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Starmer to face down rebel Labour MPs and rely on support of Tories to...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer rounded on Labour MPs who are threatening to rebel and vote against the welfare cuts being forced through Parliament, insisting...

Tories seeking to bust the CWU and all of NHS trade unions. Time to...

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THE CWU trade union representing postal workers says Royal Mail’s chief executive Simon Thompson is to blame for a round of strikes in the...

Workers must defend the right of postal workers to strike in December!

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THE MASSIVE vote by postal workers for strike action in December over Royal Mail tearing up the previous agreements on pay and conditions has...

Bank for International Settlements warns of full-blown banking crash

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THE Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of central bankers, in its latest quarterly review of the world banking system has just issued...

Debt crisis requires social revolution

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WHEN it comes to desperate, mindless optimism the French president, Francois Hollande, is a world leader. In a speech given in Japan over the weekend,...

Unions Must Bring Down Tories To End Parliamentary Farce!

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THE TORY government suffered two defeats in Parliament on Wednesday after the £1 billion bribe paid out by Theresa May to the Democratic Unionist...

Tuc General Council Must Meet To Defend Right To Strike!

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COMMENTING on yesterday’s decision in the High Court banning the BA cabin crew strikes, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘This is a desperately...

Blockade the oil refineries and nationalise the oil industry to slash petrol prices

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THE Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has just warned that we are rapidly heading for a petrol price of £7.40 a gallon, a catastrophe that...

Workers Of The World Unite – Is Still The Slogan Of The Hour!

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NET migration to the UK is at an all-time high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March 2015, that is 94,000 more than in...

Nato Meets Behind Steel Barriers, Under No Fly Zone!

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THE NATO warlords are meeting in Newport today. That they are not the most popular people on the planet is proven by the...

EU preparing Greek ‘regime change’!

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THE debt talks between Greece and its international creditors collapsed on Thursday night with German Chancellor Merkel telling the Greek PM Tsipras to shut...

Sunak pledges limitless billions of pounds to prolong war on Russia – nothing for...

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major policy speech last night, pledged to maintain and even increase military aid to Ukraine to...

Durham Miners’ Gala must demand a General Strike!

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TENS OF thousands of workers and youth are taking part in today’s historic Durham Miners’ Gala at a time when the capitalist system is...

Sudanese workers must form a workers’ government to rule Sudan!

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SUDAN’S military leaders have scrapped all existing agreements with the main opposition coalition, and have cynically declared they will hold elections within nine months. The...

Tory Britain Reveals Its ‘Third World’ Essence With Friday’s National Grid Catastrophe!

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TORY Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom has said that a special committee will look at what happened last Friday, when a huge power cut affected...

As Putin, Merkel, Macron And Erdogan Talk Peace In Istanbul, Israel And The...

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As Putin, Merkel, Macron and Erdogan were meeting in Istanbul on Saturday evening to discuss the future of Syria, Israeli planes were bombing Gaza...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers PARMJEET SIDHU and KULDEEP HOTHI (right) win support for their demonstration at Southall Royal Mail sorting office

Workers & youth take on the French government

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THOUSANDS of students took to the streets in major cities throughout France yesterday in the struggle against Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s First Employment...

Dubai dashes bourgeois hopes – world revolution is the answer!

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DUBAI’S ‘debt repayment’ postponement for six months has brought renewed havoc to European, Asian and North American stock markets. They have all been reminded that...

Workers march in London! Time to call general strike!

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YESTERDAY, steelworkers were marching for their jobs to parliament, defending an industry that is being deliberately destroyed, while university lecturers were taking the first...

Spooks fear revolution

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THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...

Rice calls for US-Africa open markets deal

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THE US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, is currently touring Africa, putting forward the US plan to establish free trade and open markets with...

Master Obama Slaps Down Servant Cameron!

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PM CAMERON received an almighty slap in the face on Wednesday when the Obama administration effectively told him to shut up and drop all...

May’s university review ‘Dead on arrival’! Students, lecturers & staff must unite and strike...

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‘DEAD on arrival,’ is how Vanessa Wilson, chief executive of the University Alliance Group described outgoing PM May’s new report on university education. The Augar...

