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Labour’s knives are out for use against the UK’s working class and its youth...

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THE future of the youth minimum wage is now under review by the former Health Secretary Alan Milburn. The alleged ‘social mobility’ expert has told...

UK Drone Assassins – Mass Murder As A Video Game!

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THE House of Commons Defence Committee came out in favour on Monday of continuing massacres of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other places by...

Manchester Arena bombing was the product of a British capitalist state provocation!

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THE judge-led inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing at an Ariana Grand concert in May 2017 finally published its finding yesterday after a two-and-a-half-year...

Tories declare war on trade unions – defend the right to strike with a...

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TODAY’S Queen’s speech includes plans by the Tories to make all-out strikes by rail unions and other transport workers illegal. Tory transport secretary Grant Shapps...

Organise a general strike for the nationalisation of plants facing closure!

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ECONOMIC activity declined by 0.8 per cent over the three months to the end of June, a fall of 5.6 per cent in Gross...

End the farce in Parliament with socialist revolution!

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AMIDST all the chaos and downright farce in Parliament on Wednesday only one indisputable fact remains – on the 23rd June 2016 in a...

GM-Opel-Vauxhall crisis deepening

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NICK REILLY, the GM executive who closed down Vauxhall Motors in 2002, unveiled, yesterday in Frankfurt, the GM plan for Opel...

Junior doctors will vote to reject rotten Hunt-BMA deal!

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THE BMA leadership have allowed themselves to be taken for a ride by Health Secretary Hunt! The government that imposed provocation after provocation onto the...

Sunak extends furlough as Bank of England prints another £50 billion to try and...

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March next year, with the government continuing...

Leaked documents reveal a failed mass-murder machine

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THE leaked 90,000 US Afghan war documents once again show – as did the My Lai mass killings of the Vietnamese people – the...

Chancellor Brown prudently bends his ‘golden rule’

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CHANCELLOR Brown, in testimony to the Treasury Select Committee, has announced that he is bending his much vaunted ‘golden rule’ – that the government...

North Korea Has The Right To Self Defence

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YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...

Bosses & Tories In Crisis – Time To Bring Both Down!

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THE TORY Party conference opened in Manchester on Sunday to scenes that reflected the terminal splits and divisions that dominate the minority government of...

Second Round French election farce – Forward to the French Socialist revolution!

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THE SECOND round of the French regional elections last Sunday confirmed that the French workers have had enough of the bourgeois, Bonapartist, fascist and...

Victory To Syria – Smash Is, The Nusra Front And Their Western Backers –...

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AT THE same time as the Nusra Front and the remnants of IS were shelling Damascus, and the Turkish imperialists were killing Kurds in...

King wanted to print even more paper money!

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WHEN the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided two weeks ago to print £50 billion more for its stimulus programme binge, the City, which was...

World Socialist Revolution only answer to capitalist war at home and abroad!

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The political crisis of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia, that emerged dramatically on Friday with the march on Moscow by the mercenary Wagner group,...

There Will Be No Labour Leadership Election Says Tony Woodley

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TONY Woodley, the Unite joint general secretary, has stepped into the row over the demand for a Labour Party leadership debate and a leadership...

NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT PLAN AWAKENS MEMORIES OF THE 1960s and ’70s COUP PLOTS TO...

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THERE IS VERY great resistance to the proposal of Labour leader Corbyn that he should put down a motion of no confidence in PM...

Bloody Sunday – Put the British State in the dock for murder along with...

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YESTERDAY the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced that there was enough evidence to prosecute one soldier, soldier F, for the murder of two people,...

Palestinians throw shoes at UN chief Ban!

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DOZENS of people threw shoes and stones at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s convoy as it entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Many of those...

Civil Rights lawyers closed down by Tories

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THE law firm that has spent ten years representing the Iraqi victims of the brutal imperialist invasion of their country and the subsequent occupation...

Support Catalan independence! Down with the Spanish and EU ruling classes! Forward to a...

