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‘Extraordinary Rendition’ – Blair and Straw hear and see no evil

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“WE conclude that the government has a duty to enquire into the allegations of extraordinary rendition and black sites under the Convention against Torture,...

Hands off Palestine Action! Demand TUC call a general strike to bring down Starmer...

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Over 300,000 marched in London on Saturday, in a powerful demonstration of support for a Palestinian state and against the genocidal war being waged...

Hague, Cameron will join Obama’s war on Syria

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PRIME MINISTER Cameron and Foreign Secretary Hague, despite the fact that the Tory cabinet and party are split on the issue, yesterday gave their...

Streeting’s NHS ‘Back to Basics’ is a mandate for full scale cuts and complete...

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LABOUR’S health secretary Wes Streeting yesterday unveiled his new ‘trimmed down’ mandate for the NHS. Declaring that he would bring the health service ‘back to...

Tories Use State Against Health Workers

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TRADE UNION leaders are angry that the government has organised police and army scabbing on today’s four-hour NHS strike over the refusal of the...

President Trump Panics – And Pledges To Send In The Nuclear Submarines!

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TRUMP’S declaration that he is sending two nuclear submarines into ‘appropriate regions’ to threaten Russia, has made public that he is preparing for the...

UK needs a real general strike to bring down Tories and bring in Workers...

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THE DEEPENING crisis of British capitalism sees the UK ruling class at least 100 times more interested in provoking regime change in Russia through...

TUC must immediately act to stop Clarence House staff sackings by the monarchy and...

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THE PCS trade union has called for the proposed staff redundancies at Clarence House to be halted and pledged to support every member of...

Labour Is The Rajapaksa Regime’s Sponsor

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ON Tuesday evening President Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, was due to address the prestigious Oxford Union in front of an invited audience. He...

Restore Grants, End Fees, Defend Free State Educaton!

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TUITION fees must rise by 100 per cent to £6,000 a year if universities are to cover their teaching costs, is the main...

World crisis lays waste Putin’s oligarchs!

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HISTORY has played a huge joke on the Stalinist bureaucracy. Under the rule of Gorbachev and Yeltsin it thought that it would be able to...

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...

Super rich Kensington and Chelsea – thousands of empty properties and only 26...

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IN 21st century Britain, in the richest borough in London, working class children are being diagnosed with diseases and ailments that belong in the...

Labour believes that the elderly must be made to pay

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IT has emerged that it is a question of principle for the Labour government that elderly people who are now living in nursing and...

CWU leaders agree surrender terms!

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AFTER calling off last winter’s national strike by their members in Royal Mail without the members’ agreement – and without their members’ demands to...

Palestine suspends recognition of the state of Israel!

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THE PALESTINIAN Central Council met in Ramallah on Sunday and Monday and, after deliberations on important matters for the Palestinian people, it made a...

State Repression Of Youth Being Intensified

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THE CRISIS of the capitalist system has led to huge attacks on working class and middle class youth who are daily being told in...

A desperate ruling class forced to wheel out Gordon Brown to ‘save the day’...

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WITH THE Tory government of Theresa May staggering from one crisis to another this week over the issue of Brexit, the desperation of the...

Canada Bans Arms Sales To Israel – UK And US Workers Must Force Their...

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A CANADIAN government official said that Canada will stop exporting weapons to Israel due to the continued international criticism of its ongoing war on...

Get Ready For War says NATO, as capitalist crisis reaches its explosion point!

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‘CIVILIANS IN THE WEST must prepare for all-out war with Russia within the next 20 years’, a NATO Admiral, Rob Bauer warned in the...

Poverty Stricken UK! Rotten Ripe For Revolution!

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THE annual report by the New Policy Institute gives a comprehensive picture of poverty in the UK and graphically re-proves the need for a...

British Army To Brown – ‘Stand And Deliver’

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THE armed forces chiefs have entered politics and are to present the government with a shopping list of purchases that it must make, or...

