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Chinese Stalinists fear workers political revolution!

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IN an extraordinary speech given at his annual press conference, the outgoing Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, warned that China risks a ‘historical tragedy’...

Cape Town – first major metropolitan city to run out of water!

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THE water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa’s second largest city, has become explosive as experts now estimate that ‘Day Zero’, the day when...

Warning – Police Are Armed And Dangerous!

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THAT the times are really changing was rammed home once again yesterday. People are angrily reacting to the news that 4,000 highly trained police officers...

GM strikers are fighting for all US workers

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ABOUT 73,000 carworkers, members of the 600,000-strong United Automobile Workers (UAW) trade union, went on indefinite strike at 11am on Monday at General Motors’...

Unions Must Be Made To Take Action To Defend Steel Industry Jobs And Pensions!

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THE TORY government is on the brink of a savage attack on Tata Steel workers’ pensions, and after four weeks of consultation will be...

Well Done – Unison Conference Rejects Histadrut

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THE Unison National Delegate Conference has rejected ‘critical engagement’ with the Histadrut, the Zionist trade union, which plays a central role in the Zionist...

Judges and lawyers demand end to UK arms to Israel. It’s time the TUC...

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OVER 600 UK lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including three former supreme court justices, have written to Rishi Sunak warning that the UK...

Free Kendall-Smith! Stop the war against Iraq!

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THE Labour movement must salute the courageous action of Flight-Lieutenant Kendall-Smith who yesterday declared, after a court martial had found him guilty on five...

Tory war on two fronts – against the working class at home and...

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LAST week Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the Tory offensive against the rights, conditions and wages of every worker. This is the strategy behind the...

Lobby the TUC on September 7th! Demand it calls a general strike to bring...

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INDIVIDUAL US military personnel assisting the war crimes of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza and the Palestinian West Bank territory could be prosecuted...

Bush is confronted by the legacy of Hurricane Katrina

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UNITED States President George Bush was in New Orleans yesterday on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the city. The hurricane killed...

UK, US and EU workers must organise the World Socialist Revolution!

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HIGHWAYMAN Trump has spelt it out that a 10% tariff is to be imposed on all UK goods sent to the USA from Britain...

No Ifs, No Buts – TUC must call an immediate general strike to support...

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Over 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street last Saturday in a massive demonstration of support for Palestine and demanding an end...

Now’s the time to kick out Cummings and Tory government – forward to a...

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IN A COMPLETELY unprecedented act of defiance Boris Johnson’s special advisor Dominic Cummings gave a press conference yesterday defending his conduct in breaking the...

Disband the Met and the entire police force that serves only the interests of...

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WHILE the TUC and trade union leaders frantically cancelled strikes and conferences as a ‘mark of respect’ over the death of 96-year-old Elizabeth II,...

With a 42% turnout French workers humiliate Macron!

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République en Marche, has won a parliamentary majority, just weeks after his presidential victory. With nearly all the...

Israel and Libya have a ‘Secret Meeting’ while Palestinians are being killed every day...

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LIBYA’S PM has ‘suspended’ his foreign minister Najla al-Mangoush after she met with her Israeli counterpart, in secret, despite the fact that Libya is...

Workers Worldwide Must Take General Strike Action To See That Palestine Wins!

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THE ARROGANT Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has outlined his proposals for the future Israeli governance of Gaza ‘once the war between Israel and...

Trump Is Organising A US Coup Not A Presidential Election Campaign!

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IN HIS FOURTH of July speech US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claims are out to...

Corbyn is just another Remainer – Build the new leadership in the Labour movement...

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IN HIS address last week at the TUC annual congress, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn informed delegates that Labour’s priority was to stop a No-Deal...

Putin Defies The Imperialists Diktat And Visits Mariupol Promising To Rapidly Rebuild The City!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has visited Mariupol and vowed that new comfortable residential quarters for the people will continue being constructed in Mariupol in...

Labour under ex-prosecutor Starmer cannot win a general election – What is needed is...

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LABOUR has failed to dominate the council elections despite the illegal actions of PM Johnson, and the way that under his government living standards...

