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Soaring oil prices and the banking collapse mean class conflict on the airports!

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ON SATURDAY more than 1,000 British Airways pilots marched on BA’s Heathrow headquarters over plans by BA to use non-BA pilots, in its new...

Unions must take action! Occupy Bombardier! Bring down the coalition! Nationalise to...

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THE proposed sacking of 1,500 Bombardier workers in Derby is the beginning of the end for the train construction industry in the UK, and...

UK, France and Canada threats of ‘concrete action’ over starvation in Gaza driven by...

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YESTERDAY Labour prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney issued what was called a stark warning to...

There Must Be A Real Struggle Against Ttip And Ceta Now!

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LAST week at the annual conference of the TUC the largest union in the country, Unite, issued a grovelling plea to the Tory led...

NHS driven to the brink by Tory cuts! This government must be kicked...

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AS THE NHS winter crisis sets in, savage cuts to the health service have pushed services to the point of collapse. A severe lack...

Labour’s ambition is to make the UK a ‘defence industrial superpower’!

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ANNOUNCING the government’s spending review, which sets out day-to-day spending for the next four years, chancellor Rachel Reeves made a massive increase on defence...

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...

TUC must take a stand against Israeli genocide and the anti-union laws by calling...

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ON Tuesday night, the United Nations General Assembly vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was passed overwhelmingly with 10 countries, led by the...

THE TUC must oppose NATO’s war on Russia and insist it will not stand...

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WORKERS throughout Europe are on the march against NATO’s developing war against Russia and the massive attacks on their living standards that it has...

Pompeo admits US-organised uprising in Venezuela has ‘no popular support’

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US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo had a secret meeting last month with prominent American Jewish leaders in which he spilled the beans on...

Coalition in crisis, bring it down

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The disarray, confusion and splits within the Tory/LibDem coalition government were brought out sharply over Monday’s announcement by Tory chancellor, George Osborne, that he...

People forced into debt to pay for private treatment as Tories slash the NHS!

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69,000 PEOPLE were forced to pay for private medical treatment in the final three months of last year, according to figures from the Private...

FBU anger mounting – strike action on the way!

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FIREFIGHTERS risk their lives every time they are called out. They never know what they are going to have to tackle, and often do...

Brown lambasts Tube strikers and public sector workers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown mounted an outspoken attack on members of the RMT railworkers’ union on strike at the London Underground bankrupt maintenance company...

Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Coalition!

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TRANSPORT UNION RMT has called on its members and the entire trade union movement to get out on the streets in full support of...

Brown demands police-state detention law

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AHEAD of MPs considering the Second Reading of the new Counter-Terrorism Bill in Parliament yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for extension of...
Gate Gourmet workers say: WE WANT VICTORY! – while TGWU leaders discuss compulsory redundancies and loss of unfair dismissal rights!

US Threatens Syria With War

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THE US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, who was recently transferred from Afghanistan, last Monday threatened the Syrian government with war. He accused Syria of...

Israel prison service is beating and assaulting female Palestinian detainees inside Damon prison!

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IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned Israeli forces’ brutal aggression against Palestinian women at Damon Prison in the Palestinian occupied territories. ‘Beating female Palestinian...

Italian banks’ debt of over £300 billion will crash the world banks

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FOR years the Italian banking system has been kept on a life-support system of government bailouts as it sinks under the weight of astronomical...

Removing the Blair gang is a matter of vital public safety

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair announced yesterday at his monthly press conference that he would not ‘give an inch to terrorism’, and vowed to combat...

Massive Protests In Romania And Hungary

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MASS protests are erupting in the eastern wing of the EU, in Romania and Hungary, against the austerity programmes of EU governments whose countries...

No Free Ride For The Tories

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THE terrorist atrocity in Manchester last Monday night which killed 22 young people at a pop concert has been seized upon by the Tories...

Labour MPs must fight for a socialist solution to the crisis of capitalism in...

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WITH the UK’s Labour government set to face challenges from the left to the King’s Speech today, the Fire Brigades Union has urged MPs...

Greek Workers And Youth Are On The Road To Revolution!

