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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...

Revolution is the only way out of capitalist debt crisis

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THE COLLAPSE of the popular discount high street retailer Wilko, with 12,500 of its workers facing being thrown out of a job, has thrown...

Vote WRP on 4th July – Forward to socialism – not back to the...

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THE General Election on July 4th will feature a shattered Tory Party that has already been wrecked by the developing capitalist crisis, and is...

Nigerian workers revolution has begun – it must expropriate the oil companies!

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NIGERIA’S bourgeois government has pledged to the IMF and World Bank that it will push ahead and end oil fuel subsidies regardless of the...

The CWU leaders are refusing to fight for their membership

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THE unsolicited public display of pacifism yesterday by the CWU leadership, in the face of the most vicious daily attacks on their membership...

No to school reopening and a forced return to work – for a general...

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WHILE the Tories were hailing the relaxation of the lockdown rules that came into effect yesterday in England as a giant step forward, senior...

Trade unions must act to defend workers’ standard of living

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THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has proclaimed that the crisis of capitalism means huge ongoing cuts in the standard of...

McCluskey must meet with Gate Gourmet sacked workers!

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LEN McCluskey, winner of the election for the post of Unite general secretary, said on Wednesday that ‘I have a huge agenda in front...

Britain’s economy broken says Archbishop – as he worries about the British revolution!

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THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has blurted out the truth that has been more than obvious for a number of years to millions...

Obama To The Right Of Bush Over Palestine

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THE US democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama, during his visit to Palestine, refused to go back on his earlier statement, made at a Zionist...

NHS faces privatisation – kick out the coalition now!

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EVERY week without fail, doctors, medical journals, and health experts produce authoritative studies that ram home the fact that under this Tory-led coalition government...

Only A Socialist Revolution Can Defend Jobs, Homes, Basic Rights And Deal With Climate...

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THE TUC’s ‘Put People First’ march on Saturday brought 50,000 workers and youth onto the streets marching behind powerful contingents from the GMB and...

Workers must call general strikes to break the Israeli siege of Palestine

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THE Hamas Ministry of Health said on Wednesday that 102 Palestinian citizens were martyred and 287 others injured in 5 Israeli massacres in Gaza...

US Fails In Drone Attempt On Life Of Taleban Leader

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A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan’s tribal region killed at least 12 persons on Thursday. Drone aircraft fired two missiles on a religious seminary...

Truss Is Shattered While Johnson Is Posing As The Man To Save UK Capitalism!

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LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...

Lobby TUC April 24 – make them call a general strike

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THE News Line calls for a massive lobby of the next meeting of the TUC General Council on Wednesday 24th April, to demand the...
The march of over 700,000 workers and youth filled the streets around Place d’Italie where it assembled with trade unionists in the foreground carrying CGT flags

Restore Student Grants – Smash All Fees

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Students’ expenditure has gone up 44 per cent in real terms under the three Labour governments, an official Student Income and Expenditure survey has...

First the UK, now Italy – Forward to the European Socialist Revolution!

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THE RAPIDLY unfolding crash of the EU drove the ruling class to take unprecedented action on Sunday to overturn the Italian election result...

Osborne to intensify Tory slave labour drive

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LONG-TERM unemployed workers and youth will have to undertake work for no pay in return for their benefits, or else starve, with the government...

Build millions of council houses to solve housing crisis

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PUBLIC sector workers such as firefighters, teachers, and nurses, cannot afford to buy homes in seven out of 10 UK towns, because of the...

Hunt vows to slash benefits to drive sick back to work and pledges UK...

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THIS week, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt jetted off to Washington to attend the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the stated...

Nationalise LDV and the motor car industry

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LDV, the Birmingham van factory said yesterday it would continue to look for funding until 6 May when it is due to formally go...

Tory War On Teachers

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THE Tory conference this week stepped up its vicious attack on teachers and their unions with education secretary Michael Gove treating them, as befits...

Tories are bringing in savage anti-union laws to police the working class as they...

