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UN Condemns Eu Over Mass Murder In The Med!

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THE UN refugee agency has said once again that not enough is being done to save the lives of the tens of thousands of...

Sunak ‘deal’ dumps Brexit – now is time for working class to dump the...

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ON MONDAY night, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen announced that, after a high level meeting, Britain...

UNISON must act to secure British withdrawal from Iraq

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DELEGATES at the UNISON national delegate conference last Thursday passed a motion demanding the withdrawal of all British troops from Iraq by the end...

Record Breaking Slump Will Lead To Socialist Revolution In The UK!

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BRITISH capitalism is officially in recession as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday. In just three months, the UK economy shrank at a...

US at centre of world capitalist collapses

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‘THERE is a real sense in markets today of the economy falling off a cliff.’ That was the verdict of Michael Saunders, the chief...

Italian workers show the way with massive strikes in support of Gaza – demand...

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HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth took  action throughout Italy on Monday after Italian  trade unions called a nationwide strike in support of Palestinians in Gaza and...

Join lobby of TUC to demand it calls strike action to end the Zionist...

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted with fury yesterday following the announcement on Monday that the Labour government was suspending some arms sales to...

With Hamas’ victory over Israel UK police stage crackdown on support for Palestine!

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APPROXIMATELY 77 arrests were made by the police in a concerted attack by the British state and the Labour government on the 100,000-strong rally...

World’s Stock Markets Set For Financial Crash!

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IT was reported yesterday that a survey of the top professional ‘money managers’ revealed that these investment experts believe that the world’s leading stock...

Right wing Labour tosses its bomb into the Labour Party conference!

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RIGHT WING Labour threw its bomb into the Labour Party conference yesterday when it penned an open letter suggesting that the UK should remain...

It is the tyranny of the minority that must be ended through socialist...

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THE ‘tyranny of the majority’ should not dictate exit from the EU, former Tory PM John Major said yesterday, in remarks that have sparked...

Trump’s trade war with EU & UK accelerates as US seeks to bankrupt its...

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THIS WEEK at the World Economic Forum in Davos, US president Donald Trump reignited his trade war with Britain and Europe. On Wednesday Trump vowed...

Woodley tells Blair to quit – Simpson urges policy change

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MAY DAY saw thousands of workers, among them Peugeot motor car workers, hospital workers facing the threat of redundancy, locked out Gate Gourmet workers,...

Pensioners being lined up for Tory austerity attack

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A NEW report by The Resolution Foundation think-tank on pensions and pensioners is nothing more than a clarion call for pensions to be cut...

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...

Chilcott Inquiry Findings Must Be Published At Once!

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THIS week the chairman of the influential Public Administration Committee urged ministers to ‘sort out’ the delay in publishing the official inquiry into the...

Future of steel depends on the Tories, says McCluskey

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YESTERDAY, venture capitalists Greybull Capital, who purchased Tata’s steel works in Scunthorpe for £1, launched ‘British Steel’, hoping with the renaming, to...

Care Homes Crisis

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FOUR Seasons Health Care, the largest provider of care homers for the elderly in Britain, has announced that it is going bust, losing £26...

CWU leaders embrace privatisation!

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A BALLOT of CWU members announced this week showed a vote of 94% in favour of a ‘legally binding contract’ between the leadership of...

What A Difference The War Drive Against Russia Makes For Ukrainian Refugees!

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THE Tory government is offering all households in the UK £350 a month to take in people fleeing the war in the Ukraine. Housing...

Global debt crisis threatens to bring down governments, the Bank for International Settlements warns....

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THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week issued a warning that governments across the world are at risk of imploding unless they deal...

A bankers budget from a bankers government

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DESPITE all the government statements against leaking government information before it is to go before the House of Commons, the Treasury was at it...

Disband the police force now – forward to a workers state and socialism

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DAVID Carrick, a serving Metropolitan Police officer, admitted 49 offences in court on Monday, pleading guilty to 24 rape charges, and false imprisonments, and...

