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Peace Talks Begin With Attack On Ramallah Demonstrators

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THE Palestinian Israeli ‘peace talks’, officially began on Monday but actually the process began on the Sunday in Ramallah when Palestinian police ...

Labour Slashes Welfare Benefits To Make The Poorest Pay For The Capitalist Crisis!

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LABOUR CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves made further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement yesterday. The government announced big welfare spending reductions...

American Terrorists Launch Murderous Attack On Syria

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SYRIA has protested angrily to both the US and Iraq after a terror raid by four US helicopters inside its territory killed eight Syrian...

Britain Is Aiding US Torture Machine

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer questions yesterday as to whether the United States government operates CIA secret prisons outside of...

Vote WRP, restore free state education, and abolish student fees

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AN official review into government funding of universities led by Lord Browne, the former chief executive of BP, will not be published until after...

Sinn Féin Dumps Socialism

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IRISH capitalism, its banks and industries have been entirely bankrupted, and what national sovereignty the country had has also been destroyed, after the...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside their  caravan at Heathrow yesterday

Pakistan PM forced to condemn US raid

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THE Pakistani Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, yesterday spelt out that Pakistan cannot accept actions like the recent US cross-border air strike on a village...

Declare the Palestinian state!

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LAST Tuesday night it was confirmed by the United States that its much-vaunted ‘peace’ initiative over Palestine had collapsed. The State Department was forced to...

UNISON condemns Blair for breaking NHS promise

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UNISON Head of Health, Karen Jennings, has condemned Labour government plans to allow private treatment centres to poach NHS staff, breaking a Labour government...

Labour Champions The State Against Parliament

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THE fact that the Home Secretary maintained in the House of Commons yesterday that she had not known Tory MP Damian Green was to...

Miliband supports Tory NHS plans – forward to the general strike

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ON Monday, the Tory Health Minister, Andrew Lansley, was forced to declare a ‘pause’ in the coalition government’s drive to privatise and smash up...

Eurozone meltdown!

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THE European Central Bank (ECB) monthly policy meeting took place in Naples last Thursday under riot conditions. While Europe’s financial movers and shakers met in...

Abolish student fees restore free state education

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THE Labour-supporting leaders of the National Union of Students (NUS) have been forced into a position where they have had to call for ‘heads...

Stop The Bosses Plan To Smash Trade Unions – Recall The Tuc To...

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PM Sunak yesterday accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of causing ‘misery for millions’ with the ‘cruelly timed’ pay rise walk-outs by rail workers. He...

Words Are Not Enough! The TUC Must Take Action To Prevent Workers Being Driven...

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WITH 21 TORY MPS having the whip removed from them, now being joined by more Tory defectors like Amber Rudd, and while Labour makes...

Wages still being slashed by price rises!

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THE CPI rate of inflation fell to 1.5% in the year to May 2014, down from 1.8% in April, according to the Office of...

Workers’ May Day marches throughout Europe against EU!

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MAY DAY marches throughout the EU were full of explosive class tensions reflecting the battle that workers are waging to defend their living standards and...

Just What The Doctor Ordered!

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EARLY yesterday morning 21 people were arrested and charged under the various terrorism acts, while Scotland Yard said that the 21 were engaged in...

Palestinian Consensus Government meets – Forward to the sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as...

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THE Palestinian National Consensus Government held its first meeting in three years in Gaza yesterday, a day after arriving in the besieged Gaza Strip...

Ex-Bank of England boss believes world financial crash is ‘certain’ and ‘sooner rather than...

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MERVYN KING, the head of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, has added his name to the number of the capitalist world’s...

Right Wingers Provoking Labour Split

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UNITE leader Len McCluskey has issued a statement refuting the claims that Jeremy Corbyn was responsible for Tom Watson’s ending the union-led efforts to...

3.1 million children living below poverty line – the TUC advocates doing absolutely nothing!

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This is a treacherous abdication of all responsibility by the trade union leaders for this crisis of poverty. They have not lifted a single...

Rout The Tories With A General Strike – Forward To A Workers Government!

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THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Tories, headed by Cameron, Osborne and Hunt, have picked their quarrel with the junior doctors. It is...

Starmer prepares for reactionary coalition to impose capitalist crisis on workers – Socialist revolution...

