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British capitalism and its state – poisonous, rotting and ripe for revolution!

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THE CRISIS of the British capitalist state has been highlighted by the News International scandals which will do for the British ruling class what...

No War! Greek And Turkish Workers Must Unite – Their Enemy Is At Home!...

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WHILE President Trump is celebrating the Israel-UAE alliance against Iran and Palestine, and planning to extend it throughout the region, his NATO allies are...

Free Assange – Jail the imperialists, the real war criminals

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YESTERDAY, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has been unlawfully detained by...

Fitch strips UK of triple-A rating

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LAST Friday, Fitch ratings agency became the second of the world’s three big credit agencies to strip Britain of its top notch triple-A credit...

It Is The Ruling Classes That Must Say Their Prayers!

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IN 2008 the world financial system stood on the very brink of the abyss with banks and industries facing the immediate prospect of crashing...

The Firefighters are the heroes of Grenfell! Jail the real culprits – big business...

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A LEAKED report by the chairman of the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry, Martin Moore-Bick, has found a scapegoat for the fire – they are...

All Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action To Support The Occupation Of...

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HARLAND AND WOLFF shipyard has been occupied by the workforce to prevent its closure. However on Monday, the unions involved revealed that staff had already...

Brown In Blinkers Ignores The Economic Crisis

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BROWN’S ‘big’ budget speech yesterday was an anti-climax, since it was an obvious attempt to ignore the worldwide capitalist economic crisis, and the completely...

Tory Party in meltdown – force TUC to call a general strike to kick...

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TO DESCRIBE the forced decision by Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to abandon his plans to end the 45% top rate of income tax to...

State to give bankrupt bankers cash in exchange for their paper rubbish

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PRIME Minister Brown has made an appeal to the Wall Street bankers to be honest, surely a contradiction in terms. He wants them to publicly...

Benefits War Against Sick

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THE Tory work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith yesterday launched yet another vitriolic attack on the unemployed, the sick and disabled. On Sunday he...

Defend North Korea’s right to defend itself from Imperialist War

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IN HIS New Year speech North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un warned US imperialism not to start a nuclear war against the country saying that...

Brown–Miliband Crocodile Tears For Gaza

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ISRAELI air raids are pounding the Gaza Strip for a fourth day. At the same time Gaza is being shelled from the sea by...

Lobby TUC Sept 7th to demand they call a general strike now for a...

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THE September strikes by RMT union members on London’s underground system are just the latest challenge to the super-austerity policies of PM Keir Starmer’s...

Trump threatens to destroy North Korea and warns Iran, Cuba and Venezuela!

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PRESIDENT TRUMP began his speech at the UN by immediately patting himself on the back, stating that ‘Fortunately, the United States has done...

Tories prepare for civil war against the working class

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IN HIS closing speech to the Tory conference, Cameron pledged that a future Tory government would scrap the Human Rights Act, a position that was...

There Must Be Trade Union Acti0N To Stop NHS Privatisation!

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THE Health and Social Care Bill is set to become law within weeks. This is after the LibDem ‘revolt’, which the Labour bureaucracy was telling...

US Secretary of State Blinken rushes to Kiev as Ukraine faces defeat by Russia

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US secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise unannounced visit to Ukraine yesterday morning, as the war to weaken Russia suffers yet another...

Recall TUC to demand an indefinite general strike to kick out the Tories

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At its annual conference yesterday, the leaders of the National Education Union (NEU) reported that the latest Tory pay offer was rejected by an...

PM Sunak heaps sanctions on Russia as US, EU and UK workers pay the...

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PM SUNAK HAS LOST NO TIME in announcing a series of fresh sanctions against Russia that include a ban on imports of aluminium, diamonds,...

Unite Takes Action Against Serco BA And The Bank Of England!

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YESTERDAY striking Serco workers from Bart’s NHS Trust, striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew, and striking Bank of England workers marched and picketed the...

