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De Menezes murder not a crime says state

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THE current farce that is being played out, of trying a police death squad under the health and safety laws, is not only a...

Civil Rights lawyers closed down by Tories

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THE law firm that has spent ten years representing the Iraqi victims of the brutal imperialist invasion of their country and the subsequent occupation...

Smash the EU – forward to the United Socialist States of Europe

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THIS week sees the return to Athens of the Troika’s ‘bail-out monitors’ to oversee yet another round of austerity cuts designed to crucify the...

Hundreds of thousands of UK firms ‘looking down the barrel’ of bankruptcy

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BRITISH capitalism enters 2022 with experts and business owners predicting a massive surge in bankruptcies amongst SMEs (small to medium sized enterprises with no...

UK, France and Canada threats of ‘concrete action’ over starvation in Gaza driven by...

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YESTERDAY Labour prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney issued what was called a stark warning to...

‘Treason’ law threat is to the whole working class

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SCOTLAND YARD and the Crown Prosecution Service are meeting to discuss bringing charges against three men under the Treason Act, for which the death...

The time has come to organise the British Socialist Revolution!

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PM Keir Starmer’s humiliating defeat and capitulation to the rebellion of 127 Labour MPs, over his proposed welfare cuts on Thursday night, has thrown...

Portuguese economic and political crisis reaches explosion point!

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PORTUGAL’S borrowing costs have jumped to over 7%, meaning that it will shortly have to seek another IMF-EU bailout, by offering even more cuts...

IMF predicts ‘worst economic fallout since the Great Depression’ – Only way out of...

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INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund’s (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday: ‘We anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.’ ‘Just three months ago, we...

Amazon Rugeley One Of The Most Dangerous Workplaces In Britain!

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WORKING in an Amazon warehouse, a woman in the last months of pregnancy was forced to stand for ten hours a day, while another...

Osborne launches permanent austerity war against workers

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CHANCELLOR OSBORNE underlined the precarious nature of his ‘recovery’ when he told the House of Commons yesterday ‘the job is not done…we don’t squander...

Johnson’s ‘Defiance’ Of The EU Will Not Fool Workers – He Voted For May’s...

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THE NEW Tory PM, Boris Johnson, now has a cabinet dominated by ‘Leavers’ after his massive clear-out of ‘Remainer’ ministers, following his victory in...

US Democrats want Trump impeachment to form basis of bloc with Republican Party!

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DONALD Trump became the first president of the United States to be impeached twice when the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to charge...

Time to put imperialism out of its death agony with victory of world socialist...

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LAST FRIDAY, Labour’s armed forces minister, Al Carns, was ramping up the increasingly strident calls for the whole country to step up and prepare...

Stop The Police Chiefs Taking Over The Fire Service!

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JUST a few weeks ago the Grenfell Tower inferno burnt men, women and children to death, because the fire was able to take...

As occupation founders oil workers come to the fore

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A BRITISH soldier has been killed in southern Iraq, bringing the number of British troops who have died in Iraq to 150, with thousands...

Prentis appeals to Brown in vain

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‘OUR time and patience is running out. The country is in a mess and we look to the Government to come up with serious...

Unions Must Fight And Defeat Local Pay Plans

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THE Tory LibDem coalition, despite all its problems and weaknesses, waged a war to bring its Health and Social Care privatising bill into law. They...

Landlords ban DSS tenants! End the housing crisis through putting an end to...

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AT LEAST one in 10 landlords are ‘unlawfully’ advertising their flat for rent by saying that they do not accept tenants on housing benefit,...

Arab League, Israel and the US conspire against Iran and Palestine!

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WHILE Israeli settlers, police and troops are running riot in occupied Palestine burning down the homes of Palestinian families and injuring and killing their...

Don’t raise rates Chambers of Commerce warns B of E

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ON the eve of the Bank of England’s monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting over the Bank’s interest rate, the British Chambers of Commerce has...

Tory MPs demand May resigns while Labour refuses to call for her removal

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THERESA May returned from her Easter break to face Tory MPs united in demanding her resignation. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, met...

