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Take action to stop NHS cuts and closures

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IT is now obvious that the Labour government is setting out, at breakneck speed, to privatise the NHS. It has set up private treatment centres...

Unemployment Crisis Deepening

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TOTAL unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to December, down 3,000 on the figure for the previous three months. However, long-term...

The meeting where the ‘N’ word could not be mentioned!

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THERE were no questions allowed at the Unite TUC fringe meeting in Liverpool on Tuesday evening evening, so determined was the Woodley-Simpson leadership that...

End Tory benefit and job cuts through socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY the Tory government was forced to concede that that a further 23,000 tax credit claimants whose benefits had been had been cut by...

The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general strike to kick...

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LIZ Truss appeared outside 10 Downing Street at 1.30pm yesterday to announce that she was resigning following a meeting with the Chairman of the...

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...

Trump escalates his war against Iran and the workers of the world!

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IN what amounts to a declaration of war between US imperialism and Iran, US president Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that a massive US...

Tory government acted illegally! It has no right to rule and must be...

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THE Supreme Court yesterday dealt a death blow to the Tory strategy to make it financially impossible for workers to take their employers...

Celebrate Giap’s Victory

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MILLIONS of workers and youth both in Vietnam and throughout the world are mourning the death of General Giap, who led the military...

Nationalise car industry and the banks to defend all jobs

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GLOBAL action to save the motor industry from crisis, and above all to stave off bankruptcy at General Motors, has been urged by Unite...

World Crisis driving world revolution – Build the Fourth International!

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LAST week it was the turn of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to issue its latest warning that world capitalism is on the point...

SALUTE ABDUL HAROUN – The man that the tunnel could not stop!

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ABDUL Rahman Haroun is a hero. The Sudanese national walked the full length of the Channel Tunnel (31 miles), dicing with death all of...

54% increase in energy bills means destitution for millions! Nationalise entire industry! General strike...

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YESTERDAY, the energy regulator Ofgem announced the amount by which charges for gas and electricity will shoot up in April as it raised the...

May staggers on with the help of Corbyn – time for working class to...

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THERESA May’s leadership crashed and burned on Monday when she suddenly announced that there would be no vote on her deal with the EU....

Build The Wrp And The Ys – Forward To The British Socialist Revolution

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NOW is the time to build the WRP and the Young Socialists into the leadership of the working class and the student youth...

US–UK demands war while Karzai calls for peace with Taleban

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US Defence Secretary Gates, and the new US military commander in Afghanistan, General Petraeus have recently been canvassing in London for a doubling of...

BMA & RCEM demand urgent action to end NHS winter crisis! TUC must call...

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DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has demanded ‘urgent action this winter to stop the National Health Service derailing entirely’. This stark warning came in a new report...

BA sacks 12,000 workers while Unite and the GMB register their ‘shock’ and nothing...

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THE GIANT Unite and GMB trade unions have greeted the news that British Airways is to make 12,000 workers redundant with shock, dismay and...

A slap on the wrist for bankers, but it’s to be war on the...

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PREMIER Brown’s speech at the Labour Party conference reeked with bourgeois morality and hypocrisy. There is to be a slap on the...

Students Under Attack–Restore Free State Education!

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THE NUS has just published its Poverty Commission Report which shows how education costs are rising, condemning students to live in poverty and blighting...

MPs’ Committee blames councils over homeless and dodges government!

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THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...

TUC And Right Wing Labour Are Supporting Driving Workers Back To Work!

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PM JOHNSON’S drive to return workers to work, despite the coronavirus epidemic, announced in Parliament on Monday at 3.00pm has met with a split...

The TUC and the public sector must support the postal workers’ struggle

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WITH the result of the CWU Royal Mail industrial action ballot due on Thursday, the bosses are getting ready for action, while the position...

Police prepare for ‘summer of rage!’

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YESTERDAY the bourgeois media was full of the thoughts of police chiefs who are preparing for a ‘summer of rage’, and pointing to the...

