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TUC must call general strike in support of the junior doctors!

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‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

Coalition Policy Is To Financially Collapse Local Authorities

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THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that ‘multiple’ local authorities are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts. The...

Karzai Won’t Go – US-UK Adventure On The Rocks

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PRESIDENT Karzai is refusing to agree to a re-run of the Afghan general election, meaning that Karzai and his master President Obama are at...

Shutting down News of the World won’t end Murdoch-Cameron crisis

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RUPERT Murdoch has moved with great ruthlessness to try to make sure that he takes over BSkyB by shutting down the News of the...

Long live the Iraqi, Lebanese and Palestinian revolutions! Drive the imperialists out of the...

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IRAQI government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi told the official Iraqi News Agency on Saturday that the authorities are going to issue arrest warrants for a...

MPs must vote to quit the EU – forward to the Socialist United States...

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THE Brexit Secretary Davis yesterday urged MPs not to ‘tie the prime minister’s hands’ and to defeat the two House of Lords amendments to...

Eurozone caught in ‘debt trap’ with no way out – Socialist Revolution is the...

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THE LATEST dire prediction on the precarious economic state of the eurozone came from three former chief executives of the European Central Bank (ECB),...

Corbyn must drive out Labour’s Remain right wing – Time to build the WRP

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WEDNESDAY’S meeting of the Labour Party’s shadow cabinet saw the deep split in the Labour leadership widen into a chasm as former loyal Corbyn...

US closes Yemen embassy

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THE US emphasised that it had gone to war on the territory of the Yemen yesterday, by closing its embassy in the Yemeni...

Indignation is not enough – working class needs socialist policies

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IN HIS first election speech, Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, expressed his anger and indignation over the policies of austerity ruthlessly carried out by...

The Way Forward – Starve The Working Class Says King!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, in his Tuesday night speech detailed the source of the gigantic inflationary rise in living costs that...
Police forcing the  Gate Gourmet locked-out workers to dismantle their tent and quit picketing Beacon Hill, Heathrow Airport after Gate Gourmet and the TGWU told the police that the dispute was over

Thirteen insurgents hung – Rumsfeld looks forward to a civil war

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THE Iraqi puppet authorities have hung 13 people accused of taking part in the insurgency, the first execution of militant nationalists since the US-led...

Bankers Are Caught Like Rats In A Trap

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FACED with loud and strident demands to slash its lending rate, to try and avoid a housing crash and a depression by crashing the...

Israeli pogromists launch Gaza ground attack!

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IT didn’t take long for the Israeli government to carry out its plan to invade Gaza and carry out a pogrom against the Palestinian...

No more cuts! Defend the public services!

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THE Newquay disaster proves what most people knew to be the case – that cuts in the fire service inevitably cost lives. Newquay is...

Reject Tory fake pledges on NHS funding – Only Socialism will guarantee the NHS

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THE SURPRISE announcement by Theresa May on Sunday that the Tories had plans to put £20 billion of extra funding into the NHS over...

It’s still austerity, more austerity and yet more austerity from Osborne and the Tories

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The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2014, compared to 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the...

Death rate running a third higher as NHS cuts take their toll!

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THE current death rate in England and Wales is running about one-third higher than its normal rate for this time of year, official statistics...

Thirty Day Countdown To Attack 0N Iran

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DOWNING STREET denials that there is a meeting today of top military, state and government officials to discuss the implications of a US attack...

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...

The lesson of Orgreave is smash the capitalist state!

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THE Independent Police Complaints Commission issued a report on Friday detailing the findings of its two and a half year long inquiry into...

America on verge of ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

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NEARLY 42 million American workers and their families face losing access to food stamps as funding for what is officially called the Supplement Nutritional...

Maude-Miliband Unite To Condemn Pension Strikers

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YESTERDAY’S stoppage in defence of pensions saw 90 per cent of PCS members stopping work, the biggest turn-out for strike action in the union’s...

World capitalism is set to crash – It must be replaced with the World...

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JUST five months after being elected with a landslide majority, a life or death political and economic crisis has engulfed British capitalism. Labour PM Sir...

The British army enters politics, and won’t tolerate a non-nuclear UK!

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YESTERDAY saw General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the Chief of the Defence Staff openly entering politics and fighting for Tory Party policy, telling SKY TV...

British capitalism is going down, the working class must defend its rights and go...

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ON MONDAY shock figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed that Britain is £490 billion poorer than it was thought to be...

US unions being driven to historic break with Democrats

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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last Friday that US workers want an ‘independent’ labour movement designed to help the working class, not a specific...

Blair’s not going anywhere – except over to the Tories

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PRIME Minister Blair, speaking to one of his major supporters, Murdoch’s Sun newspaper yesterday, spelt out that he was not going into early retirement...

Free Kendall-Smith! Stop the war against Iraq!

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THE Labour movement must salute the courageous action of Flight-Lieutenant Kendall-Smith who yesterday declared, after a court martial had found him guilty on five...

Tory austerity hits poorest the hardest, time to kick them out!

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A STUDY produced yesterday by the Centre for Cities think tank highlights the reality of Tory austerity cuts that have fallen on the backs...

Keep The Military Out Of Schools

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THE BROWN government is now beating the big drum of patriotism, a quality that has often been termed as the ‘last refuge of a...

11.7 million unemployed as British capitalism collapses – socialist revolution the only answer

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AS MANY as 11.7 million people will be thrown out of work – either through being furloughed or simply being sacked – in the...

Tory plans to ‘save’ British capitalism are nothing but a subsidy for the bosses

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YESTERDAY Tory prime minister Theresa May announced a new era of state intervention to ‘save’ British capitalism. According to this strategy, selected sectors will be...

Wealthiest 5 richer than poorest 20%

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THE report by the charity Oxfam entitled ‘A Tale of Two Britains’ puts definite figures on the simple fact known by every worker that...

France sends in more troops to join US forces in Syria

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FRANCE, the former colonial power in Syria, has expanded its military presence in the country, supporting the United States which is organising Kurdish...

Counter-revolution prepares behind cloak of Olympic Games

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THE news that the coalition government is preparing to deploy ground-to-air missiles at next year’s London Olympic games has been greeted with amused bafflement...

Labour Must Expel The Splitters And Battle For A Corbyn-Led Government!

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SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell has revealed he is ‘worried and saddened’ about the prospect of the Labour Party being split by the fake ‘Labour...

Trade unions need their own political representation

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AMID the media frenzy surrounding the publication of former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s autobiography, A Journey, ballot papers were sent out for the Labour...

Famine ‘unfolding’ in Gaza – trade unions must call general strikes to bring down...

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THE UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which monitors hunger and starvation across the world, yesterday issued a warning that the ‘worst case...

One year since the Gate Gourmet lockout

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ON August 10, 2005 Gate Gourmet, owned by Texas Pacific, locked out in a pre-planned operation over 800 workers, an assault that was calculated...

Mursi follows on from Mubarak as the US’ man in Cairo

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PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...

The US And The Eu Are The Gangsters

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WE are currently witnessing the greatest eruption of vilification against Russia and its leadership since the Fulton speech by Winston Churchill on March...

Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads

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ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...

Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism

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EVERYWHERE capitalism is crashing! Yesterday the FTSE 100 index fell to 3472.68 points making a 50 per cent crash from the FTSE’s...
Locked-our Gate Gourmet pickets want official backing from the TGWU to win their jobs back

Blair convinces nobody with his education market

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YESTERDAY saw the Prime Minister seeking to reinvent himself as the champion of the people and a supporter of ‘social justice’. Speaking in...