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Defend car jobs! Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot!

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VAUXHALL Chairman Jonathan Browning announced yesterday that the General Motors (GM) subsidiary is to cut about 900 jobs, by the end of August, at...

Car Factories Could Be Closed In A Matter Of Weeks Says Unite! Occupy Them...

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FOR THE first time since coronavirus erupted in China shutting down Chinese manufacturing, cutting off the supply of vital components and commodities to the...

Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis

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THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...

Yemen defiant in face of imperialist onslaught – Forward to victory of World Socialist...

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ON SUNDAY, thousands of Yemenis marched through the streets of the capital Sana’a against the US/Saudi blockade of their country and holding American imperialism...

Take action to halt the continuing murderous attacks on Gaza’s starving masses!

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THE Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has condemned the Israeli-American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and complicit governments, especially the US and British administrations, for the...

Nurses demand emergency conference to remove union leaders guilty of pay betrayal

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NURSES reacted with fury last week when they received their July pay packets and realised that the 3% pay increase their union, the RCN,...

Shut down Campsfield – repeal all racist immigration acts

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ONCE again yesterday morning, Campsfield detention camp was on fire, with coachloads of prison officers, the ‘tornado team’ armed with riot shields, arriving and...

Only a general strike can end the barbarity of gig economy!

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A REPORT in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper brought home the deadly reality experienced by workers in the gig economy that now dominates British capitalism. 53-year-old Don...

Tories must be made to withdraw junior doctors’ contract and abandon contract imposition!

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THE proposal, made by 22 medical colleges and faculties for a five-day pause in the drive to impose new junior doctors’ contracts in England,...

Build the Revolutionary Leadership – Forward to the Socialist Revolution!

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THE MASSIVE vote of over 17 million workers and youth to leave the EU on March 29th has driven the ruling class and its...

Chancellor’s Budget for starving the working class

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OSBORNE’S BUDGET speech was devoid of any attempt to analyse the world crisis that is gripping capitalism and which is deepening by the hour,...

No Pensions sell-out! Sack Prentis and Barber! Forward to the General Strike! Build new...

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THE reformist trade union leaders are once again, on the pensions issue, showing that they are organically incapable of defending the basic gains of...

McDonnell wants a corporatist deal with the capitalists!

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SHADOW Chancellor McDonnel’s speech to the Labour Party conference was remarkable for its lack of treatment of the crisis of capitalism. He focused...

Labour is going to bring a co-payment system into the NHS

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AS the economic crisis deepens, the drive to privatise the NHS is being stepped up on a number of fronts. One is the growing...

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...

Israel in favour of Gaza Truce ONLY when it has crushed Hamas!

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ISRAEL on Wednesday said it backed Egyptian efforts to mediate a truce with Hamas in and around Gaza but also at the same time...

Britain ordered to slash spending on welfare benefits or face huge tax rises

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BRITAIN must cut spending on welfare benefits or face a miserable cycle of repeated tax rises every year, JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank,...

Mubarak is finished – Forward to the socialist revolution

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The regime of Hosni Mubarak is finished, crushed by the millions of workers, middle class, poor and – most importantly – the youth who...

Unions must demand TUC call a general strike to support junior doctors and defend...

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TODAY is the first of four days of strike action by junior doctors throughout the health service in England, in what is the biggest...

Stock markets crash as US supremacy in AI technology shattered by small Chinese company

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ON MONDAY, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading tech companies in a share crash caused by the tiny Chinese company DeepSeek. DeepSeek...

The eurozone is a pack of cards ready to collapse, says the economist who...

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THE man who is credited as the principle architect of the single European currency 14 years ago has just warned that his ‘project’ is...

Re-nationalise the water companies

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The Guardian paper has published an exclusive report that revealed that Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water company, diverted cash meant to clean up...

Smash all fees – build a new leadership in the NUS!

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TODAY will see the second wave of student anger against the Tory government’s decision to treble tuition fees from around £3,000 to £9,000 a...

