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UK-France defeated by the Libyan masses!

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AFTER months of bombing and killing civilians, the Libyan imperialist adventure is nearing its end after both the UK and French governments have...

US National March for Palestine takes place today in Washington – US workers &...

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MASSIVE demonstrations are sweeping the United States in support of Palestine. There have been big marches and rallies in New York, Chicago, Texas, San...

Karzai To Release Prisoners From Bagram’s G-Bay Jail

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WASHINGTON has expressed concern about a plan by the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai to release scores of prisoners considered by the US...

100,000 Youth Lay Siege To Parliament!

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YESTERDAY huge masses of youth marched on the House of Commons, which was deciding to bring in tuition fees of £9,000 a year, turning...

Labour MPs condemn gov. for planning ‘shameful trade deal’ with Israel!

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THE Labour government has outraged a large number of Labour MPs and very many Labour Party members and supporters by proceeding with its plan...

Unions Must Put The Labour Party House In Order

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THE main trade union leaders are determined that the crisis of the Labour government should be kept out of the TUC Congress in Brighton. They...

Unions Must Call Action To Halt Tory Law Equating Journalism With Terrorism! They Must...

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THE NUJ is warning that Home Office plans to ‘reform’ The Official Secrets Act ‘are a severe threat to journalism’. It is calling on...

Students and UCU to ‘take to the streets!’

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SHOWING contempt for parliament, the watchdog for university access (Offa) yesterday gave the green light to all universities to increase tuition fees in England...

Gate Gourmet Workers Lead The Way!

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ON SUNDAY, hundreds of workers from Gate Gourmet, who were locked out and sacked by the company on August 10, 2005, are marching with...

Lecturers & students must strike to end all university fees and restore grants!

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THE LATEST increase in university tuition fees in England to £9,250 by the Tory government has been launched without any announcement from the Department...

Brown, Keynes and revolution

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AFTER actively assisting in the creation of trillions of debt, and showing its contempt for the concept of value by selling almost half of...

North Korea successfully tests H-Bomb to be loaded onto an ICBM!

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NORTH Korea has successfully tested an H-bomb, a nuclear weapon that it will now be able to load onto an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile...

Labour strikebreakers back BA’s anti-union drive

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British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union has...

Palestine Unity Government Formed – Now The World Must End Occupation!

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THE Palestinian unity government has been sworn in, and has the backing of both the Fatah and Hamas movements. The defiant formation of the national...

Blair launches anti-Brexit plot as Starmer raises remaining in Single Market and Customs...

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THE wiping out of the Socialist Party and the Republican Party in France, the ruination of the Fifth Republic and the elevation of the...

City Link Closure The Prelude To New Year Class Showdown!

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THE Christmas Day announcement that parcel delivery firm City Link had gone into administration was ‘disgraceful’, the RMT said yesterday. Its general secretary Mick...

Demand TUC call a General Strike!

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The leaders of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have refused to condemn Labour right-winger Alan Milburn for accepting a position with the Tory-led coalition...

Unions at court to fight pensions rip-off

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Yesterday six trade unions appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice to appeal against a High Court decision that the coalition government will slash...

British capitalism can afford wars but not benefits!

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BOTH Prime Minister Blair and Chancellor Brown insisted yesterday, in support of Works and Pensions minister Hutton, that single parents must look for work...

Royal Mail – The Way Forward To Victory

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THE announcement by the CWU of a programme of two 48-hour national strikes across all sections of Royal Mail, along with a programme of...

US imperialism prepares for a bloodbath to overthrow legitimate government in Venezuela

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DURING an anti-government demonstration in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, on Wednesday the head of the country’s National Assembly Juan Guaido launched a right-wing coup against...

‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street

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YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...

Arrogant Osborne rewards the rich and savages the workers and the poor

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s second budget this year will be his first for a Tory government with an overall majority and he intends to use it...

