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Time to nationalise the banks – the only way to prevent another crash and...

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THE BANK of America’s March survey has openly warned that another 2008-type worldwide crash is on the way. Its March survey polled 200 investors...

As Israel implodes – forward to the Palestinian State where Palestinian and Jewish workers...

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AFTER 27 weeks of mass Israeli and Palestinian protests, Israel’s legislature has approved the first reading of a racist and divisive plan drawn up...

Massive price increases for millions of workers yesterday while giant energy companies make billions...

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YESTERDAY was dubbed ‘Awful April’ in the press, as millions of households throughout the UK were hit by massive price increases across the board...

50% rise in SA farmworkers’ wages is just the start!

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THE Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) has welcomed, as a ‘short term victory’, an increase in the minimum wage for farmworkers from R69...

Trump boasts America is ‘greatest civilisation’ on Earth – while preparing war on working...

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Donald Trump’s speech at his inauguration as US president on Monday did not include a number of the crucial measures he insisted would be...

Bank of England splits over measures required to keep British capitalism afloat!

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ON WEDNESDAY the Adam Smith Institute admonished the Bank of England as ‘worse than useless’, and warned: ‘There is already a major crisis...

Corbyn On The Ballot Paper – Another Defeat For Labour Right Wing!

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THE decision of the Labour Party NEC in a secret vote, by 18-14, for Labour leader Corbyn to go forward onto the leadership ballot...

Labour demands students foot the bill to bail out bankrupt universities

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ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means...

The raging coronavirus crisis is smashing up the worldwide capitalist economy!

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ON FRIDAY £60 billion was wiped off the UK’s leading companies. The FTSE 100 plunged by 3.62%. In the US a rate cut saw...

Greece headed for revolution!

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THE situation for Greek capitalism has become so serious that Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos has demanded that Germany returns the Greek gold that...

UK Must Stop Arming Saudi Arabia And Must Rush Food Aid To The Yemen

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THE TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that all those behind the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi should be brought to justice,...

Lift the ban on the Tigers – Stop the massacres of Tamils

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SUPPORTED by the US, the UK and India the Sri Lankan army is bombing and shelling Northern Sri Lanka in a frantic, ruthless and...

British imperialism being cut down to size by the crisis

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BRITISH imperialism, at the height of its power and even up to the 1930s, had at its heart the dictum of sea power, that...

May’s Britain a hostile place for workers and youth – Now is the time...

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DESTITUTION under May’s crippled Tory government is soaring to levels not seen since the Victorian times. The roll-out of Universal Credit has created...

Greek ‘bailout’ derailed

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The Chairman of the EU group of finance ministers, Jean-Claude Junker, spelt out at the weekend exactly what the EU and IMF ‘bailout’ of...

Sunak extends furlough as Bank of England prints another £50 billion to try and...

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March next year, with the government continuing...

Baker Reveals That Brexit Committee Was A Front And That May Never Intended...

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PARLIAMENT OF ITS OWN FREE WILL handed over the decision as to whether the UK should remain in or leave the EU to the...

Cameron wants to create an army of the homeless

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TORY LEADER Cameron yesterday unveiled the spectre of workers sleeping on the streets with his new diktat that council housing should no longer be...

NHS driven to the brink by Tory cuts! This government must be kicked...

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AS THE NHS winter crisis sets in, savage cuts to the health service have pushed services to the point of collapse. A severe lack...

EU is breaking up! Euro & banks are set to crash. Smash the EU...

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TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond, speaking about the Brexit crisis from the World Economic Forum in Davos, said yesterday: ‘It is absolutely clear that if...

Labour Party leaders knife Corbyn to prepare way for National Government with...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party over his remarks on Thursday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn’s...

Answer attacks on welfare state with a general strike

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THE LOCAL Government Association (LGA) yesterday warned that the increase in council tax bills by 5% will do absolutely nothing to halt the continued...

World debt is leading to hyper-inflation and a socialist revolution!

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AN ARTICLE in Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph by its chief economics commentator, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, highlighted the inevitable consequences following the massive amount of borrowing carried...

