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Commissioners will slash and burn local services!

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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Tory County Council has imposed emergency spending controls twice in the last six months and is now in a ‘truly perilous state’, having...

Blair’s Iraq adventure bites the dust

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday had a meeting with the long standing CIA agent and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, who is now posing as the...

Imperialism opens gates of hell in North Africa

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TORY prime minister David Cameron has promised that British imperialism is prepared to wage a war lasting decades throughout Africa and the Middle East...

National Audit Office Says Families Will Live In Fire Deathtraps Until Mid-2022!

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IT HAS been three years since the horrific Grenfell fire which killed 72 men, women and children. Three years and there are still seven...

Berezovskiy calls for the violent overthrow of Putin

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FOR some time the Blair government has been bringing in draconian anti-terrorist legislation, such as the Terrorism Act 2000. It has been boldly ‘identifying’ terrorism...

Cwu Leaders Must Call Indefinite Strike Action

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HALF WAY through the CWU’s two weeks of rolling strike action it is perfectly clear that well over 90 per cent of the CWU’s...

Eight Out Of Ten Academy Schools Are In Deficit!

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ACADEMY school budgets are in a desperate state with eight out of 10 in deficit, say their accountants. ‘Two more years like this and...

Free social care and care homes for the elderly

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THE just-published ‘State of Social Care’ report from the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) was greeted as ‘a damning indictment of a...

Hamas calls on all states to follow Colombia’s example and sever all relations with...

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HAMAS has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the failure to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, following two days of talks in...

Unions must take strike action over wages & jobs!

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YESTERDAY’S inflation rate figures for January are not a shock, in fact, they are an understatement of what the real inflation rate is, as...

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...

Police and MI5 granted licence to kill by the Tories & Labour leaders!

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POLICE spies and MI5 operatives have been given the green light to commit crimes with impunity after an extremely controversial law was passed on...

Kick Out The Spineless Trade Union Leaders Who Refuse To Call A General Strike...

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THE SENSE of alarm and downright terror mixed with a sense of helplessness amongst the British ruling class saturates the bourgeois press today as...
Gate Gourmet workers say: WE WANT VICTORY! – while TGWU leaders discuss compulsory redundancies and loss of unfair dismissal rights!

US Threatens Syria With War

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THE US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, who was recently transferred from Afghanistan, last Monday threatened the Syrian government with war. He accused Syria of...

America Getting Ready For Revolution!

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AMERICA has erupted this week as the working class and youth have responded to the continued and unending violence meted out to them on...

Tottenham Uprising – The First Of Many

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THE uprising that took place in Tottenham on Saturday night came 48 hours after the police shooting of a local man, Mark Duggan, and...

Manning faces long jail sentence as US demands return of Snowden

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A US military judge on Tuesday found former US Army intelligence officer Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, but guilty of five...

Kick The Profiteers Out Of The NHS!

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THE report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire gives official and damming evidence of the plundering...

PFI debts are strangling NHS

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LAST Friday, the ‘independent’ health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), finally issued its report on healthcare provision at the Barts Healthcare Trust,...

May reveals Tories fear of revolution

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YESTERDAY’S speech to the Charity Commission by Tory prime minister, Theresa May, attracted much comment on her proposals on raising the profile of mental health...

Now is the time to build the Workers Revolutionary Party

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THE deeper the crisis of the capitalist system gets, the more desperate the measures that it takes to sustain the bosses and bankers’ system,...

Saudi Arabia issues its demands to Qatar – submit or be crushed

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YESTERDAY, Saudi Arabia issued a set of 13 wide-ranging demands to Qatar which it insists have to be met before the sanctions imposed on...

CETA collapse – now workers must end all capitalist trade agreements through a general...

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LAST Friday the much delayed CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) between the EU and Canada hit a brick wall when the Belgium region...

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...

Energy bills will force millions into abject poverty – socialist revolution only way forward!

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OVER one-in-eight UK households live in fear that they can’t make any further cuts to spending to pay the massive increase in energy bills...

Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads

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ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...

British Army Handed 300 Over To Afghan Torturers

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AFTER the killing and torture of Baha Mousa in Iraq was supplemented by a court martial that refused to convict those responsible for his...

Tory Party stuck with broken May as leaders fear the mass movement driving Labour...

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IN NORMAL times a Tory party that had been taken into an ‘unnecessary’ snap election with its leader demanding that the electorate return it...

Trump declares he will create 10 million new jobs by a trade war...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is stepping up his trade war onslaught on China as his November presidential election date approaches, and the US continues...

EU tearing itself apart while British capitalism collapses under a sovereign debt crisis

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On Friday EU leaders gathered for a three-day summit to agree on a proposed £1.6 trillion financial plan to bail out the national states...

Increased sanctions on Russia drive the bosses’ war against the working class at home!

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THE MOVE by the US, the UK and EU ruling classes to cut off all oil and gas supplies from Russia is now ‘unstoppable’...

Eu To Throw Irish Workers To The Wolves

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PRESSURE is being piled onto the Irish government to accept a further EU bail-out of between 60bn to 80bn euros, which will mean handing...

Blair & Brown’s NHS cuts boost the Tories

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ONLY those with short memories, or strong stomachs, did not have to stop themselves vomiting when hearing Tory leader David Cameron talk about his...
Herts firefighters lobbying Downing Street  during a boycott of a Number 10 reception for ‘Buncefied heroes’

Brown Warns Against Labour ‘Extremists’

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday did his best to hand back the political initiative to his politically battered and discredited Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...

Stop The Afghan War – The Enemy Is At Home

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DEMOCRATIC presidents and prime ministers such as Obama and Brown have rushed into the Afghan breach to rubber-stamp their stooge Karzai as the president...

US-UK in a stampede to quit Afghanistan!

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IN the light of President Obama’s determination to quit Afghanistan, and his acknowledgement that the US has been talking to the Taleban, the UK’s...

Replace Bankrupt Capitalism With World Socialism!

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THERE is not the slightest doubt that capitalism worldwide is in its greatest crisis ever. The US-UK failed attempt to occupy Iraq and...

US and Israel – Get out of Syria! Aid the Syrian people by ...

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SYRIAN air defences shot down one of four Israeli warplanes targeting a military site near Palmyra on Friday, the General Command of the Syrian...

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...

Answer Osborne’s £25bn cuts with general strike

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IN A speech last November, Cameron declared a permanent ‘austerity war’ against the working class, singling out the unemployed and young people as the...

Turn TUC demonstration on 18th June into a general strike to bring down...

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THE national demonstration and march on Parliament called by the TUC on Saturday June 18th has met with a massive response throughout the working...

Defend the Royal Mail – bring down the coalition!

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The Tory-led coalition’s Business Secretary, Vince Cable, yesterday launched a demagogic attack on ‘spiv’ and ‘gambling’ bankers and their bonuses at the LibDem Conference. This...

Stop the pensions sell-out! Sack Barber and Prentis! Call a general strike!

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THE Trade union bureaucracy, led by TUC leader Barber and Unison leader Prentis, have shown clearly, with their position that the trade unions have...

£65bn PFI Nightmare for the NHS!

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THE PFI Private Finance Initiative was brought in by the Major Tory government, and while it was opposed by Labour in opposition, it was...

Trump Leaps Into War With Syria – Where He Leads, The UK Ruling Class...

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PRESIDENT Trump in his televised statement on Thursday night insisted that launching a 59-strong cruise missile attack on Syria was ‘in the national security...