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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH – TUC MUST ORGANISE GENERAL STRIKE for FEBRUARY 1!

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YESTERDAY’S mass picket lines outside NHS hospitals are a direct result of the fact that the Tory government is insulting workers and will not...

World Economic Forum declares capitalist ‘global order’ destabilised by imperialist war and political crisis

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THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) opened its meeting at the Swiss resort of Davos this week under the storm clouds of an economic and...

BMA demands STPs be ‘abandoned’! Now all trade unions must follow their lead and...

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ON MONDAY, the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting took a giant step forward when, after a struggle over the issue of STPs, it passed a...

Right-wing Labour wants to force workers to remain in EU!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn finally bit the bullet yesterday afternoon when he announced he would issue a three-line whip to Labour MPs instructing them...

Smash Fortress EU with the socialist revolution

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THE head of Eurotunnel is demanding that Britain forks out £4.6 million to finance a massive wall enclosing 600 metres of track at the...

Don’t vote to bomb Syria! Victory to Assad – forward to Palestine!

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IN August 2013, MPs rejected by 285-272 votes UK military intervention by the Cameron government to bomb President Bashar al-Assad’s government out of power,...

Sunak wants to abolish university degrees that don’t churn out ‘high earners’

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YESTERDAY, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak announced the latest attack on higher education with proposals to ‘limit the access’ to university degrees in England...

British Government Must Recognise Hamas

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IT IS AN indisputable fact that Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist, was freed by the Hamas movement just two weeks after Hamas took control...

The needs of profit making are a higher morality than bourgeois law

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THE High Court yesterday ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption inquiry into a £43bn Saudi arms deal....

Bush talks peace as Israeli tanks kill eleven in Gaza

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THE content of the Bush ‘peace offensive’ was yesterday revealed for the whole world to see when Israeli tanks, supported by artillery fire ...

Tory Government Is Making War On The Rail Trade Unions – TUC Must Be...

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THE RMT has revealed that the private rail companies war on the rail trade unions is being financed by the UK government, who are...

Inflation rages, the trade deficit widens and the bosses demand even tougher anti-union laws

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday kept rates at 0.5%. Inflation however is continuing to rise as world oil, wheat, meat, cotton and...

Sack the RBS bankers! Workers management of the nationalised banks!

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CITY Minister Lord Myners yesterday said shareholders should take action to stop million pound bonuses after Royal Bank of Scotland directors threatened to resign...

Rudd and May refuse to resign over Windrush, so no alternative but to kick...

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AT WEDNESDAY’S Prime Minister’s Question Time, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called for Tory Home Secretary Amber Rudd to resign – the only problem with...

Brown’s Working Together means everybody paying the bill for the bankers

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GORDON BROWN’S speech yesterday, at the TUC, was a very poor effort from a politician and a party that have no intention of defending...

Blair Refuses To Name The Date

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TONY Blair yesterday took advantage of the refusal of his political rivals, such as his policy co-thinker Gordon Brown and the trade unions, to...

150,000 Deaths – Tories Put The Bosses First – They Refuse To Lock Down...

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THE BMA yesterday condemned the 150,000 Covid deaths, so far, since the start of the pandemic. The reason for the mountain of corpses is...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday on the picket line

Trade unions must strike to defend the NHS!

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TOMORROW Central Surrey Health (CSH), a private company set up by nurses and therapists, will find out whether they have won the £22m contract...

Mandelson to read last rites for GM Luton – workers must occupy the plant...

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BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson – who did not lift a finger to save the LDV van factory from administration, to which it was consigned...

Time For Jewish And Palestinian Workers To Unite In A Single State With Jerusalem...

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A NOTORIOUS far-right Israeli minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has reported that he has got permission from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form his own armed...

Darling ignored over short selling

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BRITISH capitalism is staring disaster straight in the face. Motor car sales in December 2008 were 47.5 per cent lower than in December 2007. Yesterday,...

British Ruling Class To Send Depleted Uranium Shells To The Ukraine!

