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Hague, Cameron are responsible for Linda Norgrove’s death

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US special forces in Afghanistan mounted an attempt to rescue Linda Norgrove after the British government in the persons of Foreign Secretary Hague and...

Oil giants make huge profits – nationalise oil and energy industries now!

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WHILE workers face skyrocketing energy bills forcing millions to go without heat this winter the giant oil and gas company Shell has announced annual...

PFI privateers having looted the NHS and the public sector are now pushing for...

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THE EXTENT of the full-scale looting of the country’s public buildings by giant offshore private companies has been highlighted in a report by a...

Demand that the UK recognises the state of Palestine – Attend our centenary rally...

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IN A virtually unprecedented break with the normal language of international diplomacy, the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad Malki, has deservedly torn into British Prime...

Capitalism Gripped By Historic Crisis

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THE world crisis of capitalism is being hit by a convergence of the crisis to which all the central banks, economists and politicians have...

Revolutionary crisis in France

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The first round of voting in the French presidential election, held last Sunday, produced an unprecedented defeat for the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his...

Trade union action to beat ‘stagflation’

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TODAY 800,000 local council workers, members of the UNISON and UNITE trade unions, begin a two-day strike against a government-imposed wage cut, an offer...

The Massive Human Price Of Boeing’s Profits – The Only Solution Is Expropriation...

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THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has the responsibility for aircraft safety, did nothing to ground Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft despite their own...

BMA Junior Doctors reject Tory-imposed contract!

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THE decision by the British Medical Association (BMA) to refuse to re-enter contract negotiations for doctors in training will be welcomed by every trade...

Time to put an end to the institutionally corrupt and racist police force ...

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THE LONG independent report into the murder of 37-year-old private detective Daniel Morgan in south London in 1987 was finally published on Tuesday and...

Workers will ignore Tory attempts to make Russia their enemy – the enemy is...

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YESTERDAY’S statement by Theresa May to parliament on the range of ‘reprisals’ against Russia for the alleged involvement of the Russian state in the...

No gagging of Pitchford Inquiry into police spies and police provocateurs!

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THE Pitchford Inquiry into police undercover operations directed against various protest movements – trades unions, political movements and MPs – is to be gagged...

Hayes get 14 years – now for the rest of the banking fraternity!

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CITY trader Tom Hayes has been found guilty of rigging global Libor interest rates. He has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. His...

Junior doctors must reject imposed agenda and call new strike actions to smash imposed...

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THE Junior Doctors Committee of the BMA is meeting this Saturday to respond to Tory Health minister, Hunt, who has been forced to agree...

Australian workers defeat Abbott government over GP tax

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AUSTRALIA’S biggest health union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), is celebrating the defeat of the Tory Abbott government, which has had...

Tuc Must Call General Strike To Kick Out Starmer’s Government

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THE continuing collapse of the Starmer-led Labour government was on public display on Wednesday when in a pathetic attempt to reassert his absolute control,...

War of words between puppet Karzai and US

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THE Afghan puppet president, Karzai, has gone to Washington and been forced, by rising Afghan anger, to publicly complain about the actions of the...

Israeli regime is on the path to collapse says Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah!

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THE Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement stated yesterday that the Israeli far-right cabinet’s insistence on pushing ahead with its controversial judicial overhaul...

IMF says banks stuck in ‘Doom Loop’ – Socialist revolution the only way to...

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TEN YEARS on from the banking crash that brought the world’s financial system to the very edge of going over the fiscal cliff, the...

Trump And The US Ruling Class Up To Their Necks In The Afghan Quagmire!

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THE US ruling class and its leader President Trump (allegedly much versed in the ‘art of the deal’) are now up to their necks...

US facing complete humiliation in Afghanistan!

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has had to make an emergency trip to Afghanistan where the much vaunted democratic...

Spectre of revolution haunting TUC leaders!

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THE real essence of the capitalist crisis penetrated into the heart of the Trades Union Congress yesterday, as delegates assembled for their annual conference...

Ukrainian Opposition Only Interested In Regime Change

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THE offer of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to ‘opposition leaders’ to take the premiership and other key positions in his elected government has...

