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308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla 308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla blockade busters

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ON May 31 this year, Israeli commandos abseiled onto the deck of the ‘Mavi Marmara’, which was sailing in international waters on its way...

BMA demands STPs be ‘abandoned’! Now all trade unions must follow their lead and...

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ON MONDAY, the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting took a giant step forward when, after a struggle over the issue of STPs, it passed a...

Europe’s energy bill hit $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the start...

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THE SOARING price of energy has cost Europe $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the beginning of the biggest, deepest economic crisis...

University Fees £9,500 and rising! Socialist revolution will end all fees!

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NOT one, but two tuition fee hikes have been announced by the Tory government in the last two weeks: first to £9,250 and then...

May reveals Tories fear of revolution

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YESTERDAY’S speech to the Charity Commission by Tory prime minister, Theresa May, attracted much comment on her proposals on raising the profile of mental health...

Reeves budget drives split in party as Labour MPs fear anger of workers over...

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves denied that Wednesday’s Budget was anything other than a massive austerity attack on workers with the sick and disabled deliberately...

Sarkozy flops – gets less votes than Chirac

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THE landslide vote for Sarkozy that was to get him off on a flying start as the ‘Saviour of France’ for his war against...

TUC must call indefinite general strike to bring down coalition now!

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TODAY’S meeting of the TUC general council must get off the fence and call for an immediate all-out, indefinite general strike to bring down...

Bank calls for public spending to be slashed to protect profits!

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THE capitalist class of Britain and Europe have been served with a warning that unless they act quickly to slash all public spending they...

Defend the NHS – kick the government out!

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THE coalition’s much-vaunted consultation period over its proposals to smash up the NHS and privatise it out of existence finally came to an end...

Police ‘Yobs’ Bait Home Secretary

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THE very well paid police force – loaded up with housing and other benefits, on Wednesday bit the hand that has been feeding...

Balls Is The Bankers Man!

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BEFORE the 1997 election, the Blair-Brown gang proved to big business that they were the right men to run capitalism by conducting a war...

Tory war on two fronts against Russia and working class at home

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THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...

McDonnell writes ‘Dear John’ letter to Osborne!

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THE TORY plan to cut Working and Child Tax Credits has succeeded in splitting the Tory party and creating divisions even in the Tory...

White House interns demand Biden calls a permanent ceasefire in Gaza!

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AS ISRAEL ramps up its war efforts to slaughter even more Palestinians in southern Gaza, in the US a group of White House interns...

Saturday’s Palestine march must be the start of a general strike to establish the...

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THE march in London this Saturday in support of Palestine and to end the complicity of the Labour government in Zionist genocide must be...

Netanyahu’s ‘Pyrrhic Victory’ – He Still Faces Criminal Charges And The Palestinian Revolution

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has claimed a ‘huge win’ in a vote that challenged his leadership of the Likud party. Netanyahu secured 72.5%...

Unions must pull the plug on the BNP!

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THE BNP, a fascist movement, is to be promoted by the BBC with an invitation about to be sent to it to appear on...

China has beaten coronavirus while Tories will allow 60% of the population to be...

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CHINA’S Wuhan province reported a zero increase in new coronavirus infections last week. China has beaten the virus and with no new cases, their...

Afghan election re-run collapses – US, UK completely discredited!

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AFGHANISTAN’S re-run election will be held on November 7th as scheduled, said the Afghan Electoral Commission yesterday. It is to have just one candidate,...

SACK Police Commissioner Dick! Disband the Met Police force and bring in a...

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WITH its dispersal of the vigil at Clapham Common Bandstand on Saturday, where thousands of people were peacefully paying their last respects to the...

Imperialism opens gates of hell in North Africa

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TORY prime minister David Cameron has promised that British imperialism is prepared to wage a war lasting decades throughout Africa and the Middle East...

Syria, the Kurdish people and the Turkish workers must stand together against imperialism!

