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Osborne admits UK capitalism ‘critical’ in 2016-17

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IN a speech yesterday and in interviews with the BBC, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, admitted that, contrary to everything he has said in...

Shias And Sunnis Must Form Revolutionary Government In Iraq

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THE Kurdistan Region intelligence chief, Lahur Jangi, has said that according to his estimates there were 400 to 450 British nationals in the ranks...

The Death Agony Of The Blair Government

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THE Blair government is now under attack from all sides, after its Prime Minister turned yellow and refused to attend the House of Commons...

Google, Apple and Facebook facilitate international internet slave trade says UN!

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HE INTERNET is being used to promote a modern day online slave market, where women and children are being sold into domestic servitude. This...

597 homeless deaths, 130,000 homeless children! Slum landlords and capitalism must be got rid...

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FIVE hundred and ninety-seven homeless people died on the streets of Britain last year, up from 482 the year before – in fact homeless...

Scavenger Hague Leaps Into Ukraine Conflict

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THE British Foreign Secretary Hague tweeted his support for the ‘new Ukrainian government’ on Saturday midday along with his German opposite number. However, there...

Lobby TUC for general strike to bring down coalition

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THIS year the Trade Union Congress meets in Bournemouth from the 8th to 11th September under conditions where, if the Tory-led coalition government have...

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,...

Former BoE Governor calls on China to abandon ‘zero-Covid’ strategy to save global capitalism!

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THE FORMER Bank of England Governor Mark Carney yesterday warned that China’s ‘zero-Covid’ strategy is ‘at risk of derailing the global economy and driving...

CWU leaders capitulate to Royal Mail bosses – Time to build a new leadership...

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LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...

Cutting deposit rates below zero is a gigantic gamble!

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AN ‘historic gamble’, a giant ‘leap into the unknown’ – these were just two of the headlines that greeted the news that last Thursday...

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,...

US and world economic crisis deepens as PM Johnson decides to give up ...

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THE CORONAVIRUS crisis is smashing up the US and world capitalist economy at a tremendous rate. The latest casualty is the electric car firm Tesla...

Complete the mass uprising in Ecuador with a socialist revolution to establish workers power!

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EIGHT police officers have been taken hostage in Ecuador during an escalating revolutionary uprising that has forced the government to flee from the capital,...

Deselect the right wing Blairite MPs who want to split the Labour Party

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THE DECISIVE move of the working class to vote to leave the EU has not only upset the bankers and bosses of the EU,...

Nationalise oil and energy industries under workers management and without compensation now!

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Yesterday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published its plan to cut energy bills by re-nationalising energy retail companies. The plan, issued in advance of next...

Public services face privatisation catastrophe! Renationalise the lot under workers’ control!

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THE COLLAPSES of Carillion, of East Coast Rail, of academy chain after academy chain, and now with the NAO report that private outsourcing giant...

Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...

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LAST week, the Tories’ strike-breaking agency worker regulations were thrown out after the High Court ruled they were unlawful. This judgement quashed an appeal by...

Trump Is Organising A US Coup Not A Presidential Election Campaign!

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IN HIS FOURTH of July speech US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claims are out to...

Now is the time to build the world Trotskyist movement!

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ON Wednesday, the general secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady, penned another begging letter to the Tory government, this time to the Secretary of...

Right wing getting ready to split the Labour Party!

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THE hysterical witch-hunting of Jeremy Corbyn that is being carried out by the bourgeois media, marshalled by Labour’s right wing pro-Tory rebel MPs, is...

Lebanon and Iraq erupt as masses demand political overthrow of their governments

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LEBANON erupted over the weekend with renewed clashes between thousands of demonstrators and security forces on Sunday following violent clashes in Beirut on Saturday...

Bosses are in crisis worldwide! Now is the time to organise the British and...

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FIVE THOUSAND trade unionists marched on Saturday in Cheltenham to mark the banning of trade unions at the GCHQ spy centre 40 years ago,...

TUC calls on Sunak for a ‘workers’ budget’! Trade Union & Labour leaders need...

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THE LEADERSHIP of the Trade Union Congress, a body which includes 6.4 million workers and has the power to shut the entire country down...

CBI demands pay cuts in the private and public sectors

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The CBI and ‘recruitment experts’ Harvey Nash revealed yesterday that half of all employers are planning to freeze pay altogether, and that only 4%...

Austerity Forever Pledges Cameron

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IN an interview given to the Daily Telegraph, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, declared that ‘austerity’ will be forever as far as he...

Support the junior doctors with a general strike!

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THE Cameron government is being driven forward by the intensifying crisis of the capitalist system to have it out with the working class and...

25 years since the Malvinas war

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THE 1982 Malvinas (Falklands War) was a decisive event not just for Britain’s Foreign Policy but for its home policy. The islands off the Argentinian...

Coalition to widen student loans system!

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LAST Thursday the government announced that it was starting a consultation process on its plans to widen the student loans system in further education...

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...

Mass sackings on way in bankrupt Britain

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IT’S ‘make or break’ time for UK manufacturing, according to the authoritative Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), an organisation not noted for...

Corporatist union leaders are serving the bosses

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WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...

Brown pledges 150 private NHS hospitals and self treatment by 15 million ‘expert patients’

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GORDON Brown made clear yesterday that his intention was to continue with the Blairite NHS counter-revolution. The message was that there were ‘no no-go...

Labour And Its Supporters Are Getting Ready For Actions Against The Trade Unions!

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PROVIDED you are an ex-Taleban fighter who now supports the British government, you are very welcome to enter and stay in the UK, and...

Pharmaceutical companies exploit the sick for profit – expropriate them now!

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THE LATEST scandal over the obscene profits of giant pharmaceutical companies emerged this week with the news that campaigners are demanding that the Tory...

It’s The Afghans Who Will Have To Retake Musa Qala

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CURRENTLY a great deal of propaganda hot air is being expended hailing the action that British forces are taking to ‘liberate’ the town of...

Unions fight EU’s privatisation & cheap-labour Directive

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THOUSANDS of workers marched to the European Parliament in opposition to the infamous Bolkestein Directive, to lobby a four-day debate of MEPs, in Strasbourg...

Occupy Grangemouth to defend the union, jobs, wages and pensions

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UNITE has urged Grangemouth workers not to give in to Ineos’ ‘menacing’ tactics to sign away their rights, saying it was looking to take...

Unemployment rises to 5.1% as the Tories and bosses move to fire millions...

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THE UK’s unemployment figure rose to 5.1% in the three months to December, a five-year high, official figures from the Office for National Statistics...

Scrap the Public Private Partnership on the tube

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METRONET, the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) within London Underground, has collapsed financially after years of failure to provide services required by the capital’s transport system. It...

Collapse of Greensill Capital – another Lehman Brothers crisis!

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THE COLLAPSE of Greensill Capital, a finance company which acted as a massive lender to companies, has sent shock waves throughout the UK steel...

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...

McCluskey must meet with Gate Gourmet sacked workers!

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LEN McCluskey, winner of the election for the post of Unite general secretary, said on Wednesday that ‘I have a huge agenda in front...

Windrush and Grenfell Tower prove one thing – this Tory government must...

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PRESS reports this week revealed that vulnerable members of the Windrush generation are still being forced to live in conditions of complete destitution, forced...

CBI and Brown spell out the cuts message

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THE CBI New Year’s message calls for ‘a new and re-energised government by the summer, with – we hope – the authority to take...