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Trade union action to beat ‘stagflation’

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TODAY 800,000 local council workers, members of the UNISON and UNITE trade unions, begin a two-day strike against a government-imposed wage cut, an offer...

British Capitalism Gets The Shakes Over Eu Crisis!

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UK Chancellor George Osborne lashed out at Germany’s ‘Iron Chancellor’ Merkel before the meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels yesterday. He attacked Merkel...

EU is breaking up! Euro & banks are set to crash. Smash the EU...

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TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond, speaking about the Brexit crisis from the World Economic Forum in Davos, said yesterday: ‘It is absolutely clear that if...

Labour guilty of surrender and betrayal of Brexit – build new leadership in the...

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THE HOUSE of Commons erupted in an unprecedented exhibition of rage and fury by Labour MPs over Boris Johnson’s refusal to apologise for having...

NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT PLAN AWAKENS MEMORIES OF THE 1960s and ’70s COUP PLOTS TO...

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THERE IS VERY great resistance to the proposal of Labour leader Corbyn that he should put down a motion of no confidence in PM...

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...

Election of Zohan Mamdani as New York Mayor sends shock waves through the US...

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THE election of Zohan Mamdani as mayor of New York City on Tuesday has sent a massive shock wave throughout the administration of President...

US economy has crashed into recession – time to put capitalism out of its...

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THE US, the most powerful economy in the world, has already crashed into a recession that will shatter the capitalist world. This is the inescapable...

GM BOMBSHELL – Magna out & GM Europe heads for ‘restructuring in earnest’

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GM, now owned by the US government, has dropped a bombshell by turning down its deal with Magna and the Russian state-owned Sberbank, at...

Break With Eu Now! Bring Down The Tories! Forward To Socialism!

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THE EU leadership last Friday morning at 6am rescued PM May from the debacle of her Northern Ireland crisis, and saved her government by...

US-Israel Sign Joint Security Declaration, As US Stabs Palestinians In The Back Again!

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THE United States and Israel have signed a joint strategic declaration, repeating accusations against Iran and promising to confront that country’s nuclear programme, a...

Labour Sets Out To Transform Capitalism!

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SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell made it perfectly clear at Labour’s Conference on the Economy that the Labour Party was now for ‘transforming capitalism’, and...

Coalition poised to hand out a death sentence for pensioners!

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The Coalition is to hit out at millions of pensioners. Currently anyone over 60 is eligible for the winter fuel allowance, with households getting...

The ‘bank of central bankers’ warns new banking collapse imminent

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THE Swiss based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has just issued its starkest warning yet that the entire debt fuelled international banking system is...

Stop Cameron’s counter-revolution at home and abroad!

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CAMERON told the House of Commons on Monday afternoon in his statement on national security strategy that: ‘On Thursday I will make the case for Britain...

Socialist revolution will see the war criminals jailed!

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A REPORT released yesterday by the Iraq Fatality Investigations, led by former High Court judge George Newman, has condemned the actions of four British...

BIS Report – global ‘debt trap’ risk higher than ever and set to crash...

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THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in its annual ‘health check’ on the world’s financial system has once again warned about the huge...

Miliband wants to break with unions so Labour can form a national government...

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STANDING with the ‘One Nation’ Tory slogan behind him, Labour leader Miliband yesterday outlined his intention to wrest the Labour Party completely away from...

TUC corporatists must be kicked out! Come to the ATUA conference to build a...

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THE TRADE Union Congress (TUC) organised the knifing in the back of the Southern guards’ and drivers’ struggle on Thursday, brokering a ‘deal’...

Trade unions must act now to defend living standards!

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BANK of England Governor Mervyn King sent a letter to Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday because inflation has taken off. Under statutory obligations put in place...

Tories to slash benefits to unemployed & sick

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TORY Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government unveiled its plans to target the unemployed and others on benefits, depriving them of their entitlements, or...

Detroit gets its dictator over workers’ jobs, unions and wages

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AN emergency manager, in fact a financial dictator with powers over jobs, wages and conditions, has been appointed for the bankrupt US city of...

Governor of BoE blames workers for inflation – Only a sliding scale of wages...

