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US engulfed by political crisis as Biden is forced out

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ON SUNDAY, US president Joe Biden caved in to the demands of senior Democrats and the Wall Street supporters of the party to step...

Congress must call general strike to bring down the Tories and bring in a...

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THE TUC meets in Brighton this week for its most vital Congress in living memory. It meets at a time when the working class...

Johnson goes down with coronavirus – plunging his anti-working class regime into crisis! Time...

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THE TRADE union leaders and the Labour Party are currently cementing their role as the most enthusiastic would-be partners of the Tory government and...

US Ruling Class Split At Home And Abroad

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PRESIDENT Obama attacked the Republicans on Monday over an incendiary letter, sent by them to Iran’s leaders, seeking to sabotage his foreign policy...

Bangladesh: a paradise for the bosses, and a hell for the workers

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THE arrest of the owner of the collapsed building in Dakha is just a tiny sop to the massive anger felt by Bangladeshi workers...

it’s your money for your life says NICE

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IF NICE and the ‘NHS health reformers’ have their way, free health care at the point of need is destined for the dustbin of...

Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!

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THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...

Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...

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LAST week, the Tories’ strike-breaking agency worker regulations were thrown out after the High Court ruled they were unlawful. This judgement quashed an appeal by...

The TUC must now call mass general strike action in support of Palestine and...

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THE Hamas movement said on Saturday that the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the northern Gaza Strip and the Israeli occupation army’s attacks on...

Starmer’s Labour regime must be replaced by a workers’ government

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Sir Keir Starmer is set to become the UK’s first Labour prime minister since 2010 after his party’s landslide general election victory. Labour is...

Tories Are Afraid Of The Power Of The Trade Unions! This Power Must Now...

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THE Tories are now in the grip of a hysteria which has being displayed by newspapers like the Telegraph on a daily basis. It prints...

Labour and Tory splitters unite to stab Brexit in the back! Now is the...

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THREE Tory MPs – amongst the most ardent opponents of Brexit – Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen, announced yesterday they were deserting...

Stop Royal Mail Privatisation!

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NEXT week the postal workers union, CWU, is holding its delegate conference under conditions where the coalition government is planning the wholesale privatisation of...

Crisis-ridden US imperialism to stay in Afghanistan and send troops to Cameroon!

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama has admitted defeat in Afghanistan and has decided to keep 5,500 US troops there when he leaves office in 2017, according...

Ten-hour day for schoolkids!

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AT ONE time it used to be said that British workers were working such long hours that they did not have an opportunity to...

Russia tells Ukraine – pay the market rate

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THE Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that ‘Russia has begun implementing a scenario intended to destabilise the Ukrainian economy’, adding that this was ‘despite...

Moroccan Lawyers Demand Cancellation Of Israel Normalisation Deal!

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MOROCCAN lawyers have severely censured the Rabat government over its recent agreement to normalise relations with Israel, and are demanding an immediate reversal of...

National emergency declared in NHS as waiting lists soar!

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Senior NHS doctors declared a state of national emergency in the NHS yesterday as waiting lists soared, with thousands of patients being treated in...

We Must Welcome All Asylum Seekers And Expropriate The UK’s Boss Class!

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IN RECENT days, the Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman had come under fire for comparing immigrants and asylum seekers to ‘invaders’. Liberal Tories tut-tutted that...

Tory government acted illegally! It has no right to rule and must be...

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THE Supreme Court yesterday dealt a death blow to the Tory strategy to make it financially impossible for workers to take their employers...

Forward with the Greek socialist revolution

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THE Greek working class remains undefeated as the clashes between teachers and students with the riot police in Salonica on Thursday have proven. The source...

UK ‘pirates’ are doing the USA’s dirty work policing the Med to keep out...

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IRAN has summoned the UK ambassador after UK marines illegally seized an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar. British Royal Marines swooped in...