Cameron to ‘Keep capitalism safe’ with more savage attacks on workers!

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ON Wednesday, King, the governor of the Bank of England, said of the developing crisis in the eurozone that his Monetary Policy Committee believes...

Corbyn must call on workers to bring down Tories, and support Palestinians!

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LAST Friday the UK and US governments combined at a meeting of the UN Security Council to veto a draft statement calling for an...

Nationalise Honda, Nissan, Vauxhalls and the steel industry to defeat trade war closures!

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HONDA yesterday issued a closure statement in which Katsushi Inoue, Chief Officer for European Regional Operations, Honda Motor Co. Ltd., and President of Honda...

Blair An Agent Of US Imperialism

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PRIME minister Blair is frequently accused of replacing the established form of bourgeois rule in Britain, through an elected parliament, a government and a...

NHS England boss openly calls for the privateers to wind up the NHS!

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AN analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) on the funding crisis that is driving the NHS to the brink of collapse revealed...

Macron desperate to reassert French imperial rule in Lebanon

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FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron stepped up his blatant interference in Lebanon on Sunday when he issued Lebanese politicians an ultimatum that they must form...

Parents Queue At 3Am To Get Their Children Into Breakfast Clubs!

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MORE than 130 parents queued outside a school in Cardiff, Wales from 3am Thursday morning to try and get their child a space at...

Johnson is demanding workers learn to live with Omicron to save capitalism!

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ON TUESDAY Britain recorded over 200,000 new Coronavirus cases in one day for the first time during the pandemic. The same day, prime minister Boris...

3.1 million children living below poverty line – the TUC advocates doing absolutely nothing!

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This is a treacherous abdication of all responsibility by the trade union leaders for this crisis of poverty. They have not lifted a single...

Bank rate rigging ‘Everyone was at it’

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The crisis resulting from the bank rate rigging scandal that has engulfed Barclays took a dramatic turn over the weekend with the revelation that...

Revolution Throughout Europe!

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WITH the EU’s bankers and bosses spurring him on, Greece’s ‘socialist’ leader, Papandreou, has vowed to tackle the country’s economic crisis and impose the...

Lesson of De Menezes murder – break up police death squads!

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AT the moment it looks as if a fierce battle is being fought between the Labour government and the opposition parties over the fate...

Employment figures mask the real crisis of British capitalism

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THE BIG lie of this minority Tory government is that British capitalism is thriving, its economy is in vigorous good health and that workers...

TUC supports Heseltine – the Tory who closed down the mining industry

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IT says something about the depth of the capitalist crisis, and the lack of ability in the Cameron government, that Lord Heseltine, who in...

Cameron crushed and out – now kick out the rest!

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THE working class has delivered a crushing blow not just to Tory leaders Cameron and his chancellor Osborne but to the bankers and capitalists...

Wal-Mart Asda Blinks First To Avoid Costly Five Day Strike Action

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‘GMB members win the right to collective bargaining in the UK, Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots’, is what the GMB trade union optimistically labelled the...

Sunak Budget to prepare for mass unemployment and austerity war on workers

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MANY of the measures announced in yesterday’s Budget by Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak had been widely publicised in the run up to his appearance...

Tories plan poverty and austerity for workers to bail out bankrupt capitalism!

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LAST week, the outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, bluntly warned that the rapid increase in inflation would make the...

Sinn Fein joins the UK capitalist state

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‘THE time is now right to support the PSNI’ (Police Service of Northern Ireland), Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams told delegates at the Sinn...

As the Tories get ready for more budget attacks on workers, the TUC must...

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THE SICKEST NHS patients ‘face hours on trolleys’ and in hospital corridors as the NHS desperately tries to find them beds, according to research...

UN raises alarm over Palestinian hunger strikers –– Free them now!

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THE United Nations (UN) has raised the alarm over the health condition of hunger-striking Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...

Blair – Bush’s Servant To The Bitter End

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THE knives were out for disgraced Deputy Prime Minister Prescott yesterday. He is the man who was important to the Prime Minister because he...