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Refugees From Imperialist Wars Are Welcome – Our Enemy Is At Home!

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YESTERDAY the Tory government started to make good its pledge to mobilise the full might of its state armed forces against a handful of...

As Johnson steps up his attacks on workers, Unite leaders offer to lend him...

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THE Johnson government stepped up its attack on the UK working class yesterday by reducing its furloughing payments to workers to 60% with the...

Crunch Time For The Eurozone

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August is traditionally the month when politicians, bankers and bureaucrats across Europe take an extended break away from the chaos of the economic meltdown...

Time to drive the Tories out! TUC must call a general strike to give...

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AFTER the Tory insult of a 1% pay offer to the heroic health workers, the working class and youth are boiling with anger and...

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...

The battle for public opinion has been won – now take action to win...

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THE postal workers have the support of the mass of the British people, the public sector trade unions and the other trade unions making...

Call a General Strike!

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THE Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have submitted a motion to next week’s TUC congress calling for the TUC to organise a co-ordinated...

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...

EU implementing its regime-change plan for Greece!

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GREECE’S Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras offered new concessions to the country’s creditors in a letter that was received by them last Tuesday. In the...

Unions Must Answer Truss Threats By Calling A General Strike To Bring Down The...

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THE Margaret Thatcher look-alike, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, is seeking to sound like, look like and act like Margaret Thatcher, as she vows to...

‘The Next Global Shock Will Be Like An Earthquake!’

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EUROZONE manufacturing activity has hit a three-year low at the same time as the banking crisis is reaching explosion point. Greece has run out...

Brown’s Policies Are Helping The Tories To Return

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BROWN’S ‘bad night for Labour’ was the direct result of a self-inflicted wound – Brown’s Thatcherite policies – that cost Labour up to...

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...

Ten Million Households Are Suffering

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TEN million households are suffering from the financial and political crisis says Which? as it calls on the coalition government, ahead of its Autumn...

Down With The US-Israel Axis – Forward To A UK Workers Government That Will...

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ISRAEL celebrated the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem on Monday, recognising the city as the ‘the capital of Israel’ by massacring 60...

Bank of England split over interest rates revealing chaos and demoralisation at the heart...

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THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday made the surprise decision to hold UK interest rates at 5.25% instead of the widely...

Maude-Miliband Unite To Condemn Pension Strikers

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YESTERDAY’S stoppage in defence of pensions saw 90 per cent of PCS members stopping work, the biggest turn-out for strike action in the union’s...

Johnson fighting a war on two fronts against Russia and against the working class...

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PM JOHNSON in his Thursday speech in Blackpool unveiled his war on two fronts against the Russian workers abroad, and at home against the...

Capitalism Facing ‘Debt Annihilation’ While Its Supporters Panic And Prepare A New World...

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OPTIMISM is in very short supply in the UK ruling class when it examines the state of British capitalism. The Business Comment in The Sunday...

Disband the police force now – forward to a workers state and socialism

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DAVID Carrick, a serving Metropolitan Police officer, admitted 49 offences in court on Monday, pleading guilty to 24 rape charges, and false imprisonments, and...

Build Councils of Action – Forward to the General Strike!

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500 WORKERS and youth, men, women and children marched yesterday through Southall to Ealing to defend Ealing hospital whose closure has begun with...

Bosses fear ‘worst financial crisis since the Second World War’

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A JOINT report from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) yesterday revealed the fears in business circles that the ‘credit...

Only Socialist Revolution can resolve the political and economic crisis and force a break...

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YESTERDAY, Scottish appeal court judges ruled that the decision by the Tory government to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the...

Congress must call general strike to bring down the Tories and bring in a...

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THE TUC meets in Brighton this week for its most vital Congress in living memory. It meets at a time when the working class...

King urinates on the green shoots of recovery

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‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...

Russian news broadcaster banned across EU and UK as capitalism accelerates war drive against...

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SPEAKING in the Commons yesterday, Tory culture secretary Nadine Dorries told MPs that Ofcom (the so-called independent regulator of broadcasting in the UK) was...

Bma Oppose Health Rationing

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‘We are not against improving patient referral standards, but we are opposed to referral management to cut costs and ration treatment,’ British Medical Association...

Savage cut in ESA to claw back £1.4bn from the disabled!

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THE peers of the House of Lords on Monday night capitulated to the Tory government over cuts to disabled people’s benefits to ‘encourage them...

UNISON ‘ready to strike’ while Brown is bringing bosses into his cabinet

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‘I SEND this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...

Workers Must Take Action To Permanently Prorogue Parliament And Bring In Socialism!

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NEXT Tuesday the Supreme Court is to hear the government’s appeal against last Tuesday’s verdict of Scotland’s highest civil court that PM Johnson’s proroguing...

Labour’s Programme Requires A Socialist Revolution To Carry It Out!

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LABOUR’S manifesto has caused consternation within the ranks of the Tory press, with yesterday’s Telegraph editorial claiming it ‘amounts to nothing short of dismantling...

Palestinian groups sign ‘national unity’ agreement for a united fight for victory and the independent...

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YESTERDAY officials from 14 Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Fatah, signed a ‘national unity’ agreement in the Chinese capital Beijing that ended any divisions...

Ashrawi condemns Israeli onslaught and urges EU and US to stop rewarding Israel

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PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) EC member Hanan Ashrawi has strongly condemned Israel’s escalation of its illegal and inhumane measures in and around Jerusalem and...

WITH THE TORIES COLLAPSING, THE BANKERS HOLD TALKS WITH SHADOW CHANCELLOR McDONNELL!

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AN ARTICLE in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph revealed that a series of behind-the-scenes meetings has been taking place between members of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet...

Interest rates held at 4.75% as inflation increases!

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THE Bank of England yesterday held UK interest rates at 4.75% until at least next February. This follows two cuts to the interest rates this...

Nationalise Eurotunnel Rail Service!

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THE collapse of the Eurotunnel rail service, at the hands of a normal European winter, with no service for four days, and passengers left...

Hague refuses to halt assault on Sirte

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ON Tuesday Foreign Minister Hague told Sky TV that he would not tell the counter-revolutionaries to cancel their planned assault on the city of...

Chinese and Russian Stalinists are getting burnt by the crisis

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THE Chinese Stalinists are now paying an enormous price for linking their fate with that of US capitalism. First of all they declared parts of...

Mv Rachel Corrie Nears Gaza!

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NOT content with destroying its ‘alliance’ with Turkey by murdering nine of its citizens and wounding many more, the Israeli government has let it...

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...

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...

Labour plan to drive sick back to work or off benefits with weight-loss injections

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PRESENT at Labour’s International Investment Summit on Monday were representatives from Lilly – the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. This coincided with an announcement from the...

UNISON, TGWU, and GMB leaders all support Brown’s staged pay cuts!

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ANYONE who was wondering why, at the TUC Congress, when union leaders were moving resolutions calling for coordinated industrial action against the Brown government’s...

Bush, Blair, Obama, And Cameron Are The War Criminals!

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THAT the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants against Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, his son and his brother-in-law, on...

No to a Barber sell-out – It’s trade union action that’s required!

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THE TUC announced on Saturday that ‘Royal Mail and the CWU have in recent days been in contact with the TUC over the current...