Nationalise BA to defend wages, jobs and pensions

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BA managers were yesterday pledging a ‘fight to the death’ with the Unite trade union and its members to force through cuts in wages,...

Revolution emerging in Pakistan!

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EX-PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF has not been lying in his political grave for six months and already the lawyers are marching against the new regime of...

Israel closes Irish embassy in fury over Ireland’s recognition of Palestine and its support...

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THE DECISION by the Israeli regime on Sunday to close its embassy in Dublin brought a swift response from Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) Simon...

Rate Rise Shock – Condemned As Panic By Tuc

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BIG BUSINESS, the stockmarkets and the TUC were shaken yesterday midday when the Bank of England raised its interest rates by a quarter of...

Corbyn comes out on top as May is jeered, laughed at and heckled!

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THE separate questioning by SKY’s Faisal Islam, Jeremy Paxman and a small audience, of Labour leader Corbyn and PM May showed just how disorientated...

Net Closing In On Iraq War Criminals

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THE Brown government has been told by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, to release the minutes of two cabinet meetings, from March 7th and...

Capitalism’s Greatest Crisis Driving World Revolution!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, finally admitted publicly that British and world capitalism faced their ‘worst crisis ever’, a crisis...

Workers and youth forward to the Socialist revolution!

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LAST Sunday the president of the National Union of Students (NUS), Aaron Porter, made a surprise visit to a meeting of students occupying University...

Israel has brought record unemployment and mass starvation to the Gaza Strip – Revolution...

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MAHMOUD Radwan sits among the ruins of his destroyed home, contemplating an uncertain future amidst a labour crisis unlike any he has seen before,...

Trump sends troops to steal Syrian oil! Kurds and Syrian army unite to drive...

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WHEN US President Donald Trump abruptly announced on October 9 that all US troops would be pulled out of northern Syria, his administration indicated...

End the regime of forced prepayment meters – nationalise British Gas and all...

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IN THE WEEK when the giant oil and gas company Shell announced record profits of £32.2 billion, on the back of the soaring cost...

New Palestinian Intifada emerging at a time when Israel is split and divided with...

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THE Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has issued a warning that the Israeli military raids and Israeli...

UN Condemns Eu Over Mass Murder In The Med!

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THE UN refugee agency has said once again that not enough is being done to save the lives of the tens of thousands of...

McDonnell refuses to even whisper the word ‘socialism’

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A FEW short weeks ago at the Labour Party conference, the ‘left’ shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, proudly announced that the party would no longer...

Defend the NHS – bring down the government!

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Yesterday the NHS was officially opened up by the coalition government to the vultures of the private healthcare industry, whose only aim is to...

PM May hammers the poor as 7,585 families receive 50p housing benefit!

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PM MAY makes a lot of noise about her concern for the ‘just about managing’, ie the middle classes in crisis-ridden Britain. In fact,...

Time For Jewish And Palestinian Workers To Unite In A Single State With Jerusalem...

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A NOTORIOUS far-right Israeli minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has reported that he has got permission from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form his own armed...

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...

Trump escalates trade war with China and prepares for a shooting war – only...

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THE TRUMP administration has ratcheted up the confrontation with China with an escalation of its economic trade war, coupled with a provocative military build-up...

US and UK workers must bring down Trump and the Tories and go forward...

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DONALD TRUMP has arrived in the UK to try his hand at regime change. He is treating the UK ruling class with supreme contempt, as...

Iraq and Afghanistan – imperialists coming under the hammer

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US CASUALTIES are now mounting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, while at home the anti-war and anti-Bush movement is growing by leaps and bounds,...

Forward To The Greek Revolution!

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THE PASOK socialist party and its leader, George Papandreou, won a landslide election victory on Sunday in Greece's snap general election, winning over 43...

Trade unions must take action to defend state pension!

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ON WEDNESDAY the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, David Gauke, cynically used the fact that parliament was closing down for the holidays to announce...