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A section of the over 600-strong audience at the CWU anti-privatisation rally in central London on Wednesday

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Usa

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THE New Orleans disaster stands as a testament – with its over 10,000 dead and over 200,000 refugees – to the bankruptcy of the...

Russia tells Ukraine – pay the market rate

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THE Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that ‘Russia has begun implementing a scenario intended to destabilise the Ukrainian economy’, adding that this was ‘despite...

Bring Down The May Government, Quit Eu And Bring In Socialism!

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GENERAL LORD Dannatt, the chief of the General Staff from 2006-2009, writing in The Daily Telegraph, has bemoaned the ‘national embarrassment of almost...

Egyptian revolution in permanence!

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THE Egyptian army opened fire on thousands of workers and young people in Tahrir Square on Saturday morning, killing four and wounding 117. ...

Another US blow for Pakistan!

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THE US Congress yesterday froze $700 million of aid to its ally Pakistan until it gets assurances that Pakistan will combat the spread of...

Warning – Police Are Armed And Dangerous!

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THAT the times are really changing was rammed home once again yesterday. People are angrily reacting to the news that 4,000 highly trained police officers...

To stop Tories axing the NHS, TUC must call a general strike!

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SECRET plans have been uncovered to cut £23bn from the NHS. Such a cut, if it is allowed to proceed would mean the closure...

CWU must spread the action to the entire public sector

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THE reality of the situation facing postal workers is that after two series of mass strike actions during which they have shown they are...

Defend state university education against the coalition barbarians!

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LORD Browne’s review of university funding is to recommend a threefold increase in tuition fees. Lord Browne (former head of BP) is proposing to raise...

More anti-union laws, no rights at work, the elderly being abused in their homes...

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has said the danger for the UK from the economic crisis, particularly the crisis in the...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow yesterday insist that theTGWU should refuse to accept compulsory redundancies

Iraqi puppets feel the noose tightening

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IN the last few days the Iraqi puppet National Assembly, whose authority does not run outside of the Green Zone US fortress in central...

French election results directly pose the issue of working class taking power

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THE SECOND and final round of voting for the French Parliament ended on Sunday night with the fascist National Rally (RN) party suffering a...

The whole world rages at the persecution of the Palestinians yet the TUC still...

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PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...

Transport Unions Must Refuse To Transport Asylum Seekers To Rwanda!

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THE TORY government’s racist drive to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda came unstuck on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) granted...

Israel calls for the US to take action against Syria

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SYRIA yesterday condemned the UN report into the assassination of the former Lebanese Premier, Hariri – a report which pointed the finger of blame...

The Massive Human Price Of Boeing’s Profits – The Only Solution Is Expropriation...

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THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has the responsibility for aircraft safety, did nothing to ground Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft despite their own...

Ex-Defence Minister Fox Demands A Class War Against Workers And Their Trade Unions!

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THE coalition’s ex-Defence Secretary, Fox, put forward his demands for the Tory-led coalition’s March 21 crisis budget yesterday in the Financial Times. It was a...

McDonnell rejects socialist policies of mass nationalisation of industry in favour of a deal...

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LAST Thursday, Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell outlined Labour’s economic policy for the general election which amounted to piling even more debt on the...

PNA leaders bankrupt – unions must boycott Israel

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The leak of confidential documents covering the ‘peace’ negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel reveals starkly the bankruptcy and futility of...

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...

Morales pledges to rule for the oppressed

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EVO MORALES is the first Indian to become the President of Bolivia ending decades of rule by a white ruling class elite which presided...

UNISON ‘ready to strike’ while Brown is bringing bosses into his cabinet

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‘I SEND this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...

Trade Unions Must Dump Starmer And Labour’s Right Wing And Call A General Strike...

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THE general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey has responded to Labour’s massive council election defeats and its disastrous loss in the Hartlepool...

Starmer apes Tory promises of a ‘bonfire of regulations’ to open the UK up...

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STARMER pledged the Labour government would slash red tape in his speech to the billionaire investors and bankers who gathered in London yesterday at an...

British Capitalism’s Bankrupt, Budget Shows It’s Time To Expropriate Bosses!

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TORY CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has unveiled the contents of this year’s Budget in the House of Commons. It is the last scheduled Budget before...

Dont Talk To Israeli Leaders Say Palestinian Youth

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OVER the past two days, Palestine National Authority security forces have been using force to try to prevent peaceful demonstrations of Palestinian youth opposing...

Record Breaking Slump Will Lead To Socialist Revolution In The UK!

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BRITISH capitalism is officially in recession as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday. In just three months, the UK economy shrank at a...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers getting support at the Hillingdon council depot

British Imperialism Wants To Redraw Map

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IRAQ is in the middle of a civil war, the country’s former interim puppet prime minister, Iyad Allawi, said yesterday. Allawi was appointed by...

Capitalism must be overthrown to resolve its crisis!

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The propagandists for the bourgeois order are rushing to try and defend the capitalist system as being blameless as far as the crisis is...

Re-call TUC conference! Sack the traitors! – We need a leadership that will...

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THE NHS crisis is ‘like being in a war,’ Patrick Carter, who advises Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, told the Royal College of Anaesthetists’...

Chase Farm Closure Kills!

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THE death of 2-year-old Muhammad Hashir Maveed last Wednesday is a tragic warning of the cost to human life that must inevitably result from...

The Palestinian leadership calls for international intervention. The workers of the world must respond!

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THE PALESTINIAN Presidential spokesman Abu Rudeineh yesterday morning called for urgent international intervention after Israeli police broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the...

Irish trade unions must call a general strike!

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IRISH TUC leader David Begg said on Saturday ‘It appears that the day of reckoning has arrived. The barbarians are at the gates.’ ...

Lesson of the Shrewsbury Appeal victory and Mittings inquiry – capitalist state must...

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ON WEDNESDAY the leaders of 12 of the largest and most prominent trade unions issued a letter demanding immediate action to ensure transparency in...

Labour terrorism against the unemployed

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UNEMPLOYED council and housing association tenants must be made to sign a new tenancy agreement under which they will agree to have their skill...

Greek blood money debt bonds for sale!

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BANKRUPTED Greece, still up to its neck in debt, is to sell five-year bonds, in the country’s first long-term debt sale since its international...

Trump pushes US and world capitalism into slump and recession

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LEADING bourgeois economists are making doom laden predictions about the effect of Donald Trump’s pledges to ‘make America great’ through trade wars and expelling...

Support The Ys March For Jobs!

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YOUNG people today are under full scale attack from the Tory-led coalition. They are now fighting back. The Young Socialists are marching from...

One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin

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EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...

NHS in crisis – bring down the Coalition

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THE long awaited public inquiry into the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust opened yesterday. It was in Mid-Staffs hospital that between 2005 and 2008 an estimated 400 patients...

Low Interest Rates And Quantitative Easing Forever Pledges Carney

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THE new Bank of England governor Carney yesterday in his ‘Inflation Report’ gave big business a sample of his ‘forward guidance’. This amounted to inflation,...

Tories join with Labour to dump Johnson and prepare way for a national government

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YESTERDAY, MPs debated the motion from Labour that would refer the behaviour of prime minister Boris Johnson to the Commons standards committee to investigate...

Stop US-UK terrorism – No war on Syria – Bring down the Tories –...

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THE last few days has seen an acceleration in terrorist activity of all types. The first terrorist attack was last Thursday when the US...

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...

Lebanon rises up after government ‘negligence’ kills 154! Socialist revolution is the...

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THE LEBANESE bankers’ state has collapsed, undermined by the worldwide capitalist crisis which has plunged the country into a desperate situation of bankruptcy, mass...