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The US and UK are making war on asylum seekers! Workers trade unions...

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THE Biden administration has imprisoned tens of thousands of asylum seekers in US prisons where they suffer lengthy detention, severe physical and psychological harm...

RMT to strike during COP26! The trade unions must follow RMT lead and strike...

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STRIKE action during COP26 (The United Nations Climate Change Conference), from Sunday October 31 to Friday 12 November, is to go ahead after the...

TUC goes from lobbying the Tories to open support for the right-wing Ukrainian regime!

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ON TUESDAY, the TUC abruptly announced that it was cancelling a planned cost of living demonstration and march due to take place in Blackpool...

Former BoE Governor calls on China to abandon ‘zero-Covid’ strategy to save global capitalism!

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THE FORMER Bank of England Governor Mark Carney yesterday warned that China’s ‘zero-Covid’ strategy is ‘at risk of derailing the global economy and driving...

Arab League, Israel and the US conspire against Iran and Palestine!

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WHILE Israeli settlers, police and troops are running riot in occupied Palestine burning down the homes of Palestinian families and injuring and killing their...

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...

Only answer to capitalist crisis – build WRP and sections of 4th International to...

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THE CRISIS in the Tory party sharpened over the weekend, as the requirement to dump the economic collapse of British capitalism onto the backs...

BRITAIN FACES A FASTER AND STEEPER DOWNTURN SAYS BofE CHAIR ANDREW BAILEY

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ON WEDNESDAY, the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, speaking at the European Central Bank’s annual policy forum, warned that soaring inflation...

After Afghan Disaster, UK Ruling Class Is Determined That UK Workers Must Pay For...

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THE HUMILIATING hiding that the UK ruling class has taken from the Taliban in Afghanistan, where the US and the UK have squandered tens...

Lecturers 76% ‘Yes’ for strike – 37 Universities to come out! All unions must...

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UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff across the country have voted for strike action with an overwhelming 76% ‘YES’ vote. It means 37 universities will join...

Following renationalisation of Southeastern, the trade unions must call a general strike to bring...

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SOUTHEASTERN rail collapsed into public ownership yesterday with the RMT revealing the true cost of the government’s slavish devotion to subsidising private profit capitalism. In...

Johnson Prepared To Starve UK Workers To Aid Ukraine’s War To Weaken Russia!

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have both warned that the war in Ukraine could last years, as Russian...

UK Trade Unions Must Take Action To Support The Sudanese Workers And Youth Revolution!

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SUDAN has been in the midst of an enormous economic and political crisis since the masses of workers and youth overthrew the UK- and...

Unions must take strike action to stop lifting of Covid-19 restrictions on July 19th!

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HE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) doctors’ trade union has spelt it out that pressing ahead with lifting final Covid-19 restrictions in England on July...

Met ‘rotten from top to bottom’ – disband it now!

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THE CONVICTION and life sentence of Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard was most certainly not the case of...

Sack Cressida Dick And Disband The Met Police Now!!!

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ON TUESDAY two serving Metropolitan Police officers, PCs Deniz Jaffer and Jamie Lewis, admitted in court taking pictures of the bodies of two young...

US inflation rockets up – world sitting on a ‘time bomb’

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US INFLATION rate hit 7% last month – the highest since Ronald Reagan was president in 1982 – making it the seventh consecutive month...

Turn TUC demonstration on 18th June into a general strike to bring down...

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THE national demonstration and march on Parliament called by the TUC on Saturday June 18th has met with a massive response throughout the working...

No ‘bounce back’ as UK economy shrinks by further 1.5% in three months

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IT SPEAKS volumes for the disastrous state of British capitalism that news that the UK economy has collapsed by a further 1.5% in the...

Bankrupt capitalism aims to balance the books through foreign aid cuts and vicious austerity...

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ON TUESDAY, Tory PM Boris Johnson narrowly avoided defeat on a motion to cut UK foreign aid after a rebellion by Tory MPs. In the...

Sunak’s speech a declaration of war on workers to make them pay for the...

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his speech to the Tory Party conference yesterday pledged to ‘double down’ on his plans to resuscitate drowning British...

