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Education Bombshell – The University Cuts Begin!

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday condemned the decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to reduce funding for university...

Iraqi resistance forces Maliki to back down

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AS Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s 72-hour amnesty deadline for militia fighters in Basra to hand over their weapons ran out yesterday, this leader of...

UK-France Moving To Partition Libya

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FOREIGN Secretary William Hague yesterday ordered the Libyan charge d‘affaires out of the UK along with all Libyan diplomats. Hague said: ‘We’re inviting the...

Starmer’s ‘national mission’ is to save capitalism and to make workers pay for it!

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YESTERDAY, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivered what was billed as a keynote speech that would outline once and for all the policies Labour...

Maliki Objects To US-Puppet Army Raid On Sadr City

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YESTERDAY was the first day after the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad announced that he had given the Iraqi puppet government a timetable...

Workers must support Russia and China as Biden threatens new war!

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AS THE world crisis of the capitalist system deepens, the US under President Joe Biden is preparing for a new world war. Biden is...

Miliband Praises Attlee But Plans To Bury The Welfare State

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MlLIBAND, Balls and co are like circus performers on the highest of high wires, being buffeted by a huge economic gale that is pauperising...

Tories routed in Clacton – Labour hangs on in Heywood

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THURSDAY’S by-election in Clacton, caused by the defection to UKIP of the sitting Tory MP, Douglas Carswell, saw the Tory party completely routed. Carswell won...

Hamas urges workers of the world to march on the first anniversary of the...

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THE Hamas revolutionary leadership yesterday called for organising mass marches and broad solidarity events in all cities and capitals of the world on the...

Free The Prisoners Says Hamas And Stop Zionist Gaza Aggression!

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‘LET Christmas celebrations be a global occasion to intensify all forms of global solidarity, to stop the Zionist aggression on Gaza,’ the Hamas Movement...

US threatens the UK over 5G – while the Tory Party splits over the...

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THE BANKRUPTCY of British capitalism is there for all to see. Yesterday the Johnson Tory government was faced with making a serious break with...

Corbyn comes out on top as May is jeered, laughed at and heckled!

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THE separate questioning by SKY’s Faisal Islam, Jeremy Paxman and a small audience, of Labour leader Corbyn and PM May showed just how disorientated...

Ruling class prepared to dump weak Johnson and move to dictatorial rule to wage...

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THIS WEEK the Tories were warned by leading financiers and bankers that a quarter of a million firms in the UK will be crushed...

Truss insists no retreat as she prepares to split Tories and move to dictatorship

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TORY Prime Minister Liz Truss finally emerged from Downing Street yesterday to make her first public statement on the economic crisis that has brought...

Take mass action on September 21 to stop NHS privatisation

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UNISON members working for NHS Logistics will take two 24-hour strikes over the next two weeks to fight the Labour plan to privatise the...

Seven Labour MPs Have The Whip Suspended After Voting To Scrap Two-Child-Benefit Cap

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SEVEN Labour MPs have had the whip suspended for six months after voting against the Labour government on an amendment to scrap the two-child...

The US And The Eu Are The Gangsters

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WE are currently witnessing the greatest eruption of vilification against Russia and its leadership since the Fulton speech by Winston Churchill on March...

Fight VAT increases with mass actions to bring down coalition

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THE increase of VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent today will mean destitution for millions of unemployed and low paid workers...

Expulsion of diplomats attempt to demonise Russia – workers know the enemy is at...

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The Czech Republic on Saturday expelled 18 Russian diplomats after claiming that two alleged Russian spies were behind a deadly explosion at a Czech...

Parliament Is Being Broken Apart By Brexit Crisis!

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PM MAY is facing a revolt from at least 15 Tory MPs who are threatening to vote with the majority of Labour MPs...

To defend jobs and pensions bring down the coalition!

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UNIVERSITY STAFF and students are under massive attacks from the Tory-led coalition. Coalition ministers are pressing ahead with 25% funding cuts, and the UCU trade...

Soros backed ‘Fifth Column’ calls for second EU referendum – Workers must force the...

