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Under Brown They Don’t Pay Any Any Taxes

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GORDON Brown in his budget got rid of the lowest rate of tax, 10p in the pound, thereby setting out to further punish the...

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...

Junior Doctors Conference Gagged

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THE decision last week by Tory Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and agreed by the BMA to extend the ‘talks’ over imposing new contracts on...

Dubai dashes bourgeois hopes – world revolution is the answer!

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DUBAI’S ‘debt repayment’ postponement for six months has brought renewed havoc to European, Asian and North American stock markets. They have all been reminded that...

Joint Russian & UK Salisbury investigation: The only way to uncover the truth!

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RUSSIA says the UK shows no interest in conducting a joint investigation into the alleged assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia,...

Tory coronavirus inquiry is an attempt to put off reckoning with working class

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ON WEDNESDAY, Tory prime minister Boris Johnson announced that there would be ‘a full and independent inquiry’ into the government handling of the coronavirus...

Tory Austerity forces parents to rely on baby banks for essentials – time to...

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IN LAST year’s autumn budget Tory chancellor Philip Hammond claimed that ‘austerity is coming to an end’ in Britain. Hammond’s claim backed up Theresa May’s...

Tory Party tearing itself apart – Now finish it off!

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THE spectacle of the Tory party tearing itself apart over the EU referendum will most certainly gladden the hearts of workers across the country. Last...

Economic Crisis Set To Wreak Havoc To Jobs And Homes

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THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday warned that thousands of manufacturing jobs are about to be slashed by employers seeking to reduce their costs,...

UK living standards ‘to fall behind Malta’ as UK capitalism crashes under debt

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ON Monday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its latest updated figures which showed that the average person now has £38 less to...

Miliband’s ‘fight door-to-door’ bombast has no answers for workers and youth

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ED MILIBAND kicked-off Labour’s election campaign yesterday with a speech full of bombast and empty promises, but which has at its core the main...

Time to drive the Tories out! TUC must call a general strike to give...

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AFTER the Tory insult of a 1% pay offer to the heroic health workers, the working class and youth are boiling with anger and...

Eu On The Brink!

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THE entire capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step towards total meltdown with the admission last Thursday that agreement on a Europeanwide bail-out...

Hands Off Syria – Smash The Gulf Feudal Regimes

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THE Syrian government has informed the UN envoy, Kofi Annan, that it will respect the cease fire agreement that it is a party to,...

To Get Rid Of The Coronavirus – Get Rid Of The Capitalist Drive For...

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YESTERDAY, Boris Johnson announced new emergency laws making social gatherings of more than six people illegal in England from next Monday. This law applies to...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers PARMJIT BAINS (right) and PARMJEET SIDHU with Hounslow UNISON member MARIE ROWLANDS

Restore the NHS! Bring down Blair

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair made clear yesterday that the government is determined to force through the cuts and closures, privatisation and destruction of...

End imperialist wars with victory of the world socialist revolution!

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ON SUNDAY, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth insisted publicly that, despite the illegal bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, Donald Trump’s administration...

Starmer Recruiting Right Wing Tories To Run Any Labour Gov!

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THE Labour Party is defending, welcoming right wing Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the party despite anger from many backbench MPs and workers at...

Lord Turner gives up on capitalism – forward to the socialist revolution!

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CAPITALISM is not delivering on its promise to raise living standards, Lord Adair Turner, a former head of the business lobby the CBI, has...

End Of The Road For The UK-US Afghan War

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THE news that the death toll of British soldiers in Afghanistan passed the 400 mark this week has been greeted with outpourings of grief...

100 women on hunger strike! Shut down Yarl’s Wood and ALL detention centres!

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‘WE ARE not animals!’ women incarcerated in the notorious Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre have scrawled across their T-shirts. More than 120 women have...

Any attempt to ban Rail and Post strikes must be met with a general...

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THE DECEMBER 12 general election will take place in the middle of an unprecedented wave of strikes as workers show their revolutionary determination to...

Tusk pleads for Trump to end trade war with warning it will turn into...

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PRESIDENT of the European Council Donald Tusk yesterday issued a desperate plea for Europe, China, America and Russia to ‘work together’ and ‘prevent conflict...

