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Bush’s ‘Defining Hour’ Or When The Bell Tolls For Imperialism

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BUSH opened his 2007 State of the Union speech with an open admission that his regime is facing defeat both at home and abroad....

US bosses handed $1.5 trillion by Trump – Forward to the US socialist revolution!

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THE US Senate has approved by 51 votes to 48 a measure slashing the taxes of the rich and the major banks and companies...

Hunt left in place to spearhead NHS Privatisation!

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ANYONE naive enough to believe for one second the promise made by the new Tory leader that dumping former chancellor George Osborne and replacing...

UK economy speeds into bankruptcy – demand TUC call a general strike to kick...

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THE SPEED of the UK economy crashing into complete bankruptcy is breathtaking, as it leaves the Tory government along with the Bank of England...

Union leaders offer to save capitalism

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BORIS JOHNSON’S address to the nation on Sunday night about ‘relaxing’ the lockdown rules has been widely criticised by the leaders of the Labour...

Right Sector Leader Advising The Military

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THIS week all pretence that the illegal regime, that took power in an imperialist-inspired and financed coup last year, rests on ‘popular democratic’ support,...

Victory to Syria! Defeat imperialist war drive with world socialist revolution!

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THE DEATHS of dozens of civilians including young children in Syrian town Khan Sheikhoun has been seized on by imperialism as a weapon to...

Miliband adopts Osborne’s programme to smash Welfare State!

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband’s speech on the party’s economic strategy showed conclusively that the Labour Party leaders are prepared to completely destroy the Welfare...

Work Till You Drop – the Tories’ plan for a ‘sustainable’ capitalism

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THE DRIVE to raise the state pension age (SPA) even higher has stepped up with the issue of two separate reports which call for...

Build The Revolutionary Leadership Amongst Youth And Workers Worldwide

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THE development of the world capitalist crisis is now affecting every section of the working class and the poor in every part of the...

Pensions crisis will revolutionise millions

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‘THERE is no obligation on the part of employers to provide pensions’, said the National Association of Pension Funds yesterday. This was its response to...

Obama tries to put a sticking plaster over the gaping wounds of US capitalism

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US President Barack Obama has hailed the deal reached with the Republican Party to avert a ‘fiscal cliff’ of huge tax rises and spending...

Iraqis Hail The Shoe Thrower As Their Hero

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YESTERDAY Iraqis of all of the different sects and persuasions were united and marching and demonstrating in Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Kerbala, Tikrit, Fallujah, Mosul...

NATO under the hammer – as Tories refuse to serve in Kandahar

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THE surge organised by President Obama and General Petraeus in Afghanistan has been turned into its opposite by the Taleban. The Taleban have now organised...

Junior doctors and student nurses lead the way Now call a general strike!

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THE decision by the BMA on Monday to walk away from the negotiations over the imposition of new contracts for junior doctors and to...

Workers Must Take Action To Permanently Prorogue Parliament And Bring In Socialism!

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NEXT Tuesday the Supreme Court is to hear the government’s appeal against last Tuesday’s verdict of Scotland’s highest civil court that PM Johnson’s proroguing...

White House interns demand Biden calls a permanent ceasefire in Gaza!

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AS ISRAEL ramps up its war efforts to slaughter even more Palestinians in southern Gaza, in the US a group of White House interns...

After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!

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PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...

China has beaten coronavirus while Tories will allow 60% of the population to be...

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CHINA’S Wuhan province reported a zero increase in new coronavirus infections last week. China has beaten the virus and with no new cases, their...

Labour government rotting from within – time for a general strike to bring it...

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THE SHOCK resignation of MP Rosie Duffield from the Labour Party has revealed the bankruptcy of the Keir Starmer regime that is literally rotting...

Turkey Poised To Invade Northern Iraq

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THE Turkish army is poised to invade northern Iraq in order to respond to PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) attacks on its troops, which...

