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The judiciary seeks to bar the way! Open it up with a socialist revolution!

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YESTERDAY’S ruling by three High Court judges that the Tory government does not have the right to trigger Article 50 is the latest and...

Defend the NHS – kick the government out!

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THE coalition’s much-vaunted consultation period over its proposals to smash up the NHS and privatise it out of existence finally came to an end...

US Threatens North Korea With War

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‘WE are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea, we are not going to accept it,’ US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher...

Brown and Darling give the nod to 40,000 sackings!

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ONCE AGAIN the Labour Party leadership of Brown and Darling have shown where their class allegiance lies – and at great cost to the...

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...

Afghan Fall Out – Gates Attacks UK Defeatists

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US Defence Secretary Gates has condemned as ‘defeatist’ a comment by the British commander in Afghanistan that the war there cannot be won. Speaking...

Police and MI5 granted licence to kill by the Tories & Labour leaders!

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POLICE spies and MI5 operatives have been given the green light to commit crimes with impunity after an extremely controversial law was passed on...

Massive debt crisis reaches breaking point!

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OVER the past few months there has been an increasing concern being expressed in the pages of the financial press about the huge bubble...

Trade Unions Must Dump Starmer And Labour’s Right Wing And Call A General Strike...

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THE general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey has responded to Labour’s massive council election defeats and its disastrous loss in the Hartlepool...

Labour’s Programme Requires A Socialist Revolution To Carry It Out!

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LABOUR’S manifesto has caused consternation within the ranks of the Tory press, with yesterday’s Telegraph editorial claiming it ‘amounts to nothing short of dismantling...

US-UK Imperialists demand to make massacre legal

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DEFENCE SECRETARY Reid’s recent speech to the Royal United Service Institute entitled ‘20th-Century Rules, 21st-Century Conflict’ is a reflection of just how desperate the...

Labour Intends To Prop Up Capitalism And Continue From Where The Tories Left Off!

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KING Charles yesterday outlined his new Labour government’s law-making plans in his speech to Parliament. The Labour Party now has an overall majority over all...

PM May woos Labour’s right wing!

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ON THE eve of the Tory Party Conference, with the party split from stem to stern over Brexit, Tory leaders have announced that they...

Iran Is Not The Villain Of The ‘Nuclear Threat’

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PRESIDENT Obama made it crystal clear in his 11.45pm Saturday night address, over the just-signed six-month interim nuclear agreement with Iran, that he is...

Shias And Sunnis Must Form Revolutionary Government In Iraq

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THE Kurdistan Region intelligence chief, Lahur Jangi, has said that according to his estimates there were 400 to 450 British nationals in the ranks...

Tories Have Just Borrowed Billions While Doctors Say That They Are Being Treated Like...

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PM JOHNSON has put the blame for the coronavirus firmly on the people, when he warned on the TV that the NHS could be...

King warns the ruling class to tackle the causes of the crisis

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ADDRESSING a press conference yesterday afternoon, the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, said that ‘Tackling the symptoms of the crisis without...

£3 billion more of state aid for the Northern Rock

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THE Northern Rock bank, recently nationalised by the government has made a £585m loss for the first six months of the year, but the...

Kiev, EU and US facing defeat in East Ukraine!

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UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...

Forward to the Greek Socialist revolution

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SUNDAY’S general election in Greece saw the working class voting for Syriza, because of the lack of any revolutionary alternative, to keep the New...

Unions must call a general strike to support Palestine! – Kick the Tories out...

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ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’ heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza...

Windrush and Grenfell Tower prove one thing – this Tory government must...

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PRESS reports this week revealed that vulnerable members of the Windrush generation are still being forced to live in conditions of complete destitution, forced...

Making the country fit for the gangmasters

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AT the just concluded TUC Congress, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, openly condemned the description of ‘globalisation’ as ‘a race to the...

Bourgeois Lunacy At Rbs

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YESTERDAY the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history of £24.1bn, made up of a £7.9bn trading...

