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Unions act now against NHS cuts

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A HUGE contract for health services, including end-of-life care in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, is being put out to tender with privateers such as Virgin...

Tories want more powers for police to crush the trade unions – TUC must...

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the government will be tabling fresh amendments to the Public Order Bill, being debated in the...

Judges attack ‘unlawful’ terror laws – police demand more repression

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YESTERDAY the capitalist state was split over the Blair government’s police state attacks on democratic rights. Two Law Lords attacked Home Office plans,...

Pentagon rails against the ‘Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act!’

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US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has issued a warning that legislation allowing families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia...

Hundreds More Deaths In Palestine As Israeli Murder Machine Claims More Victims

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THE Israeli murder machine is being allowed to do its worst in the Gaza Strip, with the US and the UK ruling classes standing...

There Must Be Action To Halt Royal Mail And NHS Privatisation

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THE Royal Mail faces privatisation this summer after the passage of the Postal Services Bill through parliament yesterday after its third reading. The legislation will...

20 per cent government cuts and wage-freezing being planned

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THE moment of truth is fast approaching for British capitalism. The British capitalist economy is in its death agony with falls in production taking place...

Darling can’t look the capitalist crisis in the face

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CHANCELLOR Darling began his budget speech yesterday on a note of contrived optimism saying that ‘today’s budget will take Britain through the most serious...

Trade unions must act over NHS crisis by organising a general strike

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HOSPITALS across the country are already running close to 100% bed occupancy and the full effects of winter haven’t even started to impact on...

Welsh government plans to implement Tory drive to close hospitals and destroy the NHS

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THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Welsh government yesterday that it was embarking on a strategy to ensure patients only go to hospital when it is...

200,000 Civil Servants taking strike action

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ON Wednesday over 200,000 civil servants and over 200 government departments will be strike bound for the day. Civil servants...

US Congress To Vote On Raising The US Debt Ceiling – Workers Of The World...

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PRESIDENT Biden and his Republican opponents have announced they have agreed in principle to raise the US debt ceiling and to try to avert...

Tories are the party of the bankers, the bosses and the landlords! Tenants beware!

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THE south-east London borough of Newham achieved the dubious record of having the biggest rise in house prices in the whole of the UK...

Royal Mail’s Privatisation Bill includes the end of the daily delivery

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THE Coalition’s Business Secretary, Cable, told MPs last week in the House of Commons that the Bill to privatise the Royal Mail ‘will maintain...

Take Action To Stop US-UK-Israel Attack On Iran

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WHAT is being termed as a coalition of trade unions (Unison, the GMB and Amicus), charities and faith groups yesterday warned Tony Blair that...

Tories Open Up The Battle Against Socialism

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THE content of the ‘devolution campaign’, which has now developed into the ‘Home Rule for England campaign’ was revealed yesterday when Tory Justice Secretary...

Horsemeat Scandal

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What started off last month as news, that traces of horsemeat DNA had been discovered by the Irish Food Standards agency in some supermarket beefburgers,...

IMF warns stock markets on verge of collapse – socialist revolution the only answer...

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IN THE LATEST update of its Global Financial Stability Report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that ‘complacent’ financial markets are facing a...

Unions must call general strikes to support Gaza and end imperialist war drive

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ON MONDAY, Israeli warplanes bombed the Iranian consulate, which is situated next to the embassy building in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing seven Iranian...

Sanders concedes – Forward to the American socialist revolution

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LAST WEDNESDAY, the US ‘democratic socialist’ Senator Bernie Sanders announced to his supporters that he was quitting the race to become the Democratic candidate...

Final report into Boeing crash shows bosses ignored warnings! Nationalise Boeing – the US...

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THE FINAL report into the Boeing 737 Max air crash in October last year, in which 189 people lost their lives, was published yesterday...

End misery of bankrupt capitalism with socialist revolution

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LAST Friday the European Banking Authority released the findings of this year’s Stress Test for European banks. These stress tests, introduced one year ago, are...

All The Trade Unions Must Come Out With The Junior Doctors!

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PM Sunak has said he is yet to make a ‘final decision’ on whether to accept the recommended pay rises for public sector workers. Official...

