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Tories wage starvation war against children of immigrant families and the entire working...

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THE children of immigrant families are being deliberately starved by the Tories as part of their ‘hostile environment’ policy towards immigrant workers. Headteachers and...

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...

EU raises the need for a European army, navy and airforce

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THE super-imperialist ambitions of the European Union (EU) have begun to emerge in the wake of its Brexit defeat in the UK. So far, its...

Strikes hit hospitals and airports as workers rise up against wage cutting!

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WHILE the Tories tear themselves apart awaiting the heavily redacted report by Sue Gray into Boris Johnson and all the parties at Downing Street...

Kiev, EU and US facing defeat in East Ukraine!

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UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...

Junior Doctors Are Defending The NHS – They Must Not Fight Alone!

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AS the April 26th-27th strike action of the junior doctors approaches, the chorus of reproaches from the likes of Dame Sally Davies, Sir Bruce...

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...

The TUC must support the Palestinian march on Gaza with a general strike in...

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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of displaced Palestinian citizens resumed on Wednesday morning their march back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip which Israel...

No State Control Of The Media!

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THE OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), the political cloak for NATO, has issued a warning about the agreement to establish an...

Central Bankers warn of new financial crash

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THE Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has broken ranks with the IMF and the World Bank and issued a grim warning to the ruling...

After Bercow’s attempt to knife Brexit the UK must make a ‘No Deal’ exit...

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SPEAKER Bercow’s ruling, preventing PM May making a third attempt to get her deal with the EU through the House of Commons, was a...

Stop Cameron’s counter-revolution at home and abroad!

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CAMERON told the House of Commons on Monday afternoon in his statement on national security strategy that: ‘On Thursday I will make the case for Britain...

Gaza – Israeli soldiers admit killing Palestinians without restrictions, out of ‘boredom’!

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THE Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Wednesday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into recent confessions by Israeli soldiers...

TUC Proposes A Labour Front With The Tories

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WITH great fanfare the Tories have announced that they are following in the footsteps of President Roosevelt who, in 1933, launched the ‘New Deal’...

Unison Leaders Betray Their Members!

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AT the September Labour Party and TUC conferences the trade union leaders, amongst them the leaders of the UNISON trade union, made out that...

Bp Leads Shares Crash As Banking Crisis Grows!

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OIL giant BP’s share price has fallen nearly 17 per cent to £4.12, its lowest level since March 2009. The sharp sell-off came as it...

Imperialism In Crisis In Egypt, Syria And The Yemen

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THE US State Department has told its citizens and all non-emergency government staff to leave the Yemen ‘immediately’ due to increased threats to their...

‘Blair and Straw have a great deal to answer for,’ says Alex Salmond

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SNP foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond spoke up for millions of British people yesterday when he highlighted the role that one-time Labour PM Blair...

Bank shares fall while AIG and HBOS live on borrowed time!

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SHARE price collapses continued yesterday after the bankrupting of the fourth largest US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and the ‘rescue’ of Merrill Lynch by...

UK planning for war right across the Mediterranean!

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THE imperialist powers are now working overtime to explode the Mediterranean region, from Libya to Turkey, into one huge raging fire. The UN Security Council...

With Labour government in crisis bankers and bosses step up calls for a National...

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THE DEMAND for a National Government to rescue the British economy from bankruptcy is rapidly emerging in the bourgeois press, as the only way...

Refugees from imperialist wars are welcome – the enemy of the working class is...

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ON WEDNESDAY it was revealed that the Tory government is considering building an ‘asylum processing centre’ in the South Atlantic on Ascension Island. The Foreign...

UK workers must force the TUC to call a general strike to support Palestine!

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HAMAS leader Yahya Sinwar was murdered on Thursday in Rafah, southern Gaza, by Israeli troops after a tank shelled the building he entered. Seen defiantly...

Democrats and Republicans sink their differences when it comes to imperialist war

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WHILE US president Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night was met with impotent angry silence by Democrats, there...

Record Breaking Inflation!

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RECORD BREAKING UK inflation rate statistics were reported by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) yesterday. Inflation rose at its fastest annual pace for nine...

TUC must call a general strike to free Palestine now!

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OVER a million workers and youth marched in London on Saturday to a rally outside the US Embassy, in a ‘National March for Palestine’...

TUC must call action now against the BoE and Tory theft of $1bn of...

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ONE BILLION dollars (£800m) worth of Venezuelan gold in the vaults of the Bank of England has been successfully seized, in an act of...

MPs’ Committee fears new mortgage bubble!

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A VERY nervous House of Commons Treasury Select Committee has just asked the Bank of England to clarify its role in ensuring that the...

120,540 children live in temporary accommodation!

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THE scale of the housing crisis today is revealed in a report issued by the Local Government Authority (LGA) which exposes the scandal that...

World banking crisis driving world revolution!

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LAST WEEK the Bank of England (BoE) finally confessed that it doesn’t understand its own quantitative easing programme (QE) – the central, in fact...

Murdoch’s Man, Hunt Savages The NHS With A View To Privatise

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Local AFL-CIO leaders and trade unionists from across the United States were in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday to ask members of Congress to...

BMA leaders run away after Cameron waves big stick

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THE BMA and its Junior Doctors Committee yesterday ‘made the decision to suspend the 48-hour industrial action planned for 26-28 January. We are announcing...

Egypt must keep open Gaza’s Rafah crossing!

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THE Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which has been closed for the past five months, was opened for two days at...

Cameron abuses Corbyn, pledges to end social housing and announces an end to ‘passive...

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AFTER Theresa May’s vintage Tory beat-and-beat-again speech on Tuesday to the Tory Party conference, treating migrants as the enemy and rating their contribution...

TUC conference swings to the right – a new leadership must be built!

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THIS year’s annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference marked a historic lurch to the right by the leadership of the trade unions. At a time...

EU slumps while UK inflation rises!

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THE eurozone economy shrank in the third quarter from April to June by 0.2%, with France having a third consecutive quarter of no growth...

Tories in chaos as Paterson resigns amidst sleaze accusations – time to kick...

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THE TORY government was in chaos yesterday following Tuesday’s vote to disband the existing Standards Committee replacing it with a Tory dominated committee to...

On May Day, on the TUC march on May 12, & on Nakba Day...

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THE ‘GREAT March of Return’ has become the beacon for all Palestinians and the workers of the world to unite in the struggle...

Macron Set To Lose His Majority As French Workers Vote Socialist!

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PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron is set to lose his outright majority after a strong challenge from a coalition of left-wing parties in National Assembly elections....

‘A positive response’ says Bush on Iran

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US President George W Bush has welcomed Iran’s initial reaction to a proposal from the EU states designed to achieve a deal with...

Tories continue to tear each other apart! Time for the working class to bring...

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THE government on Thursday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over Johnson’s unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal...

Starmer Congratulated By Union Leaders, Now Awaits His National Service Government Call-Up!

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THE election of Starmer as Labour leader has been cheered to the rooftops by both the trade union bureaucracy and the Tory Party-supporting media. His...

TUC must support doctors strike and NHS by calling a general strike to kick...

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Resident doctors began five days of strike action yesterday following the overwhelming rejection, 83% to 17%, of Labour health secretary Wes Streeting’s latest pathetic...

End the NHS cuts! Reopen the A&Es!

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FINANCIAL pressures could get in the way of the drive to improve care following the Stafford Hospital scandal, experts said yesterday, confirming the obvious,...

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...