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Tory Party tearing itself apart – Now finish it off!

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THE spectacle of the Tory party tearing itself apart over the EU referendum will most certainly gladden the hearts of workers across the country. Last...

Bush wants to wreck the Palestinian Mecca agreement

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AHEAD of next Monday’s summit in Jerusalem, President George Bush’s administration is setting out to wreck the agreement reached in Mecca on February 8...

Stalinism betrays Libya – build Fourth International to smash imperialism

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As forces loyal to the Libyan revolution and its leader Colonel Gadaffi continue to fight on against the NATO-led onslaught on Tripoli, the imperialist...

Bosses planning to incite youth against pensioners!

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A £10,000 PAYMENT should be given to the young, while pensioners are taxed more, a new report by the Resolution Foundation into inter-generational fairness...

Israeli regime is in a desperate crisis while the Palestinian masses have emerged stronger...

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ISRAEL has emerged out of its failed military attempt to crush Hamas much weaker and much more crisis-ridden, while the Palestinians are now much...

Tories determined to impose even bigger pay cuts on NHS workers – time...

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TORY ministers have instructed the supposedly independent NHS Pay Review Body to cap the wages of frontline health workers to just 2% in 2023-24. At...

Massive strike action greeted by Tory coalition threats!

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AS millions of public sector workers, teachers, firefighters, local government workers and many other sections took strike action yesterday, Prime Minister Cameron pledged to...

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...

UK workers must force the TUC to call a general strike to support Palestine!

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HAMAS leader Yahya Sinwar was murdered on Thursday in Rafah, southern Gaza, by Israeli troops after a tank shelled the building he entered. Seen defiantly...

France on the brink as government imposes anti-union laws!

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THE French Socialist government’s cabinet has opted for a dictatorship over the working class by agreeing to force through its anti-trade union legislation, invoking...

Trump Faces Impeachment – US Capitalism Faces Ruin – Forward To The US Socialist...

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LAST WEDNESDAY President Trump sent a 100,000-plus howling mob on a mission to break into the Capitol building to stop the certification of election-winner...

Met chief’s agenda – police ‘justice’ and troops on the streets!

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, presented his ‘wish list’ of latest demands to the Labour government, when speaking to the Police Superintendents’ Conference...

Capitalist State Tooling Up F0R Civil War

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A SCOTLAND YARD review into the 2010 summer riots ‘Four Days in August’ shows very clearly that the capitalist state in the UK...

Taleban at the gates of Islamabad, says Clinton

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US IMPERIALISM is now beating the war drums as far as military intervention into Pakistan is concerned, with its leading officials ‘warning the world’...

Labour to let multi-nationals take over NHS Primary Care Trusts

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THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health insurance...

Labour government splits over ‘class war plan’ to raise income tax rates

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MAJOR splits have emerged in the Labour government Cabinet over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s class-war plans to raise income tax rates...

After Johnson Refused To Sack Hancock, The Capitalist State Did The Job For Him!

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BRITISH capitalism is in a desperate economic and political crisis that calls for truly desperate measures by the ruling class. The use of the capitalist...

Putin draws a line and issues a warning over imperialist war preparations

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RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin slammed the Western powers in his annual end-of-year press conference yesterday, telling the assembled journalists that Russia was cheated by...

US-Turkey Fighting Over Northern Syria!

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THE Syrian government has condemned the invasion of northern Syria by Turkish ground forces, cynically called ‘Operation Olive Branch’, an invasion that was preceded...

For A Nuclear Bomb Free Middle East

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IRAN took a calculated risk yesterday when it reached an agreement with the US and its allies that it would allow extensive and exhaustive...

Current crisis will ‘make 1929 seem like a stroll in the park’

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THE Ernst and Young Item Club, whose computer model of the economy is the same as the Treasury’s, said last Friday that banking regulations...

McCluskey must meet with Gate Gourmet sacked workers!

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LEN McCluskey, winner of the election for the post of Unite general secretary, said on Wednesday that ‘I have a huge agenda in front...

Time To Disband The Police As Met Gunmen Hand Back Their Weapons!

