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Fight slave labour bosses at Gate Gourmet and Irish Ferries

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THE British and Irish trade unions are under serious and heavy attack at Gate Gourmet at Heathrow airport, and at Irish Ferries. At Gate Gourmet,...

With UK debt at £2.13tn, BofE is set to let inflation rip!

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THE DECREPIT state of British capitalism has been exposed for all to see. There is borrowing at an all-time high, industry is shutting down,...

Demented capitalism is producing mass murderers

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NORWAY is commemorating one year since 77 mainly young people who were members of the Young Socialists, and engaged in a summer school, were...

Head of Oxfam GB damns UK as ‘morally incoherent’ over arming the Israeli genocide!

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THE head of Oxfam GB, Halima Begum, has damned the UK government for supplying arms to Israel while simultaneously providing humanitarian aid to Gaza...

Time To Destroy The Anti-Union Laws With A General Strike And A Socialist Revolution!

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THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...

Hamas Demands A Complete End To The Israeli Aggression Against The Gaza Strip!

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SENIOR Hamas official Dr. Basem Naim stated Tuesday that Hamas cannot accept any agreement that does not clearly commit to halting the Israeli aggression...

Palestine suspends recognition of the state of Israel!

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THE PALESTINIAN Central Council met in Ramallah on Sunday and Monday and, after deliberations on important matters for the Palestinian people, it made a...

Obama Sends In Medvedev As Stalinists Betray Libyan Masses Again

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AT the Group of 8 meeting (G8) of the largest industrialised nations, the Russian Stalinist bureaucracy voted for regime change in Libya and then...

Economic Crisis Is Smashing Up Europe!

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YESTERDAY official statistics for France show that core inflation had actually fallen into negative figures, - 0.2%, for the first time in recorded history...

‘We are not asking the west to choose our leaders’

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THIS was the defiant and revolutionary message that came out of Egypt from demonstrators, and was shown in the western media, in response to...

The Palestinian people have been robbed of $50bn by Israel since 2020 – TUC...

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THE PALESTINIAN people paid a heavy cumulative cost, estimated at $50 billion, between 2000 and 2020 due to the additional restrictions imposed by Israel...

SNP join Tories in refusing any pay negotiations with nurses

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THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Scotland has voted overwhelmingly to reject the final pay offer from the nationalist SNP government, meaning Scottish...

Putin Frantically Looking For Imperialist Partners

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AT the St Petersburg Economic Forum, President Putin has revealed the basis for both his domestic and foreign policies. It is to seek to...

Bush and Blair’s war against democratic rights

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IN the United States it has just been revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has been secretly collecting the internal documents of...

Stop The Dirty War In The Yemen!

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AT PM’s Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Corbyn raised the issue of the UK’s sale of...

Make the TUC demonstration on June 18 a mobilisation for a general strike to...

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THE TUC has called a national demonstration to London’s Parliament Square on Saturday 18th June. Announcing the demonstration the TUC said: ‘On Saturday 18th June,...

‘This is 1914 all over again’

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THE architects of the Common Market, the forerunner of the European Union, freely admitted that they were seeking to carry out peacefully what Adolf...

Collapse of Greensill Capital – another Lehman Brothers crisis!

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THE COLLAPSE of Greensill Capital, a finance company which acted as a massive lender to companies, has sent shock waves throughout the UK steel...

Greek Government Starts A Pogrom!

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GREECE is currently having its books and the success of its austerity measures examined by the EU Troika, made up of the representatives...

Hamas Urges Palestinian Youth To Escalate The Conflict With Israeli Forces!

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THE Hamas Movement has urged the young people of the West Bank and all the Palestinian masses to join forces with each other and...

Workers must unite to fight savage cuts and closures!

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THE deepening capitalist crisis is creating the conditions for a showdown between Labour and Capital – over who runs this country, and for whose...

Nationalise BAA – forward to a national transport system

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THE call has gone up in the Competition Commission report that three of BAA’s seven airports – two of its three in London, out...

