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Scrap the Tory Health and Care Bill – it is a ‘privateers’ charter for...

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TORY PM Johnson’s new Health and Care Bill currently going through Parliament, is a fresh attack on the NHS by a Conservative Party that...

Stop The Council Cuts – Bring Down The Coalition!

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COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...

Irish TUC mass demo puts Barber and Woodley to shame!

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120,000 trade unionists and their supporters, including over a hundred workers who are part of the occupation of the Waterford Crystal plant, marched through...

Ice – Immigration Customs Enforcement Officers – Murder Alex Jeffrey Pretti!

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FOUR US immigration officers have shot and killed a 37-year-old man, Alex Jeffrey Pretti in front of screaming protesters in an anti-ICE protest in...

Oil Heading For $200 A Barrel

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OIL reached a new record price above 120 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, with New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for...

Trade union bureaucrats put two fingers up to May Day

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TRUE to form, the voice of the trade union bureaucracy, the Stalinist Morning Star counted tens of thousands of marchers on the TUC’s May...
A thousand nurses from all over the country attended Thursday’s lobby of parliament organised by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot to defend jobs

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LAST May, MG Rover was closed without a struggle. Last month the closure of Peugeot was announced and this week we have been told...

Defend NHS with occupations and a general strike to bring down the government

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Yesterday saw the second reading of the Tory-led coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill in Parliament, a bill designed to facilitate the wholesale closure...

Deeper Into The Afghan Quagmire

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BRITAIN’S top general in Afghanistan has backed the call of his US commander for 40,000 more troops to be sent into the Afghan quagmire,...

Workers of the world unite to fight for the victory of Palestine!

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ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’, heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza,...

Syria counter-revolutionary alliance

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THE counter-revolutionary alliance between US imperialism and the Stalinist bureaucracy emerged into the light of day last Saturday with the joint framework agreement between...

Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism

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EVERYWHERE capitalism is crashing! Yesterday the FTSE 100 index fell to 3472.68 points making a 50 per cent crash from the FTSE’s...

NHS Staffing Crisis As Wages Are Forced Down And Conditions Worsened

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THE shortage of NHS staff in England is worsening official figures show. One in 11 posts is vacant, with the situation particularly bad...

Poroshenko’s anti-Russian provocations are a sign that his end is near and that ...

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ALL RUSSIAN men aged between 16-60 have been banned from entering the Ukraine in a further ratcheting up of tensions by the Poroshenko dictatorship,...

‘New Leader – Old Agenda’

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IN a motion for next month’s Trades Union Congress, UNISON correctly says the use of private firms in public services is ‘harmful, wasteful, and...

Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown

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TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...

Israel uses facial recognition in drive to turn West Bank into a concentration camp

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ISRAEL has escalated its campaign of total surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank utilising a mass programme of facial recognition to build...

With Dick’s Promotion The Capitalist State Shows It Is The Boss

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COMMANDER Cressida Dick is to become a deputy assistant commissioner, the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) announced on Tuesday. On July 22 2005 Dick was in...

It’s a sick society, not a ‘sick-note culture’ – as Cameron insults the unemployed

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A ‘UNIVERSAL Credit’ is to be introduced in 2013, to replace all existing benefits. Cameron’s Welfare Bill includes sanctions for those turning down jobs...

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’...

Syrian Army poised for victory in Aleppo

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THE news at the weekend that the Syrian army had successfully driven Jaysh al-Fateh out of the western areas around Aleppo marks another decisive...

Hamas denounces the Israeli Military hijacking of the Handala aid ship

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THE Hamas movement has strongly denounced the Israeli military hijacking of the Handala aid ship in international waters and the abduction of its passengers,...

Disband the police, bring in a workers’ government and a workers’ state!

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An official report published on Wednesday presented in devastating detail the ‘prevalent’ culture of thousands of police officers in England and Wales who are...

MI5 and labour witch-hunters attack torture exposers

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HOME Secretary Johnson and MI5 director general, Evans, yesterday launched a hysterical witch-hunt against the exposers of the fact that both MI5 and the...

