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Workers must force TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Labour government...

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YESTERDAY, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz issued a statement that announced a massive capture of territory in the Gaza Strip that will be added...

Army is ‘sick’ from Iraq & Afghan campaigns

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ONE in every fourteen British soldiers, almost 7,000 are sick or injured at a time when every regiment of 600 faces a shortfall of...
Amicus members from the DARA defence plant in south Wales lobbying to defend 1,000 jobs

Petrol price rises leading to new fuel blockade

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UK petrol and diesel prices are still rising in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with the average cost of petrol now at 95.1 pence...

UK banks fail stress test while manufacturing collapses

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LAST Friday the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the results of its stress test on 51 of the biggest banks throughout Europe and Britain. Fearful...

Workers forced into debt and facing jail to keep the banks from crashing

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T EMERGED yesterday that the number of debt repayment orders issued by the courts last year reached a record level of 1.15 million. These official...

UK workers must support the Hamas call for action against genocide!

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in a statement on Wednesday, called on the ‘free people of the world to escalate popular protest’ against the...

Support the Junior Doctors – no imposed NHS contracts!

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JUNIOR DOCTORS are to be turned into slaves by Health Secretary Hunt who is carrying his threat out to impose a contract on them...

Britain Has Been, Is, And Will Continue Talking With The Taleban

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PRIME Minister Brown told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that British forces are ‘winning the battle against the insurgency’ in Afghanistan. Using...

Tories boost their navy in the Gulf, part of a ‘Maritime Coalition’ against Iran!...

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TORY foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to ‘reverse cuts to the size of the Royal Navy’ if he becomes prime minister. Hunt has...
Mass demonstration by locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow earlier in their struggle

TERRORISM BILL: Defeat Blair’s police-state measures!

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THE Labour government’s new Terrorism Bill, published yesterday, will be debated by MPs in the House of Commons today. For the past few days, Prime...

Shut down Campsfield – repeal all racist immigration acts

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ONCE again yesterday morning, Campsfield detention camp was on fire, with coachloads of prison officers, the ‘tornado team’ armed with riot shields, arriving and...

Defend All Jobs And Services And Send The Bailiffs Packing!

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HARD PRESSED councils facing the threat of bankruptcy at the hands of the Tory government, and facing the prospect of having government commissioners imposed...

New Orleans and Baghdad, twin cities destroyed by US capitalism

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NEW ORLEANS was allowed to be destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. US capitalism and its Bush administration had on the top of their agendas massive tax...

Defend the NHS! Stop the wholly-owned subsidiaries in their tracks!

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THERE are Unite and Unison trade union protests in York and Chesterfield today against moves by two NHS trusts to set up wholly-owned subsidiaries...

BMA Junior Doctors Unite With The RMT To Demand Action Against Privatisation And Anti-Union...

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THE sight of the junior doctors of the British Medical Association and the RMT union beginning to form an alliance in order to defend...

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...

Stop regeneration, and start the refurbishment and building of council houses

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THE Fire Brigades Union has called for a public inquiry into the fatal fire in the Camberwell high rise block which claimed six lives....

Cameron to ‘Keep capitalism safe’ with more savage attacks on workers!

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ON Wednesday, King, the governor of the Bank of England, said of the developing crisis in the eurozone that his Monetary Policy Committee believes...

TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION TO FORCE PM MAY TO RETURN VENEZUELA’S GOLD AT...

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LAST Wednesday US national security advisor John Bolton threatened that the US administration was putting every foreign bank ‘on notice’ if they failed to...

Overseas Operation Bill gives British State licence to kill and commit war crimes with...

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THE HOUSE of Lords today will be debating the Overseas Operations Bill which gives the British military a licence to kill and torture throughout...

WALSH SLAPS DOWN UNITE AND McCLUSKEY – Trade unions must call mass actions to...

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THE Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has urged BA to step back from its ‘opportunistic fire and rehire’ plans, which will send thousands of...

Bring down Brown-Mandelson regime – forward to a workers’ government

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YESTERDAY afternoon the PM’s office was leaking the speech that Brown is due to give to the TUC Congress on Tuesday. It stressed that if...