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THE MELTDOWN in the Tory vote in last Thursday’s local elections has sent a massive wave of despair throughout Tory MPs and the Tory-supporting...

War on the unemployed – bring down the coalition

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THE news this weekend that the private companies are bidding for 40 new welfare contracts represents another stage in the Tory-LibDem coalition’s relentless drive...

Smash British-Pakistani torture chain

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AMNESTY International yesterday called for the new government of Pakistan to provide information about the hundreds of people held in the country’s ‘war on...

General Strike To Smash Fees And Bring Down The Coalition

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TENS of thousands of students and youth are marching today in central London to denounce the tripling of tuition fees to £9,000, and to...

Starmer pledges Labour to super-austerity to rescue capitalism

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer delivered a speech in Stratford, east London yesterday setting out Labour’s ‘vision’ for the country under any future Labour government. His...

Revolution Throughout Europe!

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WITH the EU’s bankers and bosses spurring him on, Greece’s ‘socialist’ leader, Papandreou, has vowed to tackle the country’s economic crisis and impose the...

Forward To The General Strike And A Workers Government!

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THE Daily Telegraph newspaper used its front page yesterday to kickstart a campaign for the police to enforce the Labour government’s latest terror laws...

Don’t let Cameron bomb Syria – Forward to the victory of Syria and the...

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THE capitalist media and its Tory masters are working around the clock to drum up a majority for Cameron, made up of Tories and...
Members of the CGT, France’s largest trade union federation, arrive at Place d’Italie at the end of Tuesday’s demonstration

Blair threatens to ‘close the book’ on the north

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THE British and Irish premiers yesterday outlined their plan to restore direct rule from Westminster, via Dublin, if the Paisleyite DUP does not agree...

Commuters Demand Bring Back British Rail

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THE announcement this week that the coalition government has sanctioned an inflation busting 4.1% increase in rail fares across England has thrown the spotlight...

Russia responds to NATO moving eastwards

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A RUSSIAN foreign ministry statement issued on Tuesday evening said: ‘If a US strategic anti-missile shield starts to be deployed near our borders, we...

Corbyn stabs Brexit in the back for the benefit of the bosses and...

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LABOUR leader Corbyn, in his response to PM May’s Monday update to the House of Commons ahead of this week’s European Council, made it...

Tories rejected scientific advice in order to keep capitalism open at all costs

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TORY science minister George Freeman admitted yesterday that the government had rejected the advice of its own experts at SAGE over restrictions designed to...

The only way to ‘fix’ the care system crisis is to ‘fix’ capitalism with...

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TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday unveiled his strategy for ‘fixing’ the country’s ‘broken social care system’. Central to his plan is to increase National Insurance...

£65bn PFI Nightmare for the NHS!

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THE PFI Private Finance Initiative was brought in by the Major Tory government, and while it was opposed by Labour in opposition, it was...

Recall the TUC Congress now to sack the TUC leaders for their refusal to...

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LAST month, the TUC unanimously passed an emergency motion headed: ‘Stop the escalation of war in the Middle East’ and committed the TUC ‘to...

Revolutionary crisis shaking regimes all over Europe

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GERMAN Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy on Saturday decreed that the preservation of the euro required a 70bn euro currency reserve fund and...

Forward to the socialist revolution – not the two-day week

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IT IS now accepted that the capitalist system is in its greatest crisis ever, bigger than the crisis created by the First World War,...

Fortress Israel, armed by the USA, brings in new anti-Palestinian laws and cuts West...

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THE US and Israel have been engaged in intense negotiations for many months to outline America’s military aid to Israel for the next decade. Washington...

Chaos reigns as Tory Chancellor gets instructions from IMF and advice from Strictly Come...

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has delivered a thinly veiled instruction to the Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, to scrap his autumn budget statement due...

Al-Aqsa Mosque a ‘flashpoint’ in the fight to end Israeli occupation of Palestine

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THE ISRAELI refusal to remove metal detectors from the outside of the Jerusalem compound which contains the al-Aqsa Mosque is fast becoming a flashpoint...

Scabby TUC says it’s powerless and agrees a consensus with Heseltine

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AT THE last TUC Congress its leaders were forced by the anger of delegates to accept and agree a resolution that the TUC was...