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CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont has called for a ‘democratic opposition’ to the imposition of direct rule from Madrid after the Spanish government terminated his...

WALSH SLAPS DOWN UNITE AND McCLUSKEY – Trade unions must call mass actions to...

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THE Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has urged BA to step back from its ‘opportunistic fire and rehire’ plans, which will send thousands of...

Iran condemns the mass bombing of Iranian cities

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IRAN has fiercely condemned the massive Israeli aerial bombing of several cities and the targeted assassinations of military leaders and nuclear scientists on Thursday...

BMA Is Hoping For NHS Deal While The Labour Government Is Getting Ready For...

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) is calling on the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, to focus his time and attention on offering a deal that...

KOSOVO – An imperialist carve-up!

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HASHIM Thaci, the former leader of the American-backed terrorist group, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and the Prime Minister in the Serbian province, declared...

Tories protect the rich from floods while the rest left to drown

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TORY austerity cuts have meant that poorer areas of the country have been left completely at the mercy of floods, to the extent that...

Workers of the world unite in the struggle for socialism

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OVER 600,000 workers have come to work in the UK from the eight nations which joined the European Union in 2004, said Home Office...

The ‘Duplicitous Traitor’ Strikes Again

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LABOUR MP Bob Marshall Andrews, recently called the Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband a ‘duplicitous traitor’, after Miliband published an article in the Guardian...

Putin And Lavrov Come To Obama’s Rescue!

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OBAMA had been facing massive opposition in every State of the Union, with opinion polls saying that he faced defeat in any Congressional vote...

King’s Fund Warning Must Be Acted On!

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THE Quarterly Monitoring Report of the King’s Fund does not pull any punches about the future that the Tory-led coalition has planned out for...

Time for a general strike to stop the war!

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‘THIS is a tremendous demonstration of the anger of the British people against what Blair has done in Iraq and is threatening to do...

Make It ‘Doomsday’ For The Coalition Not For Council Housing

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THE ‘social housing’ budget in England is to be slashed by more than 50 per cent. Up to 90 per cent of the market rent...

Force Blair out now! Forward to a workers’ government!

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YESTERDAY was a letter writing day for Labour MPs. There were at least three different letters circulating among Labour MPs, including one signed by the...

Chinese and Russian Stalinists are getting burnt by the crisis

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THE Chinese Stalinists are now paying an enormous price for linking their fate with that of US capitalism. First of all they declared parts of...

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...

The ‘Mortgage Bomb’ is about to explode, pauperising the middle class, with inflation shredding...

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THE news from the mortgage front is grim. Millions of families are experiencing shocking hikes in mortgage rates of hundreds of pounds per month,...

Support BA workers! Forward to a general strike!

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LABOUR PM Gordon Brown yesterday condemned the BA cabin crew members of Unite for the seven days of strike action due to take place...

Liz Truss speech calls for ‘new’ party to wage class war against working class!

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IT was almost exactly one year ago that the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a mini-budget that...

Revolution Is The Only Road For Youth

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RECORD numbers of young people, 835,000 18-24 year-olds, are not in school, college or work in England, official figures are showing. This is an increase...

Pro-Palestinian hunger strikers in immediate danger of dying as Lammy refuses to meet with...

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On Saturday, two of the prisoners on hunger strike were taken to hospital, the latest of eight prisoners admitted to hospital since they began...

Starmer splits Labour Party from unions to prove he is ready for a national...

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THE sacking by Keir Starmer of Labour MP Sam Tarry from his post as shadow transport minister has sent shock waves throughout the Labour...

Ruling class discarding faithful servant Brown

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THE deepening crisis of the world capitalist system is causing alarm in the ruling class in Britain, causing them to revaluate their perspectives. The bile...

Call a one day general strike to defend the NHS

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YESTERDAY the leaders of the NHS trade unions were in their own words ‘raising the heat over the future of the NHS’. What resolute and...