America on verge of bankruptcy US Treasury Secretary warns

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US TREASURY Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday warned congressional leaders that the Treasury will run out of cash next month and the federal government...

German Ruling Class Gets Ready For Another War With Russia!

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‘WE are witnessing a turning point … the world is not the same anymore,’ said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech last Sunday,...

The Tory attack on Hamas is an attack on all Palestinians and the working...

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LAST Friday, the Tory plan to designate the political wing of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was nodded through Parliament...

Starmer’s speech – an application to join a national coalition with the Tories!

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s first speech to a Labour Party conference yesterday was acclaimed by his supporters as heralding a ‘new dawn’ for the...

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....

NHS crisis can only be resolved by kicking out the Tories and going forward...

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THE Commons Health and Social Care Committee of MPs yesterday published a report calling on the Tory government to come up with a ‘long...

Mass strikes in US as workers rise up in ‘Striketober’

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The US working class has mobilised in an unprecedented wave of mass strikes across the country this month in what is being designated as...

NO WAGE OR JOB CUTS! Unions must call a general strike for a sliding...

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IN THE last 48-hours energy bills have risen by over 50%. The pensioners triple lock guarantee has been smashed. Students repayments on their loans...

End Tory racist deportation by demanding a general strike to kick them out

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YET ANOTHER attempt by the Tory government to deport over 50 people to Jamaica on Wednesday came unstuck with the Home Office forced to...

Omicron strain batters USA as President Biden seeks to divert US workers’ anger with...

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THE Omicron strain of the Coronavirus now accounts for more than 73% of new US cases of Covid-19, up from 13% just a week...

British capitalism hit by unending crisis – put it out of its misery with...

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WITH the petrol stations closing, British capitalism suffered another shock yesterday when it was announced that the UK’s second biggest oil refinery is on...

Enough is Enough! – With no time to lose lobby the TUC and demand...

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THE ACCUSATION that the Tory government is paralysed waiting on the outcome of the leadership battle between Truss and Sunak is very wide of...

The TUC Must Take Action T0 Defeat Johnson’s Savage Cuts And To Disband The...

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PM BORIS Johnson has refused to rule out raising taxes again, on the first day of the Tory Party conference and just three weeks...

Johnson’s Visit To Sweden And Finland Is To Expand The War Against Russia!

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PM BORIS Johnson is visiting Sweden and Finland to expand the war in Ukraine, and specifically to urge both nations to join the NATO...

Overthrowing capitalism only way to eradicate Covid variants

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THE NEW variant strain of Covid-19, given the name Omicron by the World Health Organisation (WHO), burst onto the world scene last week although...

BMA launch ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into Pandemic

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DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has launched its own ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic. This is ahead of the Tory...

PCS strike – No compromise with Tories possible. A general strike to kick them...

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OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...

Latest IMF warning that 2023 is year of world recession – world revolution the...

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THE HEAD of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has delivered a stark New Year warning that a third of the world economy...

Pound crashes against every currency in the world – time to put an end...

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THE pound crashed to its lowest level ever against the dollar yesterday morning threatening that it will soon reach parity with the US currency. Sterling...

Capitalism diving into recession and hyperinflation – time to put it out of its...

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YESTERDAY morning, Tory ministers had to submit to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) their plans to impose the cuts demanded by Chancellor Jeremy...

Governor of BoE blames workers for inflation – Only a sliding scale of wages...

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WITH INFLATION in the UK running at over 7% and gas and electricity bills shooting up by 54%, millions of workers face being driven...

General strike shakes the Rajapaksa regime! Forward to workers power!

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LAST Thursday, the Sri Lankan capital Colombo was halted as hundreds of thousands of trade unionists and their supporters took to the streets in...

Palestine – the UK unions must take action in support of Palestinian people!

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THE Palestinian Presidency has strongly condemned the ‘dangerous Israeli escalation against our people in the Gaza Strip, which so far has resulted in the...

‘There is no fuel shortage,’ says Shapps as the bosses shut down petrol stations...

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THERE is ‘no shortage of fuel’ and people should be ‘sensible’ and only fill up when they need to, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said...