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‘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...

Benefit cap to be lowered by £6,000 say Treasury officials

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CHANCELLOR George Osborne, the hammer of the poor, is so determined not to increase the taxes of the rich that he is about to...

Tories plan to scrap hospitals and treat people at home

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YESTERDAY, the Tories announced their latest ploy to try and convince the country that in the face of all the evidence they actually support...

Trump And Netanyahu Meet Today!

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PRESIDENT Trump and the Israeli leader Netanyahu are set to meet in Washington today just as hundreds of US rabbis have signed an open...

Gaza war crimes exposed – unions must call worldwide boycott of Israel

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ISRAELI soldiers at a military academy have exposed the essence of the cold-blooded and murderous nature of the recent Israeli army onslaught into the...

President Trump Panics – And Pledges To Send In The Nuclear Submarines!

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TRUMP’S declaration that he is sending two nuclear submarines into ‘appropriate regions’ to threaten Russia, has made public that he is preparing for the...

Labour Right Wing Moves To Split Lp On Behalf Of The Tories!

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WITH his tale that Unite leader McCluskey (currently up for re-election) intends to pay the union’s political cash over to the pro-Corbyn grass roots...

Sunak in crisis over Rwanda judgement while Starmer stands with Tories and US imperialism...

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PRIME minister Rishi Sunak saw the Tory plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda shredded by the Supreme Court ruling them unlawful on Wednesday. Five...

Starmer is making the poor pay for the crisis. The TUC must strike to...

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FOLLOWING the failure of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ panic visit to beg, or borrow, £600 million from China, the Labour government of Keir Starmer is...

Brown Targets The Working Class For Special Measures

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BROWN’S proud boast yesterday in his pre-budget speech was that ‘In no other decade has Britain’s personal wealth – up 60 per cent –...

Bush Kicks Blair In The Crutch

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IT has long been Prime Minister Blair’s contention that the strategic interests of the British ruling class demand 100 per cent support for the...

Bosses threaten share crash if Tories are removed from office!

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AS the hysterical Tory media begin to run out of scare stories about Labour Party leader Miliband, the essence of the situation is asserting...

Long Live the Libyan revolution!

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YESTERDAY the bourgeois media were demanding to know ‘exactly why this killer was freed’, calling Abdelbaset Ali al Megrahi a...

Cameron orders SAS killers onto British streets

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NEARLY 2,000 new spies are to be immediately recruited by the British state, prime minister David Cameron announced yesterday. Speaking from the G20 summit being...

Defeat BA’s union busting! All out in support of the cabin crew!

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ON THE eve of the four-day strike by British Airways cabin crew, which begins today, the company’s Chief Executive Willie Walsh stepped up his...

Occupy GMM Luton!

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THE German government yesterday made its move to try and secure GM Europe for Magna, the Canadian car parts manufacturer that wants to sack...

Miners charged with murder – ANC stands with the bosses!

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANC government and its state apparatus have taken a very clear class stand, alongside international capital, with their decision to charge...

Smash Trump’s ‘deal of the century’! Forward to the independent state of Palestine!

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THE US-sponsored three-day conference held this week in the Gulf state of Bahrain to unveil the first stage of Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the...

Johnson’s ‘Freedom Worth Fighting For’ Means UK Workers Pay For War In Ukraine!

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A ROW has broken out over £30m from the Welsh government’s budget being put towards the £1bn the UK is sending to Ukraine to...

Morales pledges to rule for the oppressed

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EVO MORALES is the first Indian to become the President of Bolivia ending decades of rule by a white ruling class elite which presided...

Only Revolution Can Solve The Housing Crisis

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THE Tory/LibDem coalition cuts to housing benefit come into effect today with devastating consequences for all unemployed or low paid workers who rely on...

National strike action for jobs and union agreements!

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LEADERS of the Unite and GMB trade unions are recommending a new jobs offer to a mass meeting at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, Lincolnshire,...