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THE GOVERNMENT has announced what it says is one of the biggest bonfires of financial regulations to allow the City of London to rule...

Essential relationship = master and servant

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US President Barak Obama, in his speech to both houses of parliament last Wednesday, did little more than restate the old George Bush doctrine...

Renationalise the Royal Mail – new leadership required for CWU

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THE full price for the capitulation of the CWU leadership over the privatisation of Royal Mail is now rapidly emerging. The union, which halted...

Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes To Bring Down The Ruling Classes That Are...

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SPEAKING at a press conference in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Thursday, Abdallah al-Dardari, UN assistant secretary-general and director of the UN Development Programme...

Blair Gang In Disarray After Pm Fails To Vote

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YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair was insisting that he can push through his right wing capitalist ‘reform programme’ despite suffering a double defeat at the...

Now is the time to build the world Trotskyist movement!

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ON Wednesday, the general secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady, penned another begging letter to the Tory government, this time to the Secretary of...

Cornwall Marches To Save Fire Service

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TWO hundred firefighters and control room staff were joined by thousands of angry local residents in a 13-mile march from Camborne to Falmouth on...

Drive Tory rabble out with a general strike to bring in a workers government...

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THE House of Commons privileges committee published its report into former prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday and it turned out to be even more...

Time For A Ceasefire In Palestine And For Socialist Revolutions In The UK, US...

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CONDEMNATIONS have poured in from countries world-wide after the United States once again vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that demanded an immediate...

Obama Compares Bp With Osama Bin Laden

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US PRESIDENT Barack Obama said yesterday that the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have the same impact on the US...

The fight to free Palestine is inseparable from the British socialist revolution!

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IN response to a pledge by US President-elect Donald Trump to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Palestinian ambassador to the United...

Dont Talk To Israeli Leaders Say Palestinian Youth

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OVER the past two days, Palestine National Authority security forces have been using force to try to prevent peaceful demonstrations of Palestinian youth opposing...

Al-Aqsa Mosque a ‘flashpoint’ in the fight to end Israeli occupation of Palestine

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THE ISRAELI refusal to remove metal detectors from the outside of the Jerusalem compound which contains the al-Aqsa Mosque is fast becoming a flashpoint...

Let Them In! Britain Must Welcome All Migrants!

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BRITAIN will not become a ‘safe haven’ for migrants, David Cameron warned yesterday, referring to the groups of migrants in Calais as ‘swarms’. Correctly the...

TUC goes from lobbying the Tories to open support for the right-wing Ukrainian regime!

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ON TUESDAY, the TUC abruptly announced that it was cancelling a planned cost of living demonstration and march due to take place in Blackpool...

The housing crisis intensifies as police and bailiffs clear estates for the benefit of...

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THE housing crisis in the UK has reached explosion point. There is no new council housing being built, rents are being driven sky-high, while housing...

Macron desperate to reassert French imperial rule in Lebanon

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FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron stepped up his blatant interference in Lebanon on Sunday when he issued Lebanese politicians an ultimatum that they must form...

Palestine – the UK unions must take action in support of Palestinian people!

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THE Palestinian Presidency has strongly condemned the ‘dangerous Israeli escalation against our people in the Gaza Strip, which so far has resulted in the...

‘Keep The Ground Aflame With Popular Resistance’ Urges President Abbas

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THE PALESTINIAN President, Mahmoud Abbas has called for more popular resistance and warned ‘We should not underestimate it’. He has called for further visits to...

450,000 Palestinians forced to leave Rafah! Trade unions must call general strikes to prevent...

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THE United Nations says more than half a million Palestinians have now been displaced in war-torn Gaza, as Israel intensifies its air and ground...

No deal with Cameron to accept Anti-Union Act – Make TUC call general strike!

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UNITE leader McCluskey has made Tory PM Cameron an offer by letter to accept the thresholds necessary for legal strike action, as proposed in...

YELTSIN – the hero of western capitalism, a corrupt and criminal Stalinist

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THE bourgeois media and bourgeois political leaders have made it perfectly clear in the last few days that Boris Yeltsin, the...