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Omicron strain batters USA as President Biden seeks to divert US workers’ anger with...

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THE Omicron strain of the Coronavirus now accounts for more than 73% of new US cases of Covid-19, up from 13% just a week...

Karzai Won’t Go – US-UK Adventure On The Rocks

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PRESIDENT Karzai is refusing to agree to a re-run of the Afghan general election, meaning that Karzai and his master President Obama are at...

Universal Credit cannot be reformed – it must be scrapped through mass strike action...

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MORE than 1.2 million people are on Universal Credit, while more than 100 new Jobcentres will be operating it by Christmas. Universal Credit is...

Stop Cameron’s counter-revolution at home and abroad!

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CAMERON told the House of Commons on Monday afternoon in his statement on national security strategy that: ‘On Thursday I will make the case for Britain...

Turkish Masses Serve Notice On Erdogan

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THE uprising of the Turkish masses, which began over the future of a park in European Turkey and rapidly spread across the country, including...

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...

Charlotte becomes a class war zone! The US socialist revolution is emerging

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THE US National Guard have arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, with armed-to-the-teeth state troopers lining the streets and turning the city into a war...

UN Security Council is to vote today on the State of Palestine’s admission...

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THE UN Security Council is to vote on Palestine’s UN membership application draft today, prepared by Algeria, recommending the state of Palestine’s admission as...

Police officer who attacked Tomlinson will not even be charged with assault!

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HARRY STANLEY was shot dead by armed police in Hackney in September 1999. They said that they thought that he was carrying a shotgun...

Johnson-Sunak Are Preparing A Winter War Against The British Working Class!

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THE UK working class is heading into the greatest ever winter struggle in its history, much greater than any of the ‘winters of discontent’...

Gate Gourmet Workers Lead The Way!

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ON SUNDAY, hundreds of workers from Gate Gourmet, who were locked out and sacked by the company on August 10, 2005, are marching with...

Capitalist world crisis is rapidly deepening – creating the conditions where the working class...

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SHOCK economic data on Thursday revealed a crash of 0.1 per cent in the UK’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two consecutive months, with...

Truss Is Shattered While Johnson Is Posing As The Man To Save UK Capitalism!

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LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...

Confident Of US Support Israeli Terrorists Kill Three Palestinian Youths And Torture Five Others!

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ISRAELI forces have shot and killed three young Palestinians during overnight raids on several areas of the occupied West Bank. Two of the victims lost...

Law cannot be allowed to get in the way of profiteering

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THE Attorney General – the same official who ruled after much equivocation that the war with Iraq was legal – on Thursday told the...

Free the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ volunteers! Organise an armada to break the Gaza blockade!Forward to...

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NINETEEN members of the six ship ‘Freedom Flotilla’ were yesterday murdered by Israeli special forces in a major war crime, and a larger...

The knife without a blade as Hunt defies May!

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MAY’S ‘reshuffle’ that never was continues her recent career in which everything that could go wrong has, but such is the feebleness of...

Abbas Meets With Trump Delegation In Ramallah!

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday met with a US delegation representing President Trump, headed by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner at his Ramallah headquarters, and...

NO WAGE OR JOB CUTS! Unions must call a general strike for a sliding...

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IN THE last 48-hours energy bills have risen by over 50%. The pensioners triple lock guarantee has been smashed. Students repayments on their loans...

‘Our greatest allies are our patients’ – GP conference told

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OPENING the BMA GPs Conference in York, Doctor Nagpaul correctly pointed out that ‘Today, nearly a million patients will visit their GP surgery, that’s...

Germany in court over complicity in Zionist genocide – now is time for working...

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YESTERDAY, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) started a hearing on a case brought by Nicaragua against Germany, which puts the German government in...

New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity

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FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...

Imperialism Is On The Point Of Defeat As The World’s Financial Institutions Panic

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THE IRANIAN ambassador in London, Seyed Ali Mousavi, has spoken to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg in a pre-recorded interview in which he correctly warned...

Cameron, Sarkozy poised to send ground troops into Libya!

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SARKOZY and Cameron visited Tripoli yesterday, not to celebrate any illusory ‘victory’, but to shore up the NTC counter-revolutionaries, who are already fighting amongst...

It’s Trump versus the courts. Now is the time with the bosses split and...

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A HUGE political crisis hit US president Donald Trump yesterday when a US federal trade court in New York ruled that most of his...

Merkel defeated in Berlin

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THE economic collapse of the eurozone continues to drive a huge political crisis for bourgeois political parties across Europe as splits on how to...

Chavez Visit Poses World Revolution

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THE visit of the left bourgeois nationalist leaders Evo Morales of Bolivia and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to Europe is much appreciated, and is...

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...

brown proposes to rob the workers to rescue the bankers

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YESTERDAY saw the big international push get under way to try to rescue the bankers of the world from the crisis of their capitalist...

No escape for capitalism as stock markets crash

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ON THE very day that Boris Johnson hailed the start of the economic bounce-back for capitalism with a return to work, the international stock...

Education cuts and £9,000 fees destroying the future for youth

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AFTER record A-Level results, hundreds of thousands of students will be refused university places this year because of the coalition’s savage cuts policy. After being...

Britain’s ‘Black Hundreds’ Seeking State Support

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UP to 1,500 English Defence League racists, plus foreign supporters, marched through Luton on Saturday, escorted by police from 27 forces as well as...

Recall the TUC Congress to organise a general strike for Palestine!

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ON Thursday, the TUC’s non-existent Day of Action to support Palestine, 63 people were annihilated by Israel in northern Gaza and 22 in Central...

Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!

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THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...

GPs must follow junior doctors lead and strike to defend contracts and defend...

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VERY ANGRY BMA GPs met in conference on Saturday where they carried motions to fight ‘underfunding’ and a rapidly growing workload that ‘threatened NHS...

Tory Party Turns On Cameron Over Syria

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PRIME Minister Cameron said last Thursday night that he would respect the defeat of his ‘strike Syria’ government motion by 285-272 in the House...

A planned famine grips Gaza – the working class must intervene and support Palestinians

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THE Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval of a plan to occupy Gaza, following the Palestinian factions’ acceptance...

MPs want a secret inquiry into the Afghan debacle and defeat!

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THE UK government should set up an inquiry into ‘lessons learned’ after troops withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of this year, the MPs...

Chuck out the TUC leaders who are incapable of defending jobs and wages!

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UNITE, the largest union in Britain and Ireland, reacted to the news that Sheffield University has decided to sack over 8,000 of its employees...

Anti-Russian Pogrom At The G20!

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PRESIDENT PUTIN has left the G20 summit in Australia early after a relentless attack on Russia was mounted by the USA-UK axis and its...

Lecturers 76% ‘Yes’ for strike – 37 Universities to come out! All unions must...

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UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff across the country have voted for strike action with an overwhelming 76% ‘YES’ vote. It means 37 universities will join...

Kick out privatising hospital managers – place NHS under the management of medics and...

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THE aftermath of the sentencing on Monday of Lucy Letby for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at...

Labour strikebreakers back BA’s anti-union drive

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British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union has...

TUC makes overtures to Johnson’s Tories – We must replace TUC traitors with a...

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THE TUC yesterday published a statement that amounts to nothing less than an abject surrender to the Tory government and a grovelling offer to...

Zionist parliament approves draft ‘death penalty’ bill targeting Palestinians

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ON MONDAY, the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, approved the first reading of a bill that allows the Zionist regime to legally pass the death...