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Open up the NHS demands Bush and the US drug companies

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NOT content with wrecking Iraq, the US administration is moving in to wreck the British NHS on behalf of the US drug companies. ...

EU crisis deepens in London and Athens

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THE great EU referendum crisis in the UK has sharpened after PM Cameron denied his earlier remarks that after he had negotiated a deal...

French publisher arrested in UK under anti-terror laws as ruling classes unite against workers

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ON Monday, Ernest Moret, who works at the Paris based publisher Editions La Fabrique, was stopped by Metropolitan Police officers after travelling to London...

Worldwide strikes against Amazon’s brutal exploitation of workers – socialist revolution only answer

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WORKERS at the online retail giant Amazon warehouse in Minnesota were out on a six hours-long strike yesterday called to coincide with the company’s...

Fight slave labour bosses at Gate Gourmet and Irish Ferries

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THE British and Irish trade unions are under serious and heavy attack at Gate Gourmet at Heathrow airport, and at Irish Ferries. At Gate Gourmet,...

Balls and the ‘Little Englanders’ adopt racism as their policy

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‘WE were wrong to allow so many eastern Europeans into Britain,’ says Ed Balls, referring to the large number of migrants from Poland and...

Economic and political collapse of British capitalism – socialist revolution the only answer

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THE KNIVES are out for Tory prime minister Boris Johnson after his disastrous performance over sleaze, U-turns over social care and now his bizarre...

Tory enforcers paid £1,500 a day to push through savage Northants cuts! TUC must...

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TWENTY-one libraries closing, rubbish collections and road maintenance stripped to the bone, hundreds of council workers sacked, children’s services axed – these were...

Gm-Fiat Shock For World’s Motor Workers

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GENERAL Motors is about to end its ‘honeymoon’ relations with the US motor workers’ trade union, the UAW. Up till now the UAW leaders have...

Occupy GM plants to defend jobs! Nationalise the car industry!

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GENERAL MOTORS European operations, which include Opel plants in Germany, the Ellesmere Port Vauxhall car plant and Luton’s IBC van plant in Britain, have...

AA sold to Saga, Permira and CVC bosses pocket £300m

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TRUE to form the private equity capitalist groups Permira and CVC having acquired the prestigious AA motoring group with the help of huge borrowings...

Academies hoard £2.5 billion

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ACADEMY schools in England are sitting on a vast hoard of cash estimated to be nearly £2.5 billion, or more than £550,000 per school. Money...

Hancock’s claim that ‘no NHS workers died from lack of PPE’ must be met...

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TORY Health Secretary Matt Hancock was grilled for four hours by two Parliamentary Committees on Thursday, in which he insisted that ‘There was never...

Thieves fall out in the European Union!

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YESTERDAY the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, wielded the British veto over the Franco-German proposals to try and prop up the collapsing euro through...

Millions must march for Palestine on Saturday August 3 – They must also instruct...

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A FORMER Lebanese lawmaker Naser Kandeel said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the US featured a planned coordination...

Blair jeered, and Gordon Brown condemns walk-out delegates

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YESTERDAY Premier Blair could not raise a single clap for his answers to questions about his privatisation drive in the public sector, in the...

Entwistle Put To The Sword

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THE crisis of the capitalist state is rapidly deepening after the just-appointed ex-Director General of the BBC, George Entwistle, was publicly put to the...

Take action to stop NHS cuts and closures

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IT is now obvious that the Labour government is setting out, at breakneck speed, to privatise the NHS. It has set up private treatment centres...

Truss government is in a huge crisis. Make the TUC call a general strike...

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THE Tory Party is now in Conference and in the biggest crisis in its history, after its ‘mini budget’ caned the poor and the...

US-UK war unleashed licenced mass murder onto the Iraqi people!

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LAST Friday night, Wikileaks published the secret US field reports and war logs from the battlefield that is Iraq, detailing recorded civilian deaths, torture...

The US’ allies in Egypt are at each other’s throats!

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THE bloodbath in Egypt last Wednesday, which saw hundreds of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood cut down in cold blood by the Egyptian army,...

