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TUC leader O’Grady makes PM May a unity offer!

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IN a lecture to the London School of Economics (LSE) on Tuesday TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady made a ‘national government’ call to the...

Six million UK households face poverty as Tories end furlough and benefit increases –...

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WHEN the coronavirus pandemic hit the UK in March, and the Tory government was forced to order the first national lockdown, Tory chancellor Rishi...

Moroccan leaders stab Palestine in the back with another ‘normalisation’ deal with Israel!

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ISRAEL and Morocco announced they are to ‘normalise ties’ in another US-brokered deal. On Thursday, Morocco became the fourth Arab country since August to strike...

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...

Unemployment is soaring! Defending the ‘right to work’ means getting rid of capitalism!

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UNEMPLOYMENT is set to soar to levels not seen since The Great Depression, the ‘Hungry 1930s’, when workers starved. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...

Tories offer GPs ‘cash for cuts’ to stop patients getting hospital treatment – unions...

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THE GP website Pulse revealed this week that in four areas in England local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have set up a ‘profit-sharing’ scheme...

Grenfell disaster was caused by private companies and government – the FBU tells Inquiry!

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FIRE BRIGADES Union lawyer Martin Seaward has told the Grenfell Inquiry that the disaster was caused by individual private companies and the government! He insisted:...

Sack Woodley and Simpson over Royal Mail strikebreaking

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TODAY the Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London. ...

Make the TUC call a general strike now to boot out the Tories and...

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RAIL, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) members will be joined by many other trade unionists today at 7.00am and on Saturday 26th March at...

Pupils subjected to physical and mental cruelty in school isolation units – unions...

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School children in England are being put in ‘physically and mentally cruel’ isolation units for up to 7 hours a day at academy trust...

No recovery in the US, EU or UK – socialism the only way forward

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THE UK’S Bank of England yesterday followed the lead of the US Federal Reserve Bank whose Chairman Bernanke had on Tuesday said that...

Teachers must not fight alone – TUC must call a general strike

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The annual conferences of the two largest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, meeting at the weekend heard that the unions and the...

Pompeo Pledges To Prevent Anti-Tory Regime Change In The UK By Smashing Corbyn Labour...

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WITH THE Tories in what is being called an ‘existential crisis’ over breaking with the European Union, the British ruling class and its allies...

Miliband supports Tory NHS plans – forward to the general strike

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ON Monday, the Tory Health Minister, Andrew Lansley, was forced to declare a ‘pause’ in the coalition government’s drive to privatise and smash up...

Palestinian Prisoners Win A Victory Over Israeli Jailers As The Tuc Keeps Quiet Over...

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TENS of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated across the occupied territories for the 33rd straight week against the policies of Israel’s right wing extremist...

Britain Is Ripe For Socialist Revolution

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THE British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) quarterly report has just discovered a situation that every worker and every shopper has been acquainted with for...

US-UK Being Driven Out Of Afghanistan!

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CURRENTLY, the ‘Friends of Syria’ conference in Tunis is considering the best way for the imperialist powers to intervene in Syria to overthrow president...

Tory MPs rebel while cringing Labour saves Cameron and Osborne

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AFTER all the fake sound and fury of parliamentary question time, with party leaders locked in apparent combat without quarter given or asked for,...

Forward to the State of Palestine! Down with Zionism and Imperialist conspiracies to...

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ARREST warrants for genocide for Israeli PM Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant were finally issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) this...

Myanmar – working class intervene with national strikes to bring down military dictatorship

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WORKERS across Myanmar (formally Burma) came out on a nationwide general strike yesterday demanding the overthrow of the military dictatorship which was imposed last...

Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Shows Her Tory Hand, Declaring There Will Be No Wealth...

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WITH the Tory Party split and divided, Labour is now revealing its own pro-Tory proposals to make the working class pay for the continuing...

May Refuses To Sack Hunt And Commits Herself To Class War Not ‘One Nation’!

