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Israel is being held responsible for the lives and safety of six recaptured...

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NEARLY 200 human rights organisations are holding Israel fully responsible for the lives and safety of six Palestinian prisoners who tunnelled their way out...

Imperialism is on its last legs – Time for the world socialist revolution!

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ON Monday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was freed from the high-security Belmarsh jail after a deal was agreed for him to plead guilty to...

Crunch Time For The British Banks

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BOTH the HSBC and Barclays banks along with the Royal Bank of Scotland have suffered major share losses in the past week, as investors...

French Election results: the 5th Republic is dead, forward to the Socialist Republic

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THE RESULT of the first round of the French Presidential election has justly been described as a ‘seismic’ shift in the country. For the first...

Defeat paramilitary policing in UK with socialist revolution

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THOUSANDS of workers and young people in cities throughout the country, peacefully protesting against the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, were met...

Trump Courts North Korea To Avoid A War On Two Fronts!

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THE SIGNED Joint Statement of US President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, issued from the Singapore Summit yesterday morning, commits Trump ‘to provide...

Trump lauds huge tax cuts, slams migrants, keeps G Bay open and plans war...

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PRESIDENT Trump began his ‘State of the Union’ speech on Tuesday night by repeatedly congratulating himself, saying, ‘Less than one year has passed since...

Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!

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INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...

Blair Defies Labour Over Education Privatisation

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LABOUR Prime Minister Blair has ruled out changes to his education reform (privatisation) plans despite a challenge by more than 50 Labour MPs,...

Starmer is making the poor pay for the crisis. The TUC must strike to...

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FOLLOWING the failure of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ panic visit to beg, or borrow, £600 million from China, the Labour government of Keir Starmer is...

UK capitalists on their knees with the deepest recession since records began!

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OFFICIAL figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released yesterday show that gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 20.4% in the three months...

Occupy BMW Cowley – reinstate the sacked 850 agency workers

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IN August 2005 800 Gate Gourmet workers were sacked by megaphone in the car park of the Heathrow company. The TGWU, led by Tony...

German bourgeoisie demands bigger Greek cuts

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THE crisis of the European Union sharpened yesterday when the German Finance Minister warned the Greek bourgeoisie that it would not get access to...

New Labour full of sleaze, hatred for claimants and arrogance

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THE real anti-working class face of the Blair, Labour government is becoming clearer and clearer every day, as the crisis of capitalism deepens. ...

US is on the run as Hamas remain undefeated! Forward to the State of...

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ON Monday, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted a US-drafted resolution endorsing a Gaza ceasefire proposal that aims to end Israel’s eight-month...

Labour Paying Price For Its Betrayal! Time To Join And Build The WRP!

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REBECCA Long-Bailey is the latest candidate to join the squad of failures seeking to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, after the party’s rout...

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...

Arab League – accomplices of imperialism

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The leaders of the 22 member Arab League meeting on Saturday came out decisively on the side of imperialism when they issued a call...

Israel continues with building settlements and preparations to invade Gaza once again

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Israeli authorities on Wednesday approved 130 new settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem. Jerusalem municipality gave the go-ahead to build three 12-storey tower blocks in...

Bank of England & US Fed continue to pump out free money to attempt...

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England announced that it will be keeping interest rates on hold at the historical low of 0.1%. This was the unanimous...

Johnson Treats ‘Doormat’ Starmer With Complete Contempt

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ON MONDAY night, prime minister Boris Johnson decreed that England’s third national lockdown would legally come into force on Tuesday night with parliament called...

Nato Declines To Follow Bush’s Orders

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THE outgoing US president, George W Bush, has spent the entire week pledging a Nato expansion eastwards, and that states such as Albania, Croatia,...

New Labour Is Proposing 24-Hour Courts And Fast-Track Sentencing Of Workers And Youth!

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COURTS ARE now to sit for 24 hours in order to impose fast-track sentencing under New Labour Emergency Government plans to crack down on...

US Secretary of State Kerry and Chief of Staff Dunford speak with Netanyahu

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THE US has reacted with fury to Russia’s ‘interference’ in the Middle East, that is, its invitation to President Assad to visit Moscow, and...

Syria counter-revolutionary alliance

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THE counter-revolutionary alliance between US imperialism and the Stalinist bureaucracy emerged into the light of day last Saturday with the joint framework agreement between...

Jail the Bankers – Nationalise the Banks

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WHEN it comes to fraud and stealing vast amounts of money the banks make your average burglar or spiv look like the rank amateurs...

Parliament Is Being Broken Apart By Brexit Crisis!

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PM MAY is facing a revolt from at least 15 Tory MPs who are threatening to vote with the majority of Labour MPs...

Miliband Praises Attlee But Plans To Bury The Welfare State

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MlLIBAND, Balls and co are like circus performers on the highest of high wires, being buffeted by a huge economic gale that is pauperising...

The needs of profit making are a higher morality than bourgeois law

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THE High Court yesterday ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption inquiry into a £43bn Saudi arms deal....

Top bosses paid more in one year than a worker earns in a lifetime

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THE ANNUAL pay of FTSE 100 chief executives fell during the pandemic but still equates to more than a key worker would earn in...

Israel threatens to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza

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THE DAILY Telegraph reported at the weekend that they had been told by two Israeli officials that daily ‘violations’ by the Palestinian resistance movement...

Bush and Congress head-to-head

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THE House of Representatives in the United States voted by 218 votes to 208 on Wednesday for a Bill to end the US occupation...

Removing the Blair gang is a matter of vital public safety

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair announced yesterday at his monthly press conference that he would not ‘give an inch to terrorism’, and vowed to combat...

Myanmar – working class intervene with national strikes to bring down military dictatorship

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WORKERS across Myanmar (formally Burma) came out on a nationwide general strike yesterday demanding the overthrow of the military dictatorship which was imposed last...

Occupy to fight mass sackings! Nationalise the motor car industry!

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GENERAL Motors yesterday presented the United States Department of Treasury with its restructuring plan to re-establish the bankrupt company through massive sackings of over...

British police demand internment camps

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AT the same time as leading members of the Bush administration are seeking to shut down the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp after experiencing...

Nationalise the energy companies to end fuel poverty

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PM Brown has rejected out of hand the trade union demand for a Windfall Tax on the oil, gas and energy companies, that are...

Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!

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THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...

Tories pushing health insurance to smash NHS! Organise general strike NOW!

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THE SPECTRE of health insurance to ‘top-up’ the NHS has raised its ugly head. It is part of the arsenal of weapons turned on...

Balls reveals intense ruling class fear

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ED BALLS, the Schools Minister, and the former economics advisor to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, over the weekend dropped his political master right...

Unite campaign for ‘Workers Economy’ is a campaign for a Starmer-led win in 2025!

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THE Unite trade union has issued a press release that dangles before its members and the working class the pledge that the union would...

Business Secretary Reynolds can’t keep blast furnaces going!

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THE British Labour government’s business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep...

Labour will not reverse hospital closures!

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THE Health Services Journal (HSJ) has just revealed that the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) officials are keeping confidential (that is well hidden) until...

Labour’s drive for Foundation Trusts and privatisation kills!

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The Royal College of Nursing has described the Healthcare Commission’s investigation into emergency care at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust as ‘shocking’ and said that...
Herts FBU members lobbying the Downing Street reception on March 1 hosted by Blair to honour firefighters involved in the Buncefield oil depot fire – nine fire stations among the first to repond to the Buncefied fire are now  threatened with closure

Belarus workers vote to keep out capitalism

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RIGHT on cue the European election monitors have said that the re-election of President Lukhashenka was flawed and failed to meet international standards. An EU...