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40% cuts will drive workers to rise up to get rid of capitalism!

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THE new diktat of the Tories and the Liberals, that there will be cuts in government departmental spending of 40 per cent, means that...

The US Army Returing To The Scene Of The 2003 Crime!

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PRESIDENT Obama is to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq to boost the Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State (IS) militants, nearly doubling the...

Starmer pledges Labour to super-austerity to rescue capitalism

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer delivered a speech in Stratford, east London yesterday setting out Labour’s ‘vision’ for the country under any future Labour government. His...

Blair’s ‘legacy’– Student debts set to soar!

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THIS week, as college and school students receive their A level examination results and consider going to university, the latest survey by the NatWest...

Peace Talks Begin With Attack On Ramallah Demonstrators

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THE Palestinian Israeli ‘peace talks’, officially began on Monday but actually the process began on the Sunday in Ramallah when Palestinian police ...

British capitalism crashing into bankruptcy – Unions must organise a general strike to...

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THE UK’s largest car maker, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), yesterday announced a massive pre-tax loss of £354 million for the six months to September...

What a carry on up the Shatt al-Arab!

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THE government was completely undone yesterday after the Secretary of Defence Des Browne firmly bolted the stable door well after all the military horses...

Defeat paramilitary policing in UK with socialist revolution

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THOUSANDS of workers and young people in cities throughout the country, peacefully protesting against the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, were met...

Workers across the world rise up on May Day – Forward to world socialist...

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May Day erupted across Europe and the entire world this year in an unprecedented and revolutionary uprising of workers and youth against an international...

Abolish The House Of Lords – And The Commons As Well

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WEDNESDAY’S vote in the House of Commons when there was a 113 majority for the replacement of the House of Lords by an elected...

Millions Of Youth Facing Employment Crisis As Capitalism Nose Dives!

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ONE MILLION YOUTH aged 16-24 are no longer in employment, education or training, the latest figures show! The Centre for Social Justice said last week...

Obama Puts British Imperialism In Its Place

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WITH more than 100 million gallons of oil already freed to spew all over the US Gulf coast, the ‘special relationship’ between the US...

TUC must call a general strike to expropriate the bosses and put an end...

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MATT WRACK, the President of the TUC and the general secretary of the FBU, correctly said on election day, July 4th, that Labour’s post-election...

Sunak Seeks To Militarise Working Class Youth As Well As Banning All Strikes!

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TORY PM Sunak yesterday sought to win back big business by stating that after the forthcoming general election has been won on July 4th,...

Millions of UK households and children driven into poverty by bankrupt capitalism – socialist...

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THE NUMBER of people living in poverty in the UK has shot up to 16 million – the highest level since records began in...

TUC – Time To Stop Talking! Call General Strike Now To Kick Out The...

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THE TUC last Friday ‘reaffirmed’ its calls on the government to take over the running of P&O Ferries passenger and freight services ‘as a...

Abbas backs Hamas – no ceasefire till blockade ended

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has backed calls by Hamas for an end to the economic blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel as one...

Housing bubble set to burst!

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LAST week saw a concerted effort by the Tory-led coalition, aided by their friends in the bourgeois press, to deny that a catastrophic housing...

The TUC must support the Palestinian march on Gaza with a general strike in...

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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of displaced Palestinian citizens resumed on Wednesday morning their march back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip which Israel...

Gaza children face death from starvation – the UK trade unions must act to...

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has renewed its warning of an imminent humanitarian disaster in the enclave due to the...

Output Down As Banking Crisis Deepens

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THE CBI bosses organisation said yesterday that UK manufacturers expect to reduce output over the next three months, driving another nail into the coffin...

Bush Desperate ‘To Aid Burma’ But Watches Palestinians Starve!

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THERE is an obvious contradiction in the fact that while the US and the UK are considering fighting their way into Burma to ‘bring...

No Plan B – kick the coalition out!

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The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has gone through its ritual presentation of an ‘alternative’ budget in advance of the coalition government’s budget to be...

