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Gaza human rights centre issues call for international community to intervene to halt...

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YESTERDAY marked Human Rights Day, a day observed annually across the world to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by...

TUC must call a general strike in support of the RMT and to bring...

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch joined the picket line at London’s Euston Station yesterday morning after pay talks with the Tories collapsed on Monday. Earlier,...

Tories protect the rich from floods while the rest left to drown

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TORY austerity cuts have meant that poorer areas of the country have been left completely at the mercy of floods, to the extent that...

Putin wants a ‘game with rules’ with imperialism!

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PUTIN posed the question at last week’s International Discussion Club in Sochi: ‘The World Order: New Rules or a Game without rules’. (see feature) He...

Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Egypt

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THE US-backed and financed Egyptian army has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the US-backed and financed Muslim Brotherhood government (which supports the imperialist powers...

British War Crimes In Iraq Will Just Not Go Away – Even The UK...

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AS IS WELL KNOWN the moment that US President Bush heard about the criminal terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in NewYork on Tuesday...

The trade unions must defend Lineker and take action to sack the Tories and...

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AN unrepentant Gary Lineker insisted yesterday that he stood fully with his tweets condemning the Tory ‘Illegal Migrants Bill’ and that he has no...

French youth revolution will set Europe ablaze!

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NEITHER the Gendarmerie, nor troops or even the fatwas of the ‘holy men’ can stop the French youth rebellion, which is the product of...

MAY DAY 2009 – A movement for World Socialist Revolution!

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MILLIONS of workers took to the streets on May Day in countries throughout the world, from Los Angeles to London, Havana to Harare. Several May...

Northern Gaza subjected to ‘heinous massacres’ for 20 days

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YESTERDAY, the Palestinian news agency WAFA detailed that Northern Gaza is being subjected to ‘the most heinous massacres’ by Israeli forces for 20 days...

Student numbers to be slashed, schools to be merged – as Labour plans cuts

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BRITISH capitalism is desperately cutting its coat according to its cloth as far as education is concerned. Deep in debt and risking state bankruptcy, the...

Fight slave labour bosses at Gate Gourmet and Irish Ferries

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THE British and Irish trade unions are under serious and heavy attack at Gate Gourmet at Heathrow airport, and at Irish Ferries. At Gate Gourmet,...

‘The Next Global Shock Will Be Like An Earthquake!’

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EUROZONE manufacturing activity has hit a three-year low at the same time as the banking crisis is reaching explosion point. Greece has run out...

US Fails In Drone Attempt On Life Of Taleban Leader

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A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan’s tribal region killed at least 12 persons on Thursday. Drone aircraft fired two missiles on a religious seminary...

Oil Prices Set To Soar As Demand Outstrips Supply

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THE International Energy Agency has predicted that oil demand is set to leap beyond the capacity to supply, sending oil prices soaring well...

Labour Must Sack Starmer! TUC Must Call General Strike To Support Palestine!

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DESPITE the massive support world-wide and in the UK for the Palestinian masses’ drive to establish their own state on their own historic lands,...

Davis resignation shatters Tories as May goes looking for Labour votes

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TORY Brexit Secretary David Davis exploded a bomb under the leadership of PM Theresa May on Sunday with his resignation from the cabinet. May had...

Bourgeois democracy conceals cabinet diktat

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THE Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Straw, on Tuesday, told the House of Commons that he had, as Minister, taken the...

Defend right to asylum – defend right to strike – general strike now!

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YESTERDAY the Tories unveiled their ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ along with the admission that the bill itself is illegal under international law, not that this...

Revolution is the only way forwards!

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THE working class of Europe is rising up to fight the savage spending cuts now being imposed by governments across the Continent. When the UK...

Brown’s compromise encourages Catholic reaction

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GORDON Brown says Labour MPs will have a free vote on three ‘controversial parts’ of his embryo research Bill, thus giving way to the...

Amazon & Deliveroo pair up to super-exploit workers! Capitalism must go!

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ONLINE retail giant Amazon is to invest hundreds of millions of dollars, it was announced yesterday, into the gig economy delivery service Deliveroo in...

