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Don’t be foolhardy – Bush urges Chinese Stalinists

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PRESIDENT George W Bush on Wednesday said China would be ‘foolhardy’ to push down the dollar in retaliation for the massive US pressure...

Tory war on two fronts against Russia and working class at home

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THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...

UK Ruling Class To Proscribe Wagner Group And Harass Supporters Of The Ukrainian...

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THE Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner Group, which was being cheered to the rafters when its members were said to be marching on...

China shocked by US plans for massive new tariffs!

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THE CHINESE government has said that it is ‘shocked’ after the US government announced plans for massive new tariffs, escalating the trade war between...

THE TUC Congress must call a general strike in support of the workers...

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THE Hamas Movement declared on Tuesday that the US administration bears direct responsibility for the continuation of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip. The Movement...

UK Military Chiefs Call To Bring Back Conscription As US-UK Prepare For War...

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FORMER British military chiefs have told the Starmer-led Labour government that it, as the government of the UK, ‘must’ consider conscription ‘now’ before it...

100 years since the start of the great imperialist slaughter!

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YESTERDAY, August 4th, saw the leaders of the major imperialist powers remembering the centenary of the start of the first great imperialist slaughter, the...

Johnson using fear of revolution and civil war to drive through a deal...

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Opposition parties met yesterday in the offices of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to cobble together an agreement to replace Boris Johnson...

Taleban Offensive Actions On The Rise

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THERE is no need for major changes in current Afghan strategy, US president Barack Obama told Congress according to a letter released by the...

Capitalist state gives support to Walsh’s diktat!

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THE decision by a Judge in chambers to rule the BA strike action illegal is a major blow at the legal right to strike. It...

Join the lobby of the TUC to demand they call an immediate general strike...

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OVER 100,000 Royal Mail workers are striking again today. 30,000 BT Openreach engineers, along with 10,000 BT call centre workers are also on strike,...

Royal Mail workers must set the date for their all out strike action!

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ON TUESDAY, postal workers delivered a massive 94.5% YES vote to strike in defence of their jobs, pay and conditions and the very existence...

Support The Ys March For Jobs!

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YOUNG people today are under full scale attack from the Tory-led coalition. They are now fighting back. The Young Socialists are marching from...

A&E closures cost lives

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For the first time since the process of closing accident and emergency units in hospitals up and down the country was started by the...

Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson quits – Now drive the rest of the right...

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YESTERDAY morning, Labour’s deputy leader and leading right winger Tom Watson announced that he was quitting his post and would be standing down as...

Miliband appeals to Tory and UKIP voters!

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FOR many years the Labour Party projected itself as the champion of the working class, hence its very close ties with the trade unions,...

General Motors & Ford threaten to stop production in US

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AS PAY negotiations between the American car giants General Motors (GM) and Ford, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have reached a critical point,...

Italy, Spain and Greece erupting against EU austerity

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ITALIAN car giant Fiat has shut down five of its plants as the Italian ruling class struggles against a transport workers strike directed against...

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...

TUC must take action to stop the extradition of Julian Assange and to release...

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JULIAN ASSANGE, who has lost his latest legal appeal, is ‘dangerously close’ to being extradited to the US, his family and observers of his...

Postal workers are standing up to management bullies

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POSTAL workers in towns and cities all over the UK were forced out on unofficial strike yesterday morning when management sought to impose the...

Energy bills will force millions into abject poverty – socialist revolution only way forward!

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OVER one-in-eight UK households live in fear that they can’t make any further cuts to spending to pay the massive increase in energy bills...

Nationalise The Banks To Resolve The Capitalist Crisis

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MORE than $170 billion (£87 billion) has been wiped off the balance sheets of companies worldwide as a result of the collapse of the...

Iran offers talks on the US created nuclear crisis

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THE imperialist powers are studying Iran’s offer of more talks to resolve the crisis that the US has created over Iran’s right to develop nuclear...

Generals threaten coup against Macron as France and Europe face bankruptcy

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LAST WEEK, an explosive letter from 25 senior retired French generals was published in the right-wing Valeurs Actuelles magazine threatening President Macron with an...

