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Tory Big Brother will be spying on everybody!

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THE News International empire’s phone hacking and spying, and the way that it sought to regulate the government and bend the police force to...

Young Workers Are Sleeping In The Streets, While The Bosses And Bankers Get Richer...

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WORKERS earning wages, employed in respected professions are sleeping in the streets and working during the day, or night is something shockingly new to...

Duncan Smith blames the poor and food banks for poverty

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THE Tory Works and Pension Minister, Iain Duncan Smith, is furious with the accusation that the government’s policies of cutting all benefits to the...

Inflation carries on cutting wages, pensions and benefits

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THE Office of National Statistics has given the figures on inflation rates for last month which confirm that British capitalism faces total economic collapse,...

World capitalism collapsing into wars and economic crash – Forward to the victory of...

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THE World Economic Forum commenced its annual meeting at the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos this week with US president Donald Trump due to deliver...

Stalinism betrays Libya – build Fourth International to smash imperialism

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As forces loyal to the Libyan revolution and its leader Colonel Gadaffi continue to fight on against the NATO-led onslaught on Tripoli, the imperialist...

Time to take action against the venture capitalists

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A BIDDING war between warring groups of venture capitalist locusts has broken out over who is to asset strip Boots. Yesterday morning, the...

Bank of England pushes up interest rates as inflation spirals out of control!

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THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and decided to increase the interest rate by 0.25% to 0.75% in a futile attempt...

Crisis hit Osborne pledges ruthless class war on workers, pensioners and youth

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CHANCELLOR Osborne began his Autumn Statement yesterday ‘We will do whatever it takes to protect Britain from this debt storm . ....

Strike to support nurses and defend the NHS!

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THE anger of nurses working in the National Health Service (NHS) at having a pay cut imposed upon them this year, by the government...

The UK Army Drive To Recruit Youth Is Stepped Up As The Crisis Of...

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THE BRITISH armed forces, especially the army, are making a big turn to recruit youth, with military colleges springing up everywhere. More than one-in-10 new...

Gove’s new ‘extremism definition’ prepares way for crackdown on all opposition to Israeli genocide

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COMMUNITIES secretary Michael Gove in Parliament yesterday made a short statement introducing the Tories new definition of extremism which now encompasses ‘non-violent extremism’. Almost all...

Fatah calls for a general strike and ‘Day of Rage’ – UK workers must...

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AT LEAST 40 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison of ‘Megiddo’ have joined the prisoners’ open-ended mass hunger strike, said the strikers Media Committee...

Stock markets crash in US and across the world – socialist revolution is only...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s tariff increases imposed on China, Mexico and Canada come into effect today but already this has set off a massive...

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...

All out action needed to defend pensions and jobs

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THE CWU is warning that 40,000 jobs will go as a result of increased mechanisation of the Royal Mail system. It is also objecting...

A Plague Of Locusts

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ONCE again the spotlight has been put on the private equity locusts. This time a Financial Times investigation has shown how TPG, CVS and...

UK troops to Russia’s borders while Tories threaten more bombings of Yemen

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ON the day that Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak addressed parliament – to justify bombing Yemen last Friday without bothering to consult MPs –...

Leaked documents reveal a failed mass-murder machine

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THE leaked 90,000 US Afghan war documents once again show – as did the My Lai mass killings of the Vietnamese people – the...

Abbas calls for a Government of the State of Palestine!

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday that, ‘We are here today for all of us...

Bolton Arrives To Boost Johnson And Open The Door For UK Troops In The...

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JOHN BOLTON, President Trump’s National Security Adviser, was in town yesterday recruiting mercenaries to the US cause, including its trade war with China and...

BA sacks 12,000 workers while Unite and the GMB register their ‘shock’ and nothing...

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THE GIANT Unite and GMB trade unions have greeted the news that British Airways is to make 12,000 workers redundant with shock, dismay and...

Trump takes US to brink of war with Iran! Workers must rise up to...

