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SLUMP SET TO DEEPEN WARNS BofE GOVERNOR

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The Bank of England governor Mervyn King yesterday admitted that the UK entered a recession in the middle of 2008. Stunned by the...

Nationalise car industry and the banks to defend all jobs

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GLOBAL action to save the motor industry from crisis, and above all to stave off bankruptcy at General Motors, has been urged by Unite...

Defend Council Housing – Bring Down The Brown Government

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FOR SOME time Labour has been promoting the theme that the very idea of a job for life is reactionary, and has been glorifying...

British Military Opposes Any Petraeus Surge In Afghanistan

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GENERAL Petraeus is now the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, and has declared that he intends to organise a NATO ‘surge’ in...

Jobs And War Crisis Piles Up For Obama

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YESTERDAY afternoon Barack Obama was in discussion with his economic advisers and with his allies as the crisis of US imperialism intensified on the...

Obama selects his bourgeois team to save US capitalism

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BARACK OBAMA has just been elected by an explosion of popular support and anger that has united the working class and brought the majority...

BARACK OBAMA: ‘Change has come to America!’

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BARACK Obama, the Democratic Party candidate, was elected the 44th President of the United States of America on Tuesday, with an overwhelming vote giving...

Johnson’s new attack to break up the NHS

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LABOUR’S Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans yesterday to allow well-off patients to make so-called ‘co-payments’ for drugs and extra treatments, while still receiving...

Defend every job, bring down the Brown government, forward to socialism

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LLOYDS stated yesterday that its takeover of HBOS would save it at least £1.5bn a year, more than it had been expecting, which all...

Brown Loves Bankers But Attacks Single Parents

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AT the same time as the Brown government continues to spend hundreds of billions to ‘preserve’ the bankers and the capitalist system, his government...

Oligarchs Go Bust As World Crisis Hits Home

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Russia’s super-rich oligarchs, who made their fortunes by stealing or purchasing for a pittance chunks of the Soviet nationalised and planned economy under the...

IRAQ – MILLI0NS AT RISK FROM foul WATER, FIVE YEARS AFTER THE 2003 INVASION

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THE International Committee of the Red Cross has issued a damning report that millions of Iraqis’ lives are threatened by foul water and diseases...

Labour launches army provocation in the north

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THE ‘Home Coming’ British Army ‘welcome home’ parade being mounted in the centre of Belfast this Sunday, in which a number of British army...

The Bank Of England Drops Its Debt Bombshell

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THE world’s banks have now lost £1.8 trillion the Bank of England has reported in its Financial Stability Report. This is as a result of...

American Terrorists Launch Murderous Attack On Syria

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SYRIA has protested angrily to both the US and Iraq after a terror raid by four US helicopters inside its territory killed eight Syrian...

British Capitalism At The Centre Of The Capitalist Crisis

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THE worldwide capitalist crisis drove the pound down on Friday into an unprecedented collapse. The pound slumped 9.6 US cents to $1.52 at...

The Trade Unions Must Defend Every Job!

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THE London and New York stock markets were in free fall yesterday, losing hundreds of points, with tens of billions of dollars and pounds...

SA hunger can only be ended by a socialist revolution

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ONE in four South Africans are unemployed, and poverty is rife eighteen years after the release of Nelson Mandela and 14 years after he...

Law lords rule for US imperialism to keep the Chagossians in exile

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THE House of Lords appeal court yesterday reversed the three decisions taken by seven senior judges, in previous court hearings, that the Chagos Islanders...

Brown, Keynes and revolution

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AFTER actively assisting in the creation of trillions of debt, and showing its contempt for the concept of value by selling almost half of...

Labour is going to bring a co-payment system into the NHS

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AS the economic crisis deepens, the drive to privatise the NHS is being stepped up on a number of fronts. One is the growing...

Labour Becomes The Anti-Immigrants Party

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THE number of immigrants allowed into the UK under the current ‘points system’ will have to be reduced because of the economic crisis, and...