‘Green Shoots’ – A Mirage Of Desperate Capitalists

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THE European Central Bank is having nightmares about the state of the 25 banks that underpin the financial system of the Eurozone within the...

End all collaboration between TUC and Tories – build a new leadership to call...

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TRADES Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Frances O’Grady’s speech to its annual conference contained no call for action from the unions to fight Tory...

Simpson Aims To Prop Up The Brown Government

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AT a time when the working class is starting to roar like a lion and demand and vote by over 90 per cent majorities...

South African socialist revolution underway!

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THOUSANDS of mine workers have downed tools at South Africa’s Marikana Lonmin mine after an AMCU union leader, Mawethu Steven, was shot dead at...

Cameron shows his contempt for parliament

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TORY leader Cameron was allowed to bluff his way through yesterday’s debate, on his special statement on the Murdoch-Coulson scandal, held after it caused...

‘Red lights flashing’ – Cameron signals more cuts

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WRITING in the Guardian yesterday, David Cameron announced that, following his meeting with world leaders at the G20 conference in Brisbane, he has suddenly...

The Banking Standards Commission selects three scapegoats for the capitalist crisis

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THE farcically misnamed Banking Standards Commission (as if the banks had any standards) was created to try and prevent an even bigger banking collapse...

Support the junior doctors with a general strike!

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THE Cameron government is being driven forward by the intensifying crisis of the capitalist system to have it out with the working class and...
Striking Hammersmith postal workers on the picket line during their London Weighting dispute

The lessons of Katrina and Buncefield

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A VIDEO showing President George W Bush being warned on the eve of Hurricane Katrina that the storm could breach New Orleans’ flood defences...

Council of Action takes up the challenge to defend NHS

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THE News Line congratulates the North East London Council of Action for its march through Enfield on Saturday and its occupation of Chase Farm...

Bush moves towards intervention with ‘free hostages’ call

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PRESIDENT BUSH has laid the basis for military intervention against Iran with his condemnation of Iran’s ‘inexcusable behaviour’ in arresting the 15 British sailors...

Bulgarians Hit Out At Cameron

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THE President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, has correctly rebuked Tory leader Cameron for peddling nationalism and isolationism. It is ironic that the UK – which...

NO reconstruction, only destruction in Afghanistan

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THE top NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Jones, has just apologised for the death of up to 80 Afghan civilians in a series...

Endless propaganda barrage and historical falsification used as a cover for imperialist war...

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Ben Wallace, Tory defence secretary, in a speech yesterday accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of ‘hijacking history’. Wallace spoke while Russia celebrated Victory Day...

Private hospital forced to close surgery unit!

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A DAMNING report from the Care Quality Commission into the running of a private hospital has finally emerged in public some four months after...

Capitalism’s world economy is heading for a catastrophe – the only way out is...

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‘THE US is staring at a possible hard landing while Europe is struggling and China is sinking!’ This is the message from the Daily Telegraph’s...

Stop imperialist war with the world socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY US president Barak Obama finally launched the air and missile strikes he has been threatening inside Syria without the agreement of the Syrian...

Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes To Bring Down The Ruling Classes That Are...

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SPEAKING at a press conference in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Thursday, Abdallah al-Dardari, UN assistant secretary-general and director of the UN Development Programme...

Unions Must Be Made To Take Action To Secure The Nationalisation Of Tata Steel,...

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THE Unite and GMB trade unions have issued calls for the Johnson Tory government to take action to save 8,000 Tata workers jobs in...

Currency War Prelude To Shooting War!

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LEADERS of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank came out yesterday with dire warnings about the emerging ‘currency war’. Speaking on the eve...

Starmer Recruiting Right Wing Tories To Run Any Labour Gov!

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THE Labour Party is defending, welcoming right wing Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the party despite anger from many backbench MPs and workers at...

Hague Must Resign Over Libyan Debacle

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THE latest NATO war crime, the bombing of the Libyan TV station, killing three technicians, was a repeat of a similar war crime,...