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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...

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...

US assembles imperialist navy in Red Sea to attack Yemen

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ON MONDAY, the US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, announced the creation of a ‘multinational security initiative’ – including the UK and major imperialist...

General Rose supports the Iraqis right to fight occupiers

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GENERAL Rose, who was the commander of the UN forces in Bosnia, has just publicly supported the right of the Iraqi insurgents to fight...

Israeli Dress Rehearsal For Attack On Iran!

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US officials yesterday admitted that a major military exercise, which saw more than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighter jets taking part in...

Labour will let bankers’ bonuses soar and make the working class pay for capitalist...

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LABOUR’S shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday pledged any future Labour government to be the bankers’ best friend, ready and willing to facilitate awarding massive...

Russia must recognise the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ‘On recognition in the Russian Federation of the documents and licence plates of vehicles issued to...

Ukraine and imperialists stage provocation in Azov Sea

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ON SUNDAY the Ukrainian regime, with the complicity of its EU and US imperialist backers, staged a provocative military action by the illegal incursion...

Employment figures mask the real crisis of British capitalism

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THE BIG lie of this minority Tory government is that British capitalism is thriving, its economy is in vigorous good health and that workers...

May Loses Support Of Both The Remainers And Leavers – Looks To Labour To...

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THAT BANKRUPT British capitalism and imperialism is unable to stand on its own two feet anymore is obvious. It faces the prospect of the...

Macron desperate to reassert French imperial rule in Lebanon

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FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron stepped up his blatant interference in Lebanon on Sunday when he issued Lebanese politicians an ultimatum that they must form...

Cameron Proposes Britain’s Own Version Of G-Bay

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DAVID Cameron chose the G20 meeting in Australia to unveil the latest coalition plans to strip British passport holders of their citizenship if they...

The April Wall Street crash ‘worst since 1932’ as recession hits the US 

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‘TRUMP rout is taking on historic dimensions’ was how American financial paper, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), described the news yesterday that the Dow...

Stop Cameron’s counter-revolution at home and abroad!

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CAMERON told the House of Commons on Monday afternoon in his statement on national security strategy that: ‘On Thursday I will make the case for Britain...

UK workers will not go the way of Greece and Syriza – Quit the...

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THE G20 has concluded with the imperialist powers at each others’ throats after being under permanent siege by tens of thousands of anti-capitalist youth. The...

The working class in its essence is Trotskyist – Now build up its ...

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WORLDWIDE the class struggle is being driven forward by the deepening world crisis of capitalism. This dictates to the bourgeoisie that its survival depends...

More and more repression in Brown’s Queen’s Speech

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THE Queen’s Speech yesterday outlined yet more attacks in the coming parliament on workers and youth in Britain by the Brown government, alongside a...

BA’s nail in the coffin of legal strike actions – by courtesy of Unite’s...

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THE UNITE trade union leadership announced yesterday that after the cabin crew membership ‘voted last month overwhelmingly, and for the third time, to take...

Unite Takes Action Against Serco BA And The Bank Of England!

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YESTERDAY striking Serco workers from Bart’s NHS Trust, striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew, and striking Bank of England workers marched and picketed the...

Charge Harry Stanley’s Killers!

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THE uncovering of ‘new’ forensic evidence by the Surrey constabulary has led to the arrest of the two police officers who shot dead Harry...

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...

3.1 million children living below poverty line – the TUC advocates doing absolutely nothing!

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This is a treacherous abdication of all responsibility by the trade union leaders for this crisis of poverty. They have not lifted a single...

Child death toll reaches over 5,500 in Gaza as Israel extends its war on...

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YESTERDAY was World Children’s Day, the United Nations annual day for action on children’s rights which marked the adoption by the UN of the...

CWU leaders capitulate to Royal Mail bosses – Time to build a new leadership...

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LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...

Raising the white flag over Basra airfield

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THE rotting reality behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spin concerning the ‘reconfiguration’ of British troops in southern Iraq is the complete demoralisation of the...

Chile erupts as youth and workers take on the military in fight against austerity

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CHILE erupted over the weekend, with mass demonstrations and riots spreading from the capital Santiago to other major cities, as workers and youth rose...

Tahrir Square demonstrators stand fast against army command and secret police attacks

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AFTER the dictator Mubarak’s insistence, on Tuesday night, that he will remain president of Egypt until next September, the ‘managed change’ for Egypt, favoured...

US pilots confronted Boeing over safety before Ethiopia crash and were ignored!

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SECRET recordings have revealed that the American pilots union confronted US aircraft manufacturer Boeing about the safety of their bestselling 737 Max 8 plane...

Teachers, parents and students taking action to defend education

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OVER the past week, lecturers have been on strike against sackings, parents are occupying schools to stop their closure, and students, angry at high...

Brown Hauls Down The Flag

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LIKE a thief in the night Prime Minister Brown sneaked into Basra airport on Saturday night to tell British troops that their period of...

Bush is confronted by the legacy of Hurricane Katrina

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UNITED States President George Bush was in New Orleans yesterday on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the city. The hurricane killed...

CRISIS-RIDDEN UK CAPITALISM MUST BE OVERTHROWN – NO RETURN TO THE HUNGRY 1930s!

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THE TORY Chancellor has had to borrow another £13bn to unveil a series of desperate measures in order to attempt to keep UK capitalism...

Gates flays NATO and threatens the US will abandon ship

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LAST Friday, at the NATO summit, the outgoing US Defence Secretary Bill Gates flayed NATO savagely and ridiculed the military alliance, threatening that the...

‘Let them eat cake!’ Brown turns his back on the workers!

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ADDRESSING the bosses of the Scottish CBI, Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured them that his government will not be giving workers, the poor and...

Israel tears up Gaza truce agreement and resumes genocidal war in the Strip

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ON TUESDAY, the Israeli Zionist state resumed its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip with the deadliest aerial bombings of the besieged territory since...

Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown

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TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...

Mandelson Gives The Thumbs Down To Luton!

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BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson declared yesterday morning, before he even reached the Luton GM plant, that there would be no nationalisation of GM Luton –...

Tories and Labour get ready for more state repressions

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HOME Secretary Theresa May said yesterday that thousands of people are potentially at risk of being radicalised in the UK. ...

Trump’s Economic Miracle Is A Bankrupt Mirage – US Workers Need Alternative To Trump...

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THE US Federal Reserve Bank yesterday launched an unlimited money printing programme to try to halt the collapse of the US ‘economic miracle’, and...

Defend the NHS – make the TUC call a general strike

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WITH 23,000 beds being cut from hospital wards over the last four years alone, the entire trade union movement must immediately move into action...

Israel is stepping up its war on Lebanon & Palestine – The UK trade...

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THE Israeli army yesterday continued its bloody war on Lebanon for the 20th consecutive day, launching dozens of airstrikes, bombing homes and gatherings, and...

Northern Gaza subjected to ‘heinous massacres’ for 20 days

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YESTERDAY, the Palestinian news agency WAFA detailed that Northern Gaza is being subjected to ‘the most heinous massacres’ by Israeli forces for 20 days...

Capitalism in deflationary crisis

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THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...

No recovery in the US, EU or UK – socialism the only way forward

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THE UK’S Bank of England yesterday followed the lead of the US Federal Reserve Bank whose Chairman Bernanke had on Tuesday said that...

National Strike Action To Stop Any Forced Return To Work!

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Last Sunday Boris Johnson announced that the Tories intend to reopen primary and reception schools year 1 and year 6 on June 1st, with...