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New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity

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FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...

Workers Of The World Must Intervene With General Strikes To Support The Palestinian People...

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THE Israeli occupation army committed a horrific massacre against displaced Palestinian civilians on Tuesday evening after its warplanes bombed a school sheltering them in...

Hands off Syria – its people must decide its future

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THE Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has reiterated that the sole way to resolve Syria’s current crisis is through a ‘national model’. He added: ‘What...

The meeting where the ‘N’ word could not be mentioned!

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THERE were no questions allowed at the Unite TUC fringe meeting in Liverpool on Tuesday evening evening, so determined was the Woodley-Simpson leadership that...

Tories Stepping Up The Class War While The Tuc Is Calling A Lobby Of...

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THE TORY government has made it crystal clear that its current reorganisation is being made in order to carry out a very serious assault...

IMF: World faces £9.5tn Covid bill as capitalism crashes into bankruptcy

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned yesterday that the Covid-19 crisis could cost the global economy a staggering £9.5 trillion in the biggest hit...

US-UK Troops Will Intervene Into Pakistan In Obamas’ War!

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JUST a week ago General Petraeus, the US commander, declared that ‘We have two weeks to save Pakistan!’ We are now witnessing just how the...

While NHS workers scrabble for PPE Tories pay £1 million a day to keep...

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A MASSIVE mountain of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is currently sitting on Felixstowe docks while frontline healthcare workers are still being forced to work...

Doctors, NHS staff & nurses are gearing up for pay strike action! All trade...

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MONDAY is the anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service (July 5th 1948) and Johnson’s Tories have marked the event by refusing...

End all complicity with Zionist genocide – demand TUC call a general strike to...

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ON THURSDAY, Palestinians commemorated the 77th anniversary of Nakba, the Catastrophe, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land by...

US Unemployment Rises Along With Repossessions!

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THE number of US workers signing up for unemployment benefits and leaving non-farming payrolls has risen sharply for the second consecutive week. The US Labour...

Johnson moves to put the skids under Prescott

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THE Blairite cabinet, faced with the working class rejecting Blair, his war on Iraq, his onslaught on the Welfare State, and with popular revulsion...

Right Wingers Provoking Labour Split

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UNITE leader Len McCluskey has issued a statement refuting the claims that Jeremy Corbyn was responsible for Tom Watson’s ending the union-led efforts to...

Workers march in London! Time to call general strike!

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YESTERDAY, steelworkers were marching for their jobs to parliament, defending an industry that is being deliberately destroyed, while university lecturers were taking the first...

IRAQ – the last rites for the occupation and its stooges

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PRESIDENT George W Bush’s plan to stabilise Iraq through a military ‘surge’ is ‘a lost cause’, said the New York Times last Sunday. The New...

Palestine and Syria are in the same front standing against America and Israel’s rotten...

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ZIAD Abu Amr, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), has handed an official letter from President Mahmoud Abbas...

Withdraw All US Forces From Korea – Hands Off North Korea

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THE hysterical propaganda that North Korea is run by a young madman, who is about to press a button to attack the US mainland...

Yellen signs up to Gordon Brown’s ‘no more boom or bust’ on the brink...

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IN A SPEECH in London last Tuesday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, announced to a disbelieving world that the...

British capitalism hits the rocks!

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IN THE early hours of last Friday, a seismic crash in the value of the pound against the dollar caused panic amongst the world’s...

Bosses and bankers agree capitalism is ‘broken’ – time to put an end...

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ANY LINGERING doubts about the morbid terror that is gripping the capitalist class were dispelled this weekend when 50 of the leading bosses from...

King wanted to print even more paper money!

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WHEN the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided two weeks ago to print £50 billion more for its stimulus programme binge, the City, which was...

No Plan B – kick the coalition out!

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The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has gone through its ritual presentation of an ‘alternative’ budget in advance of the coalition government’s budget to be...

Trade unions must form a Council of Action in Kensington to requisition the 1,652...

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THE HORROR felt by millions of workers after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of many men, women and children...

Coalition plans Royal Mail sell-off at knock-down price

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News broke yesterday that the long expected attempt by the coalition to sell off and privatise Royal Mail is set to occur this autumn. What...

Miliband wants to break with unions so Labour can form a national government...

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STANDING with the ‘One Nation’ Tory slogan behind him, Labour leader Miliband yesterday outlined his intention to wrest the Labour Party completely away from...

No war with Syria – answer the £20bn of cuts by kicking out the...

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PM Cameron is due to drive forward Tory war plans both at home and abroad this week. Today, he is meeting President Hollande to prepare...

TAKE ACTION IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE – CALL GENERAL STRIKES IN US, EU and...

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NABIL Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, warned on Sunday of the grave consequences of Israel’s threats to carry out what could be...

ECB interest rate cut is last throw of the dice. Forward with European socialist...

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ON Thursday afternoon Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced that the bank has cut its benchmark interest rate from 0.5%...

US Economy Declines – As States Go Bust!

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THE former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, has warned that the US economy is heading towards a deepening of the slump...

‘Oppressed will rise all over the world’ – says Iranian president

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Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad has hailed his election win as a new Islamic revolution which he said he hoped would now spread its way...

Global gas crisis busting EU and NATO apart! Forward to United Socialist States of...

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A MAJOR global gas crisis has brought the crisis of the EU and the NATO military alliance to a head. The wholesale cost of gas...

Poroshenko crushed in elections – forward to Ukrainian workers taking back power and returning...

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THE WORKERS and small farmers of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the right-wing oligarchs and to the EU and US imperialism when they...

Imperialist aggression is the roots of terrorism

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that there is to be more new repressive legislation, on top of the huge powers that the government and...

Refugees branded as ‘illegals’ by EU

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THIS week, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, threatened that the EU would deport the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist...

Renationalise Now!

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A SURVEY conducted this week by BBC Radio 5 Live has revealed that more than one third of people in Britain live in fear...

‘Remainers’ Take The Struggle Onto The Streets – An Example That Workers Must Follow...

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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of ‘Remainers’ marshalled by the likes of billionaire George Soros and other speculators set out on Saturday to try to create...

The first step towards a government of generals

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GENERAL Sir Richard Dannatt is to become Defence Minister if there is another Tory government. He will do so, not by becoming a Tory MP...

Kick Out Hancock And The Tories – Forward To The UK Socialist Revolution!

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WHEN The Daily Telegraph headlined on Saturday that ‘Reckless Hancock left care homes to fend for themselves’ the message was clear. It is that...

CANADIAN WORKERS PREVENT ISRAELI CONTAINER SHIP DOCKING – AS NEW ISRAELI REGIME OK’S ‘FLAG...

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CANADIAN workers on June 14th prevented an Israeli container ship from unloading by forming a picket line at the entrance to the Fairview container...

Universal Credit = war on benefits

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YESTERDAY the Tory-led coalition launched its ‘pathfinder’ trial of the new Universal Credit System at a job centre in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester. From here the 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...

Unite must hit back and defend its members, with full TUC support

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THE petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth complex in central Scotland is to close with the loss of over 800 jobs, owner Ineos announced...

TOP SECRET – what the Prince of Wales thinks of his subjects

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THE COALITION government has intervened to veto a decision by a three-judge tribunal, that 27 letters by the Prince of Wales advocating...

Sanders concedes but ‘political revolution’ will continue!

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‘HILLARY Clinton must become the next president of the United States,’ Bernie Sanders told the Democratic Convention on Monday. These words touched off huge...

US-UK imperialist forces must be driven out of Syria and the Middle East!

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THE United States might have lost control over the situation in Syria and cannot fulfill their pledge to separate the opposition from the terrorists,...