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US and Israel – Get out of Syria! Aid the Syrian people by ...

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SYRIAN air defences shot down one of four Israeli warplanes targeting a military site near Palmyra on Friday, the General Command of the Syrian...

US imperialism plans oil and gas war!

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THE news that America intends to ‘flood the world’ with cheap liquefied natural gas (LNG) reveals just how far advanced US imperialism is along...

Blair’s Guildhall speech proclaims ‘globalisation’ & war

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LABOUR premier Tony Blair spoke about the fight against ‘global terrorism’ and called for free-trade ‘globalisation’ in his foreign policy speech at the City...

Labour government splits over ‘class war plan’ to raise income tax rates

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MAJOR splits have emerged in the Labour government Cabinet over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s class-war plans to raise income tax rates...

Build the Fourth International! Victory to the World Socialist Revolution!

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YESTERDAY, millions of Egyptian workers and youth, from Alexandria to Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the city of Luxor and Ports Said and Suez, marched...

Only the banks matter for Mandelson

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MANDELSON began his speech to the City of London magnates at the Mansion House last Wednesday night by declaring his continuing support for the...

Eurozone collapsing – forward to United Socialist States of Europe

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This week sees yet another desperate round of talks between the two leaders of the eurozone, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas...

US explodes as workers and youth take to the streets to oppose Trump’s attacks...

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LOS ANGELES, the second largest city in the US, exploded over the weekend following a massive raid on Friday by federal agents from Immigration...

Answer Tory racist deportation offensive with a general strike!

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THE TORY policy of creating a ‘hostile environment’ for the Windrush Generation – the thousands of men, women and their children that came over...

Time to expropriate the banks and jail the bankers

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THIS week has seen the essence of the banking fraternity emerge after HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, which was rescued by the UK taxpayers in...

US debt crisis will crash Wall Street and plunge the US and world capitalism...

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THE US economy, the largest and most powerful capitalist economy in the world, is in the grip of a crisis that will plunge America...

UK trade unions must take action to stop Israel shooting and gassing Palestinians!

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IN FOUR weeks of Friday protests at the Gaza ‘border’ more than 32 Palestinians have been killed and over 5,000 injured by Israeli snipers...

Unemployment and slave labour – the bourgeois future for youth

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‘UK unemployment falls to 2.56 million’, is the fraudulent headline, with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith declaring: ‘It’s the private sector...

Labour plans to use the state’s OBR to hold down workers’ wages and benefits!

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LABOUR has promised to hand more powers to Britain’s capitalist state, and to the OBR, the Office for Budget Responsibility, to hold down wages...

France erupts as youth rise up against capitalist state brutality!

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FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron was forced to convene a government emergency crisis meeting on Wednesday morning following two nights of protests and rioting across...

Wave of corporate defaults looms across the world – Socialist revolution the only answer...

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A WAVE of corporate defaults is imminent throughout the US and Europe, analysts at the German Deutsche Bank warn in its annual study released...

World crisis lays waste Putin’s oligarchs!

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HISTORY has played a huge joke on the Stalinist bureaucracy. Under the rule of Gorbachev and Yeltsin it thought that it would be able to...

Corporations and businesses face bankruptcy across UK & Europe as loan defaults double in...

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A WAVE of companies across the UK and the rest of Europe will be forced into bankruptcy as new figures show that the default...

Lift the ban from the Gaza Under-19 team!

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THE banning of the Under-19 Gaza football team from coming to play in Britain after they had been invited to play against Chester...

Kabul Taking The Place Of Saigon In The Pantheon Of US Imperialist Disasters

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THE Taleban yesterday carried out another daring attack in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, with gun and shellfire taking place near to...

Tories to make hundreds of thousands homeless – only socialism can solve housing crisis

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THE policy of the Tory-led coalition to slash housing benefit for the unemployed and low income families will result in hundreds of thousands being...

US launches the new grab for Africa!

