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SALUTE ABDUL HAROUN – The man that the tunnel could not stop!

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ABDUL Rahman Haroun is a hero. The Sudanese national walked the full length of the Channel Tunnel (31 miles), dicing with death all of...

270,000 civil servants to strike!

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UP to 270,000 civil and public servants from across the UK are set to launch a month of industrial action, with a 48 hour...

Tory Britain Reveals Its ‘Third World’ Essence With Friday’s National Grid Catastrophe!

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TORY Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom has said that a special committee will look at what happened last Friday, when a huge power cut affected...

Latest revised official figures show British capitalism diving into recession – socialist revolution is...

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revised down its estimates of the UK’s economic growth as measured by the country’s Gross Domestic Product...

Capitalist financial markets instruct Reeves to make billions of pounds cuts to welfare!

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THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an influential independent economic think-tank that dispenses ‘advice’ on financial matters to the government, has weighed in this...

Business Secretary Reynolds can’t keep blast furnaces going!

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THE British Labour government’s business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep...

General strike to bring down Tories to end arming Israeli genocide

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YESTERDAY, Israeli troops pulled out of Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, after two weeks of brutal attacks that left behind a...

Scandalous Academies!

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AN academy chain in London set up by the Tory schools minister Lord Nash is having its education curriculum drawn up by his daughter. The...

Hezbollah And Hamas Stand Fast As Israel Seeks To Provoke New War To Try...

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THE secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has met with a delegation of senior Hamas officials in Beirut, as tensions explode across the...

Davis Calls On The Cabinet To Revolt – Now Is The Time To Bring...

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NOW that the ex-Brexit negotiator Davis has called for the Cabinet to rise up against the May government’s permanent Customs Union, and her plan...

One third of all people in UK have lived in poverty in the past...

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ONE in three people in the country have ‘experienced poverty’ in the past four years. According to figures produced by the Office for National Statistics,...

Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes

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IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...

Syriza Begins T0 Swing To The Right!

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GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said he is confident that agreement can be reached with creditors over the repayment of ‘Greece’s debts’,...

Moroccan leaders stab Palestine in the back with another ‘normalisation’ deal with Israel!

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ISRAEL and Morocco announced they are to ‘normalise ties’ in another US-brokered deal. On Thursday, Morocco became the fourth Arab country since August to strike...

There must be ‘non-negotiable rules’ Kelly tells minorities

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COMMUNITIES Secretary Ruth Kelly, launching a Commission on Integration and Cohesion yesterday, declared: ‘I believe that we should celebrate and clearly articulate the benefits...

Brexit Is Blowing Up The Two-Party System Of Rule – The Working Class Must...

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PM MAY yesterday made an appeal for MPs to ‘stand together as democrats and patriots’, to support her withdrawal deal. This is after her resolution...

The way to peace in the Ukraine is to restore the Soviet Union!

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THE MAYOR of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, has split the Ukrainian leadership over the issue of Russian sovereignty over the Crimea. Rejecting President Zelensky’s refusal to...

State violence escalates – three dead in eight days!

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The news that yet another person has died after a confrontation with the police brings the total of deaths arising out of such incidents...

Israel Remains Putin’s ‘Partner!’

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THE RESPONSE of Russia’s political leadership, led by Vladimir Putin, to the Israeli raid on Syria that led to the death of 15 Russian...

Students & lecturers set to erupt over fees & cuts!

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THIS September, students in universities across the country are set to erupt in anger when they return after the £9,000 cap on university tuition...

Victory to the insurgency – puppet regime splits into rival gangs

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WHILE Blair continues to try and claim that there has been some partial victory for ‘democracy’ in Iraq, worth the ‘price’ of the many...

Keep The Military Out Of Schools

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THE BROWN government is now beating the big drum of patriotism, a quality that has often been termed as the ‘last refuge of a...

PM Sunak heaps sanctions on Russia as US, EU and UK workers pay the...

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PM SUNAK HAS LOST NO TIME in announcing a series of fresh sanctions against Russia that include a ban on imports of aluminium, diamonds,...

