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Nationalise Bankrupt Companies – Under Workers’ Control And Management

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THE Labour government, after handing tens of billions of pounds to the Northern Rock and the other major banks, in an attempt to save...

TUC – Time To Stop Talking! Call General Strike Now To Kick Out The...

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THE TUC last Friday ‘reaffirmed’ its calls on the government to take over the running of P&O Ferries passenger and freight services ‘as a...

UK-US Gives Israel Mandate For Mass Bombing Of Lebanon

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A SHOCKED Zionist government was yesterday seeking to regroup after the military reverses that it has suffered on the ground at the hands of...

Greece heralds a capitalist collapse and the European socialist revolution

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THE Standard and Poor (S&P) credit rating agency downgraded Greek government bonds on Wednesday sending government stocks and share prices on the Athens Stock...

British forces in a crisis in Afghanistan

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THE British army went into Helmand province in Afghanistan like lions, with their officers explaining that they were going to take on the Taleban,...

Desperate capitalism moves towards hyperinflation

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LAST week the Republican presidential candidate and multi-billionaire property speculator, Donald Trump, unveiled his plan for saving US capitalism from economic catastrophe. During a lengthy...

Taleban in control in Pakistan border regions as US moves to step up war

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THE accession of President Obama has not in the slightest held up, or held back, the massive air attacks that are being made by...

Unions Must Stop Pleading With Bosses And The Tories And Use Their Strength To...

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BORIS JOHNSON’S policy of do-nothing to combat or turn back the coronavirus has now been dumped after 229 scientists wrote to the government saying...

Build Millions Of Council Homes To House The Homeless

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HOMELESS people die thirty years before the national average, says the latest research from Sheffield University commissioned by Crisis, the national charity for single...

US capital Washington DC in recession as unemployment soars

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LAST week, Mark Zandi, the chief economic analyst at the giant investment bank Moody’s, described the US as being ‘on the precipice of recession’. The...

Demolition of West Bank Khan al-Ahmar village is a war crime says Amnesty!

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THE PLANNED demolition by Israeli forces of a West Bank village and the forcible transfer of its residents to make way for illegal Jewish...

TUC Must Smash The ‘Minimum Service Levels’ Anti-Union Laws!

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The TUC has responded to the Tory government's 'Minimum Service Levels:  issuing work notices’ document outlining how a trade union should operate as a...

Tuc Congress Leaders Refuse To Fight!

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ON Sunday at the TUC Congress delegates voted unanimously to defend the right to strike, with GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny declaring: ‘If the...

University Fees £9,500 and rising! Socialist revolution will end all fees!

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NOT one, but two tuition fee hikes have been announced by the Tory government in the last two weeks: first to £9,250 and then...

Corbyn is just another Remainer – Build the new leadership in the Labour movement...

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IN HIS address last week at the TUC annual congress, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn informed delegates that Labour’s priority was to stop a No-Deal...

Blair listens only to the bosses

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PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...

World Dollar Debt Crisis!

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YET another authoritative report detailing the developing world banking crisis has surfaced – a report which if shorn of its dry academic language paints...

King George’s Ilford cancer unit to close for lack of nurses – Get the...

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THE CEDAR CENTRE, the chemotherapy unit at the King George Hospital in Ilford is to shut down on November 12th, because it cannot find...

NATO chief tells Starmer spend more on weapons or ‘learn to speak Russian’

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THE Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, was in Britain this week meeting with Labour Prime minister Keir Starmer to hammer home the demand...

Blair proclaims summary justice for the masses

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ON TUESDAY Prime Minister Blair began his ‘genuine intellectual debate about the nature of liberty in a modern developed society such as our own.’ ...

As Capitalism Shuts Down Workers Must Be Mobilised To Fight For Socialism!

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THE SCENE has been set for today’s budget by the crash of the stockmarkets on Monday March 9th when trillions of pounds were wiped...

Make the TUC call a general strike to bring down Labour and to bring...

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DESPITE Labour’s election manifesto pledges and repeated promise of ‘No tax increases’ on income, National Insurance or VAT, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning a...

