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First the 2016 referendum defeat for the ruling class, now May is being ...

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THE LAST week has seen the Tory drive to have PM May crowned as Empress, via a runaway election victory and a huge majority,...

IMF says banks stuck in ‘Doom Loop’ – Socialist revolution the only way to...

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TEN YEARS on from the banking crash that brought the world’s financial system to the very edge of going over the fiscal cliff, the...

Demands ramped up for Labour to slash pensions, benefits and NHS spending to rescue...

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THE DEMANDS for the Labour government to slash all government spending on welfare is reaching a crescendo in the run-up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’...

TUC must act on its resolution, organise the complete boycott of Israel, call a...

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MISSILES are raining down on the people of Gaza, as the Israelis step up their war to prevent the establishment of the state of...

£490bn goes missing! Time to overthrow British capitalism, quit the EU and go forward...

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ALL THE talk by the Tories, and echoed by the Labour Party leadership, that capitalist Britain is fundamentally in good health economically, has just...

Housing crisis can only be solved through socialist revolution!

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TWO reports this week have driven home the message that in the 21st century a bankrupt British capitalist system can no longer provide even...

Time To Force The Tuc Off Its Knees – Forward To The British Socialist...

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AN article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph delivered a sharp wake up call to the TUC and the trade union leaders who cling to the...

Complete the mass uprising in Ecuador with a socialist revolution to establish workers power!

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EIGHT police officers have been taken hostage in Ecuador during an escalating revolutionary uprising that has forced the government to flee from the capital,...

Spanish Opel workers vote for strike action!

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WORKERS at Opel’s factory in Zaragossa, Spain, have announced four days of strikes starting next week, after failing to reach an agreement with Magna...

Scrap Universal Credit and the Tory government with it!

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‘THIS IS a time for revolution not patching,’ said Anthony Painter, Director of Action & Research at the Royal Society of Arts, calling for...

Ferguson battle anticipates US revolution

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THE tactics weaponry and ammunition used in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, by the police and Missouri National Guard, have led to...

Join lobby of TUC to demand it calls strike action to end the Zionist...

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted with fury yesterday following the announcement on Monday that the Labour government was suspending some arms sales to...

What Should Be Done About Gordon Brown

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DAVID Miliband yesterday urged the Labour Party to rally behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is facing mounting opposition in the working class because...

Blair paved the way for Davis and Howarth

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IT was Prime Minister Blair who insisted that the 7th July bombings and the July 21 attempted bombings were nothing to do with the...

Trump Tries To Grab Venezuela’s Vast Oil Resources – Tuc Must Call General...

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US President Donald Trump has publicly stated that the US capitalists will run and ‘own’ Venezuela’s colossal oil wealth. This was after Trump sent in...

Labour believes that the elderly must be made to pay

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IT has emerged that it is a question of principle for the Labour government that elderly people who are now living in nursing and...

Put Blair and Brown in the dock over C.difficile deaths

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THE blood price paid by the public for the running of the NHS as a business, with the private sector at its centre and...

Labour victimises the unemployed!

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INCAPACITY Benefit will be abolished under the Welfare Green Paper just published by Works and Pensions Minister, James Purnell. The 2.7 million people receiving Incapacity...

Replace Starmer’s anti-worker Labour regime with a workers government and socialism!

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THE TUC yesterday published a poll of over 3,000 voters which showed conclusively overwhelming support for workers rights and pay increases to match the...

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...

Obama attempts to con Irish workers

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FOR the second time in two weeks Irish workers and youth have been subjected to a powerful imperialist propaganda assault designed to shore up...

Labour MPs must vote to break from the EU today, and prepare to go...

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ON THURSDAY morning, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and Tory PM Johnson announced a Brexit deal. After three years, the EU...

Lammy Wants To Undermine The Right To Trial By Jury!

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JUSTICE SECRETARY David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape,...

Johnson Calls A National Lockdown ‘The Nuclear Option’ As Far As Capitalism Is...