Answer Plot To Revoke Article 50 With A Socialist Revolution

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THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected an attempt by the UK government to prevent the European Court of Justice (ECJ) judges hearing a legal...

A First For The Labour Party – A Leader Who Was A Key Official...

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SIR KEIR Starmer, the ex-Director of Public Prosecutions, and currently the leader of the Labour Party, has just engaged in a second key mission...

Arrogant Trump Assumes His Bonaparte Pose While Threatening The Lives Of Hundreds Of...

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THE ARROGANT would-be dictator Trump has issued the workers of the world with his ultimatum that they must either stand and deliver to him...

Truss makes it clear that ‘trade unions’ are the main enemy she is determined...

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TORY prime minster Liz Truss closed the Tory Party conference yesterday with a speech designed to convince the party faithful that, despite performing a...

Renationalise Tata Steel to defend workers’ jobs and pensions

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THE announcement that Tata Steel has reached an agreement with the steel trade union leaders that will ‘save’ the industry has been greeted as...

Israel Murders Ismail Haniyeh On Behalf Of The US And UK Ruling Classes!

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IRAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that the Islamic Republic and the Resistance Front will avenge the murder of Ismail Haniyeh, head...

Now is the time to build the Workers Revolutionary Party

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THE deeper the crisis of the capitalist system gets, the more desperate the measures that it takes to sustain the bosses and bankers’ system,...

‘Perfidious Albion’ betrays Palestine again!

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THE British ruling class has played a special role as far as Palestine in concerned. In the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917, the United...

Obama Puts British Imperialism In Its Place

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WITH more than 100 million gallons of oil already freed to spew all over the US Gulf coast, the ‘special relationship’ between the US...

Unemployment and inflation surges as Cameron threatens immigrants’ benefits

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THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown....

Johnson launches a class war against UK workers and youth – Forward to Socialist...

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for a speedy end to ‘dependence’ on Russian oil and gas, comparing it to ‘addiction,’ in his...

News International bought policemen and state officials, and dictated to political parties

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THE Leveson Inquiry has exposed the diseased nature of British capitalism, its ruling class and its state apparatus. The state, during the period of...

Venezuela must not support the Rajapakse regime!

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THE Sri Lankan working class, both Tamil and Sinhalese, is suffering under the ‘iron heel’ of the Rajapakse dictatorship. This has killed tens of thousands...

Britain’s national debt has tripled – as the UK economy breaks down – nationalisation...

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THE British National Debt has almost tripled in the period between 2005 and 2025, outpacing all the other major capitalist states. Britain now has a...

Rail strike ‘solid and determined’ as passengers join union in demanding re-nationalisation

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YESTERDAY’S strike by RMT guards working for the privateer Southern rail network was ‘rock solid’, with RMT general secretary Mick Cash saying: ‘The resilience...

Israel Remains Putin’s ‘Partner!’

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THE RESPONSE of Russia’s political leadership, led by Vladimir Putin, to the Israeli raid on Syria that led to the death of 15 Russian...

Don’t raise rates Chambers of Commerce warns B of E

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ON the eve of the Bank of England’s monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting over the Bank’s interest rate, the British Chambers of Commerce has...

Johnson wants Labour to junk the unions!

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LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor has declared that it is time for the Labour Party to completely dump the union bloc vote in future leadership elections. Johnson,...

Chancellor’s ‘Spring Statement’ to continue austerity – It’s time to bring Tories down!

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CHANCELLOR Hammond has rejected calls by Labour and some Conservatives to announce the end of austerity in his ‘Spring Statement’ on Tuesday. Despite unveiling...

Grenfell tenants were treated as ‘sub-citizens’. All those responsible for the fire must...

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TENANTS of the Grenfell Tower warned time and again about the dangerous building they were living in, but their cries for action fell on...

Trades unions must fight for jobs for youth!

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NEARLY half of all employers (45 per cent) will not be offering jobs to 16-year-old school-leavers and graduates this year. The Chartered Institute of Personnel...