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The NHS must be free and available to all at the point of need!

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RECENTLY there have been a few years of increased government spending on the NHS, after many years of chronic underspending. Most of the new...

WTO warns that a bigger crash than 2008 is on the way! Forward with...

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THE WORLD Trade Organisation chief Roberto Azevedo said on Wednesday that the economic collapse and job losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic would be...

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...

‘This is 1914 all over again’

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THE architects of the Common Market, the forerunner of the European Union, freely admitted that they were seeking to carry out peacefully what Adolf...

Even Tory press admit British capitalism facing ruin – socialist revolution only answer for...

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IF TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak harboured any hope that Wednesday’s spending review would reassure anyone that British capitalism could be rescued from complete ruin...

Labour trying to hide jobless figures

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WITH unemployment set to go up by at least one million this year, to three million, the government is in a panic. Its panic is...

Blair proclaims summary justice for the masses

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ON TUESDAY Prime Minister Blair began his ‘genuine intellectual debate about the nature of liberty in a modern developed society such as our own.’ ...

The crisis savages the workers while the rich double their wealth

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THE total wealth of the richest 1,000 individuals and families in Britain has more than doubled in the last 10 years to £547bn, the...

Starmer cuddles up to the Financial Times as he gets ready to stab the...

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WORLD capitalism and in particular British capitalism is in its greatest crisis ever with sections of the Tory party compeletely demoralised by the ‘Oceans...

Put Blair On Trial!

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THE Fern Britton interview with Tony Blair on the BBC yesterday, squashed all of the notions that are being peddled that Blair was just...

Darling ignored over short selling

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BRITISH capitalism is staring disaster straight in the face. Motor car sales in December 2008 were 47.5 per cent lower than in December 2007. Yesterday,...

Trump fears the masses and huddles in ‘Fortress America!’

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PRESIDENT Trump’s racist comments, made while speaking privately to US lawmakers in the Oval Office on Thursday, in fact show a bourgeois leader who...

TUC Must Call A General Strike To Support The Palestinian Revolution!

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THE Hamas Movement has called upon the Arab and Islamic governments and the world’s free people to take all possible measures to break the...

US ‘job creation’ will come from Medicaid and Medicare cuts

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LAST Thursday night US President Barak Obama addressed a joint session of the US Congress where he outlined his new initiative that would, he...

Qe Tapering Leading To A Crash

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WHAT started last week as a crisis in the international capitalist stock markets is turning into a full-scale crash with Wednesday’s decision by the...

Coup Against Corbyn Underway As Head Rabbi Announces He Is ‘Not Fit For High...

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WITH just over two weeks to go before the general election, the campaign by the Tories and their right-wing supporters in the Labour Party...

Smash all fees – build a new leadership in the NUS!

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TODAY will see the second wave of student anger against the Tory government’s decision to treble tuition fees from around £3,000 to £9,000 a...

Trade union inquiry needed into London transport disaster

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YESTERDAY’S tube and bus disaster in London, with 33 dead and hundreds injured, has already been claimed as a terrorist attack, despite the fact...

Israel is a terrorist state – while anti-Zionism is not a form of racism!

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YOU can tell that the split and divided Tory party and capitalist class in the UK are in very serious trouble when they have...

US Ruling Class Split At Home And Abroad

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PRESIDENT Obama attacked the Republicans on Monday over an incendiary letter, sent by them to Iran’s leaders, seeking to sabotage his foreign policy...

Financial Services Authority Warns Of Inevitable Collapse

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WITH business sure that the Bank of England is due to raise interest rates to at least five per cent, warnings are being made...

It’s Bercow v Trump as the British ruling class splits between Washington and Brussels!

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SPEAKER Bercow, with his condemnation of any invitation to US President Trump to address both Houses of Parliament, has shown just how split and...

Israel is an ‘apartheid regime of Jewish supremacy!’ says Israeli human rights group B’Tselem

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THE Israeli Human Rights group B’Tselem has issued a paper stating that Israel is not a democracy but an ‘apartheid regime’ that systematically oppresses...

