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PATIENTS MUST NOT BE BARRED FROM HOSPITAL CARE BY ‘INCENTIVISED’ GPs!

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THE FACT that the Tories are cutting closing and privatising the NHS is no secret. Neither is the fact that those who are engaged...

Labour Party bankrupt financially and politically – unions must break from it and build...

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THE POLITICAL bankruptcy of the Labour Party is now matched by its financial bankruptcy as, under the leadership of Keir Starmer, it has become...

Torturers must pay for their crimes!

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YESTERDAY’S announcement by the coalition government that it has agreed to make huge payments to former detainees at the notorious Guantanamo Bay concentration camp...

War Fever Against Russia

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THE US and the EU are set to stiffen and widen their sanctions against Russia. Their intention is to target its finances, energy...

Brown targets European workers’ rights and benefits

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown published a pamphlet Global Europe-Full Employment and penned a special article in the Financial Times yesterday, lecturing the leaders of European...

Putin Defies The Imperialists Diktat And Visits Mariupol Promising To Rapidly Rebuild The City!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has visited Mariupol and vowed that new comfortable residential quarters for the people will continue being constructed in Mariupol in...

Occupy Grangemouth to defend the union, jobs, wages and pensions

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UNITE has urged Grangemouth workers not to give in to Ineos’ ‘menacing’ tactics to sign away their rights, saying it was looking to take...

Well Done – Unison Conference Rejects Histadrut

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THE Unison National Delegate Conference has rejected ‘critical engagement’ with the Histadrut, the Zionist trade union, which plays a central role in the Zionist...

With stockmarkets crashing it is time to smash capitalism and go forward to world...

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AMID world stock markets crashing, and the head of the IMF revealing she has ‘sleepless nights’ over the dangerous risks of collapses in the...

Italy’s financial ‘doom loop’ will strangle the entire banking system warns Carney

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THE FINANCIAL ‘doom loop’ that is tightening around the necks of the Italian banking system will send the Italian banks and the Italian...

Organise a general strike! Bring down Brown government! Go forward to socialism

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THE leaders of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the University and College Union (UCU) and the...

Time to put an end to ‘zombie’ capitalism with socialist revolution

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STEPHEN Welton, head of the small business investors group the Business Growth Fund (BFG), warned this weekend that the UK economy is in the...

PARIS ERUPTS AS POLICE ATTACK WORKERS ON MAY DAY and the CGT union urges...

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THE major French trade union the CGT has protested at the massive attack on peaceful demonstrators by riot police and and vigilantes and has...

Sterling disaster – it crashes against the $ and the €

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BANK of England governor King’s report, on the immediate prospects for British capitalism has produced a run on the pound – so precarious is...

Fatah calls for a general strike and ‘Day of Rage’ – UK workers must...

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AT LEAST 40 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison of ‘Megiddo’ have joined the prisoners’ open-ended mass hunger strike, said the strikers Media Committee...

Capitalism has failed – time to end it with socialist revolution

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THE DEEP political and economic crisis engulfing British capitalism and the ruling class was forcibly expressed when yesterday’s Daily Telegraph published a comment article...

Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!

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THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...

Atos & Capita to be paid £700m to throw disabled off benefits! Kick Atos,...

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THE TORY government have turned their fire against one of the most vulnerable sections of society: disabled people. The government has launched a three-pronged attack:...

World Crisis Of Capitalism Is Driving A World Revolution For Socialism

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THIS week the ‘big guns’ of the capitalist world banking system will each be holding their regular monthly meetings with only one question on...

Record inflation and record borrowing as British capitalism’s crisis worsens

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THE UK CPI inflation rate rose to to 4.4% in February from the January figure of 4%, while the RPI inflation rate which includes...

Coalition plans Royal Mail sell-off at knock-down price

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News broke yesterday that the long expected attempt by the coalition to sell off and privatise Royal Mail is set to occur this autumn. What...

US capitalism in crisis – war at home and abroad is its only way...

