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Workers Of The World Unite – Is Still The Slogan Of The Hour!

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NET migration to the UK is at an all-time high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March 2015, that is 94,000 more than in...

Cameron-Obama Are Preparing A New Crusade

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BRITAIN and the US are to share expertise on ‘preventing radicalism’ and tackling domestic ‘violent extremism’, PM Cameron has announced. He warned that both...

10 million workers will be hit by tax increases as Labour ‘picks the side’...

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LOWEST paid workers will be hit the hardest by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves budget’s ‘stealth tax’ unveiled on Wednesday. Reeves desperate to avoid accusations of...

UK capitalism is being torn apart politically and economically

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THE CRISIS restrictions on Greater Manchester by the Tories reveal that the collapse of British capitalism has reached such a point that the unity...

Super rich Kensington and Chelsea – thousands of empty properties and only 26...

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IN 21st century Britain, in the richest borough in London, working class children are being diagnosed with diseases and ailments that belong in the...

Don’t let P&O get away with murder – Make the TUC and labour leaders...

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YESTERDAY, Chancellor Sunak pledged to help the masses ‘where we can make a difference’, as households face soaring living costs, to the extent that...

Free Julian Assange – Jail The Imperialist Butchers

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was arrested in London yesterday and is now in jail, awaiting hearings to extradite him to Sweden where he will...

Britain Leading The Way To Slump Says The Imf

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LAST October the IMF predicted world output would increase by 2.2 per cent in 2009. Yesterday it changed its tune saying that world output...

Expropriate the bosses and bankers!

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YESTERDAY in Warwick, Labour leader Miliband mustered a battery of very ‘moral’ arguments about ‘fairness’, and the colonial origins of non-dom status, as if...

Netanyahu turning the screws on Palestinians to the point of revolution!

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THE Israeli Netanyahu regime is now working hard at its programme for the ‘final solution’ to the question of Palestine and the Palestinians. The Palestinian...

Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum seekers on to...

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THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...

Defend Libyan revolution! Stop and bring down the oil thieves! Victory to Gadaffi!

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THE French ruling class yesterday officially recognised the Libyan counter-revolutionary rebels of the Transitional National Council as the country's legitimate government, and is due...

Agree to robbery with violence or face eviction – Troika warns Cyprus

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MPs in Cyprus have been told to agree, by Monday, on a series of bills to raise 6bn euros off the backs of the...

Steel workers must reject the Tata steel deal – vote ‘NO!’

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AT the end of this month, steel workers at Port Talbot are to vote on a deal struck between their unions and Tata Steel...

Tories turn their fire on the elderly! Kick them out – a workers government...

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IT IS often said that a society is judged by how it treats its elderly and its youth. Young people, as we know, are...
London firefighters demonstrating against cuts earlier this year

The PM’s wife can speak out on rights – but the TUC cannot!

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THE scale of the crisis that has hit capitalist Britain is now so great that it has forced the Prime Minister’s wife, Cherie...

The TUC Congress must vote for a general strike for UK to end trade...

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THE scheduled visit to the UK next Tuesday and Wednesday of Israeli president Isaac Herzog has enraged Labour MPs. The visit will take place...

Latest inflation figures spur Tories and Bank of England to ramp up attack on...

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INFLATION figures yesterday, that recorded a drop in the inflation rate to 6.8% in July, have been greeted by the Tories and the Bank...

THE BANK looks to inflation to pauperise the workers and Middle Class

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THE pound fell sharply on Wednesday against both the dollar and the euro as the money markets were shaken to the core by the...

Trade unions must break with Blair and Brown to keep the Tories out

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THE right wing of the Labour Party was shaken to its core yesterday after Monday’s meeting of the General Council of the Scottish...

Labour Must Pledge To Recognise Palestine And To Stop Arming Israel

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700 BRITISH artists have signed a pledge to boycott Israel as long as it ‘continues to deny basic Palestinian rights’. The group, Artists for Palestine...

Israeli Police Cancel Settlers March! Trade Unions Must Take Action Now To Establish Palestinian...

