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US Unemployment Rises Along With Repossessions!

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THE number of US workers signing up for unemployment benefits and leaving non-farming payrolls has risen sharply for the second consecutive week. The US Labour...

Mass murder in the Med!

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THIS week the UN announced that 300 migrants had drowned after being forced into unseaworthy boats in a desperate attempt to escape the wars...

Requiem For The British Economy !

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GORDON Brown, the man who sold off a good portion of the British gold reserves for a relative pittance, and boasted that he had...

Obama Ready To Step Up Intervention Into Syria

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THE just re-elected US President, Barack Obama, yesterday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to use chemical weapons against the NATO-supported opposition forces, saying...

UNISON leaders buy a little time for Brown

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THE UNISON leaders who originally accepted the three year sub-inflation pay deal for NHS workers, along with the RCN, without going to ballot, yesterday...

‘Big Society’ – wholesale destruction of the Welfare State

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TORY prime minister, David Cameron, launched a desperate attempt yesterday to try and convince an incredulous public that his ‘Big Society’ policy is something...

Blair An Agent Of US Imperialism

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PRIME minister Blair is frequently accused of replacing the established form of bourgeois rule in Britain, through an elected parliament, a government and a...

Bourgeois Lunacy At Rbs

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YESTERDAY the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history of £24.1bn, made up of a £7.9bn trading...

Capitalist state kept quiet about illegal phone tapping

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METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has ordered a senior officer to ‘establish the facts’ – concerning the knowledge that the police had –...

Israel In A Desperate Crisis As Fitch Downgrades Israel To An ‘A’ Outlook Negative!

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THE FITCH ratings agency’s downgrading of Israel to ‘A’ reflects the impact of the continuation of the war in Gaza, heightened geopolitical risks and...

Imperialism is the real terrorist, not Hezbollah

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LATE ON Tuesday, Parliament passed without a vote a motion from the Tory home secretary, Sajid Javid, proscribing Hezbollah, which he claimed was a...

Hodge, Blears and Blair say foreigners to the back of the queue

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LABOUR Industry Minister Margaret Hodge has won the support of Hazel Blears (Chairman of the Labour Party and a candidate for the deputy leadership...

Brown Loves Bankers But Attacks Single Parents

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AT the same time as the Brown government continues to spend hundreds of billions to ‘preserve’ the bankers and the capitalist system, his government...

Bank of England appoint Bernanke, the architect of QE, to rescue British capitalism from...

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At the weekend, bosses at the Bank of England announced that they had drafted in the ex-chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank (Fed),...

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,...

Trump’s trade war prepares the way for a real war against China! The only...

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US PRESIDENT Trump sharply escalated his trade war with China yesterday, more than doubling tariffs on $200bn (£153.7bn) worth of Chinese goods. The US is...

With capitalism in crisis the BBC gives a hand up to the BNP

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THE News Line is opposed to the BNP or any fascist party being given time to spread its propaganda in any of the media...

UK Is £2 Trillion In Debt – Tories Are Ringing The Alarm Bells...

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UK GOVERNMENT debt has risen above £2 trillion and hit £2.004 trillion for July. The debt is £227.6bn more than last year. It is...

While the homeless sleep on the streets and workers battle to survive the rich...

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UK WORKERS have suffered privation and poverty ever since the 2008 financial crash, when the banks were bailed out by a Labour government at...

French Health Workers Win Major Victory Over Macron Government!

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THE FRENCH government has been forced by the mass actions of the health workers’ trade unions to concede pay rises worth 8bn euros (£7.2bn)...
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...

Time To Get The Tories Out!

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CAMERON’S great achievement thus far has been to use the capitalist slump to push society backwards so that the rich are getting richer and...

British MPs reduced to whinging while Taliban take control!

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WHILE the Taliban’s top political leaders arrived in Afghanistan to take control of the country, British MPs held an emergency debate in Parliament yesterday...