British Capitalism Admits Its Bankruptcy

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THE final proof that British capitalism is beached on the rocks has arrived. The situation is so grave, and the reputation of UK bankers so...

UK capitalists on their knees with the deepest recession since records began!

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OFFICIAL figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released yesterday show that gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 20.4% in the three months...

Free the Chagos Islands – Britain’s own Guantánamo Bay!

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ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands. By 116...

The Chief Banker Condemns The Banks

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THE governor of the bank of England, Mervyn King, has launched a scathing attack on the major UK banks, accusing them of trying to...

Blair Gang In Disarray After Pm Fails To Vote

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YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair was insisting that he can push through his right wing capitalist ‘reform programme’ despite suffering a double defeat at the...

Blair Launches ‘Irreversible’ NHS-Education Market!

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that he was poised to make irreversible changes to primary and secondary education by bringing in an education market...

TUC MUST CALL GENERAL STRIKE FROM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15th IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIAN REVOLUTION...

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THE Hamas Movement has reiterated its rejection of US president Donald Trump’s renewed remarks about his intent to relocate the citizens of Gaza to...

Bring Down The May Government – Forward To A Socialist UK And A...

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ONE HUNDRED years after the Balfour Declaration, the PLO and the Palestinian masses are demanding that the UK government apologise for it and its...

Johnson speech a bombastic cover-up of Tory class war preparations

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PM BORIS Johnson delivered a speech to the Tory faithful yesterday that was immediately dismissed by Matthew Lesh, head of the research at the...

Grenfell fire and corona pandemic underline that under capitalism life is cheap! Overthrow...

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THE GRENFELL inquiry has heard from the bosses of both the insulation and the cladding companies that produced the flammable material installed on the...

Ukrainian Stalinists giving way to EU-backed regime-change attempt

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THE Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, of the Stalinist Party of the Regions resigned on Tuesday in an attempt to draw the EU-backed right-wing...

Weak British imperialism heading for a major fall

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THE chickens are coming home to roost for British imperialism, as the mounting casualty figures in both Afghanistan and Iraq show. It is a long...

Bourgeois Lunacy At Rbs

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YESTERDAY the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history of £24.1bn, made up of a £7.9bn trading...

War of words between puppet Karzai and US

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THE Afghan puppet president, Karzai, has gone to Washington and been forced, by rising Afghan anger, to publicly complain about the actions of the...

Brown cuts workers’ pay to underwrite the bankers

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YESTERDAY was an historic day, with Prime Minister Brown pledging to bail out the banks. At the TUC Congress, Labour Party leader Brown told...

30,000 Businesses Will Go Bust In 2024!

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ECONOMISTS at the multi-national financial advice service PwC have issued a stark warning that nearly 30,000 businesses in the UK will collapse under the...

Brown guarantees the banks while he cuts workers wages

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THE Brown government has not just guaranteed all of the Northern Rock bank deposits, it has also underwritten its so called ‘commercial paper’, that...

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...

Tory ‘crackdown’ on youth inspired by fear of young people as a revolutionary force

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak yesterday launched a ‘crackdown’ on anti-social behaviour and begging, as the centrepiece of government policies in what is a...

Support Catalan independence! Down with the Spanish and EU ruling classes! Forward to a...

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CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont has called for a ‘democratic opposition’ to the imposition of direct rule from Madrid after the Spanish government terminated his...

TGWU stops BAA strike while Virgin says get other jobs!

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THE TGWU leadership, (now sheltering under the Unite label) has once again dropped a decision by its members to take strike action to...

Darling ignored over short selling

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BRITISH capitalism is staring disaster straight in the face. Motor car sales in December 2008 were 47.5 per cent lower than in December 2007. Yesterday,...

TUC must take action to stop Labour’s NHS privatisation

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UNISON accused the government yesterday of a ‘fundamental breach of trust’. This was after the Department of Health placed an advertisement in the official...