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Corbyn must stand fast, remain LP leader and demand a general election NOW!

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ON June 23, the masses of the working class rose up and crushed the Cameron leadership of the Tory party by voting to leave...

Housing crisis: socialism the only solution

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THE proposal to blow up five blocks of flats in Glasgow’s Red Road, as part of the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games, has...

Tories savage poor but grovel to Clinton and US

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THE bankers coalition has set the scene for next Wednesday’s cuts announcements in true Bullingham Club style, by declaring that ‘welfare cheats’ equal muggers,...

Mandelson plan for uni cuts must be defeated

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MANDELSON’S decision to lop £398m from the higher education budget, and to bring in third class tuition, will see thousands of workers in...

Trade unions must use their power to stop Assange’s extradition to the USA!

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HOME SECRETARY Patel has not been humbled in the slightest by the decision of the European Human Rights Court to consider that her attempt...

Brown, Mitchell and Obama threaten Palestinians with a dirty deal

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PALESTINIANS are once again being threatened with a dirty deal after the Netanyahu-Brown meeting in London. After a Brown declaration that Britain is Israel’s ‘true...

Israel speeding up the demolition of Palestinian homes and schools!

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AS the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration nears, the Israeli government, its armed forces and its legions of settlers are intensifying their programme...
Iraqi fighters who have got the US and British forces on he run in Iraq

Labour brings 20% interest payments into its health market

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NHS trust hospitals and Primary Care Trusts are to be charged 10 per cent interest on money they borrow from their strategic Health Authority...

French workers are battling a Macron dictatorship while workers are now taking strike action...

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THOUSANDS of French workers have blocked a key highway around Paris and have stepped up strike action at oil refineries in a new massive...

Brown’s empty words cannot hide he is the bankers’ man

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‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...

Syria has won the war – Now forward to the State of Palestine and...

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WITH the victory of the Syrian people, led by President Assad over the reactionary Islamists and their US-UK and French backers, the Arab revolution...

Obama regime collapses in chaos – as Syria peace battles to emerge!

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ON December 8, the White House said that the outgoing US President Barack Obama had relaxed the so-called Arms Export Control Act for the...

McDonnell writes ‘Dear John’ letter to Osborne!

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THE TORY plan to cut Working and Child Tax Credits has succeeded in splitting the Tory party and creating divisions even in the Tory...

The Tory ‘NHS Road to Recovery’ is their plan to privatise the NHS!

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ON TUESDAY, Tory health secretary Savid Javid outlined his ‘new vision for NHS reform’ which turned out to be just a repetition of the...

Smash the capitalist state – the only way to get justice for Blair Peach!

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THE Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) today released the report of Commander Cass into the events surrounding the death of Blair Peach in Southall, west...

Multinational companies who supplied cladding and insulation on Grenfell Tower making super-profits!

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Yesterday’s Observer newspaper revealed that manufacturers of the insulation installed on Grenfell Tower – cladding that led to the inferno that killed 72 people...

As Israel steps up its genocidal war the TUC must be forced to call...

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THOUSANDS rallied outside Parliament on Monday night in a powerful demonstration of solidarity with Palestine that directly reflects the support of the overwhelming mass...

Labour marshalling its strikebreakers

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THE capitalist state has had to admit that its war on two fronts means that it cannot rely on the British army for strike...

Taliban cuts the US-UK imperialist powers down to size – now the US and...

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THE US AND UK imperialist powers have just suffered a historic defeat in Afghanistan. Last week, even as they scuttled out of the country,...

Spectre of Revolution hangs over World Economic Forum

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The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held at Davos in Switzerland, started this week with the spectre of the world socialist revolution...

Bank of England Governor warns of ‘apocalyptic’ food crisis and admits Bank powerless to...

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ANDREW Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, bluntly spelt out to MPs that the world faces an ‘apocalyptic’ food crisis that will have...