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THIRTY-FIVE Syrian civilians have reportedly been killed and 75 others wounded by fresh Turkish artillery and tank fire plus air strikes on Jubb al...

One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin

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EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...

The US And The Eu Are The Gangsters

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WE are currently witnessing the greatest eruption of vilification against Russia and its leadership since the Fulton speech by Winston Churchill on March...

Big Business Demands Billi0Ns More To Save Their Bankrupt Economy!

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BIG BUSINESS warned yesterday that, with the return of the lockdown by PM Johnson, thousands of firms will go to the wall. They demanded...

Workers must mobilise to disarm the capitalist state to end police killings of workers...

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RASHAN Jermaine Charles died after being arrested by the police in the early hours of Saturday morning, July 22 on Kingsland Road, Hackney, east...

Soaring oil prices and the banking collapse mean class conflict on the airports!

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ON SATURDAY more than 1,000 British Airways pilots marched on BA’s Heathrow headquarters over plans by BA to use non-BA pilots, in its new...

Organise general strike to defend CWU

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ROYAL Mail, backed by Brown and Mandelson, are making no secret of the fact that they intend to stamp on the CWU, in order...

Teachers Vote For General Strike

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AT THEIR annual conference last Saturday the NUT (National Union of Teachers) passed a resolution committing the union to a strike ballot over attacks...

Tories split over Brexit! Both May and her Brexit sell-out deal are dead in...

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EVEN before Theresa May stood up to deliver her statement yesterday on the Brexit deal, she had agreed with the EU her government was...

Gold hits over $2,000 an ounce as the capitalist robbers seek value!

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ON TUESDAY the price of gold hit a record high of $2,000 (£1,530) an ounce, an increase of more than 30% this year. According to...

British Army Handed 300 Over To Afghan Torturers

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AFTER the killing and torture of Baha Mousa in Iraq was supplemented by a court martial that refused to convict those responsible for his...

Innocent Until Proven Guilty To Be Binned!

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DRACONIAN repressive measures are now being proposed, off the cuff, thick and fast, as the Blair government races to put an end to the...

No immunity over Grenfell Tower atrocity – arrest the real criminals and charge them...

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WITNESSES from the firms responsible for creating a death trap at Grenfell Tower are to be granted immunity from prosecution arising out of any...

Chinese Revolution Has Made Huge Advances, While Capitalism Gets Ready For Its Great Crash...

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NOT SO long ago in the late 1930s ‘European concessions’ on the Chinese mainland contained ‘European Only’ parks, some with signs declaring ‘no dogs...

UNISON condemns Blair for breaking NHS promise

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UNISON Head of Health, Karen Jennings, has condemned Labour government plans to allow private treatment centres to poach NHS staff, breaking a Labour government...

Zionist genocide and land seizures have killed the fantasy of a two-state solution 

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ON Wednesday, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres slammed Israel for ‘driving a stake through the heart’ of a two-state solution between Palestinians...

World banking system faces melt-down

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THE world crisis of capitalism has sharpened to the extent that even the staid Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has been forced to express...

TUC must call a general strike in support of Junior Doctors and steel workers

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A 45 strong delegation of Tata steel workers from Port Talbot were at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton yesterday. They had come...

New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity

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FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...

France will be ‘brought to a standstill’ as workers and youth take on the...

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FRANCE was in flames on Saturday as hundreds of thousands of workers and youth took to the streets in mass demonstrations across the country...

EU and Arab workers must unite to smash imperialism

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FRENCH police have arrested several suspects over the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine massacre in Paris, which killed 12 people to ‘avenge an insult to...

Western-Backed Syrian Opposition Committing War Crimes!

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THE US, UK, French, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari-backed ‘Syrian rebels’, who have been armed, equipped, financed and recognised as the representatives of the Syrian...

Iran proposes ‘trilateral mechanism’ to coordinate on security in Iraq

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THE first bilateral talks between the US and Iran since 1980 took place yesterday and were described by the leader of the US delegation...