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Capitalism”s Global Financial Ice Age

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THIS week saw a series of announcements from banks and economists about impending doom for capitalism. On Wednesday, the RBS bank advised all its clients...

Reopen Mining Industry – No To Nuclear Power

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British capitalism is today facing a massive energy crisis, largely of its own making. It was after all, Thatcher and Heseltine who shut down...

Only one answer to mass unemployment – Socialist Revolution

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WHILE firms and businesses are closing down as furlough ends and millions of workers are being thrown out of work, the Tories launched their...

GPs denounce Tory plans to roll out vaccine for putting patient lives at risk

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VER 1,000 GPs have written to Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock demanding that the government produces a ‘full plan’ for the roll out of...

The UN must accept Palestinian statehood – Defeat the US-UK governments’ opposition!

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MEMBERS of the UN Security Council have failed to reach a consensus on the Palestinian bid to become a full member state of the...

Tories call junior doctors pay demands unaffordable while bosses gouge huge profits from workers...

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THE CLAIM that last week 196,000 hospital appointments were cancelled has been used by the Tories and their supporters in the media to put...

‘Green Shoots’ – A Mirage Of Desperate Capitalists

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THE European Central Bank is having nightmares about the state of the 25 banks that underpin the financial system of the Eurozone within the...

Biden’s frenzied speech against Trump shows US capitalism is on the rocks! Forward...

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IN A FRENZIED speech, US President Biden on Thursday accused ex-US President Trump and his supporters in the Republican Party of holding ‘a dagger...

EU crisis deepens in London and Athens

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THE great EU referendum crisis in the UK has sharpened after PM Cameron denied his earlier remarks that after he had negotiated a deal...

Hunt is going to speed up NHS ‘industry’

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YESTERDAY Health Secretary Hunt insulted the NHS, and NHS workers, and the intelligence of the working class as a whole, when he labelled the...

BHS workers’ jobs and pensions destroyed as firm is looted!

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THE decision on Thursday by the administrators to close all 163 BHS stores and throw 11,000 workers out of a job with immediate effect...

Workers action shakes Rajapakse

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A FIERCE struggle has erupted in Sri Lanka between the military-police dictatorship of Mahinda Rajapakse and over a hundred thousand garment workers in the...

Stock market crash – Only socialist revolution can end the carnage!

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ON MONDAY the Wall Street stock market crashed with the Dow Jones Index, which follows the fortunes of 30 large US companies on a...

Brown’s worthless apology for imperialist child trafficking

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FOR centuries British capitalism has sought to export its surplus populations and its trouble makers to the rest of the world. Rebellious trade unionists such...

170,000 workers marched for Palestine last Saturday. Trade unions must call a general...

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THE WHO (World Health Organisation) has joined the United Nations in urging Israel to immediately rescind orders for the imminent invasion of Gaza which...

Sunak pledges limitless billions of pounds to prolong war on Russia – nothing for...

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major policy speech last night, pledged to maintain and even increase military aid to Ukraine to...

Removing the Blair gang is a matter of vital public safety

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair announced yesterday at his monthly press conference that he would not ‘give an inch to terrorism’, and vowed to combat...

Israel still seeking to grab the Gaza Strip and the occupied territories

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ISRAEL continues to declare that northern Gaza is out of bounds for the Palestinian people, while at the same time the Israeli army and...

Capitalism in deflationary crisis

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THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...

Stop all evictions – socialist revolution the answer to mass homelessness

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YESTERDAY the temporary ban on evictions in England ended, leaving hundreds of thousands of people facing being thrown out of their homes for rent...

Browne’s speech: Taleban fighters throw NATO into crisis

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LABOUR’S Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted yesterday that the Taleban resistance movement in Afghanistan is making NATO’s attempt to control the country ‘harder than...

Break with the EU now! Forward to a Workers Government and the United...

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WHEN TORY PM May went to the European Union to try and sell her Chequers plan she was met with a unanimous ‘NO’ from...

End homelessness by putting an end to the system that deliberately creates it –...

