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Victory to the insurgency – puppet regime splits into rival gangs

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WHILE Blair continues to try and claim that there has been some partial victory for ‘democracy’ in Iraq, worth the ‘price’ of the many...

Blair, Brown Step Up War On The Public Sector

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BLAIR and Brown stepped up the new Labour assault on the public sector yesterday. Brown even had the cheek to blame service sector workers’...

Brown supports lifting £3,000 cap off top-up fees

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YESTERDAY Chancellor Gordon Brown joined hands with two of the leaders of the capitalist class to signal his willingness to raise the £3,000 cap...

No evidence behind police terror raid

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IN the early hours of Friday morning a police raiding party of up to 250 officers broke into a home in Lansdown Road, Forest...

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...

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...

Labour continues NHS privatisation offensive!

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LABOUR Health Minister Burnham yesterday officially launched the extended choice network, a new extended list of hospitals and clinics, that include 15 private treatment...

Nato Shall Not Pass Vow Soviet Workers

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THERE could not be a greater contrast between the policies of the Ukrainian governing parties to join the EU and NATO as rapidly as...

Blair – Bush’s Servant To The Bitter End

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THE knives were out for disgraced Deputy Prime Minister Prescott yesterday. He is the man who was important to the Prime Minister because he...

Bush, Blair Admit Stupidity And Incompetence

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PRESIDENT Bush and Premier Blair have admitted their chronic incompetence over the prosecution of the war in Iraq, and have appealed to the rest...

Blair’s great pensions robbery

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LABOUR’S ‘pensions revolution’ is a major attack on the working class, the elderly and the youth. The origin of the ‘revolution’ is not that the...

Tories Vote To Keep Blair In Office!

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IN Tuesday night’s vote in the House of Commons on the Blair government’s Education Bill, 67 Labour MPs voted against, wiping out the government’s...

Desperate Blair dashes to Baghdad

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WITH British troops in the south of Iraq in danger of taking heavy casualties at the hands of an insurgency that has taken over...

New Labour full of sleaze, hatred for claimants and arrogance

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THE real anti-working class face of the Blair, Labour government is becoming clearer and clearer every day, as the crisis of capitalism deepens. ...

Renationalise the rail privateers

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THE private railway system has, so far, seen many tens of billions of public money thrown at it to make sure that the private...

Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire

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YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...

Defend car jobs! Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot!

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VAUXHALL Chairman Jonathan Browning announced yesterday that the General Motors (GM) subsidiary is to cut about 900 jobs, by the end of August, at...

German workers join European strike wave

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MORE than 20,000 German doctors are taking strike action all this week demanding a cut in working hours and a 30-per-cent pay rise. The...

Chavez Visit Poses World Revolution

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THE visit of the left bourgeois nationalist leaders Evo Morales of Bolivia and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to Europe is much appreciated, and is...

Blair seeking legislation to overrule the courts

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THE Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has had his plans for a government veto over the law courts made public after a leak of his...

US capitalism in crisis, UK capitalism near collapse

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US interest rates have now been increased to five per cent, with last Wednesday’s 16th monthly increase in a row. In fact, the new chief...
A thousand nurses from all over the country attended Thursday’s lobby of parliament organised by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot to defend jobs

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LAST May, MG Rover was closed without a struggle. Last month the closure of Peugeot was announced and this week we have been told...

Putin Warns Usa Of Dangers In Attacking Iran

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IN his ‘Address to the Nation’ last Wednesday, the Russian leader, President Vladimir Putin, was forced to deal with the fact that Nato is...
AUT and NATFHE pickets at the London College of Communication during their strike on March 7th

US dismisses Iranian letter while Israel threatens nuclear attack

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THE foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany and Xavier Solana the EU’s ‘Foreign Minister’, met on...
Brian Haw holding the photograph of an infant victim of the continuing war in Afghanistan – the baby was one of triplets

Iraq – Time For Britain To Cut And Run

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SATURDAY’S engagement in Basra was a serious one for British imperialism. One Lynx helicopter was lost, shot down by a Strella missile and five British...
Herts firefighters lobbying Downing Street  during a boycott of a Number 10 reception for ‘Buncefied heroes’

Brown Warns Against Labour ‘Extremists’

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday did his best to hand back the political initiative to his politically battered and discredited Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...
Protest against ID cards outside the House of Commons _ one of the police state measures that Clarke was pushing through

Blair axes cabinet, but policies are the same!