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PM MAY, under the guise of adopting a ‘one nation’ policy which treasures the poor and the needy much more than the rich, has...

Labour Party ramps up attack on NHS – TUC must call a general strike...

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LABOUR Party shadow health secretary Wes Streeting doubled down on his attack on the NHS yesterday with a speech to a conference organised by...

Disarm imperialism through the victory of the world socialist revolution!

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LAST week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a whole series of blogs on its website warning that the entire US banking...

Labour’s Budget seeks to dump the British bosses’ debt crisis onto the backs of...

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ON Wednesday October 30, Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to deliver the first Autumn budget by Starmer’s government. The ground work for this budget...

Tories promise money for schools in the Tory shires, and ‘reasonable force’ for working...

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YESTERDAY the Department for Education announced that it will be pushing for higher pay for newly qualified teachers as part of the Tory government’s...

McDonnell wants a corporatist deal with the capitalists!

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SHADOW Chancellor McDonnel’s speech to the Labour Party conference was remarkable for its lack of treatment of the crisis of capitalism. He focused...

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...

American revolution will replace the failed American dream

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UAW car workers President Ron Gettelfinger last Thursday lifted the lid just a little on the lives of tens of millions of US workers,...

Leave the EU with no deal! Forward with the socialist revolution!

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THE VOTES in Parliament on amendments to Theresa May’s Brexit deal saw the counter-revolutionary plots by MPs from all parties to smash the 2016...

Slump ‘deepening at an alarming pace’

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THE British Chambers of Commerce yesterday published its Fourth Quarter Economic Survey of nearly 6,000 businesses. It highlights what it called ‘a...

US warns Pakistan over gas pipeline link with Iran

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THE Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Monday officially inaugurated the final construction phase of the Iran-Pakistan gas...

Head teachers up in arms – schools being cut to the bone! All-out strike...

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MORE than 7,000 heads have written a joint letter to 3.5 million families warning of the acute funding crisis in schools. The heads insist...

Coalition imposed pay freeze hits workers and middle class

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A report issued on Monday by the independent Resolution Foundation spells out exactly the desperate situation being faced today by the so-called ‘squeezed middle’,...

Blair Fended Off Caution With Resignation Threat

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LABOUR MP Jack Straw yesterday announced that he is to run Gordon Brown’s campaign for the Labour leadership. Straw’s declaration was answered in...

Benefits cuts frenzy grips coalition

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THE New Year has kicked off with a frenzied attack by both Tory and their LibDem coalition partners on the low paid, unemployed, the...

Cameron’s Magna Carta hypocrisy

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THIS week the Tory-led coalition is set to announce yet more changes to the education syllabus, changes designed to further Cameron’s pledge to drive...

Kick the Tories out! Get rid of capitalism to prevent a health catastrophe of...

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NHS WAITING lists in England could more than double in the coming months, from the current figure of 5.3 million people to around 13...

Syrian Army Advances Are Dealing A Massive Blow At Trump’s Deal Of The Century!

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THE ISRAELI DAILY newspaper Hayom has reported that the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is to lead the joint committee that the US...

Unions must take strike action to stop lifting of Covid-19 restrictions on July 19th!

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HE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) doctors’ trade union has spelt it out that pressing ahead with lifting final Covid-19 restrictions in England on July...

OECD warns of a global property prices crash

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THE Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has sent out a New Year warning that global property prices have increased so dramatically that...

No sackings, or wage ‘holidays’ for bankrupt banks and councils

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YESTERDAY the Brown government was emphasising that it had no interest in running the three banks that it was ‘part-nationalising’ (rescuing) with £37bn of...

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...

Labour and Tories ‘virtually indistinguishable!’ says the press!

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IN A DAMNING assessment of the Tory government, The Daily Telegraph yesterday declared that: ‘The Tories under Rishi Sunak have shifted further left, and...

Woodley Refuses To Call For Nati0Nalisation

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TONY WOODLEY the TGWU leader and co-leader of the new UNITE trade union has already presided over the closure of a large chunk of...