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Putin Warns Usa Of Dangers In Attacking Iran

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IN his ‘Address to the Nation’ last Wednesday, the Russian leader, President Vladimir Putin, was forced to deal with the fact that Nato is...

Desperate Osborne swings the axe as the capitalist crisis deepens

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IN HIS Spending Review of yesterday, drawn up at a time when the capitalist crisis is deepening, with inflation rising and the banks warning...

Call Day Of Action To Defend The NHS

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A BLOC of twelve trade unions have joined together to campaign against the Labour government’s health service ‘reforms’, that is the Brown-Blair programme for...

New Palestinian Intifada emerging at a time when Israel is split and divided with...

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THE Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has issued a warning that the Israeli military raids and Israeli...

May urging unions and Labour to support her Brexit deal! Down with May’s deal!...

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TORY PM May spoke to Unite’s Len McCluskey and the GMB’s Tim Roache by phone on Thursday for the first time since taking office,...

Expropriate the bankers and bosses!

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IT WAS asserted by economists long ago that labour is the source of all wealth, and Federick Engels – the lifelong friend and collaborator...

Stalinism betrays Libya – build Fourth International to smash imperialism

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As forces loyal to the Libyan revolution and its leader Colonel Gadaffi continue to fight on against the NATO-led onslaught on Tripoli, the imperialist...

300,000 march on Downing Street for Palestine. TUC must call a general strike for...

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THE Palestinian factions are standing fast! They have said that they will not sign any agreement or deal unless the people’s demands are achieved,...

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...

Puppet master Obama gives puppet Cameron’s strings a tweak

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THE White House on Thursday issued a ‘Readout of the President’s Call with Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom’. The record of the phone...

Tories prepare for perfect storm of anger from workers – General strike now to...

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AS THE annual conference of the TUC, this year conducted on-line, opens, the GMB union released analysis of official data showing that 100,000 care...

Long Live The Libyan Revolution

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THE forty-year-old Libyan revolution is being celebrated with enthusiasm this week by the Libyan masses in Tripoli. The revolution, led by Colonel Gadaffi, put an...

GM’s Reilly insists no decision made on which plants are to close

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GENERAL Motors’ head of operations in Europe, Nick Reilly, has a history – he was in charge of the operation that shut down Vauxhall...

Nasrallah promises Israel an even bigger shock

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HEZBOLLAH’S victory over Israel in the July war of 2006 changed the relationship of forces in the Middle East, and the significance of that...

With capitalism in crisis, and the NHS being knifed by Starmer – UK needs...

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THE immediate ending of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance was necessary to prevent an economic collapse and a run on the banks, declared Lucy...

Tory Coalition Turns To Civil War Tactics!

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THE Tory-led coalition is planning to reintroduce the Riot Act nearly 40 years after it was abolished in England and Wales. Under proposals set out...

Starmer announces creation of a ‘standing army’ as the Labour government moves to impose...

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’...

Unemployment at 7.7 per cent – food banks facing huge demand

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UK jobless officially fell to 2.49m in the latest government figures, for the three months to August, showing a slight fall of 18,000, not...

ICC refuses to act over Israel’s Gaza war crimes

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PALESTINIAN youth and workers marched very bravely all over the occupied territories last Friday on Land Day, and they were met as usual by...

Bankrupt airlines need to be nationalised!

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YESTERDAY BALPA, the pilots’ union, sounded the alarm at the crisis of the major airlines. This has been immeasurably sharpened by the eruption and continuing...

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...

Zionists’ murderous onslaught on Palestinians – UK unions must act now!

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A ONE-day strike was called yesterday by Palestinians in the city of Jenin following the murder of two Palestinians by Israeli troops in a...

Attack on FBU an attack on every worker – defend the right to strike...

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THE TORY move to make strikes illegal and ban trade unions stepped up yesterday with the official annual report on the fire service. The report...

Osborne reveals new 10% cuts, while Duncan Smith volunteers to put welfare to the...

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SEVEN departments of government, the Ministry of Justice, Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Energy and Climate Change, HM Treasury, the Cabinet...

Smash Universal Credit! It is the tool for ruling through fear and mass evictions!

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THOUSANDS of families in England will be spending Christmas in fear that the New Year will bring eviction from their homes. This was the message...

Labour’s cuts to disability benefits hit 700,000 families – time to kick out Starmer...

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THIS week, The Guardian newspaper, using the Freedom of Information Act, published the Labour government’s own internal assessment of the impact of the planned...

UNITE denounces TTIP but supports Cameron in EU referendum!

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THE Unite trade union leadership specialises in doubletalk. One example is the way that it is verbally 100% opposed to the anti-trade union legislation that...

CWU leaders embrace privatisation!

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A BALLOT of CWU members announced this week showed a vote of 94% in favour of a ‘legally binding contract’ between the leadership of...

Charles pushes confrontation with Russia

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PRINCE Charles’s comparison of President Putin with Hitler, and Putin’s actions in the Ukraine as comparable with Hitler’s treatment of the peoples of...

Renationalise railways or regime change says ASLEF

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ASLEF is the first trade union to call for ‘regime change’, a change in the leadership of the Labour government if it continues to...

The working class faces the threat of state terrorism!

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TWO videos, one by the FBI and one by the British police, have just been issued giving advice to people about actions they should...

£16.5bn for the military as Tories plan a war on public sector workers to...

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THE TORIES have exceeded all previous borrowing records, taking the British bosses’ national debt to its highest level ever since records began, reaching £2.3tn....

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...

Baa And Virgin Air Industry Workers Are Ready For Action

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NEWS LINE sends its greetings and full support to the British Airports Authority workers who have decided to take strike action at seven major...

Occupy And Nationalise UK Gm Plants Now!

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BOTH Spain and the UK have refused to sign the Memorandum of Understanding that binds together the Magna-Sberbank-GM deal under which there are...

Rescue US – The Eu Bosses Plead With Chinese Stalinists

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AS details emerge of the desperate measures hammered out in Europe on Wednesday night in an attempt to save the eurozone from collapse and...

Now Is The Time To Go Forward To The State Of Palestine!

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THE war for the recovery of the land of Palestine is building up rapidly as the heroic Palestinian nation, men women and children battle...

Bush is confronted by the legacy of Hurricane Katrina

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UNITED States President George Bush was in New Orleans yesterday on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the city. The hurricane killed...

Tory split emerges with demands on Johnson for a budget that makes war on...

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IN ADVANCE of the budget next week, former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond delivered a shot across the bows of the Tory government with a...

US Economy Declines – As States Go Bust!

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THE former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, has warned that the US economy is heading towards a deepening of the slump...

Israel has brought record unemployment and mass starvation to the Gaza Strip – Revolution...

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MAHMOUD Radwan sits among the ruins of his destroyed home, contemplating an uncertain future amidst a labour crisis unlike any he has seen before,...

Solidarity action over Lineker sacking causes Tories to crumble – now is time to...

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BOTH the BBC and the Tories were in a state of meltdown over the weekend following the decision of the BBC bosses, urged on...

The working class is on the march – it is refusing to pay the...

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AN ‘ever-increasing’ number of households in the UK, including teachers, pensioners, and employees of the NHS, are turning to food banks for assistance as...

Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!

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INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...

Israeli Fury At Palestinian Unity!

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PALESTINIAN president, Mahmud Abbas, and Hamas leader, Khaled Mishaal, yesterday signed the Palestinian Unity Agreement in Cairo, putting an end to the split in...