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Starmer apes Tory promises of a ‘bonfire of regulations’ to open the UK up...

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STARMER pledged the Labour government would slash red tape in his speech to the billionaire investors and bankers who gathered in London yesterday at an...

NOVEMBER 30TH STRIKE ACTION THE BEGINNING OF A CLASS SHOWDOWN in UK!

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ON the very day that the public sector union Unison announced a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend pensions, the leadership...

Hurrah! The brave Syrian people are taking back Aleppo and defeating imperialist powers!

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REJOICE, rejoice at the great victories that the brave Syrian people are having in their struggle to prevent the Western imperialist powers and their...

Police Aim To Put The Nation Under Its Thumb

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The Blair government is aiming to engineer a situation whereby the carrying of an identity card by every person is compulsory, and at the...

Don’t let Cameron bomb Syria – Forward to the victory of Syria and the...

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THE capitalist media and its Tory masters are working around the clock to drum up a majority for Cameron, made up of Tories and...

Corus must be nationalised to defend jobs and living standards!

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LAST Saturday thousands of steel workers and their families marched in the North-East to stop the closure of the Redcar Corus plant. The closure...

US Imperialism desperate to dominate its rivals

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INTERNATIONAL ‘free trade’ agreements represent the attempt by the vast multi-national capitalist corporations to completely dominate the globe. The domination they seek is over...

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...

Defend every job, bring down the Brown government, forward to socialism

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LLOYDS stated yesterday that its takeover of HBOS would save it at least £1.5bn a year, more than it had been expecting, which all...

Capitalist governments crumble as crisis deepens!

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ALL over the capitalist world, governments and administrations of all kinds are crumbling, as the deepening of the world crisis of capitalism sharpens the...

Truss and Kwarteng declare war on unions – TUC must respond with a general...

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CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng has unveiled the plans by the Tory government to drive part-time workers back into full employment by cutting their benefits. Under the...

No to a Barber sell-out – It’s trade union action that’s required!

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THE TUC announced on Saturday that ‘Royal Mail and the CWU have in recent days been in contact with the TUC over the current...

UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages,...

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WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on...

Trade Unions must occupy hospitals threatened with closures! Come to the ATUA conference!

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THE NHS is the battleground within which the class struggle in this country is being fought out to the finish. The Tory government plans...

Mubarak regime offers 15 per cent rise in pay and pensions!

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WORKERS and youth in Cairo held mass demonstrations yesterday following the release of the detained Google executive and facebook radical Wael Ghonim. The demonstrators in...

Palestinians are rising up to defend their land and achieve their State of Palestine...

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THE temperature is rising all over the Middle East as US and Israel seek to force the Palestinians to accept the dirty ‘deal of...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters held out placards and shouted slogans during their successful picket at Heathrow yesterday

Blair puts ‘the country’ before the Labour Party

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BLAIR came clean on at least one issue at his monthly press conference and that was where his loyalties lie. They definitely do not lie...
Demonstration on January 20 outside the US embassy in London against Bush and Blair’s ‘war on terror

Defend Iran Againstfrench And US Threats

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THE French government is threatening Iran with retribution if it does not give up its nuclear energy programme. The French Prime Minister, De Villepin, one...

Occupy GMM Luton!

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THE German government yesterday made its move to try and secure GM Europe for Magna, the Canadian car parts manufacturer that wants to sack...

State terror at home and abroad!

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THE UK capitalist state has always used terrorist attacks, such as the latest attack in Tunisia, to strengthen its continuing preparation of special armed...

Inflation Out Of Control, Rate Rise On The Way

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INFLATION is on the rise with the CPI rate increasing from 3.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent, while the RPI rate rose from...

Stop The Brutal Crime Of Mass Starvation – Hold The War Criminals Responsible...

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HAMAS has called on the Arab countries and the United Nations to take urgent action to stop the brutal crime of starvation and siege...

Shares crashing as oil nears $100 a barrel

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THE US dollar is reeling against the euro. The US sub-mortgage crisis is deepening, with housing starts down by 10 per cent in September, while...