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US CAPITALISM, the most powerful in the world, is teetering on the brink of collapse under a tidal wave of debt. This dire warning was...

Reject ‘unlimited fees’, restore free state education

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LORD BROWNE’S Review was published yesterday, recommending unlimited tuition fees for university, with ‘the market’ setting the level. The coalition’s Business, Innovation and Skills Secretary,...

British capitalism’s crisis of rule

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THE inability of the Tories to pull ahead in the opinion polls, proves that 13 years of Labour rule has not been enough to...

Trump boasts America is ‘greatest civilisation’ on Earth – while preparing war on working...

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Donald Trump’s speech at his inauguration as US president on Monday did not include a number of the crucial measures he insisted would be...

Massive Food Price Rises Driving Forward World Revolution

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FOOD riots and major strike actions are erupting all over the capitalist world, driven forward by a doubling of food prices in many countries,...

Cameron wants to intervene in Syria!

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AT the same time as Foreign Secretary Hague has been insisting publicly that the UK will not supply arms and ammunition to their Syrian...

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,...

While the homeless sleep on the streets and workers battle to survive the rich...

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UK WORKERS have suffered privation and poverty ever since the 2008 financial crash, when the banks were bailed out by a Labour government at...

Capitalism kills

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Thousands of Bangladeshi workers erupted onto the streets of the capital Dhaka yesterday in fury at the fire on Saturday at a garment factory...

Stock Markets Crashing Worldwide!

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THE sharp rises followed almost immediately by even bigger losses on the international stock markets over the past few days, point in only one...

Libyan Counter- Revolutionaries Being Showered With Cash!

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WESTERN and Arab countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia have pledged $1bn for the right-wing stooges of imperialism in Benghazi, at the latest...

Bush’s and Bernanke’s policies cannot stop the debt debacle

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IN A WEEK when billions were wiped off share prices in New York, Tokyo and London, on Friday both United States President George Bush...

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,...

Migrants Not Wanted In The UK – Unless They Are ‘White Helmets’

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THAT well known humanitarian organisation, the Israeli armed forces, that is killing Palestinians on a daily basis, has just conducted a ‘humanitarian’ raid into...

US, UK, Karzai Drive To Bribe The Taleban

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ON the eve of the Afghan conference in London this week, UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take control...

Bring Down The May Government, Quit Eu And Bring In Socialism!

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GENERAL LORD Dannatt, the chief of the General Staff from 2006-2009, writing in The Daily Telegraph, has bemoaned the ‘national embarrassment of almost...

Blow the whistle on the Tories by kicking them out

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THE TORY health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, yesterday announced that the government is to issue for consultation draft guidelines that, it claims, will end the...

Forward With The World Socialist Revolution!

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ON every front – the economic, the political and the ideological – the capitalist ruling classes and their system are reeling and in desperate...

May wants to put the UK into chains

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WE already know that new legislation to be put forward by the government has as one of its features ‘internal relocation’ for British passport...

A Capitalist Nightmare Confronts The Bosses As Economic Collapse And Revolution Nears!

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THIS week the Daily Telegraph has published a supplement ‘The Investors’ Handbook 2020’ subtitled: ‘Rising protectionism, negative interest rates, equity bubbles, debt mountains, trade...

Production Slump Shocks Coalition As Crisis Deepens

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THE UK capitalist economy slumped in the fourth quarter of 2010, contracting by 0.5 per cent, instead of the meagre 0.5 per cent growth...

TAKE ACTION IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE – CALL GENERAL STRIKES IN US, EU and...

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NABIL Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, warned on Sunday of the grave consequences of Israel’s threats to carry out what could be...

Pound falls after Rachel Reeves reduced to tears in Parliament

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DURING PM’s Question Time in Parliament on Wednesday Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves broke down in tears as Prime Minster Keir Starmer dodged a question...

Another US blow for Pakistan!

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THE US Congress yesterday froze $700 million of aid to its ally Pakistan until it gets assurances that Pakistan will combat the spread of...