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Take strike action to defend wages and jobs

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RAPIDLY rising food, gas, electricity and petrol prices pushed up the cost of living in January, even according to the government’s rigged inflation rate...

Obama seeks wider support for central Asian war

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PRESIDENT Obama has shaken his supporters with his admission that the war in Afghanistan is not being won, and that he is willing to...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers getting support at the Hillingdon council depot

British Imperialism Wants To Redraw Map

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IRAQ is in the middle of a civil war, the country’s former interim puppet prime minister, Iyad Allawi, said yesterday. Allawi was appointed by...

US Ruling Class Admit Strategic Defeat In Iraq

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WITH 400 billion dollars already spent on digging US imperialism into a very deep hole in Iraq, the Baker committee of elder statesmen or...

Tories rip up workers health and safety as their bankrupt economy disintegrates!

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TORY CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak did the rounds of press interviews yesterday preparing the way for today’s reopening of non-essential shops and businesses and he...

Anti-Brexit Coup Underway – Workers Must Take Action To Force UK Out Of Eu...

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ON FRIDAY PM MAY let it be known that if she did not think that her EU deal would be agreed by parliament she...

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...

Henley New Labour Disaster – Less Votes Than The Bnp!

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LABOUR’s fifth place at Henley, shamefully behind the fascist BNP, will go down in history as an example of a party being thrust into...

Mandelson’s Secret Business Interests!

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PETER Mandelson is one of five Labour government cabinet ministers who insists on his business interests being a secret and for that purpose has...

North Korea Does Not Want To Go The Way Of Libya!

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NORTH Korea has said it may pull out of a summit with US President Donald Trump that was due to take place on June...

Support The Ys March For Jobs!

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YOUNG people today are under full scale attack from the Tory-led coalition. They are now fighting back. The Young Socialists are marching from...

Tories Profiteering Out Of The NHS!

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NHS patients from outside the EU are to be charged 150% of the cost of treatment in the NHS. This is part of a ‘crackdown’...

Labour Must Bring Back Corbyn And Dump Starmer Now – After He Refused To...

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ONLY 15 Labour MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn, were prepared last Tuesday to vote against the Tories to bring the Johnson government down! The vote on...

Gaza a disaster area! Take action to force Israel to lift its blockade!

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UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness said yesterday that large regions of the Gaza Strip are a ‘disaster area’. Furthermore he called on the world community to...

UK readying for war in the Gulf

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THE West’s escalation of its onslaught on Iran could see Britain sending military reinforcements to the Gulf shortly, following the passage of HMS Argyll...

Corbyn comes out for a second referendum to sell-out Brexit

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YESTERDAY Jeremy Corbyn launched the Labour Party manifesto for the upcoming elections to the EU parliament: ‘Transforming Britain and Europe: for the many not...

Rajapakse And His Backers Will Not Defeat The Tamil People

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YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...

Labour’s knives are out for use against the UK’s working class and its youth...

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THE future of the youth minimum wage is now under review by the former Health Secretary Alan Milburn. The alleged ‘social mobility’ expert has told...

UK and US complicit in Saudi Arabian war crimes

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LAST Saturday saw what was one of the worst atrocities committed in the Yemen since Saudi Arabia, along with its Gulf allies, launched an...

Obama, Biden look to Putin!

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VICE-PRESIDENT BIDEN took the stage at the 45th Munich Security Conference on Saturday to spell out that the US understood that it now needed...

Stock Markets Crashing Worldwide!

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THE sharp rises followed almost immediately by even bigger losses on the international stock markets over the past few days, point in only one...

RCN to ballot for strike action

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THE announcement that the ruling body of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will meet on Friday to decide on balloting their members on...

US credit experts warn a crash is coming

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NEWS IS quietly emerging from the top of the US banking fraternity that, despite the wild euphoria that has gripped the world financial centres...

