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Brexit crisis deepens reflecting the death agony of British capitalism!

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THE British ruling class, far from recovering from the Brexit mutiny, when its chosen policy for saving British capitalism – that of ceding...

Tory war on two fronts – against the working class at home and...

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LAST week Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the Tory offensive against the rights, conditions and wages of every worker. This is the strategy behind the...

The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...

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THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...

Support RMT Southern strikers, defend rail safety and jobs with them, and renationalise the...

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EVERY worker in the country, not just every commuter, must support the five-day RMT strike action on Southern. It is a fight for jobs, and...

Labour blindfolds itself so as not to see the developing capitalist crisis!

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THE Labour Party manifesto launched on Tuesday contained a number of slight but significant changes from the draft leaked to the press last week. On...

RAF planes bomb Iraq/Syria border areas

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ROYAL Air Force Tornado fighter bombers have joined the US air force in bombing raids in Iraq’s western Al Anbar province, particularly in the...

Bank crisis spreads while US government faces running out of money on June 1st...

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THE BANKING crash has continued, with First Republic being the third US bank to collapse within three months. First Republic was taken over by the...

Starmer and Streeting declare war on NHS – TUC must be forced to call...

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KEIR Starmer and Labour Health Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday launched a ‘public consultation’ on their plans to transform the NHS from ‘analogue to digital’ in...

Privatisation of roads and Royal Mail

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The leadership of the postal workers union (CWU) delivered a treacherous blow to their members when they hailed the announcement that the government is...

Imperialist provocations against Iran a prelude to war

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IMPERIALIST preparations for war against Iran were ramped up even further on Tuesday with completely unsubstantiated claims that Iran was responsible for the ‘hijacking’...

Netanyahu ready to strike Iran, while McCain calls to bomb Syria

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ISRAEL, which has several hundred nuclear bombs, has issued a warning that it will not wait much longer before it strikes Iran, which has...

Labour MPs rebel and threaten to bring down Starmer

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WHAT was described as a ‘fiery’ meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, addressed by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, took place on Monday...

Tories out to destroy free speech

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THE full extent of the Tory plans to smash up the right to free speech was revealed yesterday by an unlikely source, the new...

Ending the capitalist crisis needs more than reformist policies

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JOHN McDONNELL the newly appointed Labour shadow chancellor, made his first speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday outlining the ‘new economics’ that he...

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,...

Johnson using fear of revolution and civil war to drive through a deal...

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Opposition parties met yesterday in the offices of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to cobble together an agreement to replace Boris Johnson...

Unite leaders share out the pain among its GM members

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THE Unite leaders’ policy that workers must share the pain of the capitalist crisis bore more rotten fruit on Tuesday. This was when Unite’s...

Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan to end terrorism

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NEWS LINE sends its condolences to the families of those who were killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks on London, and its best wishes for...

Ukraine faces more savage austerity and cuts to qualify for IMF ‘aid’!

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UKRAINE’S central bank has sharply raised interest rates from 19.5% to 30% in an effort to curb inflation and prop up its beleaguered currency...

Libya disintegrates as robbers ‘privatise’ its wealth

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IT IS now obvious that the NATO-inspired and organised ‘revolution’ to overthrow the Gadaffi regime in Libya has resulted in a complete catastrophe for...

Production down, inflation up, pensioners savings destroyed – the ‘recovery’ so far!

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INFLATION may stay above 3% during the rest of this year, according to Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England. He...

US vetoes UN resolution on Gaza as it openly ‘stands with Israel’ in imperialism’s...

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ON WEDNESDAY, the US vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demanding ‘an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’ in Gaza. The draft resolution also...

Bring down Blair; bring in a workers’ government

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THE crisis of the Blair government has intensified to the point where the government is now more deeply split and divided than ever, while...

The trade unions must defend Lineker and take action to sack the Tories and...

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AN unrepentant Gary Lineker insisted yesterday that he stood fully with his tweets condemning the Tory ‘Illegal Migrants Bill’ and that he has no...

The only way out of the growing and desperate capitalist crisis is through organising...

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STOCK markets in the US ended last week sharply down following tough comments by the head of the country’s central bank, the Federal Reserve,...

Tories want more powers for police to crush the trade unions – TUC must...

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the government will be tabling fresh amendments to the Public Order Bill, being debated in the...

Disband The Police Death Squads!

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THE fact that armed police used internationally banned dum dum bullets, seven of which splintered, expanded and exploded inside the head of Jean Charles...

Trump and Musk tear up bourgeois democracy to wage war on workers in US 

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ELON Musk has launched a campaign of slashing jobs and closing federal departments with nothing but contempt for Congress. Musk, the world’s richest man, was...

Disarm imperialism through the victory of the world socialist revolution!

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LAST week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a whole series of blogs on its website warning that the entire US banking...

Germany crashes into recession – socialist revolution the only answer to capitalist crisis

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THE GERMAN economic recession has deepened, with the number of corporate insolvencies in the country sharply increasing in July. Almost a quarter more companies filed...

Tories target workers, disabled and children to pay the bankers’ debts!

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OSBORNE said of his emergency Budget yesterday; ‘Yes it is tough; but it is also fair.’ Further on in his speech he allowed just...

Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America

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THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...

Carnage and bloodbath on world stock markets deepens – socialist revolution is the only...

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LAST Monday, the American Dow Jones Index, which records the share prices of the top US companies and banks, recorded the biggest drop in...

Student nurses to be forced to pay for training!

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THE results of the ‘consultation’ launched by the Tories on the 7th April on the proposal to end NHS funded bursaries for student...

New generation organises five section strike! TUC must call a General Strike to end...

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A NEW generation of workers is now organising themselves into unions and is combining their labour power by striking together. There is no doubt...

Spectre of Revolution hangs over World Economic Forum

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The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held at Davos in Switzerland, started this week with the spectre of the world socialist revolution...

Israelis mass tanks on Gaza border

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ISRAEL’S Prime Minister has promised prolonged and extensive military action to free an Israeli soldier missing and presumed held captive in southern Gaza. Mouthing...

Turn the imperialist war against Russia into a civil war to smash British Capitalism

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THE BRITISH ruling class has now made it crystal clear that it favours a class war on two interconnected fronts. On the home front it...

Johnson launches a class war against UK workers and youth – Forward to Socialist...

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for a speedy end to ‘dependence’ on Russian oil and gas, comparing it to ‘addiction,’ in his...

Karzai talks with the Taleban as US policy comes unstuck

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THE situation in Afghanistan has gone from bad to worse as far as the imperialist powers and their plans for the region are concerned. Last...

Organise a general strike to kick out the Tory-LibDem regime

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EVERYONE has had the chance to work out what the Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition government’s Comprehensive Spending Review means, with £81bn in cuts hitting jobs...

Israel slaughters Gaza Strip Palestinians

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AT the same time as the Fatah leader, President Abbas is meeting the Israeli Premier Olmert for the continuing ‘peace talks’, that were launched...

Workers of the world unite – provided you speak English

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband spoke yesterday on Labour’s ‘One Nation’ approach to cultural diversity and integration insisting that admission to this select body is...

US, UK And Eu Workers Must Act To Support Venezuelan Revolution!

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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that he will not betray his country by yielding to Washington’s plan for regime change in Caracas, adding...

Trump demands Iran completely ‘gives up’ as imperialism threatens all-out war against Iran!

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US president Donald Trump yesterday abruptly left the G7 meeting in Canada, telling reporters he wanted ‘better than a ceasefire’ between Iran and Israel. When...