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Workers must force the UK out of the EU on October 31

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ON TUESDAY night, MPs voted by 329 to 299 to pass a motion in principle to back Boris Johnson’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Almost immediately,...

Seattle Police Chief Quits As Working Class Gears Up To Deal With Trump!

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SEATTLE’S chief of police has thrown in the towel and quit on the same day that the city council voted to reduce the police...

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...

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...

Coup Against Corbyn Underway As Head Rabbi Announces He Is ‘Not Fit For High...

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WITH just over two weeks to go before the general election, the campaign by the Tories and their right-wing supporters in the Labour Party...

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...

Academy bosses siphoning off millions! General strike to take all schools back under...

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MILLIONS of pounds of taxpayers’ money being stuffed into privately-run academy schools are being siphoned off to line the pockets of the academy bosses....

Johnson reveals his feet of clay with his two-year transition plan to remain in...

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AFTER ALL the bluster from Boris Johnson about delivering Brexit and that leaving the EU by October 31st was a ‘do or die’ issue,...

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...

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...

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...

Trump Coup Attempt Fails

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ON WEDNESDAY afternoon thousands of US president Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington before storming the US Congress to put a stop to the...

The Occupation Is Responsible For All Of The Killings In Palestine

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A PALESTINIAN teenager from occupied East Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early on Wednesday in revenge for the killing of three Israeli settler youth...

Restoring nurses’ & midwives’ bursaries – a matter of life or death for...

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THERE is a desperate lack of nurses in the NHS. Currently, overloaded nurses are doing the job of three people, working 12-hour shifts in...

May has capitulated to the EU and looks to Labour for rescue! Time for...

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TORY PM May’s latest capitulation to the European Union over Brexit has been met with furious anger from Brexiteers and others in her own...

EU ripped apart by crisis – time to bring it down and advance to...

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WITH the Labour right-wing openly organising at the party conference in Brighton this week to bind the party firmly to a campaign to remain in...

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...

US seizure of Press TV a declaration of war against Iran!

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THE WEBSITE of Press TV, the official Iranian English language news site, was seized by the US government on Tuesday, in what amounts to...

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...

After levelling Mosul and Raqqa, the US-UK-French alliance is moving into northern Syria

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THE FALSE claims of the Ministry of Defence that there were no civilian casualties in UK air strikes on Iraq, namely on Mosul, have...

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...

The TUC Must Give Full Support To The Palestinian Freedom Fighters And Ban All...

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THE Arab League Council yesterday condemned Israeli crimes and massacres of Palestinians and demanded the provision of international protection to the Palestinian people. The Council...

While NHS workers scrabble for PPE Tories pay £1 million a day to keep...

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A MASSIVE mountain of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is currently sitting on Felixstowe docks while frontline healthcare workers are still being forced to work...

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...

Democrats and Republicans sink their differences when it comes to imperialist war

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WHILE US president Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night was met with impotent angry silence by Democrats, there...

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...

Trump Backs Counter-Revolution Against Chinese Workers – Time To Complete The World Socialist Revolution!

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US president Donald Trump yesterday seized the opportunity for US imperialism to make a provocative intervention in the internal affairs of China by backing...

French and UK workers must unite to smash capitalism and fight for socialism!

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FRENCH workers and youth have risen up against the Macron-military police dictatorship and on Saturday launched massive attacks on the capitalist state’s police forces...

Poverty pay threatens workers as inflation rises and the crisis of capitalism deepens!

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WORKERS’ wages will be slashed even more as inflation hits a peak of 3.4% this year, according to an analysis by the National Institute...

Bank of England under pressure as inflation runs riot – socialist revolution is the...

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THE UK INFLATION rate hit a nine-year high in August with prices increasing by 3.2%, a sharp increase from the 2% recorded in July,...

Pupils subjected to physical and mental cruelty in school isolation units – unions...

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School children in England are being put in ‘physically and mentally cruel’ isolation units for up to 7 hours a day at academy trust...

Brexit Moment Of Truth Fast Approaching! The Working Class Must Be Ready To Take...

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YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is...

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...

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...

Austerity and Universal Credit to continue!

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TORY chancellor Philip Hammond made a climb down in his budget speech yesterday to Theresa May, but there was no climb down over continuing...

What A Difference The War Drive Against Russia Makes For Ukrainian Refugees!

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THE Tory government is offering all households in the UK £350 a month to take in people fleeing the war in the Ukraine. Housing...

AS THE CAPITALIST CRISIS DEEPENS, MPs WANT A DICTATORSHIP OVER THE INTERNET!

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THE UK faces a ‘democratic crisis’ with voters being targeted with ‘pernicious views’ and data being manipulated, a parliamentary MPs committee warns. According to...

Trade Unions Must Act To Secure Nurses’ & Doctors’ Pay Rise!

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PM BORIS JOHNSON has said that there is a ‘moral duty’ to get all children back into schools in England next month. Writing in...

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...

Trade unions must take action NOW to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange!

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, the man who dared to expose imperialist war crimes, must be immediately released from Belmarsh high security prison where he...

US-UAE-Israel Deal Is To Set Up Anti-Iran War Front!

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THE announcement on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel have reached a peace deal did not emerge suddenly in the past...

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...

Trade unions must take strike action to stop BBC terror campaign against the elderly

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THE BBC has announced that it intends to send squads to the homes of over-75s to make sure that they pay their TV licence...

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...

Palestinian Consensus Government meets – Forward to the sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as...

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THE Palestinian National Consensus Government held its first meeting in three years in Gaza yesterday, a day after arriving in the besieged Gaza Strip...