Only re-nationalisation of energy industry under socialism can prevent fuel poverty

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BRITISH capitalism in the 21st century cannot guarantee even the most basic pre-requisites for life if you are not wealthy. This is the stark message...

Stop Cameron’s counter-revolution at home and abroad!

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CAMERON told the House of Commons on Monday afternoon in his statement on national security strategy that: ‘On Thursday I will make the case for Britain...

Renationalise gas and electricity to deal with massive price rises

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YESTERDAY British Gas raised its gas and electricity prices by a massive 22 per cent, on top of a 14 per cent mark-up imposed...

US Senate agrees $1.2tn ‘coronavirus stimulus’ – US and world capitalism heading for an...

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THE US Senate finally agreed on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. This huge sum was in fact just half of what Biden wanted –...

Bush fails to get Iraqi puppets to agree ‘constitution’

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OVER the weekend, President Bush made personal phone calls to both the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in...

Lebanese and Palestinian masses stand fast

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THE bravery and determination of the Palestinian and Lebanese people in standing fast against the Israeli military murder machine has thrown not just the...

British workers require socialism not circuses!

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FOR the second day running the bourgeois media have been dominated by the Olympic opening extravaganza organised brilliantly by Danny Boyle, who used and...

World crisis lays waste Putin’s oligarchs!

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HISTORY has played a huge joke on the Stalinist bureaucracy. Under the rule of Gorbachev and Yeltsin it thought that it would be able to...

Corbyn Called A ‘Stalinist’ As Labour Right Wing Plots For A Second Referendum

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LABOUR leader Corbyn has been accused of organising a ‘Stalinist purge’ after he sacked ex-leadership contender and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Smith on...

Racist laws must be smashed!

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The uprising at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow has badly shaken the crisis-ridden, reactionary Blair government. It began last Tuesday night and continued into Wednesday,...

Defend The NHS, The Fire Service & The Welfare State By Bringing Down The...

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THE response of the Tory-LibDem government to the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system has been to try to force the working class,...

Get British troops out of Iraq now!

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair told troops in Basra on Thursday: ‘We want to draw down our forces. We don’t want to keep people here...

Blair’s police state demonising Muslims

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ABU Bakr, the 27 year old English teacher, and one of the nine Muslim men arrested by the police, and put under the media...

CWU Reps demand action while the leaders equivocate

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THE two-day national meeting of postal workers representatives at the union’s Policy Forum this week demonstrated that CWU members have gone way beyond their...

Care Home Big Five Demand A State Subsidy!

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THE National Living Wage could result in a ‘catastrophic collapse’ in the number of care homes, according to the five biggest private providers, Four...

Demands ramped up for Labour to slash pensions, benefits and NHS spending to rescue...

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THE DEMANDS for the Labour government to slash all government spending on welfare is reaching a crescendo in the run-up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’...

‘At war’ Obama speaks about taking difficult decisions

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PRESIDENT Obama’s inaugural address was Churchillian in tone, but lacking in concrete content, limiting itself to spelling out that the US ruling class was...

The world must act to defend Palestinians

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YESTERDAY morning Israel announced that all the crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel were closed. Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak...

Government plans to smash up health and safety laws

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THE Tory-led coalition is pushing full steam ahead with its plans to completely smash up the health and safety legislation and leave hundreds of...

Clinton threatens ‘catastrophic assault’ on the Syrian state!

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THE ‘Friends of Syria’ meeting in Paris on Friday saw the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, frantically beating the war drums against Syria,...

Biden keeps US embassy in Jerusalem! He is continuing where Trump left off! US...

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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden will keep the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem, his nominee for Secretary of State Antony Blinken affirmed at his...

Sunak demands police crack down on all opposition to Zionist genocide.

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has summoned the country’s police chiefs to tell them they must use all the existing and wide-ranging police powers...