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NATO is being broken apart by imperialist rivalries – a Labour government must quit...

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YESTERDAY the two-day summit of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) opened in London to celebrate 70 years of this imperialist war machine. Trump joined the...

Tories out to destroy free speech

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THE full extent of the Tory plans to smash up the right to free speech was revealed yesterday by an unlikely source, the new...

‘The Next Global Shock Will Be Like An Earthquake!’

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EUROZONE manufacturing activity has hit a three-year low at the same time as the banking crisis is reaching explosion point. Greece has run out...

Growing fears over another bank crash

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THERE were renewed calls yesterday by Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and other political leaders of major capitalist countries for international cooperation to tackle the...

US Rushes Drones And Hellfire Missiles To Iraq

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THE US has sent 75 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq, with many more on the way. They are to be used to try to...

UK Workers Must Support Venezuela Against US, Eu, UK Attempts At Regime Change

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MRS THATCHER notoriously revived her political fortunes in 1982 by going to war with Argentina. She flew to the US to insist that its...

Housing crisis: socialism the only solution

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THE proposal to blow up five blocks of flats in Glasgow’s Red Road, as part of the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games, has...

Boeing ‘putting passengers’ lives at risk to maximise profit’ warn pilots

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THE GIANT US aircraft manufacturer Boeing is once again at the centre of a storm over the safety of its planes, this time concerning...

Sinn Fein Wins The Election But Drops All References To United Ireland!

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AS SOON as the Northern Ireland Assembly election results were announced on Saturday confirming that Sinn Fein was now the biggest party, the US,...

The TUC Must Give Full Support To The Palestinian Freedom Fighters And Ban All...

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THE Arab League Council yesterday condemned Israeli crimes and massacres of Palestinians and demanded the provision of international protection to the Palestinian people. The Council...

Tories rejected scientific advice in order to keep capitalism open at all costs

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TORY science minister George Freeman admitted yesterday that the government had rejected the advice of its own experts at SAGE over restrictions designed to...

CWU leaders agree surrender terms!

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AFTER calling off last winter’s national strike by their members in Royal Mail without the members’ agreement – and without their members’ demands to...

Blair jeered, and Gordon Brown condemns walk-out delegates

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YESTERDAY Premier Blair could not raise a single clap for his answers to questions about his privatisation drive in the public sector, in the...

It’s a sick society, not a ‘sick-note culture’ – as Cameron insults the unemployed

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A ‘UNIVERSAL Credit’ is to be introduced in 2013, to replace all existing benefits. Cameron’s Welfare Bill includes sanctions for those turning down jobs...

Bulgarians Hit Out At Cameron

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THE President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, has correctly rebuked Tory leader Cameron for peddling nationalism and isolationism. It is ironic that the UK – which...

Starving Yemenis Are Eating Leaves – While The UK Supplies Saudis With Bombs And...

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YEMENI families are starving with nothing to eat but leaves as Saudi Arabia steps up its deadly bombing campaign using British bombs and missiles...

Ex-Tory minister reveals police spies reported directly to Tory government!

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ON TUESDAY, Norman Tebbit, former Tory minister in the government of Margaret Thatcher, proudly announced that while he was employment secretary from 1981-83 he...

Work Till You Drop – the Tories’ plan for a ‘sustainable’ capitalism

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THE DRIVE to raise the state pension age (SPA) even higher has stepped up with the issue of two separate reports which call for...

Project Fear Gives Way To Pledges Of Retribution

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SPEAKING with Labour’s former Chancellor Lord Darling by his side, in full support, the Tory Chancellor Osborne yesterday pledged violent retribution against the electorate...

Workers Of The World Must Intervene With General Strikes To Support The Palestinian People...

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THE Israeli occupation army committed a horrific massacre against displaced Palestinian civilians on Tuesday evening after its warplanes bombed a school sheltering them in...

