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Darling Outlines Cuts For All – Except The Bankers And Bosses

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THE price of gold has touched $1,000 an ounce for the first time in six months, more than three times greater than what it...

UK and US trade unions must support the Palestinian socialist revolution!

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WHILE the US and UK backed Israeli murder machine, both civil and military is at work on a daily basis killing Palestinian men women...

Housing bubble set to burst!

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LAST week saw a concerted effort by the Tory-led coalition, aided by their friends in the bourgeois press, to deny that a catastrophic housing...

Expel Hutton And Field From The Lab0Ur Party!

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EX-LABOUR cabinet minister John Hutton, a 100 per cent Blairite, has joined the Tory-LibDem coalition, and been appointed by it to head a commission...

Imperialists declare war on Libya – by permission of the Russian and Chinese...

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THE vote by the United Nations security council to impose and police a no-fly zone over Libya is a declaration of war by imperialism...

Forward With The Cuban Revolution!

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THE death of Fidel Castro, the leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution sees millions of Cubans mourning their leader who secured the independence of...

Counter-revolution in the classroom

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A report issued yesterday outlining proposals to establish in Manchester an army-run ‘free school’, has given yet another sinister twist to the campaign by...

Austria, Italy and Germany discussing new ‘axis’ against refugees!

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ANOTHER boat carrying refugees has sunk attempting the journey across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Europe, 63 asylum seekers are missing. A Libyan coastguard...

Take Action With The Postal Workers

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THE CWU postal workers trade union has been forced to take strike action, very much against the wishes of the CWU leadership, by a...

300,000 march on Downing Street for Palestine. TUC must call a general strike for...

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THE Palestinian factions are standing fast! They have said that they will not sign any agreement or deal unless the people’s demands are achieved,...

US Pledges To Rearm Israel For ‘Agree Or Else’ Direct Talks

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OBAMA’S talks with Netanyahu were to prepare the way for direct talks between Netanyahu and the Abbas Palestinian leadership, on a ‘final solution to...

CBI and Brown spell out the cuts message

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THE CBI New Year’s message calls for ‘a new and re-energised government by the summer, with – we hope – the authority to take...

Syrian opposition demands a no-fly zone!

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THE announcement that the western and Saudi-Qatari backed ‘opposition’ in Syria is no longer committed to the UN Security Council-backed Annan ceasefire comes as...

Standard and Poor puts a pistol to the head of the eurozone

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GERMAN Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble has said Standard & Poor’s (S&P) threat to downgrade all eurozone countries, and saddle them with ruinous interest charges...

Brown warns ‘bumps in the road ahead’

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has presided over a capitalist state rescue of the bankrupt banking system, which has seen the deployment of up...

TGWU relies on the Sainsbury family to defend its members’ jobs and wages

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YESTERDAY the TGWU leaders produced their statement of full support for the Sainsbury family in the battle to keep out the Texas Pacific-backed raiding...

TUC Trade Unions Must Support A Palestinian State By Imposing A Boycott Of Israel!

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HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on April 27: ‘The oppression of Palestinians has reached a threshold and a permanence that meets...

Mass strikes in US as workers rise up in ‘Striketober’

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The US working class has mobilised in an unprecedented wave of mass strikes across the country this month in what is being designated as...

Putin’s Recognition Of The Republics Of Donetsk And Lugansk Shocks US & UK Imperialism!

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THE DECISION of Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise the Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, and to order Russian troops to intervene to prevent...

Tory ‘crackdown’ on youth inspired by fear of young people as a revolutionary force

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak yesterday launched a ‘crackdown’ on anti-social behaviour and begging, as the centrepiece of government policies in what is a...

After massive London march for Palestine, the TUC must call a general strike for...

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UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell has confirmed that the Israeli army has killed over 50 children in deadly attacks in Jabalia, northern Gaza, during...

Disband the Met Police – forward to a workers state and socialism

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WHEN Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel is forced to say that she is ‘appalled and sickened’ by the behaviour of Metropolitan Police officers, then...

Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears

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AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...