With Labour government in crisis bankers and bosses step up calls for a National...

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THE DEMAND for a National Government to rescue the British economy from bankruptcy is rapidly emerging in the bourgeois press, as the only way...

Blair on holiday – Commissioner Blair is in charge

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HOME Secretary Clarke is currently on holiday, after the Prime Minister insisted that he should not bow to public pressure and cancel it, as...

End all complicity with Zionist genocide and war – Demand TUC’s October 10th ‘day...

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ON THURSDAY, the Israeli Defence Ministry in a statement revealed that the US had given $8.7 billion of military aid to the Zionist state...

Local elections being delayed as the crisis of UK capitalism deepens!

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A FURIOUS backlash erupted on Thursday against the Labour government’s cancellation of May’s local government elections, which could deprive 10 million citizens of the...

Pope Benedict Pours Fuel On The Fire Then Says Sorry

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EX SS soldier Pope Benedict XVI yesterday apologised in person for causing offence to Muslims in a speech in Bavaria last week. In his...

Humanitarian imperialists get ready for a bloodbath

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DESPITE all of the hurrahs coming from the manic bourgeois media, the imperialist powers have a very big problem with Libya, and the Libyan...

Cameron’s Worthless Pledges!

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CAMERON’S warning that the NHS must ‘Reform or die’ and his statement that the ‘NHS is in danger’, were clear admissions that there is...

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...

Bank of England suspected of serious fraud!

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THE Bank of England this week was revealed to be under investigation by no less than the Serious Fraud Office. Founded in 1694, the Bank...

Iran offers talks on the US created nuclear crisis

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THE imperialist powers are studying Iran’s offer of more talks to resolve the crisis that the US has created over Iran’s right to develop nuclear...

TAKE ACTION IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE – CALL GENERAL STRIKES IN US, EU and...

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NABIL Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, warned on Sunday of the grave consequences of Israel’s threats to carry out what could be...

Keep Profiteers Out Of NHS And Elderly Care

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HEALTHCARE as a business is now being exposed as a malicious and very nasty fraud. First we had the Mid Staffs NHS hospital crisis with...

At least three provinces reject the US’ Iraq constitution

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IT IS remarkable that in a ‘constitutional referendum’ organised by a puppet government, in a country under occupation by the US and the UK,...

Tory coronavirus inquiry is an attempt to put off reckoning with working class

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ON WEDNESDAY, Tory prime minister Boris Johnson announced that there would be ‘a full and independent inquiry’ into the government handling of the coronavirus...

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...

Only socialist revolutions can bring the ruling classes of the world to trial for...

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THE International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must halt its military offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza. This ruling came after South Africa...

Trump’s trade war prepares the way for a real war against China! The only...

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US PRESIDENT Trump sharply escalated his trade war with China yesterday, more than doubling tariffs on $200bn (£153.7bn) worth of Chinese goods. The US is...

After the BA battle ‘pirate Walsh’ seeks to shut down Iberia, sacking 3,800!

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IAG chairman Walsh plans to axe 3,800 jobs – a fifth of the Spanish Iberia airline’s workforce – in a country where unemployment is...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers at a lobby of the Hillingdon TGWU office earlier this month

Occupy Peugeot! Build a new leadership in the unions!

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LEADERS of the trade unions said they were shocked by PSA Peugeot-Citroën’s announcement on Tuesday that it is closing its Ryton factory in Coventry,...

TUC must call a general strike to ensure all ‘independent contractors’ have workers’...

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THE TORY plan to reduce Britain to a slave labour, hire-and-fire, zero-hours economy is now being challenged powerfully by groups of young workers. With the...

Tories and LibDems routed – now bring down the coalition

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THE result of the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election points to one thing, that the working class and large sections of the middle class...

Labour Must Renationalise Energy Giants!

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CENTRICA, the UK’s biggest energy company, said yesterday that if Labour won the general election in 2015 and brought in an energy price freeze...