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Windrush just ‘tip of the iceberg’ – time to kick out the Tories and...

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IN A MONUMENTAL act of cynicism, the Tory government on Monday announced that this Friday will be designated ‘Windrush Day’ and that henceforth 22nd...

Leave The EU Now! Call A General Strike To Defend Jobs! Stop Pleading...

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THE UK’s negotiator with the EU, Lord Frost, has said that there is still time for the UK and the EU to agree a...

Ukraine’s ‘Orange’ counter-revolution

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UKRAINE’S President Viktor Yushchenko was engaged in desperate talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday in Kazakhstan trying to get a better deal for...

Cameron orders SAS killers onto British streets

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NEARLY 2,000 new spies are to be immediately recruited by the British state, prime minister David Cameron announced yesterday. Speaking from the G20 summit being...

A Case Of Strange Bedfellows

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THE Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come back from the US convinced that the Labour government must change its position against the use...

Gordon Brown wheeled out to save capitalism

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Former Labour chancellor and prime minister Gordon Brown has stepped forward to offer himself up as the saviour of bankrupt British capitalism. Brown made his...

Smash the Gate Gourmet ‘Gangster Capitalists’

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THIS Sunday locked out Gate Gourmet workers will be marching through Southall determined to win their jobs back after a bosses’ coup last...

US imperialism is on collision course with the rest of the world in the...

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IMMEDIATELY following the US illegal attack and kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro last Friday, the Trump administration has placed US imperialism on a...

The UK ruling class is split, unable to rule, and frightened by the mass...

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YESTERDAY Tory PM May pledged that she would not allow the British people’s vote for Brexit to be sabotaged. The would-be sabatoeurs are the majority...

Biden administration in crisis over Israeli failure to defeat Hamas

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CHUCK SCHUMER, the Democratic Senate majority leader, described as the highest ranking Jewish official in the United States and top ally of president Joe...

Build the 4th International in the US

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THE decision of the United Steelworkers of America trade union to follow the lead of the just-failed Democratic contender, John Edwards, whom the steelworkers...

Victory To Syria – Down With The US, UK And Israel

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THE unprovoked air strike by Israeli forces on a scientific research centre on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus is the opening shot...

Wave of corporate defaults looms across the world – Socialist revolution the only answer...

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A WAVE of corporate defaults is imminent throughout the US and Europe, analysts at the German Deutsche Bank warn in its annual study released...

French workers confront Macron’s Thatcherite assault

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TRAIN drivers and other workers at the French state railway SNFC began three months of rolling stoppages on Monday evening, as trade unions push...

Reject Tory fake pledges on NHS funding – Only Socialism will guarantee the NHS

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THE SURPRISE announcement by Theresa May on Sunday that the Tories had plans to put £20 billion of extra funding into the NHS over...

Now is the time to build the Workers Revolutionary Party

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THE deeper the crisis of the capitalist system gets, the more desperate the measures that it takes to sustain the bosses and bankers’ system,...

Tory police state plans alive and well!

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PLANS for more secret court hearings, in the Justice and Security Bill, will create a ‘statutory straitjacket’ for judges, Martin Chamberlain, one of the...

Starmer – the Labour Party ‘fit to govern’ for bosses and the bankers...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer, in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday, pledged that he is ‘not just pro-business’ but wants to...

Trade Unions Must Act To Secure Nurses’ & Doctors’ Pay Rise!

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PM BORIS JOHNSON has said that there is a ‘moral duty’ to get all children back into schools in England next month. Writing in...

The only way out of the growing and desperate capitalist crisis is through organising...

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STOCK markets in the US ended last week sharply down following tough comments by the head of the country’s central bank, the Federal Reserve,...

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...

Starmer pledges Labour to super-austerity to rescue capitalism

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer delivered a speech in Stratford, east London yesterday setting out Labour’s ‘vision’ for the country under any future Labour government. His...

Time To Disband The Police As Met Gunmen Hand Back Their Weapons!

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SCOTLAND YARD’S firearms command has hit the rocks with their police gunmen refusing to do their duty and carry their firearms against ‘enemies of...

