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Cameron & Obama threaten Russia and support Israel’s attack on Gaza

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CAMERON was in threatening mode on Monday in his statement to the House of Commons. He said that President Putin must use his influence to...

Darling ignored over short selling

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BRITISH capitalism is staring disaster straight in the face. Motor car sales in December 2008 were 47.5 per cent lower than in December 2007. Yesterday,...

End herd immunity capitalist barbarism with a socialist revolution!

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THE DEMAND for capitalism to ‘reopen’ under the umbrella of the discredited theory that herd immunity is the only way to combat coronavirus has...

Trump escalates his war against Iran and the workers of the world!

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IN what amounts to a declaration of war between US imperialism and Iran, US president Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that a massive US...

Parliament can’t be reformed, sweep it away!

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CORRUPTION and parliaments are inseparable. Oliver Cromwell made this clear when he shutdown the Rump Parliament, reciting as he did the vices of the...

Forward to a national strike and a national demonstration on July 17

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DAY one of the London CWU’s three-day strike action was a massive success, after the move by the Royal Mail and the government...

Children Going To School Hungry!

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THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...

Tax Bonanza for NHS Privateers

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The private health companies, that are circling the NHS and salivating at the prospect of making billions of pounds profit out of the sick...

Students and UCU to ‘take to the streets!’

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SHOWING contempt for parliament, the watchdog for university access (Offa) yesterday gave the green light to all universities to increase tuition fees in England...

There must be sprinklers in schools! No more fire deaths! Kick the Tories out!

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AFTER the horror of Grenfell Tower fire, where so many men, women and children burned to death, the big issue is ‘is anyone safe...

Don’t be foolhardy – Bush urges Chinese Stalinists

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PRESIDENT George W Bush on Wednesday said China would be ‘foolhardy’ to push down the dollar in retaliation for the massive US pressure...

Trump demands Iran completely ‘gives up’ as imperialism threatens all-out war against Iran!

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US president Donald Trump yesterday abruptly left the G7 meeting in Canada, telling reporters he wanted ‘better than a ceasefire’ between Iran and Israel. When...

Starmer defends Reeves in an attempt to save both their jobs and UK capitalism!

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KEIR STARMER, at a press conference yesterday,  defended last week’s budget and crucially made a last ditch attempt to save his job and that...

France and UK want air strikes after Assad’s victory at Al-Qusayr

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THE Hezbollah TV channel yesterday showed a fighter planting a Syrian flag on Al-Qusayr’s clock tower while the Western powers’ surrogate, the Free Syrian...

CWU leaders organise a consultative ballot !over pensions

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TRUE to form the CWU leadership is declining to give any kind of leadership to its massive membership on the vital issue of the...

New Labour Is Proposing 24-Hour Courts And Fast-Track Sentencing Of Workers And Youth!

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COURTS ARE now to sit for 24 hours in order to impose fast-track sentencing under New Labour Emergency Government plans to crack down on...

US insists on direct talks as Israel refuses to halt settlement building

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PRESIDENT Obama has summoned the Palestinian Authority leader, Abbas, and Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu to Washington for talks beginning on September 2, to resolve...

Workers will ignore Tory attempts to make Russia their enemy – the enemy is...

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YESTERDAY’S statement by Theresa May to parliament on the range of ‘reprisals’ against Russia for the alleged involvement of the Russian state in the...

World economy on brink of collapse

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THE capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step over the brink into the abyss of collapse with the news that the euro debt...

Business Secretary Cable Tells Vauxhall Workers: You’Re On Your Own!

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LAST MAY the Unite union leaders agreed for their members in the UK that they would provide savings of 106m euros over four years,...

Spanish youth shake Zapatero government

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The Spanish municipal and regional elections that were held on Sunday took place under unprecedented conditions as thousands of youth and workers defied the...

Capitalist state kept quiet about illegal phone tapping

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METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has ordered a senior officer to ‘establish the facts’ – concerning the knowledge that the police had –...

BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY RIP – FORWARD TO THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!

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BOTH THE MAJOR parliamentary parties, Tory and Labour are in turmoil, with splits taking place and more splits to come, as the ruling class...

Tuc Congress Must Demand All British Troops Out Of Afghanistan!

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WITH ten British troops killed in Helmand province so that just hundreds of people could vote – and after five per cent turned out...

Tory lies over ‘Syrian gas attack’ exposed!

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THE ENTIRE justification for last Friday’s illegal bombing of Syria by British, US and French forces is falling apart rapidly as the truth emerges. The...

Homeless deaths are rapidly increasing! Capitalism is rotten! Only socialism can take society...

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THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has produced a new report which says that the true number of people sleeping on the streets ‘far exceeds’...

Brown Won’t Retreat From Blair Agenda

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PREMIER Blair got his well deserved come-uppance at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, while the co-author of his policies Gordon Brown was welcomed like...

Lagarde Calls For ‘Brave Action’ To Inflate Economies

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IMF Managing Director Lagarde has warned that the world economy is ‘too weak for comfort’, and that it could be heading for years of...

Wilbur Ross Lays Down The Law To The UK Bosses And Government

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PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s senior adviser Wilbur Ross has just addressed the CBI bosses and given that body its orders as to what it must...

Security Council extends Iraq occupation mandate

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THE imperialists and their Chinese and Russian stooges on the UN Security Council have extended the mandate of the US-led occupation armies in Iraq,...

Macron’s response promising permanent austerity will drive revolution forward

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ON THURSDAY evening French president Emmanuel Macron finally made a public address outlining his response to the revolutionary uprising of workers, youth and the...

Capitalism in its greatest financial crisis, says Brown

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THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who once boasted that he had resolved the crisis of capitalism and its tendency to go from boom to...

City Link Closure The Prelude To New Year Class Showdown!

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THE Christmas Day announcement that parcel delivery firm City Link had gone into administration was ‘disgraceful’, the RMT said yesterday. Its general secretary Mick...

NHSTogether must organise strike action to defend GPs!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown’s government is targeting General Practitioners (GPs) in its rush to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). Two key barriers to a...

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,...

G7 nations unanimous in support of Israeli war crimes in Gaza!

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THE United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Wednesday issued a damning statement that Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in...

‘Clear-cut robbery in Cyprus’ – the penalty for the crime is revolution!

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THE Cypriot parliament yesterday postponed an emergency session on the 7-10% banking tax imposed by the EU on every depositor in the country’s...

May appeals to Labour Right-Wing to save her

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THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained...

British Ruling Class Preparing For A Nuclear War To Defend Capitalism

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THE bankrupt British ruling class is preparing to expand its ‘nuclear deterrent’ by buying a squadron of American jet fighters that have the capacity...

Starmer splits Labour Party as he prepares for national government to ‘save’ bankrupt capitalism...

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LABOUR Party leader Sir Keir Starmer caused a public split in the Labour Party when, on Sunday, he committed any future Labour government to...

Boycott Israel To Demand A Palestinian State

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THE Israeli armed forces, under orders from the Israeli government, are continuing to attack defenceless Palestinian women, children and men in the Gaza Strip,...

High Court rejects legal challenge to Labour arming Zionist genocide – now workers and...

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ON MONDAY, the High Court in London rejected a legal challenge brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq against the decision of...

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...

Tories intend to put an end to the NATIONAL Health Service

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IT IS crystal clear with the Tories seeking to impose even bigger cuts if they are re-elected in May, that under their rule the...

The UK ruling class is in a desperate crisis – forward to the socialist...

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EX-PRINCE Andrew’s public disgrace has rocked the British ruling class, with the King stripping his younger brother of his ‘prince’ title and evicting him...