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Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!

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THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...

Ending the capitalist crisis needs more than reformist policies

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JOHN McDONNELL the newly appointed Labour shadow chancellor, made his first speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday outlining the ‘new economics’ that he...

Hurry And Make Peace With Taleban Urge Mps

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THE start of an Afghan-led peace deal with the Taleban is needed to secure the future of Afghanistan after British troops leave, a group...

Savage Israeli occupation lashes out at Palestinians!

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THE Fatah movement in southern Hebron declared a day of mourning on Wednesday after a 17-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces who had...

Capitalism plunging into catastrophic banking crash – time to put it out of its...

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LAST Friday the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed and its assets seized by the American Federal Reserve in the biggest banking crash...

US Ruling Class Offers Iran A Rotten Deal

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday said that the US would talk to Iran if it will suspend its nuclear programme. Rice made...
Trade union banners on last Saturday’s 500,000-strong march against the ‘CPE’ first job contract attack on young workers

Unions Must Take Action To Defend The NHS

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THE TUC and all trade unions must be made to take action to defend the NHS before it is butchered by Blair and completely...

Rail Companies ‘milking the system’ – Renationalise the Railways now

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RAIL passengers are being hit by rail fare hikes that are ‘truly staggering’, according to the Labour Party transport spokesman Andy McDonald. The increases, which...

Trump Leaps Into War With Syria – Where He Leads, The UK Ruling Class...

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PRESIDENT Trump in his televised statement on Thursday night insisted that launching a 59-strong cruise missile attack on Syria was ‘in the national security...

British imperialism filmed at work

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A COURT martial in Wiltshire yesterday heard that Corporal Donald Payne was filmed as he abused and swore at hooded Iraqi detainees, in September...

Tories move to scrap defence cuts and prepare for war!

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ON Monday, the Chief of the UK General Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, said in his speech at the Royal United Services Institute, a...

EU torn apart by Covid pandemic – forward to Socialist United States of...

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THE DEADLY third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is ripping the EU apart over vaccinations and lockdowns. In Germany, with 9,549 new cases and 180...

Smash Yellow Trade Unionism

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TODAY the working class is fighting against a crisis-ridden capitalist system whose banks and industries have collapsed, and whose political leaders, such as the...

Savage cuts have just begun in debt-ridden capitalist Britain

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SPENDING on Welfare over this Parliamentary term has fallen by just £2.5bn despite the Tory-led coalition aiming to slash spending by £19bn. The Institute for...

Greek working class delivers blow to EU capitalism

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THE victory of Syriza in the Greek election represents a huge blow by the Greek working class against European capitalism. Syriza, the coalition of the...

Make May apologise for 100 years of the Balfour Declaration!

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PM May has gone out of her way to insult the Palestinian people by declaring her pride in the 100th anniversary of the Balfour...

Assad the main enemy, not IS say the US, France and the UK!

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ON Tuesday morning in New York President Putin said that determining the fate of Syria should be in the hands of the Syrians,...

Brown’s Policies Are Helping The Tories To Return

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BROWN’S ‘bad night for Labour’ was the direct result of a self-inflicted wound – Brown’s Thatcherite policies – that cost Labour up to...

Workers Must Support Corbyn Against The Tory And Labour Witch-Hunters!

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THE BOURGEOIS media and Labour’s right wing pro-Zionists have no shame, as their attempts to label Labour leader Corbyn an anti-Semite show – otherwise...

Forward to the State of Palestine – from the river to the sea –...

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IN a telephone conversation yesterday, President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the latest developments in Palestine, especially in light of...

US Ruling Class Admit Strategic Defeat In Iraq

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WITH 400 billion dollars already spent on digging US imperialism into a very deep hole in Iraq, the Baker committee of elder statesmen or...

Israel invades Rafah and blocks all aid to Gaza – working class must call...

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ON MONDAY evening, the political bureau of Hamas announced that it had approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. This surprise move prompted the BBC’s International...

World crisis driving forward the European socialist revolution!