Tories routed in Clacton – Labour hangs on in Heywood

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THURSDAY’S by-election in Clacton, caused by the defection to UKIP of the sitting Tory MP, Douglas Carswell, saw the Tory party completely routed. Carswell won...

Only a general strike can defeat Tory anti-union strike breakers law

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IN ADVANCE of last night’s vote in parliament on the Tory bill waging war on the right to strike by allowing employers to bring...

The trade unions must defend Lineker and take action to sack the Tories and...

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AN unrepentant Gary Lineker insisted yesterday that he stood fully with his tweets condemning the Tory ‘Illegal Migrants Bill’ and that he has no...

Fighting inflation means fighting capitalism

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CHANCELLOR Darling said on Sunday that pay rises for people ‘from the boardroom to the shopfloor’ need to be ‘consistent’ with the 2% inflation...

Capitalism must be overthrown to resolve its crisis!

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The propagandists for the bourgeois order are rushing to try and defend the capitalist system as being blameless as far as the crisis is...

No ‘bounce back’ as UK economy shrinks by further 1.5% in three months

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IT SPEAKS volumes for the disastrous state of British capitalism that news that the UK economy has collapsed by a further 1.5% in the...

Demands ramped up for Labour to slash pensions, benefits and NHS spending to rescue...

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THE DEMANDS for the Labour government to slash all government spending on welfare is reaching a crescendo in the run-up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’...

The Workers Of The World do Support Palestine – Now Is The Time...

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TENS of thousands marched through central London on Saturday reiterating their calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, for the UK to stop arming...

Massive Food Price Rises Driving Forward World Revolution

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FOOD riots and major strike actions are erupting all over the capitalist world, driven forward by a doubling of food prices in many countries,...

Israel Cancels Military Delegation Visit To UK

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ISRAEL cancelled the visit of a military delegation to Britain last week after British authorities could not guarantee that the Israeli occupation army’s...

Hague, Cameron are responsible for Linda Norgrove’s death

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US special forces in Afghanistan mounted an attempt to rescue Linda Norgrove after the British government in the persons of Foreign Secretary Hague and...

IMF warns of devastating recession worldwide – forward to world socialist revolution!

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued a grim warning of worldwide recession with global debt reaching a staggering record of £64 trillion. In...

US government will shut down tomorrow as the political and economic crisis in America...

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THE FEDERAL government will shut down tomorrow as Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress are in a bitter dispute over budget cuts to...

The lawyers have forced the government to retreat and put the trade union...

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THE news that the coalition government has been forced to retreat over its proposed cuts to legal aid fees by the decisive actions of...

Russian oligarchs gave millions in donations to the Tory Party!

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THE FINAL release by the House of Commons intelligence and security committee of the report into allegations of Russian interference in British politics is...

Removing the Blair gang is a matter of vital public safety

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair announced yesterday at his monthly press conference that he would not ‘give an inch to terrorism’, and vowed to combat...

Putin tells the bosses how to run capitalism

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RUSSIA’S Stalinist leader, President Putin, addressing a business forum in Leningrad on Sunday, told the assembled capitalist leaders that the IMF and the World...

Tories abandon Leeds leg of HS2! All unions must strike to kick Tories out...

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THE TORY government announced the scrapping of the Leeds leg of the HS2 (High Speed Two) rail on Thursday and in doing so has...

America on verge of bankruptcy US Treasury Secretary warns

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US TREASURY Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday warned congressional leaders that the Treasury will run out of cash next month and the federal government...

Browne echoes Bush on need for bigger army

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PRESIDENT Bush, on Wednesday, called for a major expansion of the US army, and yesterday, the British Defence Minister, Browne, slavishly echoed his master’s...

Judiciary Now Leading The Charge Against 2016 Referendum!

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WE ARE now reaching the moment of truth in the struggle to carry out the result of the 2016 referendum which instructed Parliament that...

Oecd Warns That World Economy Faces Deeper Slump

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GLOBAL growth for 2013 and 2014 has been downgraded ‘significantly’ by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), because of the crisis in...