Labour splits emerging as Starmer faces ‘mother of all rebellions’

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FOLLOWING Prime Minister’s Questions session in Parliament on Wednesday left wing Labour MP Richard Burgon went on social media warning that Keir Starmer will...

Capitalist crash drives HBOS into the arms of Lloyds TSB

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THE Federal Reserve Bank’s $85bn ‘rescue’ of AIG was carried out to stave off an immediate international financial and business collapse. It has turned...

Defend NHS with occupations and a general strike to bring down the government

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Yesterday saw the second reading of the Tory-led coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill in Parliament, a bill designed to facilitate the wholesale closure...

Tory racist ‘hostile environment’ ‘Reminiscent of Nazi Germany’ Forward with socialist revolution!

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SPEAKING on the BBC Newsnight programme on Wednesday, a former head of the Civil Service, Sir Bob Kerslake, damned the Tories and Theresa May...

Johnson Now Speaking Out Of Both Sides Of His Mouth At The Same Time!

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LAST FRIDAY, evidence from Boris Johnson assured a Scottish court, in his own name, that he would send a letter to the EU, as...

Workers of the UK and USA must send May, Trump and the EU packing...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump, on arrival to the UK on Thursday, did an interview with the Sun newspaper in which he said that he...

Dictatorship in Greece – socialist revolution the only way forward

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THE unelected and EU-imposed Greek ‘interim’ PM, Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank who played a major part in getting Greece...

Bank of England implicated in illegal Libor rigging

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THE Bank of England, the UKs central bank and guardian of the country’s banking system, along with being responsible for the running of British...

Nationalise BAE to defend jobs!

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DEFENCE engineering giant BAE Systems confirmed yesterday that it is cutting a further 3,000 jobs at sites across the country, mainly in its military...

Now Smash The Bill And Bring Down The Coalition!

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) yesterday carried a 97% vote of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley, with 478 for six against and...

Bloody Sunday – Put the British State in the dock for murder along with...

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YESTERDAY the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced that there was enough evidence to prosecute one soldier, soldier F, for the murder of two people,...

The Fire Brigade Is Not To Blame For The Grenfell Inferno!

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‘THE whole thing was hell, it was like a war zone,’ fire crew manager Charlie Batterbee, part of the first crew who entered Grenfell...

Defend university education! Forward to the British socialist revolution!

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‘LET THEM FAIL!’ declared yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in response to repeated calls for emergency government funding to rescue endangered English universities as the economic...

Adams bends the knee

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ON Tuesday, during a 4-day visit to Ireland, Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, had a private meeting lasting 20 minutes...
Marchers in London last May demand an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine

Labour Plans New Pensions Robbery

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EX-CBI boss, Lord Turner’s plans for pensions are just the means chosen by the Blair government to make the working class pay for the...

Corbyn appeases Labour’s right wing – the UK must leave the EU, as decided...

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THE UK was changed forever when the over-confident Tory leadership of Cameron and Osborne got the House of Commons to agree a resolution...

Jewish workers support Corbyn! Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism! Forward to the Palestinian state!

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THE JEWISH Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies on Monday night launched a demonstration outside the House of Commons accusing Labour leader Jeremy...

Dollar fall heralds a deepening capitalist crisis and world revolution

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ON FRIDAY, the exchange rate of the dollar plunged down against other major world currencies and gold rose by 1.2 per cent to $638.5...

Lagarde admits crisis as deep as five years ago!

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IMF CHIEF Christine Lagarde opened her speech of last Monday in Washington with a dose of false optimism. She said: ‘Let me begin by saying...

Starmer pledges £3 billion a year to Ukraine paid for by starving kids in...

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TWO weeks ago the Labour government’s work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall called the two-child benefit cap ‘a stain on our society’, and this...

Universal Credit = war on benefits

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YESTERDAY the Tory-led coalition launched its ‘pathfinder’ trial of the new Universal Credit System at a job centre in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester. From here the government...

Stock Markets Crashing Worldwide!

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THE sharp rises followed almost immediately by even bigger losses on the international stock markets over the past few days, point in only one...