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Only one answer to mass unemployment – Socialist Revolution

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WHILE firms and businesses are closing down as furlough ends and millions of workers are being thrown out of work, the Tories launched their...

Ludicrous Cameron claims Tories are the workers’ party

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CAMERON began his election manifesto speech yesterday morning by insulting the intelligence of the listeners by stating ‘We are the party of working people,...

Recall The Tuc Congress To Call General Strike To Support The Junior Doctors

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THE latest two-day strike action of the junior doctors has been a resounding success with massive picket lines, and huge public support, while the...

Trade Union Bureaucracy Resumes Its Full Support For Pension Busting!

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ON December 20th the major local government trade unions, after coming under massive attack from their local government members, suspended their support, agreed on...

Putin’s Recognition Of The Republics Of Donetsk And Lugansk Shocks US & UK Imperialism!

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THE DECISION of Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise the Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, and to order Russian troops to intervene to prevent...

Imperialist powers are preparing Middle East war – disarm them with socialist revolutions!

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AT a time when US President Trump and France’s Macron are plotting a permanent US presence in northern Syria, to be supported no...

Gm And Capitalism Go Bust, As Parliament Is Discredited

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LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation is one in which the ruling class is unable to rule in the old way – and has...

Tory contempt for working class as Sunak offers ‘work coaches’ to solve mass unemployment

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YESTERDAY Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his new Job Entry Targeted Scheme (JETS) that he claimed will ‘provide fresh opportunities to those that have...
French youth with placards made by English language students marching through Paris on Thursday March 16

Victory To The Gate Gourmet Workers

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THE News Line sends greetings to the striking German and the locked-out British Gate Gourmet workers, who are today marching through Hounslow. The German workers...

Crucial operations are being refused! Call a general strike to defend the NHS!

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WHEN at the beginning of the year the Red Cross, known for going into countries plagued by war and epidemics, declared a ‘Humanitarian Disaster’...

UK political crisis emerges over demands for ceasefire in Gaza!

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THE House of Commons dived headlong into a political crisis as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support for...

Socialist revolution the answer to youth and workers’ jobs crisis

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A REPORT yesterday by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) warns that up to 350,000 youth aged between 19 to 24 face being thrown...

Russia responds to NATO moving eastwards

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A RUSSIAN foreign ministry statement issued on Tuesday evening said: ‘If a US strategic anti-missile shield starts to be deployed near our borders, we...

Call national strike action! Form a public sector alliance!

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OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...

Sunak warns capitalism is reaching a ‘tipping point’ – time to overthrow it with...

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IN THE week after the hospital coronavirus death toll rose above 10,000, the lockdown measures are to be reviewed. Anticipating this review, Tory chancellor Rishi...

Trump Backs Counter-Revolution Against Chinese Workers – Time To Complete The World Socialist Revolution!

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US president Donald Trump yesterday seized the opportunity for US imperialism to make a provocative intervention in the internal affairs of China by backing...

Ten-hour day for schoolkids!

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AT ONE time it used to be said that British workers were working such long hours that they did not have an opportunity to...

Corbyn Called A ‘Stalinist’ As Labour Right Wing Plots For A Second Referendum

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LABOUR leader Corbyn has been accused of organising a ‘Stalinist purge’ after he sacked ex-leadership contender and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Smith on...

Arrogant Tories Say It’s Pay Cuts Or The Sack!

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THE allegedly ‘independent’ pay review bodies have recommended a below-inflation 1% pay ‘increase’ for public sector staff, but no increase at all for hundreds...

Eurozone Crisis Is Hitting Every Country

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IN a week when Greece and Spain witnessed massive strikes and demonstrations against austerity measures – designed to drive the working class and youth...

Blair’s not going anywhere – except over to the Tories

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PRIME Minister Blair, speaking to one of his major supporters, Murdoch’s Sun newspaper yesterday, spelt out that he was not going into early retirement...

Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!

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AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...