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THE EU Brexit chief negotiator has declared that he is not prepared to compromise with the UK government over the decision of the British...

UK ports closed down by strikes – now force TUC to call a general...

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IT didn’t take long for the working class to move into action following the funeral of Elizabeth II with hundreds of dock workers at...

Ukrainian workers refuse to end occupations!

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THE agreement, styled as a ‘de-escalation roadmap’, reached at Geneva last Thursday by representatives from Russia, US, EU and the Ukraine coupist government, represents...

Dollar fall heralds a deepening capitalist crisis and world revolution

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ON FRIDAY, the exchange rate of the dollar plunged down against other major world currencies and gold rose by 1.2 per cent to $638.5...

US & UK bosses supply, train, and equip the Saudi killing machine! UK trade...

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SAUDI journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who lived for years in the US, walked into the Saudi embassy in Turkey over a week ago, and did...

Tories guarantee working class will pay for the profits of the rail privateers

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YESTERDAY the Tory government announced its plans to save the profits of the private rail companies by bankrolling them for another 18 months. In March,...

Good Riddance To Atos – Now Get Rid Of The Coalition!

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THE coalition government’s favourite private benefits testing company, Atos, is desperately attempting to jump ship after pocketing a fortune for driving people off sickness...

UNISON ‘ready to strike’ while Brown is bringing bosses into his cabinet

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‘I SEND this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...

‘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...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday in the freezing cold

Bring Down Blair Over Pensions

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THE big pensions clash between the trade unions and the government is underway after nine unions representing 1.5 million council workers agreed to ballot...

You Can’t Reform The Capitalist State – It Must Be Overthrown!

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NEVILLE LAWRENCE, the father of Stephen Lawrence, the teenager who was murdered by a racist gang in 1993, said yesterday that he was very...

Egyptian Military Shut Down Gaza Power Supply

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ALI AL-HAYIK, the head of Gaza’s Federation of Industries and the Palestinian Businessmen Association on the Gaza Strip, warned yesterday that dozens of factories...

US Attacks Refugees With Its $65M Unrwa Cut!

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EXECUTIVE Committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Zakaria al-Agha, said on Wednesday that the United States freeze of $65 million in its...

A Palestinian state – Not in our lifetime say Zionist leaders

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MORE than 15 Israeli air strikes on Thursday, Friday and early Saturday destroyed Gaza Strip water, power and roads and killed seven Palestinians. Yesterday,...

Inflation rising – slashing wages and threatening jobs! Trade unions must take action to...

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INFLATION rose to 3.1% in November, the highest in nearly six years, as the squeeze on households continued and prices rose, slashing further into...

To rid the world of coronavirus capitalism must be overthrown and replaced by socialism

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AMERICA, the wealthiest capitalist country in the world, on Wednesday recorded its highest daily level of Covid deaths with 3,157 new deaths recorded. This exceeds...

Blair’s Guildhall speech proclaims ‘globalisation’ & war

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LABOUR premier Tony Blair spoke about the fight against ‘global terrorism’ and called for free-trade ‘globalisation’ in his foreign policy speech at the City...

General Strike required to win junior doctors struggle!

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THE Academy of Medical Royal Colleges yesterday issued a statement saying: ‘This is a time of unprecedented crisis for the NHS. With this in...

Capitalism has no ‘safety net’ to save it from economic crash

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) can no longer act as the world’s ‘lender of last resort’ according to a task force of currency experts...

Take action to halt the continuing murderous attacks on Gaza’s starving masses!

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THE Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has condemned the Israeli-American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and complicit governments, especially the US and British administrations, for the...

Commuters Demand Bring Back British Rail

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THE announcement this week that the coalition government has sanctioned an inflation busting 4.1% increase in rail fares across England has thrown the spotlight...

World capitalism facing ‘attack of the debt tsunami’ warn global financial leaders!

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A REPORT on Wednesday by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) warned that the world is drowning under an unprecedented and increasing amount of...

Accessories To Murder!

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THE Israeli Cabinet, after its weekly meeting on Sunday, issued a statement that it was greatly encouraged by the ‘low-key’ international response to its...

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...