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Time To Throw The Rotten Coalition Out!

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IT was put to Rupert Murdoch, at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday, that Thatcher could not have done without him and that he could not...

Nationalise oil and energy industries under workers management and without compensation now!

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Yesterday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published its plan to cut energy bills by re-nationalising energy retail companies. The plan, issued in advance of next...

Trump champions the police and launches his war against communism and socialism!

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US PRESIDENT Trump, in his desperate attempt to win the November presidential election, has stepped up his war against the working class, branding all...

Christoulas makes his call for REVOLUTION!

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A 77-YEAR-old Greek pensioner penned his political testament on Wednesday, before he blew his brains out in front of the Greek parliament, a parliament...

Brown’s worthless apology for imperialist child trafficking

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FOR centuries British capitalism has sought to export its surplus populations and its trouble makers to the rest of the world. Rebellious trade unionists such...

UK capitalism is in its death agony – It is time to organise the...

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THE Bank of England yesterday raised interest rates by the most in 33 years from 2.25% to 3%, and accompanied its action with a...

Coalition to widen student loans system!

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LAST Thursday the government announced that it was starting a consultation process on its plans to widen the student loans system in further education...

After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!

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PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...

To The Hague With The Israeli Leadership

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AN inquiry ordered by the UN Human Rights Council said on Wednesday that Israel violated human rights law and international humanitarian law when its...

UK Is £2 Trillion In Debt – Tories Are Ringing The Alarm Bells...

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UK GOVERNMENT debt has risen above £2 trillion and hit £2.004 trillion for July. The debt is £227.6bn more than last year. It is...

‘Cronyism and sleaze’ engulfing Tories, as bankrupt capitalism collapses. Forward with the Socialist...

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SINCE GREENSILL Capital collapsed last month, all that is rotten throughout Parliament has been stirred up and has bubbled to the surface. The collapse...

New Espionage Act under way to jail journalists and whistleblowers

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THE Tory government is set to introduce a new Espionage Act under which its judiciary will be able to jail journalists and ordinary members...

Labour plans ruthless cuts and mass privatisation of public sector to ‘save’ British capitalism

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The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public...

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...

Imperialist ‘vulture funds’ plundering Africa

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THE High Court in London was due to rule yesterday in the case of an American-owned investment fund suing the Zambian government to repay,...

British government inquiry into ‘complicity in torture’ is a fraud

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ON Wednesday the government published the Evidence Protocol for the ‘inquiry’ into allegations of British complicity in torture – a year after the inquiry...

Congress must call general strike to bring down the Tories and bring in a...

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THE TUC meets in Brighton this week for its most vital Congress in living memory. It meets at a time when the working class...

UK cannot fight the IS movement that it helped to create!

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THE UK’s role in fighting the Islamic State is ‘strikingly modest’ and should be stepped up, the House of Commons Defence Select Committee has...

US on brink of bankruptcy – forward to socialist revolution

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The once mighty US economy is set to take another irrevocable step to bankruptcy tomorrow with the news that the ‘super’ congressional committee charged...

Britain wants to occupy Afghanistan for ‘decades’

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SIR SHERARD Cowper-Coles, the high-flying diplomat who is Ambassador in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio 4 yesterday that British forces would have to stay in...

‘Recovery’ Rests On Bed Of Nitroglycerine

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THE 0.1 per cent ‘recovery’, the ‘work’ of Gordon Brown and Chancellor Darling has caused laughter and incredulity throughout the planet. It is a...

North Korea Does Not Want To Go The Way Of Libya!

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NORTH Korea has said it may pull out of a summit with US President Donald Trump that was due to take place on June...

Irish enforced bail-out will bring EU to breaking point!

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IRISH Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and the Irish government, are being forced onto their knees by the EU and the European Central Bank...

Whither the NHS is still to be decided!

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THE fury of the Blairite Milburn over the changes to the Health Bill that have been forced on the Tory-led coalition by the massive...