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US PRESIDENT Trump took America to the brink of war with Iran ... and then pulled back at the very last minute on Thursday...
PATRICA DA SILVA ARMANI (speaking), ALEX PERIERA and VIVIEN MENEZES FIGUEIREDO (behind), cousins of Jean Charles de Menezes at the Stockwell Tube vigil six months after he was shot dead by police

All out for the News Line–Gate Gourmet sacked workers conference

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THE sacked Gate Gourmet workers were locked out almost six months ago on August 10th-11th 2005 by a management and an owner that was...

Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads

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ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...

USA supplies Syrian gangs with latest anti-tank weapons

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THE US, UK and Saudi-backed and organised ‘rebels’ who have failed to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, who has the support...

The 1% NHS pay award is a slap in the face for all trade...

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THE trade unions are unanimous in their condemnation of the 1% pay award for NHS workers. Even the TUC, which considers PM May to be...

Breast cancer scandal inevitable outcome of Tory privatisation of NHS – time to...

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LAST WEDNESDAY, Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised ‘wholeheartedly and unreservedly for the suffering caused’ to the hundreds of thousands of women who were...

Unions Must Take Action Now To Defend The NHS!

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FOLLOWING similar warnings by the King’s Fund and other bodies, the BBC has announced that the NHS in England faces a...

Cameron Poses As The Soldiers’ Friend

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THE government is to write into law for the first time the principles of a ‘military covenant’, which will give members of the navy,...

Remainer MPs attempt to block no deal! Workers must take strike action to drive...

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Commons on Thursday to try to ensure that Parliament is able to block any attempt by the expected Johnson-led Tory government to shut Parliament...

Big business to take over NHS funds

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THE Labour government is speeding up the break-up, privatisation and destruction of the National Health Service, despite the vote at the Labour Party Conference...

UK Ruling Class To Proscribe Wagner Group And Harass Supporters Of The Ukrainian...

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THE Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner Group, which was being cheered to the rafters when its members were said to be marching on...

Clarke staggers on as Tories hold back from resignation call

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The ex-Home Secretary Blunkett was forced to resign after interfering to get his lover’s nanny special treatment from the passport office, and then seeking...

Desperate Blair dashes to Baghdad

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WITH British troops in the south of Iraq in danger of taking heavy casualties at the hands of an insurgency that has taken over...

UK recession ‘inevitable’ – only socialist revolution can end capitalist crisis

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THE FICTION of a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ for British capitalism is now firmly rejected by even the most loyal of...

Capitalism is a broken system – nationalise the banks and the car industry

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British Banks have been recapitalised by the working class, who were not consulted by the government before the Prime Minister took the decision...

May To Meet Trump On Friday – Trump To Meet The Queen In Summer!

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IT’S BEEN a lightning courtship. PM May is to meet Trump on Friday. May opposed the Brexit pre-referendum and was appointed PM by the 1922...

Stop The Airport To Win The BA Cabin Crew Struggle!

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BA has moved closer to a merger with Spanish national carrier Iberia after striking a deal with its pension trustees to ‘neutralise’ its pensions...

OECD says UK rates must rise to 3.5 per cent in 2011

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THE OECD said yesterday that state indebtedness, and rapidly growing inflation is threatening to bring down the entire banking system. Its secretary general, Angel Gurria,...

Nationalise LDV and GM Vauxhall – no Royal Mail privatisation!

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WITH even more right-wing forces seeking to bring down the Brown government from the right, trade unions now have an opportunity to show their...

Manchester students tear down the fences. UK workers and youth are building up for...

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STUDENTS have torn down prison-like fencing erected around their campus on the first day of the new nationwide lockdown. As the Tories allowed the second...

Osborne to slash £5bn from welfare – answer with general strike

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In today’s Autumn statement on the economy, the Tory chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, will announce that he intends to ‘kick start’ British...

Tories Want To Turn Trade Unions Into Labour Fronts For The Bosses With Their...

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THE TORIES are proposing to turn free and independent trade unions into ‘Labour Fronts’ run by the bosses with their new anti-trade union legislation. Under...

New Leadership Needed In Cwu

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YESTERDAY the number two CWU leader Dave Ward was boasting that the super-flexibility deal that the leadership put to the membership and which over...