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Expropriate out of control banks!

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THE giant international bank HSBC is ‘cast-iron certain’ to break the regulatory rules, the laws which are supposed to govern banking practices, again. These were...

Credit Suisse sold at knockdown price in last ditch attempt to avert world banking...

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THE CAPITALIST world banking system hurtled even deeper into a massive crash this weekend when the central banks of Europe, UK and US forced...

Afghan civilians being slaughtered while poppy production is booming

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MASSIVE NATO firepower is killing hundreds of Afghan civilians, as British forces in Helmand province battle with Taleban fighters seeking to bring back to...

US bombings condemned as a War Crime

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THE medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has rightly denounced the targeted bombing by US planes of its medical centre 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...

Lobby the TUC on 27 April to demand they take action to support the...

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THE lobby of the TUC general council meeting tomorrow is crucial for the fight, not just in defence of the junior doctors, but to...

Corbyn calls on civil servants to block no-deal Brexit! Organise general strike to leave...

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IN THE LATEST attempt to block a no-deal Brexit, Labour leader Corbyn has called on the civil service to move into action and do...

Cable Urges Privatised Unis, A Graduate Tax, 2-Year Degree Courses And Part-Time Students

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TWENTY FIVE per cent funding cuts will mean 33,844 jobs being destroyed in English colleges. This news comes just a week after an analysis...

Alleged stonethrowers charged with attempted murder or targeted by snipers!

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‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...

Britain Boarded The Grace 1 Off Gibraltar To Protect US And UK Oil Thieves...

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ON JULY 4th, 30 Royal Marines boarded the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 off Gibraltar, allegedly on orders from the USA, because of suspicions...

CWU Reps demand action while the leaders equivocate

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THE two-day national meeting of postal workers representatives at the union’s Policy Forum this week demonstrated that CWU members have gone way beyond their...

Israeli Dress Rehearsal For Attack On Iran!

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US officials yesterday admitted that a major military exercise, which saw more than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighter jets taking part in...

North Korea condemns Trump’s threats and issues its own warning!

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THE North Korean government has rejected claims by President Trump that a combination of threats and sanctions have brought Pyongyang to the negotiating table....

Put Blair On Trial!

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THE Fern Britton interview with Tony Blair on the BBC yesterday, squashed all of the notions that are being peddled that Blair was just...

Workers must organise unions to take the UK out of the EU on October...

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THE EU’s Brexit negotiator Barnier has set the scene for this week’s ‘Brexit showdown’ in the House of Commons by rejecting out-of-hand PM Johnson’s...

Trump and Pompeo encourage Zionist Israel, while Biden prepares to accept land seizures!

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ISRAEL is in a race against time to create a fait accompli in Palestine before US President Donald Trump leaves office, Palestinian Prime Minister...

UK living standards ‘to fall behind Malta’ as UK capitalism crashes under debt

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ON Monday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its latest updated figures which showed that the average person now has £38 less to...

Brown Threatens Royal Mail Funding!

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AT THE CWU rally at Central Hall yesterday afternoon, CWU leader Billy Hayes presented a successful outcome of the postal workers struggle as relying...

UK Workers Are Threatened By Covid-19 Mutations – Trade Unions Must Bring Down Tories...

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HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...

Police want to use water cannon and rubber bullets

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THE Metropolitan Police is considering its tactics after the failure of its containment and ‘kettling’ policies in Parliament square last Thursday, when...

Tory sleaze again – boot them out with a general strike!

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NADHIM Zahawi, the Tory Party Chairman and ex Chancellor of the Exchequer, has for months been avoiding questions about his tax affairs, but on...

Hands Off Syria – To ‘End The Cruelty And Carnage’

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THE heads of five major UN agencies have issued a joint appeal to the international community, a code phrase for the imperialist...

MPs defend council housing – report condemns government plans

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The House of Commons Council Housing Group of MPs from all parties yesterday launched its report Support for the Fourth Option for Council Housing. This...

Reid rants against foreigners ‘stealing our benefits’

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YESTERDAY Home Secretary John Reid showed that patriotism is indeed the last refuge of a scoundrel when he attacked foreigners for ‘stealing our benefits’....

Troika Forcing Greek Revolution

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THE Troika of the IMF, the ECB and the EU have imposed such a massive austerity programme onto the backs of the Greek working...

Full Support For Barghouthi

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THE jailed Palestinian leader of the Second Intifada, Marwan al-Barghouthi, has written from his prison cell in Israel to urge the Palestinian leadership...

Biden begins his presidency with a missile attack on Syria and a refusal to...

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PRESIDENT Biden has begun his presidency with a cowardly missile attack on Syria and a shameful wooing, in the most hypocritical manner possible, of...

Trump Coup Attempt Fails

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ON WEDNESDAY afternoon thousands of US president Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington before storming the US Congress to put a stop to the...

General Strike To Smash Fees And Bring Down The Coalition

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TENS of thousands of students and youth are marching today in central London to denounce the tripling of tuition fees to £9,000, and to...

56 Refugees forced to sleep in a single office! Boot the Tories and their...

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REFUGEES are being held in office space in Kent, with as many as 56 women and children crammed into a single room, sleeping together...

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...

Blair Conversion Seals His Counter-Revolutionary Role

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TONY BLAIR, his hands still dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and with financial scandals swirling all round...

Carney’s Last Stand!

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BANK of England Governor and chairman of the Financial Stability Board Mark Carney understands both that another major banking crash is on the way...

Baha Mousa – British Army Torture Inquiry Opens

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was kept with other Iraqis under the control of British troops, and with the knowledge of their officers and various intelligence officials. They were systematically...

Turkish Workers Rise Against Erdogan!

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RELATIVES of around 150 miners, missing after the deadly mine explosion at the privatised Soma mine in western Turkey, are maintaining a permanent vigil...

Cameron orders SAS killers onto British streets

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NEARLY 2,000 new spies are to be immediately recruited by the British state, prime minister David Cameron announced yesterday. Speaking from the G20 summit being...

Brown champions more police powers and public sector pay cuts

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told police chiefs yesterday that he will do ‘everything to give you the resources’ and ‘we will not shirk from giving...

Joint Russian & UK Salisbury investigation: The only way to uncover the truth!

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RUSSIA says the UK shows no interest in conducting a joint investigation into the alleged assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia,...

Answer the Lindsey provocation with a general strike!

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THE provocative sacking of over 650 workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery – who walked out to demand that a recently negotiated trade union...

Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson quits – Now drive the rest of the right...

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YESTERDAY morning, Labour’s deputy leader and leading right winger Tom Watson announced that he was quitting his post and would be standing down as...

Defend North Korea against imperialist threats

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THE government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced yesterday that it would ‘no longer be bound’ by the armistice that...

BMA leaders run away after Cameron waves big stick

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THE BMA and its Junior Doctors Committee yesterday ‘made the decision to suspend the 48-hour industrial action planned for 26-28 January. We are announcing...

Britain Must Stop Arming Saudi Feudalists!

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MPs on the House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls have urged in a draft report that the UK government stop selling arms...

Abbas-Obama Talks Fail To Reach Agreement!

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JUST BEFORE his talks with President Abbas on Monday, President Obama said: ‘I think everybody understands the outlines of what a peace deal would...

Cameron abuses Corbyn, pledges to end social housing and announces an end to ‘passive...

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AFTER Theresa May’s vintage Tory beat-and-beat-again speech on Tuesday to the Tory Party conference, treating migrants as the enemy and rating their contribution...