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Make the TUC demonstration on June 18 a mobilisation for a general strike to...

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THE TUC has called a national demonstration to London’s Parliament Square on Saturday 18th June. Announcing the demonstration the TUC said: ‘On Saturday 18th June,...

After levelling Mosul and Raqqa, the US-UK-French alliance is moving into northern Syria

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THE FALSE claims of the Ministry of Defence that there were no civilian casualties in UK air strikes on Iraq, namely on Mosul, have...

Stop the Saudi–imperialist war on Yemen! Defend the Iranian and Palestinian revolutions!

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HUMAN Rights Watch has indicted a so-called investigatory body, overseen by Saudi Arabia, which has for more than two years been covering up war...

‘Indirect incitement’ to be a terror offence

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BUSH and Blair say that they are ‘fighting for democracy and freedom’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the more they step up this fight,...

Boycott the EU elections and force a break with the EU through a revolutionary...

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BOTH the sheer bankruptcy of British capitalism and the impotence of Tory Prime Minister Theresa May were on public display on Wednesday night as...

Defend the NHS with a general strike! Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry!

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ONE in five new drugs will be rationed on the NHS under new plans to ‘save the health service money.’ This is the latest...

Only A Socialist Revolution Can Defend Jobs, Homes, Basic Rights And Deal With Climate...

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THE TUC’s ‘Put People First’ march on Saturday brought 50,000 workers and youth onto the streets marching behind powerful contingents from the GMB and...

Hutton to starve the unemployed into cheap labour jobs

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Hutton asked a question at the start of his verbal onslaught on the unemployed yesterday morning. It was: ‘People want...

Build the Fourth International throughout Europe

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YESTERDAY Greece was hit by a massive general strike with tens of thousands of workers marching in Athens demanding that there be an...

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...

General strike now to stop destruction of the NHS!

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NHS HOSPITALS are facing an immediate cut of £1.6 billion, with the government ordering NHS Trusts to ‘balance their books’ by making cutbacks and...

Chuck out the coalition to deal with growing mass unemployment

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UK unemployment has increased to 2.64m, a rise of 128,000 in the three months to October, the highest level since 1994, with 1,027,000 youth...

Forward to the State of Palestine! Down with Zionism and Imperialist conspiracies to...

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ARREST warrants for genocide for Israeli PM Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant were finally issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) this...

‘State suicide’ of Italian pensioner

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CAPITALISM’S latest scheme to save failed banks claimed the life of an Italian pensioner who lost his £72,000 life savings following the collapse of...

Saudis oil war is deepening the world crisis

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SAUDI Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, has said the oil producers’ cartel, Opec, will not cut production even if the price falls to $20...

Bank and government split as crisis deepens

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THE decision of the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King to name and shame the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Darling, as...

Human Rights Watch Denounces Israeli Apartheid Crimes!

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AN international leading human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Israeli authorities in a 213-page report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed:...

Only Socialist Revolution can end inequality

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NOTHING demonstrates more graphically the increasing polarisation between the working class and the capitalist class than the gigantic and ever-increasing differentials between the obscene...

Step Up The Struggle For Palestine

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas has pledged that he will submit a resolution to the UN Security Council to make a decision that the Israeli occupation...

Time for the working class to bury British capitalism

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Sir Gus O’Donnell, the most senior civil servant in the country, has broken cover with the public admission that the crisis of the capitalist...

Libyan Counter- Revolutionaries Being Showered With Cash!

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WESTERN and Arab countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia have pledged $1bn for the right-wing stooges of imperialism in Benghazi, at the latest...

US Trade Gap Widens As Banks Get Ready For Economic Storm

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THE US trade gap widened in January to $44.45bn (£29.53bn) from December’s figure of $38.14bn, the US Commerce Department has reported. Much of the rise...

Sajid Javid, the bankers’ man, put in to wage war on NHS and reopen...

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FORMER Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has been installed as Health Secretary to replace the disgraced Matt Hancock, with a remit to...

Tory budget–tax relief for bosses, tax increases for low paid!

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THE headlines in the bourgeois press yesterday howled about Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, breaking a cast-iron Tory election manifesto pledge that there would be...

