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Bankrupt capitalism aims to balance the books through foreign aid cuts and vicious austerity...

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ON TUESDAY, Tory PM Boris Johnson narrowly avoided defeat on a motion to cut UK foreign aid after a rebellion by Tory MPs. In the...

Privatisation drive created Mid-Staffs NHS carnage

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RELATIVES of some of the 400 plus patients who died at the Mid-Staffs NHS Trust were unanimous yesterday about the official, just published report,...

Tory MPs rebel while cringing Labour saves Cameron and Osborne

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AFTER all the fake sound and fury of parliamentary question time, with party leaders locked in apparent combat without quarter given or asked for,...

Judge Dismisses CWU Appeal In A Few Minutes – Time For A General Strike...

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IT TOOK just minutes yesterday for three High Court judges to hear and dismiss an appeal by the postal workers union (CWU) against an...

Overseas Operation Bill gives British State licence to kill and commit war crimes with...

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THE HOUSE of Lords today will be debating the Overseas Operations Bill which gives the British military a licence to kill and torture throughout...

Oil Prices Set To Soar As Demand Outstrips Supply

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THE International Energy Agency has predicted that oil demand is set to leap beyond the capacity to supply, sending oil prices soaring well...

Palestinian liberation fighters condemn the White House’s continuing support for Israeli barbarism!

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THE Palestinian resistance groups have condemned the recent statements made by the White House spokesman regarding the Rafah carnage, saying the remarks are just...

Capitalism is on the rocks with the USA on the brink of a historic...

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 4.5%, the twelfth consecutive increase in a row, pushing up borrowing costs to the...

TUC must call general strike in support of the junior doctors!

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‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

Support Catalonia! Forward With The Spanish Socialist Revolution!

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CATALONIA will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region said yesterday following the referendum, which savage...

EU crisis sharpening to breaking point!

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US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is attending the meeting of the EU Finance Ministers in Poland to convey the alarm of the...

Tories plan a ‘British Guantanamo Bay’ in Rwanda for refugees fleeing imperialist wars

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YESTERDAY, Tory Prime Minister, and convicted criminal, Boris Johnson, announced the plan to give refugees and asylum seekers seeking shelter from imperialist war a...

A planned famine grips Gaza – the working class must intervene and support Palestinians

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THE Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval of a plan to occupy Gaza, following the Palestinian factions’ acceptance...

Trade unions must act to defend workers’ standard of living

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THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has proclaimed that the crisis of capitalism means huge ongoing cuts in the standard of...

It’s a Labour heaven for bankers but a hell for workers, youth and immigrants!

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THE class message of the Labour government is clear. It is that if you’re a banker, you can do no wrong and are...

US Imperialism desperate to dominate its rivals

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INTERNATIONAL ‘free trade’ agreements represent the attempt by the vast multi-national capitalist corporations to completely dominate the globe. The domination they seek is over...

Israeli general admits that Israel arms the jihadists! The UK must be made to...

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ISRAEL, through its outgoing chief of staff Lieutenant General Gadi Eizenkot, has admitted that the many reports of the Israeli terrorist state’s collaboration...

Imperialists declare war on Libya – by permission of the Russian and Chinese...

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THE vote by the United Nations security council to impose and police a no-fly zone over Libya is a declaration of war by imperialism...

Frost Quits Cabinet As Tory Party Crisis Deepens And Police Clash With Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Lockdown...

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LORD FROST has delivered a heavy blow at the John- son government with his resignation letter of last Saturday. He wrote: ‘You know my concerns...

Hague hands £5m to the Syrian counter-revolution

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THE British government has responded to the success of the Syrian government in driving the Al Qaeda-supported Free Syrian Army out of Damascus, and...

Output Down As Banking Crisis Deepens

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THE CBI bosses organisation said yesterday that UK manufacturers expect to reduce output over the next three months, driving another nail into the coffin...

A milestone in the failure of the US-UK war against Iraq

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THERE were no pictures beamed around the world yesterday of United States President Barack Obama at a passing out parade in Baghdad on the...

Nationalise The Motor Car Industry

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US and European car employers yesterday warned that ‘their’ industry faced wipeout, ‘victims’ of the slump in the motor car industry and the financial...

