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600,000 workers and youth march for Palestine – the TUC must call a general...

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600,000 WORKERS AND YOUTH marched from Central London to Whitehall on Saturday in a massive show of strength and solidarity with the masses of...

Mass Murder In Arab Jabur

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WHILE President Bush was allegedly talking peace in the Palestinian town of Ramallah on Thursday, US B1 bombers and F16 fighters were raining 40,000...

Nationalise BA – Get Rid Of Work-For-Nothing Capitalism

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THE Willie Walsh plan for rescuing BA from the capitalist crisis is quite straightforward. He has gone beyond wage cuts, he wants ‘his’ 40,000...

Israel extends genocidal war to ‘safe’ city of Rafah

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US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken arrived in Egypt yesterday at the start of yet another Middle East tour – his fifth since the...

Israel calls for Iran to be expelled from the United Nations

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THE Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. He also said that ‘a world without the...

Unemployment, Slump, And Savage Cuts Driving Revolution Throughout Europe!

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THE Office for National Statistics said yesterday that UK unemployment rose by 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December,...

Brown’s National Economic Council ‘war cabinet’ will be making war on the workers

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‘WE have agreed to make a solemn engagement as heads of state and government to support banking and financial institutions faced with the crisis,’...

Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Sri Lanka

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AFTER an exhausting, genocidal war, hugely costly in lives and resources, and in the face of a working class movement that is now demanding...

The Spark That Started A Revolution!

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OVER a million Greeks stopped work yesterday in a general strike while tens of thousands of Greek workers, unemployed and youth rallied in front...
Striking local government workers on March 28 determined to defend their pensions

Now is the time to build revolutionary party in France

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Europe is lurching to the left after the revolutionary uprising in France, and the defeat of Berlusconi in Italy. Millions of French workers and youth...

Corbyn Displays The Bankruptcy Of Reformism At The TUC!

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WHAT has emerged out of the bankruptcy of Parliament this week is that the Labour leadership, along with the other opposition parties and rebel...

Johnson refuses to resign – organise a general strike to kick him and the...

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BORIS Johnson opened prime minister’s question time yesterday by apologising for giving the impression that lockdown rules, imposed by his Tory government, had not...

Cameron’s all-powerful police state is to fight the working class

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THE beginning of PM Cameron’s speech to the recalled House of Commons was an attempt to divorce the youth uprising that is taking place...

Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU

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THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...

Unite votes for speed-up and savage cuts at GM Vauxhall

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THE Vauxhall-Opel GM bosses statement put out yesterday claimed as its subject: ‘Vauxhall and Opel employees dive into their pockets to support the company...

Stop The Police Chiefs Taking Over The Fire Service!

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JUST a few weeks ago the Grenfell Tower inferno burnt men, women and children to death, because the fire was able to take...

Cameron, Farage and Iwaszkiewicz forming a common front

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NEO-fascist movements in Ukraine are operating with the connivance of the Kiev authorities, which is absolutely unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside their  caravan at Heathrow yesterday

Pakistan PM forced to condemn US raid

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THE Pakistani Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, yesterday spelt out that Pakistan cannot accept actions like the recent US cross-border air strike on a village...

General Strike required to win junior doctors struggle!

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THE Academy of Medical Royal Colleges yesterday issued a statement saying: ‘This is a time of unprecedented crisis for the NHS. With this in...

Trump And Blair Are Furious As The Taliban Heads For Government!

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THE success of the Taliban movement and the mass of the Afghan people in securing a US and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the...

Police demand sources for Dowler leak

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THE Metropolitan police are seeking a court order to force Guardian journalists to reveal their sources for the information that Milly Dowler’s ...

Austerity Forever Pledges Cameron

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IN an interview given to the Daily Telegraph, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, declared that ‘austerity’ will be forever as far as he...

TUC must call a general strike to defend Palestinians and support the State of...

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THERE is no doubt that the recent massive demonstrations where hundreds of thousands of UK youth marched, with many chanting for a State of...

With Dick’s Promotion The Capitalist State Shows It Is The Boss

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COMMANDER Cressida Dick is to become a deputy assistant commissioner, the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) announced on Tuesday. On July 22 2005 Dick was in...

Mubarak regime offers 15 per cent rise in pay and pensions!

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WORKERS and youth in Cairo held mass demonstrations yesterday following the release of the detained Google executive and facebook radical Wael Ghonim. The demonstrators in...

Alleged stonethrowers charged with attempted murder or targeted by snipers!

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‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...

Stock Markets crash and the bosses panic after Trump pledges 50% tariffs on Canadian...

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FEAR gripped the stockmarkets yesterday after Donald Trump first of all threatened to double tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from Canada to...

Education cuts and £9,000 fees destroying the future for youth

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AFTER record A-Level results, hundreds of thousands of students will be refused university places this year because of the coalition’s savage cuts policy. After being...

Sunak Gets Labour Cheers As He Mounts Perilous Rescue Operation For Capitalism!

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CHANCELLOR Sunak received Labour cheers for his statement in parliament on Thursday, as the Tories fought to regain some popularity after the continuing exposure...

Bourgeoisie Trembles At The Approaching Catastrophe!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, made it clear this week that the banking system faces total collapse due to ‘systemic...

Make TUC day of workplace action the first day of a general strike across...

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ISRAELI troops crossed the border into southern Lebanon yesterday in what they described as ‘limited, localised and targeted ground raids’ after approval was given...

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’...

Tories declare war on trade unions – defend the right to strike with a...

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TODAY’S Queen’s speech includes plans by the Tories to make all-out strikes by rail unions and other transport workers illegal. Tory transport secretary Grant Shapps...

PLO rejects Israeli attempts to forcibly displace the Palestinian people and demands a Palestinian...

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THE Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, stressed on Tuesday night in a meeting held at the...

A desperate ruling class forced to wheel out Gordon Brown to ‘save the day’...

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WITH THE Tory government of Theresa May staggering from one crisis to another this week over the issue of Brexit, the desperation of the...

Eu On The Brink!

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THE entire capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step towards total meltdown with the admission last Thursday that agreement on a Europeanwide bail-out...

‘Perfidious Albion’ betrays Palestine again!

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THE British ruling class has played a special role as far as Palestine in concerned. In the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917, the United...

Workers of the world unite – provided you speak English

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband spoke yesterday on Labour’s ‘One Nation’ approach to cultural diversity and integration insisting that admission to this select body is...

Greece heralds a capitalist collapse and the European socialist revolution

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THE Standard and Poor (S&P) credit rating agency downgraded Greek government bonds on Wednesday sending government stocks and share prices on the Athens Stock...

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...

Any attempt to ban Rail and Post strikes must be met with a general...

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THE DECEMBER 12 general election will take place in the middle of an unprecedented wave of strikes as workers show their revolutionary determination to...

US Federal Reserve is too scared to raise interest rates!

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ON Thursday evening, the US Federal Reserve policy committee decided yet again that it did not dare to raise interest rates by a fraction...

Hunt trying to assassinate the NHS!

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JEREMY HUNT, who did a stint as a very pro-Murdoch Culture Secretary, was reshuffled out of that job and became Health Secretary as a...

French unions must call general strike to smash Macron’s murderous police forces!

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FRANCE’S President Emmanuel Macron, after his panicky early return to France from an EU summit, has now been forced to postpone a planned state...

Workers must support Russia and China as Biden threatens new war!

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AS THE world crisis of the capitalist system deepens, the US under President Joe Biden is preparing for a new world war. Biden is...