Brown, Keynes and revolution

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AFTER actively assisting in the creation of trillions of debt, and showing its contempt for the concept of value by selling almost half of...

Truss Is Planning Regional Pay And More Anti-Union Laws For ‘Lazy And Idle’ British...

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THE OUT OF CONTROL UK inflation rate has hit double digits – 10.1% according to the Office for National Statistics. It says it’s at...

CORBYN, McDONNELL SET TO BETRAY AS BREXIT ‘DAY OF DECISION’ APPROACHES!

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SENIOR Labour Party leaders are at war with each other over the best way to betray the 2016 referendum result, when PM Boris Johnson...

The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general strike to kick...

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LIZ Truss appeared outside 10 Downing Street at 1.30pm yesterday to announce that she was resigning following a meeting with the Chairman of the...

Time For Action To Defend The NHS!

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YESTERDAY both the RCN nurses and the Royal College of Physicians made it perfectly clear that the time has arrived when action to defend...

Students To Fight Closure Of University Of London Union!

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SENIOR academics confirmed yesterday that they are set to shut down the University of London Union, recommending that ‘ULU in its current form ceases’...

Workers must stop the imperialist war drive with socialist revolutions!

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IN her notorious speech on Wednesday night, at the Lord Mayor’s banquet in London, the Tory Foreign Secretary and would-be successor to Boris Johnson,...

Occupation of Republic Windows and Doors shows the way to the USA

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THE occupation of a relatively small factory in Chicago by its angry workforce, members of the UE trade union, to prevent its closure, has...

US Supreme Court ruling destroys myth of bourgeois democracy and imposes dictatorship on US...

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On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that ex-President Donald Trump enjoys ‘absolute immunity’ for ‘official acts’ as president, a ruling that at a...

Unions Must Answer Truss Threats By Calling A General Strike To Bring Down The...

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THE Margaret Thatcher look-alike, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, is seeking to sound like, look like and act like Margaret Thatcher, as she vows to...

Make the TUC call a general strike now to boot out the Tories and...

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RAIL, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) members will be joined by many other trade unionists today at 7.00am and on Saturday 26th March at...

Imperialism is on the point of defeat as the world’s financial institutions panic!

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DESPITE seven days of devastating non-stop aerial bombardment by the US-Israeli aggressor and their huge war machine, the defiant defence of Iran to protect...

Entente Cordiale Is Binned As The UK Backstabs France Which Vows To Form A...

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IT HAS emerged that the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the UK and the US, to supply Australia with nuclear submarines was agreed in...

The developing capitalist crisis demands the organisation of the socialist revolution

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SHRINKING UK trade figures released yesterday of a decline of 0.1 per cent of GDP in May, following a 0.3 per cent fall in...

A fighting Public Sector Alliance to defend wages and jobs

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THE Communication Workers Union yesterday announced its latest plans for strike action after the first national strike for a decade last week, which was...

Crime Pays – For The Banks

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‘BY means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of...
The Israeli Apartheid Wall at Abu Dis on the outskirts of Jerusalem – the Israelis have begun to build the ‘third phase’  of the wall to encircle Bethlehem and Hebron

January 1– police to get blanket arrest and covert op powers

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POLICE are to have blanket arrest and covert operations powers of a type that will make tinpot dictatorships throughout the world green with envy,...

Starmer pledges Labour to super-austerity to rescue capitalism

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer delivered a speech in Stratford, east London yesterday setting out Labour’s ‘vision’ for the country under any future Labour government. His...

Mandelson is sacked! NOW Forward to a Workers Government that will nationalise...

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EARLY yesterday morning, Labour’s Foreign Office released a statement that announced the sacking of Peter Mandelson as the UK ambassador to the United States...

King George’s Ilford cancer unit to close for lack of nurses – Get the...

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THE CEDAR CENTRE, the chemotherapy unit at the King George Hospital in Ilford is to shut down on November 12th, because it cannot find...

Defend The NHS, The Fire Service & The Welfare State By Bringing Down The...

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THE response of the Tory-LibDem government to the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system has been to try to force the working class,...