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Corbyn calls on civil servants to block no-deal Brexit! Organise general strike to leave...

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IN THE LATEST attempt to block a no-deal Brexit, Labour leader Corbyn has called on the civil service to move into action and do...

Tories, stepping up their war on junior doctors, are putting patients and the NHS...

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Health Secretary Hunt making a ‘clear offer’ to cancel the junior...

EU and US fall out over oil, gas and Russian sanctions!

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THE INCREASINGLY fractious relationship between the US and its rival capitalist bloc the European Union, is on the point of erupting into a full...

The UK ruling class is split, unable to rule, and frightened by the mass...

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YESTERDAY Tory PM May pledged that she would not allow the British people’s vote for Brexit to be sabotaged. The would-be sabatoeurs are the majority...

Tory GP funding formula robs the poor and gives to the rich

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A STUDY published this week in the British Journal of General Practice shines a searchlight on one of the main causes of ‘health inequality’...

Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...

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LAST week, the Tories’ strike-breaking agency worker regulations were thrown out after the High Court ruled they were unlawful. This judgement quashed an appeal by...

The state is looking to take control

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THE capitalist state used to be the mailed fist concealed within the velvet glove in Britain. Its real power was covered by the parliamentary...

Israeli Army Rehearsing The Taking Of Gaza City!

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BESIEGED GAZA is under a heavy non-stop Israeli siege and onslaught. The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has warned Israel of ‘dangerous consequences’ as the...

Keogh creating a two-tier inferior NHS and proud of it

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THE BIG push is on to destroy the national network of A&Es that millions of people depend on, and to convert at least 100...

Tory Ambulance Privatisation Drive!

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FIGURES extracted this week by Freedom of Information requests prove conclusively that the privatisation of the ambulance service is being pushed through by the...

Special treatment for the servants of the Murdoch empire!

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YESTERDAY, the convicted News of the World journalists who had carried out ‘industrial scale’ hacking on behalf of Murdoch’s News International received lenient sentences. At...

CWU leaders capitulate to Royal Mail bosses – Time to build a new leadership...

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LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...

US Democrats want Trump impeachment to form basis of bloc with Republican Party!

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DONALD Trump became the first president of the United States to be impeached twice when the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to charge...

Alleged stonethrowers charged with attempted murder or targeted by snipers!

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‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...

Kabul Taking The Place Of Saigon In The Pantheon Of US Imperialist Disasters

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THE Taleban yesterday carried out another daring attack in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, with gun and shellfire taking place near to...

Egyptian Military Shut Down Gaza Power Supply

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ALI AL-HAYIK, the head of Gaza’s Federation of Industries and the Palestinian Businessmen Association on the Gaza Strip, warned yesterday that dozens of factories...

Sinn Féin Dumps Socialism

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IRISH capitalism, its banks and industries have been entirely bankrupted, and what national sovereignty the country had has also been destroyed, after the...

The working class in its essence is Trotskyist – Now build up its ...

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WORLDWIDE the class struggle is being driven forward by the deepening world crisis of capitalism. This dictates to the bourgeoisie that its survival depends...

US Ruling Class Offers Iran A Rotten Deal

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday said that the US would talk to Iran if it will suspend its nuclear programme. Rice made...

Tories turn their fire on the elderly! Kick them out – a workers government...

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IT IS often said that a society is judged by how it treats its elderly and its youth. Young people, as we know, are...

Tory-Lib Dem Budget hitting the poor hardest – IFS report

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WORKING class families and pensioners are being hit hardest by Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget. This is the key finding from a study by the...

Stop The Brutal Crime Of Mass Starvation – Hold The War Criminals Responsible...

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HAMAS has called on the Arab countries and the United Nations to take urgent action to stop the brutal crime of starvation and siege...

Israeli War Cabinet Members Fight Each Other Over Failure To Defeat Palestinian Resistance!

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DEEP splits within the Israeli government erupted in public on Wednesday night with Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant demanding that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

World Capitalist Crisis Hits China!

