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‘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...

Working Class In UK Requires A New And Revolutionary Leadership!

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TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak dropped any pretence that British capitalism would stage a miraculous ‘bounce back’ when he confessed that the country faces ‘a...

Labour rats flee their sinking ship

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COMMUNITIES Secretary Hazel Blears has resigned from the cabinet, on the eve of the local government and EU elections, delivering a major blow to...

Tory Party disintegrating – working class must prepare to seize power now!

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THE CONSERVATIVE Party is tearing itself apart this week as Tory MPs await with trepidation the result of the inquiry by Sue Gray into...

Hamas demands prosecution of ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ for war crimes against Palestinians

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IN RESPONSE to the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) announcement on Monday that it is closing its operation in Gaza, the Hamas resistance movement...

One country two social systems breeding counter-revolution in China

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THE Hong Kong pro-democracy protests have now moved into their second week. The Hong Kong Federation of Students withdrew from planned negotiations on Friday, accusing...

Transport Unions Must Refuse To Transport Asylum Seekers To Rwanda!

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THE TORY government’s racist drive to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda came unstuck on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) granted...

Occupy The Steel Industry – Organise General Strike To Defend Jobs

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THE world capitalist crisis as well as shattering the energy industries – oil, coal and gas – is also decimating world steel production and...

Occupy GMM Luton!

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THE German government yesterday made its move to try and secure GM Europe for Magna, the Canadian car parts manufacturer that wants to sack...

Derisory increase in minimum wage wiped out by inflation!

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APPROXIMATELY 2 million low paid workers will be covered by the increase in the national minimum wage that came into effect yesterday. Under this increase...

More British Troops For Iraq!

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WITHOUT any vote in the House of Commons hundreds of British troops are to be sent to Iraq, which is already being bombed by...

Cbi Demands Huge Cuts To Save The Bosses

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THE employers organisation, the CBI, yesterday demanded that the Tory coalition government go even further than it has pledged, in destroying benefits and...

Brown, Cameron & Clegg unite to rescue bankrupt capitalism

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THE manufacturing sector of the British economy shrank last month at the fastest rate for 17 years, that is since 1992, according to figures...

Netanyahu rages against genocidal Israeli state being ‘isolated’ and threatened by the mass movement...

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YESTERDAY, the Israeli state deliberately shut down all communication services in Gaza, cutting off approximately 800,000 Palestinians in the Strip from the outside world. This...

Working class must respond to Zionist regime’s plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza by calling general...

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WHILE US president Donald Trump was meeting with Israeli leader Benjamín Netanyahu on Monday, ostensibly to discuss a ‘peace plan’ for Gaza, the Israeli...

Brexit Moment Of Truth Fast Approaching! The Working Class Must Be Ready To Take...

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YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is...

Workers rise up – Stop the closure of Ealing Maternity Unit!

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ON MAY 7 Labour won the Ealing Central and Acton seat from the Tories, with Rupa Huq getting 22,002 votes, a massive 13%...

The Stalinist theory of one country with two social systems has encouraged the...

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THE EVENTS in Hong Kong over the past month have seen thousands of people storming the Hong Kong parliament and raising the Union Jack...

Capitalism in its greatest financial crisis, says Brown

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THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who once boasted that he had resolved the crisis of capitalism and its tendency to go from boom to...

British capitalism bankrupt, backward and stuck at the bottom!

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UK unemployment fell by 57,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to May, leaving the unemployed rate stuck at 7.8% in the UK,...

Tory Chairman Quits While Johnson Skulks In Rwanda Hoping That Something Will Turn Up

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THE TORY wipe-out in the two by-elections has left the great leader skulking in Rwanda, while his Tory Party chairman Dowden has resigned, writing...

40% cuts will drive workers to rise up to get rid of capitalism!

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THE new diktat of the Tories and the Liberals, that there will be cuts in government departmental spending of 40 per cent, means that...

TUC Leader Nowak Urges The Tories To Compromise With The Trade Unions Just As...

