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Tories Ally Themselves With Purnell To Beat The Unemployed

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YESTERDAY in the House of Commons the Tories were glorying in the fact that their votes will make sure that Labour’s bill to force...

Fight VAT increases with mass actions to bring down coalition

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THE increase of VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent today will mean destitution for millions of unemployed and low paid workers...

War against Taleban spreads into Pakistan

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THE centre of Mingora as well as large parts of the provincial capital of Swat have been destroyed and are rubble after five weeks...

Oecd Calls For A Giant Firewall!

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UK economic growth for the last quarter of 2011 has been revised downwards to a 0.3% contraction, another body blow to those who had...

Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU

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THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...

Tuc C0Ngress Must Give Corbyn And Palestine 100% Backing!

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YESTERDAY’S editorial of the bosses’ and bankers’ Sunday Telegraph gave its marching orders to Labour’s right wing and fake lefts, saying of Labour leader...

Obama seeks wider support for central Asian war

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PRESIDENT Obama has shaken his supporters with his admission that the war in Afghanistan is not being won, and that he is willing to...

Italy’s financial ‘doom loop’ will strangle the entire banking system warns Carney

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THE FINANCIAL ‘doom loop’ that is tightening around the necks of the Italian banking system will send the Italian banks and the Italian...

AS THE CAPITALIST CRISIS DEEPENS, MPs WANT A DICTATORSHIP OVER THE INTERNET!

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THE UK faces a ‘democratic crisis’ with voters being targeted with ‘pernicious views’ and data being manipulated, a parliamentary MPs committee warns. According to...

Cowardly Corbyn desperately walks the tightrope over the EU and the single market!

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LABOUR’S right wing were furious on Friday after the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party conference blocked a vote on single market membership. Instead,...

Savage cut in ESA to claw back £1.4bn from the disabled!

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THE peers of the House of Lords on Monday night capitulated to the Tory government over cuts to disabled people’s benefits to ‘encourage them...

British Capitalism Is On The Rocks And Needs Replacing With A Nationalised And Planned...

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THE BANK OF ENGLAND has issued a warning that not only will the bankrupted UK economy not grow in the wake of the Rachel...

US warns China as it tackles Russia in the Ukraine and fears its world...

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A CHINESE attack on Taiwan is not imminent, the top US general Mark Milley has told the BBC, but the US is nervously watching...

Ukraine faces more savage austerity and cuts to qualify for IMF ‘aid’!

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UKRAINE’S central bank has sharply raised interest rates from 19.5% to 30% in an effort to curb inflation and prop up its beleaguered currency...

Poroshenko crushed in elections – forward to Ukrainian workers taking back power and returning...

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THE WORKERS and small farmers of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the right-wing oligarchs and to the EU and US imperialism when they...

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...

Tories Want To Bomb Syria!

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TORY Defence Minister, Michael Fallon, with the full support of Cameron and leading members of the Labour Party, is calling for Britain to start...

Labour And Its Supporters Are Getting Ready For Actions Against The Trade Unions!

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PROVIDED you are an ex-Taleban fighter who now supports the British government, you are very welcome to enter and stay in the UK, and...

Answer Airbus threat to thousands of jobs in UK and Europe with occupations...

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YESTERDAY, Airbus announced that it will scrap all production of its flagship A380 superjumbo aircraft, a giant cruise liner with two decks and capable...

Reeves budget drives split in party as Labour MPs fear anger of workers over...

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves denied that Wednesday’s Budget was anything other than a massive austerity attack on workers with the sick and disabled deliberately...

Trump’s Economic Miracle Is A Bankrupt Mirage – US Workers Need Alternative To Trump...

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THE US Federal Reserve Bank yesterday launched an unlimited money printing programme to try to halt the collapse of the US ‘economic miracle’, and...

US insists on direct talks as Israel refuses to halt settlement building

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PRESIDENT Obama has summoned the Palestinian Authority leader, Abbas, and Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu to Washington for talks beginning on September 2, to resolve...