Britain’s national debt has tripled – as the UK economy breaks down – nationalisation...

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THE British National Debt has almost tripled in the period between 2005 and 2025, outpacing all the other major capitalist states. Britain now has a...

Police paramilitary rule

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TODAY the Police Federation’ annual conference will be addressed by the reappointed Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May, an event that the Federation’s leaders are...

A Royal Commission to privatise the NHS!

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THE right-wing think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), which promotes free-market capitalism, has just produced a report entitled ‘An NHS Royal...

Hunt Planning New Blitz On NHS And NHS Workers!

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BOTH the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) trade unions yesterday warned that Health Secretary Hunt is planning...

War criminals meet in Brussels

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THE imperialist criminal states – who supported the war on Iraq in 2003, the Security Council-backed NATO onslaught on Libya in 2011, and then...

US crisis pauses before another leap forward!

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THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...

FBU leaders, fire chiefs and Home Office unite to throw firefighters into the ...

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FITTING masks to NHS workers, moving dead infected bodies, driving ambulances, making face shields, carrying out tests and delivering food to the elderly: all...

Greece Can’t Pay – Workers Won’t Pay!

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ACCORDING to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, Greece has a much bigger budget deficit than that reported by the Greek government last year....

US–UK organising Palestinian civil war

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THERE is no doubt that the US and UK ruling classes are hard at work seeking to organise a Palestinian civil war. The object is...

Put Cameron, Hague and Obama on trial, and free Assange!

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ACCORDING to William Hague, the Tory Foreign Minister and Acting Prime Minister, Britain has a ‘legal obligation’ to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to...

Union Leaders Refuse To Fight – Working Class Will Pay The Price

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THE Labour party and the trade unions released a joint statement from the Warwick policy conference yesterday. This revealed why the Prime Minister was able...

Scottish Labour Call For A Gaza Ceasefire Must Be Supported By All Trade Unions...

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FORMER Mossad official, Rami Igra, has said all Palestinians in Gaza over the age of 4 deserve to face Israel’s collective punishment policy of...

US privateers are already taking over NHS services!

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THE ENDLESSLY repeated slogan that ‘The NHS is Not for Sale’ is completely empty in the face of the fact that US companies and...

‘We are not asking the west to choose our leaders’

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THIS was the defiant and revolutionary message that came out of Egypt from demonstrators, and was shown in the western media, in response to...

Balls reveals intense ruling class fear

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ED BALLS, the Schools Minister, and the former economics advisor to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, over the weekend dropped his political master right...

Corbyn appeases Labour’s right wing – the UK must leave the EU, as decided...

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THE UK was changed forever when the over-confident Tory leadership of Cameron and Osborne got the House of Commons to agree a resolution...

Occupy And Nationalise Vauxhall Plants

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THREE companies have bid to take over GM Europe from the crisis-stricken US giant. They are Italian carmaker Fiat, Canadian parts maker Magna and...

Answer Cameron’s war on two fronts with a General Strike

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DAVID Cameron’s speech outlining his ‘five-year plan to fight extremism’ was in reality an outline of the Tory government’s war plans for both the...

Workers of the UK and USA must send May, Trump and the EU packing...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump, on arrival to the UK on Thursday, did an interview with the Sun newspaper in which he said that he...

Starmer apes Tory promises of a ‘bonfire of regulations’ to open the UK up...

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STARMER pledged the Labour government would slash red tape in his speech to the billionaire investors and bankers who gathered in London yesterday at an...

Follow Holby City Equity Take Strike Action With Junior Doctors

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THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...

Labour Must Bring Back Corbyn And Dump Starmer Now – After He Refused To...

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ONLY 15 Labour MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn, were prepared last Tuesday to vote against the Tories to bring the Johnson government down! The vote on...

Nut Warns Over Free Schools And Academies

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COMMENTING on the latest Education at a Glance report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Christine Blower, General Secretary of the...

Hague, Cameron will join Obama’s war on Syria

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PRIME MINISTER Cameron and Foreign Secretary Hague, despite the fact that the Tory cabinet and party are split on the issue, yesterday gave their...