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Low Paid UK By Permission Of The Tuc!

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THE coalition government has named 70 companies that won’t pay workers the minimum wage. Even the government says that the 100 cases in the care...

Strike wave hits UK as workers rise up against bankrupt capitalism!

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AS CHRISTMAS approaches, the strike wave sweeping Britain is far from abating, in fact it is growing in strength and determination by the day...

Gaza death toll may exceed 200,000 Palestinians killed in imperialist-backed Zionist genocide

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THE LEADING humanitarian law institute, the Geneva Academy of International Law and Human Rights, has released a report that concludes that the death toll...

Workers Of The World Unite – Is Still The Slogan Of The Hour!

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NET migration to the UK is at an all-time high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March 2015, that is 94,000 more than in...

NATO under the hammer – as Tories refuse to serve in Kandahar

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THE surge organised by President Obama and General Petraeus in Afghanistan has been turned into its opposite by the Taleban. The Taleban have now organised...

Israel In A Desperate Crisis As Fitch Downgrades Israel To An ‘A’ Outlook Negative!

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THE FITCH ratings agency’s downgrading of Israel to ‘A’ reflects the impact of the continuation of the war in Gaza, heightened geopolitical risks and...

BIS Report – global ‘debt trap’ risk higher than ever and set to crash...

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THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in its annual ‘health check’ on the world’s financial system has once again warned about the huge...

Cameron and Miliband united in defending EU bosses and bankers

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THE Tory-led coalition was rocked on Monday night when over 80 Tory backbench MPs, leftovers from the days of empire, voted for a...

Unite members elect Sharon Graham as General Secretary to take on employers and Tories

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SHARON Graham yesterday was elected as general secretary of the Unite union to replace Len McCluskey securing 37.6% of the vote. Graham, who was considered...

Politically bankrupt Starmer will seek to force the working class to pay for the...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s speech at the TUC Congress yesterday spelt out precisely to delegates that this Labour government is determined to inflict all the pain...

US in political crisis as Biden faces growing calls to quit!

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A ‘PERVASIVE sense of fear and uncertainty’ hangs over the US Democratic party as 81-year-old president Joe Biden faces increasingly strident calls for him...

End futile talks with Israel! Forward to Palestinian state!

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AHMAD Sa''adat, secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and Marwan al-Barghouthi, member of the Fatah Central Committee, have...

Occupy GM plants to defend jobs! Nationalise the car industry!

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GENERAL MOTORS European operations, which include Opel plants in Germany, the Ellesmere Port Vauxhall car plant and Luton’s IBC van plant in Britain, have...

Tories To Legislate Strike-Breakers Charter!

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THE new Business Secretary Sajid Javid said yesterday that there will be ‘significant changes’ to strike laws under the new Tory regime. Under it...

Obama Ready To Step Up Intervention Into Syria

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THE just re-elected US President, Barack Obama, yesterday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to use chemical weapons against the NATO-supported opposition forces, saying...

The rich are much richer and the poor are much poorer under 21st century...

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BRITAIN’S richest people have never been richer having cornered £520bn between them, says the Sunday Times Rich List. The 26th annual Sunday Times Rich...

Johnson goes down with coronavirus – plunging his anti-working class regime into crisis! Time...

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THE TRADE union leaders and the Labour Party are currently cementing their role as the most enthusiastic would-be partners of the Tory government and...

Data bases and electronic spying won’t save the bourgeoisie

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THE inventor of the genetic technology behind the national DNA database has said that the database’s unlimited expansion to include millions of people who...

Down with the Anglo- French imperialist war plans!

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ON August 31 the Labour Party called on the Coalition to end the speculation that Britain is considering sharing its aircraft carrier capability with...

Massive turn-out of workers to fight Tory austerity

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THE 250,000 workers and youth who marched on Saturday, along with the thousands who also marched in Glasgow and Liverpool, proved once again that...

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...

Capitalist State Prefers Brown Over Cameron

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LABOUR Prime Minister Brown is the choice of the capitalist state should there be a hung parliament on May 7, even if the...

