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Tory Britain Reveals Its ‘Third World’ Essence With Friday’s National Grid Catastrophe!

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TORY Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom has said that a special committee will look at what happened last Friday, when a huge power cut affected...

Obama revamps US imperialism’s war cabinet

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BARACK OBAMA, United States President-elect, announced the latest appointments to his White House cabinet on Monday. He made Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, confirmed that...

UN Special Rapporteur on Gaza says it is ‘first genocide to awaken the world’ 

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THE UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, described the situation there as ‘apocalyptic’ saying it is the first genocide that...

General Strike to answer Tory strike ban

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ON Friday the Tories finally produced their plans to ban strikes throughout the public sector should they win the next general election. Draconian new legislation...

PARIS ERUPTS AS POLICE ATTACK WORKERS ON MAY DAY and the CGT union urges...

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THE major French trade union the CGT has protested at the massive attack on peaceful demonstrators by riot police and and vigilantes and has...

One Year Of The Egyptian Revolution!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday to mark one year since the start of the revolution...

Price Explosion threat to working class

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ENERGY bills will rise by more than 60% within the next few years, a report for the UK’s biggest domestic energy supplier Centrica said...

General Sanders Says That The UK Army Must Be Ready For A War To...

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THE new Chief of the General staff, Sir Patrick Sanders, yesterday urged that Britain must be ready to fight Putin, comparing the present situation...

World Capitalist Crisis Hits China!

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THE world crisis of capitalism has now erupted once again and has the deformed workers’ state of China in its sights, and no doubt...

Workers in UK and US must dismantle the imperialist war machine with a general...

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AFTER Tuesday’s talks with the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, President Putin spoke about the situation after the US’s 59 cruise missile...

Imperialism is the real terrorist, not Hezbollah

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LATE ON Tuesday, Parliament passed without a vote a motion from the Tory home secretary, Sajid Javid, proscribing Hezbollah, which he claimed was a...

Desperate UK and French imperialism begins new ‘Grab for Africa’

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EARLIER this week French aircraft bombed the positions of the anti-imperialist forces in the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) led by Laurent Gbagbo, while French...

Winograd Inquiry confirms Israel has feet of clay

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THE Israeli inquiry into its July 2006 attack on the Lebanon has found that it was ‘a large and serious failure’. It also...

Doctors, NHS staff & nurses are gearing up for pay strike action! All trade...

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MONDAY is the anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service (July 5th 1948) and Johnson’s Tories have marked the event by refusing...

Reeves’ pre-budget speech a message that the Labour government is ready to carry out...

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YESTERDAY morning Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves gave an unprecedented pre-budget speech designed, she said, to address ‘speculation’ about what she would be announcing in...

US Senate agrees $1.2tn ‘coronavirus stimulus’ – US and world capitalism heading for an...

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THE US Senate finally agreed on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. This huge sum was in fact just half of what Biden wanted –...

‘Keep The Ground Aflame With Popular Resistance’ Urges President Abbas

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THE PALESTINIAN President, Mahmoud Abbas has called for more popular resistance and warned ‘We should not underestimate it’. He has called for further visits to...

Brown demands police-state detention law

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AHEAD of MPs considering the Second Reading of the new Counter-Terrorism Bill in Parliament yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for extension of...

UK troops are on the Polish border – while US and UK forces are...

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BRITISH TROOPS are now on the Belarus-Polish border answering a request by the Polish government to give it military support against thousands of Middle...

German crisis – the beginning of the end for the EU!

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A MONTH of intensive talks designed to cobble together a new coalition government in Germany ended late Sunday night when the pro-business Free Democratic...

Tory conference splits as preparations for an extra-parliamentary party emerge!

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THE Tory Party annual conference opened on Monday and was immediately defined by ministers speaking to a near empty hall, as delegates couldn’t be...

TUC must call a general strike to defend Palestinians and support the State of...

