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University lecturers start fresh mass strike action

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THE THIRD wave of a countrywide strike by members of the University and College Union (UCU) began yesterday with a five-day walkout at 38...

Tories Greet NHS 70Th Annniversary With More NHS Cuts!

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WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...

Nationalise The Energy Companies – The TUC Must Call A General Strike To Defend...

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MICHAEL Saunders, a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), is warning that households, and million of workers must brace themselves...

The IMF sees the writing on the wall with second warning in 24 hours...

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THE International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report has given its second warning in 24 hours about a new financial catastrophe that it sees coming...

Re-nationalise the energy suppliers – the only way to end preventable deaths

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FIGURES released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a dramatic increase in the number of preventable deaths among the elderly...

Tanker attack provocation in the Gulf – US looking to launch war on Iran...

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TWO oil tankers were attacked on Thursday morning in the Gulf of Oman. The Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous and Norway’s Front Altair were abandoned after two...

The capitalist state cannot be reformed – it must be smashed and replaced with...

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IN THE TORY leadership campaign, of the six candidates left after the first round of voting five went to Oxford University and every one...

Manchester Arena bombing was the product of a British capitalist state provocation!

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THE judge-led inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing at an Ariana Grand concert in May 2017 finally published its finding yesterday after a two-and-a-half-year...

Economic crisis of capitalism can only be resolved with socialist revolution

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THE PLUNGE of world capitalism over the precipice of an almighty crash has become so obvious that a sense of panic is gripping bourgeois...

Labour must pledge to nationalise Bombardier to defend 14,000 jobs!

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PM May is said to be ‘bitterly disappointed’ that the US Department of Commerce and her friend President Trump have opted to impose a...

Kick out TUC leaders who warn of a tsunami of job losses but refuse...

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NEW ANALYSIS by the research group the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) has shown that unemployment in the UK will be a massive increase...

Bank of England pushes up interest rates as inflation spirals out of control!

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THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and decided to increase the interest rate by 0.25% to 0.75% in a futile attempt...

Palestinians are rising up to defend their land and achieve their State of Palestine...

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THE temperature is rising all over the Middle East as US and Israel seek to force the Palestinians to accept the dirty ‘deal of...

Youth will rise up against savage Tory attacks!

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IT is definitely no fun being young under the Tories! As is well known, the Tories are absolutely desperate to be the party that hammers...

The EU Remains In Charge As All Parties Await Its Decision On Extending Eu...

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THE EU is definitely still in charge of Brexit and the ‘Brexit debate’. MPs await its decision today after Tory leader Johnson dumped the ‘no...

Capitalism’s world crisis can only be resolved through socialist revolution

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THE LATEST latest annual report from the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) on the economic crises gripping world capitalism couldn’t have been clearer –...

Patients assessed, treated & sent home on same day! The Tories ‘Long Term ...

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THE TORY government, using their NHS Long Term Plan have stepped up their war against the health service, attempting to drive through measures that...

Bosses planning to incite youth against pensioners!

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A £10,000 PAYMENT should be given to the young, while pensioners are taxed more, a new report by the Resolution Foundation into inter-generational fairness...

No to Zuma or Ramaphosa –the South African workers must take the power!

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THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has noted the shocking testimony given to City Press by police officers who were among those...

40,000 Israeli reservists called up!

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel would ‘not tolerate the firing of rockets on our cities and towns’. His remarks came after...

Unite must call BA strike now! All TUC trade unions must join the action!...

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AT A THOUSAND-strong mass meeting of British Airways workers at Bedfont Football Ground on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport on Thursday, workers voted unanimously...

British Capitalism Is On The Rocks! All Life Support Attempts Are Failing As The...

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SUCH is the crisis of British capitalism more than half of the adult population, 27 million people, have had to be financially assisted by...

McDonnell: Those who died in Grenfell were ‘murdered by political decisions!’

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LABOUR shadow chancellor John McDonnell has come out and said openly what the vast majority of people in the country believe – that those...

Workers must apply ‘French tactics’ against a parliament that is trying to steal Brexit!