Britain’s Third Afghan War Heads For Disaster

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NINE UK soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in nine days, making 178 UK troops killed since 2001. The official propaganda line is that...

US Getting Ready For War With China!

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SPEAKING at the International Institute for Strategic Studies conference in Singapore last Friday, US Secretary of Defence, Leon Panetta, made it clear that the...

Call Strike Action Across Public Sector Against Brown’s Wage Cutting Policy

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ON Tuesday the GMB annual conference decided that a sub-inflation cap on pay negotiations is completely unacceptable to GMB public service members. The...

Join the WRP to organise a general strike and a socialist revolution!

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PM KeIr Starmer’s humiliating retreat on Tuesday, over his plans to drastically cut the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) benefits for disabled workers has opened...
A million French workers, youth and students marched through Paris yesterday against the government’s plan for youth

French And British Workers Take Action Against The Bosses

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IT was Karl Marx who said that the French would start the revolution, that the British would be inspired to take it further and...

Trump gears up for war against Iran – defeat imperialist war with socialist revolution

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US IMPERIALISM launched an unprovoked wave of airstrikes against targets in both Syria and Iraq on Sunday, targeting bases controlled by Iraqi Popular Mobilisation...

Tories engineer NHS ‘humanitarian crisis!’

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OVER the weekend the British Red Cross made a call on the May government to allocate the necessary funds for health and social care,...

US shale oil bites the dust – Forward to the US socialist revolution!

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THE PRICE of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history, destroying the shale gas ‘miracle’ that was going to liberate...

French Health Workers Win Major Victory Over Macron Government!

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THE FRENCH government has been forced by the mass actions of the health workers’ trade unions to concede pay rises worth 8bn euros (£7.2bn)...

Osborne hammers the workers, the welfare state, youth and the poor!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s first Tory government budget hammers the poor, the youth and the working class while lowering Corporation Tax and pledging to NATO an...

ROYAL MAIL PRIVATISATION WILL BE RESISTED – says postal workers leader

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A LONDON postal workers’ leader yesterday warned the government they will face massive opposition, if they go ahead and try to break Labour’s election...

Corbyn For Pm – Bring Down The Tories And Forward To Palestine!

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THESE are truly desperate times for the Tories. Their government is selling out Brexit. Their party is split and divided, with Boris Johnson challenging...

Euro zone high stakes gamble with 1 trillion euros on the table

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Euro-zone leaders have taken the desperate measure of risking all on one throw of the dice, after advancing an almost $1 trillion package...

Support the Junior Doctors – no imposed NHS contracts!

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JUNIOR DOCTORS are to be turned into slaves by Health Secretary Hunt who is carrying his threat out to impose a contract on them...

Nationalise Land Rover and Jaguar to defend wages and jobs

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THE Alchemy Partners gang of asset-strippers have got Land Rover and Jaguar in their sights, now that cash-strapped Ford is ready to sell off...

Hodge, Blears and Blair say foreigners to the back of the queue

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LABOUR Industry Minister Margaret Hodge has won the support of Hazel Blears (Chairman of the Labour Party and a candidate for the deputy leadership...

Crocodile Tears At The Security Council Over Syria!

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THE UN Security Council has condemned the truck bomb attacks that killed at least 55 people and wounded almost 400 in the Syrian capital,...

Revisionists in alliance with Tory right-winger Ian Duncan Smith

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AT a time when the crisis of the Labour government is reaching the point of explosion, the WRP and the Young Socialists are calling...

Parliament Votes Lords Resolution Banning Any UK ‘No Deal’ Into Law!

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THE HOUSE of Commons on Monday night voted by 390 votes to 81 to turn a House of Lords resolution into legislation that bans...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers are continuing their picket until they win

More cuts planned – despite Buncefield fire!

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RESIDENTS whose lives were put at risk, and even the management of devastated businesses near the Buncefield oil storage depot in Hertfordshire have been...

Worst NHS winter crisis ever! NHS unions must join health strike in the north...

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A&Es axed, children’s hospitals closed, nurses driven out because of overwork and under-pay, junior doctors at the point of exhaustion, GP surgeries shut down,...