Ferguson erupts as police killer goes free

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THE US town of Ferguson, Missouri erupted yesterday after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against a white policeman, Darren Wilson, ...

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 US And The Eu Are The Gangsters

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WE are currently witnessing the greatest eruption of vilification against Russia and its leadership since the Fulton speech by Winston Churchill on March...

US is complicit in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp massacre that killed 274 Palestinians!

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ON Friday, Israeli forces launched a murderous attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza with bombs directed at its market place, which...

Truss insists no retreat as she prepares to split Tories and move to dictatorship

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TORY Prime Minister Liz Truss finally emerged from Downing Street yesterday to make her first public statement on the economic crisis that has brought...

Time for regime change in Labour Party – kick out Starmer!

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Up to Wednesday, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer was in a state of complete denial about the depth of the rebellion amongst his own...

Trump sends troops to steal Syrian oil! Kurds and Syrian army unite to drive...

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WHEN US President Donald Trump abruptly announced on October 9 that all US troops would be pulled out of northern Syria, his administration indicated...

Reid is talking liberty but is planning repression

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HOME Secretary Reid yesterday spoke about the importance of liberty – a new subject for a Home Secretary who preaches the ‘war against terror’,...

No Respite From The Capitalist Crisis!

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IT is one of the features of the capitalist crisis that it proceeds not in a straight line but through a downward spiral movement...

UK gov is bullying councils to keep schools open – while TUC issues mass...

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THE Johnson government’s Covid-19 crisis intensified as it ordered London and most of Essex and Hertfordshire to join Tier 3 at 00:01 GMT yesterday. This...

US-UK-Eu The Imperialist Split Widens!

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AS the world crisis of capitalism develops at breakneck speed, so the splits between the imperialist nations become more open, pitching the US against...

Working class must break with Labour now, the only prop of the Tory government...

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100 TORY MPs voted against Boris Johnson’s ‘Plan B’ Covid restriction on Tuesday night, defying predictions earlier that Johnson had ‘won over’ a large...

Nationalise Bp, Shell And All The Gas And Oil Companies

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BP’s profits are soaring, it is getting fabulously richer while more and more working class motorists are forced to take their cars...

Trump Is Organising A US Coup Not A Presidential Election Campaign!

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IN HIS FOURTH of July speech US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claims are out to...

End The UK Support For Rajapakse

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THE News Line hails the heroic resistance of the Tamil Tigers to the armed forces of the Rajapakse military dictatorship, which is seeking to...

Obama selects his bourgeois team to save US capitalism

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BARACK OBAMA has just been elected by an explosion of popular support and anger that has united the working class and brought the majority...

Recall TUC to demand an indefinite general strike to kick out the Tories

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At its annual conference yesterday, the leaders of the National Education Union (NEU) reported that the latest Tory pay offer was rejected by an...

Trump Courts North Korea To Avoid A War On Two Fronts!

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THE SIGNED Joint Statement of US President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, issued from the Singapore Summit yesterday morning, commits Trump ‘to provide...

Record numbers of people live in ‘very deep poverty’ in UK – Socialist Revolution...

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ANALYSIS conducted by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), released on Monday, reveals that a record number of people in the UK live in ‘very...

With the US economy smashed Trump is aiming to return to office through a...

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WHAT began as a Black Lives Matter movement sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has developed into a nationwide movement...

US forced to talk with Iran and Russia

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PRESIDENT BUSH’S officials confirmed yesterday that Iran had agreed to hold talks with the US on Iraq. The Iranian communique said: ‘Following consultations between...

Don’t let Cameron bomb Syria – Forward to the victory of Syria and the...

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THE capitalist media and its Tory masters are working around the clock to drum up a majority for Cameron, made up of Tories and...

314,000 Sackings In Three Months As Tories And Bosses Blitz Workers’ Jobs!

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THE UK’s unemployment rate has risen to 4.8% in the three months to September, up from 4.5%, as the coronavirus continues to blitz workers’...