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Foreign Secretary Hunt prostrates himself before the USA and President Trump!

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FOREIGN Secretary Hunt’s debut in the USA saw him prostrate himself in front of US imperialism in the most fawning and sychophantic manner. He...

Bank of England hike in interest rates will push workers and the middle class...

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YESTERDAY’S announcement by the Bank of England of an increase in interest rates from 0.5% to 0.75% will be disastrous for the vast majority...

Workers Won The 2016 Referendum – Now They Must Take Action To Force It...

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SCOTTISH fishermen and their colleagues throughout the UK are up in arms over the surrender of the May government to the EU bureaucrats. Davis...

Cape Town – first major metropolitan city to run out of water!

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THE water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa’s second largest city, has become explosive as experts now estimate that ‘Day Zero’, the day when...

TUC line up with CBI and Tory Chancellor Sunak to impose wage cuts and...

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ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...

Stop children and immigrants being used as ‘cash cows’

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EVIDENCE is emerging about the extent to which the Tory policy of creating a ‘hostile climate’ for immigrant workers is being used by the...

Johnson Pleads For Compromise – The Working Class Must Finish The Job!

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BORIS Johnson revealed his plans for a Brexit deal at the Tory Party conference yesterday before formally putting his proposals to the EU. Johnson’s deal...

‘Cronyism and sleaze’ engulfing Tories, as bankrupt capitalism collapses. Forward with the Socialist...

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SINCE GREENSILL Capital collapsed last month, all that is rotten throughout Parliament has been stirred up and has bubbled to the surface. The collapse...

Overseas Operation Bill gives British State licence to kill and commit war crimes with...

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THE HOUSE of Lords today will be debating the Overseas Operations Bill which gives the British military a licence to kill and torture throughout...

Only a sliding scale of wages can defend workers from inflation

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OFFICIAL figures have confirmed that consumer price inflation surged to 5.4% in 12 months to December – up from 5.1% month before – the...

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...

IMF warns of devastating recession worldwide – forward to world socialist revolution!

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued a grim warning of worldwide recession with global debt reaching a staggering record of £64 trillion. In...

Celebrate the first 70 years by bringing down the Tories and ending the cuts

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THE NHS was the product of war and revolution, namely the slaughter of soldiers and civilians fighting fascism in World War 2, and...

150,000 Deaths – Tories Put The Bosses First – They Refuse To Lock Down...

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THE BMA yesterday condemned the 150,000 Covid deaths, so far, since the start of the pandemic. The reason for the mountain of corpses is...

Western-backed terrorists attacking Damascus from Eastern Ghouta!

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THE British capitalist press is seeking to whip up a storm over what it calls two days of ‘hysterical violence’ by Assad forces in...

Smash Universal Credit by smashing the Tories

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ON WEDNESDAY this week, the Tory government whipped its MPs to vote down a motion from the Labour Party calling for the release of...

The trade unions must sack Starmer and dump Labour’s right wing! Now is the...

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THE HARTLEPOOL by-election result and the council by-election results mean that Starmer and Labour’s right wing must be dumped by the trade unions at...

Trump And Blair Are Furious As The Taliban Heads For Government!

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THE success of the Taliban movement and the mass of the Afghan people in securing a US and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the...

Israeli Police Cancel Settlers March! Trade Unions Must Take Action Now To Establish Palestinian...

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ISRAELI police yesterday cancelled tomorrow’s annual massive settlers’ march through Jerusalem. The march celebrates the occupation of the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967 and...

Quit the EU now – defend jobs, forward to socialism!

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A PROPOSED law giving PM Johnson’s government the power to reject parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU passed its first reading in...

The Oxford Blood Money Must Be Returned To Sender At Once!

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IN ITS LATEST ATROCITY, the University of Oxford has grabbed with both hands more than £12m in dirty money from the Alexander Mosley Trust. This...

UK bans Chinese ambassador to step foot in Parliament! The enemy is at home...

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THE UK government stepped up its war with China this week when it took the decision to ban the Chinese ambassador to the UK...

