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UK has not offered to take in a single Syrian refugee!

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THE fact that the UK ruling coalition is involved up to its neck in organising the war in Syria, and is also keeping it...

US Supreme Court ruling destroys myth of bourgeois democracy and imposes dictatorship on US...

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On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that ex-President Donald Trump enjoys ‘absolute immunity’ for ‘official acts’ as president, a ruling that at a...
AUT and NATFHE pickets at the London College of Communication during their strike on March 7th

US dismisses Iranian letter while Israel threatens nuclear attack

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THE foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany and Xavier Solana the EU’s ‘Foreign Minister’, met on...

French General Strike escalates in fight to bring down Macron

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THE MASS strikes and demonstrations throughout France today mark the sharp escalation of the confrontation between French workers and the ‘bankers’ government of president...

Defend your homes with a socialist revolution!

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THE Thatcherite dream of creating a nation of home owners is already a nightmare for millions struggling to make their mortgage repayments. It is...

Government collapsing but trade union leaders watch and wait

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PRIME Minister Blair and former Blair ultra-loyalists spent yesterday slashing away at each others throats. Blair branded Blairite ex-junior minister, Tom Watson ‘disloyal, discourteous...

‘Recovery’ Rests On Bed Of Nitroglycerine

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THE 0.1 per cent ‘recovery’, the ‘work’ of Gordon Brown and Chancellor Darling has caused laughter and incredulity throughout the planet. It is a...

Cluster bombs still killing Lebanese children

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The UN’s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, yesterday described Israel’s use of cluster bombs in south Lebanon during the final three days of the conflict...

Household debt £300bn! Council evictions soar! Bring capitalism down!

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HOUSEHOLD debt in UK is worse than at any time on record a new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. Credit cards,...

Unite must call BA strike now! All TUC trade unions must join the action!...

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AT A THOUSAND-strong mass meeting of British Airways workers at Bedfont Football Ground on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport on Thursday, workers voted unanimously...

TUC And Right Wing Labour Are Supporting Driving Workers Back To Work!

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PM JOHNSON’S drive to return workers to work, despite the coronavirus epidemic, announced in Parliament on Monday at 3.00pm has met with a split...

Darling Robs The Poor To Prop Up The Bankers

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CHANCELLOR Darling yesterday admitted that the Labour government, cold-bloodedly, in the last budget, abolished the 10p tax rate for the lower paid, knowing that...

Renationalise Now!

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A SURVEY conducted this week by BBC Radio 5 Live has revealed that more than one third of people in Britain live in fear...

Victory to the workers of Gaza and Palestine! Forward to the world socialist revolution

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ISRAELI Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has launched his ground offensive in Gaza! A well-known Israeli journalist and security analyst, Avi Issacharoff said yesterday: ‘This...

Government responsible for seriously damaging the quality of mental health care!

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CUTS to adult mental health services in England are damaging the quality of care given to patients, a report by the King’s Fund...

Crisis of German Capitalism nears breaking point – the Banks must be nationalised under...

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Amid a major slump in the German economy, the profits of the giant Deutsche Bank, the country’s largest, crashed a huge 92 per cent...

Follow Holby City Equity Take Strike Action With Junior Doctors

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THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...

PM Johnson wants a nuclear rearmament drive to confront China!

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WITH Britain in a major economic and political crisis the Johnson government is not only preparing for a war with the UK working class,...

One year since the first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020!

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ON 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson outlined measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, with a series of stop-go lockdowns. Since then, of the major...

Victory To Gadaffi – Defeat The Nato Gangsters!

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ON Saturday, Colonel Gadaffi stated that the counter-revolutionary groups that had tried to rise up in a number of areas in Tripoli had been...

Tory plans to put troops on the streets

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IT EMERGED in the bourgeois press at the weekend that the army has been drawing up plans for troops to be sent onto the...

