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TUC Special Congress avoids calling a general strike to defeat Tory anti-strike laws

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TUC general secretary Paul Nowak opened Saturday’s Special Congress on ‘the next steps’ in the fight against the Tory anti-strike laws proclaiming: ‘Congress, let...

Tories move to scrap defence cuts and prepare for war!

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ON Monday, the Chief of the UK General Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, said in his speech at the Royal United Services Institute, a...

King urinates on the green shoots of recovery

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‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...

Socialist revolution is the only answer to unemployment of ‘biblical proportions’

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AS THE END of the Tory furlough scheme looms, the reality of millions of workers being thrown on the scrapheap in the coming months...

Johnson’s Visit To Sweden And Finland Is To Expand The War Against Russia!

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PM BORIS Johnson is visiting Sweden and Finland to expand the war in Ukraine, and specifically to urge both nations to join the NATO...

Axing free TV licences: the spark to unite pensioners, youth and workers to kick...

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THE Tory government has now launched war on the elderly, the youth and the working class simultaneously! There is a war on the youth, with...

With Parliament Ready To Defy The People Cromwell Becomes An Issue!

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OFFICIALS in the House of Commons have installed a tamper alarm to stop Labour MP, Stephen Pound, turning a bust of Oliver Cromwell to...

Dictatorship in Greece – socialist revolution the only way forward

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THE unelected and EU-imposed Greek ‘interim’ PM, Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank who played a major part in getting Greece...

Coronavirus sparks biggest crash since 2007/8 threatening to derail Trump and sink the Johnson...

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CORONAVIRUS is spreading around the world, sparking a global economic collapse. For seven days in a row financial markets have fallen. The crisis has...

Dump May Regime And Her Grammar Schools!

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TORY PM May yesterday launched her new offensive attempting to restore ‘secondary moderns’ by allowing every school to become a selective grammar school, and...

TUC and Labour leaders call for ‘unity’ with Tory plan to make working...

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WORLD capitalism was reeling yesterday as the economic sanctions, imposed to strangle the Russian economy and pave the way for regime change in Russia,...

Labour Nec Gives In To Tory-Zionist Witch-Hunt!

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THE Labour Party’s NEC on Tuesday gave way to the Tory-Zionist witch-hunt and agreed to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of...

Mikhail Gorbachev – Stalinist hero of imperialism, loathed and reviled by working class!

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Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR, died in Moscow aged 91 on Tuesday. His death was greeted with an outpouring of fulsome tributes and...

Hunt blames the working class for capitalist crisis as Tories prepare a class war...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been in Washington this week attending the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, the main economic...

UN raises alarm over Palestinian hunger strikers –– Free them now!

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THE United Nations (UN) has raised the alarm over the health condition of hunger-striking Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...

Throw out the deal – build a new leadership in the CWU

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AFTER around eight or so weeks of secret negotiations – on-off-on talks – the CWU postal executive has capitulated to the Hayes Ward leadership,...

Join WRP to build the revolutionary leadership!

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THE leadership scuffling that is taking place in the Labour Party is underlining one major fact – its crisis is terminal. This is a party...

Lobby the TUC on September 7th! Demand it calls a general strike to bring...

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INDIVIDUAL US military personnel assisting the war crimes of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza and the Palestinian West Bank territory could be prosecuted...

450,000 Palestinians forced to leave Rafah! Trade unions must call general strikes to prevent...

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THE United Nations says more than half a million Palestinians have now been displaced in war-torn Gaza, as Israel intensifies its air and ground...

Kick out trade union leaders collaborating to impose job and wage cuts

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THE ENGINEERING giant Rolls-Royce which manufactures jet engines this week confirmed that it will slash 3,000 jobs across the UK. Already Rolls-Royce has begun the...

NATO massacres Libyan civilians to loot the country’s oil

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THE bloody massacre of 85 Libyan men, women and children by NATO in the town of Zlitan exposes once and for all that when...

Cameron wants to intervene in Syria!

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AT the same time as Foreign Secretary Hague has been insisting publicly that the UK will not supply arms and ammunition to their Syrian...

UK An Out-Of-Control Police State!

