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Hamas Responds To Israeli Massacres With Bold Strikes Against Israel!

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THE movements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Sunday gave their full support to the Tel Aviv operation that targeted Israeli soldiers working for...

Labour ready for an emergency coalition

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ON the eve of the Labour Party conference, Ed Miliband has sought to win the support of the middle classes, and also drive a...

Time To Destroy The Anti-Union Laws With A General Strike And A Socialist Revolution!

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THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...

Fortress Israel, armed by the USA, brings in new anti-Palestinian laws and cuts West...

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THE US and Israel have been engaged in intense negotiations for many months to outline America’s military aid to Israel for the next decade. Washington...

Sack Starmer Not Corbyn – No National Government!

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FORMER LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the Labour Party’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and pay damages of over £500,000 to so-called party...

Austerity and Universal Credit to continue!

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TORY chancellor Philip Hammond made a climb down in his budget speech yesterday to Theresa May, but there was no climb down over continuing...

Stock Markets crash and the bosses panic after Trump pledges 50% tariffs on Canadian...

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FEAR gripped the stockmarkets yesterday after Donald Trump first of all threatened to double tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from Canada to...

British Imperialism In The Dock!

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RETIRED General Frank Kitson is being sued over the Loyalist murder of a Roman Catholic, Eugene Heenan in Northern Ireland in February 1973 and...

The Capitalist System Deserves To Perish

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THE run on shares last Friday, particularly bank shares, devastated capitalists and capitalism. The Royal Bank of Scotland saw its shares crash by 25 per...

Unions Must Stop Pleading With Bosses And The Tories And Use Their Strength To...

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BORIS JOHNSON’S policy of do-nothing to combat or turn back the coronavirus has now been dumped after 229 scientists wrote to the government saying...

The BofE didn’t recognise the crisis of capitalism even when it stared it in...

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SIR John Gieve, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, yesterday admitted that he was a victim of the historical blindness of the...

Coalition plan to beat the poorest to aid the richest

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SO FAR trillions of pounds have been spent by the state, using taxpayers’ money, to rescue, prop up and save bankrupt banks and...
A coachload of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers came to the TGWU’s London headquarters to speak with TGWU National Secretary Brendan Gold about his betrayal of the locked out workers

US workers need revolutionary leadership

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A CRISIS, with the most revolutionary implications for the working class, is erupting in the US, with GM, the world’s biggest motorcar producer announcing...

Trades unions must take action to end NHS privatisation

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‘END this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare in England.’ This was the call from Dr Hamish Meldrum, the Chairman of...

Enemy Well And Truly Inside The Gates!

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SIMON Stevens the new Chief Executive of NHS England is no stranger to the NHS and the struggle to privatise it. He was chief...

Biden in Kiev trying to shore up coupist regime

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US Vice-President Joe Biden told the assembled right wingers at the Ukraine parliament yesterday that the US stands with the country’s new leaders in...

Crisis Deepening Rapidly – Socialism The Only Answer

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IN ‘going-broke Britain’ the number of people becoming insolvent in England and Wales in 2009 was 134,142, according to official data from the Insolvency...

Tories to slash benefits to unemployed & sick

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TORY Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government unveiled its plans to target the unemployed and others on benefits, depriving them of their entitlements, or...

The Occupation Is Responsible For All Of The Killings In Palestine

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A PALESTINIAN teenager from occupied East Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early on Wednesday in revenge for the killing of three Israeli settler youth...

Expulsion of diplomats attempt to demonise Russia – workers know the enemy is at...

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The Czech Republic on Saturday expelled 18 Russian diplomats after claiming that two alleged Russian spies were behind a deadly explosion at a Czech...

Hamas fighters deal heavy blows against Israel, while Gaza masses remain undefeated!

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MORE than 700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry...

There was no fire safety report before refurbishing Grenfell – Build Council of Action...

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GRENFELL Tower was safe until the refurbishment took place, when it was wrapped in highly flammable insulation and cladding, described by fire safety experts...