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ISRAELI police yesterday cancelled tomorrow’s annual massive settlers’ march through Jerusalem. The march celebrates the occupation of the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967 and...

TUC must answer zero-hours contracts with a general strike!

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ON Wednesday night TV viewers were treated to a film clip on the news of the managing director of Sports Direct, Mike Ashley, pulling...

People forced into debt to pay for private treatment as Tories slash the NHS!

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69,000 PEOPLE were forced to pay for private medical treatment in the final three months of last year, according to figures from the Private...

Chuck out the TUC leaders who are incapable of defending jobs and wages!

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UNITE, the largest union in Britain and Ireland, reacted to the news that Sheffield University has decided to sack over 8,000 of its employees...

QUEEN’S SPEECH:Making the poor pay & more police powers

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THE Queen’s Speech yesterday was dominated by the unprecedented world financial crisis and deepening slump, and its impact on decrepit British imperialism. It opened: ‘My...

Israel steps up brutal attacks on Palestinians

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OVER the New Year the killing of Palestinian men women and children has continued unabated and in the most brutal fashion. On Sunday Israeli forces...

Latest IMF report – Corporations in US, Britain and Europe facing bankruptcy

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) this week produced its latest Global Financial Stability Report, its half-yearly analysis of the state of the world’s banks...

Disgusting Libdems Squeal Betrayal!

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THE LibDems, who sealed the coalition by stabbing millions of youth in the back by agreeing to tuition fees of up to £9,000 a...

ICJ Hearing on Israeli occupation of Palestine opens – working class must demand general...

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Yesterday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened its historic hearings into the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967. The ICJ, the United Nation’s...

Ban condemns assault on refugees, while Cameron gets ready to bomb Syria!

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is ‘shocked’ after Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon to force refugees – men,...

More and more repression in Brown’s Queen’s Speech

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THE Queen’s Speech yesterday outlined yet more attacks in the coming parliament on workers and youth in Britain by the Brown government, alongside a...

Heseltine joins Blair’s campaign for an anti-Brexit uprising!

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LORD Heseltine is notorious for his closure of the mining industry in 1993, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the Major...

Egyptian Military Shut Down Gaza Power Supply

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ALI AL-HAYIK, the head of Gaza’s Federation of Industries and the Palestinian Businessmen Association on the Gaza Strip, warned yesterday that dozens of factories...

Motor City Goes Bankrupt – Unions Denounce Orr Power Grab!

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DETROIT, once the motor car capital of the USA where hundreds of thousands of workers used to flock looking for good jobs in the...

NHS privatisation can seriously damage your health!

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NOBODY knows the number of botched or mismanaged operations being carried out by the private Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) businesses, funded by the...

TUC must take action to stop Labour’s NHS privatisation

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UNISON accused the government yesterday of a ‘fundamental breach of trust’. This was after the Department of Health placed an advertisement in the official...

Hamas responds to Abbas’ speech at the United Nations!

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THE Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, responded Thursday to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly, affirming that Palestinian resistance...

Starmer’s Labour declares war on refugees!

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ON Wednesday, Labour prime minister, and former human rights lawyer, Keir Starmer declared that the Labour government is preparing for a war on asylum...

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...

Johnson Will Use His Dictatorial Powers Against The Working Class!

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THE DEBATE on the adjournment of Parliament for a month until April 21 took place immediately after the Tory emergency legislation passed though the...

Victory for Uber workers – now end the gig economy for good with socialist...

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THE LARGE taxi app company Uber announced yesterday it would start treating over 70,000 of its drivers in the UK as employed workers entitled...

Demand recall of the TUC to sack current leaders replacing them with a leadership...

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Today will be the biggest day of strike action across the country in over a decade, with hundreds of thousands of workers from nearly...

Renationalise the electricity and gas monopolies!

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POWERGEN, the energy monopoly, is putting up the prices of its gas and electricity services by 18.4 per cent and 9.7 per cent, next...

Hamas urges workers of the world to march on the first anniversary of the...

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THE Hamas revolutionary leadership yesterday called for organising mass marches and broad solidarity events in all cities and capitals of the world on the...