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Rate Rises Will Lead To Banking Collapse

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ON Thursday night, the captains of British capitalism assembled for a sumptuous banquet at London’s Mansion House to listen to the latest economic plans...

National action to defend JDE workers – force TUC to call a ...

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LAST Wednesday the international coffee giant JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) issued dismissal notices to nearly 300 of its workers at the Banbury plant who...

French workers confront Macron’s Thatcherite assault

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TRAIN drivers and other workers at the French state railway SNFC began three months of rolling stoppages on Monday evening, as trade unions push...

Osborne pledges to hammer the poor and the unions

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IN an attempt to show some class war steel, Chancellor Osborne began his speech at the Tory Party conference with an assault on a...

Foreign Secretary Hunt prostrates himself before the USA and President Trump!

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FOREIGN Secretary Hunt’s debut in the USA saw him prostrate himself in front of US imperialism in the most fawning and sychophantic manner. He...

US sanctions on Iran are, in fact, a declaration of war on the Iranian...

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PRESIDENT Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton has stated that the United States is exerting ‘unprecedented pressure on the government of Iran to change...

Scrap the Tory Health and Care Bill – it is a ‘privateers’ charter for...

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TORY PM Johnson’s new Health and Care Bill currently going through Parliament, is a fresh attack on the NHS by a Conservative Party that...

The NHS is one of the best!

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THE NHS has been under heavy attack by both Tory and Labour governments for the last 17 years. They want to privatise it and...

US-UK imperialism has come to grief in Iraq

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IRAQ’S election commission has barred almost 500 candidates and many parties from running in the ‘national’ elections on 7 March. A parliamentary committee says that...

Royal Mail is preparing mass sackings!

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POSTAL workers throughout the country face crunch time in defence of their jobs and the very existence of their union, the CWU. This was spelt...

Myanmar – working class intervene with national strikes to bring down military dictatorship

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WORKERS across Myanmar (formally Burma) came out on a nationwide general strike yesterday demanding the overthrow of the military dictatorship which was imposed last...

The Iraq war, the world crisis and the socialist revolution

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MARCH 2008 sees the US and UK armed forces and governments irreparably damaged as a result of their failure to subdue the Iraqi people...

Stock markets crash under impact of Trump’s trade war – World Socialist Revolution is...

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ON Thursday night, the giant TV screen that looks down on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange spelt out the message ‘Trump...

Youth reject a life in debt!

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AFTER almost 10 years of a Labour government under Prime Minister Blair, young people who get jobs after leaving university find they end up...

Public Sector Disaster F0R British Capitalism

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THE UK’s public sector net deficit for October reached £11.4bn and is the highest monthly deficit since records began. The national debt at...

Cameron-Osborne Are No Joke!

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THE row over the Tories so-called ‘pasty tax’ has become a dangerous diversion in the hands of the Labour leadership who are intent on...

Doctors strike to defend the NHS and to defend patient care!

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ALMOST 50,000 resident (junior) hospital doctors started their 5-day strike yesterday against the government’s refusal to fund their claim for a pay increase of...

Call a general strike – build Councils of Action – forward to Socialism

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THE Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said yesterday that the government should ban strikes by workers in essential services, adding that this...

Only Socialist Revolution will end capitalist inequality

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The US is on the verge of slipping below bankrupt Greece on a world index of wealth inequality – this is the stark conclusion...

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

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WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on...

Trump splits US ruling class with demand they give up vast profits in China

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ON THE eve of the G7 Summit in France over the weekend US president Donald Trump ordered US companies to leave China and move...

Turn war against Russia into war at home to smash capitalism

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Russian president Vladimir Putin, in his address to the Russian parliament yesterday, lay the responsibility for the Russian military action in the Ukraine entirely...

Inflation surge hits working class families!

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THE UK’s CPI inflation rate rose sharply in October to 2.7%, a rise of 0.5%, following increases in tuition fees and food prices, with...