End Of The Road For The UK-US Afghan War

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THE news that the death toll of British soldiers in Afghanistan passed the 400 mark this week has been greeted with outpourings of grief...

Labour Foreign Secretary embraces Netanyahu while Palestinians are massacred in Gaza!

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LAST Saturday, at least 88 Palestinians were killed and over 289 injured by Israeli bomb strikes on the displaced peoples camp in Khan Younis,...

Workers rise up – Stop the closure of Ealing Maternity Unit!

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ON MAY 7 Labour won the Ealing Central and Acton seat from the Tories, with Rupa Huq getting 22,002 votes, a massive 13%...

Bush Threatens North Korea With War

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YESTERDAY North Korea shook the imperialist powers who had assumed that the workers state would not dare to proceed to test a nuclear weapon. North...

TUC traitors issue joint statement with the CBI bosses, the ETUC and Business...

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THE TUC leaders have just issued an unprecedented joint statement with the bosses of the CBI, the ETUC and Business Europe ahead of June’s...

Palestinian PM calls on UN to act against Israeli apartheid, while Hamas insists that...

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on United Nations bodies, particularly the Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to follow up on the recent Human Rights...

Trade union leaders must be forced to act in support of Palestine and for...

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YESTERDAY, US president Donald Trump kept the world waiting for him while he made up his mind about intervening on the side of Israel...

US government shuts down as ruling class split widens

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THE US government has begun to shut itself down after the two houses of Congress failed to agree a budget by midnight Monday. The Republican-led...

Obama orders review over Syria

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama has stepped up the number of US troops in Iraq to over 3,000 and has also admitted that there may be...

Rescue US – The Eu Bosses Plead With Chinese Stalinists

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AS details emerge of the desperate measures hammered out in Europe on Wednesday night in an attempt to save the eurozone from collapse and...

Bosses are taking the axe to the Welfare State, pensions and the NHS! Forward...

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IN MONDAY’S Daily Telegraph, Roger Bootle spells out the ‘fallacy’ in its business section that economic growth is the key to Britain’s survival as...

Capitalist Crisis Is Driving Forward World Revolution

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THIS Sunday’s 65th Anniversary rally of the assassination of Leon Trotsky by an agent of the Stalinist bureaucracy in 1940 is taking place at...

Sanders concedes but ‘political revolution’ will continue!

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‘HILLARY Clinton must become the next president of the United States,’ Bernie Sanders told the Democratic Convention on Monday. These words touched off huge...

Cameron Declares War On The Youth!

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THE PM has said that people under the age of 25 are to lose their right to housing benefit, as part of moves to...

Carey calls to ‘defend Britain’s Christian identity’

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IN a call that will be enthusiastically taken up by the BNP, which champions Christian civilisation, the ex-Archbishop of Canterbury, Carey has urged the...

Capitalist crisis – Big bank losses and oil over $86

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DESPITE having seen Northern Rock share prices crash by 60 per cent, queues of depositors outside branches taking out £2bn of their savings and...

Bring the airports out in support of Ryanair and BA strikers! Nationalise the...

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THE BRITISH AIRWAYS pilots strike is on for both Monday and Tuesday in an escalating battle over pay. British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) BA...

NOW is the time for the TUC to call a general strike to support...

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THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...

Workers targeted by loan companies to pay for private medical treatment

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‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) deals, along with other personal loan arrangements, are being aggressively pushed out for NHS patients as part of the...

Khaddam Calls For Syrian Uprising

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THE former Syrian Vice-President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, set himself up as a would-be Quisling for President Bush yesterday, after he called for a...

Victory to Syria – forward to liberation of Palestine!

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THE Israeli terror against the people of Occupied Palestine is being stepped up remorselessly. The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Riyad Mansour says...

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...

LibDems shattered while Labour gets Scottish shock!

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THE coalition with the Tories is proving to be the kiss of death for the LibDems. They are hated, and paying the price for...