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Israeli War Criminals Must Now Face Arrest, Detention, And Trial By A War Crimes...

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THE US, Israel’s major backer and armer, has condemned the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to launch a full investigation into Israeli war crimes. In...

Benefits cuts frenzy grips coalition

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THE New Year has kicked off with a frenzied attack by both Tory and their LibDem coalition partners on the low paid, unemployed, the...

NOW is the time for the TUC to call a general strike to support...

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THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...

EU banker Draghi imposed as Italian Prime Minister in desperate attempt to prevent a...

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BANKRUPT Italian capitalism moved on Tuesday night to cement the dictatorship of the bankers over the country when the president Sergio Mattarela unilaterally appointed...

US debt deal increases economic crisis and puts the US on the road to...

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THE National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare says the following about Obama’s debt deal that savages the poor and leaves the rich...

Russia must recognise the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ‘On recognition in the Russian Federation of the documents and licence plates of vehicles issued to...

Trades unions must take action to end NHS privatisation

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‘END this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare in England.’ This was the call from Dr Hamish Meldrum, the Chairman of...

Private equity group to ‘cut and slash’ Chrysler

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DAIMLERCHRYSLER is selling a 80.1 per cent share in its crisis-hit American Chrysler division to the private equity group Cerberus for $7.4bn. President George...

German bourgeoisie demands bigger Greek cuts

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THE crisis of the European Union sharpened yesterday when the German Finance Minister warned the Greek bourgeoisie that it would not get access to...

Bosses covered up coronavirus infections and deaths in workplaces to keep the profits rolling...

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THOUSANDS of deaths by workers who contracted Covid in the course of their jobs have gone unreported in the official figures, according to research...

Debt crisis threatening students, home-buyers & public services

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COMMENTING on a report from the Student Loan Company (SLC) on Monday, National Union of Students (NUS) President Gemma Tumelty said: ‘Fee loans, along...

Workers will not get any ‘new deal’ from the Tories! Make the TUC call...

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THE WINDRUSH scandal, missiles launched at Syria without even seeking permission from Parliament, the Grenfell fire disaster, the winter NHS meltdown, homelessness and rough...

Eu Bosses Rocked By Papandreou Collapse!

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A REFERENDUM has been called by the Pasok Prime Minister, Papandreou, on the austerity programme that the EU bosses and bankers have been seeking...

US on brink of bankruptcy – forward to socialist revolution

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The once mighty US economy is set to take another irrevocable step to bankruptcy tomorrow with the news that the ‘super’ congressional committee charged...

Israel-US considering attack on Syria and Iran

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LATE last week, a leading Israeli minister said that the only people left in southern Lebanon were connected to Hezbollah, giving the Israeli military...

Supermarkets to build schools! End the privatisation nightmare with socialist revolution!

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SUPERMARKET and on-line shopping giants are making a bee-line for our public services, licking their lips at the prospect of multi-million pound profits out...

No Sackings! Re–Nationalise Steel Industry!

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STEEL firm Corus, a subsidiary of India’s Tata Steel cut 3,500 jobs yesterday, 2,500 in the UK out of its 24,000 employees here. ...

Imperialists keep out of Zimbabwe! Forward to a workers and small farmers government

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THE MUGABE regime has been beaten in the polls by the trade union backed Movement for Democratic Change and is now considering its options...

Requiem For The British Economy !

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GORDON Brown, the man who sold off a good portion of the British gold reserves for a relative pittance, and boasted that he had...

New Labour Is Proposing 24-Hour Courts And Fast-Track Sentencing Of Workers And Youth!

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COURTS ARE now to sit for 24 hours in order to impose fast-track sentencing under New Labour Emergency Government plans to crack down on...

Unions Must Call Action To Halt Tory Law Equating Journalism With Terrorism! They Must...

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THE NUJ is warning that Home Office plans to ‘reform’ The Official Secrets Act ‘are a severe threat to journalism’. It is calling on...

NAO report exposes the scandal of the Southern GTR Rail franchise

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TRAIN staff and angry commuters have been protesting up and down the country at the 3.4% hikes in rail fares. Many commuters have seen...