Israel to build rail link into West Bank

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IT IS well known that the desire of the Zionist ruling class in Israel to expand the area under its rule is unquenchable, and...

Crisis Of British Capitalism Is Reaching Explosive Proportions – Disaster Ahead Say Insolvency Specialists!

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THE NUMBER of British businesses in immense financial distress and on the brink of collapse has soared by 25% to 650,000 during the past...

TUC line up with CBI and Tory Chancellor Sunak to impose wage cuts and...

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ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...

‘A positive response’ says Bush on Iran

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US President George W Bush has welcomed Iran’s initial reaction to a proposal from the EU states designed to achieve a deal with...

Trade union leaders should resign as well!

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IN a statement on Friday, the day after the general election disaster for reformism, the TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady showed just what a...

Business rates hike is to bankrupt the NHS – Time to bring the ...

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NHS hospitals and GP surgeries in England and Wales face a massive £635 million hike in their business rates by the May government over...

Workers across the UK erupt against cuts to wages, pensions and conditions – demand...

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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at 58 universities across the UK have come out on a three day strike, starting today,...

NATO forces face defeat in Afghanistan

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SIXTEEN US troops were killed in Afghanistan in July, more than were killed in Iraq! In fact, NATO casualties are mounting rapidly as...

Smash Israeli Annexation Plan – Forward To The Palestinian State!

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ISRAEL’S illegal annexation of Palestinian land due to start yesterday failed to materialise as the entire scheme was plunged into disarray. July 1 had been...

Japan Boosts Its Military Spending!

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WHILE the US and the UK have reduced their military spending, under pressure from the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system, the new...

Tories retreat over junior doctors – now finish them off

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THE eleventh hour climbdown by Tory health minister Jeremy Hunt over imposing new contracts on junior doctors has wounded him and exposed the weakness...

The Tories new proposed anti-union laws must be smashed – Defend the right to...

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FBU general secretary Matt Wrack has hit out at the government announcement that it will introduce new anti-union laws which will include the following...

Chinese Stalinists fear workers political revolution!

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IN an extraordinary speech given at his annual press conference, the outgoing Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, warned that China risks a ‘historical tragedy’...

Youth will rise up against savage Tory attacks!

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IT is definitely no fun being young under the Tories! As is well known, the Tories are absolutely desperate to be the party that hammers...

Re-nationalise the water companies

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The Guardian paper has published an exclusive report that revealed that Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water company, diverted cash meant to clean up...

Obama Commission sets out a plan for massive attacks on working class

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AFTER President Obama’s announcement that he intends to impose a two-year wage freeze on Federal workers, the Obama appointed US deficit commission has called...

Corbyn must dump ‘Remain’ and insist on socialist policies to win December 12th election!

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TUESDAY night’s vote in parliament calling a general election on December 12 revealed that the Labour Party is split from top to bottom. In the...

Bosses demand a prison workforce to keep wages below poverty level

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IT EMERGED yesterday that desperate UK food companies are begging Tory ministers to let them use prisoners to work in meat processing plants as...

WTO warns that a bigger crash than 2008 is on the way! Forward with...

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THE WORLD Trade Organisation chief Roberto Azevedo said on Wednesday that the economic collapse and job losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic would be...

Tory war on unemployed must be answered with a general strike to kick them...

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THE LATEST Tory onslaught on the unemployed was revealed by Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday when he praised the ‘Way...

TUC must call general strike to smash the anti-union laws and support the State...

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HUNDREDS of Palestinians are being brutally murdered and others injured as a result of the ongoing Israeli airstrikes and artillery bombardments across the Gaza...

Second Unite ‘Pause For Peace’ Equals Surrender Attempt!

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THE Unite trade union leaders have declared their second ‘Pause for Peace’ in less than a week, in two fiercely fought industrial disputes –...

Build Fourth International Throughout Africa

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THE victory of the strike of the Lonmim miners will inspire not just the workers of South Africa and Africa as a whole, but...