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House nuisance neighbours in containers says Field

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LABOUR’S war against the working class and the poor continues, with Birkenhead MP Frank Field advocating that nuisance neighbours should be evicted and ‘housed’...

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...

Join lobby of TUC to demand it calls strike action to end the Zionist...

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted with fury yesterday following the announcement on Monday that the Labour government was suspending some arms sales to...

Strikes hit hospitals and airports as workers rise up against wage cutting!

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WHILE the Tories tear themselves apart awaiting the heavily redacted report by Sue Gray into Boris Johnson and all the parties at Downing Street...

Labour heading for a major collision with the working class and its trade unions

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to tell workers that major unavoidable tax rises are on the way since she has inherited a £20bn...

Israel lurches further right as Defence Minister Yaalon resigns!

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THE resignation yesterday of the Israeli defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, signals a sharp turn to the right by the government of Binyamin Netanyahu. Yaalon announced...

Ashrawi condemns Israeli onslaught and urges EU and US to stop rewarding Israel

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PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) EC member Hanan Ashrawi has strongly condemned Israel’s escalation of its illegal and inhumane measures in and around Jerusalem and...

Tories Are Down – Now They Must Be Put Out!

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THE Tories are down but they are not out! The trade unions must mobilise for action at once to deliver a knock-out blow to...

Workers must respond to developing trade war by getting rid of capitalism!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump launched a world-wide trade war last Friday with his declaration that he will impose a 25 per cent tariff on...

North Korea Has The Right To Self Defence

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YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...

End the regime of forced prepayment meters – nationalise British Gas and all...

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IN THE WEEK when the giant oil and gas company Shell announced record profits of £32.2 billion, on the back of the soaring cost...

Make the TUC call a general strike now to boot out the Tories and...

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RAIL, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) members will be joined by many other trade unionists today at 7.00am and on Saturday 26th March at...

Bin Laden killing opens Obama election campaign

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When US President, Barack Obama, announced on Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a dawn raid by US special forces...

Tory MPs demand May resigns while Labour refuses to call for her removal

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THERESA May returned from her Easter break to face Tory MPs united in demanding her resignation. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, met...

Answer the Lindsey provocation with a general strike!

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THE provocative sacking of over 650 workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery – who walked out to demand that a recently negotiated trade union...

US troops flee from Afghan fighters – time to quit Afghanistan

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US and Afghan troops have quit the village where Taleban fighters fought their way into a US base and killed nine US soldiers wounding...

No Free Ride For The Tories

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THE terrorist atrocity in Manchester last Monday night which killed 22 young people at a pop concert has been seized upon by the Tories...

Assad talks to Putin in Moscow!

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks on the improving situation in Syria in Moscow on Tuesday. The talks were a...

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...

Abbas calls for a Government of the State of Palestine!

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday that, ‘We are here today for all of us...

After Afghan Disaster, UK Ruling Class Is Determined That UK Workers Must Pay For...

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THE HUMILIATING hiding that the UK ruling class has taken from the Taliban in Afghanistan, where the US and the UK have squandered tens...

The needs of profit making are a higher morality than bourgeois law

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THE High Court yesterday ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption inquiry into a £43bn Saudi arms deal....

Stalinist Putin condemns Lenin, but has kept his party card!

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LENIN wrote ‘The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self Determination’ in July 1916, just months after the Easter Rising in Dublin...

UK economy is crashing into bankruptcy under the impact of the world capitalist crisis!

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ONLY two weeks into 2025 and the capitalist world is reeling from an economic crisis of historic proportions – a crisis that has completely...

Now send Brown packing – forward to a workers government!

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Blair stood down yesterday, driven out of power by the Iraqi insurgency and the British workers’ determination to defend their welfare state. The disorientated...

China shocked by US plans for massive new tariffs!

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THE CHINESE government has said that it is ‘shocked’ after the US government announced plans for massive new tariffs, escalating the trade war between...

Tory Government Is Making War On The Rail Trade Unions – TUC Must Be...

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THE RMT has revealed that the private rail companies war on the rail trade unions is being financed by the UK government, who are...

Boots Joins The NHS Privatisation Drive

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CHEMIST giant Boots wants to breach the NHS system by bringing GPs and consultants into its stores as part of an alleged drive to...

Capitalism Gripped By Historic Crisis

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THE world crisis of capitalism is being hit by a convergence of the crisis to which all the central banks, economists and politicians have...

Forward To The Greek Revolution!

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THE PASOK socialist party and its leader, George Papandreou, won a landslide election victory on Sunday in Greece's snap general election, winning over 43...

The British ruling class embraces a corpse

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MARGARET Thatcher was ignored by the bourgeoisie for 23 years after she was put out of office by the Tory leadership in 1990. This...

Turn the imperialist war against Russia into a civil war to smash British Capitalism

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THE BRITISH ruling class has now made it crystal clear that it favours a class war on two interconnected fronts. On the home front it...

Huge food inflation as bosses and unions agree on wage cuts and job cuts

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WORKERS in Britain are now feeling the ‘benefits’ of the British government’s policy of printing money to rescue the banks while allowing the pound...

Junior doctors have been ‘insulted’ by exclusion from any NHS pay rise. They...

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JUNIOR doctors have been excluded from any NHS pay rise, and they are furious. Yesterday, their union, the British Medical Association (BMA), announced they...

TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws!

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Following the passing of the Strikes (Minimum Service Level) Act in July, the Tories on Friday launched a six week ‘consultation on the reasonable...

Labour – Dancing To A Tory Tune – Is Attacking The Trade Unions

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THE Unite union, which in recent years has prevented the Labour Party from going bust and has financed its election campaigns with donations of...

New Leadership Needed In Cwu

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YESTERDAY the number two CWU leader Dave Ward was boasting that the super-flexibility deal that the leadership put to the membership and which over...

Miliband appeals to Tory and UKIP voters!

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FOR many years the Labour Party projected itself as the champion of the working class, hence its very close ties with the trade unions,...

Victory to the workers of Gaza and Palestine! Forward to the world socialist revolution

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ISRAELI Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has launched his ground offensive in Gaza! A well-known Israeli journalist and security analyst, Avi Issacharoff said yesterday: ‘This...

GPs TO BUY AND SELL HEALTH COMMODITY

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WITH less than three weeks to go before the start of the Tory-led coalition government’s plan to open up the entire NHS to the...

Forward with the Egyptian revolution

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HUNDREDS of people are reported to have been killed in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities throughout Egypt, and thousands injured after the army leaders...

Imperialism threatens Iran but is fearful of the working class at home!

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Donald Trump’s belligerent ‘last-chance’ threat to Iran to resume diplomatic talks about abandoning its nuclear programme or face US military attacks in two weeks,...

Capitalism’s biggest crisis since 1706, warns BofE! Make it its last with a socialist...

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THE BANK of England’s latest report, released on Thursday, has revealed the full extent of the catastrophic crisis of capitalism, now writhing around in...

US–UK organising a long and bloody war in Afghanistan/Pakistan

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THERE are currently more than 70,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan under Nato command. The Obama administration plans to send in an additional 21,000 troops. 12,000...

Drive the privateers out of the care system

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IN ENGLAND last year 928 adult social care workers a day quit their jobs, according to an analysis of data from the charity ‘Skills...