Energy bills and rent through the roof! Benefits cut! Wages cut! Tories must be...

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GAS and electricity prices have gone through the roof leaving families unable to pay their bills, with hundreds of thousands sitting in freezing cold...

Tories guarantee working class will pay for the profits of the rail privateers

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YESTERDAY the Tory government announced its plans to save the profits of the private rail companies by bankrolling them for another 18 months. In March,...

British Imperialism Hits The Rocks! Time For Workers To Despatch It To The Dustbin...

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CRISIS-RIDDEN British imperialism, split over whether to serve the European Union or the United States, is now like a ship without a rudder, and...

Union must end all ‘positive engagement’ with the employers – only occupations and strikes...

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A STORM has erupted over the revelations that a taskforce set up in 2017, with the object of protecting the future of the Ford...

Trade Unions Must Shut Down The Schools, And Kick The Tories Out To Beat...

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CORONAVIRUS cases are now rising fast, driven by a new variant of the virus that has emerged in the UK and is much more...

BMA & RCEM demand urgent action to end NHS winter crisis! TUC must call...

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DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has demanded ‘urgent action this winter to stop the National Health Service derailing entirely’. This stark warning came in a new report...

Grenfell Towers are everywhere! Capitalism cannot be regulated, it must be overthrown!

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THE TORY government is pushing its Building Safety Bill that it says addresses the big issue of fire safety raised by the horrific Grenfell...

Barrett appointed to US Supreme Court in drive to declare a Trump defeat a...

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WITH JUST eight days to go before the US presidential election the right wing judge Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the American Supreme...

Brown and Blair’s grab for Africa

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BEFORE our eyes, the Live Aid movement has been transformed into a Live 8 movement, whose purpose has become to support the British Prime...

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...

Five Tory advisors quit! Finish Johnson and the Tories off with a general strike...

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FIVE Tory advisors to Prime Minister Boris Johnson have now resigned. They are leaving the sinking ship while more Tory MPs have handed in...

UN expert slams group of democratic states for ‘psychological torture’ of Julian Assange

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The United Nations expert on torture has condemned the psychological torture inflicted on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying: ‘In 20 years of work with...

As Imperialism Hits The Rocks – Forward To The Victory Of The World Socialist...

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US AND UK-backed Islamists are on the run from their last stronghold in Idlib province in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported...

Kick out the TUC leaders who collaborate with the Tories – build a revolutionary...

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IN HIS INTERVIEW with the Spectator magazine Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak made it quite clear that in the New Year there will have to...

Israeli regime is in a desperate crisis while the Palestinian masses have emerged stronger...

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ISRAEL has emerged out of its failed military attempt to crush Hamas much weaker and much more crisis-ridden, while the Palestinians are now much...

Palestinian Premier Condemns Israel’s Killing Of Four Young Palestinians!

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has condemned the Israeli army killing of four young Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and...

Bank of England follows US Fed in driving up interest rates to ‘save’ capitalism!

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England (BofE) hiked up the interest rate by 0.25% to 1.25%, its highest level in 13 years – the first...

US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis and NATO to organise a war with...

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PM Boris Johnson said yesterday that Ukrainians are ‘fighting heroically’ and with ‘great success’ in some places against Russian troops who have intervened to...

Grenfell disaster was caused by private companies and government – the FBU tells Inquiry!

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FIRE BRIGADES Union lawyer Martin Seaward has told the Grenfell Inquiry that the disaster was caused by individual private companies and the government! He insisted:...

Ex-Tory minister reveals police spies reported directly to Tory government!

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ON TUESDAY, Norman Tebbit, former Tory minister in the government of Margaret Thatcher, proudly announced that while he was employment secretary from 1981-83 he...

Down with barbaric vaccine wars! Put an end to backward capitalism with socialist revolutions!

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A VACCINE war broke out between the European Union and the UK last week over the supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus. The...

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...

Imperialism responsible for Libyan detention centre bombing atrocity

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THE BOMBING of a detention centre holding 600 refugees in the Libyan capital Tripoli last Wednesday killed at least 44 people and wounded over...