Anger over Saddam’s death silences Blair

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AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...

No education cuts Restore free state education

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CHANCELLOR Darling has announced that £600m will be ‘saved’ by 2012/13 from across ‘higher education, science and research budgets, including student support’, meaning...

Sunak kicks out Braverman – time to kick out the Tories by forcing the...

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YESTERDAY, the Sunak government finally got round to sacking Suella Braverman as home secretary, immediately replacing her with James Cleverly. In a surprise move, kept...

Tories want to criminalise anyone ‘undermining’ capitalism

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ON SATURDAY, the Guardian reported that the Tories are working towards a new definition of ‘extremism’ that includes anyone who ‘undermines British institutions or...

Demoralised Simpson says Cameron rather than Miliband!

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ON the eve of the TUC Congress, the TUC leader, Brendan Barber, has issued a call to the Brown government to tax the rich. There...

News Line Editorial Board New Year Statement

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary New Year greetings for 2026 to the Palestinian people whose intransigence and resistance against Zionism...

US unions being driven to historic break with Democrats

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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last Friday that US workers want an ‘independent’ labour movement designed to help the working class, not a specific...

Chinese Stalinists fear workers political revolution!

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IN an extraordinary speech given at his annual press conference, the outgoing Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, warned that China risks a ‘historical tragedy’...

Desperate UK and French imperialism begins new ‘Grab for Africa’

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EARLIER this week French aircraft bombed the positions of the anti-imperialist forces in the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) led by Laurent Gbagbo, while French...

US Spy Agencies Pull Rug From Beneath Bush And Cheney

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THE Iranian government has welcomed the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report, to which all the US spying agencies contributed, which states that Iran...

Bar the way to Greece coup with socialist revolution

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THE crisis in Greece has reached breaking point this week with the unelected European Commission threatening to declare a ‘state of emergency’ in the...

Bush’s and Bernanke’s policies cannot stop the debt debacle

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IN A WEEK when billions were wiped off share prices in New York, Tokyo and London, on Friday both United States President George Bush...

A Plague Of Locusts

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ONCE again the spotlight has been put on the private equity locusts. This time a Financial Times investigation has shown how TPG, CVS and...

Silence from imperialist governments over Gaza ‘aid distribution’ centres used as a death...

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YESTERDAY at least 27 Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured when Israeli occupation troops opened fire on crowds attempting to get food at...

Unite leaders beg the Tories for permanent furlough! New leadership required in trade...

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UNITE, with a membership of 1.4 million, wielding the power to strike and shut down vast proportions of industry, has reduced itself to begging...

Hundreds More Deaths In Palestine As Israeli Murder Machine Claims More Victims

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THE Israeli murder machine is being allowed to do its worst in the Gaza Strip, with the US and the UK ruling classes standing...

Parliament can’t be reformed, sweep it away!

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CORRUPTION and parliaments are inseparable. Oliver Cromwell made this clear when he shutdown the Rump Parliament, reciting as he did the vices of the...

Alleged stonethrowers charged with attempted murder or targeted by snipers!

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‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...

UK trade unions must take action to stop Israel shooting and gassing Palestinians!

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IN FOUR weeks of Friday protests at the Gaza ‘border’ more than 32 Palestinians have been killed and over 5,000 injured by Israeli snipers...

Banking ‘reforms’ won’t stop them collapsing

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Yesterday in parliament the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, announced that the coalition government intended to accept ‘in full’ the proposals on reforming the banks...
Police forcing the  Gate Gourmet locked-out workers to dismantle their tent and quit picketing Beacon Hill, Heathrow Airport after Gate Gourmet and the TGWU told the police that the dispute was over

Thirteen insurgents hung – Rumsfeld looks forward to a civil war

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THE Iraqi puppet authorities have hung 13 people accused of taking part in the insurgency, the first execution of militant nationalists since the US-led...

TUC makes overtures to Johnson’s Tories – We must replace TUC traitors with a...

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THE TUC yesterday published a statement that amounts to nothing less than an abject surrender to the Tory government and a grovelling offer to...