UN condemns Tory government for its onslaught on the disabled!

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THE UK government’s welfare ‘reforms’ amount to a ‘systematic violation’ of the rights of disabled people, according to an inquiry by the United Nations...

Follow Holby City Equity Take Strike Action With Junior Doctors

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THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...

Murdoch Empire Still Remains To Be Broken

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PRIME Minister Cameron used his usual tactic at prime minister’s questions yesterday, when asked why he brought a criminal into 10 Downing Street...

US And Iraqi Puppets Massacre A Thousand In Sadr City

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IRAQI deputies to the puppet parliament, who are Iraqi nationalists and who support Moqtada al-Sadr have denounced the US puppet government of Premier...

Bailing out banks and sacking public sector workers splits the unions

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THE UNISON and Unite trade unions have split. The former has formed an alliance with the EU public sector trade unions ver.di and CGIL and...

British capitalism is breaking apart

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THE one clear message that emerged from Cameron’s speech yesterday was that the political representatives of the capitalist class in Britain have given up...

450,000 Palestinians forced to leave Rafah! Trade unions must call general strikes to prevent...

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THE United Nations says more than half a million Palestinians have now been displaced in war-torn Gaza, as Israel intensifies its air and ground...

No escape for capitalism as stock markets crash

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ON THE very day that Boris Johnson hailed the start of the economic bounce-back for capitalism with a return to work, the international stock...

Welcome all Refugees! Bankrupt EU spreads racist poison!

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THE Danish parliament has just voted to rob asylum seekers of their valuables – so that they pay for their upkeep. This policy immediately brings...

Stock markets crash in US and across the world – socialist revolution is only...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s tariff increases imposed on China, Mexico and Canada come into effect today but already this has set off a massive...

The only way out of the growing and desperate capitalist crisis is through organising...

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STOCK markets in the US ended last week sharply down following tough comments by the head of the country’s central bank, the Federal Reserve,...

Starmer Congratulated By Union Leaders, Now Awaits His National Service Government Call-Up!

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THE election of Starmer as Labour leader has been cheered to the rooftops by both the trade union bureaucracy and the Tory Party-supporting media. His...

Corbyn and McDonnell peddle reformist rubbish to avert revolution

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Both Jeremy Corbyn and his deputy, shadow chancellor John McDonnell, unveiled their ‘radical’ new plans for saving British capitalism from the anger of the...

Labour squeezing poor and cutting services to prop up the banks

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CHANCELLOR Darling has told his cabinet colleagues there will be no more money made available for schools, hospitals or transport. These vital services face cuts,...

Ukrainian Workers Will Foil All Of The Plots To Restore Capitalism To The Ukraine!

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US President Donald Trump has said that Kiev can ‘win all of Ukraine back in its original form,’ marking a major shift in his...

Billionaire steps in to bail out the Labour Party

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LAKSHMI Mittal, the Indian-born billionaire has donated £2m to the Labour Party, it was revealed yesterday. The fifth richest man in the world, who owns...

Davie and Turness resign from BBC in orchestrated campaign to end all criticism of...

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Tim Davie, director general of the BBC, and Deborah Turness, chief executive of BBC News, both abruptly resigned on Sunday night following a concerted...

Brown Going Further Than Blair & Reid On ‘Security’

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PREMIER to be, Brown, yesterday told the world, five days before the outgoing Home Secretary Reid is to introduce his counter terrorism measures...

Obama’s Second Coming – Full Of Empty Words

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OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...

Blair fans anti-youth hysteria – while capitalist state gunmen return to work

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YESTERDAY the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, joined in the hysterical attack that the state and bosses are launching on Britain’s youth. Millions of young people...

Crisis deepens as shares crash worldwide!

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its concerns about Spain’s economy, saying ‘far-reaching’ reforms are needed to ensure its recovery. It said the country...
Demonstration in London on January 26 demanding the release of Omar Deghayes and all other detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp

Workers Of The World Unite Against Imperialism

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THE sight of Danish embassies burning in Beirut and Damascus leaves no doubt as to the depth of anger of Muslim people at the...