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Workers must bring down May government, break with the EU NOW and go forward...

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THE Tory government and party is now split into warring groups, one of which is pursuing a leadership election to knife their leader May...

The Bank of England is set to embark on a series of interest rate...

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THE UK has ‘no alternative’ but to hike interest rates in a bid to make borrowing much more expensive to try to slow down...

Any attempt to ban Rail and Post strikes must be met with a general...

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THE DECEMBER 12 general election will take place in the middle of an unprecedented wave of strikes as workers show their revolutionary determination to...

Cameron and Osborne on the way out as Tory Party tears apart – now...

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LAST Wednesday Chancellor Osborne, with all the arrogance of a Tory millionaire born to rule, stood up in parliament and announced that he was...

Rowley reveals scale of police corruption – time to disband the police and go...

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THE newly installed Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, yesterday stated that the Met faced its biggest corruption crisis since the 1970s. The crisis, that...

Now Is The Time To Bring Down The Tories! Forward To A Workers Government!

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TORY Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, resigned his cabinet post on Wednesday, admitting that his behaviour had ‘fallen below the high standards required’ of a...

‘Oppressed will rise all over the world’ – says Iranian president

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Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad has hailed his election win as a new Islamic revolution which he said he hoped would now spread its way...

Starmer pledges ‘strong state’ to take on the working class and rescue bankrupt capitalism

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer spelt out his intention to build up Britain’s capitalist state to take ‘control’ of people’s lives. Starmer made this declaration...

Developing Oil Crisis Makes It All The More Vital That The Working Class Takes...

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THE SAUDI REGIME, backed to the hilt by the US and the UK, yesterday admitted that the Houthi movement’s drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s...

US prepares no-fly zone over Syria

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THE news that the US secretary of state, John Kerry, was forced to scrap a planned visit to Israel in order to attend an...

‘Hammer of the poor’ quits Labour to join Tory leadership

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EX-BANKER and City financier, Sir David Freud, is Labour’s ‘Workfare’ programme architect. He drew up the plans to force single parents and all but the...

Arrest the criminals and charge them for the murder of every man, woman and...

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‘71 DEAD. And still no arrests? How come?’ read three large billboards on trucks demanding justice following the Grenfell Tower fire. They were...

The UK Army Drive To Recruit Youth Is Stepped Up As The Crisis Of...

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THE BRITISH armed forces, especially the army, are making a big turn to recruit youth, with military colleges springing up everywhere. More than one-in-10 new...

Slum landlords flourish under the Tory attack on council housing

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A ‘ROGUE’ landlord has been threatened by a judge with nine years in jail if he doesn’t pay a record-breaking £1.5 million fine for...

War exposes weakness and bankruptcy of capitalism in UK and Europe!

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CITY AM, the business and financial newspaper, published an opinion piece yesterday which included a lengthy quote from Karl Marx on the profound effects...

May Refuses To Sack Hunt And Commits Herself To Class War Not ‘One Nation’!

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PM MAY, under the guise of adopting a ‘one nation’ policy which treasures the poor and the needy much more than the rich, has...

Unison Leaders Vote For Another Blairite Government

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FOR the whole period that Labour Left MP John McDonnell was seeking to get the backing of the 40 plus MPs that would have...

Victory To Syria – Smash Is, The Nusra Front And Their Western Backers –...

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AT THE same time as the Nusra Front and the remnants of IS were shelling Damascus, and the Turkish imperialists were killing Kurds in...

Labour Reformism Is Rotten To The Core – The Working Class Needs A Revolutionary...

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LABOUR’S defeat in the 2019 general election is a historic one, since its central feature was the way that the safest Labour seats in...

Brown & Mandelson are not talking down the pound, they are planning to scrap...

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THE EU Commission’s President Barroso has been told by the ‘people who matter’, ie by members of the Labour government, that they now...

CWU must organise national industrial action ballot!

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BEING able to force the Brown-Mandelson government to ‘shelve’ the bill for the part-privatisation of the Royal Mail proves that the working class is...

