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Labour MPs condemn gov. for planning ‘shameful trade deal’ with Israel!

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THE Labour government has outraged a large number of Labour MPs and very many Labour Party members and supporters by proceeding with its plan...

British Military Opposes Any Petraeus Surge In Afghanistan

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GENERAL Petraeus is now the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, and has declared that he intends to organise a NATO ‘surge’ in...

Stalinist Putin condemns Lenin, but has kept his party card!

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LENIN wrote ‘The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self Determination’ in July 1916, just months after the Easter Rising in Dublin...

Hamas Urges Free Nations To Intervene To Stop Israel Weaponising Food! Act To Break...

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza has confirmed that the Israeli occupation has utterly failed in its attempt to distribute aid within ‘racial...

Sack the Hayes-Ward CWU leadership!

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LAST Wednesday postal workers delivered a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend their jobs, terms and conditions, and for a pay...

Howard condemns ‘judicial activists’ as security risks

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Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...

UK readying for war in the Gulf

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THE West’s escalation of its onslaught on Iran could see Britain sending military reinforcements to the Gulf shortly, following the passage of HMS Argyll...

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...

Bring Blair before a tribunal says General Rose

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THE call by retired General, Sir Michael Rose, for the Prime Minister to be impeached by the Privy Council over the invasion of Iraq...

Defiant Assad Puts Imperialists Into A Crisis!

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PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...

NATO chief tells Starmer spend more on weapons or ‘learn to speak Russian’

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THE Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, was in Britain this week meeting with Labour Prime minister Keir Starmer to hammer home the demand...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobbying the TUC Congress on September 12

Hands off Iran – Forward to the state of Palestine

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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has voiced his ‘dismay’ over remarks by Iran’s president calling for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. Annan...

Pound drops and inflation rises as recession grows

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THE pound fell to an exchange rate of $1.77 yesterday, its lowest level for two-and-a-half years. In June sterling was trading at $2, but...

Lobby the TUC Congress on September 9th – demand it calls a...

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THE mass of the UK workers support the heroic national liberation struggle of the Palestinian people for their state of Palestine, and the enormous...

Tories, LibDems are in crisis – kick them out now!

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AS the results of Thursday’s local council elections come in and are poured over by the main political parties and the pundits in the...

TUC must boycott Israel!

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IT is a disgrace that at this week’s TUC Congress there are no resolutions on the Middle East and Afghanistan where over...

Capitalism is dead in the water!

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ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...

New Curriculum abolishes childhood

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THIS week, children and young people return to school in England where they face being subjected to a new education curriculum devised by the...

Gold hits over $2,000 an ounce as the capitalist robbers seek value!

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ON TUESDAY the price of gold hit a record high of $2,000 (£1,530) an ounce, an increase of more than 30% this year. According to...

New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity

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FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...

Brown In Blinkers Ignores The Economic Crisis

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BROWN’S ‘big’ budget speech yesterday was an anti-climax, since it was an obvious attempt to ignore the worldwide capitalist economic crisis, and the completely...

The TUC supports the UK and US war plan for the Ukraine, and demands...

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THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor...

The Firefighters are the heroes of Grenfell! Jail the real culprits – big business...

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A LEAKED report by the chairman of the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry, Martin Moore-Bick, has found a scapegoat for the fire – they are...

Union leaders in Brown’s top pocket

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The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure leapt from 4.7% in August to 5.2% in December, with the Retail Prices Index (RPI), which includes the...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TGWU executive committee on Tuesday morning demanding the ‘Compromise Agreement’ with the company be scrapped

Brown wants to form a Blairite government

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has confirmed to the BBC that he will run a Blairite administration if he becomes prime minister. He said that...

New imperialist war being prepared in the Balkans!

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NATO yesterday confirmed that it will maintain its troop contingent in Kosovo to deter the violence that will follow the expected collapse of talks...

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...

US police murder of George Floyd is part of a war on the entire...

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THE WORKING class internationally has risen up in anger over the police murder of George Floyd in the US. The burning issue over police...
Rose Gentle (holding photograph) leads the Military Families Against the War march  from Parliament to Downing Street on Wednesday

The revolution in Nepal – part of the world revolution

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LEON Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution shows how ‘the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations lead directly, in our epoch, to the...

RBS bankers joked about destroying the US housing market

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THIS week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a load of emails and transcripts of phone conversations between senior executives of RBS, the...

Labour conference exposes bankruptcy of Starmer’s government – now is the time to bring...

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THE speech by Labour’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves to the party’s annual conference on Monday was nothing more than an appeal to the international financial services...

Taxation Slump Hits Labour!

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A WEEK ago the Chairman of the Bank of England, King, suggested that those who said they were seeing the ‘green shoots of recovery’...

Palestinian civil war aids Israel

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THE Palestinian masses and their organisations must unite to fight their enemy which is the Zionist state of Israel, backed up and supported by...

Ex-Defence Minister Fox Demands A Class War Against Workers And Their Trade Unions!

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THE coalition’s ex-Defence Secretary, Fox, put forward his demands for the Tory-led coalition’s March 21 crisis budget yesterday in the Financial Times. It was a...

Israel in favour of Gaza Truce ONLY when it has crushed Hamas!

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ISRAEL on Wednesday said it backed Egyptian efforts to mediate a truce with Hamas in and around Gaza but also at the same time...

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...

Workers must support Russia – the US-UK trade unions must stop war drive by...

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FOR SOME weeks the UK and US ruling classes have been telling the world that Russia is just waiting to invade the Ukraine, that...

At least three provinces reject the US’ Iraq constitution

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IT IS remarkable that in a ‘constitutional referendum’ organised by a puppet government, in a country under occupation by the US and the UK,...

‘Prime Minister’ Brown shows the City he is their man

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Gushing Gordon Brown began his speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet on Wednesday night, by exhibiting his fawning subservience to the audience of bankers....

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...

The working class is the hero of the hour – it smashed the Tory...

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IT says something about the scale of the defeat that the Tories and the bosses have suffered over the Mayoral election in London...

Bring down the Tories – the only way to defend and develop the NHS!

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THE BMA’s just-published Survey of Doctors reveals the depth of the crisis that the Tory government has plunged the NHS into, as a result...

Renationalise Energy Companies And Abolish Tuition Fees!

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AT A time of a desperate economic crisis of capitalism, when millions of families fear that they will not be able to pay their...

Tory war against GPs must be answered by the entire working class kicking the...

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THE TORY government has launched a vicious war against GPs. 778 GP surgeries have closed in the last eight years alone, forcing patients to move...

Trump Backs Counter-Revolution Against Chinese Workers – Time To Complete The World Socialist Revolution!

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US president Donald Trump yesterday seized the opportunity for US imperialism to make a provocative intervention in the internal affairs of China by backing...