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IN THE understatement of the year, the new leader of the TUC Paul Nowak warned yesterday that further strikes could lie ahead in 2023...

Trump Faces Impeachment – US Capitalism Faces Ruin – Forward To The US Socialist...

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LAST WEDNESDAY President Trump sent a 100,000-plus howling mob on a mission to break into the Capitol building to stop the certification of election-winner...

US-UK-Eu The Imperialist Split Widens!

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AS the world crisis of capitalism develops at breakneck speed, so the splits between the imperialist nations become more open, pitching the US against...

Moroccan leaders stab Palestine in the back with another ‘normalisation’ deal with Israel!

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ISRAEL and Morocco announced they are to ‘normalise ties’ in another US-brokered deal. On Thursday, Morocco became the fourth Arab country since August to strike...

US coup in Baghdad

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THE US on Tuesday organised its own coup in Baghdad, attempting to place the previous long-term Maliki ally, Haidar al-Abadi, into the office of...

Blair advocates Thatcherism throughout Europe

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BLAIR’S call for Thatcherism throughout Europe has won him the immediate support of all Tories and right wingers, even those who had been portraying...

Alleged stonethrowers charged with attempted murder or targeted by snipers!

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‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...

Darling’s forecasts ‘too optimistic’, says Treasury Committee

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THE British capitalist economy and government finances are in a worse state than Chancellor Alistair Darling led everyone to believe when he delivered his...

Grenfell Tower Deaths Were Avoidable – Time To Nationalise The Banks And Building Industry!

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THE Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was the result of ‘dishonest companies, successive governments, and a lack of strategy by the fire...

Imperialist Crisis Deepens In The Middle East!

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PALESTINIANS are demanding that the US-sponsored ‘peace talks’ with Israel are called off after Israeli troops murdered three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,...

Tories prepare for perfect storm of anger from workers – General strike now to...

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AS THE annual conference of the TUC, this year conducted on-line, opens, the GMB union released analysis of official data showing that 100,000 care...

Eu Abyss Opens As Irish Decide On Referendum

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THE Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos was in Brussels yesterday seeking final approval from Germany and France for Greece’s second bailout deal. Greece is continuing...

Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America

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THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...

TUC refuses to fight for Corbyn or against austerity!

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YESTERDAY, the TUC published the results of a survey of workers, taken in the immediate aftermath of last week’s vote to break with the...

Tories ‘sidelining NHS’ is the cause of testing crisis – time to bring them...

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WITH coronavirus cases continuing to rapidly increase day on day as a result of the Tories’ campaign to drive the reopening of workplaces, schools...

Bankrupt British Bosses Declaring War On Workers, Students And Youth!

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THE UK government borrowed £35.9bn in August, which was £30.5bn more than it borrowed in August last year. Borrowing between April and August totalled...

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...

Judge Dismisses CWU Appeal In A Few Minutes – Time For A General Strike...

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IT TOOK just minutes yesterday for three High Court judges to hear and dismiss an appeal by the postal workers union (CWU) against an...

Sunak speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet pledges UK support to imperialist war across the...

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FRESH from sacking Suella Braverman as Home Secretary in the morning, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak turned up on Monday evening to deliver a speech...

More sanctions on Russia drive up inflation while Tories blame strikes for crisis

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YESTERDAY an embargo on seaborne Russian oil exports came into force, a move that will drive up the price of oil internationally and add...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the the thousand-strong march through Southall on December 4th last year

Blair gang runs out of spin

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THE Blair government has finally run out of spin. It is now being destroyed by its own inner contradictions, the chief one being its determination,...

Cowen making workers pay for capitalism’s crisis in Ireland

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IN A third attempt within six months to save bankrupt Irish capitalism, Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s Fianna Fail government unveiled a draconian budget on Tuesday,...

Britain wants to occupy Afghanistan for ‘decades’

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SIR SHERARD Cowper-Coles, the high-flying diplomat who is Ambassador in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio 4 yesterday that British forces would have to stay in...