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Workers must take action to bring down the May government and break with the...

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THE RESIGNATION of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary was only delayed until he was faced with dying from shame if he held back any...

Unite leader admits the union’s role is to prevent strikes – time to kick...

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THE SUDDEN announcement on Monday that the boss of British Airways, Alex Cruz, was being sacked was greeted by the Unite union leaders as...

Abbas ready to break with US imperialism! UK workers must support the Palestinian...

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IN A huge development in the fight of the Palestinian people to establish their own independent state, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on...

Starmer Congratulated By Union Leaders, Now Awaits His National Service Government Call-Up!

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THE election of Starmer as Labour leader has been cheered to the rooftops by both the trade union bureaucracy and the Tory Party-supporting media. His...

Human Rights Watch Denounces Israeli Apartheid Crimes!

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AN international leading human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Israeli authorities in a 213-page report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed:...

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...

Unite leaders betray airport workers – for an emergency conference to elect a...

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THE BETRAYAL by the leadership of the Unite union plunged to new depths last week in the negotiations between the union and the management...

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...

‘Left’ Tsipras government humiliated as workers abstain in general election

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SYRIZA (the coalition of the left) party crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party in the...

Only one answer to mass unemployment – Socialist Revolution

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WHILE firms and businesses are closing down as furlough ends and millions of workers are being thrown out of work, the Tories launched their...

Bring Down The Tories – Abolish Universal Credit – Forward To A Workers Government...

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IT has become crystal clear that the Universal Credit system equals universal misery for the growing masses of the working poor in the UK. As...

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...

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...

‘The Final Demise Of The Two State Solution’ Says Ashrawi!

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THE Palestinian National Council (PNC), the Palestinian parliament in exile, said on Monday that the decision of the Israeli ruling Likud party to impose...

Eight Out Of Ten Academy Schools Are In Deficit!

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ACADEMY school budgets are in a desperate state with eight out of 10 in deficit, say their accountants. ‘Two more years like this and...

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...

Italy’s financial ‘doom loop’ will strangle the entire banking system warns Carney

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THE FINANCIAL ‘doom loop’ that is tightening around the necks of the Italian banking system will send the Italian banks and the Italian...

Bankers warn of global debt time bomb. Socialist revolution is the only answer

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THIS WEEK, the global banking body, the Institute of International Finance (IIF), revealed that global debt had shot up to an eye-watering $281 trillion...

Call A National All-Out Postal Strike To Renationalise The Postal Service!

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ON MONDAY, it was announced that over 97% of Communication Workers Union (CWU) members working in Royal Mail had voted for national strike action...

Big Business Demands Billi0Ns More To Save Their Bankrupt Economy!

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BIG BUSINESS warned yesterday that, with the return of the lockdown by PM Johnson, thousands of firms will go to the wall. They demanded...

Capitalism about to bounce over the edge of the precipice!

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IN THE week that Boris Johnson boasted that the lifting of coronavirus lockdown measures heralded the start of the economic ‘bounce back’, it became...

Bolton Arrives To Boost Johnson And Open The Door For UK Troops In The...

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JOHN BOLTON, President Trump’s National Security Adviser, was in town yesterday recruiting mercenaries to the US cause, including its trade war with China and...

President Trump Refuses To Meet The Family Of Jacob Blake!

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THE FATHER of Jacob Blake, the black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, refused to ‘play politics’ with his son’s life’ when President...

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...

Tories getting ready for class war! Time for the trade unions to put them...

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EVERYBODY knows that the Tory government was completely unprepared for the Covid-19 crisis that erupted in the UK in December 2020. The Operation Cygnus exercise...

LGA Warns ‘Extreme Cost-Cutting’ Is Destroying All Services!

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THE LOCAL Government Association’s (LGA) Richard Watts has written to Tory Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick (of the two houses) warning against ‘extreme cost-cutting’...

Super-rich elite is thumbing its nose at super-exploited workers and commuters!

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RESEARCH into FTSE 100 chief executives’ pay packages and the just-published findings have confirmed to angry workers that they have been taken for a...

Smash Israeli Annexation Plan – Forward To The Palestinian State!

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ISRAEL’S illegal annexation of Palestinian land due to start yesterday failed to materialise as the entire scheme was plunged into disarray. July 1 had been...

French Workers Have Macron On The Run – They Have The Support Of The...

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THE FRENCH Revolution of millions of workers and youth is hotting up with the news that the hated French riot police are now deploying...

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...

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...

No Sell-Out Deal With Eu! Forward To Socialism In The UK And To The...

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THE government of Boris Johnson has reached decision point over the EU. It is to be made under conditions of a growing and terrible...

‘Vote Leave’ on June 23 to get rid of Cameron and the Tory...

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ON Monday Tory PM Cameron warned that if the UK leaves the EU it could trigger off another great European war. What a condemnation...

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...

UK Ruling Class On Its Knees Before Brussels – Time For The UK Socialist...

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EUROPEAN Union leaders have said the Brexit withdrawal agreement with the UK is ‘not open for renegotiation’, after appeals from PM Theresa May. She...

Saudis hit again! Victory to the Houthis! End war on Yemen!

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THE SAUDI regime has been hit again! The Yemeni Army yesterday released footage of a large-scale military offensive in which three Saudi brigades were...

Bankrupt capitalism is responsible for 100,000 deaths in UK – Only a socialist revolution...

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ON TUESDAY, the UK officially recorded 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 with half of these deaths being recorded since November 2020. Even this terrible number of...

We Salute The Heroes Of Paris Who Stood Up To 9,180 Riot Police Who...

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IN PARIS, on Saturday, against the advice of the more moderate members of the ‘Yellow Vests’ movement, 10,000 French workers and youth demonstrated their...

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...

Defend All Jobs And Services And Send The Bailiffs Packing!

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HARD PRESSED councils facing the threat of bankruptcy at the hands of the Tory government, and facing the prospect of having government commissioners imposed...

UK military torn apart by ‘internal warfare’

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THE ARMED wing of the British capitalist state is being torn apart by ‘internal warfare’, according to a report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph. This major...

Rich 1% ‘Hoovering up’ all the wealth!

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IN advance of the Tory budget on Wednesday, where chancellor Osborne is due to announce even more savage austerity cuts, the charity Oxfam has...

Stock market crash – Only socialist revolution can end the carnage!

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ON MONDAY the Wall Street stock market crashed with the Dow Jones Index, which follows the fortunes of 30 large US companies on a...

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 –...

Trump is attacking the Chinese workers – US and UK workers must support the...

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THE US bosses have ramped up their ongoing campaign of economic and political sanctions against China. The House of Representatives has passed a bill...