Labour is moving to sack a quarter of its staff! A GMB & Unite...

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THE LABOUR Party is facing strike action by staff who work at the party offices who are members of the GMB and Unite trade...

No Ifs, No Buts – TUC must call an immediate general strike to support...

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Over 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street last Saturday in a massive demonstration of support for Palestine and demanding an end...

Welcome All Refugees – Forward To The Socialist United States Of Europe!

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THE European Union was yesterday reeling, split and divided over the issue of taking quotas of refugees from the masses flooding into Europe. These masses...

North Korea successfully tests H-Bomb to be loaded onto an ICBM!

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NORTH Korea has successfully tested an H-bomb, a nuclear weapon that it will now be able to load onto an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile...

‘The world is witnessing the false calm before the Middle East Energy Storm’ says...

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‘OIL currency and equity markets are treating the all out war between Israel and the revolutionary Iranian regime almost as if it were a...

ACTION must be taken by the trade unions to defend the NHS

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THE crisis of the NHS has reached the point of its transformation. Because of the fake NHS pricing mechanisms imposed by Labour, NHS hospitals are...

Labour and Tories ‘virtually indistinguishable!’ says the press!

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IN A DAMNING assessment of the Tory government, The Daily Telegraph yesterday declared that: ‘The Tories under Rishi Sunak have shifted further left, and...

Workers pay with their lives for the bosses’ profits – socialist revolution the only...

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its report breaking down the number of deaths from Covid-19 in 2020 by occupation. The key conclusion...

46,000 auto workers close down GM as the class struggle erupts in US

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ON SUNDAY night 46,000 members of the United Automobile Workers (UAW), employed by General Motors in America, walked out on indefinite strike in a...

Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!

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ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...

Hancock’s claim that ‘no NHS workers died from lack of PPE’ must be met...

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TORY Health Secretary Matt Hancock was grilled for four hours by two Parliamentary Committees on Thursday, in which he insisted that ‘There was never...

Starmer calls for ‘coalition of the willing’ as world capitalism tears itself apart 

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer addressed Parliament yesterday reporting on the emergency defence summit of European leaders he’d convened in London at the weekend. This...

Abbas-Obama Talks Fail To Reach Agreement!

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JUST BEFORE his talks with President Abbas on Monday, President Obama said: ‘I think everybody understands the outlines of what a peace deal would...

Over A Million Pensioners Are Now Working

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THE petty 5,000 fall in the number of the unemployed (that is the number of workless who are calculated to be looking for...

Kick The Israeli Troops Out Of Gaza!

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YESTERDAY the US barred the way in the United Nations Security Council to a resolution condemning the Israeli assault on Gaza, calling for all...

Capitalism can’t afford common retirement age or decent pensions

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CAPITALIST Britain is being driven backwards, not forwards by the deepening crisis of capitalism and the policies of the Blair-Brown Labour government, dedicated to...

TUC must call a general strike in support of junior doctors and the NHS

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TODAY Emergency Motion E5 is to be heard and voted on at the TUC Congress in Brighton. Despite being called ‘Support for the BMA and...

End CWU paralysis – reinstate strike actions!

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KARL MARX wrote in his masterpiece ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur,...

Nationalise Lonmin – forward with South African socialist revolution

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The massacre of 34 striking miners at the hands of the ANC government’s police last Thursday marked a decisive point in the development of...

Unite workers to go forward to socialism

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THE two wings of the bourgeoisie are now going at it hammer and tongs to both exploit and abuse workers from the new EU...

Putin lays down law to Soviet states

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THE Putin regime has infuriated the British bourgeoisie by its strengthening of the state owned gas and oil sectors of the Russian economy, at...

With capitalism in crisis the BBC gives a hand up to the BNP

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THE News Line is opposed to the BNP or any fascist party being given time to spread its propaganda in any of the media...

150,000 Deaths – Tories Put The Bosses First – They Refuse To Lock Down...

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THE BMA yesterday condemned the 150,000 Covid deaths, so far, since the start of the pandemic. The reason for the mountain of corpses is...