French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda

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IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...

A UK G-Bay & more armed police as Tories seek big majority to force...

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NEW Guantanamo Bay-style jails-within-jails are being opened for the first time in the UK to incarcerate ‘extremists of all kinds’, while police are being...
Marchers in London on the 3rd anniversary of the war on Iraq demand no attack on Iran

EU moves to suspend all aid to Palestine

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YESTERDAY the European Union followed the example of the US and suspended its aid to the Palestine National Authority. The EU has given $400...

Grenfell tenants were treated as ‘sub-citizens’. All those responsible for the fire must...

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TENANTS of the Grenfell Tower warned time and again about the dangerous building they were living in, but their cries for action fell on...

200,000 Civil Servants taking strike action

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ON Wednesday over 200,000 civil servants and over 200 government departments will be strike bound for the day. Civil servants...

Russia’s response to the EU’s Georgia threats

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THE Russian government said yesterday there had been a ‘responsible’ outcome to Monday’s European Union summit called to discuss the recent fighting between Russia...

Tories Greet NHS 70Th Annniversary With More NHS Cuts!

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WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...

New Orleans war zone – 20,000 National Guards, and US army helicopter fired on

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THE United States ruling class, running the world’s number one super-power and presiding over the richest nation on Earth, was yesterday shown to be...

May appeals to Labour Right-Wing to save her

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THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained...

Dump May Regime And Her Grammar Schools!

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TORY PM May yesterday launched her new offensive attempting to restore ‘secondary moderns’ by allowing every school to become a selective grammar school, and...

Occupy BMW Cowley – reinstate the sacked 850 agency workers

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IN August 2005 800 Gate Gourmet workers were sacked by megaphone in the car park of the Heathrow company. The TGWU, led by Tony...

Ukrainian Stalinists giving way to EU-backed regime-change attempt

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THE Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, of the Stalinist Party of the Regions resigned on Tuesday in an attempt to draw the EU-backed right-wing...

British Ruling Class Preparing For A Nuclear War To Defend Capitalism

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THE bankrupt British ruling class is preparing to expand its ‘nuclear deterrent’ by buying a squadron of American jet fighters that have the capacity...

UK Must Stop Arming Saudi Arabia And Must Rush Food Aid To The Yemen

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THE TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that all those behind the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi should be brought to justice,...

TGWU relies on the Sainsbury family to defend its members’ jobs and wages

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YESTERDAY the TGWU leaders produced their statement of full support for the Sainsbury family in the battle to keep out the Texas Pacific-backed raiding...

Ferguson resistance joins hands with Walmart workers

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THE US working class is now definitively on the march after six days of action in the town of Ferguson culminated in calls...

Kick Out The Spineless Trade Union Leaders Who Refuse To Call A General Strike...

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THE SENSE of alarm and downright terror mixed with a sense of helplessness amongst the British ruling class saturates the bourgeois press today as...

A US Debt Default Is Behind Growing Demands To End Ukraine War!

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THE White House National Security Council spokesman has sounded the alarm about the looming US debt default and the way that it is putting...

Stop Saudi-Israeli military intervention into Lebanon! Victory to Hezbollah!

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AFTER the defeat of the imperialist powers and their terrorist proxies in Syria, the US, the other imperialist powers, and their Saudi-led allies are...

National emergency declared in NHS as waiting lists soar!

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Senior NHS doctors declared a state of national emergency in the NHS yesterday as waiting lists soared, with thousands of patients being treated in...

Hands off Palestine Action! Demand TUC call a general strike to bring down Starmer...

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Over 300,000 marched in London on Saturday, in a powerful demonstration of support for a Palestinian state and against the genocidal war being waged...

General Strike to defend the NHS!

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On the eve of its annual conference the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has produced damning evidence that explodes the lies that the savage...

Al-Aqsa Mosque a ‘flashpoint’ in the fight to end Israeli occupation of Palestine

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THE ISRAELI refusal to remove metal detectors from the outside of the Jerusalem compound which contains the al-Aqsa Mosque is fast becoming a flashpoint...