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US Torture Flights – Questions Go Unanswered

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LIBERTY has written letters to the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and to British police chiefs about the US’ ‘extraordinary rendition’ programme and the use...

Abbas forced to break all contacts with Israel. Now restore national unity government with...

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PALESTINIAN President, Mahmud Abbas yesterday belatedly suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and other contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression on Gaza stops’. With 95...

Don’t vote to bomb Syria! Victory to Assad – forward to Palestine!

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IN August 2013, MPs rejected by 285-272 votes UK military intervention by the Cameron government to bomb President Bashar al-Assad’s government out of power,...

Duncan Smith’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Peddles Lies!

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THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...

Russia defies imperialism – Time for the world socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that he had ordered the Russian military to carry out a special operation in the Donbass region in...

Hamas fighters deal heavy blows against Israel, while Gaza masses remain undefeated!

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MORE than 700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry...

Unite Leaders Refuse To Fight The Bosses And The Tories!

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UNITE, the UK’s biggest trade union, is on the front line of the class struggle as ‘fire and rehire bosses’ at BA and other...

Over 100,000 could die because of fuel poverty in capitalist Britain

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OVER 100,000 people in Britain could literally freeze to death over the next 25 years because they are too poor to afford to adequately...

Another Warning Issued About The Criminal Nature Of The New Anti-Union Laws

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LEADING employment lawyers are to issue yet another warning that the Tory government’s new Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill will give ministers ‘unfettered power’...

Johnson blurts out that greed is ‘good’ for capitalism

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IN A VIDEO call with Tory backbenchers on Tuesday night, prime minister Boris Johnson boasted that capitalist greed was responsible for the UK’s vaccination...

Yellow jacket uprising spreads across Europe and inspires the masses in the Middle East

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ON MONDAY night, French President Emmanuel Macron used a televised address to the nation to try and head off the insurrectionary wave sweeping the...

Labour’s knives are out for use against the UK’s working class and its youth...

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THE future of the youth minimum wage is now under review by the former Health Secretary Alan Milburn. The alleged ‘social mobility’ expert has told...

Baker Reveals Iraq Get Out Plan

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A PANEL of White House advisers led by a former Secretary of State, James Baker, is reported to be recommending a major shift of...

GERMAN ELECTIONS: Workers deliver a blow to free market ‘reforms’

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AFTER Sunday’s General Election, Germany did not have a Chancellor, or a government yesterday. This plunged the country into a huge economic and political...

Israel’s finance minister orders preparations for the Israeli annexation of occupied West Bank

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ISRAEL’S extreme right wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, on Monday ordered preparations for the Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of Donald...

ACTION must be taken by the trade unions to defend the NHS

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THE crisis of the NHS has reached the point of its transformation. Because of the fake NHS pricing mechanisms imposed by Labour, NHS hospitals are...

World Crisis Of Capitalism Requires World Revolution

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CAPITALISM is a worldwide system dominating the whole planet, in which there is no national solution to the problems brought about by the latest...

Millions of low paid US workers are on the march!

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FOLLOWING the Black Friday strike action at 1,500 WalMart stores throughout the US, fast-food workers in over 100 cities will walk off the job...

Hezbollah unites the Arab masses against Zionism and imperialism

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THERE is not the slightest doubt about it – Hezbollah’s military action in the Shabaa Farms area of the disputed border with Israel, showed...

Cwu Crisis Conference!

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THE Royal Mail’s pay, pension and bonuses award worth £3million for Chief Executive Adam Crozier was a major slap in the face for all...

Since bankrupt capitalism offers workers a ‘bleak old age’– get rid of it!

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LORD McFall, who has been examining private sector pension schemes, has concluded in his Workplace Retirement Income Commission review, that workers on private pensions...

Trade Union Renegade Doing Blair’s Dirty Work

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THE former CWU postal workers trade union leader, Alan Johnson, yesterday moved into action at the behest of the Prime Minister to urge that...

