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Millions denied NHS dental care under Labour

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IT IS estimated that 7.4 million people in England and Wales have not been to a National Health Service dentist since April 2006, because...

Bush talks peace as Israeli tanks kill eleven in Gaza

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THE content of the Bush ‘peace offensive’ was yesterday revealed for the whole world to see when Israeli tanks, supported by artillery fire ...

Nationalise The Banks To Resolve The Capitalist Crisis

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MORE than $170 billion (£87 billion) has been wiped off the balance sheets of companies worldwide as a result of the collapse of the...

Bush threatens war with Iran and demands the support of his reluctant feudal allies

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US PRESIDENT George W Bush yesterday warned of the ‘Iranian threat’ during his speech in Abu Dhabi. While speaking about the role of the United...

Mass Murder In Arab Jabur

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WHILE President Bush was allegedly talking peace in the Palestinian town of Ramallah on Thursday, US B1 bombers and F16 fighters were raining 40,000...

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...

Bush arrives in Middle East for war talks

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US President George W Bush said he saw a new opportunity for peace in the Holy Land as he arrived in Israel on Wednesday...

Bankers’ Man Brown Wants Three Years Of Wage Cuts

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PREMIER Brown says he wants three-year pay deals for public sector workers, rather than the traditional annual deals, to help keep UK inflation low. ...

Brown pledges 150 private NHS hospitals and self treatment by 15 million ‘expert patients’

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GORDON Brown made clear yesterday that his intention was to continue with the Blairite NHS counter-revolution. The message was that there were ‘no no-go...

Bilge From The Bishop!

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THE Bishop of Rochester, Dr Nazir-Ali, yesterday sounded like he borrowed a script from the British National Party when he warned that Islamic extremism...

Build The Wrp In 2008!

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THE TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, in his New Year’s message said that his two fears for 2008 were the dangers of a banking...

Kenyan explosion rooted in land theft and the capitalist crisis

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KENYA has been convulsed for nearly a week by an uprising of the poor and the landless who have been absolutely pauperised by the...

The NHS must be free and available to all at the point of need!

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RECENTLY there have been a few years of increased government spending on the NHS, after many years of chronic underspending. Most of the new...

TGWU stops BAA strike while Virgin says get other jobs!

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THE TGWU leadership, (now sheltering under the Unite label) has once again dropped a decision by its members to take strike action to...

Barber’s two ‘big worries’, the crisis of capitalism and workers’ anger!

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BRENDAN Barber the TUC general secretary in his New Year message confesses that he has two ‘big worries’ for the year 2008. He...

Bhutto Murdered By US Sponsored Military!

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AT 6.16pm local time yesterday evening the Pakistani military assassinated Benazir Bhutto, putting a bloody end to the notion that there can be some...

Karzai gets worried that MI6 is negotiating his removal!

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THE NEWS that top-level British diplomatic efforts are continuing in Afghanistan to try to prevent the expulsion from the country of two senior foreign...

Blair Conversion Seals His Counter-Revolutionary Role

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TONY BLAIR, his hands still dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and with financial scandals swirling all round...

Baa And Virgin Air Industry Workers Are Ready For Action

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NEWS LINE sends its greetings and full support to the British Airports Authority workers who have decided to take strike action at seven major...

General strike to defend the NHS

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AMBULANCE crews in south-east Wales are staging a four-week, unofficial overtime ban to highlight how much the ambulance service now relies on their willingness...

Brown insists on wage cuts for workers & billions for bankers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown justified pay cuts for workers in the public services and the billions handed over by the Treasury to the bankrupt...

Defend Palestinians against Israeli military terror!

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TEN members of the Palestinian resistance movement, members of the Al-Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad, were killed in missile attacks by Israeli warplanes in...

US agreed Turkish air raids on northern Iraq

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DOZENS of Turkish planes bombed supposed PKK bases in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing villagers, damaging infrastructure and forcing villagers to flee, local Iraqi...

Current crisis will ‘make 1929 seem like a stroll in the park’

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THE Ernst and Young Item Club, whose computer model of the economy is the same as the Treasury’s, said last Friday that banking regulations...

ANC in crisis as workers and poor demand their liberation from capitalism

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YESTERDAY the South African president Thabo Mbeki said that the acrimony in the African National Congress, the mainly black ruling party in South Africa,...

Police are not workers in uniform

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THE Police Federation has demanded that the Home Secretary resign after her refusal to backdate their 2.5 per cent pay award, and has decided...

Britain Has Been, Is, And Will Continue Talking With The Taleban

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PRIME Minister Brown told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that British forces are ‘winning the battle against the insurgency’ in Afghanistan. Using...

Nationalise All The Banks And Abolish Mortgage Debt

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UP to 1.5 million fixed rate mortgage holders are going to have to renegotiate their mortgages in the New Year. Many of them are already...

Brown Hauls Down The Flag

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LIKE a thief in the night Prime Minister Brown sneaked into Basra airport on Saturday night to tell British troops that their period of...

It’s The Afghans Who Will Have To Retake Musa Qala

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CURRENTLY a great deal of propaganda hot air is being expended hailing the action that British forces are taking to ‘liberate’ the town of...

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...

Bankers Are Caught Like Rats In A Trap

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FACED with loud and strident demands to slash its lending rate, to try and avoid a housing crash and a depression by crashing the...

Ruling Class Targets The Political Levy

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THERE has been a frenzied hue and cry raging for weeks now over the minor mistakes of Labour cabinet ministers over relatively minor...

US Spy Agencies Pull Rug From Beneath Bush And Cheney

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THE Iranian government has welcomed the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report, to which all the US spying agencies contributed, which states that Iran...

Interest Rate War Rages Round Bank Of England

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HOSTILITIES have broken out between rival gangs of economists on the eve of the meeting of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...

Ruling class discarding faithful servant Brown

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THE deepening crisis of the world capitalist system is causing alarm in the ruling class in Britain, causing them to revaluate their perspectives. The bile...

‘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...

Labour believes that the elderly must be made to pay

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IT has emerged that it is a question of principle for the Labour government that elderly people who are now living in nursing and...

New Leadership Needed In Cwu

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YESTERDAY the number two CWU leader Dave Ward was boasting that the super-flexibility deal that the leadership put to the membership and which over...

US Seeking Long-Term Bases In Iraq

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THE United States and its puppet Iraqi government are seeking to renew the UN mandate for Iraq for just one year, meaning that the...

Brown Speaks To His Cbi Constituency

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YESTERDAY Gordon Brown attempted to revive his political credibility, severely damaged after the Northern Rock and Child Benefit details crises by delivering a speech...

Capitalist crisis deepens – socialist revolution the answer

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JUSTICE Secretary, Jack Straw, yesterday dismissed Tory claims that Labour is facing its own Black Wednesday, over Northern Rock and the missing data discs...

French Stalinists step in to help Sarkozy

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OVER a million French civil servants went on strike yesterday, joining the hundreds of thousands of railworkers, busworkers and gas and electricity workers who...

Pna And Fatah Want To Disarm Fighters

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ONE can now see why the Zionists and the US government were so keen to get rid of Yasser Arafat. He not only refused to...

Northern Rock crisis coming to a head

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THE collapse of the US sub-prime market has produced a major banking crisis in the UK, which has seen the Northern Rock bank being...