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Smash anti-strike bill by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick the...

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THE TUC yesterday published an analysis that showed that 5.5 million workers in England, Scotland and Wales would have their right to strike threatened...

Sunak demands police crack down on all opposition to Zionist genocide.

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has summoned the country’s police chiefs to tell them they must use all the existing and wide-ranging police powers...

Tory Party Turns On Cameron Over Syria

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PRIME Minister Cameron said last Thursday night that he would respect the defeat of his ‘strike Syria’ government motion by 285-272 in the House...

Seattle Police Chief Quits As Working Class Gears Up To Deal With Trump!

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SEATTLE’S chief of police has thrown in the towel and quit on the same day that the city council voted to reduce the police...

Hamas condemns the ‘massacre of the century’ in Palestine by Israel and its allies!

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HAMAS has said that the Israeli regime is engaged in committing a ‘massacre of the century’ in the Gaza Strip, with Tel Aviv carrying...

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...

Workers of the world unite in the struggle for socialism

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OVER 600,000 workers have come to work in the UK from the eight nations which joined the European Union in 2004, said Home Office...

Down With The US ‘Proximity Talks’

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US VICE-PRESIDENT Joe Biden is in Israel where he has declared that the just agreed ‘proximity talks’, which will see US envoy George Mitchell...

Forward To Jerusalem!

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THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...

US abandons Kurds in northern Syria and gives green light to Turkish invasion

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TURKEY has been given the green light to invade northern Syria by the US following the abrupt decision by the Trump administration on Sunday...

Forced Labour schemes in crisis – bring down the coalition

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A concerted public relations exercise has been launched to vilify the unemployed and attack critics of its flagship policy of forcing those on Jobseekers...

Kick out union leaders who collaborate with Tories – build the revolutionary leadership in...

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THIS WEEK Unison, the largest public sector union in the country, issued a statement declaring that it ‘stands ready’ to work with the Tory...

Tories hand billions to private rail companies while demanding workers keep TfL from...

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THE TORIES unveiled this week proposals for funding Transport for London (TfL) that will force the working and middle class to bear the huge...

Ukrainian workers are fighting the US-UK backed gangsters

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THE rapidly developing crisis in the Ukraine, has placed the issue of the defence of the Ukraine from this imperialist-backed assault, and the brigands...

Arrogant Carney Rubbishes Miliband!

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THIS week, in an attempt to cash in on the universal hatred felt by the working class and middle classes towards banks and bankers,...

Capitalist State Tooling Up F0R Civil War

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A SCOTLAND YARD review into the 2010 summer riots ‘Four Days in August’ shows very clearly that the capitalist state in the UK...

Watch out! The bank robbers are still at large!

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‘MORE and more leverage in the system. The whole building is about to collapse anytime now. . . Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab....

Unprecedented video reveals 15 Palestinian medics and humanitarian workers executed by Zionist troops

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TWO British Labour MPs were detained and deported by Israel on Saturday after they had attempted to enter the country as part of a...

Trade Unions Must Name The Date For The General Strike To Free Palestine And...

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OVER 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday, protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. The protest, organised by the...

May appeals to Labour Right-Wing to save her

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THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained...

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...

Nato Shall Not Pass Vow Soviet Workers

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THERE could not be a greater contrast between the policies of the Ukrainian governing parties to join the EU and NATO as rapidly as...

Defend state education, stop privatisation!

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TODAY'S joint strike by two unions at Middlesex University must be the start of action to defend jobs and the very existence of a...

US-UK imperialism has come to grief in Iraq

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IRAQ’S election commission has barred almost 500 candidates and many parties from running in the ‘national’ elections on 7 March. A parliamentary committee says that...

Deselect the right wing Blairite MPs who want to split the Labour Party

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THE DECISIVE move of the working class to vote to leave the EU has not only upset the bankers and bosses of the EU,...

Disband the EU – forward to a Socialist United States of Europe

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THE latest attempt to advance, by sleight of hand, to a united capitalist state of the European Union for the benefit of the...

270,000 civil servants to strike!

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UP to 270,000 civil and public servants from across the UK are set to launch a month of industrial action, with a 48 hour...

Portuguese bailout accelerates EU disintegration

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THURSDAY’S announcement that Portugal had finally been forced into asking for a massive 90 billion euro (£79 bn) bailout from the European Central Bank...

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...

Labour government splitting apart as ministers prepare for a national government!

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YESTERDAY, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that splits had erupted in the heart of Keir Starmer’s Cabinet between deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and...

Interest rates held at 4.75% as inflation increases!

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THE Bank of England yesterday held UK interest rates at 4.75% until at least next February. This follows two cuts to the interest rates this...

Bankers fumble in the dark

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‘THE recession has. . . certainly presented us with plenty of puzzles,’ says the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Charles Bean. Addressing the...

MP’s ‘Can’t live on £60,000 a year’!

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MP’s ‘Can’t live on £60,000 a year’. This was the defence put forward by Tory MP and former foreign secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, to the...

Saudis resume Yemen bombing raids!

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THE reactionary Saudi regime – the pride and joy of the United States and UK ruling classes that have armed it to the teeth...

CBI demands pay cuts in the private and public sectors

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The CBI and ‘recruitment experts’ Harvey Nash revealed yesterday that half of all employers are planning to freeze pay altogether, and that only 4%...

Israel military in crisis – calls up 60,000 reservists to occupy Gaza City 

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ON MONDAY Hamas reported that the group had agreed terms for a ceasefire plan for Gaza that calls for a 60-day pause in fighting...

The ruling class are above the law – decides Law Lords

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THE House of Lords Court of Appeal has ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted lawfully when it rolled over in front of...

Israel deliberately targeting reporters in a desperate attempt to silence the exposure of its...

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THE TARGETED killing of journalists in Gaza by the Israeli regime claimed the lives of two Al Jazeera journalists on Sunday when the car...

No British Troops For Iraq!

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ON April 30th 2009 the British army left Basra in Iraq for Afghanistan. This was after negotiating their retreat from Iraq’s second city with...

FOOD BANKS becoming the rule in poverty-stricken UK

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THERE are currently 270 food banks across the UK where poverty-stricken workers and youth are directed to get subsistence amounts of food. As the capitalist...

CWU leaders embrace privatisation!

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A BALLOT of CWU members announced this week showed a vote of 94% in favour of a ‘legally binding contract’ between the leadership of...

Strike wave intensifies this week – now is the time to call a general...

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Today, over 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies are continuing national strike action called by the RMT union over pay,...

If one guard is sacked the TUC must call the whole working class out!

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THE STRIKE of the Southern guards, which begins on Tuesday, is a pivotal struggle for the entire working class. What is under threat is...

Bank of England poised to raise interest rate as inflation spirals out of control!

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THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has issued the starkest warning that the UK economy faces a massive inflationary spiral and...

Only A Socialist Revolution Can Defend Jobs, Homes, Basic Rights And Deal With Climate...

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THE TUC’s ‘Put People First’ march on Saturday brought 50,000 workers and youth onto the streets marching behind powerful contingents from the GMB and...