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SCOTLAND YARD’S firearms command has hit the rocks with their police gunmen refusing to do their duty and carry their firearms against ‘enemies of...

Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!

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THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...

Labour refuses to demand the resignation of Health Secretary Hunt!

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ON MONDAY, in the House of Commons, Health Secretary Hunt was asked an urgent question as to why he had covered up for, and...

Only solution to world crisis of capitalism – World Socialist Revolution

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TODAY we are living in the period of the death agony of the world capitalist system. Everywhere the crisis is ripping apart nation states,...

Output Down As Banking Crisis Deepens

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THE CBI bosses organisation said yesterday that UK manufacturers expect to reduce output over the next three months, driving another nail into the coffin...

Trump demands Iran completely ‘gives up’ as imperialism threatens all-out war against Iran!

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US president Donald Trump yesterday abruptly left the G7 meeting in Canada, telling reporters he wanted ‘better than a ceasefire’ between Iran and Israel. When...

Capitalism’s Greatest Crisis Driving World Revolution!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, finally admitted publicly that British and world capitalism faced their ‘worst crisis ever’, a crisis...

No To Propping Up Backward Capitalism – Overthrow It With Socialist Revolutions

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BOTH Washington and London were yesterday involved in a desperate race against the clock. Labour let it be known, Sunday mid morning, that it will...

End all complicity with Zionist genocide and war – Demand TUC’s October 10th ‘day...

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ON THURSDAY, the Israeli Defence Ministry in a statement revealed that the US had given $8.7 billion of military aid to the Zionist state...

Coalition To Use Prisoners To Cut Wages

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PRISONERS will be forced to work 40 hours a week, Thatcherite veteran Clarke told the Tory Party conference yesterday. The Justice Minister...

GPs must follow junior doctors lead and strike to defend contracts and defend...

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VERY ANGRY BMA GPs met in conference on Saturday where they carried motions to fight ‘underfunding’ and a rapidly growing workload that ‘threatened NHS...

Israel is preparing new Lebanese war

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ISRAEL’S armed forces commander, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, speaking to Israeli High School pupils last week, asked and answered a question rooted in the current...

Labour gives support to Tories’ austerity cuts

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Two reports this week bring home that the reality facing millions of workers and their families under this rotten, bankrupt British capitalist system is...

Unions must pull the plug on the BNP!

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THE BNP, a fascist movement, is to be promoted by the BBC with an invitation about to be sent to it to appear on...

Francis report will be used to impose mass hospital closures

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NHS staff should face prosecution if they are not open and honest about mistakes, according to the public inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital. In...

Future of steel depends on the Tories, says McCluskey

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YESTERDAY, venture capitalists Greybull Capital, who purchased Tata’s steel works in Scunthorpe for £1, launched ‘British Steel’, hoping with the renaming, to...

Put up with the Tories for five years and don’t strike, says Miliband

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THE new Labour Party leader Ed Miliband spelt out yesterday his intention to act as a tame and loyal leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition,...

Trade unions must take action to defend state pension!

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ON WEDNESDAY the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, David Gauke, cynically used the fact that parliament was closing down for the holidays to announce...

720,000 UK companies on verge of collapse putting 10 million jobs at risk!

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AS THE DATE for the Tory government to end its financial support to British companies looms so the warnings about a cataclysmic crash of...

UN Forces Quit Mitrovica

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THE divided town of Mitrovica was in turmoil yesterday morning, after UNMIK police and KFOR troops, in a major provocation, stormed a local court...

Lobby TUC Sept 7th to demand they call a general strike now for a...

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THE September strikes by RMT union members on London’s underground system are just the latest challenge to the super-austerity policies of PM Keir Starmer’s...

Defend Russia against the imperialist US-EU war ‘coalition’!

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ON THE eve of his visit to Ukraine, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband declared that the purpose of talks with ‘international partners’ was to...

End funding ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ US Democrat Senators demand!

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YESTERDAY, 93 Democrat members of the US House of Representatives issued an official letter calling on the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to open...