Cameron produces tax returns ‘summary’ – There is more to come as Osborne runs...

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THE Panama Papers ‘leak’ of 11 million documents continues to explode underneath the Tory party leadership. After a week of equivocation PM Cameron has produced...

US Longshoremen show the way with strike action on May Day to stop the...

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DOCKWORKERS of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to stop work for eight hours in all US West Coast ports on May...

Tory leader Badenoch wants to deport 150,000 workers a year using a Trump-style terrorist...

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TORY Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged that she will deport 150,000 workers a year using Trump-style immigration squads in raids on working class...

Replace Starmer’s anti-worker Labour regime with a workers government and socialism!

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THE TUC yesterday published a poll of over 3,000 voters which showed conclusively overwhelming support for workers rights and pay increases to match the...

Unreal capitalism deserves to perish!

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THE crash of the British banks continued yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland declared a £27bn loss for 2008 on Monday and its share...

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...

UK Police State Must Be Smashed!

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THE detention of a Guardian employee at Heathrow airport for nine hours was unwarranted and unlawful said Amnesty international yesterday. David Michael Miranda – the...

Palestine Unity Government Formed – Now The World Must End Occupation!

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THE Palestinian unity government has been sworn in, and has the backing of both the Fatah and Hamas movements. The defiant formation of the national...

Trade Unions Must Fight For Chagossians’ Right To Return!

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SAAD Iqbal Madni, was kidnapped by the CIA while visiting relatives in Indonesia. He was then transited through the British colonial possession of Diego...

Baby deaths & 4-hour trolley waits! Closures of maternity and A&Es are a...

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AN INQUIRY into baby deaths at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust has been broadened into an investigation of hundreds of deaths nationally, Tory...

US capitalism in crisis, UK capitalism near collapse

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US interest rates have now been increased to five per cent, with last Wednesday’s 16th monthly increase in a row. In fact, the new chief...

Greek Debt Crisis Set To Explode Under The Eu!

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TALKS on a Greek debt deal, it was reported yesterday, have ‘hit a snag’. The Institute of International Finance (IIF), and their creditors group...

Greece On The Brink!

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THE Greek working class has been pushed right to the brink of revolution this week with the passage of a bill in the Vouli...

British Capitalism At The Centre Of The Capitalist Crisis

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THE worldwide capitalist crisis drove the pound down on Friday into an unprecedented collapse. The pound slumped 9.6 US cents to $1.52 at...

Boots Joins The NHS Privatisation Drive

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CHEMIST giant Boots wants to breach the NHS system by bringing GPs and consultants into its stores as part of an alleged drive to...

National strike action to defend the Royal Mail and its workforce

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday warned that Royal Mail were planning sacking between eight and twenty per cent of the workforce, with London...

Stop Royal Mail Privatisation!

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NEXT week the postal workers union, CWU, is holding its delegate conference under conditions where the coalition government is planning the wholesale privatisation of...

Homelessness in rural England rises by a third in a year! Socialist revolution to...

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HOMELESSNESS in rural England has soared by as much as a third between 2012 and 2018, new figures released yesterday have shown. As rich...

Clinton, Hague beat war drums over Syria

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YESTERDAY US and UK diplomats were foaming at the mouth over an alleged massacre by the Syrian armed forces of men women and...

Well done BA cabin crew – Now Unite must use its full strength on...

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AT Gatwick and at Heathrow on Sunday morning pickets got tremendous support from passing motorists, coaches and lorries, and fellow airport workers. The lines of...

Times Rich List shows that austerity UK has become a paradise for the...

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THE just-published Sunday Times rich list shows that in austerity-hit UK – where millions of workers have not had a rise in the ten...

TUC traitors issue joint statement with the CBI bosses, the ETUC and Business...

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THE TUC leaders have just issued an unprecedented joint statement with the bosses of the CBI, the ETUC and Business Europe ahead of June’s...

Anc Leopard Will Not Change Its Spots!

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TOP members of South Africa’s ruling ANC party met yesterday to discuss the political crisis that has emerged in the wake of the ANC’s...