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THE world crisis of capitalism has now erupted once again and has the deformed workers’ state of China in its sights, and no doubt...

Form Councils Of Action To Stop Savage Council Cuts And Bring Down The Tories!

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THE LEADERS of England’s councils have predicted the inevitability of ‘unpalatable cutbacks’ in vital council services next year as a result of the Tories...

Turn the imperialist war against Russia into a civil war to smash British Capitalism

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THE BRITISH ruling class has now made it crystal clear that it favours a class war on two interconnected fronts. On the home front it...

Johnson suspends Parliament. Leave the EU on 31 October & forward to a workers...

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YESTERDAY, the Tory government asked the Queen to suspend Parliament from 10 September, just days after MPs return, for 23 working days until 14...

Romney condemned by Solidarity and the Palestinians!

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REPUBLICAN presidential nominee Romney won endorsement from former Polish president and former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, only to see the Solidarity...

Poroshenko crushed in elections – forward to Ukrainian workers taking back power and returning...

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THE WORKERS and small farmers of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the right-wing oligarchs and to the EU and US imperialism when they...

Inflation here to stay and global banking system faces collapse

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday produced its latest report on the state of the world capitalist financial system, in which it warned that...

Johnson moves to put the skids under Prescott

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THE Blairite cabinet, faced with the working class rejecting Blair, his war on Iraq, his onslaught on the Welfare State, and with popular revulsion...

Give Employment Tribunals power to make employers take back sacked workers

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FOLLOWING an increase in the number of employment tribunals – after an attempt was made two years ago to make it deliberately harder for...

US Rushes Drones And Hellfire Missiles To Iraq

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THE US has sent 75 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq, with many more on the way. They are to be used to try to...

Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!

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INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...

Tory Chairman Quits While Johnson Skulks In Rwanda Hoping That Something Will Turn Up

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THE TORY wipe-out in the two by-elections has left the great leader skulking in Rwanda, while his Tory Party chairman Dowden has resigned, writing...

May begs EU for further delay! Workers must rise for a ‘no deal’ break...

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TORY PM Theresa May has written to the President of the European Council Donald Tusk begging for yet another delay to Brexit, this time...

Field cuddles up to Cameron while Tories plan to end free NHS care

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JUST days after the failure of the Hoon-Hewitt attempt to remove Gordon Brown as premier, one of Labour’s leading right-wingers, Frank Field, yesterday...

Putin Alarm At US War Drive

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THE fact that the deepening capitalist crisis is turning the whole planet into a US war zone has begun to seriously alarm the Russian...

Sharon’s deception at the United Nations

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ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to cut a figure as the liberator of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip at the United...

Fed policy of ‘draining liquidity’ will trigger new crash! End bankrupt capitalism with socialist...

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WORLD capitalism is on the verge of an even bigger, catastrophic economic collapse and there is absolutely nothing the central banks or governments can...

The Chief Banker Condemns The Banks

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THE governor of the bank of England, Mervyn King, has launched a scathing attack on the major UK banks, accusing them of trying to...

Defend Iran And North Korea By Smashing Imperialism!

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NORTH Korea’s Foreign Minister in Tehran on Wednesday criticised the US’ decision to re-impose sanctions on Iran as a ‘wrong move’, that runs contrary...

3.1 million children living below poverty line – the TUC advocates doing absolutely nothing!

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This is a treacherous abdication of all responsibility by the trade union leaders for this crisis of poverty. They have not lifted a single...

Grenfell disaster was caused by private companies and government – the FBU tells Inquiry!

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FIRE BRIGADES Union lawyer Martin Seaward has told the Grenfell Inquiry that the disaster was caused by individual private companies and the government! He insisted:...

NHS leaders in Scotland come out in the open with plans to destroy the...

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THE BBC yesterday revealed that NHS leaders in Scotland have been discussing setting up a ‘two-tier’ health service. These discussions were recorded in draft minutes...