The Workers Of The World do Support Palestine – Now Is The Time...

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TENS of thousands marched through central London on Saturday reiterating their calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, for the UK to stop arming...

Ukraine workers defy imperialism and Stalinism!

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THE News Line salutes the bravery and heroism of the Ukrainian working class who defied all the threats, intimidation and murderous attacks by forces...

Bank of England to unleash hyperinflation in a desperate attempt to save capitalism

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REPORTS emerged over the weekend that the Bank of England is on the verge of announcing another massive round of money printing to pay...

Another US blow for Pakistan!

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THE US Congress yesterday froze $700 million of aid to its ally Pakistan until it gets assurances that Pakistan will combat the spread of...

Lords defeat Tory police state bill – trade unions must now take action to...

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THE TORY government’s plan for a police state dictatorship over the trade unions and all public protest movements took a big hit yesterday when...

Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!

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THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...

Victory for Uber workers – now end the gig economy for good with socialist...

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THE LARGE taxi app company Uber announced yesterday it would start treating over 70,000 of its drivers in the UK as employed workers entitled...

Blair’s ‘summary power’ for war on the working class

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched the Labour government’s new ‘Respect Action Plan’ yesterday, declaring that he was setting out to overthrow basic democratic rights...

Trump Sheds ‘Crocodile Tears’ For Victims Of Thursday’s Downing Of Ukrainian Plane!

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ON FRIDAY January 3rd, the USA carried out a terrorist drone attack on Baghdad airport, murdering General Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary...

Tunisian Revolution Brings Down Interior Minister

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TUNISIAN President Ben Ali has dismissed his interior minister and ordered the release of most of those detained during the current clashes over food...

May assumes dictatorial powers over Parliament – time to bring her down with a...

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TORY Prime Minister Theresa May was determined on Monday to avoid a substantive vote in Parliament on ‘her right’ to go to war and...

Tories Breaking Apart Along With Their Bankrupt Economy While The Tuc Refuses To Take...

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UK capitalism is now the sick man of the capitalist world. Its economy is going broke while the Tories openly discuss knifing the NHS,...

Victory to the Palestinians; forward to the Palestinian state; drive imperialism out of the...

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FIERCE clashes are continuing between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth organised in Popular Committees across all of the West Bank districts. The Palestinian Red Crescent...

Drive Privateers Out Of The NHS!

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THERE are more and more tragedies which prove that private companies, whose purpose is solely to make profits, have no place in the NHS. We...

UK and US trade unions must support the Palestinian socialist revolution!

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WHILE the US and UK backed Israeli murder machine, both civil and military is at work on a daily basis killing Palestinian men women...

TUC Must Take Industrial Action To Force The Tories To Oppose Trump’s Palestine Deal!

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THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the ‘deal of the century’, which they said was a plan for ‘transfer’...

The split in the British ruling class is clearing the way for the British...

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THE POUND was sent crashing down yesterday against the US dollar and the euro prompting the bourgeois press to howl about ‘the end of...

Revolution Throughout Europe!

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WITH the EU’s bankers and bosses spurring him on, Greece’s ‘socialist’ leader, Papandreou, has vowed to tackle the country’s economic crisis and impose the...

French Government Passes Pensions ‘Reforms’ Without A Vote!

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THE French government has chosen the moment – when France, Europe and the world is obsessed by the coronavirus crisis – to launch a...

UK stuck in ‘debt doom loop’ – Socialist Revolution the only way to break...

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a dire warning to Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves that she must take ‘unpopular’ decisions to halt British...

Poverty pay threatens workers as inflation rises and the crisis of capitalism deepens!

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WORKERS’ wages will be slashed even more as inflation hits a peak of 3.4% this year, according to an analysis by the National Institute...

Greece must be sacrificed – Osborne dons his butcher’s apron!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne was in the mood for sacrifices on Tuesday and as is his way, the way of the British bourgeoisie, these sacrifices were...