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UK and US imperialism’s drive to war must be answered through the victory of...

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IN his ‘Letter to American Workers’, published in Pravda on August 22 1918, after the victorious Russian revolution, Lenin wrote, ‘We are now, as...

UK has not offered to take in a single Syrian refugee!

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THE fact that the UK ruling coalition is involved up to its neck in organising the war in Syria, and is also keeping it...

Brown’s Britain = super-exploitation and death for workers

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GORDON Brown is now infamous as the friend of the equity capitalists who, thanks to him, pay no taxes, while he insists that the...

Labour Reshuffles Amidst The Resignations

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JOHN Hutton, the fourth Labour Cabinet minister to quit in the past week, has left his post and will also quit as an MP,...

Thirty Day Countdown To Attack 0N Iran

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DOWNING STREET denials that there is a meeting today of top military, state and government officials to discuss the implications of a US attack...

Organise a general strike! Bring down Brown government! Go forward to socialism

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THE leaders of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the University and College Union (UCU) and the...

Time To Disband The Police As Met Gunmen Hand Back Their Weapons!

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SCOTLAND YARD’S firearms command has hit the rocks with their police gunmen refusing to do their duty and carry their firearms against ‘enemies of...

Darling’s plan to make workers pay for crisis

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CHANCELLOR Darling made his pre-budget speech to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon in the form of a Labour general election manifesto. His line was...

Trump gambles on his inflationary boom lasting till presidential election day!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump delivered his formal State of the Union address on Tuesday night with the usual boast that under the three years...

Second Xmas on the dole for 700,000!

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ACCORDING to research published by the TUC on Monday, over 250,000 people will be spending their second successive Christmas on the dole. Even this figure...

Imperialism planning new crimes in Syria

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The UN mission in Libya has just voiced its ‘deep concern’ over the daily and murderous violence in Libya, where innocent people are now...

Syrian Army Has Pro-US ‘Rebels’ On The Run

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THE SYRIAN army is now having great successes against the pro-US and Islamic forces that have been seeking to destroy Syria and divide it...

Free Julian Assange – Jail The Imperialist Butchers

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was arrested in London yesterday and is now in jail, awaiting hearings to extradite him to Sweden where he will...

The strike wave sweeping Britain demands a new leadership in trade unions, come to...

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THE STRIKE wave sweeping across Britain has a revolutionary content. Since the capitalist crisis first burst into the open with the banking collapse of 2008...

BA struggle coming to a head

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EXTENSIVE talks have been taking place over the last seven weeks under the Chairmanship of TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber between Unite and BA,...

TUC leader pleads with EU president

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YESTERDAY, Tory leader David Cameron hosted a breakfast meeting with the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, as part of his campaign to...

Truss Is Planning Regional Pay And More Anti-Union Laws For ‘Lazy And Idle’ British...

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THE OUT OF CONTROL UK inflation rate has hit double digits – 10.1% according to the Office for National Statistics. It says it’s at...

LibDems shattered while Labour gets Scottish shock!

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THE coalition with the Tories is proving to be the kiss of death for the LibDems. They are hated, and paying the price for...

Free The Prisoners Says Hamas And Stop Zionist Gaza Aggression!

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‘LET Christmas celebrations be a global occasion to intensify all forms of global solidarity, to stop the Zionist aggression on Gaza,’ the Hamas Movement...

Grenfell Tower – Tories tore up health and safety rules then invited cladding companies...

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AN INVESTIGATION by Sky News into the role of the firms that produce the plastic used to cover the exterior of Grenfell Tower has...

Labour right-wing plot with Tories to close down Parliament to prevent Brexit

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IT EMERGED at the weekend that the latest stage in a coup to overturn the Brexit referendum result by an alliance of right-wing Labour...

It’s still austerity, more austerity and yet more austerity from Osborne and the Tories

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The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2014, compared to 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the...

