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Hamas calls on all states to follow Colombia’s example and sever all relations with...

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HAMAS has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the failure to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, following two days of talks in...

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...

UK police state spying on MPs is legal says IPT!

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NOTHING is being allowed to halt or even get in the way of the all-powerful GCHQ spy machine that has been long established as...

Ferguson Masses Begin To Disband The Police!

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AFTER the announcement of the resignation of the chief of police in Ferguson, St Louis, an evening and midnight demonstration and celebration outside the...

US debt deal increases economic crisis and puts the US on the road to...

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THE National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare says the following about Obama’s debt deal that savages the poor and leaves the rich...

Tory Party in meltdown – force TUC to call a general strike to kick...

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TO DESCRIBE the forced decision by Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to abandon his plans to end the 45% top rate of income tax to...

May Appeals To The People As The Eu Insists There Can Be No...

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A DESPERATE Prime Minister May has written a letter to the nation asking the people of the UK for their support to pressurise a...

Bankers dump the dollar and shares and crave for gold!

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THE current heir to the Rothschild banking dynasty, Lord Jacob Rothschild, has pronounced that the game is up, the world’s central banks have shot...

TUC Leaders Waste Time Writing To Truss For ‘A Cast-Iron Assurance’!

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YESTERDAY’S capitalist press was full of dire warnings of the massive increases in taxation that the Truss government is planning, and with it the...

Troika poised to show Greece the door

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GREEK PM Antonis Samaras is meeting the organisation of Greece’s international creditors, the Troika (IMF, EU, ECB), to try to persuade it to give...

Hamas warns that Israel is stepping up its massacres in order to isolate the...

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THE Hamas Movement has described what is happening in northern Gaza and Jabalia as a ‘full-fledged genocide’, expressing its belief that the Israeli ‘Generals’...

Capitalist state uses ‘guilt by association’ to attack youth

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A REPORT by Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre For Crime and Justice Studies published last week focuses on the way police and prosecutors collude to...

No ‘trade-off’ for the NHS: Kick out the Tories instead!

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THE HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stevens, yesterday released the report ‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’, a report that makes...

Oil Heading For $200 A Barrel

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OIL reached a new record price above 120 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, with New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for...

EU leaders took one minute to agree measures to discipline British workers!

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THE leaders of the EU took just one minute of discussion last Saturday to agree on imposing measures designed to beat the Tory government...

Banking Crisis Heading For The Precipice!

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THE INABILITY of the US economy to recover from its jobs slump, alongside the colossal indebtedness of the EU banks – German, Italian, French...

The Bank of England is set to embark on a series of interest rate...

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THE UK has ‘no alternative’ but to hike interest rates in a bid to make borrowing much more expensive to try to slow down...

New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity

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FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...

Scourge of privatisation opens the NHS up to fraud!

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ACCORDING to the BBC Panorama programme, broadcast last night, the NHS is being defrauded of £5 billion a year, a massive loss to a...

Railworkers Are Fighting For All Workers! TUC Must Be Made To Call General Strike

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has responded to the rocketing inflation rate. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: ‘Inflation reaching...

Labour-Tory Race To The Right!

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TEACHERS will have to be re-licensed every few years or face the sack under a future Labour government. This is the just unveilled position of...

Tories move to scrap defence cuts and prepare for war!

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ON Monday, the Chief of the UK General Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, said in his speech at the Royal United Services Institute, a...

Obama recognises the limits of US power

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PRESIDENT Obama yesterday gave the go-ahead for a massive attack on the Afghan people in which tens of thousands of men, women and children...

Unemployment, Slump, And Savage Cuts Driving Revolution Throughout Europe!

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THE Office for National Statistics said yesterday that UK unemployment rose by 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December,...

Chancellor Brown To Scrap Pensions Deal

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EX-CBI bosses leader Lord Turner’s report into the future of pensions – commissioned by the Blair government – is due to be published on...

BA Cabin Crew strikers need a strategy to win – demand Unite bring out...

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TODAY BA mixed fleet cabin crew start another round of four days of strike action against poverty level wages that has meant them relying...

TORIES FACE WIPE OUT – WHILE LABOUR MPs PLAN EU ELECTIONS COUP!

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WITH THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS fast approaching, the bourgeois democratic system through which the capitalist ruling class has ruled over the working class in the...

May threatens internment, more secret police powers, plus Syrian intervention to fight terror!

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ON SUNDAY morning, not long after the latest terrorist attack, PM May, in her statement following the Cobra Security Committee meeting, expressed her indignation...

Starmer’s Labour declares war on refugees!

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ON Wednesday, Labour prime minister, and former human rights lawyer, Keir Starmer declared that the Labour government is preparing for a war on asylum...

Unite and the major trade unions must defend jobs with occupations and a general...

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THE UK government is considering intervening in large UK companies through ‘Project Birch’ to ‘save’ the firms that are going bust by more government...

No bailout of capitalism – expropriate the main industries and banks!

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YESTERDAY the UK’s three biggest airlines launched legal proceedings in a bid to overturn the government’s new quarantine rules that require air passengers from...

The Bully State and forced labour is to replace the Welfare State

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TWO hundred thousand young people aged between 16 and 18, 11 per cent of that total age group, who are unemployed with no...

Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears

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AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...

Bankers’ bonuses are a diversion

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The headline news throughout the bourgeois media yesterday was that Stephen Hester, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had magnanimously bowed to...

Labour marshalling its strikebreakers

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THE capitalist state has had to admit that its war on two fronts means that it cannot rely on the British army for strike...

No Prosecutions – Let Off For Those Who Destroyed 6500 Mg Rover Jobs

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THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said it does not intend to launch a criminal investigation into the collapse of carmaker MG Rover. It was...

US and Saudi Arabia are slaughtering Yemenis while Israel is assassinating Palestinian journalists!

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A LEADING member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi yesterday indicted US imperialism saying that it is killing thousands of Yemeni civilians...

Project Fear Gives Way To Pledges Of Retribution

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SPEAKING with Labour’s former Chancellor Lord Darling by his side, in full support, the Tory Chancellor Osborne yesterday pledged violent retribution against the electorate...

Labour to let multi-nationals take over NHS Primary Care Trusts

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THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health 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...

President Obama is for unilateralism, but not in his lifetime

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PRESIDENT Obama, now in eastern Europe, has announced his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, but has added that he does not...

200,000 Civil Servants taking strike action

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ON Wednesday over 200,000 civil servants and over 200 government departments will be strike bound for the day. Civil servants...

May Attacks The Pensioners And Pursues Them Into The Grave!

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PM MAY unveiled the Tory election manifesto yesterday in Halifax as she dumped Cameron’s policy towards the elderly and instead gave them a good...

Cameron’s goose is well and truly cooked!

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THE Liberal Democrats have won the Eastleigh by-election, with the UK Independence Party pushing the Conservatives into third place, with Labour as also-rans. Mike Thornton...

Heading For A Housing Crash!

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ON MONDAY trading on the Wall Street stock market in New Century Financial shares was halted, as the second largest US sub-prime mortgage lender...