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Inflation rages, the trade deficit widens and the bosses demand even tougher anti-union laws

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday kept rates at 0.5%. Inflation however is continuing to rise as world oil, wheat, meat, cotton and...

Union Leaders Refuse To Fight – Working Class Will Pay The Price

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THE Labour party and the trade unions released a joint statement from the Warwick policy conference yesterday. This revealed why the Prime Minister was able...

Kick the Tories out on June 8th – Labour must scrap STP mass...

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JONATHAN Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, has responded to reports in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) by warning: ‘With 48 hours to go until...

Enough Is Enough Say Wythenshawe Electors

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NONE of the three main parties have very much to shout about over the outcome of the Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election. Labour’s Michael Kane...

Socialist revolution only answer to capitalist debt crisis

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Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves was making her pitch yesterday to the bankers and business bosses that any future Labour government would be a...

Greek workers on the march to socialist revolution

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THE Greek working class, Greek youth and the majority of the middle class and the small farmers have battled the EU imposed austerity programmes...

The TUC must support the Palestinian march on Gaza with a general strike in...

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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of displaced Palestinian citizens resumed on Wednesday morning their march back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip which Israel...

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...

Disarm imperialism through the victory of the world socialist revolution!

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LAST week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a whole series of blogs on its website warning that the entire US banking...

US shale oil bites the dust – Forward to the US socialist revolution!

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THE PRICE of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history, destroying the shale gas ‘miracle’ that was going to liberate...

China, Japan Warn Usa About World Default Crisis

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BOTH the capitalist class of the world and the Stalinist bureaucracy, which has been expending trillions of dollars buying US debt, are now issuing...

Universities are for students, not big business!

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ALMOST a third of young people (31 per cent) starting at university this autumn are being forced to live with their parents, because they...

Nationalise Eurotunnel Rail Service!

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THE collapse of the Eurotunnel rail service, at the hands of a normal European winter, with no service for four days, and passengers left...

Bank shares fall while AIG and HBOS live on borrowed time!

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SHARE price collapses continued yesterday after the bankrupting of the fourth largest US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and the ‘rescue’ of Merrill Lynch by...

A victory for the ‘March 15’ revolutionary youth

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THE force of the Arab revolution, sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East, yesterday won a new victory when the campaign of the...

London Bus Workers To Strike – Fighting Against Massive Wage Cuts And Zero Hours...

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LONDON bus passengers should give their full support to London bus workers as they prepare for massive strike actions in the capital called by...

General Strike To Smash Fees And Bring Down The Coalition

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TENS of thousands of students and youth are marching today in central London to denounce the tripling of tuition fees to £9,000, and to...

Capitalist governments crumble as crisis deepens!

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ALL over the capitalist world, governments and administrations of all kinds are crumbling, as the deepening of the world crisis of capitalism sharpens the...

Workers and youth forward to the Socialist revolution!

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LAST Sunday the president of the National Union of Students (NUS), Aaron Porter, made a surprise visit to a meeting of students occupying University...
Demonstration on January 20 outside the US embassy in London against Bush and Blair’s ‘war on terror

Defend Iran Againstfrench And US Threats

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THE French government is threatening Iran with retribution if it does not give up its nuclear energy programme. The French Prime Minister, De Villepin, one...

620,000 sick and disabled will lose £675 a month under Labour’s attack on benefits...

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer is prepared to defy the growing anger of workers by pushing through welfare cuts that will impoverish over 600,000...

UK trade unions must take action to end the UK’s criminal treatment of Chagossians...

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THE prime minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth has indicted the UK government for committing ‘crimes against humanity’ for refusing to allow Chagossians to return...

The TUC Must Call A General Strike To Stop The Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians!

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ISRAELI occupation forces have committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of...

British banks hit by Dubai collapse

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AFTER the Abu Dhabi stockmarket experienced a record one-day fall of 8.3 per cent, and Dubai’s Financial Market Index fell 7.3 per cent yesterday,...

£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...

Tories Plan Huge Increase In Military Spend While The Masses Go Hungry!

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PROFESSOR Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute, has authored an analysis of the plans necessary for a major war...

UN Forces Quit Mitrovica

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THE divided town of Mitrovica was in turmoil yesterday morning, after UNMIK police and KFOR troops, in a major provocation, stormed a local court...

UK Police State Must Be Smashed!

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THE detention of a Guardian employee at Heathrow airport for nine hours was unwarranted and unlawful said Amnesty international yesterday. David Michael Miranda – the...

£65bn PFI Nightmare for the NHS!

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THE PFI Private Finance Initiative was brought in by the Major Tory government, and while it was opposed by Labour in opposition, it was...

TUC calls Emergency Special Congress to fight anti-strike laws – demand it calls a...

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FOLLOWING the Tories announcing on Monday that they had completed their ‘consultation period’ over the minimum service levels rules for railway, ambulance and border...

Workers must answer state preparations by forcing through Brexit and putting an end to...

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AFTER the news that over 3,000 troops were being mobilised for action after Brexit Day on March 29th, we have now been told that...

Unions Must Fight Savage Bbc Job Cuts

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THE BBC backed up by the Brown government is set to ride roughshod over its workforce pushing through 2,700 job cuts, with up...

Benefits slashed while bankers prosper

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Today Parliament votes on the Tory coalition bill to place a 1% cap on all benefits and tax credits for the next three years...

Palestinian Prisoners Society Warns Of A Dangerous Escalation In The Systematic Repression Of Palestinian...

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THE Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have warned of a dangerous escalation in the systematic repression carried out...

Workers and elderly to be hammered for the benefit of privateers

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CURRENTLY all over the country A&E’s are being closed, in some areas entire hospitals are to be demolished, while the number of private patients...

Pakistan’s creeping coup being organised by the US

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A FEW weeks ago President Obama announced 30,000 extra US troops for Afghanistan. Now the US has given its full support to President Karzai of...

Imperialism threatens Iran but is fearful of the working class at home!

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Donald Trump’s belligerent ‘last-chance’ threat to Iran to resume diplomatic talks about abandoning its nuclear programme or face US military attacks in two weeks,...

US troops to fight in Iraq and Syria!

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THE US has changed policy on Iraq and Syria overnight, and will now allow US ground troops to assault targets in both countries and...

Netanyahu marches against terrorism in Paris!

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WHEN the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine lampooned the prophet, it knew that it was trampling over the religious susceptibilities of millions of Muslims, and...

With stockmarkets crashing it is time to smash capitalism and go forward to world...

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AMID world stock markets crashing, and the head of the IMF revealing she has ‘sleepless nights’ over the dangerous risks of collapses in the...

Post-Trident nuclear missiles will be targeting Russia

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THE Blair-Brown government intends to spend hundreds of billions of pounds on building a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to deliver the replacement of...
NHSTogether demonstration in November 2007 against NHS privatisation

NHS pharmacy services under threat – warn unions

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Unite is seeking an urgent meeting with Health Secretary, Andy Burnham ‘as NHS pharmacy services are threatened by a government decision’. Burnham is being asked to...

The US with 5,113 deployed nuclear bombs, and Israel with 200, is ‘threatened by...

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THE US told the world on Monday that it has 5,113 nuclear war heads operationally deployed. This arsenal is supplemented by the warheads...

Toxic Tories lash out at immigrants and the poor

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PEOPLE who do not speak fluent English will be barred from public sector jobs which involve working directly with the public, the government has...

Tories refuse any measures to limit Covid deaths – Kick them out, and bring...

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COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis’ Matthew Taylor, head of the NHS Confederation, has...