Smash the surveillance society – smash the capitalist state!

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HARD on the heels of the revelations last June from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden that American and British spy agencies can access all...

Brown’s empty words cannot hide he is the bankers’ man

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‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...

Grenfell Inferno – The Government And Council Ignored Warnings!

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THE fire that spread like an inferno through the Grenfell Tower block early Wednesday morning has claimed the lives of at least 17 people...

Kerry threatens Assad with ‘total destruction of the ceasefire – and then back to...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that seeking military gains will not end the ‘civil war’. He added there...

Unions Must Take Strike Action To Stop ‘Son Of Star Wars’

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THE real content of the ‘war against terror’ (a tool for promoting imperialist interests and for grabbing the world’s resources) has been proven with...

PM Sunak heaps sanctions on Russia as US, EU and UK workers pay the...

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PM SUNAK HAS LOST NO TIME in announcing a series of fresh sanctions against Russia that include a ban on imports of aluminium, diamonds,...

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...

The Israelis are bombing Palestine and killing thousands. The TUC must call a...

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ISRAEL’S air force has delivered strikes on some 60 Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the press office of...

Israel Threatens Palestine With The ‘Iron Fist’

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ISRAEL has greeted the exercise by the Palestinians of their democratic right to elect Hamas as their governing party, with the most concentrated attacks...

EU economy at the end of the road

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THE economy of the Eurozone countries is sinking even deeper into crisis making a mockery of all the talk about an economic ‘recovery’. This was...

Ukraine Attacks Belgorod – As China Warns Of Pacific War!

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THE Belgorod governor has said shelling and strikes by imperialist supported Ukrainian forces continued on Saturday night after two residents were killed and thousands...

Bosses Declare War On Workers With An 80% Hike In Electricity And Gas Bills...

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THE UK’s energy bills are set to jump 80 per cent to an average of £3,549 per year from October, regulator Ofgem announced on...

Capitalism sinking under $199 trillion of debt

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A MAJOR report by the McKinsey Global Institute exposes the historic depth of the crisis gripping the world capitalist system, a debt crisis of...

Labour Party ramps up attack on NHS – TUC must call a general strike...

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LABOUR Party shadow health secretary Wes Streeting doubled down on his attack on the NHS yesterday with a speech to a conference organised by...

The BBC supports starving the people of Gaza

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THE BBC is part of the British capitalist state whose job it is to look after the interests of the ruling class. It has...

All Trade Unions Must Join The Battle To Defend The NHS With A General...

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THE battle has now been joined to defend the NHS, which the Tory government is determined to destroy, to return the UK to the...

Clinton declares war on Putin and on Russia

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THE Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US Secretary of State, Clinton, of giving the Russian right wing – many of them...

Deutsche Bank collapse will crash the world’s banking system!

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DEUTSCHE Bank, the largest and most important bank in Europe, sacked its British born chief executive John Cryan after just three years in the...

INDICATIVE VOTES ARE REJECTED FOR A SECOND TIME – UK MUST LEAVE EU ON...

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THE PLAN for a parliamentary coup against the 2016 Referendum result, that instructed the government  to leave the EU, by forcing through the House...

No Second Referendum! Bring Down The Tories! Forward To A Workers Government And...

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EX-UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that ‘we should have a second referendum on EU membership.’ This is the biggest personal surrender note for...

Hamas Demands A Complete End To The Israeli Aggression Against The Gaza Strip!

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SENIOR Hamas official Dr. Basem Naim stated Tuesday that Hamas cannot accept any agreement that does not clearly commit to halting the Israeli aggression...

End the NHS cuts! Reopen the A&Es!

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FINANCIAL pressures could get in the way of the drive to improve care following the Stafford Hospital scandal, experts said yesterday, confirming the obvious,...

Savage Spanish cuts will stoke a fire that no firewall can keep at bay

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THE Spanish government is to cut 27bn euros (£22.5bn) from its budget this year. Among the measures are the freezing of public sector...