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WITH INFLATION in the UK running at over 7% and gas and electricity bills shooting up by 54%, millions of workers face being driven...

Palestinian groups sign ‘national unity’ agreement for a united fight for victory and the independent...

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YESTERDAY officials from 14 Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Fatah, signed a ‘national unity’ agreement in the Chinese capital Beijing that ended any divisions...

Smash the anti-union laws with a general strike

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LAST Sunday fifty Tory MPs demanded the government bring in even more draconian laws aimed at breaking the growing strike movement that is gaining...
London firefighters demonstrating against cuts earlier this year

The PM’s wife can speak out on rights – but the TUC cannot!

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THE scale of the crisis that has hit capitalist Britain is now so great that it has forced the Prime Minister’s wife, Cherie...

End all immigration control!

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THE death of a 40-year-old woman at Yarl’s Wood on Sunday has once again thrown the spotlight on the privately-run immigration removal centre. According to...

China responds to Obama!

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CHINA’S state media have responded to Barak Obama’s Pentagon announcement that the US is turning its back on the North Atlantic, and therefore...

Capitalist State Is Preparing For Seven-Day Blackouts In UK!

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THE UK CAPITALIST STATE is currently engaged in a war on two fronts. The first is to aid the right wing Ukrainian regime with hundreds...

RBS crashes as banks get set for rate rises

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LOSSES AT the state owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) were twice as bad as expected, at £1.13bn and much bigger than the £950...

Imperialist Butcher Blair Wants To Slaughter More Arabs!

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TONY BLAIR, who is understandably opposed to the full transcripts of all of his talks with President Bush being published in the Chilcot Inquiry...

Mass Hospital Closures On The Way

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HEALTH Minister Mike O’Brien has responded to the findings of the government-established Care Quality Commission (CQC). This has just claimed that one in eight of...

Tory austerity hits poorest the hardest, time to kick them out!

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A STUDY produced yesterday by the Centre for Cities think tank highlights the reality of Tory austerity cuts that have fallen on the backs...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow yesterday insist that theTGWU should refuse to accept compulsory redundancies

Iraqi puppets feel the noose tightening

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IN the last few days the Iraqi puppet National Assembly, whose authority does not run outside of the Green Zone US fortress in central...

Starmer’s speech – an application to join a national coalition with the Tories!

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s first speech to a Labour Party conference yesterday was acclaimed by his supporters as heralding a ‘new dawn’ for the...

All out on November 4th – UK must apologise for Balfour Declaration – UK...

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PALESTINIAN Foreign Minister Riyad Malki said yesterday that Palestine is still waiting for the US Administration to submit its ideas and plan for achieving...

Gold Shooting Upwards As The Dollar Plunges!

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THE price of gold hit a record of 1,111.20 dollars an ounce in trading in London on Monday, as the dollar weakened after a...

‘There is no fuel shortage,’ says Shapps as the bosses shut down petrol stations...

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THERE is ‘no shortage of fuel’ and people should be ‘sensible’ and only fill up when they need to, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said...

T&G & TUC must call strike action to reinstate Gate Gourmet workers!

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THE 670 Gate Gourmet workers, members of the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G), sacked over a month ago for taking strike action, know...

UK cannot fight the IS movement that it helped to create!

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THE UK’s role in fighting the Islamic State is ‘strikingly modest’ and should be stepped up, the House of Commons Defence Select Committee has...

Tuc Must Defend Palestinians And Call A General Strike To Completely Boycott Israel...

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THE Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has just announced in a statement that Ahmed Badr Abdullah Abu Ali, a resident of Yatta city in the...

Italy, Spain and Greece erupting against EU austerity

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ITALIAN car giant Fiat has shut down five of its plants as the Italian ruling class struggles against a transport workers strike directed against...

PLO chief warns Trump don’t move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem!

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AS WE approach the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration in which British imperialism pledged to hand over somebody else’s country to conquest and...

Dollar collapsing as gold reaches $1,000 an ounce

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ON August 15 1971, the then president of the United States, Richard Nixon ended the gold backing for the US dollar, which up till...

The Bank Prints More Money While M&s Insists That The UK Is Skint

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THE Bank of England yesterday maintained its interest rate at 0.5 per cent and decided to step up its money printing programme to give...