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PM BORIS JOHNSON in an interview in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph stated that the Tories were determined that there would be no further national lockdown...

Bulgarians Hit Out At Cameron

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THE President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, has correctly rebuked Tory leader Cameron for peddling nationalism and isolationism. It is ironic that the UK – which...

Manufacturing contracts in October for sixth successive month

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AFTER all of the Tory propaganda chatter about the ‘recovery has begun’ the reality is that the slump is deepening. The UK’s manufacturing sector,...

‘NHS Standing On A Burning Platform’ – Time To Deal With The Arsonists!

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THE NHS is standing on a ‘burning platform’ is the stark assessment of Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of...

Make It ‘Doomsday’ For The Coalition Not For Council Housing

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THE ‘social housing’ budget in England is to be slashed by more than 50 per cent. Up to 90 per cent of the market rent...

US Torture Flights – Questions Go Unanswered

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LIBERTY has written letters to the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and to British police chiefs about the US’ ‘extraordinary rendition’ programme and the use...

Pompeo Reveals That Soleimani’s Murder Was Part Of A ‘Bigger Strategy Of Deterrence!’

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US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has spilled the beans about the murder of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. He has revealed that it...

As Putin, Merkel, Macron And Erdogan Talk Peace In Istanbul, Israel And The...

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As Putin, Merkel, Macron and Erdogan were meeting in Istanbul on Saturday evening to discuss the future of Syria, Israeli planes were bombing Gaza...

Syria’s parliament denounces the 1917 Balfour Declaration as invalid. UK parliament must do the...

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THE Syrian parliament has shown the way to the rest of the world by denouncing as ‘invalid’ the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which handed Palestine...

OECD predicts economic disaster as UK chief of staff predicts war with Russia!

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WILLIAM WHITE, the head of the OECD’s review body, warned before the Davos Summit on Monday that: ‘All the market indicators right now look...

Multinational companies who supplied cladding and insulation on Grenfell Tower making super-profits!

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Yesterday’s Observer newspaper revealed that manufacturers of the insulation installed on Grenfell Tower – cladding that led to the inferno that killed 72 people...

Trump demands Iran completely ‘gives up’ as imperialism threatens all-out war against Iran!

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US president Donald Trump yesterday abruptly left the G7 meeting in Canada, telling reporters he wanted ‘better than a ceasefire’ between Iran and Israel. When...

French elections ‘shaken’ by surge in working class support for socialist policies

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THIS WEEK has seen a dramatic upsurge of support amongst workers and youth in France for the outsider left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the...

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...

Tory MPs rebel while cringing Labour saves Cameron and Osborne

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AFTER all the fake sound and fury of parliamentary question time, with party leaders locked in apparent combat without quarter given or asked for,...

TUC must recall Congress to call a general strike to bring in a workers...

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LABOUR Party leader and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has given the BMA doctors a 48-hour ultimatum that they must call off their ‘reckless’...

South African socialist revolution underway!

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THOUSANDS of mine workers have downed tools at South Africa’s Marikana Lonmin mine after an AMCU union leader, Mawethu Steven, was shot dead at...

Stop Royal Mail privatisation – No to mass sackings!

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THE CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes yesterday warned that the Brown government and the Royal Mail top management are planning to sack...

Bring down Blair regime from the left

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THE Blair government suffered two body-blows yesterday. Blair’s main cabinet ally, Blunkett, was forced to resign, and the government’s 66 majority was reduced to...

Defend the NHS – make the TUC call a general strike

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WITH 23,000 beds being cut from hospital wards over the last four years alone, the entire trade union movement must immediately move into action...

Blair’s police state demonising Muslims

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ABU Bakr, the 27 year old English teacher, and one of the nine Muslim men arrested by the police, and put under the media...

The NHS must be free and available to all at the point of need!

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RECENTLY there have been a few years of increased government spending on the NHS, after many years of chronic underspending. Most of the new...