Labour holds seat – Tories just beat BNP and are as popular as swine...

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THE working class saw the Tories, and the Scottish Tories of the SNP, off in Thursday’s by-election in Glasgow North East. On...

Hutton provocation will result in ‘summer pensions war’

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TODAY’S publication of the Hutton Report on public sector pensions will be like a red rag to a bull as far as the membership...

All councils, student unions and trade unions must boycott Israel – Edelstein visit must...

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THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has condemned the new Tory ‘guidance’ banning councils, NHS trusts and all publicly funded organisations from boycotting goods and services...

May’s university review ‘Dead on arrival’! Students, lecturers & staff must unite and strike...

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‘DEAD on arrival,’ is how Vanessa Wilson, chief executive of the University Alliance Group described outgoing PM May’s new report on university education. The Augar...

Trade unions must act now and call general strikes to kick out Tories and...

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THERE has been no let-up in the murderous bombardment of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a tiny city on the border with Egypt...

Imperialists step up war preparations against Iran

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A report from the director of US national intelligence, James Clapper, issued last Tuesday signalled that imperialism’s war preparations against Iran have reached the...

Workers and elderly to be hammered for the benefit of privateers

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CURRENTLY all over the country A&E’s are being closed, in some areas entire hospitals are to be demolished, while the number of private patients...

Defend Council Housing – Bring Down The Brown Government

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FOR SOME time Labour has been promoting the theme that the very idea of a job for life is reactionary, and has been glorifying...
Marchers in London last May demand an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine

Labour Plans New Pensions Robbery

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EX-CBI boss, Lord Turner’s plans for pensions are just the means chosen by the Blair government to make the working class pay for the...

Belfast City Council Gives A Lead To The Workers Of Ireland And The UK!

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BELFAST City Council has given a big lead to the workers of Ireland and the UK by voting to urge the UK and Republic...

Health unions in head-on collision with the government over pay! Entire working...

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UNIONS representing NHS workers have written directly to the Tory government over their pay. The fourteen unions represent over a million NHS workers. The...

Murdoch – the police – the government and the state

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THE admission by Met police chief Sir Paul Stephenson, that Murdoch’s News International was paying serving police officers, comes as no shock to those...

Workers do Battle All Over Europe!

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GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...

Greek crisis rages – forward with European socialist revolution

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European finance ministers met in Brussels yesterday to rubber-stamp the deal agreed at the last minute last Thursday to bail-out the bankrupt Greek economy...

EU crisis bringing the union to the brink of the socialist revolution!

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THE EU is still reeling from Friday’s decision by Standard and Poor’s rating agency to downgrade France’s triple-A status, at the same time as...

All Out On May 1!

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown have declared war on the public services and their staff, with closures, cuts, redundancies and pay...

Scottish Labour Call For A Gaza Ceasefire Must Be Supported By All Trade Unions...

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FORMER Mossad official, Rami Igra, has said all Palestinians in Gaza over the age of 4 deserve to face Israel’s collective punishment policy of...

Blair & Brown’s NHS cuts boost the Tories

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ONLY those with short memories, or strong stomachs, did not have to stop themselves vomiting when hearing Tory leader David Cameron talk about his...

THE TUC leaders who have deserted junior doctors and the NHS must be kicked...

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YESTERDAY the Tory offensive against not just junior doctors but the entire foundation of the National Health Service reached a ‘watershed moment for the...

French revolution coming to a head!

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THE massive strike movement against the Socialist Party-imposed anti-union laws is continuing in France with the railways due to take national strike action today...

Build the WRP to deal with the TUC right wing

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AT the Trades Union Congress in Brighton this week, delegates have given a relatively timid expression of the determination of millions of workers to...

Commissioners will slash and burn local services!

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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Tory County Council has imposed emergency spending controls twice in the last six months and is now in a ‘truly perilous state’, having...

Now send Brown packing – forward to a workers government!

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Blair stood down yesterday, driven out of power by the Iraqi insurgency and the British workers’ determination to defend their welfare state. The disorientated...