Trade unions must take action to defend state pension!

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ON WEDNESDAY the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, David Gauke, cynically used the fact that parliament was closing down for the holidays to announce...

Ludicrous Cameron claims Tories are the workers’ party

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CAMERON began his election manifesto speech yesterday morning by insulting the intelligence of the listeners by stating ‘We are the party of working people,...

One third of all people in UK have lived in poverty in the past...

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ONE in three people in the country have ‘experienced poverty’ in the past four years. According to figures produced by the Office for National Statistics,...

Macron Set To Lose His Majority As French Workers Vote Socialist!

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PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron is set to lose his outright majority after a strong challenge from a coalition of left-wing parties in National Assembly elections....

Production and wages falling while ‘pay-day’ loan sharks boom as Christmas nears

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THE UK’s industrial output fell 0.7% in October, its fastest fall for six months. It is now 1.7% lower than the same month in...

Unions Must Take Action To Defend The NHS!

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HOSPITAL managers are to shut an NHS accident and emergency department down at night in order to combat a staffing crisis, caused by the...

Tories rushing into NHS privatisation, while Labour attacks them for delaying the privatisation project!

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THE TORIES are planning to knife the NHS through a massive expansion of the private health sector. The Labour turncoats are meanwhile critical of them...

Coup Against Corbyn Underway As Head Rabbi Announces He Is ‘Not Fit For High...

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WITH just over two weeks to go before the general election, the campaign by the Tories and their right-wing supporters in the Labour Party...

Greek vote provokes revolutionary crisis

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YESTERDAY''S Greek presidential vote heralds the start of a fresh eurozone crisis that threatens to bring down the Eurozone and with it the whole...

Leaving the European Union will require a workers socialist revolution!

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PM MAY last Monday afternoon, in her first statement to MPs in parliament since her Florence speech last month and her debacle at the...

Defeat paramilitary policing in UK with socialist revolution

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THOUSANDS of workers and young people in cities throughout the country, peacefully protesting against the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, were met...

The Spectre Of Revolution Stalks Europe Says Farage

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IT was Karl Marx who in 1848, two months before the February revolution erupted in France, began the Communist Manifesto with the words ‘A...

Smash The Zionist Entity! Forward To The State Of Palestine!

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THE decision of an Israeli court to reject that the Israeli army and state were in any way responsible for the 2003 Israeli...

May reveals Tories fear of revolution

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YESTERDAY’S speech to the Charity Commission by Tory prime minister, Theresa May, attracted much comment on her proposals on raising the profile of mental health...

French Workers Have Macron On The Run – They Have The Support Of The...

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THE FRENCH Revolution of millions of workers and youth is hotting up with the news that the hated French riot police are now deploying...

Forest Gate report justifies police-state tactics

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THE official Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) published its report yesterday into complaints against the Metropolitan Police over its huge police raid in Forest...

Sack the privateers and their patron Brown not NHS staff

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THE first thing about the McKinsey and Company report was that it was commissioned by the Brown government, at a great cost, and was...

US Trade Unions Ready To Take Action To Bring Down Trump!

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IN AN unprecedented move, the American trade union AFL-CIO federation (the US equivalent of the TUC) issued a statement last Friday warning that the...

Queen’s speech intensifies coalition attacks on jobs pensions and basic rights!

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THE Queen’s speech spelt out that her Tory-LibDem government is to step up its war against public sector pensions, continue to place the...

Labour leader Starmer and the TUC General Council remain silent as Zionist gangsters murder...

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A DELEGATION from the European Union along with representatives of about 20 countries visited yesterday the Palestinian town of Huwwara, south of Nablus, and...

US assembling coalition to launch war on Iran! Workers of UK & US must...

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IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned that ‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ He was responding to threats from US...

Homeless deaths are rapidly increasing! Capitalism is rotten! Only socialism can take society...

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THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has produced a new report which says that the true number of people sleeping on the streets ‘far exceeds’...