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Millions of Palestinians facing death by starvation – unions must call general strikes in...

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UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, has accused Israel of ‘starving civilians’ including a million children in Gaza by deliberately blocking food...

NHS privateer investigated for ‘unsafe’ GP Service

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Serco, the country’s top privateer in the NHS and other public services, is under investigation over allegations that it ran an ‘unsafe’ GP out-of-hours...

Cameron’s Worthless Pledges!

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CAMERON’S warning that the NHS must ‘Reform or die’ and his statement that the ‘NHS is in danger’, were clear admissions that there is...

Saddam Murder Within Days

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THE decision to hang the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, and also the Iraqi Vice-President, Taha Yasin Ramadan – whose sentence was increased from life...

MP’s ‘Can’t live on £60,000 a year’!

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MP’s ‘Can’t live on £60,000 a year’. This was the defence put forward by Tory MP and former foreign secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, to the...

MPs want a secret inquiry into the Afghan debacle and defeat!

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THE UK government should set up an inquiry into ‘lessons learned’ after troops withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of this year, the MPs...

Palestinians Set To March On Gaza! The UK And US Trade Unions Must Take...

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ON the day the Palestinian death toll in the Gaza genocide reached 40,000, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas defiantly announced he will visit Gaza, the...

Unemployment rises to 5.1% as the Tories and bosses move to fire millions...

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THE UK’s unemployment figure rose to 5.1% in the three months to December, a five-year high, official figures from the Office for National Statistics...

Forward to the State of Palestine! The UK trade unions must call a...

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday issued a statement on the occasion of the ‘International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People’, stressing that the...

World crisis reaching explosion point!

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AS the US government entered its first full week of shutdown, the ruling class in America and the world are in panic mode as...

US ‘putting a knife to China’s neck’

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ON MONDAY the Chinese government issued a document accusing US president Donald Trump’s administration of ‘trade bullyism practices’ that represent the ‘greatest source of...

Bring Down May And The Tories! – Break With The Eu Now! – ...

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PM MAY, placed into office after the Cameron-Osborne 2016 EU referendum disaster, has continued to display the complete disorientation of the Tory Party and...

Northern Rock sold at a loss as dictatorships rule in EU!

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NORTHERN Rock (NR) plc is being sold to Virgin Money by the coalition government for £747m. After Northern Rock was nationalised in 2008 it...

NHS not living with Covid but dying from it

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‘THE GOVERNMENT must be honest about the threat the pandemic still poses,’ the editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Health Service Journal...

Gove declares war on state education! Kick the Tories out!

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THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has unleashed yet another broadside against state education and the teaching profession in a speech on Monday where...

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...
Iraqi fighters who have got the US and British forces on he run in Iraq

Labour brings 20% interest payments into its health market

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NHS trust hospitals and Primary Care Trusts are to be charged 10 per cent interest on money they borrow from their strategic Health Authority...

Grenfell tenants were treated as ‘sub-citizens’. All those responsible for the fire must...

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TENANTS of the Grenfell Tower warned time and again about the dangerous building they were living in, but their cries for action fell on...

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...

Ukraine workers defy imperialism and Stalinism!

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THE News Line salutes the bravery and heroism of the Ukrainian working class who defied all the threats, intimidation and murderous attacks by forces...

Egyptian revolution in permanence!

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THE Egyptian army opened fire on thousands of workers and young people in Tahrir Square on Saturday morning, killing four and wounding 117. ...

Hamas Condemns The Blocking Of All Humanitarian Aid To The Gaza Strip By Israel!

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THE Israeli occupation government blocked on Sunday the entry of all humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and reneged on the truce after the...

Boycott All Israeli Goods – Forward To The Palestinian State!

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THE TUC CONGRESS yesterday managed to avoid an open split over the issue of Palestine, by allowing two motions to be debated, voted on,...

EU preparing Greek ‘regime change’!

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THE debt talks between Greece and its international creditors collapsed on Thursday night with German Chancellor Merkel telling the Greek PM Tsipras to shut...

USA tells Sunak that the UK must increase its military spending as NATO gets...

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THE UK has just been given its marching orders by the USA that it must boost the size of its armed forces in response...

Palestinian Prisoners Win A Victory Over Israeli Jailers As The Tuc Keeps Quiet Over...

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TENS of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated across the occupied territories for the 33rd straight week against the policies of Israel’s right wing extremist...

In the drive to privatise, the Tories are abolishing the NHS!

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THE NHS is, in practice, being steadily and consciously abolished by the Tories as they drive relentlessly to the goal of a fully privatised...

Beginning of the end for Johnson – finish Tories off with a general strike

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WHEN The Daily Telegraph carries as its banner headline ‘Beginning of the end for Boris?’ then it is certain that plots to dump him...

Hunt and Bailey will ‘do whatever is necessary’ to save bankrupt capitalism. Time to...

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ON MONDAY night, 400 leading figures from the world of high finance and corporate business gathered at the Mansion House in London to hear...

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...

US not winning in Afghanistan admits US military chief

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ADMIRAL Mullen the US chief of the general staff has stated that he is not convinced that the US is winning the war in...

TUC – defend the junior doctors, call a general strike now!

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THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...

Socialist revolution the only way to resolve the crisis

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THE head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Legarde, spelt out the task confronting the capitalist class of Europe last Thursday when she...

The Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes To Bring Down Capitalism!

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SEVERAL human rights organisations have condemned the UK Supreme Court’s decision that a lawsuit against the government, challenging its continued arms sales to Israel,...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters held out placards and shouted slogans during their successful picket at Heathrow yesterday

Blair puts ‘the country’ before the Labour Party

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BLAIR came clean on at least one issue at his monthly press conference and that was where his loyalties lie. They definitely do not lie...

Brown boasts that he has assured the future of the banks

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THE Prime Minister revealed once again on BBC Radio 2 just what his priorities are and just what he is working night, noon and...

Capitalism’s biggest crisis since 1706, warns BofE! Make it its last with a socialist...

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THE BANK of England’s latest report, released on Thursday, has revealed the full extent of the catastrophic crisis of capitalism, now writhing around in...

Workers will reject Tory ‘charm offensive’ – Time to kick them out with a...

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Mark Harper, the latest Tory transport secretary, appeared on the BBC yesterday morning to claim that the government was not responsible for blocking any...

Racist laws must be smashed!

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The uprising at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow has badly shaken the crisis-ridden, reactionary Blair government. It began last Tuesday night and continued into Wednesday,...

720,000 UK companies on verge of collapse putting 10 million jobs at risk!

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AS THE DATE for the Tory government to end its financial support to British companies looms so the warnings about a cataclysmic crash of...

The US raises its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling as capitalism races towards the precipice!

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THE US House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, while also attaching sweeping, massive...

Financial Services Authority Warns Of Inevitable Collapse

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WITH business sure that the Bank of England is due to raise interest rates to at least five per cent, warnings are being made...

Down With The US ‘Proximity Talks’

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US VICE-PRESIDENT Joe Biden is in Israel where he has declared that the just agreed ‘proximity talks’, which will see US envoy George Mitchell...

Turkish crisis strengthens the Syrian people and President Assad

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SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that the Turkish president Erdogan may be using the ‘coup attempt’ in Turkey to eliminate his opponents...

Billions for the bankers – wage cuts and sackings for the workers

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THE Royal Bank of Scotland was rescued with billions of taxpayers’ money after it made the biggest losses in the history of British banking,...