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British capitalism is preparing for war with Russia – its war drive must be...

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AS IS now well known, the British ruling class is forever beating the war drums against Russia, and is desperately encouraging the Ukrainian regime...

No ‘windfall tax’ – nationalise the energy companies

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TORY ministers are in a state of despair over the complete inability of the Johnson government to come up with any measures to ‘help’...

London Is Now A No-Go Area According To The Met Police!

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IN advance of today’s mass demonstrations in support of Palestine, the Tories have launched a campaign to crack down on all opposition to the...

May Called And Lost ‘Snap Election’ – Now Drive Her Out Of Office!

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THE Tory Party has now suffered its second self-inflicted disaster in just under a year. On June 23 2016, it lost the EU referendum that...

Tories Are Behaving Like Rats Caught In A Trap Of Their Own Making!

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PM MAY, having suffered her third defeat  in the House of Commons over her Brexit deal with the EU is now completely disorientated, while...

Stock market crash – Only socialist revolution can end the carnage!

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ON MONDAY the Wall Street stock market crashed with the Dow Jones Index, which follows the fortunes of 30 large US companies on a...

British Ruling Class To Send Depleted Uranium Shells To The Ukraine!

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THE UK government is sending depleted uranium shells for use in the Challenger 2 tanks gifted to Ukraine, a move CND has condemned as...

Blair’s great pensions robbery

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LABOUR’S ‘pensions revolution’ is a major attack on the working class, the elderly and the youth. The origin of the ‘revolution’ is not that the...

Nato Meets Behind Steel Barriers, Under No Fly Zone!

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THE NATO warlords are meeting in Newport today. That they are not the most popular people on the planet is proven by the...

WORKERS MUST FORCE THE RECALL OF THE TUC TO CALL A GENERAL STRIKE TO...

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THE Metropolitan Police arrested two pro-Palestine protesters for shouting ‘Globalise the Intifada’ at a peaceful demonstration outside the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday night,...

Answer jobs massacre at Vauxhall with occupations and a general strike

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AFTER weeks of speculation it was finally confirmed yesterday that the giant but bankrupt General Motors was pulling out of Europe, selling off its...

Privatisation drive created Mid-Staffs NHS carnage

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RELATIVES of some of the 400 plus patients who died at the Mid-Staffs NHS Trust were unanimous yesterday about the official, just published report,...

Time For Action To Smash The Health Bill!

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DOCTOR Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), has admitted that despite every attempt to co-operate with the coalition government,...

US workers must form a Labour Party

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THE Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, and now controls both Houses of Congress, turning the final...

Osborne to intensify Tory slave labour drive

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LONG-TERM unemployed workers and youth will have to undertake work for no pay in return for their benefits, or else starve, with the government...

Youth &workers need British socialist revolution as they bear the brunt of the UK...

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YOUNG people are bearing the brunt of the jobs crisis. Under 35s accounted for 80% of the 811,000 payroll jobs lost in the UK...

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...

Labour demands students foot the bill to bail out bankrupt universities

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ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means...

The world capitalist crisis rattles bourgeois intellectuals as the working class turns against the...

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IT is a fact that at times of acute economic crisis in the world capitalist system the minds of bourgeois economists and commentators are...

Coalition Aiming To Cut The Mentally Ill!

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THE government is planning to strip mentally ill people of their state benefits if they do not agree to undergo treatment for anxiety and...
Brian Haw holding the photograph of an infant victim of the continuing war in Afghanistan – the baby was one of triplets

Iraq – Time For Britain To Cut And Run

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SATURDAY’S engagement in Basra was a serious one for British imperialism. One Lynx helicopter was lost, shot down by a Strella missile and five British...

Gadaffi In Tripoli – Hague In Disarray!

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WHILE Cameron is in Kuwait seeking to sell more rubber bullets, poison gas and a variety of war machines to the British-trained Gulf monarchies,...

Massive increases in US military spending as US bosses look to war to...

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US IMPERIALISM is currently stoking up a war crisis from Ukraine to the China Seas as it seeks a way out of its economic...

Ferguson erupts as police killer goes free

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THE US town of Ferguson, Missouri erupted yesterday after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against a white policeman, Darren Wilson, ...

Defend Russia And China By Completing World Socialist Revolution!

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RUSSIA has begun its largest military manoeuvres in four decades in eastern Siberia, with thousands of troops from China and Mongolia also taking part. The...

Smash capitalism to end hire and fire at will and poverty pay

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WHAT kind of future capitalism has in store for the entire working class was forcibly brought home this week – a future where workers...

The US and UK are making war on asylum seekers! Workers trade unions...

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THE Biden administration has imprisoned tens of thousands of asylum seekers in US prisons where they suffer lengthy detention, severe physical and psychological harm...

Fight Tory class war programme – bring down the Coalition!

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OSBORNE began his spending review speech yesterday by saying that: ‘Today’s the day when Britain steps back from the brink’. In fact, his speech represented...

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...

Students Will Fight For A Future

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UP to 100,000 students marched through London yesterday to protest against £9,000-a-year tuition fees, and the way that the Tory-LibDem coalition is turning back...

Second Unite ‘Pause For Peace’ Equals Surrender Attempt!

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THE Unite trade union leaders have declared their second ‘Pause for Peace’ in less than a week, in two fiercely fought industrial disputes –...

Myanmar working class intervene with powerful general strike to bring down Military Junta!

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MYANMAR (formerly called Burma) was brought to a halt yesterday as hundreds of thousands of workers and youth answered the call for a general...

Consultants, Junior Doctors and rail workers are in struggle. TUC must call a general...

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THE Junior Doctors and Consultants in England, faced with a ruling class that is determined to destroy the NHS, have joined forces and will...

Tories rip up workers health and safety as their bankrupt economy disintegrates!

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TORY CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak did the rounds of press interviews yesterday preparing the way for today’s reopening of non-essential shops and businesses and he...

Afghan Airport blasts kill 90 including 13 US troops! Imperialism’s historic defeat must spur...

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THE US and UK’s military and political defeat in Afghanistan has laid bare the crisis of imperialism for the workers of the world to...

Federal Reserve opts for debt mountain and to crash the $

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FOLLOWING the decision of the US federal Reserve Bank to reduce its interest rate by 0.5 per cent, double the expected 0.25 per cent...

Minimum 3-month wait for operations! NHS must be defended with a general strike!

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PATIENTS suffering from serious conditions, requiring hip or knee replacements, hernias repaired and cataracts removed, all considered ‘non-urgent surgery’, have been told that they...

As Israel steps up its genocidal war the TUC must be forced to call...

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THOUSANDS rallied outside Parliament on Monday night in a powerful demonstration of solidarity with Palestine that directly reflects the support of the overwhelming mass...

Re-nationalise the water companies

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The Guardian paper has published an exclusive report that revealed that Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water company, diverted cash meant to clean up...

Trade union bureaucrats put two fingers up to May Day

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TRUE to form, the voice of the trade union bureaucracy, the Stalinist Morning Star counted tens of thousands of marchers on the TUC’s May...

Human Rights Watch Denounces Israeli Apartheid Crimes!

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AN international leading human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Israeli authorities in a 213-page report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed:...

Fatah junta seizes control of the West Bank

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YESTERDAY President Abbas decreed the ending of parliamentary rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as he appointed an illegal government headed...

Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads

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ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...

Defend NHS health care – stop the NHS becoming a business

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‘ONE million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report,’ screamed the capitalist press...

Hamas Insists That Israel Must Agree To A Permanent Ceasefire!

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Hamas says it has submitted its response to a US-backed plan for a ceasefire in Gaza, with a senior official telling the BBC that...