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One third of all people in UK have lived in poverty in the past...

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ONE in three people in the country have ‘experienced poverty’ in the past four years. According to figures produced by the Office for National Statistics,...

Hunt steps up war on NHS

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THE Tory drive against doctors and health workers throughout the NHS was reaffirmed last week when re-appointed health secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed that GPs...

Tory coronavirus inquiry is an attempt to put off reckoning with working class

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ON WEDNESDAY, Tory prime minister Boris Johnson announced that there would be ‘a full and independent inquiry’ into the government handling of the coronavirus...

McCluskey has learnt nothing from the 1970s and 80s except to surrender

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IT is clear from Unite leader McCluskey’s article in the Guardian yesterday that he has learnt nothing from the struggles of the 1970s...

Tories want to gag the trade unions as well as chain them!

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STRIKING unions are to be gagged as well as chained, the TUC’s general secretary Frances O’Grady has said, referring to a consultation document linked...

No immunity over Grenfell Tower atrocity – arrest the real criminals and charge them...

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WITNESSES from the firms responsible for creating a death trap at Grenfell Tower are to be granted immunity from prosecution arising out of any...

Tuc Must Reply To Tory Threats And Call A General Strike To Begin On...

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THE TUC leaders will be meeting in Blackpool on Wednesday evening June 15th just three days before their huge 100,000 plus ‘March for Change’...

Big Business Demands Billi0Ns More To Save Their Bankrupt Economy!

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BIG BUSINESS warned yesterday that, with the return of the lockdown by PM Johnson, thousands of firms will go to the wall. They demanded...

The way to peace in the Ukraine is to restore the Soviet Union!

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THE MAYOR of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, has split the Ukrainian leadership over the issue of Russian sovereignty over the Crimea. Rejecting President Zelensky’s refusal to...

Brown targets European workers’ rights and benefits

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown published a pamphlet Global Europe-Full Employment and penned a special article in the Financial Times yesterday, lecturing the leaders of European...

Stop US-UK terrorism – No war on Syria – Bring down the Tories –...

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THE last few days has seen an acceleration in terrorist activity of all types. The first terrorist attack was last Thursday when the US...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers PARMJIT BAINS (right) and PARMJEET SIDHU with Hounslow UNISON member MARIE ROWLANDS

Restore the NHS! Bring down Blair

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair made clear yesterday that the government is determined to force through the cuts and closures, privatisation and destruction of...

Labour plans ruthless cuts and mass privatisation of public sector to ‘save’ British capitalism

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The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public...

Afghan civilians being slaughtered while poppy production is booming

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MASSIVE NATO firepower is killing hundreds of Afghan civilians, as British forces in Helmand province battle with Taleban fighters seeking to bring back to...

M&s And Taylor Wimpey Crash As Hauliers Descend On Parliament

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HUNDREDS of hauliers picketed parliament in London yesterday to demonstrate against the rising cost of fuel, and the way that it is destroying their...

Trump lauds huge tax cuts, slams migrants, keeps G Bay open and plans war...

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PRESIDENT Trump began his ‘State of the Union’ speech on Tuesday night by repeatedly congratulating himself, saying, ‘Less than one year has passed since...

TUC begs for partnership

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TOMORROW the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, will be presenting before parliament his last budget before the general election on May 7 – a budget...

Blair ‘comfortable’ with five shots to the head, shoot to kill policy

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ON Sunday, Police Commissioner Blair told the world that the policy of shooting to kill ‘terrorist suspects’ was national policy, not just a Metropolitan...

TUC must call a general strike to halt Tory drive to runaway inflation and...

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US stocks have made huge losses after a major sell-off last Friday on Wall Street. By Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly...

Stock markets crash in US and across the world – socialist revolution is only...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s tariff increases imposed on China, Mexico and Canada come into effect today but already this has set off a massive...

Labour demands students foot the bill to bail out bankrupt universities

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ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means...

