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Streeting’s NHS ‘Back to Basics’ is a mandate for full scale cuts and complete...

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LABOUR’S health secretary Wes Streeting yesterday unveiled his new ‘trimmed down’ mandate for the NHS. Declaring that he would bring the health service ‘back to...

US And Israel Are Buying Time To Prolong The War Says Hamas Leader

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A SENIOR official of the Hamas resistance group says the US and Israel are pursuing a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in a...

US Ruling Class Forced To Nationalise Bankrupt Mortgage Giants

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THE nationalisation of the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac mortgage finance companies by the ultra right wing Bush administration is a forced admission of...

Capitalist recovery fraud is stoking working class fury

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WORKERS and young people will be forgiven if they believe that they are living in some parallel universe that has absolutely no connection with...

Working Class Is On The March – It Is Refusing To Pay The Bill...

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THE UK working class is on the march, spurred forward by the worldwide crisis of the capitalist system, with Britain very much the weakest...

Stand with Gaza Day of Action – force TUC to call a general strike...

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TOMORRROW'S, (Wednesday 7th February), ‘Stand With Gaza – Workplace Day of Action’ is being supported by a wide range of trade unions representing hundreds...

Tories getting ready to blitz NHS and Welfare State

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YESTERDAY PM Cameron pledged that a Tory government will introduce a law, within 100 days of taking office, guaranteeing no rise in income tax...

Britain involved up to its neck in rendition

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LAST week, the House of Commons was told by the Foreign Secretary, Miliband, that it had been deceived in numerous statements by Labour government...

The Imf Issues Warning To The UK And Europe

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecast for Britain for the third time in nine months and warned George Osborne that...

Tories to bail capitalism out, while leaving workers and their families to die of...

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GLOBAL stock markets crashed on Thursday, the biggest single day fall in history. This is the historic crisis of capitalism, its death agony. The...

Tories, stepping up their war on junior doctors, are putting patients and the NHS...

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Health Secretary Hunt making a ‘clear offer’ to cancel the junior...

Aviation is going into the abyss! Nationalise the entire industry through a socialist revolution!

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RYANAIR is to cut 3,000 jobs representing 15% of its workforce, it was announced yesterday. British Airways is to cut up to 12,000 jobs and...
Chairman NORMAN CANDY (CWU London Divisional Committee) opening the mass rally against privatisation in central London yesterday

Iraq war veterans sent into New Orleans

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YESTERDAY 300 Arkansas national guards were sent into the hurricane hit city of New Orleans, after having just returned from Iraq. The Governor of Louisiana,...

World economy on brink of collapse

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THE capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step over the brink into the abyss of collapse with the news that the euro debt...

No Performance-Related Pay In The Classroom!

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THE House of Commons Education Select Committee yesterday tried to deliver a blow against the national pay agreements established by the teaching trade unions....

10.3% For Everybody! – Ipsa Shows The Way

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EMBARRASSED MPs are appealing to Downing Street to make a new appeal to the IPSA body that sets MPs’ pay to abandon plans for...

Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Sri Lanka

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AFTER an exhausting, genocidal war, hugely costly in lives and resources, and in the face of a working class movement that is now demanding...

TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws!

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Following the passing of the Strikes (Minimum Service Level) Act in July, the Tories on Friday launched a six week ‘consultation on the reasonable...

Free The Prisoners Says Hamas And Stop Zionist Gaza Aggression!

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‘LET Christmas celebrations be a global occasion to intensify all forms of global solidarity, to stop the Zionist aggression on Gaza,’ the Hamas Movement...

Inflation soaring not falling – General Strike now!

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MONTHLY figures released yesterday reported that inflation in Britain had fallen from 2.8% in July to 2.7% in August, leading some bourgeois economists to...

European capitalism hits the rocks

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THE capitalist EU is being battered senseless this week by an economic crisis that is relentless and a working class that is refusing to...

Unions to call for London-wide strike action to defeat Tory attack on TfL workers

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RAIL unions have pledged mass industrial action in response to the Tory attacks on the jobs, pay and pensions of workers at TfL (Transport...