Severe Child Poverty On The Rise Under Labour

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RESEARCH by charity ‘Save the Children’ has found that between 2004 and 2008, an additional 260,000 children were pushed into severe poverty in the...

EU economy at the end of the road

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THE economy of the Eurozone countries is sinking even deeper into crisis making a mockery of all the talk about an economic ‘recovery’. This was...

Smash Trump’s ‘deal of the century’! Forward to the independent state of Palestine!

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THE US-sponsored three-day conference held this week in the Gulf state of Bahrain to unveil the first stage of Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the...

Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU

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THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...

Soaring oil prices and the banking collapse mean class conflict on the airports!

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ON SATURDAY more than 1,000 British Airways pilots marched on BA’s Heathrow headquarters over plans by BA to use non-BA pilots, in its new...

4.5m on the housing waiting list!

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THE National Housing Federation (NHF) complains that the government has missed its home-building target for the last seven years and that the housing crisis...
Two gem miners working knee deep in water with a sieve – are paid no wages and get only meals

Kick out the yellow trade union leaders

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THE GATE GOURMET bosses were cock-a-hoop yesterday, and no wonder – after the leader of the TUC, Barber, and the leaders of the...

As Israel steps up its genocidal war the TUC must be forced to call...

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THOUSANDS rallied outside Parliament on Monday night in a powerful demonstration of solidarity with Palestine that directly reflects the support of the overwhelming mass...

Tories and Labour get ready for more state repressions

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HOME Secretary Theresa May said yesterday that thousands of people are potentially at risk of being radicalised in the UK. ...

Consultants in revolt against Blair’s ‘health reforms’

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Hospital consultants in the West Midlands are boycotting the new ‘reformed’ system for selecting junior doctors for specialist training. The consultants said they would...

Boycott the EU elections and force a break with the EU through a revolutionary...

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BOTH the sheer bankruptcy of British capitalism and the impotence of Tory Prime Minister Theresa May were on public display on Wednesday night as...

Academies hoard £2.5 billion

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ACADEMY schools in England are sitting on a vast hoard of cash estimated to be nearly £2.5 billion, or more than £550,000 per school. Money...

Army Leaks Anti-Iraq War Propaganda

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THE leaking of a Ministry of Defence poll commissioned by senior British army officers has acted as an antidote to the fatuous pro-war propaganda...

Workers must force the UK out of the EU on October 31

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ON TUESDAY night, MPs voted by 329 to 299 to pass a motion in principle to back Boris Johnson’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Almost immediately,...

DRIVE THE MAY GOVERNMENT OUT! MARCH ON PARLIAMENT ON JULY 1st!

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THE May government has now entered the world of the surreal. It has just about been able to schedule a Queen’s Speech of sorts...

Motor industry crisis deepens – nationalisation the only way

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THE US administration has let it be known that it intends to force GM, formerly the world’s number one motor car manufacturer, into bankruptcy...

National strike action for jobs and union agreements!

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LEADERS of the Unite and GMB trade unions are recommending a new jobs offer to a mass meeting at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, Lincolnshire,...

Washington Hits Its Debt Limit – After A ‘Devastating Default’ The Bosses Will...

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THE US RULING CLASS has hit its debt limit, with the Treasury Department now taking measures to try to prevent a devastating default. Reaching the...

No Obama Recovery Plan

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A VERY hard pressed Obama, right at the start of his state of the Union message, was forced to summon the ‘God of Battles’...

Occupy And Nationalise UK Gm Plants Now!

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BOTH Spain and the UK have refused to sign the Memorandum of Understanding that binds together the Magna-Sberbank-GM deal under which there are...

Call general strike to stop the Trade Union Bill becoming law

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DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton yesterday unanimously voted for motion 18 to defend the right to strike and political protest, and...

Obama told – ‘This nation is sick and tired of war!’

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THE IMPERIALIST attempt to overthrow the Assad government in Syria has met a colossal resistance from the Syrian people, despite the hundreds of millions...