Labour leader Starmer and the TUC General Council remain silent as Zionist gangsters murder...

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A DELEGATION from the European Union along with representatives of about 20 countries visited yesterday the Palestinian town of Huwwara, south of Nablus, and...

Celebrate Giap’s Victory

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MILLIONS of workers and youth both in Vietnam and throughout the world are mourning the death of General Giap, who led the military...

TAKE ACTION IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE – CALL GENERAL STRIKES IN US, EU and...

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NABIL Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, warned on Sunday of the grave consequences of Israel’s threats to carry out what could be...

Unite leader admits the union’s role is to prevent strikes – time to kick...

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THE SUDDEN announcement on Monday that the boss of British Airways, Alex Cruz, was being sacked was greeted by the Unite union leaders as...

IMF out to bankrupt Greece, leak reveals

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THE Wikileaks organisation dropped a bombshell on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last Saturday when it published the transcript of a private conversation between...

Netanyahu ready to strike Iran, while McCain calls to bomb Syria

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ISRAEL, which has several hundred nuclear bombs, has issued a warning that it will not wait much longer before it strikes Iran, which has...

Call National Postal Strike! Form A Public Sector Trade Union Alliance!

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THIS WEEK hundreds of London delivery offices, and a number of mail centres and other offices and hubs have been taking strike action, after...

Stop the war with a general strike to bring down coalition

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ANGLO-US-FRENCH forces have killed over 100 Libyans and wounded hundreds more in their opening onslaught of cruise missiles, launched from the sea, and bombs...

Imf Gives Its Full Support To The Tories

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AT its Spring Meeting in Washington this week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) made a direct intervention in the general election with an undisguised...

The TUC must support the Palestinian march on Gaza with a general strike in...

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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of displaced Palestinian citizens resumed on Wednesday morning their march back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip which Israel...

Unions must call general strikes to support Gaza and end imperialist war drive

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ON MONDAY, Israeli warplanes bombed the Iranian consulate, which is situated next to the embassy building in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing seven Iranian...

The US and UK bosses are planning major attacks on Russia and China! ...

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AT A summit last Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned his American counterpart Joe Biden that US support for Taiwanese independence is ‘playing with...

Stop The Council Cuts – Bring Down The Coalition!

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COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...

Tories Use State Against Health Workers

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TRADE UNION leaders are angry that the government has organised police and army scabbing on today’s four-hour NHS strike over the refusal of the...

Car industry collapses in UK and Europe under impact of capitalist crisis

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THE BRITISH car industry is steadily collapsing as a result of the world economic crisis, figures produced yesterday highlighted. According to the Society of Motor...

Bush and Congress head-to-head

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THE House of Representatives in the United States voted by 218 votes to 208 on Wednesday for a Bill to end the US occupation...

Portuguese economic and political crisis reaches explosion point!

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PORTUGAL’S borrowing costs have jumped to over 7%, meaning that it will shortly have to seek another IMF-EU bailout, by offering even more cuts...

Miliband’s Labour saves Cameron government

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ON MONDAY evening, Labour Party leader Miliband completely betrayed the interests of the working class, the youth and the majority of the middle class...

NHS to become part of leisure industry!

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It’s now official – NHS hospitals under the Tory-dominated coalition government are set to become little more than a franchise of the leisure and...
Chairman NORMAN CANDY (CWU London Divisional Committee) opening the mass rally against privatisation in central London yesterday

Iraq war veterans sent into New Orleans

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YESTERDAY 300 Arkansas national guards were sent into the hurricane hit city of New Orleans, after having just returned from Iraq. The Governor of Louisiana,...

Hamas Ready To Form A National Unity Government!

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ADDRESSING a national meeting of the leaders of Palestinian political factions in Gaza City on Saturday, Ismail Haniyah, the head of the Hamas political...

Nato Wants 2,500 More Troops In Afghanistan

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ANOTHER British soldier has died after a shooting in the Iraqi town of Al-Qurna, north of Basra. The soldier was the 118th member of...