Japan Boosts Its Military Spending!

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WHILE the US and the UK have reduced their military spending, under pressure from the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system, the new...

Tories have insulted NHS workers by ‘rewarding’ them with a 1% ‘pay rise’. ...

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NURSES, midwives and NHS workers around the country are enraged by the Tory plan set out in the Chancellor’s budget to ‘reward’ them with...

Hundreds of Thousands Facing DLA Cuts

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Yesterday saw the introduction of changes to the benefits available to the disabled that will leave hundreds of thousands facing cuts of between £20.55...

Bank of England – people will just have to accept poverty as the price...

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HUW PILL, the chief economist at the Bank of England, has made the official position of the bankers crystal clear when he insisted that...

Junior doctors must call new strike and the BMA and TUC must stop with...

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THE BMA warned yesterday that ‘Politically driven mismanagement is undermining patient care in England. It was responding to a report from the King’s Fund...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the the thousand-strong march through Southall on December 4th last year

Blair gang runs out of spin

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THE Blair government has finally run out of spin. It is now being destroyed by its own inner contradictions, the chief one being its determination,...

EU and Arab workers must unite to smash imperialism

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FRENCH police have arrested several suspects over the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine massacre in Paris, which killed 12 people to ‘avenge an insult to...

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...

Turning A New Page In The NHS!

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THE leaders of 10 NHS organisations have called in an open letter for a ‘new page to be turned’ in 2014. Powerful organisations including...

Privatisation drive created Mid-Staffs NHS carnage

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RELATIVES of some of the 400 plus patients who died at the Mid-Staffs NHS Trust were unanimous yesterday about the official, just published report,...

World Economic Crisis is driving the political crisis tearing US capitalism apart!

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THE political administration of the United States, the most powerful capitalist nation in the world, is publicly tearing itself apart in an open war...

Public Debt doubles – overthrow bankrupt capitalism

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The coalition government will be forced to accept this month that the bank bailout has more than doubled the size of the Public Debt...

The Palestinian people have been robbed of $50bn by Israel since 2020 – TUC...

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THE PALESTINIAN people paid a heavy cumulative cost, estimated at $50 billion, between 2000 and 2020 due to the additional restrictions imposed by Israel...

Tanks enter West Bank as Zionist regime escalates genocidal war

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ON SUNDAY, Israeli military forces deployed tanks into the northern West Bank refuge camp at Jenin, a move denounced by the Hamas resistance movement as...

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,...

International inquiry finds no basis for Israeli claims against UNRWA that gave US and...

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IN JANUARY, the Israeli regime unleashed a propaganda campaign against UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East,...

Victory To Gadaffi – Defeat The Nato Gangsters!

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ON Saturday, Colonel Gadaffi stated that the counter-revolutionary groups that had tried to rise up in a number of areas in Tripoli had been...

Hunt shreds Truss and Kwarteng budget and prepares for massive austerity war on working...

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NEWLY-INSTALLED Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday completely shredded the mini-budget announced just a few weeks ago by Kwasi Kwarteng. Kwarteng was unceremoniously sacked on Friday...

Gaza children face death from starvation – the UK trade unions must act to...

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has renewed its warning of an imminent humanitarian disaster in the enclave due to the...

Sunak prepares for war on working class to pay off capitalism’s massive debt

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OVER 250,000 small firms and companies are destined to collapse this year according to research carried out by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Nearly...

Baa And Virgin Air Industry Workers Are Ready For Action

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NEWS LINE sends its greetings and full support to the British Airports Authority workers who have decided to take strike action at seven major...

Met chief’s agenda – police ‘justice’ and troops on the streets!

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, presented his ‘wish list’ of latest demands to the Labour government, when speaking to the Police Superintendents’ Conference...

Tories target workers, disabled and children to pay the bankers’ debts!

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OSBORNE said of his emergency Budget yesterday; ‘Yes it is tough; but it is also fair.’ Further on in his speech he allowed just...