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BRITISH parliamentary democracy was exposed as nothing more than a chaotic and rapidly collapsing sham on Tuesday when, for the first time in history,...

Thieves, drug users, arsonists and spies – recruited by the Metropolitan police

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BACK in 2014 the police announced that they were ‘relaxing’ their rules on recruitment to allow convicted criminals to join. In fact, this just legitimised...

Osborne pledges to hammer the poor and the unions

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IN an attempt to show some class war steel, Chancellor Osborne began his speech at the Tory Party conference with an assault on a...

Syrian Foreign Minister tells UN that the US-UK military alliance must withdraw from Syria

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ADDRESSING the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem confirmed that the US-UK...

Drive Imperialism Out Of The Middle East – Forward To Palestine!

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SIXTY seven years after the 1948 Naqba that saw hundreds of thousands of Palestinians turned into refugees with the establishment of the state of...

Only Socialist Revolution can force a break with the EU

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TOM Watson, the right wing deputy leader of the Labour Party, escaped being unceremoniously chucked out of his position over the weekend following an...

Homelessness in rural England rises by a third in a year! Socialist revolution to...

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HOMELESSNESS in rural England has soared by as much as a third between 2012 and 2018, new figures released yesterday have shown. As rich...

End homelessness by putting an end to the system that deliberately creates it –...

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A HOMELESS man has been found dead in a tent after sleeping rough in the snow in freezing temperatures. The man, named locally as...

As The Economic And Political Crisis Of Capitalism Deepens The US And UK...

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WORKERS throughout the world have experienced, through massive job losses and huge wage cuts, just how the world crisis of the capitalist system is...

Socialist revolution the only way to prevent mass unemployment

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THE ANNOUNCEMENT this week by the aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls Royce that it is to slash 4,600 jobs in the UK as part of...

Now is the time to build the Workers Revolutionary Party in the trade unions

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THE ELECTRONIC ‘consultation’ being carried out by the Unite and GMB unions with their members employed by BA is not just a travesty of...

Workers must fight for Palestine and bring down the Tory government that celebrates the...

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THE NATIONAL march and rally demanding ‘Justice Now: Make it Right for Palestine’ is a massive demonstration of the support and solidarity that exists...

Israeli mad dog completely out of control!

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ISRAEL has made it brutally plain that it is not in the slightest interested in negotiating any ‘peace of the brave’ with the Palestinian...

Israeli Army Rehearsing The Taking Of Gaza City!

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BESIEGED GAZA is under a heavy non-stop Israeli siege and onslaught. The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has warned Israel of ‘dangerous consequences’ as the...

The bosses refuse to back May! Now is the time for a general strike...

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A PLAN by the Tories to demonstrate that the bosses of Britain’s leading companies are firmly behind the chaotic Brexit negotiations blew up in...

Cut in interest rates by the Fed will accelerate capitalism’s world crash

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THE US CENTRAL Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday performed an abrupt U-turn on its policy of attempting to hold back the vast amount of...

‘They’d rather eat grass than give up!’ Putin says of the North Koreans

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SPEAKING at the Brics Group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) conference in China, President Putin said of the North Koreans: ‘They’d rather...

Sunak prepares for war on working class to pay off capitalism’s massive debt

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OVER 250,000 small firms and companies are destined to collapse this year according to research carried out by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Nearly...

A bankrupt Tory budget for a bankrupt Britain!

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CHANCELLOR Hammond outlined a bankrupt policy for a bankrupt Britain yesterday in the House of Commons. The paper-thin disguise for this bankruptcy was Hammond’s...

Myanmar – bloody military crackdown exposes weakness of the junta!

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THE WEEKEND saw the bloodiest crackdown by the Myanmar military dictatorship when police and soldiers opened fire on demonstrators killing at least 18 and...

Carney tells banks to find £11.4 billion to save them going bust

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DESPITE all the recent words from Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, about the underlying health of British capitalism, his actions yesterday...

US and UK are being driven to war by the growing capitalist crisis

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US SECRETARY of state Mike Pompeo used his speech in Berlin last Friday to threaten nothing short of war against Russia, China and Iran,...