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THE revelation by Sky News of the ‘Stingray’ programme, where fake mobile phone towers are set up to capture people’s mobile calls without their...

Met chief Cressida Dick quits! Unions must call a general strike to disband the...

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METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has quit! Millions will be cheering the news, and demanding that the whole Met Police force be disbanded...

Occupy to stop Labour’s hospital closure programme

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FOUR Greater Manchester hospitals are to have their maternity units closed in drastic cuts after the Labour government’s health secretary, ex-postman, Alan Johnson frantically...

Truss And Co Are Planning To Attack The Rail Unions! Bring Tories Down With...

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TORY PM Truss told MPs yesterday, during her parliamentary questions crisis statement, of the way that she intends to get out of the crisis...

Defeat Cameron’s Savage Cuts With A General Strike

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PRIME Minister David Cameron promised yesterday that there are ‘painful cuts ahead’ that will last for years, and that he would be carrying out...

French Government Passes Pensions ‘Reforms’ Without A Vote!

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THE French government has chosen the moment – when France, Europe and the world is obsessed by the coronavirus crisis – to launch a...

US National March for Palestine takes place today in Washington – US workers &...

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MASSIVE demonstrations are sweeping the United States in support of Palestine. There have been big marches and rallies in New York, Chicago, Texas, San...

Bloody Sunday – Put the British State in the dock for murder along with...

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YESTERDAY the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced that there was enough evidence to prosecute one soldier, soldier F, for the murder of two people,...

Workers will ignore Tory attempts to make Russia their enemy – the enemy is...

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YESTERDAY’S statement by Theresa May to parliament on the range of ‘reprisals’ against Russia for the alleged involvement of the Russian state in the...

‘We are going to create the largest social enterprise sector in the world’ says...

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PRIMARY CARE Trusts are to be abolished and replaced by Federations of GPs who will purchase healthcare for their patients from both the public...

CORBYN, McDONNELL SET TO BETRAY AS BREXIT ‘DAY OF DECISION’ APPROACHES!

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SENIOR Labour Party leaders are at war with each other over the best way to betray the 2016 referendum result, when PM Boris Johnson...

British Military Opposes Any Petraeus Surge In Afghanistan

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GENERAL Petraeus is now the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, and has declared that he intends to organise a NATO ‘surge’ in...

Crisis Ridden Capitalism Is Trying To Make The Working Class Pay The Full Bill...

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UK CAPITALISM is in crisis. After the falls in sterling, and the rampant oil, gas and food inflation, the ruling class is desperate and...

Obama Dumps Two-State Solution!

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PROPONENTS of the two-state solution to Palestine, that is the creation of two separate states, Israel and Palestine through peaceful negotiations, with East Jerusalem...

May humiliated and powerless – only socialist revolution can achieve Brexit!

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ON TUESDAY night, Theresa May suffered yet one more humiliation at the hands of her own party when almost 100 Tory MPs voted against...

FBU must fight against a Police Commissioner controlled ‘Fire Service’

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THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...

Master Obama Slaps Down Servant Cameron!

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PM CAMERON received an almighty slap in the face on Wednesday when the Obama administration effectively told him to shut up and drop all...

British Ruling Class Is Split – Forward With The British Socialist Revolution!

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THE FACT that a section of the capitalist state leaked the UK ambassador Darroch’s damning estimation of the abilities of President Trump and his...

British workers require socialism not circuses!

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FOR the second day running the bourgeois media have been dominated by the Olympic opening extravaganza organised brilliantly by Danny Boyle, who used and...

Dannatt would not use Lariam, but permitted it to be used on thousands...

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FORMER Army chief of staff Lord Dannatt has apologised on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme for allowing British troops to take an anti-malaria drug...

Trump is set to impose the death agony of the US capitalist system onto...

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THREATS, demands and bullying aimed at the whole world from US President Donald Trump, dominated the Davos Economic Forum in a video call on...

TUC line up with CBI and Tory Chancellor Sunak to impose wage cuts and...

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ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...

TUC must be forced to call a general strike to smash anti-union laws!

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LAST Friday it was announced that Border Force staff at Heathrow Airport had voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over changes to...