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Workers across the UK erupt against cuts to wages, pensions and conditions – demand...

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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at 58 universities across the UK have come out on a three day strike, starting today,...

‘Relentless’ rise in public debt unsustainable world bankers warn as capitalism dives into the...

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THE head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issued the gravest warning yet to the governments and central banks of the capitalist world...

Stop the UK arms sales to the Saudi and Bahraini despots!

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DESPERATE for trade after Brexit, and for access to Middle East oil, bankrupt capitalist Britain is desperately licking the boots of Arab feudalists, while...

May Day Manifesto 2015 Organise the Revolution!

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the historic crisis...

Gm-Fiat Shock For World’s Motor Workers

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GENERAL Motors is about to end its ‘honeymoon’ relations with the US motor workers’ trade union, the UAW. Up till now the UAW leaders have...

Israelis Bomb Gaza And Shell The Lebanon

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FOUR Lebanese soldiers were killed and at least four wounded when Israeli tanks opened fire at Lebanese positions on the border with Israel shortly...

Obama Ready To Step Up Intervention Into Syria

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THE just re-elected US President, Barack Obama, yesterday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to use chemical weapons against the NATO-supported opposition forces, saying...

Economic Crisis Set To Wreak Havoc To Jobs And Homes

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THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday warned that thousands of manufacturing jobs are about to be slashed by employers seeking to reduce their costs,...

Blair’s police state demonising Muslims

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ABU Bakr, the 27 year old English teacher, and one of the nine Muslim men arrested by the police, and put under the media...

French revolution stuns EU bosses and political leaders

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THE 55 per cent vote, by the working class and the rural population of France against the European Constitution, is a body blow to...

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...

Grenfell Tower – Tories tore up health and safety rules then invited cladding companies...

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AN INVESTIGATION by Sky News into the role of the firms that produce the plastic used to cover the exterior of Grenfell Tower has...

Obama, Biden look to Putin!

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VICE-PRESIDENT BIDEN took the stage at the 45th Munich Security Conference on Saturday to spell out that the US understood that it now needed...

Hamas Demands A Complete End To The Israeli Aggression Against The Gaza Strip!

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SENIOR Hamas official Dr. Basem Naim stated Tuesday that Hamas cannot accept any agreement that does not clearly commit to halting the Israeli aggression...

25 years since the Malvinas war

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THE 1982 Malvinas (Falklands War) was a decisive event not just for Britain’s Foreign Policy but for its home policy. The islands off the Argentinian...

Google, Apple and Facebook facilitate international internet slave trade says UN!

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HE INTERNET is being used to promote a modern day online slave market, where women and children are being sold into domestic servitude. This...

Liz Truss speech calls for ‘new’ party to wage class war against working class!

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IT was almost exactly one year ago that the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a mini-budget that...

CRISIS DEEPENING – as production and the pound fall!

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UK industrial output collapsed in August, unexpectedly as far as the bourgeoisie was concerned, destroying any remaining thoughts of green shoots of recovery. Bourgeois...

Refugees from imperialist wars are welcome – the enemy of the working class is...

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ON WEDNESDAY it was revealed that the Tory government is considering building an ‘asylum processing centre’ in the South Atlantic on Ascension Island. The Foreign...

Manchester Arena bombing Inquiry condemns MI5, police & private security but lets the Tories...

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POLICE and private security failed to apprehend the Manchester bomber, the damning report published by the public inquiry has concluded. Inquiry chairman Sir John...

The working class is the hero of the hour – it smashed the Tory...

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IT says something about the scale of the defeat that the Tories and the bosses have suffered over the Mayoral election in London...

Workers And Students Must Organise General Strikes To Smash Tories & Support Gaza!

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NEARLY three dozen Palestinian civilians, including women and children, have already been murdered by Israeli military forces bombing various neighbourhoods in Rafah in the...

Hamas calls for the ‘criminalisation of the Israeli occupation’ of Palestine!

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ON World Humanitarian Day, the Hamas movement called for ‘criminalising the occupation’s violations against humanitarian work, and stopping its escalating terrorism against the Gaza...

Netanyahu ready to strike Iran, while McCain calls to bomb Syria

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ISRAEL, which has several hundred nuclear bombs, has issued a warning that it will not wait much longer before it strikes Iran, which has...
PATRICA DA SILVA ARMANI (speaking), ALEX PERIERA and VIVIEN MENEZES FIGUEIREDO (behind), cousins of Jean Charles de Menezes at the Stockwell Tube vigil six months after he was shot dead by police

All out for the News Line–Gate Gourmet sacked workers conference

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THE sacked Gate Gourmet workers were locked out almost six months ago on August 10th-11th 2005 by a management and an owner that was...

Britain’s Third Afghan War Heads For Disaster

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NINE UK soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in nine days, making 178 UK troops killed since 2001. The official propaganda line is that...

Taliban Wins The War!

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THE news that the United States and Britain are going to the United Nations security council to push for UN sanctions against 18 top...

Ireland’s ‘mother and baby’ homes report – Church and state complicit in 9,000...

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NINE thousand children died in Irish ‘mother and baby’ homes run by the Catholic Church throughout the 20th century, a long awaited report has...

UK Drone Assassins – Mass Murder As A Video Game!

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THE House of Commons Defence Committee came out in favour on Monday of continuing massacres of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other places by...

Households face catastrophe as debt crisis sets to explode

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IT IS becoming clear that the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, is very scared about the effects of the expected rise...

NHS bed & staffing crisis is a ‘Grenfell Tower waiting to happen’ – Call...

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THE NUMBER of NHS beds has halved in the last 30 years and proposals to slash bed numbers even further will make the ‘NHS a...

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...

Housing bubble set to burst!

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LAST week saw a concerted effort by the Tory-led coalition, aided by their friends in the bourgeois press, to deny that a catastrophic housing...

Qe Tapering Leading To A Crash

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WHAT started last week as a crisis in the international capitalist stock markets is turning into a full-scale crash with Wednesday’s decision by the...

Workers in UK and US must dismantle the imperialist war machine with a general...

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AFTER Tuesday’s talks with the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, President Putin spoke about the situation after the US’s 59 cruise missile...

Scavenger Hague Leaps Into Ukraine Conflict

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THE British Foreign Secretary Hague tweeted his support for the ‘new Ukrainian government’ on Saturday midday along with his German opposite number. However, there...

Children Going To School Hungry!

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THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...

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...

BIS Report – Global ‘Debt Trap’ set to crash world capitalism

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THE SWISS based Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank for central banks’, has issued a new warning about the global ‘debt trap’...

Cameron’s Permanent War On Workers

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‘TODAY the biggest challenge we face is economic,’ Cameron told his audience of City of London bosses on Monday night at the Lord Mayor’s...

Claimant count rises as UK economy carries on sinking!

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UK unemployment fell by 36,000 in the three months to the end of March, to 2.46 million. However, the number of people receiving...

Privateers Clean Up While Unemployed Demonised

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THE NEWS that the coalition government has very quietly slipped a clause into the contracts being handed out to private companies to run probation...

Portuguese bailout accelerates EU disintegration

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THURSDAY’S announcement that Portugal had finally been forced into asking for a massive 90 billion euro (£79 bn) bailout from the European Central Bank...

Stop the great pensions robbery!

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2.5 million public service employees are being told how much extra the coalition government intends to force them to pay in pension contributions from...

NAO report exposes the scandal of the Southern GTR Rail franchise

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TRAIN staff and angry commuters have been protesting up and down the country at the 3.4% hikes in rail fares. Many commuters have seen...