World Economic Forum declares capitalist ‘global order’ destabilised by imperialist war and political crisis

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THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) opened its meeting at the Swiss resort of Davos this week under the storm clouds of an economic and...

British capitalism and its state – poisonous, rotting and ripe for revolution!

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THE CRISIS of the British capitalist state has been highlighted by the News International scandals which will do for the British ruling class what...

Unions must demand TUC call a general strike to support junior doctors and defend...

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TODAY is the first of four days of strike action by junior doctors throughout the health service in England, in what is the biggest...

Defend the NHS – kick the government out

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THE final report into the crisis at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Hospital Trust is due to be published in January after a considerable delay. In fact, the...

On tenth anniversary of world banking collapse – Forward to Socialism!

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ON THE eve of the tenth anniversary of collapse into bankruptcy of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, which brought the world’s capitalist banking...

Middle Class Faces Mass Unemployment. It Must Unite With The The Working Class To...

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THE CRISIS engulfing British capitalism has drawn the organised working class, along with youth and entire sections of the middle class, into the struggle...

Disarm Imperialism To Stop New Korean War!

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A REPORT issued yesterday by the highly respected and influential Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has bluntly warned that the drive to war by...

To defend NHS bring down the Tories and nationalise drug companies!

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ON Budget Day when the Chancellor is expected to ignore the cash crisis facing the NHS – after the service has suffered massive cuts...

Defend living standards! Nationalise the oil and gas companies!

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JUST a few months ago the UNISON leadership accepted the government’s below inflation wage cutting deal over three years. Now the union has had...

Labour supports Tory law to give police ‘near total discretion’ to outlaw protests

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Police will have ‘near total discretion’ to ban protests, according to leading human rights lawyer Adam Wagner. ‘Secondary legislation’ introduced by the Tories in parliament...

Tories are being whipped into line by the international banks!

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‘A SPEECH to calm the party and the country’ was how the Tory-supporting Daily Mail greeted the speech by newly installed prime minister Rishi...

Cameron lays out mass privatisation programme

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IN A speech yesterday, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, promised to privatise every public service in the country, to ‘open up’ public services...

Economic Crisis Set To Wreak Havoc To Jobs And Homes

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THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday warned that thousands of manufacturing jobs are about to be slashed by employers seeking to reduce their costs,...

Bury The Health And Social Care Bill Now!

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ON March 15 at the historic Special Representative Meeting (SRM) of the BMA, which its Council was forced to call to decide on the...

TUC Congress must call a general strike to support the State of Palestine

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WHILE welcoming the limited ‘humanitarian pause’ in the Gaza war to allow the polio vaccination of young Gazan children by the World Health Organisation...

Take Action To Win The Winter War

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ON FRIDAY, the Health Secretary Hewitt announced that the NHS is heading for a £623 million deficit by the end of March. This deficit is...

Break with the EU NOW! Forward to a socialist UK!

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FOLLOWING the intervention of ex-PM Tony Blair to demand that the UK remains in the EU, all the counter-revolutionary, anti-working class forces have begun...

Assad warns of new war danger in the Middle East

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad warned yesterday that the Israeli attack on the Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters, in which nine Turkish citizens...

Lloyd’s pulls the plug on Europe

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NOT just Greece but the Eurozone and, by extension, the whole of Europe is a financial basket case that is heading inexorably towards a...

Barrett appointed to US Supreme Court in drive to declare a Trump defeat a...

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WITH JUST eight days to go before the US presidential election the right wing judge Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the American Supreme...

Throw Out The Tories – Forward To A Workers Government

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TODAY the working class and the majority of the middle class must put the Cameron government out of office and return the Labour Party...

Capitalism plunging into catastrophic banking crash – time to put it out of its...

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LAST Friday the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed and its assets seized by the American Federal Reserve in the biggest banking crash...

Iraqi Masses To March Against Deal To Extend US Mandate

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US defence chief Robert Gates has been briefing US politicians on the proposal to extend the US mandate in Iraq. This expires this December...

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...