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Fatah junta seizes control of the West Bank

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YESTERDAY President Abbas decreed the ending of parliamentary rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as he appointed an illegal government headed...

Forward With The Cuban Revolution!

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THE death of Fidel Castro, the leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution sees millions of Cubans mourning their leader who secured the independence of...

Capitalism kills

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Thousands of Bangladeshi workers erupted onto the streets of the capital Dhaka yesterday in fury at the fire on Saturday at a garment factory...

Keep Profiteers Out Of NHS And Elderly Care

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HEALTHCARE as a business is now being exposed as a malicious and very nasty fraud. First we had the Mid Staffs NHS hospital crisis with...

Coalition building a landlords’ paradise – bring back Council Housing! Now!

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THE Coalition government is busily building a paradise for the landlords, the latest Shelter Rent Report shows. In this paradise, private tenants, who can no...

Syria refuses to give way to imperialism

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THE news that the Obama regime is demanding the complete withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters from Syria marks a decisive development in the increasingly desperate...

Imperialists Getting Their Fingers Badly Burned In Ukraine As Bread Prices Rise Worldwide

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THE front page of yesterday’s Daily Telegraph carried an article headlined ‘Vladimir Putin “weaponising” world’s food supplies.’ This story of the dastardly Putin being responsible...

SOUTH AFRICA: Legacy of the revolution betrayed

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THE fighting in Johannesburg and its surrounding black townships, over the past week – with more than 23 people being killed, pitched battles with...

Sack the Blairs – disband shoot– to–kill police

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YESTERDAY’s press conference heard how a 250 strong police raid, in the early hours of the morning, in Forest Gate led to a completely...

Defend the Tamil people! Unite the Sri Lankan workers! Bring down the Rajipakse...

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THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...

Obama cementing anti-China alliance

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JUST ahead of his arrival in Japan yesterday, US President Barack Obama assured Japan that islands at the centre of its territorial disputes with...

CIA Using Diego Garcia As A Torture Centre

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NO WONDER both the British and US governments are absolutely determined that none of the Chagos Islanders be allowed to return to their...

No education cuts Restore free state education

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CHANCELLOR Darling has announced that £600m will be ‘saved’ by 2012/13 from across ‘higher education, science and research budgets, including student support’, meaning...

Trump is attacking the Chinese workers – US and UK workers must support the...

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THE US bosses have ramped up their ongoing campaign of economic and political sanctions against China. The House of Representatives has passed a bill...

Turning A New Page In The NHS!

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THE leaders of 10 NHS organisations have called in an open letter for a ‘new page to be turned’ in 2014. Powerful organisations including...

TUC Must Support Next Saturday’s Mass Rally, Recognise The Palestinian State And Demand That...

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SATURDAY saw the concrete proof of just how much support the brave Palestinian people have won in their battle to undo the dirty work...

Ferguson battle anticipates US revolution

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THE tactics weaponry and ammunition used in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, by the police and Missouri National Guard, have led to...

Labour Must Pledge To Recognise Palestine And To Stop Arming Israel

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700 BRITISH artists have signed a pledge to boycott Israel as long as it ‘continues to deny basic Palestinian rights’. The group, Artists for Palestine...

The Way Forward – Starve The Working Class Says King!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, in his Tuesday night speech detailed the source of the gigantic inflationary rise in living costs that...

Restoring nurses’ & midwives’ bursaries – a matter of life or death for...

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THERE is a desperate lack of nurses in the NHS. Currently, overloaded nurses are doing the job of three people, working 12-hour shifts in...

Baa And Virgin Air Industry Workers Are Ready For Action

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NEWS LINE sends its greetings and full support to the British Airports Authority workers who have decided to take strike action at seven major...

67 Labour peers begin their coup attempt to drive Corbyn out of the Labour...

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FOLLOWING hard on the heels of last week’s hatchet job carried out by the BBC Panorama programme, the Labour Party right wing have launched...

TUC delegates vote unanimously to fight Tory anti-union laws while TUC general secretary insists...