Iraqis Hail The Shoe Thrower As Their Hero

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YESTERDAY Iraqis of all of the different sects and persuasions were united and marching and demonstrating in Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Kerbala, Tikrit, Fallujah, Mosul...

Chagossians must have the right to return – the US base on Diego Garcia...

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A BIG delegation of the 2,000 Chagossians who are living in Crawley, plus delegations from the FBU, GMB and POA trade unions will be...

Household Debt Now At £1.47 Trillion!

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HOUSEHOLD debt has grown for the 26th consecutive month, reaching £1.47 trillion according to the Radical Centre for Social Justice (RCSJ). Household debt has soared...

The Crisis Of Capitalism Is Making It Clear That The Working Class Must Take...

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BRITAIN is in the grip of the deepest recession since records began putting the country on course for the biggest economic collapse since 1709...

‘Big Society’ a cover for destroying jobs and life-saving services!

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TORY leader Cameron yesterday delivered his speech on the ‘Big Society’ but had a problem defining what he meant. He said: ‘You can call it...

South Africa crashes into economic depression – socialist revolution is the only way forward

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ON WEDNESDAY South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the death at the age of 91 of George Bizos, the renowned human rights lawyer who...

Miliband quits and Balls is beaten as bankrupt reformism crumbles!

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THE general election saw the Labour Party completely routed in Scotland and humiliated in parts of England – a result that spells the complete...

UK government must answer war crimes charges in both Iraq and Yemen!

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has condemned UK war crimes in both the Yemen and in Iraq. In the Yemen UK-supplied weaponry to Saudi Arabia has been...
Gate Gourmet locked out workers listen attentively to a TGWU official outlining the deal that the union has made with the company

NHS A&E departmentsto be shut in scores

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THE policy of the Labour government, as far as the NHS is concerned, is to hand over more and more of the NHS budget...

NHS privateer investigated for ‘unsafe’ GP Service

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Serco, the country’s top privateer in the NHS and other public services, is under investigation over allegations that it ran an ‘unsafe’ GP out-of-hours...

Call Day Of Action To Defend The NHS

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A BLOC of twelve trade unions have joined together to campaign against the Labour government’s health service ‘reforms’, that is the Brown-Blair programme for...

Russia resisting regime change in Syria!

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RUSSIA said yesterday that it strongly disagreed with changes to its draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria made by the western imperialist powers. ‘Unfortunately,...

Clinton pledges continuing war to ‘get rid’ of Assad

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DEMOCRATIC Party Presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, is to order a ‘full review’ of the United States’ strategy on Syria as a ‘first key task’...

Myanmar – working class intervene with national strikes to bring down military dictatorship

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WORKERS across Myanmar (formally Burma) came out on a nationwide general strike yesterday demanding the overthrow of the military dictatorship which was imposed last...

Neither savage deflation or massive inflation but socialism!

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LABOUR’S last Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has urged the Tories to set about printing or borrowing even more money to finance growth. It must be remembered...

Khaddam Calls For Syrian Uprising

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THE former Syrian Vice-President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, set himself up as a would-be Quisling for President Bush yesterday, after he called for a...

UK ruling class turns on President Biden over Afghanistan disaster for imperialism!

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THERE is no doubt that the humiliating UK-US rout in Afghanistan is a colossal victory for the Taliban, and all oppressed nations, and at...

Unite the public sector TUC must call indefinite general strike

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TODAY'S four-hour national strike by firefighters is just the tip of a gigantic iceberg of working class hatred steadily bearing down on the leaky...

De Menezes murder not a crime says state

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THE current farce that is being played out, of trying a police death squad under the health and safety laws, is not only a...

Restoring nurses’ & midwives’ bursaries – a matter of life or death for...

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THERE is a desperate lack of nurses in the NHS. Currently, overloaded nurses are doing the job of three people, working 12-hour shifts in...

Workers must welcome all refugees and fight alongside them to get rid of capitalism!

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THE FRENCH government is to raze the Calais refugee camp to the ground ‘within days’, forcibly removing every man, woman and child. After six months...