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UK stage deliberate provocation in the Black Sea as part of its imperialist war...

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ON WEDNESDAY, Britain staged a deliberate provocation when it sent the warship HMS Defender steaming through Russian territorial waters in the Black Sea. The Defender...

Billionaire steps in to bail out the Labour Party

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LAKSHMI Mittal, the Indian-born billionaire has donated £2m to the Labour Party, it was revealed yesterday. The fifth richest man in the world, who owns...

Irish government disintegrates – forward to a workers and small farmers government

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AFTER the resignation of the Foreign Minister and four other members of the Irish cabinet, the Prime Minister, Cowen has resigned as the...

No amount of pressure will force the Tories to even talk about pay –...

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TENS of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers across England walked out yesterday at the start of two days of strike action. Members of the...

Vote For Livingstone! Get The Tories Out!

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NEWS LINE urges all of its readers and supporters to vote for Ken Livingstone in the London Mayoral elections today, and to vote Labour...
Protest against ID cards outside the House of Commons _ one of the police state measures that Clarke was pushing through

Blair axes cabinet, but policies are the same!

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IT WAS all change yesterday in the Blair cabinet and no change at all at the same time, as leading cabinet members were sacked...

Bank of England to ‘crucify the consumer’

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NOT ONLY has the world crisis of capitalism now been accepted as the reality by even the most sceptical of the bourgeoisie, its different...

Pensioners being lined up for Tory austerity attack

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A NEW report by The Resolution Foundation think-tank on pensions and pensioners is nothing more than a clarion call for pensions to be cut...

Follow Holby City Equity Take Strike Action With Junior Doctors

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THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...

UN Special Rapporteur on Gaza says it is ‘first genocide to awaken the world’ 

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THE UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, described the situation there as ‘apocalyptic’ saying it is the first genocide that...

US explodes as workers and youth take to the streets to oppose Trump’s attacks...

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LOS ANGELES, the second largest city in the US, exploded over the weekend following a massive raid on Friday by federal agents from Immigration...

Close the EU’s concentration camps!

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THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...

Tories Plan To Bring In Legal Strikebreakers To Force Workers To Accept Wage Cuts!

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DEPUTY Prime Minister Dominic Raab says the UK government cannot allow unions to win a battle for higher pay as it would supposedly fuel...

Capitalism is ‘At War’ – answer Cameron with general strike

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BRITISH capitalism is ‘at war’ Cameron told the bosses yesterday, an ‘economic war’ which requires the state to rip up the rule book, strip off...

Carney Says Time Is Not Right For Interest Rate Rise!

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THE TIME is not right for an interest rate rise, Bank of England governor Mark Carney said at the Mansion House. In his speech, Carney...

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...

Drive the fascists off the streets – forward to workers power and socialism!

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LAST Friday night, a racist gang attacked and seriously injured a teenage asylum seeker in Croydon. The Kurdish Iranian boy, age 17, was waiting with...

Stop Tory drive to war in Libya with a general strike

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THE imperialist war drums are beating with a vengeance as advanced preparations for a direct military intervention into Libya by Britain, Italy, France and...

Sack CWU collaborators!

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THE drive by the leadership of the postal workers union (CWU) to transform it from an independent union fighting for the interests of its...

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...

Resistance erupts over ‘austerity’, as EU crisis worsens

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THE government of President Nicolas Sarkozy announced yesterday the raising of the pension age in France from 60 to 62. Workers will have to...

Johnson Government Cannot Defeat The Covid Virus Because It Puts The Bosses’ Profits Before...

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THE JOHNSON government is now paying the price for refusing to follow the example of China by organising a national lockdown, with no loss...

28th anniversary of declaration of Palestinian independence!

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SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saed Erekat said yesterday that the international community has failed in its responsibility to correct the...

Full speed ahead for a slave labour UK economy

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COALITION leader Cameron is considering calls to freeze the minimum wage, with the British Chambers of Commerce advising that ‘Britain cannot afford to price...

‘History at a turning point’ – forward to victory of world socialist revolution

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THE ANNUAL meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos started yesterday on the theme of ‘history at a...

Smash Trump’s ‘deal of the century’! Forward to the independent state of Palestine!

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THE US-sponsored three-day conference held this week in the Gulf state of Bahrain to unveil the first stage of Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the...

Workers must fight massive increases in the cost of living with a general strike...

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THE United Kingdom has seen the biggest rise in ‘absolute poverty’ in 30 years, according to new data published by the Department for Work...

While NHS workers scrabble for PPE Tories pay £1 million a day to keep...

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A MASSIVE mountain of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is currently sitting on Felixstowe docks while frontline healthcare workers are still being forced to work...

General strike shakes the Rajapaksa regime! Forward to workers power!

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LAST Thursday, the Sri Lankan capital Colombo was halted as hundreds of thousands of trade unionists and their supporters took to the streets in...

The knife without a blade as Hunt defies May!

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MAY’S ‘reshuffle’ that never was continues her recent career in which everything that could go wrong has, but such is the feebleness of...

British capitalism is on its knees – put an end to it with a...

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WITH British capitalism on its knees and the Tory Party and the ruling class split from stem to stern over the European Union, Tory...

Labour Is The Bankers Party!

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THE New Labour Brown government has come out as the true representative of the biggest banks, as befits a government that has doubled the...

Bring Down The Tories To Stop The Drive To A New Imperialist World War!...

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RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned of the ‘real’ danger of World War III breaking out, as 40 capitalist states met in Germany...

One country two social systems breeding counter-revolution in China

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THE Hong Kong pro-democracy protests have now moved into their second week. The Hong Kong Federation of Students withdrew from planned negotiations on Friday, accusing...

The bankers are in charge as Hunt postpones fiscal statement until November 17th

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TORY Chancellor Hunt announced yesterday that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed...

Lammy Wants To Undermine The Right To Trial By Jury!

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JUSTICE SECRETARY David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape,...

Break With Eu Now! Bring Down The Tories! Forward To Socialism!

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THE EU leadership last Friday morning at 6am rescued PM May from the debacle of her Northern Ireland crisis, and saved her government by...

Labour Defence Secretary sends a message to Moscow

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THE defence review will send a ‘message to Moscow’ about Britain’s ‘readiness to fight if required’, Defence Secretary John Healey has told the BBC. Ripping...

Defend the NHS – Stop the job cuts – Bring down Blair and Brown

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ON Tuesday, at the Prime Minister’s monthly press conference, the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson confessed that he did not know how many jobs...

Workers Of The World Unite – Is Still The Slogan Of The Hour!

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NET migration to the UK is at an all-time high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March 2015, that is 94,000 more than in...

Public Debt doubles – overthrow bankrupt capitalism

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The coalition government will be forced to accept this month that the bank bailout has more than doubled the size of the Public Debt...

You Can’t Reform The Capitalist State – It Must Be Overthrown!

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NEVILLE LAWRENCE, the father of Stephen Lawrence, the teenager who was murdered by a racist gang in 1993, said yesterday that he was very...

Cameron Favours New Anti-Union Laws

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LAST Saturday, the Tory leader, Cameron, told the Daily Telegraph that if he should win the General Election he is ready to toughen the...

Fighting inflation means fighting capitalism

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CHANCELLOR Darling said on Sunday that pay rises for people ‘from the boardroom to the shopfloor’ need to be ‘consistent’ with the 2% inflation...

Smash Royal Mail privatisation!

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THE arrogant Tories have announced that the sell-off of Royal Mail is to begin in just weeks. The announcement comes days after the ending of...