End imperialist war through world socialist revolution

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EIGHT hundred British troops, with tanks, armoured vehicles and drones are to be sent to Estonia in the Spring, on the border with Russia. The...

Obama’s Amnesty For Torturers – ‘They Were Just Obeying Orders’

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CENTRAL Intelligence Agency employees who tortured people in the Guantanamo Bay and Bagram Bay US concentration camps as terrorist suspects held without charge or...

Ban all secret trials! Smash the capitalist state!

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AN unprecedented attempt by the government to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the UK has been blocked by the Court...

Tories and military show contempt for Parliament

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THE ‘sovereign will’ of parliament was shown to be a complete fiction with the exposure of the participation of British pilots in bombing raids...

Tories plan Boot Camps for Youth

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THE Tory attacks on youth have reached a fever pitch over the past week with the announcement of more measures to be taken by...

Welsh government plans to implement Tory drive to close hospitals and destroy the NHS

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THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Welsh government yesterday that it was embarking on a strategy to ensure patients only go to hospital when it is...

EU economy at the end of the road

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THE economy of the Eurozone countries is sinking even deeper into crisis making a mockery of all the talk about an economic ‘recovery’. This was...

Trump’s economic miracle is in fact a mountain of debt that US workers will...

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IN HIS State of the Union address last week, US president Donald Trump boasted that under his leadership the American economy had undergone a...

Italian Banks on verge of crash following Renzi’s defeat

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THE defeat for the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, in Sunday’s referendum to change the Italian constitution and concentrate the political power in his...

Labour support group props up Cameron

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THE Cameron-led debate in the House of Commons on Monday disclosed a Tory Party split down the middle, with Boris Johnson leading a revolt...

World capitalism is in its death agony – forward with the world socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY’S ‘solution’ to the economic crisis of Cyprus is simply the decision of the EU bankers and the IMF to completely bankrupt the country...

Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions

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A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...

Defend the NHS! Come to NE London Council of Action Conference!

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EARLIER this week Chancellor Alistair Darling promised the most draconian cuts in public spending for 20 years as a result of the Labour government’s...

The Bank Of England Drops Its Debt Bombshell

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THE world’s banks have now lost £1.8 trillion the Bank of England has reported in its Financial Stability Report. This is as a result of...

Tories seek to inspire fear as they tell unemployed ‘get on your bike’

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EX-ARMY officer Iain Duncan Smith, the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, was yesterday planning just how to force unemployed workers to give up their...

The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...

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MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...

BA CRISIS – no to sackings and wage cuts – Renationalise!

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BRITISH Airways has decided to cut 1,700 jobs and introduce a two-year pay freeze for cabin crew. It also intends to discuss wage cuts...

Bush’s ‘New Middle East’

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BUSH is trying to establish his ‘New Middle East’ on the bones of thousands of dead and injured Lebanese and Palestinian men, women and...

Capitalism’s ‘Ship Of Fools’ Heading For The Rocks!

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WHEN the most right-wing Tory supporting newspaper in the country turns on the Tory government, accusing it of gross incompetence and heading for disaster,...
Iraqis are determined to throw out the US-British occupation

Gate Gourmet Locked Out Workers Reject Woodley’s Rotten Compromise

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TGWU leader Tony Woodley’s speech at Southall on Monday, and his remarks to journalists both before and after the meeting, were a dereliction of...

The Bank of E grapples with the contradictions of the capitalist economy

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IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...

The state is looking to take control

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THE capitalist state used to be the mailed fist concealed within the velvet glove in Britain. Its real power was covered by the parliamentary...

Syria refuses to give way to imperialism

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THE news that the Obama regime is demanding the complete withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters from Syria marks a decisive development in the increasingly desperate...

Corbyn is just another Remainer – Build the new leadership in the Labour movement...

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IN HIS address last week at the TUC annual congress, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn informed delegates that Labour’s priority was to stop a No-Deal...