The Palestinian revolution is driving Israel back! End the occupation of Palestine! Forward to...

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HAMAS declared a ‘historic victory’ of Palestinians in their struggle against the occupying regime of Israel yesterday, after the Israeli regime conceded an unconditional...

Trump forces NATO ‘allies’ to capitulate to US imperialist war drive

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THE TWO-DAY NATO summit ended yesterday with US president Donald Trump walking out and announcing that he had forced the European nations to submit...

40% cuts will drive workers to rise up to get rid of capitalism!

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THE new diktat of the Tories and the Liberals, that there will be cuts in government departmental spending of 40 per cent, means that...

Greek bourgeoisie organising pogroms

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AS the economic crisis continues to tear Greece apart and drives forward a revolutionary surge amongst workers and youth, so it is driving the...

Opus Dei Speaks Out From The Cabinet

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ONE of Opus Dei’s members in the Labour Cabinet, Ruth Kelly, yesterday made a call to close down Muslim schools that promote ‘isolationism’. Opus Dei...
TGWU full-time officer OLIVER RICHARDSON addressing the Gate Gourmet mass picket yesterday morning

Public sector pensions battle set to erupt

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THE working class continues to pay a massive price for its reformist trade union leadership. This is completely committed to supporting the capitalist...

The split in the British ruling class is clearing the way for the British...

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THE POUND was sent crashing down yesterday against the US dollar and the euro prompting the bourgeois press to howl about ‘the end of...

Blair favours more repression and more privatisation

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THE Prime Minister with his grip on office weakening fast, yesterday through the Queen’s speech brought forward his familiar and well known programme...

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...

Unite workers to go forward to socialism

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THE two wings of the bourgeoisie are now going at it hammer and tongs to both exploit and abuse workers from the new EU...

Food Price Inflation Soars As The Capitalist Crisis Deepens. Demand The Tuc Call A...

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SOARING prices for bread, cereal and chocolate meant the cost of living rose more than expected last month – these are the fruits of...

Central Banks in disarray as capitalism poised for a crash

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THE disarray and panic that is a permanent state for the central banks of Europe and America was on open display yesterday. In the US,...

Labour pledges limitless billions to arm Ukraine while refusing to support workers’ pay demands

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IN A speech yesterday at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Labour’s shadow defence secretary, John Healey, pledged that any future Labour government would...

Nationalise BAE to defend jobs!

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DEFENCE engineering giant BAE Systems confirmed yesterday that it is cutting a further 3,000 jobs at sites across the country, mainly in its military...

Hunt trying to assassinate the NHS!

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JEREMY HUNT, who did a stint as a very pro-Murdoch Culture Secretary, was reshuffled out of that job and became Health Secretary as a...

Forward With The European Socialist Revolution!

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ON MONDAY in the House of Commons, ex-Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw rounded on the government stating: ‘Instead of sheltering behind complacent language and...

Supermarkets to build schools! End the privatisation nightmare with socialist revolution!

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SUPERMARKET and on-line shopping giants are making a bee-line for our public services, licking their lips at the prospect of multi-million pound profits out...

brown proposes to rob the workers to rescue the bankers

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YESTERDAY saw the big international push get under way to try to rescue the bankers of the world from the crisis of their capitalist...

Tories bringing in a pro-Zionist police state. They must be brought down with a...

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HOME Secretary Priti Patel, not satisfied with wanting to send asylum seekers to Albania for processing, has announced she is seeking to declare the...

Bosses are in crisis worldwide! Now is the time to organise the British and...

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FIVE THOUSAND trade unionists marched on Saturday in Cheltenham to mark the banning of trade unions at the GCHQ spy centre 40 years ago,...

US pilots confronted Boeing over safety before Ethiopia crash and were ignored!

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SECRET recordings have revealed that the American pilots union confronted US aircraft manufacturer Boeing about the safety of their bestselling 737 Max 8 plane...