US Patriots In Gulf Prepare Way For Israeli Strike At Iran

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THE US has moved to prepare the way for an Israeli strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities by deploying missile shields in Qatar, the UAE,...

Prevent new ‘Catastrophe’ for Negev Bedouins!

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THOUSANDS of protesters participated in large demonstrations in Haifa, Jerusalem and in the Negev on Saturday against the Israeli Prawer Plan to drive the...

Hands Off Rt! Defend Democratic Rights! Russia Is Not The Enemy! Our...

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THE decision by the UK state-owned NatWest Bank to cancel RT’s (Russia Today) UK bank accounts is a crude attempt by...

it’s your money for your life says NICE

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IF NICE and the ‘NHS health reformers’ have their way, free health care at the point of need is destined for the dustbin of...

Hunt stays silent over whether government was informed of plot against Khashoggi by...

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IT HAS got very hot in the warmongers’ kitchen when reputedly fire-proof US militarists like US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, and Secretary of State...

Hamas demands prosecution of ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ for war crimes against Palestinians

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IN RESPONSE to the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) announcement on Monday that it is closing its operation in Gaza, the Hamas resistance movement...

Put Cameron, Hague and Obama on trial, and free Assange!

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ACCORDING to William Hague, the Tory Foreign Minister and Acting Prime Minister, Britain has a ‘legal obligation’ to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to...

Spain follows Greece with mass strikes against austerity

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SPANISH Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist Party government scraped through Parliament its 15bn euro (£13bn) austerity package, by 169 votes to 168,...

Only Socialist Revolution can end this chaotic farce in Parliament and secure a break...

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THERESA May ‘survived’ the vote of no confidence in her leadership of the Tory Party by 200 votes to 117 on Wednesday night –...

Labour leaks its Fabian draft programme for keeping capitalism and the EU!

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THE leaked draft of Labour’s election manifesto yesterday brought out the predictable headlines in the press warning of the dangerous ‘socialist’ Jeremy Corbyn. But a...

Trump revels in charges of treason as US is gripped by a death agony...

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YESTERDAY evening, former US president Donald Trump, accompanied by a US Secret Service Motorcade, swept up to Fulton county jail and handed himself in...

Palestine to sue UK over the Balfour Declaration!

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MAHMOUD Abbas, the Palestinian president, is to sue Britain over its 1917 Balfour declaration that paved the way for the establishment of Israel in...

Israel closes Irish embassy in fury over Ireland’s recognition of Palestine and its support...

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THE DECISION by the Israeli regime on Sunday to close its embassy in Dublin brought a swift response from Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) Simon...

The working class must force its leaders to call a general strike to bring...

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PM Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation will make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the world to go on strike, a...

Socialist revolution the only road for youth!

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The Centre for Cities has predicted that the number of long-term unemployed young people, between 16 and 24 years of age in Britain, will...
Demonstration on January 20 outside the US embassy in London against Bush and Blair’s ‘war on terror

Defend Iran Againstfrench And US Threats

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THE French government is threatening Iran with retribution if it does not give up its nuclear energy programme. The French Prime Minister, De Villepin, one...

Arab League sells out the Palestinians yet again

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THE Arab League, the organisation of the Arab bourgeoisie, last Saturday gave its backing to the indirect Palestinian-Israeli peace talks being pushed by President...

Victory To Hamas As Lieberman Quits!

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THE United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met behind closed doors over the situation in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, but failed to reach an...

EU in crisis – forward to United Socialist States of Europe

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WITH THE second wave of the coronavirus pandemic ripping through Europe and overwhelming hospitals and health services, EU countries have been forced to implement...

Trade unions in the US and UK must support Palestinian hunger strikers

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SEVENTY-FIVE Palestinian inmates have gone on hunger strike in support of two of their fellow prisoners, who have been on hunger strike for several...

Bush Gives Go-Ahead F0R Iraqi Regime Change

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US President George W Bush on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to the US occupation army in Iraq and all those who support the...

Turkey Invades Northern Iraq

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THOUSANDS of Turkish soldiers, backing a number of tank led armoured columns, crossed into northern Iraq on Thursday evening, after a massive artillery bombardment...