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Miliband Praises Attlee But Plans To Bury The Welfare State

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MlLIBAND, Balls and co are like circus performers on the highest of high wires, being buffeted by a huge economic gale that is pauperising...

BA seeks to put the boot into Heathrow workers

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BA is seeking to put the boot into its workforce at Heathrow to create a climate of intimidation and fear. It has announced in its...

Israel is preparing a massive ground attack on Gaza – the TUC must be...

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AFTER 21 days of political paralysis, the US House of Representatives finally elected Mike Johnson, a fervent Donald Trump supporter, as its Speaker. Johnson’s first...

Generals threaten coup against Macron as France and Europe face bankruptcy

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LAST WEEK, an explosive letter from 25 senior retired French generals was published in the right-wing Valeurs Actuelles magazine threatening President Macron with an...

Answer The ‘Shock And Awe’ Budget With A General Strike

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THE Tory-Lib Dem shock and awe budget is due next Tuesday. Already workers, pensioners and youth are calling for action against this savage attack that...

Manchester students tear down the fences. UK workers and youth are building up for...

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STUDENTS have torn down prison-like fencing erected around their campus on the first day of the new nationwide lockdown. As the Tories allowed the second...

Make Capitalism History! The Way To End Poverty

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TODAY’S Edinburgh march to ‘Make Poverty History’ will be led by Bishops, Cardinals and boss class politicians, in other words, by the religious and...

Britain ordered to slash spending on welfare benefits or face huge tax rises

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BRITAIN must cut spending on welfare benefits or face a miserable cycle of repeated tax rises every year, JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank,...

Mass Unemployment And Poverty Is All Capitalism Has To Offer Workers And Youth!

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THE NUMBER of people claiming unemployment benefit in the UK soared to 2.1 million in April – the first full month of the coronavirus...

NATO massacres Libyan civilians to loot the country’s oil

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THE bloody massacre of 85 Libyan men, women and children by NATO in the town of Zlitan exposes once and for all that when...

Desperate Osborne swings the axe as the capitalist crisis deepens

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IN HIS Spending Review of yesterday, drawn up at a time when the capitalist crisis is deepening, with inflation rising and the banks warning...

11.7 million unemployed as British capitalism collapses – socialist revolution the only answer

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AS MANY as 11.7 million people will be thrown out of work – either through being furloughed or simply being sacked – in the...

Sinn Féin Dumps Socialism

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IRISH capitalism, its banks and industries have been entirely bankrupted, and what national sovereignty the country had has also been destroyed, after the...

Stop the return of British troops to Helmand province!

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THE Taleban armed forces are now retaking Sangin town in Helmand Province, which was taken over as a British responsibility after the retreat from...

UK and US trade unions must support the Palestinian socialist revolution!

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WHILE the US and UK backed Israeli murder machine, both civil and military is at work on a daily basis killing Palestinian men women...

Smash Fortress EU with the socialist revolution

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THE head of Eurotunnel is demanding that Britain forks out £4.6 million to finance a massive wall enclosing 600 metres of track at the...

Get British troops out of Afghanistan now!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...

Hunt Plans To Force The Disabled To Work – Time To Bring Down The...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Budget speech yesterday in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up to a...

Demoralised Tories face an economic crash – put them out of their misery with...

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THE COMPLETE demoralisation of the Tories has dominated the front pages of the bourgeois press, with reports that PM Boris Johnson is facing a...

Free Assange – Jail the imperialists, the real war criminals

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YESTERDAY, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has been unlawfully detained by...

Wall Street heading for a crash

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THE US Wall Street is fast heading for a crash according to the Bank of America (BoA) as the huge speculative bubble on the...

There must be general strikes in the UK, the EU and the USA to...

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ISRAELI military forces invaded the al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning in a continuation of the violent attacks on Palestinian worshippers gathered for dawn prayers...

Second Round French election farce – Forward to the French Socialist revolution!

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THE SECOND round of the French regional elections last Sunday confirmed that the French workers have had enough of the bourgeois, Bonapartist, fascist and...

Hewitt, Hoon and Cameron fail to shift Brown

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ON Wednesday mid-day, ex-ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon sent a text to all Labour MPs asking them to support a call for a...

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...

Answer Royal Mail’s war on trade unions with a general strike

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THE POSTAL workers union, CWU, is now in a headlong collision with a Royal Mail management openly moving to destroy the union as an...

Kick The Israeli Troops Out Of Gaza!

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YESTERDAY the US barred the way in the United Nations Security Council to a resolution condemning the Israeli assault on Gaza, calling for all...

Tory split emerges with demands on Johnson for a budget that makes war on...

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IN ADVANCE of the budget next week, former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond delivered a shot across the bows of the Tory government with a...

Lilliputian Smith, the would-be great dictator!

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LABOUR right winger Owen Smith, in his desire to satisfy the big bosses and the bankers, is going even further than the Tories after...

Stop The Whole Public Sect0R On April 24

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THE NUT conference has made it perfectly clear that teachers have had enough of the wage cutting and privatisation policies of the Brown government....

British Ruling Class Preparing For A Nuclear War To Defend Capitalism

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THE bankrupt British ruling class is preparing to expand its ‘nuclear deterrent’ by buying a squadron of American jet fighters that have the capacity...

Tory Party in meltdown – force TUC to call a general strike to kick...

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TO DESCRIBE the forced decision by Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to abandon his plans to end the 45% top rate of income tax to...

Stop the NHS being privatised! Defend funds for services – don’t use them for...

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The abolition of NHS England by merging it with the Department of Health, announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, is the...

Record numbers miss out on first choice secondary schools – Bring all schools back...

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NATIONAL Offer Day was yesterday, with record numbers of children missing out on their first choice of secondary school. More than half a million...

Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!

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ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...

Scottish Labour strikes a blow at UK imperialism’s war plans

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SCOTTISH Labour yesterday struck a blow at the war plans of British imperialism when its Perth conference decided to call for the Trident nuclear...

Time for the trade unions to take action to remove broken coalition

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The Sunday Mirror/ComRes survey of 2,002 voters has rattled the cages of the major political parties. It shows that Labour is leading with the support...

Tories Are Split, Divided And Fighting Each Other – Time To Force The...

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THE TORY PARTY and its leadership are thrashing around in their death agony. The Tory crisis has reached the stage where Tory ministers have been...

Capitalist Debt Crisis Demands A Socialist Revolution!

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THE deepening world capitalist crisis is poised to see entire nation states defaulting, plunging their banks into an even more desperate crisis, deepening the...

Tories’ catastrophic split – time to kick them out

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THE Tory party was delivered shattering blows on the eve of its conference when Tory MP Mark Reckless stepped out onto the platform of...

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...

Forward To The General Strike And A Workers Government!

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THE Daily Telegraph newspaper used its front page yesterday to kickstart a campaign for the police to enforce the Labour government’s latest terror laws...

War Fever Against Russia

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THE US and the EU are set to stiffen and widen their sanctions against Russia. Their intention is to target its finances, energy...

Police get armed as the state prepares for a showdown with working class

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JUST over a month ago, Tory prime minister David Cameron announced that hundreds of extra armed police would be sent around the country to...

Revolution and counter-revolution in Bahrain and Libya

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THE US State Department urged US citizens on Tuesday not to travel to Bahrain and suggested Americans there should leave at once due ...