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PRESIDENT Obama has hailed the ‘new Africa that is emerging’, as US imperialism seeks to re-grab Africa after its destruction of the Libyan Jamahiriyah....

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...

Johnson Government Must Be Brought Down – TUC Must Call General Strike!

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THE capitalist system is now poised to go into its greatest ever crisis and crash because of its mountains of debt. Workers face massive...

Demand recall of the TUC to sack current leaders replacing them with a leadership...

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Today will be the biggest day of strike action across the country in over a decade, with hundreds of thousands of workers from nearly...

3,000+ refugees have been on hunger strike in detention centres since 2015! Shut them...

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THE HOME Office itself has produced figures showing that more than 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers have been on hunger strike in the last...

High Court rules in favour of extradition of Assange to the US – trade...

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s threat of extradition to the US became even more imminent yesterday as the High Court ruled in favour of the...

Boycott Israel after Gaza massacres

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ISRAEL faced widespread international condemnation over the killing of eight Palestinian civilians on Friday, including three children while they picnicked on a Gaza beach....

Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!

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THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...

HSBC new ‘dirty money’ laundering allegations

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THE HSBC bank, the biggest bank in Europe, says it is looking into allegations that it has set up a large number of offshore...

Birmingham bin workers deliver blow to Labour government wage-cutting – time to build a...

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The overwhelming vote by 400 Birmingham bin workers on Monday to reject a pay cutting offer from their employer was a decisive blow against...

Arrogant Crisis-Ridden Imperialists Threaten Russia!

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THE President of the crisis-ridden EU Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso yesterday told the BBC that the inclusion of Russia in any future...

US Threatens China As It Seeks To Drive Back World Revolution!

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ON FRIDAY the foreign ministry of the Kuomintang- ruled territory of Chinese Taipei vowed to further deepen its close military alliance with the US...

End The Blockade Of Gaza – End The Occupation Of Palestine!

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THE United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday condemned the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, stating the obvious that the siege inflicts pain...

Blair paved the way for Davis and Howarth

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IT was Prime Minister Blair who insisted that the 7th July bombings and the July 21 attempted bombings were nothing to do with the...

Occupy To Stop Steel Sackings – Bring Down The Tories To Nationalise Steel

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THE shutdown of the steel industry continued yesterday without a single call from the trade unions for action to stop the closures and defend...

Trade Unions must occupy hospitals threatened with closures! Come to the ATUA conference!

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THE NHS is the battleground within which the class struggle in this country is being fought out to the finish. The Tory government plans...

Italy ‘Ungovernable’

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THE bourgeoisie of Europe woke up on Tuesday morning to discover, to their horror, headlines proclaiming that the third largest economy in Europe had...

Trade Unions Must Dump Starmer And Labour’s Right Wing And Call A General Strike...

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THE general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey has responded to Labour’s massive council election defeats and its disastrous loss in the Hartlepool...

Judiciary Now Leading The Charge Against 2016 Referendum!

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WE ARE now reaching the moment of truth in the struggle to carry out the result of the 2016 referendum which instructed Parliament that...

UN report confirms that Capitalist austerity has driven millions into poverty in the...

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A REPORT by an official UN agency has confirmed what every worker across Europe knows – namely that the savage austerity measures carried out...

Parents Queue At 3Am To Get Their Children Into Breakfast Clubs!

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MORE than 130 parents queued outside a school in Cardiff, Wales from 3am Thursday morning to try and get their child a space at...

As occupation founders oil workers come to the fore

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A BRITISH soldier has been killed in southern Iraq, bringing the number of British troops who have died in Iraq to 150, with thousands...

Unions Must Stop Queen Mary’s Closure!

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THE news that the Accident and Emergency and maternity units at Queen Mary’s Hospital are to be closed for the coming winter is a...

SA hunger can only be ended by a socialist revolution

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ONE in four South Africans are unemployed, and poverty is rife eighteen years after the release of Nelson Mandela and 14 years after he...