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MASSES of workers and youth clashed with the state forces in the Greek capital Athens yesterday, on the first day of a 48-hour general...

The Bully State and forced labour is to replace the Welfare State

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TWO hundred thousand young people aged between 16 and 18, 11 per cent of that total age group, who are unemployed with no...

US mass murder in western Mosul is aiding, abetting and strengthening ISIS – and...

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AFTER over a month of silence, the western media have had to acknowledge that hundreds of civilians are being killed in western Mosul by...

UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages...

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AS WORKERS well know, the coming winter is going to be a desperate affair with sky-high inflation and food and energy rationing, leaving families...

US Fed Reserve threatens 2014 end for QE cash supply

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THE US Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, gave the clearest indication this week that the Fed is intent on pursuing a policy of ‘tapering...

State ownership brings MG Rover back from the dead!

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THE state-owned Nanjing Automobile company, which bought MG Rover for a knock down price of £53 million and then transferred and reassembled 10,000 tonnes...

Shut down the House of Lords and purge the House of Commons! Leave the...

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THE MAY government avoided a House of Commons defeat for the Brexit Withdrawal Bill last Tuesday by making promises to the leading Tory Remainer,...

Maude-Miliband Unite To Condemn Pension Strikers

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YESTERDAY’S stoppage in defence of pensions saw 90 per cent of PCS members stopping work, the biggest turn-out for strike action in the union’s...

Only way to defend the NHS is to kick out the Tories and bring...

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ON SUNDAY the 72nd anniversary of the NHS, created in 1948 by Clement Attlee’s post-war Labour government, was marked by handclapping, with Boris Johnson...

Security Council Votes To Ban The Bomb – But Not Yet!

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THE UN Security Council yesterday voted unanimously to oppose the spread of nuclear weapons, and that the nuclear powers on the Security Council must...

Ed Balls ending Universal Benefit

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YESTERDAY the Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, announced that the Labour Party has officially abandoned the principle of universal benefits in the interests of...

UAW reformists propose to surrender gains of US workers

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THE UAW leaders are prepared to ‘suspend’ all of the gains of US autoworkers to try and assist the big bosses of GM, Chrysler,...

Labour’s left leadership is paralysed as Blair and Co move in for second referendum!

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PM May yesterday attacked former Labour PM Tony Blair accusing him of ‘undermining’ her Brexit talks by calling for a second referendum. In fact Blair’s...

Starmer urges send British jets to the Ukraine to combat Russia!

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Dispatching British fighter jets to Ukraine ‘to police the skies against Russia above the Ukraine’, emerged as a planning proposal at Sir Keir Starmer’s...

Blunkett quits against Blair’s wishes

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YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair made it clear to the House of Commons during Question Time, that he had urged his Cabinet colleague, Blunkett,...

UK Opts For Syria Regime Change

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WITH its recognition of the Syrian ‘opposition’ as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, the UK has joined France, Saudi Arabia and...

Well Done – Unison Conference Rejects Histadrut

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THE Unison National Delegate Conference has rejected ‘critical engagement’ with the Histadrut, the Zionist trade union, which plays a central role in the Zionist...

Labour Must Bring Back Corbyn And Dump Starmer Now – After He Refused To...

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ONLY 15 Labour MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn, were prepared last Tuesday to vote against the Tories to bring the Johnson government down! The vote on...

No war with Syria – answer the £20bn of cuts by kicking out the...

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PM Cameron is due to drive forward Tory war plans both at home and abroad this week. Today, he is meeting President Hollande to prepare...

Forward to an indefinite general strike to bring down the coalition

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OVER two million public sector workers walked out yesterday. The message was that the coalition’s savage cuts programme, that was intensified in Osborne’s Autumn...

Essential relationship = master and servant

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US President Barak Obama, in his speech to both houses of parliament last Wednesday, did little more than restate the old George Bush doctrine...

Video intercept proves UK troops are operating in Ukraine as NATO risks nuclear war...

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THE RELEASE last Friday of a video call between senior German military leaders has caused a massive row within the NATO countries with its...