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Russian Military Chief Warns Don’t Attack Iran

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AN Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that the Iranian government hopes that the International Atomic Energy Agency will produce an unbiased report on...

Defeat BA’s union busting! All out in support of the cabin crew!

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ON THE eve of the four-day strike by British Airways cabin crew, which begins today, the company’s Chief Executive Willie Walsh stepped up his...

Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions

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A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...

US, UK and EU trade unions must take general strike action to defeat Israel’s...

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THE Israeli regime started its threatened ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah with an intense bombardment of the city on Sunday...

End the legal thievery of the super-rich with expropriation and a socialist revolution!

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THE SECRET hidden world of the mega rich, giant corporations, hedge funds, politicians, heads of State and the Queen has had the spotlight thrown...

Wolf in sheep’s clothing at the TUC

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THE ‘Wolf’, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, at yesterday’s TUC Congress, sought to explain to the ‘sheep’, the working class,...

Supreme Court rules against Brexit!

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BY A UNANIMOUS decision eleven judges in the Supreme Court declared that the five-week suspension, or prorogation, of Parliament is ‘unlawful, void and of...

Labour Party bankrupt financially and politically – unions must break from it and build...

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THE POLITICAL bankruptcy of the Labour Party is now matched by its financial bankruptcy as, under the leadership of Keir Starmer, it has become...

May Loses Support Of Both The Remainers And Leavers – Looks To Labour To...

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THAT BANKRUPT British capitalism and imperialism is unable to stand on its own two feet anymore is obvious. It faces the prospect of the...

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...

The Rapid Rise Of Joblessness Proves The Need For A UK Workers Revolution!

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THE rapid rise in joblessness amongst the UK’s youth has pushed Britain to an unwanted milestone. For the first time in a quarter of...

Now Act To Defend The NHS!

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THE WITCHHUNT that the Republican Party has organised against President Obama for having the temerity to propose some relatively benign measures to allow...

TUC supports Heseltine – the Tory who closed down the mining industry

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IT says something about the depth of the capitalist crisis, and the lack of ability in the Cameron government, that Lord Heseltine, who in...

Refugees Must Be Welcomed – The Bosses Must Be Sent Packing!

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FOLLOWING the successes of the Syrian army’s drive into Idlib province, President Erdogan of Turkey has begun to carry out his revenge policy. Since the...

Student nurses to be forced to pay for training!

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THE results of the ‘consultation’ launched by the Tories on the 7th April on the proposal to end NHS funded bursaries for student...

Labour’s plan to demolish the public sector

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LABOUR’S Minister for Communities and Local Government, David Milliband, yesterday addressed the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Annual Conference called ‘Empowerment not abandonment’. He...

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...

Forward To Jerusalem!

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THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...

Irish government disintegrates – forward to a workers and small farmers government

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AFTER the resignation of the Foreign Minister and four other members of the Irish cabinet, the Prime Minister, Cowen has resigned as the...

Labour has no answer to the problems that the working class and middle class...

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MILIBAND’S Labour Party yesterday said that if it was the government it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job. This...

Full Support For The Doctors’ Strike

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EVERY TRADE UNION and all trade unionists must support today’s 24 hour strike action by the BMA doctors’ trade union, and must be demanding...

EU leaders installing a Greek puppet government

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A SUMMIT of all European Union members planned yesterday was cancelled to allow the Eurozone Finance Ministers to resume their talks held to ...

Tories savage poor but grovel to Clinton and US

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THE bankers coalition has set the scene for next Wednesday’s cuts announcements in true Bullingham Club style, by declaring that ‘welfare cheats’ equal muggers,...

IMF demands destruction of welfare state to save capitalism from debt crisis Answer bankers...

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THE IMF (International Monetary Fund) this week sounded the alarm bells for the world capitalist crisis when it announced the real scale of the...

US Fed emergency rate cut fails to halt crash – only socialist revolution can...

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FOR THE second time in less than two weeks the US Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to near zero on Sunday, a desperate last...

Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight mass unemployment – build a revolutionary...

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INTERVIEWED on Sky’s Sophy Ridge programme on Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady appealed for the Tories to unite with the TUC, saying: ‘Let’s...

Brown To Nationalise Northern Rock Losses

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BROWN and the Treasury have announced that they prefer a private sector ‘solution’ to the Northern Rock bank crisis, while Brown’s spin doctors have...

Brown targets European workers’ rights and benefits

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown published a pamphlet Global Europe-Full Employment and penned a special article in the Financial Times yesterday, lecturing the leaders of European...

Stock market crash – Only socialist revolution can end the carnage!

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ON MONDAY the Wall Street stock market crashed with the Dow Jones Index, which follows the fortunes of 30 large US companies on a...

Famine ‘unfolding’ in Gaza – trade unions must call general strikes to bring down...

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THE UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which monitors hunger and starvation across the world, yesterday issued a warning that the ‘worst case...

Corbyn is playing the May game!

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MONDAY’s speech to the Charity Commission by the unelected Tory prime minister, Theresa May, revealed the weakness of the Tory government and its intense fear...

End the torture of Julian Assange and stop his extradition to the US!

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange appeared in person at Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday in yet another routine administrative hearing to prolong his imprisonment up to...

TUC leader O’Grady makes PM May a unity offer!

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IN a lecture to the London School of Economics (LSE) on Tuesday TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady made a ‘national government’ call to the...

Chile erupts as youth and workers take on the military in fight against austerity

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CHILE erupted over the weekend, with mass demonstrations and riots spreading from the capital Santiago to other major cities, as workers and youth rose...

Break The Blockade Of Gaza!

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GAZA is being reduced from a massive prison for the Palestinian people to one in which they are homeless, jobless, and beginning to go...

Tories responsible for deaths in care homes and amongst NHS workers – Time to...

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THIS week, the Tories’ criminal liability for the deaths of thousands of health care workers, the elderly and the disabled was revealed in two...

Ireland, Spain and Norway have opened floodgates in recognising the state of Palestine –...

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THE unity of western governments over previous unconditional support for the state of Israel and its illegal occupation of Palestine was blown apart yesterday...

Smash British-Pakistani torture chain

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AMNESTY International yesterday called for the new government of Pakistan to provide information about the hundreds of people held in the country’s ‘war on...

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...

Only a Socialist Revolution can force the break with the bosses’ and bankers’ EU!

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NOTHING summed up the crisis that is gripping the leadership of the trade unions like the TUC’s joint statement this week, with the bosses...

Italy ‘Ungovernable’

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THE bourgeoisie of Europe woke up on Tuesday morning to discover, to their horror, headlines proclaiming that the third largest economy in Europe had...

Strike wave intensifies this week – now is the time to call a general...

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Today, over 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies are continuing national strike action called by the RMT union over pay,...

RMT to strike during COP26! The trade unions must follow RMT lead and strike...

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STRIKE action during COP26 (The United Nations Climate Change Conference), from Sunday October 31 to Friday 12 November, is to go ahead after the...

Coalition imposed pay freeze hits workers and middle class

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A report issued on Monday by the independent Resolution Foundation spells out exactly the desperate situation being faced today by the so-called ‘squeezed middle’,...

MANDELSON – Royal Mail privatisation & billions for big business

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BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson launched a £20bn loan guarantee scheme for medium and small businesses yesterday, aimed at getting banks to lend to companies...