Trump sends in National Guard to take over America’s capital city

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On Monday, US president Donald Trump declared a ‘crime emergency’ in Washington DC, the capital city of America, using this as a pretext to...

Johnson Prepared To Starve UK Workers To Aid Ukraine’s War To Weaken Russia!

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have both warned that the war in Ukraine could last years, as Russian...

By 278 votes to 0 MPs vote for extending the Universal Credit top-up beyond...

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THE TORY government was delivered a massive blow on Monday evening when it was defeated by 278 votes to 0 when MPs voted for...

British capitalism is stuck in the mire of slump!

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THE UK’s public sector net borrowing hit a record high of £20.3 billion in November, official figures show. The figure was the highest for any...

Brown And King Split As British Capitalism Founders

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PM Brown has reacted to the Bank of England chief’s public admonition that the next Budget must not plunge the UK into another flood...

Governor King fears crash – time to go forward to socialism

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Last Friday, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, issued a dire warning that Britain risks another financial crisis unless the government introduces...

Trump Setting Out To Impose A Greater Israel On The Palestinians By Force...

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WITH his declaration that the Trump Administration no longer recognises that the imposed Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal, US Secretary...

US Attacks Refugees With Its $65M Unrwa Cut!

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EXECUTIVE Committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Zakaria al-Agha, said on Wednesday that the United States freeze of $65 million in its...

Hands off Palestine – no annexations! Arab workers must remove ‘recognition’ regimes!

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FOLLOWING the refusal of the Arab League to condemn the UAE for its recognition of the state of Israel, Bahrain has now followed the...

Soros financing Pro-EU campaign in UK – Workers must demand that the UK quits...

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US-HUNGARIAN billionaire George Soros has denounced Brexit as an ‘immensely damaging process’ for both the United Kingdom and the European Union, and has arrived...

PFI privateers having looted the NHS and the public sector are now pushing for...

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THE EXTENT of the full-scale looting of the country’s public buildings by giant offshore private companies has been highlighted in a report by a...

Tory Would-Be Leaders Are Paralysed With A Fear Of The Working Class! Bring Them...

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TUESDAY night’s live debate between the five remaining Tory hopefuls to replace Theresa May and become prime minister, was a stark demonstration of the...

Darling can’t explain the crisis and he cannot resolve it

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YESTERDAY at the Labour Party conference the leaders who not so long ago announced to the world that they had conquered the essential tendency...
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...

US workers taking action to drive up wages and defend their jobs

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THE once-mighty US economy is facing a wave of strikes by powerful sections of the working class who are determined to drive up their...

Trump Says Bin Salman Innocent Until Proven Guilty – After Khashoggi Is Butchered In...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has cautioned against rushing to blame Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince over the disappearance and butchering of Saudi journalist...

Cameron-Osborne Are No Joke!

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THE row over the Tories so-called ‘pasty tax’ has become a dangerous diversion in the hands of the Labour leadership who are intent on...

Tory plans to ‘save’ British capitalism are nothing but a subsidy for the bosses

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YESTERDAY Tory prime minister Theresa May announced a new era of state intervention to ‘save’ British capitalism. According to this strategy, selected sectors will be...

Soaring oil prices and the banking collapse mean class conflict on the airports!

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ON SATURDAY more than 1,000 British Airways pilots marched on BA’s Heathrow headquarters over plans by BA to use non-BA pilots, in its new...

Ten-hour day for schoolkids!

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AT ONE time it used to be said that British workers were working such long hours that they did not have an opportunity to...

Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!

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INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...

Biden has China and Russia in his sights! End imperialist wars by putting an...

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THROWING TRUMP’S ‘America First’ economic policy out the window, the new US administration under President Biden is reinstating the interventionist policies which dominated during...

Arab League sells out the Palestinians yet again

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THE Arab League, the organisation of the Arab bourgeoisie, last Saturday gave its backing to the indirect Palestinian-Israeli peace talks being pushed by President...