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Free Assange – Jail the imperialists, the real war criminals

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YESTERDAY, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has been unlawfully detained by...

Tuc Congress Leaders Refuse To Fight!

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ON Sunday at the TUC Congress delegates voted unanimously to defend the right to strike, with GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny declaring: ‘If the...

Defend NHS hospital care with occupations and a general strike!

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A REPORT  issued by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) this week exposes the appalling state of hospitals in England as the NHS is...

Majority of world banks ‘not economically viable’ according to report

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THE INTERNATIONAL management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company has published a global banking review which found that the majority of banks worldwide ‘may not...

Industry collapses in UK under impact of capitalist crisis

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THE UK economy stagnated with no growth in the last quarter of 2019, according to official figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics). Gross...

The Tory recovery is a fraud! Time to bring them down!

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UK registered unemployment from April to June 2015 was at 1.85 million, up 25,000 from the previous quarter while the ONS figures showed that...

Trade unions must form a Council of Action in Kensington to requisition the 1,652...

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THE HORROR felt by millions of workers after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of many men, women and children...

Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis

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THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...

Migrants Not Wanted In The UK – Unless They Are ‘White Helmets’

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THAT well known humanitarian organisation, the Israeli armed forces, that is killing Palestinians on a daily basis, has just conducted a ‘humanitarian’ raid into...

French election results directly pose the issue of working class taking power

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THE SECOND and final round of voting for the French Parliament ended on Sunday night with the fascist National Rally (RN) party suffering a...

Trade unions must take action to defend state pension!

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ON WEDNESDAY the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, David Gauke, cynically used the fact that parliament was closing down for the holidays to announce...

Javid Warns Against Any Attempt To Return To Austerity!

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FORMER TORY Chancellor Sajid Javid has warned against a return to austerity as the bankrupt UK economy plunges into a historic disaster with its...

597 homeless deaths, 130,000 homeless children! Slum landlords and capitalism must be got rid...

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FIVE hundred and ninety-seven homeless people died on the streets of Britain last year, up from 482 the year before – in fact homeless...

Carney’s Last Stand!

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BANK of England Governor and chairman of the Financial Stability Board Mark Carney understands both that another major banking crash is on the way...

Tories have driven NHS to breaking point! The trade unions must call a general...

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THE NHS is at breaking point! This is the warning from doctors, nurses and NHS staff, furious that the Tories did absolutely nothing to...

HSBC new ‘dirty money’ laundering allegations

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THE HSBC bank, the biggest bank in Europe, says it is looking into allegations that it has set up a large number of offshore...

End CWU paralysis – reinstate strike actions!

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KARL MARX wrote in his masterpiece ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur,...

The Workers Of The World do Support Palestine – Now Is The Time...

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TENS of thousands marched through central London on Saturday reiterating their calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, for the UK to stop arming...

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...

Smash The Zionist Entity! Forward To The State Of Palestine!

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THE decision of an Israeli court to reject that the Israeli army and state were in any way responsible for the 2003 Israeli...

Bourgeoisie In A Panic Over Scotland

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POLLS showing that the campaign for Scottish independence could win the referendum, due to take place in nine days time, has caused panic amongst...

Firefighters, postal workers, teachers must unite to smash privatisation!

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THE TORY-led coalition is working overtime to privatise the public sector and turn it into a bonanza, a big killing for the big business...

Close Down The US Base On Diego Garcia!

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FOREIGN Secretary Miliband yesterday admitted in the House of Commons that previous government denials that the island of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands...

Labour must bring Tories down and carry through Brexit – One Ramsay Mac is enough!

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ON TUESDAY night prime minister Theresa May suffered the biggest political defeat in British parliamentary history when her Brexit deal, signed and sealed with...

Mass sackings on way in bankrupt Britain

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IT’S ‘make or break’ time for UK manufacturing, according to the authoritative Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), an organisation not noted for...

Royal Mail shares frenzy grips bankrupt bosses

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TODAY is the official starting day of trading on the stock exchange in Royal Mail shares, a sell-off that has been greeted in the...

Vote ‘NO’ and organise Greek Socialist Revolution!

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THE Syriza party won the last Greek general election with its declarations that once elected it would put an end to the austerity dictatorship...

Smash Imperialism To Get Rid Of Nuclear Weapons!

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WORLD leaders at the Washington summit on nuclear security have heard the direst warnings yet from President Obama of the danger of nuclear...

UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...

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LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...

Defend the NHS by expropriating the drug companies and banks under socialism

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AUDIT Scotland, the public spending watchdog for Scotland, has issued a damning report on the NHS funding crisis, which it states is in a...

Cameron gets his EU marching orders!

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US president Barak Obama has issued his sternest warning yet to the Tory government of the dangers of Britain leaving the European Union. In an...

‘Do Or Die’ Johnson Has Already Faced An Attempt To Remove Him!

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THE JUST-elected Tory leader Boris Johnson has already faced an attempt to remove him by Tory Minister of State for Europe Sir Alan Duncan,...

US trade unions must evict Trump and break with Democrats to found a Labour...

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PRESIDENT TRUMP has stated that he has no intention of leaving the White House and the presidency voluntarily. He said on Saturday: ‘We all know...

Occupy GMM Luton!

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THE German government yesterday made its move to try and secure GM Europe for Magna, the Canadian car parts manufacturer that wants to sack...

Bankers’ Man Brown Wants Three Years Of Wage Cuts

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PREMIER Brown says he wants three-year pay deals for public sector workers, rather than the traditional annual deals, to help keep UK inflation low. ...

Tory austerity gives workers choice of ‘eat, heat or pay rent’ – Time to...

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‘EAT, heat or pay rent’ that is the stark choice facing millions of low paid and unemployed workers living in private rented accommodation in...

Defend jobs, wages and rights – bring down Brown government

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PRIME Minister Brown’s alliance with the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party has paid off with the passage by nine votes of his amendment to the...

World crisis deepening to explosion point!

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JAPANESE stocks led big falls across Asia on Tuesday, posting their biggest drop in nearly 10 months, as investors became hysterical about falling oil...

Tories savage poor but grovel to Clinton and US

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THE bankers coalition has set the scene for next Wednesday’s cuts announcements in true Bullingham Club style, by declaring that ‘welfare cheats’ equal muggers,...

Right wing resorts to discredited Blair!

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THE anti-Corbyn candidates must be pretty desperate if they are prepared to allow ex-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to appear and give a speech...

Britain ‘drifting’ towards a police state–Manchester Chief Constable

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SIR Peter Fahy, Greater Manchester Chief Constable and vice-chair of the National Counter-Terrorism Committee, has warned that the fight against ‘extremism’ is leading to...

Labour Party leaders move to stab Brexit in the back! Forward to a political...

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AS IS to be expected the Labour leadership has been unable to hold fast to the Corbyn line that the party will support Brexit....

Brazil and Bernanke give banks the shivers!

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IT REALLY doesn’t take very much to send the international capitalist money markets into a state of panic, as the US Federal Reserve chairman,...

Socialist revolution will see the war criminals jailed!

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A REPORT released yesterday by the Iraq Fatality Investigations, led by former High Court judge George Newman, has condemned the actions of four British...

Police chiefs demand ‘summary powers’

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THE Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is demanding that their forces be given powers to dispense ‘instant police justice’. This is revealed in...