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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...

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...

Sack CWU collaborators!

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THE drive by the leadership of the postal workers union (CWU) to transform it from an independent union fighting for the interests of its...

Disband the police and go forward to a Workers State and Socialism!

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TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced another government ‘initiative’ this week, this time ordering the police to ‘crackdown on crime’. The very idea that the...

Chavez Visit Poses World Revolution

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THE visit of the left bourgeois nationalist leaders Evo Morales of Bolivia and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to Europe is much appreciated, and is...

Obama Puts British Imperialism In Its Place

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WITH more than 100 million gallons of oil already freed to spew all over the US Gulf coast, the ‘special relationship’ between the US...

UK Trade Unions Must Take Action To Support The Sudanese Workers And Youth Revolution!

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SUDAN has been in the midst of an enormous economic and political crisis since the masses of workers and youth overthrew the UK- and...

Send ex-Goldman Sachs Carney packing

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YESTERDAY the new head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, officially took up the reins from the outgoing Sir Mervyn King. Carney, formerly head...

‘Relentless’ rise in public debt unsustainable world bankers warn as capitalism dives into the...

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THE head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issued the gravest warning yet to the governments and central banks of the capitalist world...

Israel Joins Al Qaeda In Attacking Syria

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IN LINE with Obama’s policy of ‘leading from the rear’ (a tactic learnt after receiving some very, very harsh lessons in Iraq and Afghanistan),...

British MPs reduced to whinging while Taliban take control!

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WHILE the Taliban’s top political leaders arrived in Afghanistan to take control of the country, British MPs held an emergency debate in Parliament yesterday...

Trump’s economic miracle is in fact a mountain of debt that US workers will...

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IN HIS State of the Union address last week, US president Donald Trump boasted that under his leadership the American economy had undergone a...

Trade Unions Must Not Stand By And Watch NHS Being Closed!

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ON Thursday evening hundreds of Enfield residents were led by the North East London Council of Action into Chase Farm hospital to protest at...

Working Class Is On The March – Tuc Must Call A General Strike To...

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DRIVEN forward by the shock of capitalism’s energy catastrophe the working class is now on the march. Unite Wales union NHS members have voted to...

Coalition To Take The Axe To Council Spending And End ‘Ring-Fencing’

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COUNCILS in England face a 10% cut in funding from central government as part of the coalition’s spending plans for 2015/16. As well, there...

Tories, LibDems are in crisis – kick them out now!

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AS the results of Thursday’s local council elections come in and are poured over by the main political parties and the pundits in the...

Build The Fourth Internati0Nal!

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THE news last week that more than 100 cities in the United States are set to go bankrupt in the new year spells complete...

Bank of England suspected of serious fraud!

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THE Bank of England this week was revealed to be under investigation by no less than the Serious Fraud Office. Founded in 1694, the Bank...

Keep Tories Out – Forward To Socialism!

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THE UK capitalist economy is staggering along the bottom with a three month ‘growth’ to show, from January to March, of 0.2 per cent. The...

Egypt must keep open Gaza’s Rafah crossing!

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THE Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which has been closed for the past five months, was opened for two days at...

Barber’s secret meetings with Tories

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BRENDAN BARBER, general secretary of the TUC, who doubles as a director of the Bank of England, has been at it once again, doing...

Forward to a public sector general strike to smash Brown’s wage cutting policies

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GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...

Tory Leadership Crisis Deepens, While Labour’s Right Wing Lashes Out At Corbyn!

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THE CRISIS-ridden Tory leadership has launched its campaign to elect a new leader to replace the shattered May, who betrayed Brexit and then piloted...

New Curriculum abolishes childhood

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THIS week, children and young people return to school in England where they face being subjected to a new education curriculum devised by the...

Tories torn apart by crisis – build the WRP to lead struggle for power!

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NEARLY one year ago the Tories under Boris Johnson won a resounding victory in the general election winning a massive 80-seat majority in the...

Socialist revolution only answer to capitalist debt crisis

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RACHEL Reeves is due to deliver her first Autumn Budget as Labour Chancellor next Wednesday, and is already promising ‘tough decisions’ on cuts and...

Russian news broadcaster banned across EU and UK as capitalism accelerates war drive against...

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SPEAKING in the Commons yesterday, Tory culture secretary Nadine Dorries told MPs that Ofcom (the so-called independent regulator of broadcasting in the UK) was...

Trump To Invite Netanyahu To His Inauguration!

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PRESIDENT-ELECT Trump’s advisers are planning to invite Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the president-elect’s inauguration ceremony, so as to publicly stress just...

Stock markets crash as capitalism drives into recession – Socialist revolution only way forward

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THE CRASH on the global stock markets carried on yesterday as the world financial markets reeled from the shock realisation that the once mighty...

Answer Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill with a general strike to kick the...

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THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets at the weekend in mass ‘kill the bill’ demonstrations across the country against the...

Greek Workers Have No Alternative To Revolution!

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A LEAKED email sent to the Greek Ministries of Finance and Labour from the Troika mafia in Brussels says Greek private sector workers must...

Youth will rise up against savage Tory attacks!

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IT is definitely no fun being young under the Tories! As is well known, the Tories are absolutely desperate to be the party that hammers...

Syrian Foreign Minister tells UN that the US-UK military alliance must withdraw from Syria

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ADDRESSING the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem confirmed that the US-UK...

Labour support group props up Cameron

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THE Cameron-led debate in the House of Commons on Monday disclosed a Tory Party split down the middle, with Boris Johnson leading a revolt...

Libya disintegrates while the NATO vandals admire their work

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A SHRINE in the Libyan capital Tripoli venerating a Sufi Muslim saint has been destroyed – the latest in a series of outrages by...

Unite must call BA strike now! All TUC trade unions must join the action!...

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AT A THOUSAND-strong mass meeting of British Airways workers at Bedfont Football Ground on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport on Thursday, workers voted unanimously...

Saudi backers of ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Al Nusra Front accuse Qatar of...

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LAST month US president, Donald Trump, turned up in Saudi Arabia to give his unqualified support to the ruling Saudi monarchy and their fellow...

May wants to rip up the basic rights of the working class! Put her...

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IN the seven short weeks since Tory Prime Minister Theresa May announced out of the blue that she was calling a snap general election,...

Johnson’s new attack to break up the NHS

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LABOUR’S Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans yesterday to allow well-off patients to make so-called ‘co-payments’ for drugs and extra treatments, while still receiving...

Tories-Lib Dems want more than £20bn of NHS cuts by 2014

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THE new Tory Secretary of State for Health Lansley was appointed on Wednesday and has immediately put on record that he will...

Ukrainian regime to be run by open US imperialist agents

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CITIZENS of the US, Georgia and Lithuania have been granted Ukrainian citizenship in order to be key ministers in the new counter-revolutionary...

Miliband to support Tory cuts and Royal Mail privatisation!

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ED MILIBAND, the new Labour Party leader, has made it perfectly clear that his victory does not mean that he is going to oppose...

Palestinian groups sign ‘national unity’ agreement for a united fight for victory and the independent...

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YESTERDAY officials from 14 Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Fatah, signed a ‘national unity’ agreement in the Chinese capital Beijing that ended any divisions...

We should have been the Thatcherites, Blair tells LP

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IN his parting speech as Prime Minister to the Labour Party conference, Blair administered his kiss of death to Gordon Brown, telling his Chancellor...

The UK ruling class is in a desperate crisis – forward to the socialist...

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EX-PRINCE Andrew’s public disgrace has rocked the British ruling class, with the King stripping his younger brother of his ‘prince’ title and evicting him...