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UK political crisis explodes as Parliament refuses to support immediate ceasefire!

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THE House of Commons tied itself up into knots on Wednesday as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support...

Tory Party Turns On Cameron Over Syria

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PRIME Minister Cameron said last Thursday night that he would respect the defeat of his ‘strike Syria’ government motion by 285-272 in the House...

Ruling class prepared to dump weak Johnson and move to dictatorial rule to wage...

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THIS WEEK the Tories were warned by leading financiers and bankers that a quarter of a million firms in the UK will be crushed...

South Africa crashes into economic depression – socialist revolution is the only way forward

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ON WEDNESDAY South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the death at the age of 91 of George Bizos, the renowned human rights lawyer who...

Hands off Iran – NO British Troops in the Middle East and...

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‘IT simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this...

Now is the time to build the Workers Revolutionary Party

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THE deeper the crisis of the capitalist system gets, the more desperate the measures that it takes to sustain the bosses and bankers’ system,...

Zionists intervene to try and prevent Corbyn-led Labour government!

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WITH THE Tory government split, divided, and on the rocks after refusing to carry out the 2016 referendum instruction to ‘Leave the EU’, the...

US death toll rockets in Iraq

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FIVE more American troops were killed and three were captured near Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, in a pre-dawn attack on Saturday. The...

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...

Miliband’s ‘national interest’ is an ‘imperialist interest’

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FOREIGN Secretary Miliband declared to his audience, right at the start of his Oxford College speech last Tuesday evening, that ‘we’ must not let...

M&s And Taylor Wimpey Crash As Hauliers Descend On Parliament

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HUNDREDS of hauliers picketed parliament in London yesterday to demonstrate against the rising cost of fuel, and the way that it is destroying their...

Working Class Is On The March – It Is Refusing To Pay The Bill...

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THE UK working class is on the march, spurred forward by the worldwide crisis of the capitalist system, with Britain very much the weakest...

Johnson Government Cannot Defeat The Covid Virus Because It Puts The Bosses’ Profits Before...

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THE JOHNSON government is now paying the price for refusing to follow the example of China by organising a national lockdown, with no loss...

Victory to Syria! Defeat imperialist war drive with world socialist revolution!

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THE DEATHS of dozens of civilians including young children in Syrian town Khan Sheikhoun has been seized on by imperialism as a weapon to...

OFT have never fined a single payday lender!

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PUBLIC Accounts Committee chairwoman Margaret Hodge has revealed that the Office For Fair Trading (OFT) ‘have never fined a lender for exploiting individual clients’. In...

British capitalism bankrupt, backward and stuck at the bottom!

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UK unemployment fell by 57,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to May, leaving the unemployed rate stuck at 7.8% in the UK,...

Iraqi masses to march today to end the US-UK occupation

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ON THE eve of today’s expected one million strong march in Baghdad, called by Moqtada al-Sadr, against the US-UK occupation of Iraq, US tanks...

While FIFA looks the other way Palestinian children are being tortured

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IT is a monstrous betrayal of the Palestinian people that the FIFA Congress immersed itself in the corrupt affairs of billionaire, big business soccer,...

Struggle against Assad and Iran more important to US-UK gangsters than defeating ISIS

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UK Prime Minister Cameron said yesterday that the UK supports US airstrikes against the IS not with boots on the ground, but by other...

Israel Poised For Gaza Attack!

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ISRAEL is gearing up for another major attack on the Gaza Strip to try and drive back the revolutionary forces in the area. At the...

‘The war against terror’ – a war that cannot be won!

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IT’S official. The western imperialist states are engaged in a ‘war against terror’, which they have been waging since the Bush-Blair axis was formed...

Eurozone meltdown!

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THE European Central Bank (ECB) monthly policy meeting took place in Naples last Thursday under riot conditions. While Europe’s financial movers and shakers met in...
BBC workers picketing Bush House this May

French revolution stuns EU bosses and political leaders

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THE 55 per cent vote, by the working class and the rural population of France against the European Constitution, is a body blow to...

