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Parliament Is Up To Its Neck In Sleaze – It Must Be Closed Down...

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EX-TORY MP Owen Paterson has been a paid consultant for clinical diagnostics company Randox since 2015, and for meat distributor Lynn’s Country Foods since...

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...

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....

Tory Government Is Going For A Showdown With The Rail Unions!

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THE cost of living is now rocketing thanks to PM Johnson’s and Foreign Secretary Truss’ determination to inflame the war in the Ukraine and...

US And UK Ruling Class Are Humbled In Afghanistan – Forward To The Victory...

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THE US ruling class, and its UK and German allies have suffered a historic defeat in Afghanistan. This is the verdict of the former UK...

Socialist revolution the answer to youth and workers’ jobs crisis

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A REPORT yesterday by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) warns that up to 350,000 youth aged between 19 to 24 face being thrown...

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...

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...

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...

Covid pandemic report attempts to exonerate the Tories but herd immunity is still alive...

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THE COVID report by two parliamentary select committees published this week has been correctly universally greeted as a damning indictment of the Tory government’s...

Johnson Has Been Forced Out – Now The TUC Must Act To Bring Down...

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BORIS Johnson finally resigned as Prime Minister early yesterday after more than 50 Tory ministers and aides jumped ship and left him floundering to...

Putin Defies The Imperialists Diktat And Visits Mariupol Promising To Rapidly Rebuild The City!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has visited Mariupol and vowed that new comfortable residential quarters for the people will continue being constructed in Mariupol in...

Johnson fighting a war on two fronts against Russia and against the working class...

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PM JOHNSON in his Thursday speech in Blackpool unveiled his war on two fronts against the Russian workers abroad, and at home against the...

Labour under ex-prosecutor Starmer cannot win a general election – What is needed is...

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LABOUR has failed to dominate the council elections despite the illegal actions of PM Johnson, and the way that under his government living standards...

Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any attack on the country

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THE commander of Iran’s armed forces Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard said on Tuesday that Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any...

Tories Plan To Bring In Legal Strikebreakers To Force Workers To Accept Wage Cuts!

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DEPUTY Prime Minister Dominic Raab says the UK government cannot allow unions to win a battle for higher pay as it would supposedly fuel...

Time to put an end to ‘zombie’ capitalism with socialist revolution

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STEPHEN Welton, head of the small business investors group the Business Growth Fund (BFG), warned this weekend that the UK economy is in the...

TUC must back railworkers, and postal workers and call a general strike to bring...

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THE EMERGENCY anti-union regulations, passed in the House of Commons by 289 votes to 202 on Monday night, are set to be used to...

Biden calls for regime change in Russia – workers prepare for regime change through...

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IN AN unscripted departure from his speech in Poland on Sunday, US president Joe Biden blurted out that the real aim of the war...

GPs denounce Tory plans to roll out vaccine for putting patient lives at risk

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VER 1,000 GPs have written to Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock demanding that the government produces a ‘full plan’ for the roll out of...

Oil giants make huge profits off backs of workers – nationalise the oil and...

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AS MILLIONS of families face massive increases in their energy bills when the Tories raise the cap on prices by 54% in April, the...

Taliban cuts the US-UK imperialist powers down to size – now the US and...

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THE US AND UK imperialist powers have just suffered a historic defeat in Afghanistan. Last week, even as they scuttled out of the country,...

Tory government in massive crisis – make TUC call a general strike to kick...

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AT THE weekend, the Tory-supporting Telegraph newspaper published an article by its economics expert Jeremy Warner which carried the dire headline: ‘Few have woken...

50-years since ending Bretton Woods and the end of the myth of capitalist stability

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SUNDAY August 15 marked the 50th Anniversary of the collapse of the Bretton Woods Agreement which shattered any illusions about the ability of world...

More sanctions on Russia drive up inflation while Tories blame strikes for crisis

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YESTERDAY an embargo on seaborne Russian oil exports came into force, a move that will drive up the price of oil internationally and add...

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...

UK capitalism is in its death agony – It is time to organise the...

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THE Bank of England yesterday raised interest rates by the most in 33 years from 2.25% to 3%, and accompanied its action with a...

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...

Extend lecturers strike into a general strike to defend pensions and education

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TALKS began yesterday between the University and College Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK), the body representing all universities, at the conciliation service ACAS...

Tories Split Over The Johnson–Sunak Decision To Raise National Insurance Contributions In April!

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PM JOHNSON’S decision to bloc with Chancellor Sunak to see that National Insurance Contributions are raised in April by £12.9 billion has widened the...

Johnson Government Cannot Defeat The Covid Virus Because It Puts The Bosses’ Profits Before...

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THE JOHNSON government is now paying the price for refusing to follow the example of China by organising a national lockdown, with no loss...

‘Historic shock’ of inflation will drive workers and youth to socialist revolution

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TODAY British workers and their families face the biggest attack on their living standards since records of cost of living increases were first recorded...

Tories offer GPs ‘cash for cuts’ to stop patients getting hospital treatment – unions...

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THE GP website Pulse revealed this week that in four areas in England local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have set up a ‘profit-sharing’ scheme...

Palestinians defiant as Gulf State rulers forge war alliance with Israel

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YESTERDAY Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett met with the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayad al-Nahyan, in the first official state...

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...

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...

Sudanese workers force PM Hamdok to quit – now the working class and the...

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THE NEWS Line Editorial Board sent its revolutionary New Year greetings on January 1st to the workers and youth in Sudan who are continuing...

The Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down Johnson And ...

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BORIS Johnson’s reaction to the Tory Party’s massive by-election defeats at Tiverton and Honiton and at Wakefield has been to reject the advice and...

Sanctions on Russia rebound on US as countries dump the dollar as dominant world...

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ONE OF the main consequences of the US-led sanctions designed to strangle the Russian economy and lead to regime change has been to hasten...

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...

Hospitals and schools are being hit by uncapped energy bills

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THE SKYROCKETING increase in energy bills is driving the health and education services to the wall, with leaders in both these vital services warning...

Only a general strike can defeat Tory anti-union strike breakers law

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IN ADVANCE of last night’s vote in parliament on the Tory bill waging war on the right to strike by allowing employers to bring...

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...

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...