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US-Turkey Fighting Over Northern Syria!

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THE Syrian government has condemned the invasion of northern Syria by Turkish ground forces, cynically called ‘Operation Olive Branch’, an invasion that was preceded...

TUC must heed the call from Palestinian trade unions and call a general strike...

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THE UN agency for Palestinian refugees yesterday issued the latest dire warning that time is running out for any chance of averting a catastrophic...

Smash the Bedroom Tax with a general strike!

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A GRANDMOTHER, who because of the Bedroom Tax, had to pay an extra £20 a week, has thrown herself in front of a...

Tory war games preparing summer war with unions

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FIRST of all Prime Minister Cameron wrote that the entire public sector, local government, the NHS and education were to be taken over by...

TUC leader pleads with EU president

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YESTERDAY, Tory leader David Cameron hosted a breakfast meeting with the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, as part of his campaign to...

Tories increasingly looking to ditch Johnson while Starmer lines up for place in a...

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PRIME Minister Boris Johnson jetted off to India yesterday in advance of the vote by MPs on a Labour motion to launch an investigation...

Capitalism Is In Its Greatest Ever Crisis. Now Is The Time To Organise The...

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DURING stock market trading last Friday more than £12.8bn was wiped off the value of the UK’s bank stocks as the rumours of ‘bad...

Labour’s first 100 days will see the working class using its power to drive...

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LABOUR’S shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, delivered a speech yesterday laying out the priorities for the first 100 days of a Labour government. Within 100 days...

King George’s Ilford cancer unit to close for lack of nurses – Get the...

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THE CEDAR CENTRE, the chemotherapy unit at the King George Hospital in Ilford is to shut down on November 12th, because it cannot find...

General strike shakes the Rajapaksa regime! Forward to workers power!

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LAST Thursday, the Sri Lankan capital Colombo was halted as hundreds of thousands of trade unionists and their supporters took to the streets in...

Brown promises to ‘renew new Labour’

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown, the pretender to the Labour leadership and 10 Downing Street, told the Labour Party conference in Brighton yesterday: ‘Our mission is...

Leave The EU Now! Call A General Strike To Defend Jobs! Stop Pleading...

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THE UK’s negotiator with the EU, Lord Frost, has said that there is still time for the UK and the EU to agree a...

Establish the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in 2017!

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THE Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saeb Erekat has denounced the ongoing escalation by the Israeli government against its Palestinian citizens as...

The developing capitalist crisis demands the organisation of the socialist revolution

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SHRINKING UK trade figures released yesterday of a decline of 0.1 per cent of GDP in May, following a 0.3 per cent fall in...

Iranian retaliation strike on Israel a direct challenge to imperialist domination

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IRAN’S retaliatory strike against Israel, launched on Saturday, has provoked an outpouring of hypocrisy from the imperialist nations and their tame media outlets. How dare...

Israeli mad dog completely out of control!

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ISRAEL has made it brutally plain that it is not in the slightest interested in negotiating any ‘peace of the brave’ with the Palestinian...

US arms Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia for war with Iran

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THAT the US is preparing a new great war in the Middle East and the Gulf to destroy Iran and Syria is crystal clear...

Junior Doctors Are Defending The NHS – They Must Not Fight Alone!

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AS the April 26th-27th strike action of the junior doctors approaches, the chorus of reproaches from the likes of Dame Sally Davies, Sir Bruce...

Austerity Forever Pledges Cameron

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IN an interview given to the Daily Telegraph, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, declared that ‘austerity’ will be forever as far as he...

May assumes dictatorial powers over Parliament – time to bring her down with a...

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TORY Prime Minister Theresa May was determined on Monday to avoid a substantive vote in Parliament on ‘her right’ to go to war and...

TUC Leader O’Grady To Quit – TUC Must Organise General Strike For June 18th!

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THE General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Frances O’Grady, is to step down after nine inglorious years at the helm of the...

28th anniversary of declaration of Palestinian independence!

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SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saed Erekat said yesterday that the international community has failed in its responsibility to correct the...

EU and Arab workers must unite to smash imperialism

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FRENCH police have arrested several suspects over the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine massacre in Paris, which killed 12 people to ‘avenge an insult to...

Prescott slams Miliband’s failure as Labour opportunists panic

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FIRST of all we had Labour ex-Health Secretary Burnham serving notice on Miliband that he had until the spring to challenge the Tory-led coalition...

Low Interest Rates And Quantitative Easing Forever Pledges Carney

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THE new Bank of England governor Carney yesterday in his ‘Inflation Report’ gave big business a sample of his ‘forward guidance’. This amounted to inflation,...

Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tory-Led Coalition

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THE TUC met yesterday afternoon to discuss pay and pensions and the planned mass demonstration and day of action on March 26 against the...

Victory to Syria! Defeat imperialist war drive with world socialist revolution!

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THE DEATHS of dozens of civilians including young children in Syrian town Khan Sheikhoun has been seized on by imperialism as a weapon to...

US-Egyptian Coup Under Way In Libya!

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THE drive by General Khalifa Haftat to overthrow the remnants of the Libyan government, and take on and defeat the Al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood...

Brown’s Working Together means everybody paying the bill for the bankers

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GORDON BROWN’S speech yesterday, at the TUC, was a very poor effort from a politician and a party that have no intention of defending...

One Day General Strike On January 31

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THE government’s policy of mass sackings of civil servants, of driving down their wages, and of outsourcing and privatisation has driven civil servants to...

Israeli general admits that Israel arms the jihadists! The UK must be made to...

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ISRAEL, through its outgoing chief of staff Lieutenant General Gadi Eizenkot, has admitted that the many reports of the Israeli terrorist state’s collaboration...

One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin

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EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...

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...

Labour has no answer to the problems that the working class and middle class...

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MILIBAND’S Labour Party yesterday said that if it was the government it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job. This...

Starmer pledges billions for military while doctors and nurses are hired to work in...

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Washington yesterday for a first meeting with President Trump since his inauguration last month. The situation in Ukraine...

Bank crisis spreads while US government faces running out of money on June 1st...

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THE BANKING crash has continued, with First Republic being the third US bank to collapse within three months. First Republic was taken over by the...

Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ comes a huge cropper!

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BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...

May Appeals To The People As The Eu Insists There Can Be No...

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A DESPERATE Prime Minister May has written a letter to the nation asking the people of the UK for their support to pressurise a...

UK Trade Unions And Unions Worldwide Must Take Action Against Israel!

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229 Arab and international human rights organisations and networks have strongly condemned the assassination of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after she...

BIS predicts deflation and depression

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LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...

Erdogan urges Israel to end occupation while the UK celebrates Balfour Declaration!

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THE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Israel must stop its occupation of the Palestinian territories, which he says undermines any two-state...

Daily Telegraph warns capitalism has entered its ‘final act’ with UK the ‘tinderbox’ of...

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Such is the depth of the crisis in British capitalism that even the ultra-loyal Tory press can no longer pretend that the working class...
Police forcing the  Gate Gourmet locked-out workers to dismantle their tent and quit picketing Beacon Hill, Heathrow Airport after Gate Gourmet and the TGWU told the police that the dispute was over

Thirteen insurgents hung – Rumsfeld looks forward to a civil war

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THE Iraqi puppet authorities have hung 13 people accused of taking part in the insurgency, the first execution of militant nationalists since the US-led...

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...

CIA annual Threat Assessment Report reveals panic over failure to defeat Hamas

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ON MONDAY, the US intelligence agency, the CIA, published its annual Threat Assessment Report for 2024 which warned that America faces an ‘increasingly fragile world...