Since bankrupt capitalism offers workers a ‘bleak old age’– get rid of it!

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LORD McFall, who has been examining private sector pension schemes, has concluded in his Workplace Retirement Income Commission review, that workers on private pensions...

Israelis mass tanks on Gaza border

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ISRAEL’S Prime Minister has promised prolonged and extensive military action to free an Israeli soldier missing and presumed held captive in southern Gaza. Mouthing...

US at centre of world capitalist collapses

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‘THERE is a real sense in markets today of the economy falling off a cliff.’ That was the verdict of Michael Saunders, the chief...

Defeat The May-Corbyn Pact To Knife Brexit – No To A National Government!

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TORY Prime Minister May emerged from her meeting with her cabinet on Tuesday and immediately issued a letter to every Tory MP calculated to...

Unions Must Fight Savage Bbc Job Cuts

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THE BBC backed up by the Brown government is set to ride roughshod over its workforce pushing through 2,700 job cuts, with up...

No Plan B – kick the coalition out!

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The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has gone through its ritual presentation of an ‘alternative’ budget in advance of the coalition government’s budget to be...

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...

Forward to the August 20th Gate Gourmet workers march

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TUC General Council members gave a good welcome to lobbying locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday morning. A number promised to attend the anniversary...

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...

Brown’s empty words cannot hide he is the bankers’ man

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‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...

UK Military Chiefs Call To Bring Back Conscription As US-UK Prepare For War...

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FORMER British military chiefs have told the Starmer-led Labour government that it, as the government of the UK, ‘must’ consider conscription ‘now’ before it...

Tories determined to impose even bigger pay cuts on NHS workers – time...

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TORY ministers have instructed the supposedly independent NHS Pay Review Body to cap the wages of frontline health workers to just 2% in 2023-24. At...

Darling ignored over short selling

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BRITISH capitalism is staring disaster straight in the face. Motor car sales in December 2008 were 47.5 per cent lower than in December 2007. Yesterday,...

Labour conference exposes bankruptcy of Starmer’s government – now is the time to bring...

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THE speech by Labour’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves to the party’s annual conference on Monday was nothing more than an appeal to the international financial services...

US and UK are being driven to war by the growing capitalist crisis

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US SECRETARY of state Mike Pompeo used his speech in Berlin last Friday to threaten nothing short of war against Russia, China and Iran,...

UK, US And EU Workers Must Take General Strike Action To Aid The Palestinians...

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PHILIPPE Lazzarini, Commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), reported on Saturday that over 75,000 Palestinians have been...

Lessons of 1926 are vital for today!

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THIS year there is great interest in the 80th anniversary of the general strike of 1926. It is not hard to work out why....

US & UK bosses supply, train, and equip the Saudi killing machine! UK trade...

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SAUDI journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who lived for years in the US, walked into the Saudi embassy in Turkey over a week ago, and did...

Crazy UK capitalism won’t dump disaster prone nuclear power

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GUNTHER Oettinger, the EU’s energy commissioner, has compared the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster – with its repeated explosions of nuclear material and...

Leave the EU with no deal! Forward with the socialist revolution!

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THE VOTES in Parliament on amendments to Theresa May’s Brexit deal saw the counter-revolutionary plots by MPs from all parties to smash the 2016...

Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America

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THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...

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...

Netanyahu rages against genocidal Israeli state being ‘isolated’ and threatened by the mass movement...

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YESTERDAY, the Israeli state deliberately shut down all communication services in Gaza, cutting off approximately 800,000 Palestinians in the Strip from the outside world. This...

British Military Opposes Any Petraeus Surge In Afghanistan

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GENERAL Petraeus is now the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, and has declared that he intends to organise a NATO ‘surge’ in...

US Secretary of State Blinken rushes to Kiev as Ukraine faces defeat by Russia

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US secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise unannounced visit to Ukraine yesterday morning, as the war to weaken Russia suffers yet another...