Capitalism can’t afford common retirement age or decent pensions

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CAPITALIST Britain is being driven backwards, not forwards by the deepening crisis of capitalism and the policies of the Blair-Brown Labour government, dedicated to...

Trump Faces Impeachment – US Capitalism Faces Ruin – Forward To The US Socialist...

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LAST WEDNESDAY President Trump sent a 100,000-plus howling mob on a mission to break into the Capitol building to stop the certification of election-winner...

Hancock’s claim that ‘no NHS workers died from lack of PPE’ must be met...

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TORY Health Secretary Matt Hancock was grilled for four hours by two Parliamentary Committees on Thursday, in which he insisted that ‘There was never...

Syrian Foreign Minister tells UN that the US-UK military alliance must withdraw from Syria

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ADDRESSING the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem confirmed that the US-UK...

Omicron strain batters USA as President Biden seeks to divert US workers’ anger with...

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THE Omicron strain of the Coronavirus now accounts for more than 73% of new US cases of Covid-19, up from 13% just a week...

DRIVE THE MAY GOVERNMENT OUT! MARCH ON PARLIAMENT ON JULY 1st!

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THE May government has now entered the world of the surreal. It has just about been able to schedule a Queen’s Speech of sorts...

Hayman gets a CBE while Met chief Blair puts his holidays first

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THE ‘shoot to kill’ section of the Metropolitan Police force is proceeding full speed ahead, knowing that it has the complete support of the...

UK gov is bullying councils to keep schools open – while TUC issues mass...

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THE Johnson government’s Covid-19 crisis intensified as it ordered London and most of Essex and Hertfordshire to join Tier 3 at 00:01 GMT yesterday. This...

Hands off Palestine Action! Demand TUC call a general strike to bring down Starmer...

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Over 300,000 marched in London on Saturday, in a powerful demonstration of support for a Palestinian state and against the genocidal war being waged...

SOUTH AFRICA: Legacy of the revolution betrayed

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THE fighting in Johannesburg and its surrounding black townships, over the past week – with more than 23 people being killed, pitched battles with...

May’s EU capitulation defeated again! Working class must rise up to ensure no-deal break...

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TORY PM Theresa May was defeated again by Parliament on Thursday evening. A motion put forward to support the government’s Brexit strategy fell, with...

Defend every job, occupy to stop closures, and nationalise the major industries

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics produced figures showing the record breaking numbers of unemployed and the record breaking growth of unemployment. UK unemployment...

Workers of the world must follow the lead of the students and take general...

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THE Geneva-based rights group, Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) says Israel is ‘intentionally’ demolishing schools and medical facilities, including those run by the UN agency...

Queen Dumps Cameron And Ready To do The Same For The UK

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BRITISH CAPITALISM is on the rocks economically and politically, there is not the slightest doubt about that. The leaders of the three major parties have...

Crisis of European capitalism deepens – Down with the EU! Forward to the Socialist...

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THE Bank of England delivered its first announcement of 2017 on the economy yesterday, claiming that British capitalism had defied all expectations of a...

Enough is Enough! – With no time to lose lobby the TUC and demand...

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THE ACCUSATION that the Tory government is paralysed waiting on the outcome of the leadership battle between Truss and Sunak is very wide of...

Bank of England boss says outlook for British capitalism ‘worst I’ve ever seen!’

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ON Monday, the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee issued a report blaming the Bank of England (BoE) for ‘errors’ that had failed to...

Defend jobs & pay! Nationalise the car industry!

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FIAT, the multinational car monopoly based in Italy, is in talks with the German government and the Works Council at Opel, the subsidiary of...

British Capitalism’s Bankrupt, Budget Shows It’s Time To Expropriate Bosses!

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TORY CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has unveiled the contents of this year’s Budget in the House of Commons. It is the last scheduled Budget before...

Clinton, Netanyahu make a bloc on settlements

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PALESTINE Authority President Mahmud Abbas has been completely undermined by the latest declaration of US Secretary of State Clinton. In it she supported the Israeli...