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Economic Crisis Deepening! More Austerity And A Banking Crash On The Way!

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A LEAKED document obtained by the Labour Party has revealed that the Treasury faces a black hole of up to £16bn in its finances...

Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ is a national government

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GORDON Brown yesterday launched his campaign to take over the job of Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. He spoke about his ‘new ideas and...

Build the WRP to deal with the TUC right wing

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AT the Trades Union Congress in Brighton this week, delegates have given a relatively timid expression of the determination of millions of workers to...

Tory Civil War – Now Is The Time To Bring Them Down

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IT is an expression of the depth of the crisis of British capitalism, that Duncan Smith, the ex-Tory leader, the would-be Puritan...

Academy head earns £500,000 while over half of multi-academy chains are going bust

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THE TORY policy of forcing every school in England to become academies and turn the entire education system into a profit-making business has created...

Tories bringing in a pro-Zionist police state. They must be brought down with a...

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HOME Secretary Priti Patel, not satisfied with wanting to send asylum seekers to Albania for processing, has announced she is seeking to declare the...

Stop the NHS being privatised! Defend funds for services – don’t use them for...

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The abolition of NHS England by merging it with the Department of Health, announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, is the...

BA senses weakness of Woodley leadership

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BA yesterday threw the TGWU’s attempt at a compromise out of the window when it announced that all of its planes will be grounded...

Demand that the UK recognises the state of Palestine – Attend our centenary rally...

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IN A virtually unprecedented break with the normal language of international diplomacy, the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad Malki, has deservedly torn into British Prime...

Afghan war aid to be quadrupled as education and jobs are slashed!

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BRITISH troops are to to leave Afghanistan by 2014, and a phased withdrawal is due to begin before the end of 2010. This is...

Stop The Bosses Plan To Smash Trade Unions – Recall The Tuc To...

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PM Sunak yesterday accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of causing ‘misery for millions’ with the ‘cruelly timed’ pay rise walk-outs by rail workers. He...

Palestinian Prisoners Win A Victory Over Israeli Jailers As The Tuc Keeps Quiet Over...

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TENS of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated across the occupied territories for the 33rd straight week against the policies of Israel’s right wing extremist...

To disband the police force and defend the NHS from privateers the TUC...

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ON Thursday, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced new government reforms of the police disciplinary system which means that in future any police officer...

Capitalism plunging into catastrophic banking crash – time to put it out of its...

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LAST Friday the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed and its assets seized by the American Federal Reserve in the biggest banking crash...

UK Trade Unions Must Take Action To Support The Sudanese Workers And Youth Revolution!

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SUDAN has been in the midst of an enormous economic and political crisis since the masses of workers and youth overthrew the UK- and...

Austria, Italy and Germany discussing new ‘axis’ against refugees!

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ANOTHER boat carrying refugees has sunk attempting the journey across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Europe, 63 asylum seekers are missing. A Libyan coastguard...

Chinese Stalinists fear workers political revolution!

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IN an extraordinary speech given at his annual press conference, the outgoing Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, warned that China risks a ‘historical tragedy’...

‘A positive response’ says Bush on Iran

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US President George W Bush has welcomed Iran’s initial reaction to a proposal from the EU states designed to achieve a deal with...

Mass Murder In Arab Jabur

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WHILE President Bush was allegedly talking peace in the Palestinian town of Ramallah on Thursday, US B1 bombers and F16 fighters were raining 40,000...

Kick May And The Tories Out Now With A General Strike! Forward To...

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PM MAY yesterday morning announced she was resigning as Tory leader and Prime Minister in two weeks on June 7. May said that the...

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...

It Is Time For A Revolution Inside The Trade Unions To Defeat The Bosses’...

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THE UNITE leader Sharon Graham on Saturday in a speech in Coventry suspended all Coventry Labour councillors who are Unite members from the union...

Nati0Nalise Gm Vauxhall And Ellesmere Port!

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VAUXHALL factories at Ellesmere Port and Luton will close if GM’s talks with the Labour government for the Treasury to take over the financing...

Anarchists Being Used To Increase Police-State Powers

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LAST Saturday’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against the coalitions cuts policy has shaken the coalition, and given the capitalist state a lot to think about. Such...

Supreme Court rules against Brexit!

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BY A UNANIMOUS decision eleven judges in the Supreme Court declared that the five-week suspension, or prorogation, of Parliament is ‘unlawful, void and of...

Take the PCS civil servants up on ‘full support’ offer

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LAST THURSDAY at 2pm as the postal workers came out on their 48-hour strike, the PCS civil service union sent a special message to...

Police call for more repression

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METROPOLITAN Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur has submitted a document to the Labour government’s Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, calling for new laws that would...

The debt of the British capitalist class is equal to the country’s economic output...

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OFFICIAL data shows that the UK state debt is equal to the country’s economic output for the first time since the 1960s, amid the...

Tories trying to stampede MPs into supporting war in Syria!

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THE tragic loss of the Russian airliner flying out of the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh killing 224 people, is being used by the...

Jordan On The Brink Of Revolution

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JORDAN has announced huge 76 per cent fuel price increases. In a statement the Jordanian government said that domestic fuel and kerosene prices had...

Police provocateurs at large

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GREEN party MP Caroline Lucas has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the case of an undercover police officer and his possible involvement in...

Global debt crisis threatens to bring down governments, the Bank for International Settlements warns....

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THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week issued a warning that governments across the world are at risk of imploding unless they deal...

Labour Struggles – T0Ries Collapse!

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ALL talk of a Brown ‘electoral bounce’ is sheer drivel or plain self deception after Labour got the votes of just 45 per cent...

National Civilian Service a prelude to National army Service!

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THE ‘master’, Cameron, and his well-trained ‘Labour servant’, Miliband, yesterday stood shoulder to shoulder once again, condemning the masses of youth who took to...

Strikes hit hospitals and airports as workers rise up against wage cutting!

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WHILE the Tories tear themselves apart awaiting the heavily redacted report by Sue Gray into Boris Johnson and all the parties at Downing Street...

Iranian diplomat was tortured after kidnap by CIA agents

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WHILE the 15 British sailors were being held in comfortable and well fed custody by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, there was another captive, just...

Israel attacks Gaza and Abbas cancels visit

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YESTERDAY an Israeli aircraft bombed a building of the Hamas-run Executive Force in Gaza, killing at least one person and injuring about 45 others....

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’...

Halt The Israeli Onslaught On Gaza! Labour Must Recognise State Of Palestine!

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TWO MORE Palestinians were killed yesterday morning in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip, said medical officials, bringing the number of Palestinians...

Unions must take action! Occupy Bombardier! Bring down the coalition! Nationalise to...

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THE proposed sacking of 1,500 Bombardier workers in Derby is the beginning of the end for the train construction industry in the UK, and...

UK and US have lost the war and now they want to steal any...

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AFTER a tortuous series of talks in Geneva the Russian Foreign minister Lavrov has announced the signing of five documents which include agreements reached...

Raising the white flag over Basra airfield

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THE rotting reality behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spin concerning the ‘reconfiguration’ of British troops in southern Iraq is the complete demoralisation of the...

NATO forces face defeat in Afghanistan

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SIXTEEN US troops were killed in Afghanistan in July, more than were killed in Iraq! In fact, NATO casualties are mounting rapidly as...

Tory party split over huge NI tax rise – It is time for the...

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THE TORY government is being ripped apart from top to bottom, with every day bringing new reports of ministers fighting amongst themselves in a...

Banks teeter on edge of collapse – Official

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THE European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of its latest stress tests carried out on 123 European banks on Sunday, results which showed...