Queen’s Speech leaked as axe set to fall on public sector and business grants!

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THE leaking of the Queen’s budget speech is unprecedented, and is an expression of the depth of the split and the cynicism in the...

Don’t Let Them Close Down Our Hospitals!

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THE PLAN to strip Chase Farm Hospital, in Enfield, of its accident and emergency and maternity services is now being implemented with health chiefs...

US-Israel steps up the war against Hamas and also against the working people of...

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ALI Damush, the vice chairman of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, said yesterday that Israel had resumed its aggression on Gaza by US decision. He...

Students and universities under savage coalition attack

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IN ORDER that the universities can have their budgets slashed and be privatised or closed, students are to be charged up to £9,000 a...

Osborne tax credits retreat but savage assault on Welfare State is stepped up!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne was forced to make a humiliating retreat over working tax credits in the House of Commons yesterday after facing massive resistance to...

US to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist movement

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THE US yesterday raised tensions considerably between itself and Iran by declaring that the main body of armed men maintained by the Iranian...

Biden insists on Israel’s right to commit genocide in Gaza while Tories insist arrest...

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US president Joe Biden has defended American imperialism’s Israeli ally and denounced the decision of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, to...

Trump Denounces The ‘Marxists’ As The Crisis Of US Capitalism Reaches Explosion Point!

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IN HIS FOURTH of July speech on Saturday US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claimed were...

May Attacks The Pensioners And Pursues Them Into The Grave!

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PM MAY unveiled the Tory election manifesto yesterday in Halifax as she dumped Cameron’s policy towards the elderly and instead gave them a good...

Leaving university £70,000 in debt!

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MEDICAL students will be left almost £70,000 in debt under Government plans to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees, the...

Benn Forecasts Coalition Government

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LABOUR Party left winger Tony Benn yesterday raised that Tony Blair and David Cameron could serve in each other’s cabinets and the possibility of...
The Israeli Apartheid Wall at Abu Dis on the outskirts of Jerusalem – the Israelis have begun to build the ‘third phase’  of the wall to encircle Bethlehem and Hebron

January 1– police to get blanket arrest and covert op powers

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POLICE are to have blanket arrest and covert operations powers of a type that will make tinpot dictatorships throughout the world green with envy,...

Afghanistan – A Graveyard For Imperialist Adventurers

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THE debacle of the rigged Afghan elections, held under the guns of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, is just a reflection of an even...

Troika Forcing Greek Revolution

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THE Troika of the IMF, the ECB and the EU have imposed such a massive austerity programme onto the backs of the Greek working...

Resolve Crisis Of Leadership In Working Class

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THERE is nothing like the crisis of the capitalist system to bring out the essence of the Labour and trade union leaders, as labour...

WikiLeaks reveals US gangster diplomacy

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THE latest WikiLeaks release of US documents reveals the essence of US diplomacy, and it stinks to high heaven with its intense imperialist antagonism...

For A Nuclear Bomb Free Middle East

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IRAN took a calculated risk yesterday when it reached an agreement with the US and its allies that it would allow extensive and exhaustive...

McDonnell makes his bid to lead government of national unity – while Corbyn calls...

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JOHN McDONNELL made his bid to lead the proposed government of national unity to smash Brexit during his interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today...

Tories get ready for war with Syria

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PM Cameron is facing a direct legal challenge over a new version of the ministerial code which has been produced and which omits a...

Obama Dumps Two-State Solution!

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PROPONENTS of the two-state solution to Palestine, that is the creation of two separate states, Israel and Palestine through peaceful negotiations, with East Jerusalem...

After Afghan Disaster, UK Ruling Class Is Determined That UK Workers Must Pay For...

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THE HUMILIATING hiding that the UK ruling class has taken from the Taliban in Afghanistan, where the US and the UK have squandered tens...

US imperialism is planning to split Gaza!

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ON Friday, the Guardian newspaper revealed the latest plan from the US military to entrench the division of Gaza by creating a fortified ‘green...