No support for imperialist war in Syria – forward with world socialist revolution

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TODAY, the House of Commons is to engage in an emergency debate on Britain joining the US bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria. In this...

Occupy The Steel Industry – Organise General Strike To Defend Jobs

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THE world capitalist crisis as well as shattering the energy industries – oil, coal and gas – is also decimating world steel production and...

Attack on FBU an attack on every worker – defend the right to strike...

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THE TORY move to make strikes illegal and ban trade unions stepped up yesterday with the official annual report on the fire service. The report...

Eu To Throw Irish Workers To The Wolves

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PRESSURE is being piled onto the Irish government to accept a further EU bail-out of between 60bn to 80bn euros, which will mean handing...

Brown insists on wage cuts for workers & billions for bankers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown justified pay cuts for workers in the public services and the billions handed over by the Treasury to the bankrupt...

Trade Unions Must Name The Date For The General Strike To Free Palestine And...

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OVER 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday, protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. The protest, organised by the...

New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity

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FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...

Police Chief Tapes Talks With Ministers

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THE Metropolitan Police chief Blair was yesterday forgiven by the Attorney General for secretly tapping at least one of their conversations ‘for future reference’. It...

Syria Is Right To Press On To Retake Eastern Ghouta From The Terrorists!

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A SYRIAN army statement confirmed yesterday that Syrian government forces will lift the siege on the terrorist-held sections of the Damascus suburb of...

Smash Fortress EU with the socialist revolution

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THE head of Eurotunnel is demanding that Britain forks out £4.6 million to finance a massive wall enclosing 600 metres of track at the...

‘NHS Standing On A Burning Platform’ – Time To Deal With The Arsonists!

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THE NHS is standing on a ‘burning platform’ is the stark assessment of Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of...

Gordon Brown wheeled out to save capitalism

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Former Labour chancellor and prime minister Gordon Brown has stepped forward to offer himself up as the saviour of bankrupt British capitalism. Brown made his...

Support Catalan independence! Down with the Spanish and EU ruling classes! Forward to a...

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CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont has called for a ‘democratic opposition’ to the imposition of direct rule from Madrid after the Spanish government terminated his...

Massive turn-out of workers to fight Tory austerity

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THE 250,000 workers and youth who marched on Saturday, along with the thousands who also marched in Glasgow and Liverpool, proved once again that...

UNITE denounces TTIP but supports Cameron in EU referendum!

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THE Unite trade union leadership specialises in doubletalk. One example is the way that it is verbally 100% opposed to the anti-trade union legislation that...

Brown Speeding Up The Privatisation Programme

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THE reaction of the Brown government to the eruption of the capitalist crisis has been to champion the interests of the banks, pledging to...

PM May gets panic attack – Labour must get after the Tory fox, and...

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IN HIS Birmingham rally on Saturday Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, got an ecstatic welcome from masses of people for his denunciation of the Tory...

Political Revolution In Kyrgyzstan

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THE Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, spoke by phone Thursday with the new interim leader in Kyrgyzstan whose ‘peoples government’ has been placed in...

Workers Must Defend The Palestinian People By Bringing Down The US And UK Governments!

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THE head of the politburo of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has issued a stern warning against any Israeli military operation on the southern...

National Civilian Service a prelude to National army Service!

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THE ‘master’, Cameron, and his well-trained ‘Labour servant’, Miliband, yesterday stood shoulder to shoulder once again, condemning the masses of youth who took to...

German workers join European strike wave

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MORE than 20,000 German doctors are taking strike action all this week demanding a cut in working hours and a 30-per-cent pay rise. The...

Tories breaking triple-lock will plunge millions of pensioners into poverty!

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MILLIONS of pensioners will be plunged into poverty as the Tories press ahead with ending the triple-lock on state pensions. The triple-lock guarantees the basic...

Big Business To Access NHS Patients Data

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IT was disclosed this weekend that by Autumn every high street pharmacy, from the local independent pharmacy right through to the giant supermarket chains...