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Army brought in as police demand complete legal immunity from prosecution

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FOLLOWING a mass walkout by armed police over the decision to charge an unnamed armed police officer with murder over the shooting of 24-year-old...

US agreed Turkish air raids on northern Iraq

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DOZENS of Turkish planes bombed supposed PKK bases in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing villagers, damaging infrastructure and forcing villagers to flee, local Iraqi...

Israel war cabinet agrees plan for indefinite military occupation of Gaza

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ON SUNDAY Israel’s army chief, Eyal Zamir, announced that tens of thousands of Israeli reservists will be called up in a planned military occupation...

Savage Spanish cuts will stoke a fire that no firewall can keep at bay

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THE Spanish government is to cut 27bn euros (£22.5bn) from its budget this year. Among the measures are the freezing of public sector...

Labour right-wing plot with Tories to close down Parliament to prevent Brexit

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IT EMERGED at the weekend that the latest stage in a coup to overturn the Brexit referendum result by an alliance of right-wing Labour...

Labour is going to bring a co-payment system into the NHS

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AS the economic crisis deepens, the drive to privatise the NHS is being stepped up on a number of fronts. One is the growing...

Boom-time for bailiffs

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APART from the bankers and speculators, there is another group looking to make huge profits at the expense of the human misery being created...

Desperate US and UK warmongers play the lying WMD card

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IN March 2003, the US-UK axis led by warmongers Bush and Blair – after claiming that there was irrefutable evidence that Iraq possessed weapons...

Workers’ May Day marches throughout Europe against EU!

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MAY DAY marches throughout the EU were full of explosive class tensions reflecting the battle that workers are waging to defend their living standards and...

Tories Are Split, Divided And Fighting Each Other – Time To Force The...

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THE TORY PARTY and its leadership are thrashing around in their death agony. The Tory crisis has reached the stage where Tory ministers have been...

McCluskey promises illegal action!

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IN a full-page article in Thursday’s Guardian newspaper, the leader of the country’s biggest union, Len McCluskey, announced that the Unite executive had unanimously...

Biden In London To Tell UK Government That It Must Support Use Of...

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A GROWING number of Washington’s NATO allies – including Britain, Spain, Canada and Germany – have already declared their refusal to follow the US...

Bell Tolls For UK Capitalism On June 23 Referendum Day!

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THE Tory government is now split over its EU referendum, with six cabinet ministers, and over 100 MPs advocating a vote to leave the...

The slump deepens as Labour steps up attacks on the poorest

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UK Gross Domestic Product fell in the three months from April to June by 0.7% confirming that the slump is deepening and that the...

Axing free TV licences: the spark to unite pensioners, youth and workers to kick...

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THE Tory government has now launched war on the elderly, the youth and the working class simultaneously! There is a war on the youth, with...

All The Trade Unions Must Come Out With The Junior Doctors!

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PM Sunak has said he is yet to make a ‘final decision’ on whether to accept the recommended pay rises for public sector workers. Official...

With Hamas’ victory over Israel UK police stage crackdown on support for Palestine!

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APPROXIMATELY 77 arrests were made by the police in a concerted attack by the British state and the Labour government on the 100,000-strong rally...

As Zionist Mobs Launch Attacks On Palestinians Hamas Calls To Establish The Palestinian State

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YESTERDAY, Zionist mobs were attacking Palestinians all over the occupied territories seeking to seize their homes and land and drive them off it. Israeli occupation...

Splits and crisis dominate Europe

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LAST weekend the French government collapsed as the splits within the cabinet turned into open warfare between President Holland and his finance minister, Arnaud...

Tories plan to govern without the support of the people or of parliament

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IN RECENT days, especially after the Tories recognised that they would not have an overall parliamentary majority, we have heard many words about the...

Bankrupt Miliband brings back Butcher Blair!

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LABOUR leader Miliband’s refusal to fight for socialist policies and answer massive austerity with a campaign to replace bankrupt capitalism with socialism has seen...

