts Are Failing As The...

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SUCH is the crisis of British capitalism more than half of the adult population, 27 million people, have had to be financially assisted by...

Trump is attacking the Chinese workers – US and UK workers must support the...

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THE US bosses have ramped up their ongoing campaign of economic and political sanctions against China. The House of Representatives has passed a bill...

Cut in interest rates by the Fed will accelerate capitalism’s world crash

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THE US CENTRAL Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday performed an abrupt U-turn on its policy of attempting to hold back the vast amount of...