British MPs reduced to whinging while Taliban take control!

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WHILE the Taliban’s top political leaders arrived in Afghanistan to take control of the country, British MPs held an emergency debate in Parliament yesterday...

Mass sackings on way in bankrupt Britain

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IT’S ‘make or break’ time for UK manufacturing, according to the authoritative Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), an organisation not noted for...

Hayman gets a CBE while Met chief Blair puts his holidays first

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THE ‘shoot to kill’ section of the Metropolitan Police force is proceeding full speed ahead, knowing that it has the complete support of the...

Defend jobs, pay & services: Lobby the TUC! Build councils of action!

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THE Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee decided yesterday to make no change in its base interest rate and to leave it at...

Tanker attack provocation in the Gulf – US looking to launch war on Iran...

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TWO oil tankers were attacked on Thursday morning in the Gulf of Oman. The Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous and Norway’s Front Altair were abandoned after two...

Winograd Inquiry confirms Israel has feet of clay

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THE Israeli inquiry into its July 2006 attack on the Lebanon has found that it was ‘a large and serious failure’. It also...

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...

TUC remains silent on Truss’s class war preparations – Join the lobby of the...

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TORY prime minister Liz Truss didn’t waste time. She fled the country immediately after the meltdown of her government at the Tory Party conference. Yesterday...

Academy head earns £500,000 while over half of multi-academy chains are going bust

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THE TORY policy of forcing every school in England to become academies and turn the entire education system into a profit-making business has created...

After the US-UK defeat in Afghanistan, al-Houthi calls on the US and Saudis to...

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AT A press conference held on the Kabul airport tarmac, on Monday afternoon, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the US had been defeated and...

Words Are Not Enough! The TUC Must Take Action To Prevent Workers Being Driven...

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WITH 21 TORY MPS having the whip removed from them, now being joined by more Tory defectors like Amber Rudd, and while Labour makes...

Banking Crisis Heading For The Precipice!

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THE INABILITY of the US economy to recover from its jobs slump, alongside the colossal indebtedness of the EU banks – German, Italian, French...

Palestinian liberation fighters condemn the White House’s continuing support for Israeli barbarism!

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THE Palestinian resistance groups have condemned the recent statements made by the White House spokesman regarding the Rafah carnage, saying the remarks are just...

Police Aim To Put The Nation Under Its Thumb

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The Blair government is aiming to engineer a situation whereby the carrying of an identity card by every person is compulsory, and at the...

US, UK, Turkey Make Sure Syrian Truce Collapses

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A POWERFUL car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday, on the first day of the Syrian cease-fire, killing five people and injuring 32. Thus was...

Brown’s Policies Are Helping The Tories To Return

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BROWN’S ‘bad night for Labour’ was the direct result of a self-inflicted wound – Brown’s Thatcherite policies – that cost Labour up to...

No war with Russia – Bring capitalism down with socialist revolutions!

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ON TUESDAY Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced sanctions against Russia over the decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise the Republics of Lugansk...

Tories Use State Against Health Workers

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TRADE UNION leaders are angry that the government has organised police and army scabbing on today’s four-hour NHS strike over the refusal of the...

ICC refuses to act over Israel’s Gaza war crimes

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PALESTINIAN youth and workers marched very bravely all over the occupied territories last Friday on Land Day, and they were met as usual by...

German coup attempt, a warning to UK workers as the Tories ready the military...

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TWENTY-FIVE people have been arrested in raids across Germany on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. The group of fascists and far right military...

Iran proposes ‘trilateral mechanism’ to coordinate on security in Iraq

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THE first bilateral talks between the US and Iran since 1980 took place yesterday and were described by the leader of the US delegation...

Turn the massive marches for Palestine into Socialist revolutions to smash capitalism!

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SOUTH Africa’s Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, stood firm yesterday outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, maintaining that Israel has...

Middle East gripped by revolutionary crisis

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THE crisis in Palestine and the crisis in the Middle East is deepening rapidly to the point where its contradictions are sharpening to the...