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Johnson Getting Ready To Follow Trump, End The Lockdown And Bring In Millions Of...

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THE MASSIVE ‘Black Lives Matter’ marches this weekend saw millions of workers internationally and tens of thousands of youth and workers in the UK...

Saudis resume Yemen bombing raids!

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THE reactionary Saudi regime – the pride and joy of the United States and UK ruling classes that have armed it to the teeth...

THE TUC leaders who have deserted junior doctors and the NHS must be kicked...

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YESTERDAY the Tory offensive against not just junior doctors but the entire foundation of the National Health Service reached a ‘watershed moment for the...

Eurozone on top of revolutionary volcano

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JUST when the eurozone bankers and capitalist class were congratulating themselves on beating the  reformist Syriza government of Greece into submission, an even bigger...

TUC conference swings to the right – a new leadership must be built!

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THIS year’s annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference marked a historic lurch to the right by the leadership of the trade unions. At a time...

Woodley tells Blair to quit – Simpson urges policy change

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MAY DAY saw thousands of workers, among them Peugeot motor car workers, hospital workers facing the threat of redundancy, locked out Gate Gourmet workers,...

CHILDREN ARE DYING EVERY DAY! Hospitals have been bombed! Doctors say that they have...

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THE UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned that already low levels of aid trickling into Gaza have dwindled further, with the situation...

Stop The Police Chiefs Taking Over The Fire Service!

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JUST a few weeks ago the Grenfell Tower inferno burnt men, women and children to death, because the fire was able to take...

The Occupation Is Responsible For All Of The Killings In Palestine

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A PALESTINIAN teenager from occupied East Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early on Wednesday in revenge for the killing of three Israeli settler youth...

Darling Robs The Poor To Prop Up The Bankers

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CHANCELLOR Darling yesterday admitted that the Labour government, cold-bloodedly, in the last budget, abolished the 10p tax rate for the lower paid, knowing that...

Geithner-Obama Warn Republicans ‘Don’t Hold Usa To Ransom!’

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BOTH US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and President Obama issued warnings to the Republican Party on Monday that, so dire is the world crisis,...

Examine practicalities of a general strike by organising it now!

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THE TUC Congress was dominated by the growing mass anger of the working class at the Tory-led coalition policy of wage freezing and massive...

Osborne’s capitulation to banks

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Yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, introduced legislation on banking reforms – reforms which he is desperately trying to insist will prevent the continuing...

Tories plan to pauperise and then privatise the NHS – make the TUC...

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IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...

The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general strike to kick...

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Liz Truss was only installed as Prime Minister little more than 4 weeks ago but yesterday a senior Tory minister, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly,...

Bar the way to Greece coup with socialist revolution

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THE crisis in Greece has reached breaking point this week with the unelected European Commission threatening to declare a ‘state of emergency’ in the...

German Ruling Class Gets Ready For Another War With Russia!

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‘WE are witnessing a turning point … the world is not the same anymore,’ said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech last Sunday,...
Demonstration in London on January 26 demanding the release of Omar Deghayes and all other detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp

Workers Of The World Unite Against Imperialism

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THE sight of Danish embassies burning in Beirut and Damascus leaves no doubt as to the depth of anger of Muslim people at the...

Zionist regime humiliated as Palestinians rise-up – Forward to The State of Palestine

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ISRAEL was dealt a massive humiliating blow early Monday morning when six Palestinian prisoners tunnelled their way out of the Gilbao maximum-security jail. Five of...

US, France & UK ready to strike Syria! Corbyn and the TUC must call...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has told Russia to ‘get ready’ for a missile strike on Syria in response to the completely fictitious ‘chemical attack’...

The first step towards a government of generals

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GENERAL Sir Richard Dannatt is to become Defence Minister if there is another Tory government. He will do so, not by becoming a Tory MP...

LOBBY THE TUC ON MONDAY 12th SEPTEMBER – Demand it calls a general strike...

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STOCK markets in the US ended the week sharply down following tough comments by Jerome Powell, head of the country’s central bank, the Federal...

Cameron supervised the destruction of Guardian hard drives

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THE picture painted by Home Secretary May of the police doing their duty in the Snowden affair, as they saw it, without any government...

Desperate Blair dashes to Baghdad

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WITH British troops in the south of Iraq in danger of taking heavy casualties at the hands of an insurgency that has taken over...

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...

Only Socialist Revolution can stop imperialist war

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ON SUNDAY, newly appointed Tory Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, writing in the Telegraph, announced that the UK would be sending troops to Ukraine ‘to...

Crime Pays – For The Banks

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‘BY means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of...

Abbas forced to break all contacts with Israel. Now restore national unity government with...

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PALESTINIAN President, Mahmud Abbas yesterday belatedly suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and other contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression on Gaza stops’. With 95...

Scrap the Hinkley Point C nuclear deal!

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THE unfolding saga of the proposed nuclear power station, Hinkley Point C in Somerset, reached a new level of farce late on Thursday when...

135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians tortured and murdered in Israeli prisons returned to Gaza

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THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that officials from Gaza’s health ministry had told it that at least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by...

US government will shut down tomorrow as the political and economic crisis in America...

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THE FEDERAL government will shut down tomorrow as Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress are in a bitter dispute over budget cuts to...

Smash the STPs! Trade unions must occupy hospitals threatened with savage cuts and closures!

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THERE is no doubt that the 44 STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) that were prepared in secret are in fact part of one Tory...

Defend North Korea’s right to defend itself from Imperialist War

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IN HIS New Year speech North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un warned US imperialism not to start a nuclear war against the country saying that...

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...

Defend Council Housing – Bring Down The Brown Government

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FOR SOME time Labour has been promoting the theme that the very idea of a job for life is reactionary, and has been glorifying...

Venezuela election blow to imperialist regime change plans

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SUNDAY’S general election in Venezuela saw President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela sweeping to victory winning 67% of the votes and control...

Desperate capitalism moves towards hyperinflation

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LAST week the Republican presidential candidate and multi-billionaire property speculator, Donald Trump, unveiled his plan for saving US capitalism from economic catastrophe. During a lengthy...

Tories have blood on their hands over Channel drownings

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TWENTY-SEVEN people, including a pregnant woman and three children, were drowned attempting to cross the Channel in an inflatable boat on Wednesday – the...

British capitalism is bankrupt! Build the WRP and the Fourth International to lead...

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AMIDST a crashing pound and the soaring cost of a Labour government that is borrowing billions, Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves fled to China on...

Students Under Attack–Restore Free State Education!

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THE NUS has just published its Poverty Commission Report which shows how education costs are rising, condemning students to live in poverty and blighting...

Police call for more repression

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METROPOLITAN Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur has submitted a document to the Labour government’s Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, calling for new laws that would...

Brown Loves Bankers But Attacks Single Parents

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AT the same time as the Brown government continues to spend hundreds of billions to ‘preserve’ the bankers and the capitalist system, his government...

Havoc In The Eurozone!

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THE noose strangling the entire capitalist economy of Europe tightened round the neck of Germany yesterday with the news that the powerful Asian investment...

Stop imperialist war with the world socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY US president Barak Obama finally launched the air and missile strikes he has been threatening inside Syria without the agreement of the Syrian...

Capitalist crash drives HBOS into the arms of Lloyds TSB

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THE Federal Reserve Bank’s $85bn ‘rescue’ of AIG was carried out to stave off an immediate international financial and business collapse. It has turned...