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GMB, Unison and Unite refuse to call action to bring down coalition

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‘WORKING people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life.’ This is the...

Stop the great pensions robbery with a general strike

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HUTTON, the Blairite currently doing the dirty work smashing up public sector pensions for Cameron and Osborne, has come up with no surprises. He...

UK must follow Ireland’s lead and organise general strike action in support of Palestine!

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RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, announced on Thursday that Ireland will not take part in next year’s Eurovision song contest if Israel is a contestant,...

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...

Vote WRP, forward to the socialist revolution!

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PM Brown yesterday announced that the general election will be held on 6 May and told voters Labour will take the ‘big decisions’ that...

Bosses see mass unemployment as the whip to discipline working class!

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A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE Australian property tycoon, Tim Gurner, speaking at a property summit on Tuesday, spoke out clearly revealing the contempt these mega rich bosses...

TORIES FACE WIPE OUT – WHILE LABOUR MPs PLAN EU ELECTIONS COUP!

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WITH THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS fast approaching, the bourgeois democratic system through which the capitalist ruling class has ruled over the working class in the...

McDonnell makes his bid to lead government of national unity – while Corbyn calls...

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JOHN McDONNELL made his bid to lead the proposed government of national unity to smash Brexit during his interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today...

Torturers must pay for their crimes!

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YESTERDAY’S announcement by the coalition government that it has agreed to make huge payments to former detainees at the notorious Guantanamo Bay concentration camp...

Debt crisis requires social revolution

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WHEN it comes to desperate, mindless optimism the French president, Francois Hollande, is a world leader. In a speech given in Japan over the weekend,...

Trump Seeks To Impose A Worldwide Capitalist Dictatorship – Workers Must Mobilise To...

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CHINA yesterday accused the White House of ‘bullying practices’ after Donald Trump imposed 104 per cent duties on Chinese goods into the US in...

ICC refuses to act over Israel’s Gaza war crimes

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PALESTINIAN youth and workers marched very bravely all over the occupied territories last Friday on Land Day, and they were met as usual by...

Davis resignation shatters Tories as May goes looking for Labour votes

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TORY Brexit Secretary David Davis exploded a bomb under the leadership of PM Theresa May on Sunday with his resignation from the cabinet. May had...

Speak English Or Else – Minister Tells The Poor!

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UNEMPLOYED people who cannot speak English will have to show they are learning the language or lose benefits, the government has announced. This is...

Unite’s ‘line in the sand’ must be enforced with strike action and occupations

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ONE of the leaders of Unite, the country’s largest union, yesterday stated that: ‘A line in the sand over further privatisation of the NHS...

OFT have never fined a single payday lender!

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PUBLIC Accounts Committee chairwoman Margaret Hodge has revealed that the Office For Fair Trading (OFT) ‘have never fined a lender for exploiting individual clients’. In...

Hands off Palestine – no annexations! Arab workers must remove ‘recognition’ regimes!

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FOLLOWING the refusal of the Arab League to condemn the UAE for its recognition of the state of Israel, Bahrain has now followed the...

Starmer Congratulated By Union Leaders, Now Awaits His National Service Government Call-Up!

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THE election of Starmer as Labour leader has been cheered to the rooftops by both the trade union bureaucracy and the Tory Party-supporting media. His...

Greek workers and Palestinian masses are allies

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THE Greek Pasok capitalist government, that is using its state forces to bludgeon and gas tens of thousands of workers protesting against its sell-off...

US and Saudi Arabia are slaughtering Yemenis while Israel is assassinating Palestinian journalists!

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A LEADING member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi yesterday indicted US imperialism saying that it is killing thousands of Yemeni civilians...

Imperialist Gangsters Prepare Iran War

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IN A situation where their NTC proteges are not even sitting securely in the saddle in Libya, the UK and the US ruling classes...

Hamas Responds To Israeli Massacres With Bold Strikes Against Israel!

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THE movements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Sunday gave their full support to the Tel Aviv operation that targeted Israeli soldiers working for...

Capitalism is facing its biggest ever collapse – time to replace it with the...

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THE working class is now facing the fastest and biggest rise in the cost of living for four decades. At the same time, many...

Privatisation drive created Mid-Staffs NHS carnage

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RELATIVES of some of the 400 plus patients who died at the Mid-Staffs NHS Trust were unanimous yesterday about the official, just published report,...

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 call a general strike in support of junior doctors and the NHS

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TODAY Emergency Motion E5 is to be heard and voted on at the TUC Congress in Brighton. Despite being called ‘Support for the BMA and...

Mandelson to read last rites for GM Luton – workers must occupy the plant...

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BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson – who did not lift a finger to save the LDV van factory from administration, to which it was consigned...

Johnson-Sunak Are Preparing A Winter War Against The British Working Class!

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THE UK working class is heading into the greatest ever winter struggle in its history, much greater than any of the ‘winters of discontent’...

For A Nuclear Bomb Free Middle East

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IRAN took a calculated risk yesterday when it reached an agreement with the US and its allies that it would allow extensive and exhaustive...

100 years since the Balfour Declaration, Palestinians are still paying for it with...

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ISRAEL has detained one million Palestinians since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the West Bank,...

A Plague Of Locusts

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ONCE again the spotlight has been put on the private equity locusts. This time a Financial Times investigation has shown how TPG, CVS and...

Get British troops out of Iraq now!

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair told troops in Basra on Thursday: ‘We want to draw down our forces. We don’t want to keep people here...

Big business to take over NHS funds

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THE Labour government is speeding up the break-up, privatisation and destruction of the National Health Service, despite the vote at the Labour Party Conference...

Smash Universal Credit by kicking out the Tories

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SINCE Universal Credit was devised over seven years ago, the Tories have gone to great lengths to keep from the public exactly how it...

Cameron lays out mass privatisation programme

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IN A speech yesterday, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, promised to privatise every public service in the country, to ‘open up’ public services...

Pompeo admits US-organised uprising in Venezuela has ‘no popular support’

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US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo had a secret meeting last month with prominent American Jewish leaders in which he spilled the beans on...

Brown and Darling give the nod to 40,000 sackings!

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ONCE AGAIN the Labour Party leadership of Brown and Darling have shown where their class allegiance lies – and at great cost to the...

World crisis deepening to explosion point!

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JAPANESE stocks led big falls across Asia on Tuesday, posting their biggest drop in nearly 10 months, as investors became hysterical about falling oil...

Obama, Cameron Sign Up For War In Syria

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US President Barack Obama has signed a covert, secret order authorising the CIA and other US state agencies to support the Syrian counter-revolutionaries, the...

Sunak admits ‘borrowing will have to end’ and prepares for war against the working...

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IN THE Spectator magazine this week, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks with the official Tory line that British capitalism could survive by indefinitely...

Gaza children face death from starvation – the UK trade unions must act to...

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has renewed its warning of an imminent humanitarian disaster in the enclave due to the...

Hamas urges workers of the world to take action and salutes the growing mass...

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IN A statement issued on Friday to mark International Jerusalem Day, Hamas declared that the occasion arrives this year as the Palestinian people steadfastly...

Labour supports and covers up for torturers

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THE Court of Appeal yesterday forced the British Labour government and its Foreign Secretary, Miliband to publish seven paragraphs concerning the torture of a...

Tories and Labour unite to bar Bulgars and Romanians

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THE Tory Party yesterday called for restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania when these countries shortly join the EU. The Tory Party immigration...

Wolf in sheep’s clothing at the TUC

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THE ‘Wolf’, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, at yesterday’s TUC Congress, sought to explain to the ‘sheep’, the working class,...