Renationalise the Royal Mail – new leadership required for CWU

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THE full price for the capitulation of the CWU leadership over the privatisation of Royal Mail is now rapidly emerging. The union, which halted...

Close Down The US Base On Diego Garcia!

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FOREIGN Secretary Miliband yesterday admitted in the House of Commons that previous government denials that the island of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands...

Labour plans to keep one million patients out of hospital

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LABOUR’S policy of privatising the NHS by diverting huge chunks of the NHS budget to the private sector is preparing the bankruptcy of many...

Top of the capitalist agenda – raising food prices and starving the world

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THE United Nations is warning of disturbances and revolutions in developing countries worldwide as its food price index hits an all-time high. The UN’s food...

Labour racists seek state dictatorship over immigrants

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JUST imagine the furore there would be if British migrants to India were told that they would have to be conversant in Hindi, be...

Labour plans to use the state’s OBR to hold down workers’ wages and benefits!

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LABOUR has promised to hand more powers to Britain’s capitalist state, and to the OBR, the Office for Budget Responsibility, to hold down wages...

Royal Mail getting ready for New Year war!

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BRENDAN Barber has won another battle honour from the employers. His first was at Gate Gourmet, which publicly congratulated him on its website for the...
Relatives and widows of asbestos-related cancer victims outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday afternoon

Bolivia nationalises oil and gas resources

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BOLIVIA’S President Morales has gone from having a conference last week in Havana with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, which established a...

Occupy to stop hospital closures – trade unions must bring down the Coalition with...

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IN THE UK at the moment there are dozens of District General Hospitals – some of the best in the world – set for...

German economy crashing into recession

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GERMANY, the EU’s biggest economy, is fast heading into recession according to economists who are growing increasingly fearful that inflation fuelled by the EU...

Stray dogs devour the bodies of dead Palestinians with Israeli troops looking on –...

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THE Hamas Movement said yesterday that the sight of stray dogs devouring the bodies of martyrs in northern Gaza before the eyes of Israeli...

EU in crisis – forward to United Socialist States of Europe

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WITH THE second wave of the coronavirus pandemic ripping through Europe and overwhelming hospitals and health services, EU countries have been forced to implement...

Irish TUC mass demo puts Barber and Woodley to shame!

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120,000 trade unionists and their supporters, including over a hundred workers who are part of the occupation of the Waterford Crystal plant, marched through...

We Are Approachng A Moment Of Truth Says Osborne

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KARL MARX was able to show that one of the fundamental contradictions of the capitalist system was the conflict between the need of the...

US vetoes UN resolution on Gaza as it openly ‘stands with Israel’ in imperialism’s...

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ON WEDNESDAY, the US vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demanding ‘an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’ in Gaza. The draft resolution also...

Cameron’s ‘One Nation’ excludes the working class, youth and poor!

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THE Queen yesterday outlined that her government ‘will legislate in the interests of everyone in our country. It will adopt a one nation approach’. This...

UK flees Afghanistan – and sacks 4,500 troops

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NATO has handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan to the Afghan puppet government for the first time since the Taliban were ousted...

Trump ‘loses interest’ in Venezuela as another assassination attempt on President Maduro fails

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YET ANOTHER attempt to assassinate Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and seize power in the country has been thwarted. According to the Venezuelan government minister, Jorge...

US Patriots In Gulf Prepare Way For Israeli Strike At Iran

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THE US has moved to prepare the way for an Israeli strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities by deploying missile shields in Qatar, the UAE,...

No to paying the EU £50 billion – Kick out the Tories and forward...

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THE TORY government has caved in to EU demands and agreed to pay a whopping ‘divorce’ bill that is estimated to be £50 billion. EU...

Blair Defies Labour Over Education Privatisation

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LABOUR Prime Minister Blair has ruled out changes to his education reform (privatisation) plans despite a challenge by more than 50 Labour MPs,...

Truss Is Planning Regional Pay And More Anti-Union Laws For ‘Lazy And Idle’ British...

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THE OUT OF CONTROL UK inflation rate has hit double digits – 10.1% according to the Office for National Statistics. It says it’s at...