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International inquiry finds no basis for Israeli claims against UNRWA that gave US and...

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IN JANUARY, the Israeli regime unleashed a propaganda campaign against UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East,...

UK-NATO attempt on Gadaffi’s life fails!

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THE murderous attack on the home of Saif al Arab, the youngest son of Colonel Gadaffi, killed Saif and three grand children of the...

Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership

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THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...

Managers oppose the ‘enormous risk’ of the NHS White Paper

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NHS managers have warned in a report from the NHS Confederation that the Lansley NHS White Paper will lead to hospital closures and constitutes...

UK economy speeds into bankruptcy – demand TUC call a general strike to kick...

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THE SPEED of the UK economy crashing into complete bankruptcy is breathtaking, as it leaves the Tory government along with the Bank of England...

Only by abolishing capitalism can poverty be abolished!

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THE WEALTH gap in Britain has widened dramatically during the pandemic with the richest 10% of the population gaining an extra £50,000 each on...

Now The Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Defend The NHS By Bringing...

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NHS CONSULTANTS in England today begin two more days of industrial action, and have announced further strike dates in October, demonstrating their commitment to...

Tory war on unemployed must be answered with a general strike to kick them...

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THE LATEST Tory onslaught on the unemployed was revealed by Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday when he praised the ‘Way...

Trump boasts America is ‘greatest civilisation’ on Earth – while preparing war on working...

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Donald Trump’s speech at his inauguration as US president on Monday did not include a number of the crucial measures he insisted would be...

Blair’s Iraq adventure bites the dust

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday had a meeting with the long standing CIA agent and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, who is now posing as the...

Postmasters demand justice after 20 years of persecution by the Post Office!

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YESTERDAY, former Post Office sub-postmasters and mistresses began giving evidence to the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal which has been described as...

King George’s Ilford cancer unit to close for lack of nurses – Get the...

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THE CEDAR CENTRE, the chemotherapy unit at the King George Hospital in Ilford is to shut down on November 12th, because it cannot find...

When The Victim Becomes The Criminal

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STUDENT Alfie Meadows, who underwent an emergency brain operation after his head was broken by a police truncheon, when he was kettled during a...

The Desperate Housing Crisis!

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IT WAS Frederick Engels who said that the housing problem and capitalism were inseparable, and that to get rid of the former you would...

Brexit Moment Of Truth Fast Approaching! The Working Class Must Be Ready To Take...

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YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is...

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...

Labour strikebreakers back BA’s anti-union drive

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British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union has...

Obama set to expand the Afghan war

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PRESIDENT Obama is set to throw tonnes of petrol onto the Afghan flames. After months of strategic and tactical discussions with his military and political...

Workers In The UK And The Middle East Must Unite To Smash Capitalism And...

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THE JORDANIAN Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh has just warned against vicious attempts by the Israeli regime to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and...

Bosses share bonanza

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THE ages old reformist illusion that the worst excesses of capitalism can be curbed through a mixture of indignation and moral outrage received yet...

Schools being asset-stripped by academy trusts

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THE HOUSE of Commons education committee has written to the Tory academies minister, Lord Agnew, expressing MPs’ concern about a ‘lack of transparency and...

Winograd Inquiry confirms Israel has feet of clay

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THE Israeli inquiry into its July 2006 attack on the Lebanon has found that it was ‘a large and serious failure’. It also...

Irish and UK ruling classes uniting against working class

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MARX says in his 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak,...

Labour saves Cameron

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Just six weeks in power and the Tory government are so weak and divided that they can only survive through the treacherous support of...

All trade unions must come out with the nurses to bring down the Tories...

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THE 10,000 workers and youth who took part in the ‘Britain is Broken’ march in London on Saturday were marching for action to bring...

France on the brink as government imposes anti-union laws!

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THE French Socialist government’s cabinet has opted for a dictatorship over the working class by agreeing to force through its anti-trade union legislation, invoking...

Bhutto Murdered By US Sponsored Military!

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AT 6.16pm local time yesterday evening the Pakistani military assassinated Benazir Bhutto, putting a bloody end to the notion that there can be some...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday on the picket line

Trade unions must strike to defend the NHS!

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TOMORROW Central Surrey Health (CSH), a private company set up by nurses and therapists, will find out whether they have won the £22m contract...

Osborne admits UK capitalism ‘critical’ in 2016-17

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IN a speech yesterday and in interviews with the BBC, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, admitted that, contrary to everything he has said in...

The British state is compromised by its complicity with terrorists!

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TORY leader Theresa May relaunched the sinking ship of her election campaign with a speech yesterday that re-hashed the now familiar line that the...

French Workers Force Macron Back – Now They Will Bring Him Down!

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OH HOW the mighty have fallen! ‘Emperor Macron’, in the tradition of Napoleon III, has made no secret that he considers himself the master...

Only answer to capitalist crisis – build WRP and sections of 4th International to...

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THE CRISIS in the Tory party sharpened over the weekend, as the requirement to dump the economic collapse of British capitalism onto the backs...

No To Imperialist War In West Africa!

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SUFFERING a decisive and humiliating defeat at the hands of the Afghan people has in no way diminished British imperialism’s appetite for military adventures...

Socialist revolution the only way to prevent mass unemployment

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THE ANNOUNCEMENT this week by the aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls Royce that it is to slash 4,600 jobs in the UK as part of...

Prescott slams Miliband’s failure as Labour opportunists panic

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FIRST of all we had Labour ex-Health Secretary Burnham serving notice on Miliband that he had until the spring to challenge the Tory-led coalition...

Migrants Not Wanted In The UK – Unless They Are ‘White Helmets’

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THAT well known humanitarian organisation, the Israeli armed forces, that is killing Palestinians on a daily basis, has just conducted a ‘humanitarian’ raid into...

Resistance has Obama on the run in the Middle East

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UNITED States President Barack Obama made his first trip to Afghanistan on Sunday since he took office 14 months ago. The visit was aimed...

THE HOUSING CRISIS: Nationalise construction companies and banks!

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AVERAGE house prices in Britain are now 10.5 per cent lower than they were a year ago, according to figures published yesterday by Nationwide,...

Israel Approves Ceasefire Agreement With The US And Vows To Continue Its War With...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday evening that his government has approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon, following weeks of...

Mass Unemployment And Poverty Is All Capitalism Has To Offer Workers And Youth!

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THE NUMBER of people claiming unemployment benefit in the UK soared to 2.1 million in April – the first full month of the coronavirus...

US planning peace talks while building Gaza’s ‘wall of steel’

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IT seems that the United States is preparing the ground to make the Palestinians an offer that they will not be able to refuse...
Pickets were demanding yesterday that the Gate Gourmet boss Siegel should be sacked as a troublemaker

The issue is the shoot to kill policy says de Menezes campaign

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THE family of Jean Charles de Menezes, murdered by police on the Tube on July 22, have called for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir...

Central Banks in disarray as capitalism poised for a crash

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THE disarray and panic that is a permanent state for the central banks of Europe and America was on open display yesterday. In the US,...

Johnson regime in crisis as Tory base rejects ‘red wall’ and demands that workers...

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THE TORY Party membership is currently teaching its Tory leadership a lesson in ‘class politics’ as the Amersham by-election result shows when the LibDems...

An entire nation becomes the ‘enemy within!’

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AT ONE TIME the ‘enemy within’ was well defined as being the working class, especially its militant trade unionists and Trotskyists. Now capitalism is in...