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Trump pledges to make US capitalism great again by pauperising the US workers and...

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ALARM is spreading among US imperialism’s imperialist rivals at incoming US president Donald Trump’s pledge to make ‘America Great Again’ by pauperising the whole...

The Working Class Must Intervene To Resolve The Brexit ‘Debate’!

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LAST Tuesday afternoon, in the House of Commons, the knives were out for the Brexit referendum result, and for the millions of workers who...

World banking crisis driving world revolution!

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LAST WEEK the Bank of England (BoE) finally confessed that it doesn’t understand its own quantitative easing programme (QE) – the central, in fact...

Tories considering proposal to ban MPs from ‘engaging’ with opponents of Israeli genocide

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FOLLOWING the ‘shock’ victory of George Galloway in last Thursday’s Rochdale by-election, Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hastily rushed to the podium outside 10...

PM And Chancellor Sunak Forced To Self Isolate As Labour Continues Its Support For...

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THE Prime Minister and Chancellor are to ‘now self-isolate as normal’ after both met with Health Secretary Sajid Javid who had tested positively for...

One year since the first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020!

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ON 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson outlined measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, with a series of stop-go lockdowns. Since then, of the major...

Unions must break with Starmer NOW and call a general strike to bring down...

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LABOUR is becoming ‘irrelevant to workers’ and it is now hard to justify handing the party millions in funding, the leader of the Unite...

Anger over Saddam’s death silences Blair

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AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...

PFI, Foundation Trusts and £20bn of Tory cuts are preparing NHS closures & privatisation

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FIGURES publicised by Labour’s shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, have shown that one third of England’s hospitals have been completely full at some time...

Labour must call to free Palestinian hunger strikers and recognise State of Palestine!

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THE Head of the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee Issa Qaraqe said on Friday afternoon, the 26th day of the prisoners’ hunger strike, that negotiations could...

Postal workers are standing up to management bullies

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POSTAL workers in towns and cities all over the UK were forced out on unofficial strike yesterday morning when management sought to impose the...

US credit experts warn a crash is coming

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NEWS IS quietly emerging from the top of the US banking fraternity that, despite the wild euphoria that has gripped the world financial centres...

Prison torture allegations – abolish G4S!

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THE news that allegations that forced injections and electric shocks were used on prisoners at a South African prison run by the UK-owned G4S,...

Hodge Spreads Subversion In The Fabian Society

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THE Labour government is visibly collapsing day by day, with even ministers expressing opposition and saying that they had doubts about Blair’s foreign ...

Deutsche Bank collapse will crash the world’s banking system!

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DEUTSCHE Bank, the largest and most important bank in Europe, sacked its British born chief executive John Cryan after just three years in the...

OCCUPY to stop NHS closures – demand unions call a general strike!

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THE West London Council of Action spoke out and acted for many workers yesterday when it launched the occupation of the Maternity...

Irish trade unions must call a general strike!

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IRISH TUC leader David Begg said on Saturday ‘It appears that the day of reckoning has arrived. The barbarians are at the gates.’ ...

British capitalism not in ‘technical recession’. It is diving into a Great Depression!

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YESTERDAY, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) produced figures on the state of the UK economy that showed it had fallen into a ‘technical...

Time for regime change in Labour Party – kick out Starmer!

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Up to Wednesday, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer was in a state of complete denial about the depth of the rebellion amongst his own...

Trump Is Organising A US Coup Not A Presidential Election Campaign!

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IN HIS FOURTH of July speech US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claims are out to...

Tuc General Council Must Meet To Defend Right To Strike!

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COMMENTING on yesterday’s decision in the High Court banning the BA cabin crew strikes, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘This is a desperately...

Simpson refuses to fight the Coalition

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DEREK Simpson, the Unite co-leader, was brought onto the Andrew Marr Show last Sunday to deliberately attempt to undermine the struggle in the trade...

NHS to be butchered to pay the bankers’ debts

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LARGE-scale hospital cuts and closures are now being organised for immediately after the next general election. These cuts have been dictated by the current enormously...