Axe the privateers – Defend NHS beds

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THE BMA yesterday condemned the Reform report, ‘Fewer Hospitals, more competition’, stating in response to the Reform privatisation manifesto that ‘bed...

Governor King fears crash – time to go forward to socialism

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Last Friday, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, issued a dire warning that Britain risks another financial crisis unless the government introduces...

The UN must accept Palestinian statehood – Defeat the US-UK governments’ opposition!

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MEMBERS of the UN Security Council have failed to reach a consensus on the Palestinian bid to become a full member state of the...

Support the Junior Doctors – no imposed NHS contracts!

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JUNIOR DOCTORS are to be turned into slaves by Health Secretary Hunt who is carrying his threat out to impose a contract on them...

Britain must recognise the state of Palestine and the TUC must take general...

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THE co-ordinated action by the governments of Ireland, Norway and Spain to announce that next week they would formally recognise the state of Palestine...

Corbyn comes good for the bosses’ and bankers’ EU

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CORBYN has been transformed into his opposite as far as the ruling class and Labour’s rabid Blairite right wing is concerned. He has gone...

Cameron-Osborne Are No Joke!

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THE row over the Tories so-called ‘pasty tax’ has become a dangerous diversion in the hands of the Labour leadership who are intent on...

Socialist revolution the only way to prevent mass unemployment

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THE ANNOUNCEMENT this week by the aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls Royce that it is to slash 4,600 jobs in the UK as part of...

US seizure of Press TV a declaration of war against Iran!

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THE WEBSITE of Press TV, the official Iranian English language news site, was seized by the US government on Tuesday, in what amounts to...

Blair criminalising an entire nation

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YESTERDAY the Labour government was carrying on with its campaign to demonise the country’s youth, reaching truly laughable levels of trivial pursuit. Its supporter,...

Don’t Cross Picket Lines On June 30Th!

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MEMBERS of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), National Union of Teachers (NUT), Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and University and College...

Cameron Touches Off Tory Leadership Dog Fight!

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CAMERON is now going into the May 7th general election with a declaration that he does not intend to serve a third term, that...

Germany in court over complicity in Zionist genocide – now is time for working...

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YESTERDAY, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) started a hearing on a case brought by Nicaragua against Germany, which puts the German government in...

Massive strike action by US workers demands $15 an hour nationwide!

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FAST food workers in 15 cities across America came out on strike on Tuesday demanding a nationwide $15 minimum wage, union recognition rights and...

TUC leaders back Remainers to keep the working class tied to the EU bosses...

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WITH THE annual conference of the TUC opening on Monday the leadership of the trade unions have produced a report detailing the catastrophic effects...

Police officer who attacked Tomlinson will not even be charged with assault!

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HARRY STANLEY was shot dead by armed police in Hackney in September 1999. They said that they thought that he was carrying a shotgun...

It’s Trump versus the courts. Now is the time with the bosses split and...

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A HUGE political crisis hit US president Donald Trump yesterday when a US federal trade court in New York ruled that most of his...

South African socialist revolution underway!

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THOUSANDS of mine workers have downed tools at South Africa’s Marikana Lonmin mine after an AMCU union leader, Mawethu Steven, was shot dead at...

‘Big Society’ a cover for destroying jobs and life-saving services!

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TORY leader Cameron yesterday delivered his speech on the ‘Big Society’ but had a problem defining what he meant. He said: ‘You can call it...

Build the Fourth International – the world party of the socialist revolution!

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ON Thursday, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the starkest warning yet that the debt crisis gripping the eurozone...

Only socialist revolution can stop imperialist war

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LAST Friday’s attack by US planes on the Syrian airfield of al-Shayrat was not a one-off military exercise to teach the Syrians a lesson,...

Salute the struggling Visteon workers – replace their treacherous national leadership!

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THE News Line gives its full support to the workers at the Belfast, Enfield and Basildon Visteon plants who are fighting Visteon’s decision to...

‘It’s the concern, the fear, the sheer uncertainty’ says BoE’s King

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THE chief of the Federal Reserve Bank, Bernanke, has hinted heavily that the developing slow down of the US economy will be met with...