Right wing Labour wants to make sure that the UK never leaves the European...

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IN LAST Friday’s letter to EU President Donald Tusk the Prime Minister, Theresa May, made it very clear that she had surrendered to the...

Hands off Iran – NO British Troops in the Middle East and...

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‘IT simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this...

Leave the EU with no deal! Forward with the socialist revolution!

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THE VOTES in Parliament on amendments to Theresa May’s Brexit deal saw the counter-revolutionary plots by MPs from all parties to smash the 2016...

Tories secret plan for fire sale of NHS land and a mass closure of...

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DETAILS of the secret Tory plan for a ‘fire sale’ of NHS land and buildings emerged yesterday following an analysis carried out for the...

Coalition plans to punish and freeze the elderly

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IT was the German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller, who said: ‘In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up...

Lesson Of The Sangin Rout – Quit Afghanistan While You Are Still Able To!

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BRITISH troops in the Sangin area of Afghanistan’s Helmand province are to be replaced by US forces, the UK’s Defence Secretary Liam Fox has...

May appeals to Labour Right-Wing to save her

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THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained...

Bring Down May And The Tories! – Break With The Eu Now! – ...

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PM MAY, placed into office after the Cameron-Osborne 2016 EU referendum disaster, has continued to display the complete disorientation of the Tory Party and...

UK economy is crashing into bankruptcy under the impact of the world capitalist crisis!

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ONLY two weeks into 2025 and the capitalist world is reeling from an economic crisis of historic proportions – a crisis that has completely...

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...

Labour plans to criminalise the entire working class

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THE government is planning ‘behaviour orders’ for people considered to be at risk of committing a violent crime. Class prejudice, ie racial and working...

University lecturers start fresh mass strike action

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THE THIRD wave of a countrywide strike by members of the University and College Union (UCU) began yesterday with a five-day walkout at 38...

Free the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ volunteers! Organise an armada to break the Gaza blockade!Forward to...

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NINETEEN members of the six ship ‘Freedom Flotilla’ were yesterday murdered by Israeli special forces in a major war crime, and a larger...

Answer Airbus threat to thousands of jobs in UK and Europe with occupations...

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YESTERDAY, Airbus announced that it will scrap all production of its flagship A380 superjumbo aircraft, a giant cruise liner with two decks and capable...

Occupy Tata Steel NOW! Kick the Tories out! Tata must be nationalised...

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THE decision by the bosses to sell off Tata Steel is one that will lead not just to poverty for 19,000 workers and...

Smash Fortress EU with the socialist revolution

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THE head of Eurotunnel is demanding that Britain forks out £4.6 million to finance a massive wall enclosing 600 metres of track at the...

Britain’s ‘Treasure Islands’ for the super rich – while it’s super austerity for...

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THE ‘Panama papers’ leak of 11 million documents shows that the rich and infamous worldwide, including heads of state, are avoiding taxation...

Huge food inflation as bosses and unions agree on wage cuts and job cuts

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WORKERS in Britain are now feeling the ‘benefits’ of the British government’s policy of printing money to rescue the banks while allowing the pound...

Israel continues with its Gaza massacres

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ISRAEL has rejected the UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and is determined to carry...

End imperialist war through world socialist revolution

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EIGHT hundred British troops, with tanks, armoured vehicles and drones are to be sent to Estonia in the Spring, on the border with Russia. The...

RENATIONALISE NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS FIELDS! Bring down the Brown government!

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YESTERDAY road hauliers made it crystal clear that the Labour government had seven days to make a big cut in fuel duty, to save...

Bank of England warns over £1 trillion of domestic debt

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WITH Coral Eurobet the bookmakers now the most successful British company, with a turnover of £5.4 billion, and with manufacturing industry being slaughtered, no...

Behind The Crisis Talks In Minsk On Wednesday!

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THE ‘peace talk’ that suggests Merkel and Hollande are seeking to organise a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis, acceptable to all, the imperialist...