Maude-Miliband Unite To Condemn Pension Strikers

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YESTERDAY’S stoppage in defence of pensions saw 90 per cent of PCS members stopping work, the biggest turn-out for strike action in the union’s...

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...

Make sure you attend the ‘Save Ealing Hospital, Save the NHS Conference!’

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THE conference called tomorrow by the West London Council of Action and the All Trades Unions Alliance has come at a critical time. This week...

TUC leaders can’t get enough of the EU’s corrupt corporatism and its anti-working class...

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TUC GENERAL secretary Frances O’Grady this week re-hashed all the arguments used by the TUC before the 2016 referendum that only by remaining captive...

Majority of world banks ‘not economically viable’ according to report

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THE INTERNATIONAL management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company has published a global banking review which found that the majority of banks worldwide ‘may not...

Current crisis will ‘make 1929 seem like a stroll in the park’

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THE Ernst and Young Item Club, whose computer model of the economy is the same as the Treasury’s, said last Friday that banking regulations...

Blunkett quits against Blair’s wishes

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YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair made it clear to the House of Commons during Question Time, that he had urged his Cabinet colleague, Blunkett,...

RMT to strike during COP26! The trade unions must follow RMT lead and strike...

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STRIKE action during COP26 (The United Nations Climate Change Conference), from Sunday October 31 to Friday 12 November, is to go ahead after the...

Tories plan poverty and austerity for workers to bail out bankrupt capitalism!

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LAST week, the outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, bluntly warned that the rapid increase in inflation would make the...

Capitalism’s ‘storm clouds’ herald revolution

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AT THE end of last week the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announced that all his stated austerity plans in last autumn’s budget statement were...

Smash the capitalist state, sack the chief constables, no to police commissioners!

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THE Tory-LibDem coalition is set to introduce a ‘reform programme’ for the police that will establish regimes of elected police commissioners, who will have...

Tories Stepping Up The Class War While The Tuc Is Calling A Lobby Of...

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THE TORY government has made it crystal clear that its current reorganisation is being made in order to carry out a very serious assault...

Following renationalisation of Southeastern, the trade unions must call a general strike to bring...

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SOUTHEASTERN rail collapsed into public ownership yesterday with the RMT revealing the true cost of the government’s slavish devotion to subsidising private profit capitalism. In...

‘Remainers’ Take The Struggle Onto The Streets – An Example That Workers Must Follow...

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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of ‘Remainers’ marshalled by the likes of billionaire George Soros and other speculators set out on Saturday to try to create...

Billions Being Laundered Through The City Of London – Nationalise The Banks!

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HOME SECRETARY Amber Rudd has warned that billions of pounds have been laundered through the City of London. She has plans for a new...

Bankrupt Tories cook the books while TU leaders do nothing

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THE dust had barely settled on Tory chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement on the state of the British economy before the gaping holes in...

Coalition Crushed In Barnsley!

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THURSDAY’S by-election in Barnsley Central constituency didn’t just humiliate the LibDems, it drove a stake through the heart of the Tories’ coalition partner and...

General Strike to defend the NHS!

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On the eve of its annual conference the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has produced damning evidence that explodes the lies that the savage...

Hamas condemns the US murderous Doha strike

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PALESTINIAN resistance factions and Hamas officials have condemned the Israeli occupation’s strike on the Qatari capital Doha that targeted Hamas leadership and members of...

Working Class In Ukraine Winning Over The Army

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ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...

Labour plans to criminalise the entire working class

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THE government is planning ‘behaviour orders’ for people considered to be at risk of committing a violent crime. Class prejudice, ie racial and working...

UK Must Not Appoint New EU Commissioner – Time To Quit The EU Without...

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THE EU HAS begun its legal action against the UK to attempt to force it to either appoint a new UK EU Commissioner, or...