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THERE is no doubt that the recent massive demonstrations where hundreds of thousands of UK youth marched, with many chanting for a State of...

US vetoes Middle East ceasefire as Israel prepares to expel Palestinians from their land...

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‘SPEAKING on Saturday, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, accused the United States of being complicit in war crimes, after it vetoed a UN Security...

Tories Use State Against Health Workers

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TRADE UNION leaders are angry that the government has organised police and army scabbing on today’s four-hour NHS strike over the refusal of the...

Blair and Cameron unite to split the Labour Party

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NINETY Five Labour MPs voted against the government’s renewal of the Trident programme in the House of Commons on Wednesday evening as the Labour...

Deeper Into The Afghan Quagmire

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BRITAIN’S top general in Afghanistan has backed the call of his US commander for 40,000 more troops to be sent into the Afghan quagmire,...

Hayes & Ward must go! Build a new leadership in the CWU!

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AS 2,000 postal workers were gearing up for a 24-hour strike on Friday against Royal Mail’s plans to close mail centres, Dave Ward, the...

The Occupation Is Responsible For All Of The Killings In Palestine

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A PALESTINIAN teenager from occupied East Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early on Wednesday in revenge for the killing of three Israeli settler youth...

New right-wing party to replace Tories being organised as spectre of revolution haunts British...

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AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the...

Smash Universal Credit! It is the tool for ruling through fear and mass evictions!

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THOUSANDS of families in England will be spending Christmas in fear that the New Year will bring eviction from their homes. This was the message...

Organise general strike to defend CWU

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ROYAL Mail, backed by Brown and Mandelson, are making no secret of the fact that they intend to stamp on the CWU, in order...

Time for the working class to bury British capitalism

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Sir Gus O’Donnell, the most senior civil servant in the country, has broken cover with the public admission that the crisis of the capitalist...

Turkey Poised To Invade Northern Iraq

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THE Turkish army is poised to invade northern Iraq in order to respond to PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) attacks on its troops, which...

Bring down the crisis-ridden Tories – forward to a workers government and socialism!

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GOVERNMENT plans to increase National Insurance levels for self-employed people – announced in the Budget last week – have been dropped by the Tory...

Jail the Bankers – Nationalise the Banks

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WHEN it comes to fraud and stealing vast amounts of money the banks make your average burglar or spiv look like the rank amateurs...

Abbas-Obama Talks Fail To Reach Agreement!

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JUST BEFORE his talks with President Abbas on Monday, President Obama said: ‘I think everybody understands the outlines of what a peace deal would...

French riot police attack workers and youth on May Day

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MAY DAY in France erupted into state-organised violence when riot police attacked workers and youth in what was a blatant attempt to crack down...

Labour government splits over ‘class war plan’ to raise income tax rates

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MAJOR splits have emerged in the Labour government Cabinet over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s class-war plans to raise income tax rates...

Browne echoes Bush on need for bigger army

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PRESIDENT Bush, on Wednesday, called for a major expansion of the US army, and yesterday, the British Defence Minister, Browne, slavishly echoed his master’s...

Snap General Election Farce!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Brown, a cautious and bumbling, conservative politician, is due to decide this weekend whether to take a big gamble and call...

Japanese Imperialists Flex Their Muscles

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JAPANESE Nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just been re-elected and has immediately begun a drive to prepare for war against China and North...

Labour sells out on state education

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THE Labour shadow education minister, Stephen Twigg, made a speech yesterday that was billed as ‘wresting’ the initiative on education from the Tories –...

Labour Party leaders knife Corbyn to prepare way for National Government with...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party over his remarks on Thursday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn’s...

Unemployment at 7.7 per cent – food banks facing huge demand

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UK jobless officially fell to 2.49m in the latest government figures, for the three months to August, showing a slight fall of 18,000, not...

Obama, Cameron Sign Up For War In Syria

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US President Barack Obama has signed a covert, secret order authorising the CIA and other US state agencies to support the Syrian counter-revolutionaries, the...