Students Will Fight For A Future

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UP to 100,000 students marched through London yesterday to protest against £9,000-a-year tuition fees, and the way that the Tory-LibDem coalition is turning back...

TUC must carry out decision for £10 Minimum Wage

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THE revelation from the accountancy firm KPMG that their research has shown that one in six people, over 5 million, in work earn less...

Traitor Tsipras is handing over power to the right wing!

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WITH his resignation as Greek prime minister on Thursday night, the leader of the ‘left’ Syriza government, Alexis Tsipras, has signalled that he and...

Holder warns of Ferguson powder keg throughout USA

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US ATTORNEY General Eric Holder says leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, must take ‘immediate, wholesale action’ after a report of widespread racial bias in its...

Wealth redistribution in UK requires socialist revolution

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UK child poverty levels are double those of 1979, after 27 years of the Thatcher, Major and Blair, Tory and Labour governments, while Brown...

Defend your homes with a socialist revolution!

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THE Thatcherite dream of creating a nation of home owners is already a nightmare for millions struggling to make their mortgage repayments. It is...

World Dollar Debt Crisis!

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YET another authoritative report detailing the developing world banking crisis has surfaced – a report which if shorn of its dry academic language paints...

French Socialist government turns on the workers

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THE French Socialist government has said it will raise Value Added Tax and cut public spending, kicking the working class and the poor in...
Members of the CGT, France’s largest trade union federation, arrive at Place d’Italie at the end of Tuesday’s demonstration

Blair threatens to ‘close the book’ on the north

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THE British and Irish premiers yesterday outlined their plan to restore direct rule from Westminster, via Dublin, if the Paisleyite DUP does not agree...

Carney’s Last Stand!

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BANK of England Governor and chairman of the Financial Stability Board Mark Carney understands both that another major banking crash is on the way...

Bankrupt Britain Is On The Rocks! Now Is The Time To Go Forward To...

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JUST 50 days after being elected with an unassailable landslide 141-seat majority, the Labour government has replaced the hated Tory austerity cuts with Labour...

Victory to the workers of Gaza and Palestine! Forward to the world socialist revolution

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ISRAELI Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has launched his ground offensive in Gaza! A well-known Israeli journalist and security analyst, Avi Issacharoff said yesterday: ‘This...

Tories are unable to beat Covid virus – time to bring them down and...

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YESTERDAY, the BMA revealed in a statement that thousands of doctors feared that the NHS would not be able to cope with the ‘incredible...

Trade Unions Must Take Action Over Gaza

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FORTY-THREE Palestinians were killed by Israeli tanks and rocket fire on UN-run schools late on Monday night and during Tuesday. The schools were well...

US Closes Its Embassy In Kiev As It Hands Over Missiles To Ukraine To...

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THE likelihood of an escalation in the Ukraine conflict could significantly increase in the next two months, as long as the just-defeated US President...

Libyan Counter- Revolutionaries Being Showered With Cash!

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WESTERN and Arab countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia have pledged $1bn for the right-wing stooges of imperialism in Benghazi, at the latest...

On tenth anniversary of world banking collapse – Forward to Socialism!

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ON THE eve of the tenth anniversary of collapse into bankruptcy of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, which brought the world’s capitalist banking...

Hezbollah and Iranian forces have every right to be in Syria at the invitation...

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SYRIA’S deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, has hailed Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement’s assistance to Syria, and its struggle for survival, saying...

Seattle Police Chief Quits As Working Class Gears Up To Deal With Trump!

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SEATTLE’S chief of police has thrown in the towel and quit on the same day that the city council voted to reduce the police...

Occupy To Stop Steel Sackings – Bring Down The Tories To Nationalise Steel

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THE shutdown of the steel industry continued yesterday without a single call from the trade unions for action to stop the closures and defend...

Tories Will Have The Power ‘To Censor The Internet’ To Silence Opposition To Imperialist...

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THE TORY government is attempting to assume the absolute power to censor the internet as part of its new Online Safety Bill – a...

Coaliton Policies Put The Elderly On The Breadline

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RISING costs and rampant price inflation are leaving half of older people living on the breadline. According to the AGE UK charity nearly half are...