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THE BOURGEOIS financial markets opened yesterday to the unprecedented news that Germany has sold 3.9 billion euros of debt at a negative rate of...

US raids Libyan stooges!

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THE Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, put into power by a murderous NATO campaign that culminated in the murder of Colonel Gadaffi, has called...

Unite suspends Angela Rayner – now is the time for the working class to...

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LAST FRIDAY, the Unite union’s annual policy conference overwhelmingly passed an emergency motion  condemning both the local Labour-controlled council and the Labour government over...

Another US blow for Pakistan!

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THE US Congress yesterday froze $700 million of aid to its ally Pakistan until it gets assurances that Pakistan will combat the spread of...

Answer NHS crisis with general strike and occupations

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THIS week saw the crisis in the NHS reach breaking point with at least 17 hospitals in England declaring they faced a ‘major incident’...

Unite leaders beg the Tories for permanent furlough! New leadership required in trade...

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UNITE, with a membership of 1.4 million, wielding the power to strike and shut down vast proportions of industry, has reduced itself to begging...

Nigerian workers revolution has begun – it must expropriate the oil companies!

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NIGERIA’S bourgeois government has pledged to the IMF and World Bank that it will push ahead and end oil fuel subsidies regardless of the...

No Obama Recovery Plan

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A VERY hard pressed Obama, right at the start of his state of the Union message, was forced to summon the ‘God of Battles’...

UK troops to Russia’s borders while Tories threaten more bombings of Yemen

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ON the day that Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak addressed parliament – to justify bombing Yemen last Friday without bothering to consult MPs –...

General strike to defend the NHS

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AMBULANCE crews in south-east Wales are staging a four-week, unofficial overtime ban to highlight how much the ambulance service now relies on their willingness...

Support RMT Southern strikers, defend rail safety and jobs with them, and renationalise the...

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EVERY worker in the country, not just every commuter, must support the five-day RMT strike action on Southern. It is a fight for jobs, and...

Brown, Cameron & Clegg unite to rescue bankrupt capitalism

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THE manufacturing sector of the British economy shrank last month at the fastest rate for 17 years, that is since 1992, according to figures...

Cox joins the war criminals with her plan to attack Syria!

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ON Monday evening in the House of Commons Labour MP Jo Cox came to the rescue of Cameron and the Tories when she...

Blair the leader of the Party of Order

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PRIME Minister Blair held a meeting of his Cabinet yesterday morning and, true to form, the Cabinet, filled with his lackeys, found that he...

Labour is going to bring a co-payment system into the NHS

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AS the economic crisis deepens, the drive to privatise the NHS is being stepped up on a number of fronts. One is the growing...

Starmer Betrays The Working Class By Planning A Massive Rise In Military Spending!

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LABOUR PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer has almost immediately betrayed the massive working class electorate that voted him into office as Prime Minister. His first action...

IMF fears world revolution as the world economic crisis deepens

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another dire warning about the economic crisis raging throughout the world yesterday with its head, Kristalina Georgieva, saying...

Greek Debt Crisis Set To Explode Under The Eu!

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TALKS on a Greek debt deal, it was reported yesterday, have ‘hit a snag’. The Institute of International Finance (IIF), and their creditors group...

Tories are planning a state of emergency so as to ban all strikes!

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AT prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Rishi Sunak told MPs that he was planning ‘tough’ legislation to outlaw strikes completely. However, the right wing press...

Capitalism Is In Its Greatest Ever Crisis. Now Is The Time To Organise The...

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DURING stock market trading last Friday more than £12.8bn was wiped off the value of the UK’s bank stocks as the rumours of ‘bad...

Housing crash on the way!

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THE latest Bank of England figures show that the number of new mortgages being given to house buyers has fallen by 20 per cent...

May appeals to Labour Right-Wing to save her

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THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained...

French Government Passes Pensions ‘Reforms’ Without A Vote!

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THE French government has chosen the moment – when France, Europe and the world is obsessed by the coronavirus crisis – to launch a...