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A HOMELESS man has been found dead in a tent after sleeping rough in the snow in freezing temperatures. The man, named locally as...

Scottish Labour Call For A Gaza Ceasefire Must Be Supported By All Trade Unions...

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FORMER Mossad official, Rami Igra, has said all Palestinians in Gaza over the age of 4 deserve to face Israel’s collective punishment policy of...

President Obama is heading for a fall

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SPEAKING before the NATO summit President Obama made clear that his business in Europe was to raise a war party for Afghanistan, when...

Obama Authorises Use Of US Air Power Against Assad!

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PRESIDENT Obama has given his authorisation for US air power to be used to support the forces that the US and Turkey are training,...

French and UK workers must unite to smash capitalism and fight for socialism!

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FRENCH workers and youth have risen up against the Macron-military police dictatorship and on Saturday launched massive attacks on the capitalist state’s police forces...

Demand the TUC call a general strike to defend NHS workers from Tory pay...

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IF THE Tories hoped that the last minute scramble to head off the anger of NHS workers by increasing the derisory and insulting 1%...

Defend Every Job In Gm Europe – Occupy And Nationalise

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THE Detroit board of US carmaker General Motors last Friday postponed making a decision on who should acquire its Opel division, including the two...

Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes To Bring Down The Ruling Classes That Are...

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SPEAKING at a press conference in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Thursday, Abdallah al-Dardari, UN assistant secretary-general and director of the UN Development Programme...

BoE Governor Bailey blames elderly, sick and disabled for inflationary spiral driving the world...

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ON MONDAY night Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, blamed a wave of early retirements for forcing the Bank to make its...

Bring down the Irish government to smash the Water Tax!

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OVER 150,000 people took part in nationwide protests last Saturday against the introduction of savage water charges throughout the Republic of Ireland. Up to 100...

Gove declares war on state education! Kick the Tories out!

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THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has unleashed yet another broadside against state education and the teaching profession in a speech on Monday where...

98 deaths in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan

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ON the brink of the third anniversary of the Anglo-US invasion of Iraq, the US based Human Rights First organisation has released a report...

Davis Calls On The Cabinet To Revolt – Now Is The Time To Bring...

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NOW that the ex-Brexit negotiator Davis has called for the Cabinet to rise up against the May government’s permanent Customs Union, and her plan...

Close the EU’s concentration camps!

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THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...

Defend every job, bring down the Brown government, forward to socialism

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LLOYDS stated yesterday that its takeover of HBOS would save it at least £1.5bn a year, more than it had been expecting, which all...

Credit Suisse sold at knockdown price in last ditch attempt to avert world banking...

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THE CAPITALIST world banking system hurtled even deeper into a massive crash this weekend when the central banks of Europe, UK and US forced...

Hodge Spreads Subversion In The Fabian Society

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THE Labour government is visibly collapsing day by day, with even ministers expressing opposition and saying that they had doubts about Blair’s foreign ...
A section of the over 600-strong audience at the CWU anti-privatisation rally in central London on Wednesday

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Usa

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THE New Orleans disaster stands as a testament – with its over 10,000 dead and over 200,000 refugees – to the bankruptcy of the...

Revolution emerging in Pakistan!

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EX-PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF has not been lying in his political grave for six months and already the lawyers are marching against the new regime of...

Sunak kicks out Braverman – time to kick out the Tories by forcing the...

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YESTERDAY, the Sunak government finally got round to sacking Suella Braverman as home secretary, immediately replacing her with James Cleverly. In a surprise move, kept...

Junior Doctors Are Determined To Defeat The Tories

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TENS of thousands of junior doctors struck yesterday and made it very clear that they are not a protest movement, and that their first...

Putin Calls For Referendums In The Donbass And For Workers To Decide To Join...

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ALL WORKERS, youth and trade unionists must support the decision of Russian leader Putin to call up reservists to serve in the Ukraine, and...

A milestone in the failure of the US-UK war against Iraq

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THERE were no pictures beamed around the world yesterday of United States President Barack Obama at a passing out parade in Baghdad on the...