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IT WAS all change yesterday in the Blair cabinet and no change at all at the same time, as leading cabinet members were sacked...

Lessons of 1926 are vital for today!

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THIS year there is great interest in the 80th anniversary of the general strike of 1926. It is not hard to work out why....

Norfolk & Norwich NHS Trust – screwed by the PFI bandits

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THE Octagon private sector consortium has been branded the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’ by a House of Commons committee. MPs on the public accounts...
Relatives and widows of asbestos-related cancer victims outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday afternoon

Bolivia nationalises oil and gas resources

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BOLIVIA’S President Morales has gone from having a conference last week in Havana with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, which established a...

Woodley tells Blair to quit – Simpson urges policy change

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MAY DAY saw thousands of workers, among them Peugeot motor car workers, hospital workers facing the threat of redundancy, locked out Gate Gourmet workers,...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the the thousand-strong march through Southall on December 4th last year

Blair gang runs out of spin

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THE Blair government has finally run out of spin. It is now being destroyed by its own inner contradictions, the chief one being its determination,...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers receive full support from paul Brown, T&G convenor  and Jagi Vadgama, Chairman of Fulwell bus garage

Build up pensions battle against Blair government

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AFTER the disgraceful sell out of final salary pensions by union leaders of the NHS, civil service and local government trade unions, the basic...
Rose Gentle (holding photograph) leads the Military Families Against the War march  from Parliament to Downing Street on Wednesday

The revolution in Nepal – part of the world revolution

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LEON Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution shows how ‘the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations lead directly, in our epoch, to the...

Clarke staggers on as Tories hold back from resignation call

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The ex-Home Secretary Blunkett was forced to resign after interfering to get his lover’s nanny special treatment from the passport office, and then seeking...

Withdraw all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan

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THE fact that six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to remain in Afghanistan to support the 4,000 British troops who are being assembled in...

Make the TUC take action to defend the NHS

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YESTERDAY both Blair and Hewitt mocked NHS workers insulting their intelligence with the Hewitt line that this year was the best ever year for...

Blair will ‘run criminals out of the country’

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IT was Mussolini who said that he would drive the Mafia out of Italy and send it packing to the United States. Mussolini went...
Doctors from the Indian sub-continent have helped to build-up and sustain the NHS  – the new law will have disastrous consequences

Labour turns on Asian NHS doctors

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ANOTHER shameful page of British imperialist history has been turned. This time tens of thousands of Asian and African doctors, recruited to come to...
Doctors angrily demonstrate outside Downing Street on friday against new regulations that discriminate against Commonwealth doctors training in Britain

Peugeot, the NHS and pensions

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THE crisis of capitalism is now erupting in Britain with massive force. The government has declared that the bankrupt capitalist system cannot afford final salary...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers at a lobby of the Hillingdon TGWU office earlier this month

Occupy Peugeot! Build a new leadership in the unions!

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LEADERS of the trade unions said they were shocked by PSA Peugeot-Citroën’s announcement on Tuesday that it is closing its Ryton factory in Coventry,...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers PARMJIT BAINS (right) and PARMJEET SIDHU with Hounslow UNISON member MARIE ROWLANDS

Restore the NHS! Bring down Blair

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair made clear yesterday that the government is determined to force through the cuts and closures, privatisation and destruction of...

Stop the pensions betrayal!

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THE membership, branch leaderships and regional leaderships of the local government trade unions must stop the betrayal of their final salary pensions by union...

End privatisation – dump the big business donors

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THE selling of peerages is an old tradition in England that goes well back before the days of Lloyd George. He had an established...

Free Kendall-Smith! Stop the war against Iraq!

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THE Labour movement must salute the courageous action of Flight-Lieutenant Kendall-Smith who yesterday declared, after a court martial had found him guilty on five...