Brown in partnership with McDonalds is going to bring in forced labour

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TRUE to form, Brown the bankers’ prime minister, opened his speech on apprentices yesterday by hailing the employers saying: ‘I am delighted to join...

World Socialist Revolution is only way to end imperialist slaughter

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THE TORIES have damned the Starmer government for a foreign policy ‘shambles’ as political parties throughout the western imperialist nations grapple with coming to...

Workers will reject Tory ‘charm offensive’ – Time to kick them out with a...

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Mark Harper, the latest Tory transport secretary, appeared on the BBC yesterday morning to claim that the government was not responsible for blocking any...

Hutton provocation will result in ‘summer pensions war’

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TODAY’S publication of the Hutton Report on public sector pensions will be like a red rag to a bull as far as the membership...

Arab bourgeoisie – an agency of imperialism

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THE Viva Palestina convoy has found out that, when it comes to preventing aid reaching the much-battered and besieged Gaza Strip, the Mubarak...

UK workers must force the TUC to call a general strike to support Palestine!

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HAMAS leader Yahya Sinwar was murdered on Thursday in Rafah, southern Gaza, by Israeli troops after a tank shelled the building he entered. Seen defiantly...

Osborne to intensify Tory slave labour drive

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LONG-TERM unemployed workers and youth will have to undertake work for no pay in return for their benefits, or else starve, with the government...

BMA demands STPs be ‘abandoned’! Now all trade unions must follow their lead and...

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ON MONDAY, the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting took a giant step forward when, after a struggle over the issue of STPs, it passed a...

Union leaders go easy on Brown’s bosses’ budget

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CHANCELLOR Brown’s budget yesterday outlined savage attacks on the working class, particularly low paid workers. His decision to abolish the 10 pence tax rate...

BMA leaders run away after Cameron waves big stick

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THE BMA and its Junior Doctors Committee yesterday ‘made the decision to suspend the 48-hour industrial action planned for 26-28 January. We are announcing...

Trade Unions Must Take Action Alongside The Junior Doctors!

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TODAY’S strike by junior doctors has the support of 100% of workers across the country. They are not fooled by all the Tory propaganda that...

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...

Hospitals and schools are being hit by uncapped energy bills

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THE SKYROCKETING increase in energy bills is driving the health and education services to the wall, with leaders in both these vital services warning...

The Chief Banker Condemns The Banks

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THE governor of the bank of England, Mervyn King, has launched a scathing attack on the major UK banks, accusing them of trying to...

Working Class In UK Requires A New And Revolutionary Leadership!

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TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak dropped any pretence that British capitalism would stage a miraculous ‘bounce back’ when he confessed that the country faces ‘a...

Victory to the South African socialist revolution!

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Public sector unions in South Africa, supported by the whole of the working class, are in conflict with the ANC government over a decent...

Build The Fourth Internati0Nal!

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THE news last week that more than 100 cities in the United States are set to go bankrupt in the new year spells complete...

Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...

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LAST week, the Tories’ strike-breaking agency worker regulations were thrown out after the High Court ruled they were unlawful. This judgement quashed an appeal by...

Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’

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TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...

US Begins Serious Peace Talks With Taliban – It Now Knows It Cannot Win...

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THE 2001 SEPTEMBER 11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York was seized on by President Bush as the green light for...

Break with the EU NOW! Forward to a Workers Government and forward to the...

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FOLLOWING 17m plus workers voting to ‘Leave’ in the 2016 EU Referendum, the UK is leaving the EU on March 29th 2019, two years...

Contradictions of UK capitalism sharpening to explosion point!

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TORY PM Cameron has declared, in the last few days, that he will be pushing through austerity measures until the end of the next...

Defend Iran And North Korea By Smashing Imperialism!

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NORTH Korea’s Foreign Minister in Tehran on Wednesday criticised the US’ decision to re-impose sanctions on Iran as a ‘wrong move’, that runs contrary...

Trade unions face fresh attacks

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AN OPINION piece in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph pointed to yet further attacks on the trade unions’ rights to organise and represent their members. According to...