We Salute The Heroes Of Paris Who Stood Up To 9,180 Riot Police Who...

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IN PARIS, on Saturday, against the advice of the more moderate members of the ‘Yellow Vests’ movement, 10,000 French workers and youth demonstrated their...

Bosses and bankers agree capitalism is ‘broken’ – time to put an end...

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ANY LINGERING doubts about the morbid terror that is gripping the capitalist class were dispelled this weekend when 50 of the leading bosses from...

Eurozone crisis creating revolution – build the Fourth International

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THE barrage of propaganda from every mouthpiece of the capitalist class that the economic crisis of capitalism is over, suffered a blow last week with...

Big Lesson From Afghan War Is Never Ally Yourself With The Imperialists – To...

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RAPHAEL Marshall, ex-Foreign Office desk official and now whistleblower, has exposed the way British and US imperialism dumped their Afghan allies and left them...

Osborne tax credits retreat but savage assault on Welfare State is stepped up!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne was forced to make a humiliating retreat over working tax credits in the House of Commons yesterday after facing massive resistance to...

100 years since the Balfour Declaration, Palestinians are still paying for it with...

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ISRAEL has detained one million Palestinians since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the West Bank,...

Workers will ignore Tory attempts to make Russia their enemy – the enemy is...

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YESTERDAY’S statement by Theresa May to parliament on the range of ‘reprisals’ against Russia for the alleged involvement of the Russian state in the...

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...

Brown brings back Mandelson to fight the trade unions

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WITH the financial storm clouds starting to burst around him, Prime Minister Brown has established with his cabinet reshuffle that he means every word...

Labour policy is pauperising graduates

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FIFTY EIGHT per cent of graduates find they are still relying on their parents for financial support three years after graduation, a survey commissioned...

Bush Threatens North Korea With War

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YESTERDAY North Korea shook the imperialist powers who had assumed that the workers state would not dare to proceed to test a nuclear weapon. North...

Traitor Tsipras is handing over power to the right wing!

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WITH his resignation as Greek prime minister on Thursday night, the leader of the ‘left’ Syriza government, Alexis Tsipras, has signalled that he and...

Labour-Tory Race To The Right!

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TEACHERS will have to be re-licensed every few years or face the sack under a future Labour government. This is the just unveilled position of...

Imperialist powers are preparing for war with Russia by sending in the Islamists!

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ELEVEN people have been detained after an attack by Islamists at a Moscow concert hall that killed 137, the head of Russia’s Federal Security...

Smash The Bedroom Tax – Bring Down The Tories!

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AN explosive report into the effect of the ‘Bedroom Tax’ on families throughout the country was published on Thursday – sneaked out on the...

Tories refusal to implement fire safety tests puts millions at risk of another Grenfell...

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NINE months after the fire at Grenfell Tower that caused the horrific deaths of 71 people, all the Tory pledges that never again would...

Bank interest rate rise deepens capitalist crisis

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THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee raised its base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.75 per cent yesterday. This was the first...

The British army enters politics, and won’t tolerate a non-nuclear UK!

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YESTERDAY saw General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the Chief of the Defence Staff openly entering politics and fighting for Tory Party policy, telling SKY TV...

Production Slump Shocks Coalition As Crisis Deepens

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THE UK capitalist economy slumped in the fourth quarter of 2010, contracting by 0.5 per cent, instead of the meagre 0.5 per cent growth...

Clinton Beats The War Drums

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SPEAKING to students at a Qatar university during a tour of the Gulf region designed to whip up anti-Iran feeling, US Secretary of State...

State Defends Its Right To Execute Innocents!

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YESTERDAY, Lord Stevens, the ex-Metropolitan Police commissioner, urged that there should be no change in the policy of the state, after a completely innocent...

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...

Pfi Robbers Are On The Job! Expropriate Them Now!

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THE PRIVATE Finance Initiative (PFI) that Gordon Brown introduced during the Brown-Blair Labour governments has provided a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions for...