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Desperate Blair dashes to Baghdad

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WITH British troops in the south of Iraq in danger of taking heavy casualties at the hands of an insurgency that has taken over...

Stop the war against Syria – smash austerity at home

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THE humiliating climb-down by David Cameron over Syria on Wednesday night exposes for all to see the weakness of British imperialism, the coalition government...

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...

End Tory benefit and job cuts through socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY the Tory government was forced to concede that that a further 23,000 tax credit claimants whose benefits had been had been cut by...

Christoulas makes his call for REVOLUTION!

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A 77-YEAR-old Greek pensioner penned his political testament on Wednesday, before he blew his brains out in front of the Greek parliament, a parliament...

‘Recovery’ Rests On Bed Of Nitroglycerine

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THE 0.1 per cent ‘recovery’, the ‘work’ of Gordon Brown and Chancellor Darling has caused laughter and incredulity throughout the planet. It is a...

Netanyahu in secret talks with Obama

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and United States President Barack Obama held two sessions of secret talks at the White House yesterday, lasting a...

Japan under US protection says Clinton

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CHINA has condemned the latest comments made by the United States over the disputed Diaoyu Islands in which Hillary Clinton said that Japan is...

‘Blair and Straw have a great deal to answer for,’ says Alex Salmond

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SNP foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond spoke up for millions of British people yesterday when he highlighted the role that one-time Labour PM Blair...
Palestinian flats in Rafah full of shell and bullet holes because of Israeli army shelling

Emergency Action needed to win Gate Gourmet dispute

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THE Gate Gourmet strikers are fighting in the most determined fashion to win back their jobs in the face of a hostile union busting...

Capitalism in its greatest financial crisis, says Brown

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THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who once boasted that he had resolved the crisis of capitalism and its tendency to go from boom to...

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...

Law cannot be allowed to get in the way of profiteering

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THE Attorney General – the same official who ruled after much equivocation that the war with Iraq was legal – on Thursday told the...

Russia must intervene to drive Kiev junta out!

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FOLLOWING the illegal Ukrainian presidential election – called to try and legitimise the imperialist-inspired coup – the billionaire, Petro Poroshenko, wasted no time in...

Public services face privatisation catastrophe! Renationalise the lot under workers’ control!

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THE COLLAPSES of Carillion, of East Coast Rail, of academy chain after academy chain, and now with the NAO report that private outsourcing giant...

UK workers must support the struggle for Palestinian state!

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EARLY on Wednesday morning Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinian youth, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old, and injured at least two others...

G7 nations unanimous in support of Israeli war crimes in Gaza!

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THE United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Wednesday issued a damning statement that Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in...

Teachers must not fight alone – TUC must call a general strike

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The annual conferences of the two largest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, meeting at the weekend heard that the unions and the...

Gambling With The Norfolk And Norwich NHS Trust

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private equity firm 3i on Thursday listed its 3i Infrastructure fund on the London stock market only to see it sink to the bottom...

Tory leader Badenoch offers to ‘work together’ with Starmer to slash benefits

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YESTERDAY, in a speech in London, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch made an offer to Keir Starmer to work together on a plan to slash...

Murdoch withdraws BskyB bid – Now bring down coalition!

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YESTERDAY the Prime Minister announced that a judge-led phone hacking inquiry will have powers to call media proprietors, editors and politicians to give evidence,...

Brown, Cameron & Clegg unite to rescue bankrupt capitalism

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THE manufacturing sector of the British economy shrank last month at the fastest rate for 17 years, that is since 1992, according to figures...

Labour And Trade Union Leaders Move To The Right!

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THE Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Liam Byrne, yesterday joined hands with Cameron and Osborne with his declaration in the Guardian newspaper that Beveridge,...

Repeal all racist immigration laws

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SHOCK, HORROR, the BBC has just found out that between 26 and 35 per cent of all of the migrants that are encouraged to...

Accessories To Murder!

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THE Israeli Cabinet, after its weekly meeting on Sunday, issued a statement that it was greatly encouraged by the ‘low-key’ international response to its...

Tories out to destroy free speech

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THE full extent of the Tory plans to smash up the right to free speech was revealed yesterday by an unlikely source, the new...

Tories declare class war to the finish – time for trade unions to organise...

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ON THE EVE of the unprecedented strike by nurses and ambulance workers, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak said that he will not ‘back down’...

Maude and Cameron seek the support of parliament for law-breaking

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THE Tory-led coalition is rushing through parliamentary legislation to impose on the Civil Service trade unions savage changes to their redundancy agreement (Civil Service...

Karzai calls for rethink, as Taleban attacks mount

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THE Afghan ‘government’ has called for a rethink of the US-led fight against the Taleban, after heavy casualties to civilians caused by US air...

Unemployment and inflation surges as Cameron threatens immigrants’ benefits

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THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown....

Blair’s generation of imperialist war

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After President Bush has informed the world that 20,000 more US troops are to be sent to Iraq, and his Secretary of State, Rice...

Anarchists Being Used To Increase Police-State Powers

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LAST Saturday’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against the coalitions cuts policy has shaken the coalition, and given the capitalist state a lot to think about. Such...

British capitalism remains on the floor with wages falling and part-time working booming

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THE number of people estimated to be out of work in the UK fell by 133,000 to a ‘five-year low’ of 2.2 million in...

Stop Royal Mail being thrown to the private equity wolves!

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POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...

Victory for Uber workers – now end the gig economy for good with socialist...

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THE LARGE taxi app company Uber announced yesterday it would start treating over 70,000 of its drivers in the UK as employed workers entitled...

Time For The Working Class To Consign The Bosses To The Dustbin Of ...

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THE US and UK ruling classes are organising Israel to knife the Palestinian people in a desperate attempt to destroy the Palestinian revolution –...

BMA launch ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into Pandemic

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DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has launched its own ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic. This is ahead of the Tory...

British Ruling Class Preparing For A Nuclear War To Defend Capitalism

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THE bankrupt British ruling class is preparing to expand its ‘nuclear deterrent’ by buying a squadron of American jet fighters that have the capacity...

McCluskey and TUC determined to rescue Cameron from EU crisis

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WITH the Tory party split and divided, the ruling class in the UK – Cameron, big business and the bankers – are relying on...

Make the TUC call a general strike to Bring down the coalition, Smash the...

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TODAY at 9am the TUC General Council is discussing a motion from the Prison Officers Association (who have no right to strike) that urges...

Moroccan Lawyers Demand Cancellation Of Israel Normalisation Deal!

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MOROCCAN lawyers have severely censured the Rabat government over its recent agreement to normalise relations with Israel, and are demanding an immediate reversal of...

US And Iraqi Puppets Massacre A Thousand In Sadr City

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IRAQI deputies to the puppet parliament, who are Iraqi nationalists and who support Moqtada al-Sadr have denounced the US puppet government of Premier...

Take action to stop the bosses closing factories and Tories privatising services!

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WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening, the UK bosses and bankers are using the US trade war, the developing banking collapse and slump (on...

Labour Defence Secretary sends a message to Moscow

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THE defence review will send a ‘message to Moscow’ about Britain’s ‘readiness to fight if required’, Defence Secretary John Healey has told the BBC. Ripping...

Labour MPs rebel and threaten to bring down Starmer

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WHAT was described as a ‘fiery’ meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, addressed by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, took place on Monday...