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Prescott slams Miliband’s failure as Labour opportunists panic

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FIRST of all we had Labour ex-Health Secretary Burnham serving notice on Miliband that he had until the spring to challenge the Tory-led coalition...

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...

King sees nothing but the ‘black cloud of uncertainty’

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THE Governor of the Bank of England yesterday poured gallons of ice cold water over the prospects of British and world capitalism. King cut the...

Tory hostile environment alive and well and making a profit for the government!

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A NEWSPAPER investigation has revealed that the Home Office has been making huge profits out of the human misery of the Tories’ ‘hostile environment’...

Johnson refuses to resign – organise a general strike to kick him and the...

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BORIS Johnson opened prime minister’s question time yesterday by apologising for giving the impression that lockdown rules, imposed by his Tory government, had not...

May Day Manifesto 2015 Organise the Revolution!

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the historic crisis...

Grenfell Tower survivors treated with contempt by Tories – time to kick the government...

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THE contemptuous treatment of the survivors of the fire that killed 80 people at least has been sickening. Last week it emerged that those who...

New Labour fawns over the bourgeoisie

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YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair stepped in to try and save his Minister for Culture, Media and Sports, Tessa Jowell and also his government. So we...

Workers Won The 2016 Referendum – Now They Must Take Action To Force It...

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SCOTTISH fishermen and their colleagues throughout the UK are up in arms over the surrender of the May government to the EU bureaucrats. Davis...

Unite the public sector TUC must call indefinite general strike

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TODAY'S four-hour national strike by firefighters is just the tip of a gigantic iceberg of working class hatred steadily bearing down on the leaky...

Millions Are Marching For Palestine – The TUC Must Call A General Strike To...

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HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth marched for Palestine in mass rallies that erupted throughout the UK on Saturday, and were more than...

Hands Off Syria – Down With Obama & Cameron’s War Drive!

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THE Syrian government has said over a long time that it would never use chemical weapons against its own people. Yesterday, the General Command of...

Salute the victorious Palestinian hunger strikers – Forward to the Palestinian state

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WE SALUTE the victory of the heroic 1,600 Palestinian hunger strikers who fought Israel to the brink of death, and remain alive having...

Massacre of over 800 civilians in Syria by imperialist-supported HTS regime forces

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YESTERDAY it was reported that as many as 1,300 people, including over 800 civilians, were killed in the Syrian cities of Latakia and Tartous...

Browne echoes Bush on need for bigger army

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PRESIDENT Bush, on Wednesday, called for a major expansion of the US army, and yesterday, the British Defence Minister, Browne, slavishly echoed his master’s...

Financial Crisis Worsening, Says The Imf

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IN its just-published Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF has found that ‘Confidence remains fragile despite recent policy actions’, and that the ‘Euro area...

US crisis pauses before another leap forward!

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THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...

Westminster Council demands unemployed do ‘voluntary work’

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The Tory ‘flagship’ council, Westminster, yesterday unveiled its blueprint for dumping the savage cuts in local government finances squarely on the backs of the...

Sunak prepares for war on working class to pay off capitalism’s massive debt

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OVER 250,000 small firms and companies are destined to collapse this year according to research carried out by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Nearly...

Miliband’s Labour saves Cameron government

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ON MONDAY evening, Labour Party leader Miliband completely betrayed the interests of the working class, the youth and the majority of the middle class...

US Riot Police Storm The Universities – Time For Workers Everywhere To Take General...

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HUNDREDS of police officers in riot gear have arrested pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University, after the university authorities requested that they ‘clear all individuals’...

Balls and the ‘Little Englanders’ adopt racism as their policy

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‘WE were wrong to allow so many eastern Europeans into Britain,’ says Ed Balls, referring to the large number of migrants from Poland and...

The split in the British ruling class is clearing the way for the British...

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THE POUND was sent crashing down yesterday against the US dollar and the euro prompting the bourgeois press to howl about ‘the end of...

NHS faces privatisation – kick out the coalition now!

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EVERY week without fail, doctors, medical journals, and health experts produce authoritative studies that ram home the fact that under this Tory-led coalition government...

Sack Woodley and Simpson over Royal Mail strikebreaking

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TODAY the Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London. ...

Unite members elect Sharon Graham as General Secretary to take on employers and Tories

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SHARON Graham yesterday was elected as general secretary of the Unite union to replace Len McCluskey securing 37.6% of the vote. Graham, who was considered...

Anti-Brexit coup under way – ‘Country before Party’ means bringing in military police state!

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WITH PM May seeking a miracle rescue by the EU getting rid of the backstop, in the real world a coup is being launched...

NATO forces face defeat in Afghanistan

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SIXTEEN US troops were killed in Afghanistan in July, more than were killed in Iraq! In fact, NATO casualties are mounting rapidly as...

Revolution Is The Only Road For Youth

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RECORD numbers of young people, 835,000 18-24 year-olds, are not in school, college or work in England, official figures are showing. This is an increase...

Johnson and Sunak are criminals – kick them out along with the rest of...

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PM JOHNSON made it clear on Tuesday night that he has no intention of resigning despite the fact that he has become the first...

US Raises Interest Rates To The Highest Level In 22 Years – The Workers...

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THE US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years, as it fights to stabilise prices in the world’s...

TUC line up with CBI and Tory Chancellor Sunak to impose wage cuts and...

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ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...

Eurozone crisis reaches crunch

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MONDAY’S’ summit meeting of the European Union leaders took place under siege conditions in Brussels as the city was paralysed by a general strike...

Hewitt And Hoon Stab Labour In The Back

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HEWITT and Hoon, are two of the Labour Party’s leading Blairites. Hoon was heavily involved in Blair’s criminal Iraq war, and in the...

Nationalise Land Rover and Jaguar to defend wages and jobs

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THE Alchemy Partners gang of asset-strippers have got Land Rover and Jaguar in their sights, now that cash-strapped Ford is ready to sell off...

Corbyn, O’Grady and McCluskey are determined to prevent workers from getting rid of Cameron

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YESTERDAY, under orders from Tory leader Cameron, most of the King’s horses and most of the King’s men of the major trade trade unions...

Households face catastrophe as debt crisis sets to explode

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IT IS becoming clear that the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, is very scared about the effects of the expected rise...

Blair’s Iraq adventure bites the dust

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday had a meeting with the long standing CIA agent and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, who is now posing as the...

Tories Are Down – Now They Must Be Put Out!

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THE Tories are down but they are not out! The trade unions must mobilise for action at once to deliver a knock-out blow to...

Egypt – Revolution In Permanence!

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MUBARAK has gone, while the revolution that removed him, at the cost of hundreds of dead, is continuing to develop. Workers and the middle...

No education cuts Restore free state education

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CHANCELLOR Darling has announced that £600m will be ‘saved’ by 2012/13 from across ‘higher education, science and research budgets, including student support’, meaning...

Kwarteng Sacked – Truss On Borrowed Time – Working Class Must Kick Tories Out!

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KWASI Kwarteng was sacked yesterday afternoon as Tory Chancellor, just weeks after he announced huge unfunded tax cuts that triggered a financial crisis by...

Britain ordered to slash spending on welfare benefits or face huge tax rises

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BRITAIN must cut spending on welfare benefits or face a miserable cycle of repeated tax rises every year, JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank,...

Bank of England trapped by inflation crisis – socialism the only way forward

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THE BANK of England is due to meet this week to announce an increase in interest rates, with ‘experts’ predicting an increase of 0.5%...

1.72 million jobless! End of furloughing on April 21 will see millions more...

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1.72 MILLION are now jobless! The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said yesterday it is the highest level in five years. Workers aged between 25...