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THE UK government is sending depleted uranium shells for use in the Challenger 2 tanks gifted to Ukraine, a move CND has condemned as...

The Republicans Are In A Desperate Crisis While The Democrats Have No Way Forward...

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US PRESIDENT TRUMP going down with the coronavirus has sharpened the crisis of the imperialist powers, including the UK, who were up till now...

Trump gambles on his inflationary boom lasting till presidential election day!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump delivered his formal State of the Union address on Tuesday night with the usual boast that under the three years...

Blair Demands More Police State Measures

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AT A TIME when his office is on trial over the state execution of Jean Charles de Menezes, Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair...

US capitalism faces fiscal ‘heart attack’ – socialist revolution is the only way forward

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AT midnight (US time) on Monday, US president Trump made good his threat to impose his long-threatened 25% trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada...

Royal Mail steps up closure plan – CWU must act

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Postal workers were hit last week with the announcement by Royal Mail that it is stepping up its closure plan for half of the...

World crisis of capitalism dominates

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The world crisis of capitalism is asserting itself with a vengeance, defying every attempt by governments and the world financial system to bring it...

Gate Gourmet Workers Lead The Way!

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ON SUNDAY, hundreds of workers from Gate Gourmet, who were locked out and sacked by the company on August 10, 2005, are marching with...

Israel continues with building settlements and preparations to invade Gaza once again

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Israeli authorities on Wednesday approved 130 new settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem. Jerusalem municipality gave the go-ahead to build three 12-storey tower blocks in...

Health privateer takes NHS to court over right to profit from health – time...

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PRIVATEER Circle Health is once again taking legal action to overturn the decision to cancel its contract to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre. Rushcliffe...

3.1 million children living below poverty line – the TUC advocates doing absolutely nothing!

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This is a treacherous abdication of all responsibility by the trade union leaders for this crisis of poverty. They have not lifted a single...

Prentis appeals to Brown in vain

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‘OUR time and patience is running out. The country is in a mess and we look to the Government to come up with serious...

Keep out the Tories – bring down the Blair-Brown government! Forward to socialism!

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LABOUR was routed in Thursday’s regional and council elections losing by late yesterday afternoon 454 councillors and eight councils in England, while it lost...

Answer NHS crisis with general strike and occupations

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THIS week saw the crisis in the NHS reach breaking point with at least 17 hospitals in England declaring they faced a ‘major incident’...

Hands Off Syria – Down With Obama & Cameron’s War Drive!

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THE Syrian government has said over a long time that it would never use chemical weapons against its own people. Yesterday, the General Command of...

Police paramilitary rule

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TODAY the Police Federation’ annual conference will be addressed by the reappointed Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May, an event that the Federation’s leaders are...

The TUC Must Take Action T0 Defeat Johnson’s Savage Cuts And To Disband The...

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PM BORIS Johnson has refused to rule out raising taxes again, on the first day of the Tory Party conference and just three weeks...

Kwarteng Sacked – Truss On Borrowed Time – Working Class Must Kick Tories Out!

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KWASI Kwarteng was sacked yesterday afternoon as Tory Chancellor, just weeks after he announced huge unfunded tax cuts that triggered a financial crisis by...

The UN Committee Against Torture Condemns Israeli Regime!

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THE United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of ‘organised torture’ against Palestinians. In a report published...

Crunch Time For The British Banks

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BOTH the HSBC and Barclays banks along with the Royal Bank of Scotland have suffered major share losses in the past week, as investors...

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...

Unions Must Fight And Defeat Local Pay Plans

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THE Tory LibDem coalition, despite all its problems and weaknesses, waged a war to bring its Health and Social Care privatising bill into law. They...

UNIONS must purge Labour Party of Brown and the Blairites

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AFTER the Labour party defeat at Glasgow East, one of the safest Labour seats in the country, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stated...

Election of Zohan Mamdani as New York Mayor sends shock waves through the US...

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THE election of Zohan Mamdani as mayor of New York City on Tuesday has sent a massive shock wave throughout the administration of President...