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Kick The Profiteers Out Of The NHS!

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THE report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire gives official and damming evidence of the plundering...

Labour’s left leadership is paralysed as Blair and Co move in for second referendum!

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PM May yesterday attacked former Labour PM Tony Blair accusing him of ‘undermining’ her Brexit talks by calling for a second referendum. In fact Blair’s...

Tories’ catastrophic split – time to kick them out

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THE Tory party was delivered shattering blows on the eve of its conference when Tory MP Mark Reckless stepped out onto the platform of...

Fire doors fail! Millions at risk! Kick Tories out before another fire breaks out!

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FIRE doors in the Grenfell Tower failed, providing further evidence that this horrific tragedy could have been prevented. There is not a shadow of...

Brown hints about withdrawal from Basra

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PRIME Minister Brown was yesterday midway to giving up his ‘there is no timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq’ line – imposed on him...

Labour Slashes Welfare Benefits To Make The Poorest Pay For The Capitalist Crisis!

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LABOUR CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves made further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement yesterday. The government announced big welfare spending reductions...

Tory war on two fronts against Russia and working class at home

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THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...

Increased sanctions on Russia drive the bosses’ war against the working class at home!

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THE MOVE by the US, the UK and EU ruling classes to cut off all oil and gas supplies from Russia is now ‘unstoppable’...

The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Stop Israel’s Mass Murder!

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AN international human rights organisation says Israel is pressing ahead with a ‘systematic policy of targeting civilians’ in the Gaza Strip, including bombardment of...

There was no fire safety report before refurbishing Grenfell – Build Council of Action...

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GRENFELL Tower was safe until the refurbishment took place, when it was wrapped in highly flammable insulation and cladding, described by fire safety experts...

US And UK Ruling Classes Have Been Undermined By Defeat In Afghanistan!

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THE RULING US Democratic Party, led by President Biden, was yesterday being pressed by its NATO allies to delay the US rapid retreat (rout)...

General strike to defend the NHS

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AMBULANCE crews in south-east Wales are staging a four-week, unofficial overtime ban to highlight how much the ambulance service now relies on their willingness...

No evidence behind police terror raid

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IN the early hours of Friday morning a police raiding party of up to 250 officers broke into a home in Lansdown Road, Forest...

Cameron shows his contempt for parliament

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TORY leader Cameron was allowed to bluff his way through yesterday’s debate, on his special statement on the Murdoch-Coulson scandal, held after it caused...

Cameron-Clegg set the bounty hunters on the poor!

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First it was people on various disability benefits who were the enemy. The Cameron line is that these people are dodgers who should...

SALUTE ABDUL HAROUN – The man that the tunnel could not stop!

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ABDUL Rahman Haroun is a hero. The Sudanese national walked the full length of the Channel Tunnel (31 miles), dicing with death all of...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside their  caravan at Heathrow yesterday

Pakistan PM forced to condemn US raid

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THE Pakistani Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, yesterday spelt out that Pakistan cannot accept actions like the recent US cross-border air strike on a village...

Japanese Imperialists Flex Their Muscles

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JAPANESE Nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just been re-elected and has immediately begun a drive to prepare for war against China and North...

Blair Witch-Hunts The Unborn

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‘WE can clamp down on anti-social children before birth’, said Prime Minister Blair on Thursday. That anti-social behaviour is in the genes, is the...

Forward to the Third Intifada

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THE US SPECIAL envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, who negotiated the basis of the power sharing agreement in the north of Ireland,...

Norfolk & Norwich NHS Trust – screwed by the PFI bandits

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THE Octagon private sector consortium has been branded the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’ by a House of Commons committee. MPs on the public accounts...

McCluskey has learnt nothing from the 1970s and 80s except to surrender

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IT is clear from Unite leader McCluskey’s article in the Guardian yesterday that he has learnt nothing from the struggles of the 1970s...

Second Xmas on the dole for 700,000!

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ACCORDING to research published by the TUC on Monday, over 250,000 people will be spending their second successive Christmas on the dole. Even this figure...