TUC warns interest rate increases driving unemployment but has no answer except to beg...

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YESTERDAY the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 5.25%, the 14th time in a row that rates have been increased as the...

Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU

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THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...

King sees nothing but the ‘black cloud of uncertainty’

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THE Governor of the Bank of England yesterday poured gallons of ice cold water over the prospects of British and world capitalism. King cut the...

Rees-Mogg warns Tories that attempts to block Johnson will plunge Tory Party into civil...

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FORMER Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Conservatives against any attempt to block Boris Johnson if he seeks to stand in another parliamentary...

Inflation up as Blair-Brown move to cut wages!

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INFLATION in the UK is accelerating out of control. According to the latest Labour government figures which grossly underestimate the process the Consumer...

Ealing A&E saved! Now Maternity & Children’s wards must be re-opened!

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THE PLANS to close Ealing and Charing Cross A&Es have been scrapped after a mass campaign by the West London Council of Action secured...

Israeli regime is on the path to collapse says Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah!

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THE Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement stated yesterday that the Israeli far-right cabinet’s insistence on pushing ahead with its controversial judicial overhaul...

NATO warmongers meet in Brussels

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NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...

Israel tears up Gaza truce agreement and resumes genocidal war in the Strip

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ON TUESDAY, the Israeli Zionist state resumed its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip with the deadliest aerial bombings of the besieged territory since...

‘They’d rather eat grass than give up!’ Putin says of the North Koreans

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SPEAKING at the Brics Group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) conference in China, President Putin said of the North Koreans: ‘They’d rather...

Tories ramp up war on unions

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LESS than a week before the start of the TUC’s annual conference, the Tory government has unveiled a whole raft of new proposals to...

Erdogan urges Israel to end occupation while the UK celebrates Balfour Declaration!

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THE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Israel must stop its occupation of the Palestinian territories, which he says undermines any two-state...

Tories in crisis over Sunak tax revelations! Get them out with a general strike!

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THE Tory government is in a state of crisis and near collapse as revelations pile up daily about the financial activities of Tory ministers...

Zionists are on the march in Jerusalem. The UK trade unions must call a...

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NABIL Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that East Jerusalem, with its Islamic and Christian holy sites, will remain the...

Fake war on Crony Capitalism

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On Monday the LibDem leader, Nick Clegg, added his views to the emerging consensus between Labour and the Tories that the problem with British...

Labour right wing gives Corbyn a lesson in ruthlessness!

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MPs on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed UK air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, with a total of 66...

British capitalism is on the rocks of the capitalist crisis – the only way...

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IN THE Daily Telegraph of January 1st one Robert Tombs writes under a headline: ‘As in 1914 and 1939, we may be sleepwalking towards...

Ex–Blairite Short Reveals Blair Coup Against Cabinet

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CLARE SHORT, one-time International Development Minister, revealed to the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday just how Blair, with the aid of Goldsmith, deceived the Cabinet and...

Nationalise BAA – forward to a national transport system

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THE call has gone up in the Competition Commission report that three of BAA’s seven airports – two of its three in London, out...

‘Do Or Die’ Johnson Has Already Faced An Attempt To Remove Him!

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THE JUST-elected Tory leader Boris Johnson has already faced an attempt to remove him by Tory Minister of State for Europe Sir Alan Duncan,...

‘Israel’s war of annihilation won’t break our will!’

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THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, has said that the Palestinian people will remain steadfast and adhere to their legitimate rights,...

Only re-nationalisation of energy industry under socialism can prevent fuel poverty

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BRITISH capitalism in the 21st century cannot guarantee even the most basic pre-requisites for life if you are not wealthy. This is the stark message...

Children Going To School Hungry!

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THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...

Illegal and deadly restraints still in use, smash the racist capitalist state

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Just 16 months after a man died whilst being restrained by private security guards on board an aircraft, the House of Commons home office...