Coalition forcing in education commodity market

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that the government was organising an ‘NHS-style crash’ pushing through ‘reforms’ to create an education...

The debt of the British capitalist class is equal to the country’s economic output...

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OFFICIAL data shows that the UK state debt is equal to the country’s economic output for the first time since the 1960s, amid the...

Trump Wants The Whole World To Pay For The Crisis And Death Agony Of...

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DEEP splits among the imperialist powers emerged this week over the rapidly growing support for a Palestinian state, at the same time as Trump...

Trade unions must act now to defend living standards!

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BANK of England Governor Mervyn King sent a letter to Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday because inflation has taken off. Under statutory obligations put in place...

Tories refuse to negotiate – opt for a fight to the finish. Junior doctors...

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YESTERDAY the BMA junior doctors’ leader Dr Johann Malawana said, referring to the forthcoming strike actions: ‘No junior doctor wants to take this action,...

Pompeo Reveals That Soleimani’s Murder Was Part Of A ‘Bigger Strategy Of Deterrence!’

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US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has spilled the beans about the murder of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. He has revealed that it...

Trump Coup Attempt Fails

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ON WEDNESDAY afternoon thousands of US president Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington before storming the US Congress to put a stop to the...

Drive the fascists off the streets – forward to workers power and socialism!

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LAST Friday night, a racist gang attacked and seriously injured a teenage asylum seeker in Croydon. The Kurdish Iranian boy, age 17, was waiting with...

Don’t watch the Tamils being slaughtered – join the Parliament Square protests!

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THE Sri Lanka Army yesterday stepped up its murderous shelling of its so-called ‘safety zone’ in the Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal and Vadduvaakal areas of north-east...

TORIES TRY TO BRIBE GPs TO CUT HOSPITAL REFERRALS!

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RESEARCH conducted by the medical magazine Pulse has uncovered the fact that local GP practices are being offered bribes of thousands of pounds to...

No economic solution to capitalist crisis as BIS warns financial markets at risk

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THE BANK for International Settlements (BIS) – dubbed the bank for central banks – issued a dire warning in its latest quarterly review that...

World capitalism breaking apart – time to end it with socialist revolution

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THIS WEEK, the final nail was driven into the coffin of the political and economic consensus that has dominated world capitalism from the end...

Take action to stop the bosses closing factories and Tories privatising services!

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WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening, the UK bosses and bankers are using the US trade war, the developing banking collapse and slump (on...

World Crisis Of Capitalism Requires World Revolution

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CAPITALISM is a worldwide system dominating the whole planet, in which there is no national solution to the problems brought about by the latest...

Labour marshalling its strikebreakers

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THE capitalist state has had to admit that its war on two fronts means that it cannot rely on the British army for strike...

US prepares no-fly zone over Syria

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THE news that the US secretary of state, John Kerry, was forced to scrap a planned visit to Israel in order to attend an...

Tories Stepping Up The Class War While The Tuc Is Calling A Lobby Of...

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THE TORY government has made it crystal clear that its current reorganisation is being made in order to carry out a very serious assault...

Israel sacrifices Russian IL-20 and 15 lives to protect its raid on Syria!

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THE ISRAELI regime has repaid Russia and President Putin for their attempts to reach some agreement over a withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria,...

Balls’ conscription for 16 to 18 year olds

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SCHOOLS Secretary and chairman of the Fabian Society Ed Balls, has already made his mark in Britain. Before he became a minister he was part...

Gambling With The Norfolk And Norwich NHS Trust

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private equity firm 3i on Thursday listed its 3i Infrastructure fund on the London stock market only to see it sink to the bottom...

State to give bankrupt bankers cash in exchange for their paper rubbish

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PRIME Minister Brown has made an appeal to the Wall Street bankers to be honest, surely a contradiction in terms. He wants them to publicly...

Tories and military show contempt for Parliament

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THE ‘sovereign will’ of parliament was shown to be a complete fiction with the exposure of the participation of British pilots in bombing raids...