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Unemployment and inflation surges as Cameron threatens immigrants’ benefits

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THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown....

Bankrupt capitalism must be replaced by a socialist revolution

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The political shock waves caused by Donald Trump’s election as US President on Wednesday will undermine the already collapsing fragile economies of world capitalism,...

Step up the public sector strike to a general strike

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THE National Executive of the Public and Civil Servants Union (PCS) have called out their members in England on a one-day strike on Wednesday...

Former BoE Governor calls on China to abandon ‘zero-Covid’ strategy to save global capitalism!

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THE FORMER Bank of England Governor Mark Carney yesterday warned that China’s ‘zero-Covid’ strategy is ‘at risk of derailing the global economy and driving...

Labour holds seat – Tories just beat BNP and are as popular as swine...

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THE working class saw the Tories, and the Scottish Tories of the SNP, off in Thursday’s by-election in Glasgow North East. On...

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...

End privatisation – dump the big business donors

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THE selling of peerages is an old tradition in England that goes well back before the days of Lloyd George. He had an established...

With The Tories At Their Weakest Now Is The Time For A General Strike...

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SATURDAY’S massive turnout for the trade union sponsored mass demonstration with its lead banner declaring ‘Not One Day More – Tories out’ has spread...

1 million forced onto Universal Credit while another 2 million get nothing – Tories...

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THE NUMBER of people forced to claim Universal Credit soared by nearly a million in the past two weeks. According to the Department for Work...

The Egyptian Revolution Pushes Forward!

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THE leading group representing the Egyptian bourgeoisie, around President Mursi, who is known as Mubarak with a beard, has just been massively shocked by...

Gourmet locked-out workers smash Woodley-Barber ‘compromise’ deal

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THE Gate Gourmet catering company was forced to admit on Saturday that the ‘sweetheart’ deal, which the leaders of the TGWU and the ...

Youth unemployment driving world socialist revolution

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This weekend, the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos debated the issue of youth unemployment worldwide, a debate that exposed the mortal terror being...

After the US-UK defeat in Afghanistan, al-Houthi calls on the US and Saudis to...

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AT A press conference held on the Kabul airport tarmac, on Monday afternoon, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the US had been defeated and...

After the BA battle ‘pirate Walsh’ seeks to shut down Iberia, sacking 3,800!

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IAG chairman Walsh plans to axe 3,800 jobs – a fifth of the Spanish Iberia airline’s workforce – in a country where unemployment is...

With capitalism in crisis, and the NHS being knifed by Starmer – UK needs...

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THE immediate ending of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance was necessary to prevent an economic collapse and a run on the banks, declared Lucy...

Workers must force TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Labour government...

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YESTERDAY, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz issued a statement that announced a massive capture of territory in the Gaza Strip that will be added...

Smash anti-strike bill by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick the...

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THE TUC yesterday published an analysis that showed that 5.5 million workers in England, Scotland and Wales would have their right to strike threatened...

Palestinian Prisoners Win A Victory Over Israeli Jailers As The Tuc Keeps Quiet Over...

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TENS of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated across the occupied territories for the 33rd straight week against the policies of Israel’s right wing extremist...

Israeli unions are striking for a Gaza ceasefire! The UK TUC must call a...

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A NATIONWIDE strike swept across Israel yesterday, intensifying the mass pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree an immediate cease-fire and a prisoner...

Bank of England warning that world stock markets on the verge of crash!

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The Bank of England yesterday warned that the capitalist financial markets are at risk of ‘sharp correction’. In its latest financial stability report the Bank...

US Gunships Attack Fallujah As Sunni And Shia Unite!

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THE US military has started using attack helicopters as well as jet fighters and bombers in attacks against the cities of Fallujah and...

Get Rid Of Crisis-Ridden Capitalism With A Worldwide Socialist Revolution!

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GLOBAL financial markets fell like crazy on Monday after a rise in coronavirus cases renewed fears and panic that the entire system is heading...

Bush fails to get Iraqi puppets to agree ‘constitution’

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OVER the weekend, President Bush made personal phone calls to both the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in...

Defend North Korea Against Imperialist Attack!

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THE US and its South Korean puppets are set to begin their largest ever joint military exercises amid the high tensions that they have...

Public services face privatisation catastrophe! Renationalise the lot under workers’ control!

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THE COLLAPSES of Carillion, of East Coast Rail, of academy chain after academy chain, and now with the NAO report that private outsourcing giant...

Ruling Class Targets The Political Levy

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THERE has been a frenzied hue and cry raging for weeks now over the minor mistakes of Labour cabinet ministers over relatively minor...

World’s Stock Markets Set For Financial Crash!

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IT was reported yesterday that a survey of the top professional ‘money managers’ revealed that these investment experts believe that the world’s leading stock...

War criminals meet in Brussels

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THE imperialist criminal states – who supported the war on Iraq in 2003, the Security Council-backed NATO onslaught on Libya in 2011, and then...

Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown

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TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...

The Crisis In The Ukraine!

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THE OSCE has revealed the 12-point roadmap behind the September 5 truce signed in Minsk. The document, titled ‘Protocol on the results of consultations...

Cameron Proposes Britain’s Own Version Of G-Bay

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DAVID Cameron chose the G20 meeting in Australia to unveil the latest coalition plans to strip British passport holders of their citizenship if they...

Cameron drives to war

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PM Cameron made it perfectly clear in the House of Commons on Wednesday that he is determined to go to war in Syria to...

Workers will reject Tory ‘charm offensive’ – Time to kick them out with a...

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Mark Harper, the latest Tory transport secretary, appeared on the BBC yesterday morning to claim that the government was not responsible for blocking any...

Bma Calls For Independent Inquiry Into NHS Crisis

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A WOMAN died yesterday in an ambulance while waiting in a queue of around 15 emergency vehicles outside the A&E at Morriston Hospital in...

Abbas Ready For Talks And A Deal With Netanyahu!

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PALESTINIAN Authority President, Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared his willingness to work with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, adding that he hoped to get...

No Obama Recovery Plan

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A VERY hard pressed Obama, right at the start of his state of the Union message, was forced to summon the ‘God of Battles’...

Egyptian Revolution Drives Zionism Into Massive Crisis!

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PALESTINIANS are poised to march in their millions on 15th September both inside and outside the occupied territories, and throughout the world, including...

Production and wages falling while ‘pay-day’ loan sharks boom as Christmas nears

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THE UK’s industrial output fell 0.7% in October, its fastest fall for six months. It is now 1.7% lower than the same month in...

Labour to let multi-nationals take over NHS Primary Care Trusts

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THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health insurance...

Tory ‘crackdown’ on youth inspired by fear of young people as a revolutionary force

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak yesterday launched a ‘crackdown’ on anti-social behaviour and begging, as the centrepiece of government policies in what is a...

‘Cowardly Johnson’ dodges responsibility for the ‘Great Care Home Massacre!’

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PM BORIS Johnson was condemned yesterday after trying to pin the 20,000 plus coronavirus deaths in care homes on care home staff saying: ‘Too...

Class struggle sharpens – Organise general strike!

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900 construction workers were sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, north Lincolnshire yesterday in what the GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny called ‘a case...

Putin cuddles up to the West over Ukraine!

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SUNDAY night’s meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has shown conclusively the counter-revolutionary nature of...

Ten Million Households Are Suffering

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TEN million households are suffering from the financial and political crisis says Which? as it calls on the coalition government, ahead of its Autumn...

Hands Off Syria – To ‘End The Cruelty And Carnage’

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THE heads of five major UN agencies have issued a joint appeal to the international community, a code phrase for the imperialist...