Health privateer takes NHS to court over right to profit from health – time...

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PRIVATEER Circle Health is once again taking legal action to overturn the decision to cancel its contract to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre. Rushcliffe...

Syriza trying to carry on from where the former government left off!

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SYRIZA policy going into the general election, through which it came to office, was to write off most of Greece’s 322bn euro debt. It demanded...

Coalition in crisis, bring it down

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The disarray, confusion and splits within the Tory/LibDem coalition government were brought out sharply over Monday’s announcement by Tory chancellor, George Osborne, that he...

Met chief Cressida Dick quits! Unions must call a general strike to disband the...

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METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has quit! Millions will be cheering the news, and demanding that the whole Met Police force be disbanded...

Venezuela election blow to imperialist regime change plans

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SUNDAY’S general election in Venezuela saw President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela sweeping to victory winning 67% of the votes and control...

High Court rules Tory laws on use of agency workers to break strikes is...

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THE Tories suffered a setback yesterday in their drive to legalise strike breaking when the High Court ruled that its agency worker regulations are...

UK needs a real general strike to bring down Tories and bring in Workers...

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THE DEEPENING crisis of British capitalism sees the UK ruling class at least 100 times more interested in provoking regime change in Russia through...

Red Cross confirms that the Afghan ‘Black Hole’ does exist

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THE Red Cross has confirmed that the US airbase at Bagram does contain a prison within a prison, complete with a torture chamber, that...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers in high spirits welcomed Father Christmas at their mass picket yesterday

Public sector unions must take strike action over pensions

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THE Fire Brigades Union said yesterday that it will consider industrial action over government plans to ‘reform’ its members’ pensions by dramatically extending the...

The workers of the world must now come to the aid of the Palestinian...

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‘OUR right to self-determination is inalienable. It is not tied to a timeframe’, Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Thursday said...

Labour Paying Price For Its Betrayal! Time To Join And Build The WRP!

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REBECCA Long-Bailey is the latest candidate to join the squad of failures seeking to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, after the party’s rout...

No secret talks! Reinstate the strikes! Sack Hayes and Ward!

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THE CWU postal workers top leadership, Hayes and Ward, on Thursday called off the rolling strikes and suspended all strike action, except in the...

Unite leaders beg the Tories for permanent furlough! New leadership required in trade...

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UNITE, with a membership of 1.4 million, wielding the power to strike and shut down vast proportions of industry, has reduced itself to begging...

Bush arrives in Middle East for war talks

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US President George W Bush said he saw a new opportunity for peace in the Holy Land as he arrived in Israel on Wednesday...

‘Remainer’ May gives the UK parliament the final say!

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PM MAY yesterday told a Lancaster House press conference of her government’s plan to quit the dictatorial EU and its Single Market. Harkening back to...

Ludicrous Cameron claims Tories are the workers’ party

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CAMERON began his election manifesto speech yesterday morning by insulting the intelligence of the listeners by stating ‘We are the party of working people,...

Corbyn must call on workers to bring down Tories, and support Palestinians!

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LAST Friday the UK and US governments combined at a meeting of the UN Security Council to veto a draft statement calling for an...

King George’s Ilford cancer unit to close for lack of nurses – Get the...

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THE CEDAR CENTRE, the chemotherapy unit at the King George Hospital in Ilford is to shut down on November 12th, because it cannot find...

Stop US-UK terrorism – No war on Syria – Bring down the Tories –...

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THE last few days has seen an acceleration in terrorist activity of all types. The first terrorist attack was last Thursday when the US...

Forward With The European Socialist Revolution!

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ON MONDAY in the House of Commons, ex-Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw rounded on the government stating: ‘Instead of sheltering behind complacent language and...

May assumes dictatorial powers over Parliament – time to bring her down with a...

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TORY Prime Minister Theresa May was determined on Monday to avoid a substantive vote in Parliament on ‘her right’ to go to war and...

Abbas ready to break with US imperialism! UK workers must support the Palestinian...

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IN A huge development in the fight of the Palestinian people to establish their own independent state, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on...