Iraqi Masses To March Against Deal To Extend US Mandate

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US defence chief Robert Gates has been briefing US politicians on the proposal to extend the US mandate in Iraq. This expires this December...

US Steps Up Missile Attacks On Pakistan

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WITH the world’s attention focussed on the capitalist crisis, the US military have unleashed a series of massive attacks on the Afghan and Pakistani...

To fight mass unemployment bring down Brown government

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The number of UK unemployed rose by 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, taking the official unemployment rate to 5.7% from...

Union leaders in Brown’s top pocket

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The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure leapt from 4.7% in August to 5.2% in December, with the Retail Prices Index (RPI), which includes the...

No sackings, or wage ‘holidays’ for bankrupt banks and councils

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YESTERDAY the Brown government was emphasising that it had no interest in running the three banks that it was ‘part-nationalising’ (rescuing) with £37bn of...

The Capitalist System Deserves To Perish

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THE run on shares last Friday, particularly bank shares, devastated capitalists and capitalism. The Royal Bank of Scotland saw its shares crash by 25 per...

Northern Ireland – Massive NHS Cuts On The Agenda

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MORE THAN 700 nursing posts are under threat in Northern Ireland as part of wider plans to cut almost 2,500 health service jobs over...

Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism!

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CHANCELLOR Darling flew to the US yesterday to meet with fellow finance ministers, and Federal Treasury Secretary Paulson, for the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting. Yesterday...

brown proposes to rob the workers to rescue the bankers

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YESTERDAY saw the big international push get under way to try to rescue the bankers of the world from the crisis of their capitalist...

Afghan Fall Out – Gates Attacks UK Defeatists

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US Defence Secretary Gates has condemned as ‘defeatist’ a comment by the British commander in Afghanistan that the war there cannot be won. Speaking...

Police Have No Regrets And No Remorse Say de Menezes Family

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THE Metropolitan Police chief, Blair, has already gone, his going made inevitable by the disgraceful attitude that he took to the police murder of...

Brown’s National Economic Council ‘war cabinet’ will be making war on the workers

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‘WE have agreed to make a solemn engagement as heads of state and government to support banking and financial institutions faced with the crisis,’...

Brown brings back Mandelson to fight the trade unions

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WITH the financial storm clouds starting to burst around him, Prime Minister Brown has established with his cabinet reshuffle that he means every word...

US–UK demands war while Karzai calls for peace with Taleban

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US Defence Secretary Gates, and the new US military commander in Afghanistan, General Petraeus have recently been canvassing in London for a doubling of...

Brown, Cameron & Clegg unite to rescue bankrupt capitalism

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THE manufacturing sector of the British economy shrank last month at the fastest rate for 17 years, that is since 1992, according to figures...

Bush’s Wall Street Bail-Out Defeated

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PRESIDENT George Bush’s Bill for a $700bn package of measures to bail out the Wall Street banks and large financial institutions in the United...

Capitalist collapse continues while Brown vows ‘to save the system’

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YESTERDAY two major banks had to be nationalised to prevent a run on the UK and EU banking system. They were the Bradford and...

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...

Bush Bail Out Plan Attacked By The Working Class And By The Republican Right

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REPUBLICAN representatives walked out of the crisis talks with President Bush on Thursday night, denouncing him as a socialist for launching his $700 bn...

pass Bill or face financial panic, bank closures and ruin – Bush tells Senate...

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THE US president George Bush has been so frightened at the prospect of a 1929 collapse and a 1930s depression gripping the US that...

British Commander Demands Tro0P Numbers In Helmand Be Doubled

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A FEW WEEKS ago the US Secretary of Defence, Gates, was accused of trying to corral the British government into sending more troops...

Brown’s empty words cannot hide he is the bankers’ man

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‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...

Darling can’t explain the crisis and he cannot resolve it

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YESTERDAY at the Labour Party conference the leaders who not so long ago announced to the world that they had conquered the essential tendency...