Lilliputian Smith, the would-be great dictator!

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LABOUR right winger Owen Smith, in his desire to satisfy the big bosses and the bankers, is going even further than the Tories after...

TUC leaders condemn Autumn Statement but refuse to take any action!

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THE TUC leaders are unanimous in their condemnation of the latest Tory autumn statement, but yet again refuse to call any action to bring...

Obama Puts British Imperialism In Its Place

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WITH more than 100 million gallons of oil already freed to spew all over the US Gulf coast, the ‘special relationship’ between the US...

This is how NATO is defending civilians in Libya

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ON Saturday, the Red Cross visited Sirte, which has been under intense bombardment and shelling from NATO planes and ships, and by NATO’s ground...

Capitalism is dead in the water!

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ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...

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...

Bourgeois Lunacy At Rbs

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YESTERDAY the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history of £24.1bn, made up of a £7.9bn trading...

Unions must call general strikes to support Gaza and end imperialist war drive

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ON MONDAY, Israeli warplanes bombed the Iranian consulate, which is situated next to the embassy building in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing seven Iranian...

Zionists’ murderous onslaught on Palestinians – UK unions must act now!

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A ONE-day strike was called yesterday by Palestinians in the city of Jenin following the murder of two Palestinians by Israeli troops in a...

Workers have the right to self defence against terrorism & capitalism

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SIX hundred new armed officers are being  trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring  the...

Hammond and Carney in ‘war games’

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THE Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, and the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, were forced to sit a test...

UAE & Israel ‘normalise’ relations! The UK must NOW recognise the Palestinian state with...

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US PRESIDENT Trump announced on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel will ‘normalise’ relations. UAE is the first Arab nation to...

PLO chief warns Trump don’t move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem!

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AS WE approach the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration in which British imperialism pledged to hand over somebody else’s country to conquest and...

Academies hoard £2.5 billion

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ACADEMY schools in England are sitting on a vast hoard of cash estimated to be nearly £2.5 billion, or more than £550,000 per school. Money...

NHS not living with Covid but dying from it

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‘THE GOVERNMENT must be honest about the threat the pandemic still poses,’ the editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Health Service Journal...

Turn the massive marches for Palestine into Socialist revolutions to smash capitalism!

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SOUTH Africa’s Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, stood firm yesterday outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, maintaining that Israel has...

British Ruling Class Is Split – Forward With The British Socialist Revolution!

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THE FACT that a section of the capitalist state leaked the UK ambassador Darroch’s damning estimation of the abilities of President Trump and his...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers in high spirits welcomed Father Christmas at their mass picket yesterday

Public sector unions must take strike action over pensions

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THE Fire Brigades Union said yesterday that it will consider industrial action over government plans to ‘reform’ its members’ pensions by dramatically extending the...

Ireland, Spain and Norway have opened floodgates in recognising the state of Palestine –...

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THE unity of western governments over previous unconditional support for the state of Israel and its illegal occupation of Palestine was blown apart yesterday...

Labour must condemn any secret talks with the Tories and mobilise to bring them...

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‘I GOT us into this mess, and I will get us out of it’ PM May told the massed ranks of Tory backbenchers at...

Capitalism diving into world recession – forward to world socialist revolution!

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AT MIDNIGHT on Thursday the US tariff war on the rest of the world erupted as Donald Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ levies on imports from foreign...

British capitalism is in its death agony – working class must put it out...

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TORY Prime Minister, Liz Truss, unveiled her package of measures to deal with the cost-of-living crisis yesterday. Her ‘bold’ new plan was nothing more...

Victory to the South African socialist revolution!

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Public sector unions in South Africa, supported by the whole of the working class, are in conflict with the ANC government over a decent...

Thousands of jobs threatened at Bridgend, Luton and Ellesmere Port!

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YESTERDAY Unite leader McCluskey was at the Bridgend plant in south Wales to address the three shifts of workers at separate meetings on the...