Free Julian Assange – Jail The Imperialist Butchers

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was arrested in London yesterday and is now in jail, awaiting hearings to extradite him to Sweden where he will...

50-years since ending Bretton Woods and the end of the myth of capitalist stability

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SUNDAY August 15 marked the 50th Anniversary of the collapse of the Bretton Woods Agreement which shattered any illusions about the ability of world...

Nationalise car industry and the banks to defend all jobs

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GLOBAL action to save the motor industry from crisis, and above all to stave off bankruptcy at General Motors, has been urged by Unite...

Gaza has 45.2 % unemployment – Greek youth unemployment is 45%!

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GAZA’S unemployment rate is among the world’s highest, at 45.2%, the UN has found. The territory continues to be blockaded by Israel, while the...

US at the Security Council traces the crisis back to Lenin and Trotsky

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SAMANTHA Power, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, did not waste any time in attacking the Russian veto of the imperialists’ ...

UK has not offered to take in a single Syrian refugee!

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THE fact that the UK ruling coalition is involved up to its neck in organising the war in Syria, and is also keeping it...

MPs condemn Labour’s ‘surveillance society’

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THE House of Commons votes on Wednesday on extending the amount of time that the police can hold a ‘terrorist suspect’ without charging them...
‘Young Reapers’ – mowing down the ‘CPE’ first job contract

Blair’s policies split Labour and aid the Tories

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‘IT’S wrong that Downing Street thinks it can run the Labour Party: we are an elected party, a democratic party,’ said the Labour Party...

Israel has brought record unemployment and mass starvation to the Gaza Strip – Revolution...

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MAHMOUD Radwan sits among the ruins of his destroyed home, contemplating an uncertain future amidst a labour crisis unlike any he has seen before,...

Syrian Army Has Pro-US ‘Rebels’ On The Run

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THE SYRIAN army is now having great successes against the pro-US and Islamic forces that have been seeking to destroy Syria and divide it...

Health privateer takes NHS to court over right to profit from health – time...

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PRIVATEER Circle Health is once again taking legal action to overturn the decision to cancel its contract to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre. Rushcliffe...

Brown’s foreign policy shaped by defeats in Iraq & Afghanistan

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FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband, the ‘rising star’ in the government, was given the task of presenting Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s foreign policy strategy at...

Jamaican High Commissioner demands halt deportations! End May’s hostile environment by kicking the Tories...

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‘WE MAY very well be deporting people who are entitled to be here,’ the Jamaican High Commissioner said, calling on the UK government to...

French troops pay price for Sarkozy opportunism

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TEN French soldiers were killed in an ambush by Taleban fighters east of the Afghan capital, Kabul, and 21 were wounded yesterday. This followed Sarkozy’s...

Smash Imperialism To Get Rid Of Nuclear Weapons!

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WORLD leaders at the Washington summit on nuclear security have heard the direst warnings yet from President Obama of the danger of nuclear...

Renationalise the rail privateers

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THE private railway system has, so far, seen many tens of billions of public money thrown at it to make sure that the private...

Tories In Biggest Ever Crisis! Force TUC To Call General Strike To Boot Them...

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THE TORY Party is now in its biggest ever crisis, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Health Secretary both resigned on Tuesday...

French revolution – spreading throughout Europe

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FRANCE has been shaken for the past six months by an eruption of anger by the education trade unions and by student and school...

Blair on holiday – Commissioner Blair is in charge

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HOME Secretary Clarke is currently on holiday, after the Prime Minister insisted that he should not bow to public pressure and cancel it, as...

Bosses Demand That Sunak Brings In Laws To Chain Up The Trade Unions!

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THE British working class is showing a real class determination and ability to defend its jobs, its wages, its basic rights and its families,...

Capitalism Is In Its Greatest Ever Crisis – Forward To The General Strike And...

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THE SAME British capitalism that has been egging on the Ukraine to start World War III by attacking Russia is now shivering with fear...

Smash anti-union bill!

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YESTERDAY thousands of trade union members attended a rally and mass lobby of parliament called by the TUC in an attempt to – in...