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Sack TUC traitors who collaborate with Tories and bosses – Build a new leadership...

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CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak opened his Budget speech on Wednesday with an appeal to ‘put aside party politics, and act in the national interest’ in...

Down with the EU – Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe

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A VERY senior US official, Michael Froman, has warned Britain against leaving the 28-nation European Union saying such a move would cost London economically. Froman...

Unite Leader Graham Condemns Lammy For Refusing To Support BA Striking Workers

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THE leader of the Unite trade union has hit back at comments by David Lammy MP, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, on Sunday, that he...

UK War Crimes

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LAST night’s BBC Panorama programme revealed yet more evidence of unlawful killings of Afghans by members of the Special Air Service (SAS) during the...

Quit the EU now – defend jobs, forward to socialism!

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A PROPOSED law giving PM Johnson’s government the power to reject parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU passed its first reading in...

16,000 Police Enforcers Hit London’s Streets

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A VAST force of police was mobilised for last night’s action against the masses of youth who have been showing just how much they...

It’s a sick society, not a ‘sick-note culture’ – as Cameron insults the unemployed

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A ‘UNIVERSAL Credit’ is to be introduced in 2013, to replace all existing benefits. Cameron’s Welfare Bill includes sanctions for those turning down jobs...

US imperialism ramps up attacks on Venezuela in order to effect regime change and...

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Last Saturday morning, US president Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he was closing down the airspace ‘above and surrounding Venezuela’...

Ferguson battle anticipates US revolution

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THE tactics weaponry and ammunition used in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, by the police and Missouri National Guard, have led to...

Vote Wrp – Keep The Tories Out– Forward To The Socialist Revolution

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100,000 trade unionists and youth marched in Athens yesterday against the EU-IMF savage cuts programme being carried out by the Papandreou ‘socialist’ government. Today millions...

Putin Frantically Looking For Imperialist Partners

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AT the St Petersburg Economic Forum, President Putin has revealed the basis for both his domestic and foreign policies. It is to seek to...

Tuc Must Call A General Strike Now To Support The Palestinian Masses By Bringing...

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THE United Nations says the ongoing Israeli war in Palestine has left the Gaza Strip ‘uninhabitable’ and that the destruction in the Palestinian territory...

TUC Congress must call a general strike to support the State of Palestine

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WHILE welcoming the limited ‘humanitarian pause’ in the Gaza war to allow the polio vaccination of young Gazan children by the World Health Organisation...

One year since the first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020!

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ON 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson outlined measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, with a series of stop-go lockdowns. Since then, of the major...

Unsafe schools set to collapse! Pupils and teachers are in danger as Tories smash...

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YESTERDAY’S Observer newspaper a champion of the rule of the British bosses and bankers, was forced to admit that it had been told by...

The developing capitalist crisis demands the organisation of the socialist revolution

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SHRINKING UK trade figures released yesterday of a decline of 0.1 per cent of GDP in May, following a 0.3 per cent fall in...

Johnson’s ‘Defiance’ Of The EU Will Not Fool Workers – He Voted For May’s...

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THE NEW Tory PM, Boris Johnson, now has a cabinet dominated by ‘Leavers’ after his massive clear-out of ‘Remainer’ ministers, following his victory in...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday on the picket line

Trade unions must strike to defend the NHS!

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TOMORROW Central Surrey Health (CSH), a private company set up by nurses and therapists, will find out whether they have won the £22m contract...

Army Leaks Anti-Iraq War Propaganda

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THE leaking of a Ministry of Defence poll commissioned by senior British army officers has acted as an antidote to the fatuous pro-war propaganda...

Oil giants make huge profits off backs of workers – nationalise the oil and...

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AS MILLIONS of families face massive increases in their energy bills when the Tories raise the cap on prices by 54% in April, the...

Derisory increase in minimum wage wiped out by inflation!

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APPROXIMATELY 2 million low paid workers will be covered by the increase in the national minimum wage that came into effect yesterday. Under this increase...

Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ comes a huge cropper!

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BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...

Nationalise The Motor Car Industry

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US and European car employers yesterday warned that ‘their’ industry faced wipeout, ‘victims’ of the slump in the motor car industry and the financial...

Trump And Netanyahu Meet Today!

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PRESIDENT Trump and the Israeli leader Netanyahu are set to meet in Washington today just as hundreds of US rabbis have signed an open...

US–UK organising Palestinian civil war

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THERE is no doubt that the US and UK ruling classes are hard at work seeking to organise a Palestinian civil war. The object is...

Blind leading the blind at BofE!

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A MONTH before the start of the 2007 financial crash, the Bank of England was completely unaware of the impending biggest disaster in the...

Zionist regime escalates genocide in Gaza City

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SINCE the Israeli regime’s war cabinet vote last week to occupy Gaza City and force the removal of its entire Palestinian population of one...

World crisis of capitalism dominates

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The world crisis of capitalism is asserting itself with a vengeance, defying every attempt by governments and the world financial system to bring it...

Carney fears wages and job losses driving workers to Marxism

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THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England Mark Carney is a very worried man. Giving him sleepless nights is the spectre of a working...

Answer Tory racist deportation offensive with a general strike!

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THE TORY policy of creating a ‘hostile environment’ for the Windrush Generation – the thousands of men, women and their children that came over...

Banks teeter on edge of collapse – Official

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THE European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of its latest stress tests carried out on 123 European banks on Sunday, results which showed...

US budget deal threatens working class

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ON Tuesday night, the chairs of the US House and Senate budget committee, Paul Ryan (Republican) and Patty Murray (Democrat), held a joint press...

Stop The Council Cuts – Bring Down The Coalition!

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COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...

US Secretary of State Kerry and Chief of Staff Dunford speak with Netanyahu

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THE US has reacted with fury to Russia’s ‘interference’ in the Middle East, that is, its invitation to President Assad to visit Moscow, and...

More fare rises! Re-nationalise the railways!

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YESTERDAY the main rail unions held a series of protests at rail stations which involved the handing out of postcards to commuters detailing the...

TUC – defend the junior doctors, call a general strike now!

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THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...

Defend the Tamil people! Unite the Sri Lankan workers! Bring down the Rajipakse...

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THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...

The working class will refuse to bail out the banks – only socialist ...

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LLOYDS Bank, Britain’s biggest high street lender, yesterday announced that its profits for the first half of 2020 had been wiped out and that...

UK Must Not Appoint New EU Commissioner – Time To Quit The EU Without...

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THE EU HAS begun its legal action against the UK to attempt to force it to either appoint a new UK EU Commissioner, or...

Lagarde admits crisis as deep as five years ago!

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IMF CHIEF Christine Lagarde opened her speech of last Monday in Washington with a dose of false optimism. She said: ‘Let me begin by saying...

Labour slashing 100,000 NHS jobs as recession drives war to make working class pay...

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YESTERDAY, the Guardian newspaper revealed that 100,000 jobs in the NHS could be wiped out because of the brutal cost-cutting regime imposed by Labour...

US Class Struggle Sharpens

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THE TWU Local 100, the New York transit union, is on strike and has picked up the gauntlet flung down by Mayor Bloomberg, the...

World Bank Report – capitalism  stands on brink of financial crash

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THE WORLD stands on the brink of a financial crash according to the latest biannual Global Economic Prospects report from the World Bank. This warns...

Israel extends Wall to grab Jerusalem

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THE Israeli Cabinet decided last Sunday to extend the route of the Zionists’ illegal ‘Security Wall’ to grab a large chunk of Palestinian East...

British troops in Afghanistan were ‘out of control’ and ‘feral’

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THE CASE of Alexander Blackman (the former marine sergeant sentenced to life imprisonment in 2013 for the murder of a wounded Afghan fighter) has...