Bank of England trapped by inflation crisis – socialism the only way forward

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THE BANK of England is due to meet this week to announce an increase in interest rates, with ‘experts’ predicting an increase of 0.5%...
Marchers in London on the 3rd anniversary of the war on Iraq demand no attack on Iran

EU moves to suspend all aid to Palestine

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YESTERDAY the European Union followed the example of the US and suspended its aid to the Palestine National Authority. The EU has given $400...

TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers

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THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...

Chile erupts as youth and workers take on the military in fight against austerity

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CHILE erupted over the weekend, with mass demonstrations and riots spreading from the capital Santiago to other major cities, as workers and youth rose...

IDS’ war to starve and break the poor!

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JUST how ruthlessly Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is conducting the ruling class’ war on the poor can be seen in...

TUC must call a general strike in support of the RMT and to bring...

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch joined the picket line at London’s Euston Station yesterday morning after pay talks with the Tories collapsed on Monday. Earlier,...

EU using rubber bullets and stun grenades against refugees!

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AT the Idomeni crossing from Greece into Macedonia refugees are clashing with Macedonian soldiers and police, as they try to reopen the border near...

Greek Government Starts A Pogrom!

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GREECE is currently having its books and the success of its austerity measures examined by the EU Troika, made up of the representatives...

Coalition to widen student loans system!

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LAST Thursday the government announced that it was starting a consultation process on its plans to widen the student loans system in further education...

Repeal all racist immigration laws

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SHOCK, HORROR, the BBC has just found out that between 26 and 35 per cent of all of the migrants that are encouraged to...

Workers must call general strikes to defeat plans by US imperialism and Israel to...

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WHILE Israeli Zionist occupation forces expand their genocidal assault on Gaza, reports have emerged in the Israeli media and Financial Times (FT) that Israeli...

Tories aiming for a national government

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LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation was one in which the ruling class could not rule in the old way, and was riven with...

Only by abolishing capitalism can poverty be abolished!

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THE WEALTH gap in Britain has widened dramatically during the pandemic with the richest 10% of the population gaining an extra £50,000 each on...

Quit Afghanistan now says Ashdown – as Cameron and Hague plan new wars in...

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EX-Special Boat Service operative Ashdown can recognise a major defeat when it stares him in the face, and refuses to go away. He has called...

Workers Worldwide Must Take General Strike Action To See That Palestine Wins!

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THE ARROGANT Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has outlined his proposals for the future Israeli governance of Gaza ‘once the war between Israel and...

No confidence in Gove by heads

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At their annual conference the largest head teachers union, NAHT, passed a motion of no-confidence in the Tory education minister Michael Gove and the whole...

US and UK workers must bring down Trump and the Tories and go forward...

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DONALD TRUMP has arrived in the UK to try his hand at regime change. He is treating the UK ruling class with supreme contempt, as...
The march of over 700,000 workers and youth filled the streets around Place d’Italie where it assembled with trade unionists in the foreground carrying CGT flags

Restore Student Grants – Smash All Fees

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Students’ expenditure has gone up 44 per cent in real terms under the three Labour governments, an official Student Income and Expenditure survey has...

The US and UK are letting Israel do its worst! Now is the time...

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THE US ruling class, Israel’s chief backer, supplying it with the most modern weaponry and a blank cheque to do its worse to the...

As Zionist Mobs Launch Attacks On Palestinians Hamas Calls To Establish The Palestinian State

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YESTERDAY, Zionist mobs were attacking Palestinians all over the occupied territories seeking to seize their homes and land and drive them off it. Israeli occupation...

World Dollar Debt Crisis!

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YET another authoritative report detailing the developing world banking crisis has surfaced – a report which if shorn of its dry academic language paints...

Spain follows Greece with mass strikes against austerity

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SPANISH Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist Party government scraped through Parliament its 15bn euro (£13bn) austerity package, by 169 votes to 168,...

NHS under siege – TUC must act

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TORY Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced on June 2nd that the NHS must ‘stop making excuses’ and deliver ‘its side of the bargain’ going...

Bank of England to unleash hyperinflation in a desperate attempt to save capitalism

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REPORTS emerged over the weekend that the Bank of England is on the verge of announcing another massive round of money printing to pay...