Palestinian government rejects Blair’s plotting

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THE leaders of the Palestine National Authority (PNA) government yesterday rejected the interference of British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Palestinian internal affairs. Dr Mousa...

Tory-Led Coalition Breaking Apart – Bring It Down!

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WHILE the Prime Minister is being hailed by the anti-EU section of the Tory Party as standing up for the UK like a...

Labour Must Bring Back Corbyn And Dump Starmer Now – After He Refused To...

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ONLY 15 Labour MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn, were prepared last Tuesday to vote against the Tories to bring the Johnson government down! The vote on...

Tories Breaking Apart Along With Their Bankrupt Economy While The Tuc Refuses To Take...

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UK capitalism is now the sick man of the capitalist world. Its economy is going broke while the Tories openly discuss knifing the NHS,...

Tories to slash public services by £17bn

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UK PUBLIC services will be slashed by up to £17 billion, the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned, as Tory chancellor Rishi...

UAW reformists propose to surrender gains of US workers

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THE UAW leaders are prepared to ‘suspend’ all of the gains of US autoworkers to try and assist the big bosses of GM, Chrysler,...

Israeli leaders call to annex West Bank to create a new Naqba!

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ISRAEL’S Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Uri Ariel speaking in Moscow, where he travelled with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, has...

Reject May’s deal! No capitulation! BREAK WITH THE EU NOW! Forward to Socialism!

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TORY PM May’s crisis over her Brexit deal, which is a complete capitulation to the EU, is reaching explosion point. She was the...

Obama Warning For Russia And China

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PRESIDENT Obama’s State of the Union message saw the ‘lame-duck’ president, into the last period of his rule, seeking to convince US workers that...

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...

Answer the capitalist crisis with a socialist programme

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THE deepening capitalist crisis has seen the breakdown of the decisive Doha Round of World Trade Organisation talks, with the United States refusing and...

Corbyn’s speech is a cowardly surrender to the bosses and bankers

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yesterday defining Labour’s position on Brexit negotiations was nothing more than an abject and cowardly surrender to the bosses...

UK politicians send letter urging Starmer to ‘act now’ over Gaza – time for...

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A JOINT letter signed by leading politicians in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales was sent to Labour prime minister Keir Starmer yesterday calling for...

No Military Action Against Iran – At This Point Says Rice

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BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has just revealed the policy of the British government on Iraq – or has he? He said that Iran...

Greek students defeat privatisation attack

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THE Greek right-wing government has been forced to withdraw its plans to push through the Greek parliament, an Education Bill, and a revision of...

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’...

June 30th must be a one-day general strike!

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PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union leader Mark Serwotka said yesterday, just before the massive vote for strike action on June 30th by his PCS...

Anger grows against Royal Mail’s pensions onslaught

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ROYAL MAIL managers have overwhelmingly rejected changes to their pensions in a ballot. Their union, Unite, revealed yesterday that there was an 85-per-cent vote...

100 Million Nigerians live on less than $1 a day – despite Nigeria’s vast...

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THE numbers of Nigerians living in poverty, in the midst of vast oil riches, has risen to nearly 61 per cent. Poverty has risen sharply...

Only a general strike can defeat Tory anti-union strike breakers law

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IN ADVANCE of last night’s vote in parliament on the Tory bill waging war on the right to strike by allowing employers to bring...

Oil Price Rises Driving Up Inflati0N

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RISING crude oil prices are driving up the price of petrol at the pumps. Petrol is now at around 92 pence a litre, an increase...

Johnson ditches Plan B – Time for working class to kick Tories out and...

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THE TORIES have pledged to dump all existing Covid restrictions in the next few weeks in England and ‘get life completely back to normal’. On...

Japan Rearming To Back US Aggression Against China

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THE Japanese government, ignoring yet again its own constitution, which bans Japan having aggressive military forces, has approved a new national security strategy, and...

Council of Action takes up the challenge to defend NHS

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THE News Line congratulates the North East London Council of Action for its march through Enfield on Saturday and its occupation of Chase Farm...