Victory To Syria – Down With The US, UK And Israel

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THE unprovoked air strike by Israeli forces on a scientific research centre on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus is the opening shot...

After Bradford – No Change In Labour Policies

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband said on Thursday that both national and local factors were to blame for the party’s massive defeat at the hands...

Commissioners will slash and burn local services!

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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Tory County Council has imposed emergency spending controls twice in the last six months and is now in a ‘truly perilous state’, having...

Bosses are in crisis worldwide! Now is the time to organise the British and...

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FIVE THOUSAND trade unionists marched on Saturday in Cheltenham to mark the banning of trade unions at the GCHQ spy centre 40 years ago,...

Imperialist Vipers At Work

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FROM the early 1980s, the CIA and MI6, directed by the US and UK governments of the day, supported and armed the Mujahideen in...

Occupy And Nationalise Vauxhall Plants

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THREE companies have bid to take over GM Europe from the crisis-stricken US giant. They are Italian carmaker Fiat, Canadian parts maker Magna and...

Disband the Met Police – forward to a workers state and socialism

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WHEN Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel is forced to say that she is ‘appalled and sickened’ by the behaviour of Metropolitan Police officers, then...

Savage Israeli occupation lashes out at Palestinians!

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THE Fatah movement in southern Hebron declared a day of mourning on Wednesday after a 17-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces who had...

Support Catalan independence! Down with the Spanish and EU ruling classes! Forward to a...

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CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont has called for a ‘democratic opposition’ to the imposition of direct rule from Madrid after the Spanish government terminated his...

US Raises Interest Rates To The Highest Level In 22 Years – The Workers...

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THE US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years, as it fights to stabilise prices in the world’s...

The Palestinian revolution is driving Israel back! End the occupation of Palestine! Forward to...

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HAMAS declared a ‘historic victory’ of Palestinians in their struggle against the occupying regime of Israel yesterday, after the Israeli regime conceded an unconditional...

Smash Labour’s Class War Budget!

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ARGUABLY the most damning indictment of Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget on Wednesday was the glowing endorsement the International Monetary Fund (IMF) greeted it...

Imperialist Vultures Gather Over Syria

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HAVING failed to overthrow President Assad of Syria by force of arms, the imperialist powers are now turning to Russia, and are seeking the...

Death rate rising rapidly – savage Tory cuts to blame!

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MASSIVE Tory cuts are undermining the NHS and threatening the lives of many thousands. There is already an investigation taking place after  whistleblower Sarah Hayes, a...

Workers forced Brexit through! Now bring down Johnson to bring in a workers government...

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AT ELEVEN pm last night, Britain officially left the European Union. After a long, hard and determined struggle Brexit has actually happened and the...

Biden administration in crisis over Israeli failure to defeat Hamas

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CHUCK SCHUMER, the Democratic Senate majority leader, described as the highest ranking Jewish official in the United States and top ally of president Joe...

US abandons Kurds in northern Syria and gives green light to Turkish invasion

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TURKEY has been given the green light to invade northern Syria by the US following the abrupt decision by the Trump administration on Sunday...

Stock markets crash as ‘contagion’ from Turkish currency collapse spreads to world banks

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Last Friday the Turkish currency, the lira, crashed spectacularly, dropping as much as 16% relative to the dollar – it lost a third of...

Two-day Greek General Strike – time for all-out indefinite action!

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LAST week the two main Greek trade union organisations representing workers in the public and private sector called a two-day general strike starting today...

Miners charged with murder – ANC stands with the bosses!

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANC government and its state apparatus have taken a very clear class stand, alongside international capital, with their decision to charge...

Orange Counter-Revolution Defeated!

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THE OPPOSITION leader Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of the Regions, has won the Ukrainian presidential election, and has defeated Prime Minister...

Turkey and Israel are set to announce ‘normalisation’

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TURKEY and Israel are to announce an agreement on the normalisation of bilateral ties, ending six years of a freeze in relations, after a...