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Starmer’s ‘reshuffle’ sidelines Reeves and provokes a financial meltdown of British capitalism

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THE UK parliament returned from the summer holidays on Monday and Labour prime minister Keir Starmer immediately caused a meltdown in the economy. The immediate...

Tories Are Afraid Of The Power Of The Trade Unions! This Power Must Now...

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THE Tories are now in the grip of a hysteria which has being displayed by newspapers like the Telegraph on a daily basis. It prints...

Fatah junta seizes control of the West Bank

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YESTERDAY President Abbas decreed the ending of parliamentary rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as he appointed an illegal government headed...

Arafat was poisoned but his struggle lives on!

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THE results from the first forensic tests to be carried out on the remains of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have confirmed the universally held...

Judges and lawyers demand end to UK arms to Israel. It’s time the TUC...

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OVER 600 UK lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including three former supreme court justices, have written to Rishi Sunak warning that the UK...

NHS bed & staffing crisis is a ‘Grenfell Tower waiting to happen’ – Call...

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THE NUMBER of NHS beds has halved in the last 30 years and proposals to slash bed numbers even further will make the ‘NHS a...

May Refuses To Sack Hunt And Commits Herself To Class War Not ‘One Nation’!

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PM MAY, under the guise of adopting a ‘one nation’ policy which treasures the poor and the needy much more than the rich, has...

The working class will not accept permanent austerity! Call a general strike! Go forward...

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IN THE wake of Tory Chancellor Hammond’s budget – a budget in which he declared war on the working class, war on pensioners, war...

Venezuela election blow to imperialist regime change plans

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SUNDAY’S general election in Venezuela saw President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela sweeping to victory winning 67% of the votes and control...

Britain’s ‘Treasure Islands’ for the super rich – while it’s super austerity for...

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THE ‘Panama papers’ leak of 11 million documents shows that the rich and infamous worldwide, including heads of state, are avoiding taxation...

Blair using EU to attack workers’ wages and conditions

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THE Blair government has only one real use for the EU, and that is as a tool for cutting the wages and increasing the...

Hamas denounces the Israeli Military hijacking of the Handala aid ship

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THE Hamas movement has strongly denounced the Israeli military hijacking of the Handala aid ship in international waters and the abduction of its passengers,...

Poodle Brown can’t say no to Bush

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PRIME MINISTER Brown showed yesterday, at his joint press conference with President Bush, that such is the historic decline and collapse of the power...

British workers must make the TUC call a general strike to bring in the...

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THE United Nations has confirmed that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city...

Capitalist state gives support to Walsh’s diktat!

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THE decision by a Judge in chambers to rule the BA strike action illegal is a major blow at the legal right to strike. It...

There Is Not A Moment To Waste – TUC Must Call General Strike...

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THE RMT and the NASUWT have put down a motion at the TUC Conference condemning the new Tory scabs charter and calling for a...

A general strike to kick out the Tories and bring in socialism will end...

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THIS WEEK, the boss of British Gas, Chris O’Shea, sent letters to 7,500 of its service engineers informing them that on Wednesday 14 April...

What a carry on up the Shatt al-Arab!

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THE government was completely undone yesterday after the Secretary of Defence Des Browne firmly bolted the stable door well after all the military horses...

Bank of England appoint Bernanke, the architect of QE, to rescue British capitalism from...

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At the weekend, bosses at the Bank of England announced that they had drafted in the ex-chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank (Fed),...

Labour government splits over ‘class war plan’ to raise income tax rates

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MAJOR splits have emerged in the Labour government Cabinet over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s class-war plans to raise income tax rates...

Defend jobs, wages and rights – bring down Brown government

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PRIME Minister Brown’s alliance with the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party has paid off with the passage by nine votes of his amendment to the...

Oligarchs Go Bust As World Crisis Hits Home

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Russia’s super-rich oligarchs, who made their fortunes by stealing or purchasing for a pittance chunks of the Soviet nationalised and planned economy under the...

Coalition plans Royal Mail sell-off at knock-down price

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News broke yesterday that the long expected attempt by the coalition to sell off and privatise Royal Mail is set to occur this autumn. What...

UCU Warns Against Student Poll Tax

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1381 was the historic year when the peasantry rose up against the imposition of the Poll Tax in a revolt that speeded up the...

State Raising Terror Tensions

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ON SATURDAY night, the city centre of Birmingham, the second largest city in the country, was emptied of more than 20,000 people by the...

Record Breaking Inflation!

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RECORD BREAKING UK inflation rate statistics were reported by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) yesterday. Inflation rose at its fastest annual pace for nine...

PLO rejects Israeli attempts to forcibly displace the Palestinian people and demands a Palestinian...

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THE Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, stressed on Tuesday night in a meeting held at the...

‘Green Shoots’ – A Mirage Of Desperate Capitalists

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THE European Central Bank is having nightmares about the state of the 25 banks that underpin the financial system of the Eurozone within the...

Tory split emerges with demands on Johnson for a budget that makes war on...

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IN ADVANCE of the budget next week, former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond delivered a shot across the bows of the Tory government with a...

Howard condemns ‘judicial activists’ as security risks

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Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...

Carry out our timetable or else, US tells Iraqi puppets

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IN his press conference yesterday, the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad revealed, with the US commander, General Casey standing next to him, that...

TUC leader O’Grady makes PM May a unity offer!

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IN a lecture to the London School of Economics (LSE) on Tuesday TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady made a ‘national government’ call to the...

Hamas urges workers of the world to march on the first anniversary of the...

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THE Hamas revolutionary leadership yesterday called for organising mass marches and broad solidarity events in all cities and capitals of the world on the...

THE TUC must take general strike action to support Palestine and bring in a...

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‘THE report issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhry, on the Israeli-induced starvation in the Gaza Strip...

Vote ‘Leave’ – Bring Down Cameron – Forward To Socialist United States Of Europe!

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THE mass of the working class and the majority of the middle class must vote to ‘Leave’ the EU today to strike a body...

European capitalism hits the rocks

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THE capitalist EU is being battered senseless this week by an economic crisis that is relentless and a working class that is refusing to...

Any attempt to ban Rail and Post strikes must be met with a general...

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THE DECEMBER 12 general election will take place in the middle of an unprecedented wave of strikes as workers show their revolutionary determination to...

US workers taking action to drive up wages and defend their jobs

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THE once-mighty US economy is facing a wave of strikes by powerful sections of the working class who are determined to drive up their...

Tories rushing into NHS privatisation, while Labour attacks them for delaying the privatisation project!

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THE TORIES are planning to knife the NHS through a massive expansion of the private health sector. The Labour turncoats are meanwhile critical of them...

SOVIET WORKERS AND YOUTH WANT THE USSR RESTORED!

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THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...

Time to nationalise the banks – the only way to prevent another crash and...

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THE BANK of America’s March survey has openly warned that another 2008-type worldwide crash is on the way. Its March survey polled 200 investors...

Workers must organise unions to take the UK out of the EU on October...

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THE EU’s Brexit negotiator Barnier has set the scene for this week’s ‘Brexit showdown’ in the House of Commons by rejecting out-of-hand PM Johnson’s...

Big business to take over NHS funds

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THE Labour government is speeding up the break-up, privatisation and destruction of the National Health Service, despite the vote at the Labour Party Conference...

Palestinian groups sign ‘national unity’ agreement for a united fight for victory and the independent...

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YESTERDAY officials from 14 Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Fatah, signed a ‘national unity’ agreement in the Chinese capital Beijing that ended any divisions...

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...