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Bedroom Taxes Leading To Mass Evictions!

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THE full effects of the coalition’s bedroom tax, which was introduced last April, have been highlighted in two reports published on Wednesday and revealed...

Putting The Trade Union Leaders To Shame

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SEVEN people were arrested at Prestwick Airport yesterday, after appointing themselves as ‘citizen weapons inspectors’, and forcing themselves onto a US cargo flight to...

103 years of the Balfour Declaration – British workers must fight to liberate...

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ON NOVEMBER 2nd 1917, during the first great imperialist war, the UK ruling class committed one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century...

Imperialists declare war on Libya – by permission of the Russian and Chinese...

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THE vote by the United Nations security council to impose and police a no-fly zone over Libya is a declaration of war by imperialism...

Johnson ditches Plan B – Time for working class to kick Tories out and...

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THE TORIES have pledged to dump all existing Covid restrictions in the next few weeks in England and ‘get life completely back to normal’. On...

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...

New Labour full of sleaze, hatred for claimants and arrogance

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THE real anti-working class face of the Blair, Labour government is becoming clearer and clearer every day, as the crisis of capitalism deepens. ...

Abbas Ready For Talks And A Deal With Netanyahu!

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PALESTINIAN Authority President, Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared his willingness to work with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, adding that he hoped to get...

Iraq crisis sharpens with no government, the trade unions banned and no electricity

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IRAQ casualties have risen sharply amidst the political vacuum following the inability of the various puppet pro-Shia or pro-Sunni parties, led by Maliki...

BRITAIN FACES A FASTER AND STEEPER DOWNTURN SAYS BofE CHAIR ANDREW BAILEY

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ON WEDNESDAY, the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, speaking at the European Central Bank’s annual policy forum, warned that soaring inflation...

Tories Consciously Undermining The Union!

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THE Tories this week pushed through parliament their plans for ‘English votes for English laws’ under which only English MPs would have the right...

Capitalism makes billions out of coronavirus – time to get rid of it!

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THE CAPITALIST contempt for the health and safety of workers in the pursuit of profit has been highlighted this week by the giant on-line...

Northern Rock sold at a loss as dictatorships rule in EU!

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NORTHERN Rock (NR) plc is being sold to Virgin Money by the coalition government for £747m. After Northern Rock was nationalised in 2008 it...

Blair backs Israel’s blitz on Lebanon

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PRIME Minister Blair made clear yesterday that the Labour government is not calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war on the Lebanon. Instead, Blair...

Low Paid UK By Permission Of The Tuc!

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THE coalition government has named 70 companies that won’t pay workers the minimum wage. Even the government says that the 100 cases in the care...

Keep The Military Out Of Schools

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THE BROWN government is now beating the big drum of patriotism, a quality that has often been termed as the ‘last refuge of a...

Gripped with crisis UK, US & French leaders abandon World Economic Forum

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THE ANNUAL get-together of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos has been hit by a number of notable absences...

Cameron Threatens Eu With Bringing Forward Referendum

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THE German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned EU leaders that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg’s ex-PM Jean-Claude...

Smash the Gate Gourmet ‘Gangster Capitalists’

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THIS Sunday locked out Gate Gourmet workers will be marching through Southall determined to win their jobs back after a bosses’ coup last...

New imperialist war being prepared in the Balkans!

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NATO yesterday confirmed that it will maintain its troop contingent in Kosovo to deter the violence that will follow the expected collapse of talks...

US workers bracing themselves for ‘fiscal cliff’

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THE US labour movement is now bracing itself for a last minute ‘deal’ on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ with the Republican Party, in which the...
TGWU full-time officer OLIVER RICHARDSON addressing the Gate Gourmet mass picket yesterday morning

Public sector pensions battle set to erupt

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THE working class continues to pay a massive price for its reformist trade union leadership. This is completely committed to supporting the capitalist...

Corbyn must dump ‘Remain’ and insist on socialist policies to win December 12th election!

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TUESDAY night’s vote in parliament calling a general election on December 12 revealed that the Labour Party is split from top to bottom. In the...

Gaza children face death from starvation – the UK trade unions must act to...

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has renewed its warning of an imminent humanitarian disaster in the enclave due to the...

Imperialist wars create millions of refugees

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David Cameron, was at his most nauseating, hypocritical best yesterday when he delivered a speech marking the 800-year anniversary of the signing of the...

US in political crisis as Biden faces growing calls to quit!

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A ‘PERVASIVE sense of fear and uncertainty’ hangs over the US Democratic party as 81-year-old president Joe Biden faces increasingly strident calls for him...

Barrett appointed to US Supreme Court in drive to declare a Trump defeat a...

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WITH JUST eight days to go before the US presidential election the right wing judge Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the American Supreme...

Starmer wants British boots on ground in Ukraine and to force workers to pay...

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IN ADVANCE of yesterday’s panic meeting of EU and UK leaders in Paris, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer announced that he is prepared to...

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...

‘A positive response’ says Bush on Iran

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US President George W Bush has welcomed Iran’s initial reaction to a proposal from the EU states designed to achieve a deal with...

Coalition Will Not Be Shifted Away From NHS Privatisation

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THE Coalition’s ‘blueprint’ for the privatisation of the NHS has suffered a set-back when it became clear last week that even supporters of privatisation...

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...

Hunt steps up war on NHS

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THE Tory drive against doctors and health workers throughout the NHS was reaffirmed last week when re-appointed health secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed that GPs...

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...

Tories abolish youth housing benefit! Resolve the housing crisis with a socialist...

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THE TORIES have stepped up their war on youth, pushing through legislation last Friday which strips all young unemployed people under the age of...

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...

Bank Of England Dumps The Pound To Make The Working Class Pay For The...

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THE Bank of England on Tuesday insisted that it was dumping the pound and would proceed with its decision to stop supporting the bond...

AMCU rejects corporatist agreement with SA bosses

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THE decision by the South African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) not to sign the Framework Agreement for a Sustainable Mining Industry...

TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defend the NHS

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TODAY junior doctors launch four days of strike action throughout the NHS in England over the demand for a 35% pay increase to make...

Lobby the trade union leaders to insist TUC calls a general strike to stop...

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ANY Israeli attempt to displace Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to Jordan will be considered a ‘declaration of war’, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman...

UK rulers return to war East of Suez will create conditions for their overthrow!

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PM MAY has just visited Jordan and is visiting Saudi Arabia to emphasise that the UK is, once again, trying to restore past...

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...

UK readying for war in the Gulf

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THE West’s escalation of its onslaught on Iran could see Britain sending military reinforcements to the Gulf shortly, following the passage of HMS Argyll...

As workers boil with anger Obama and Republicans vow ‘no deal’

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THE USA is set to hit its debt ceiling by 17 October, if the Houses of Congress are unable to agree a massive cuts...

Publish and be damned – not as far as the Chilcot report is concerned!

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FAMILIES of British soldiers killed in the Anglo-American March 2003 invasion, and then occupation, of Iraq, were yesterday threatening legal action against the chairman...