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DELEGATES to the TUC Congress unanimously passed Composite Motion 1 – the Campaign against the Minimum Service Levels (MSL) legislation – which instructs the...

Call a general strike – build Councils of Action – forward to Socialism

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THE Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said yesterday that the government should ban strikes by workers in essential services, adding that this...

Bank of England trapped by inflation crisis – socialism the only way forward

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THE BANK of England is due to meet this week to announce an increase in interest rates, with ‘experts’ predicting an increase of 0.5%...

Tories Stepping Up The Class War While The Tuc Is Calling A Lobby Of...

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THE TORY government has made it crystal clear that its current reorganisation is being made in order to carry out a very serious assault...

Live8 won’t comment on ‘don’t attack Bush’ line

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YESTERDAY the PR company representing Live8, LD Publicity, refused to deny media allegations that Bob Geldof, the Live8 movement’s leader, had a soft spot...

Human rights groups quit UK’s fake torture inquiry!

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TEN leading human rights organisations, along with victims of torture and their lawyers, have withdrawn from the British government’s Detainee Inquiry because they believe...

CWU leaders embrace privatisation!

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A BALLOT of CWU members announced this week showed a vote of 94% in favour of a ‘legally binding contract’ between the leadership of...

One third of all people in UK have lived in poverty in the past...

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ONE in three people in the country have ‘experienced poverty’ in the past four years. According to figures produced by the Office for National Statistics,...

The Death Agony Of Capitalism! Time For The Working Class To Bury It!

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ON MONDAY night, US President Donald Trump announced via a tweet that he would stop all applications from foreign nationals seeking permanent residence in...

Eu Bosses Strangle Greek Democracy!

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MERKEL, Sarkozy and Cameron are all united on one central issue, the Greek workers must not have the slightest ‘democratic’ say over the draconian...

Labour slashing 100,000 NHS jobs as recession drives war to make working class pay...

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YESTERDAY, the Guardian newspaper revealed that 100,000 jobs in the NHS could be wiped out because of the brutal cost-cutting regime imposed by Labour...
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...

Eu Leaders Make War Against Greek Workers

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‘Down with the junta of the bankers! Kick out the swindlers of Brussels.’ These were the slogans being shouted by Greek workers and youth...

Households face catastrophe as debt crisis sets to explode

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IT IS becoming clear that the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, is very scared about the effects of the expected rise...

British capitalism so bankrupt it can’t provide for energy demands

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THE ANNOUNCEMENT yesterday that the Japanese company Hitachi is pulling the plug on plans to build a nuclear power station in Wales has blown...

Tory ‘war on terror’ used in war on Junior Doctors

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EMAILS, made public this week, between the Tory government and the head of NHS England, Sir Bruce Keogh, reveal the way the Tories attempted...
‘Young Reapers’ – mowing down the ‘CPE’ first job contract

Blair’s policies split Labour and aid the Tories

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‘IT’S wrong that Downing Street thinks it can run the Labour Party: we are an elected party, a democratic party,’ said the Labour Party...

The UK workers movement and the TUC must give their immediate and decisive support...

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YAHYA Sinwar, the political leader of the Hamas Movement, has written to Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, the head of the Ansar Allah Movement, conveying his profound...

Grenfell Tower Deaths Were Avoidable – Time To Nationalise The Banks And Building Industry!

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THE Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was the result of ‘dishonest companies, successive governments, and a lack of strategy by the fire...

Inflation Running Riot – Time To Put An End To Capitalism And Bring In...

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THE TORY government is now presiding over huge increases in prices, the biggest increases in 40 years. A massive inflation is under way with...

Cornwall Marches To Save Fire Service

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TWO hundred firefighters and control room staff were joined by thousands of angry local residents in a 13-mile march from Camborne to Falmouth on...

Blair Called In To Advise Trump On Gaza, And Dealing With The Revolutionary Palestinian...

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‘I met murder on the way – He had the mask of Castlereagh – Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him:’ THESE are the famous...

Italian banks’ debt of over £300 billion will crash the world banks

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FOR years the Italian banking system has been kept on a life-support system of government bailouts as it sinks under the weight of astronomical...