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Call an all-out strike to defeat fire and rehire at Heathrow – build new...

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TODAY, members of the Unite union at Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) are out on strike over the ‘fire and rehire’ of 4,000 workers on...

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,...

US workers and youth begin mobilising for revolution!

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THE Communications Workers of America Executive Board has endorsed the youth-led Occupy Wall Street Movement. Occupy Wall Street youth campaigners have joined...

Palestinian Prisoners Go 0N Hunger Strike For Unity

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PALESTINIANS are commemorating Land Day, the 35th anniversary of the uprising against Israel’s land theft, in which six young protesters were killed by...

BMA leaders run away after Cameron waves big stick

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THE BMA and its Junior Doctors Committee yesterday ‘made the decision to suspend the 48-hour industrial action planned for 26-28 January. We are announcing...

The Iraq war, the world crisis and the socialist revolution

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MARCH 2008 sees the US and UK armed forces and governments irreparably damaged as a result of their failure to subdue the Iraqi people...

Trump pushes US and world capitalism into slump and recession

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LEADING bourgeois economists are making doom laden predictions about the effect of Donald Trump’s pledges to ‘make America great’ through trade wars and expelling...

The markets panic and crash as capitalism heads for a major catastrophe!

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THE stock markets are crashing as the Tory government’s borrowing costs went soaring yesterday to a 15-year high, amid a global shares sell off...

French Workers Force Macron Back – Now They Will Bring Him Down!

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OH HOW the mighty have fallen! ‘Emperor Macron’, in the tradition of Napoleon III, has made no secret that he considers himself the master...

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...

No to school reopening and a forced return to work – for a general...

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WHILE the Tories were hailing the relaxation of the lockdown rules that came into effect yesterday in England as a giant step forward, senior...

Bernanke’s plan for controlled bankruptcies

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THE heads of the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury have been forced to try to calm fears that the nation’s two largest mortgage...

Prices and unemployment increase as bosses demand workers pay the price for capitalist crisis

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OVER half of UK companies are planning to push up prices in the next three months according to the latest research by the British...

Union leaders are refusing to defend jobs in the face of the most vicious...

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LAST week it was announced by BAE systems, the private defence company, that the shipbuilding industry was to be closed down in Portsmouth and...

US–UK organising a long and bloody war in Afghanistan/Pakistan

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THERE are currently more than 70,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan under Nato command. The Obama administration plans to send in an additional 21,000 troops. 12,000...

Arm Ukrainian workers! Red Army must chase the junta out of Kiev!

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THE UK-US-EU backed counter-revolution is now in full swing in eastern Ukraine, where no deed is too foul for their stormtroopers of the Right...

The Bank Of England Drops Its Debt Bombshell

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THE world’s banks have now lost £1.8 trillion the Bank of England has reported in its Financial Stability Report. This is as a result of...

After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!

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PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...

Stop Bedroom Tax! End evictions! Unions must act!

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THE warning given over the weekend by the head of one of the leading housing associations that the bedroom tax will lead to mass...

Nato Wants 2,500 More Troops In Afghanistan

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ANOTHER British soldier has died after a shooting in the Iraqi town of Al-Qurna, north of Basra. The soldier was the 118th member of...

CETA collapse – now workers must end all capitalist trade agreements through a general...

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LAST Friday the much delayed CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) between the EU and Canada hit a brick wall when the Belgium region...

Syrian Foreign Minister tells UN that the US-UK military alliance must withdraw from Syria

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ADDRESSING the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem confirmed that the US-UK...

Defend North Korea’s right to defend itself from Imperialist War

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IN HIS New Year speech North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un warned US imperialism not to start a nuclear war against the country saying that...

BA struggle coming to a head

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EXTENSIVE talks have been taking place over the last seven weeks under the Chairmanship of TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber between Unite and BA,...

Well Done – Unison Conference Rejects Histadrut

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THE Unison National Delegate Conference has rejected ‘critical engagement’ with the Histadrut, the Zionist trade union, which plays a central role in the Zionist...

Holder warns of Ferguson powder keg throughout USA

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US ATTORNEY General Eric Holder says leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, must take ‘immediate, wholesale action’ after a report of widespread racial bias in its...

Brown’s bonanza for City speculators

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ALMOST a third of Britain’s 700 biggest businesses paid no corporation tax in 2005-2006, according to a study carried out by the official National...

Support the firefighters and the postal workers

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FIRE chiefs in Warwickshire are planning to close seven fire stations and axe a third of fire appliances with the loss of one hundred...

Send Blair to the War Crimes Tribunal!

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EX-PM Blair could be made to stand trial for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq, Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn has said. Corbyn correctly...

TUC must call a general strike in support of Junior Doctors and steel workers

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A 45 strong delegation of Tata steel workers from Port Talbot were at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton yesterday. They had come...

Congress Must Sack O’Grady And Mobilise To Bring Down The Tories!

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THE ‘leader’ of the Trade Union Congress, Frances O’Grady yesterday stabbed millions of workers in the back when she declared on The Andrew Marr...

Labour To Slash The Benefits Of The Sick And The ‘Suspect’

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The Labour government is absolutely determined to impress its big business backers and show them that it is ready to take action against ‘slackers’...

Keogh creating a two-tier inferior NHS and proud of it

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THE BIG push is on to destroy the national network of A&Es that millions of people depend on, and to convert at least 100...
Rose Gentle (holding photograph) leads the Military Families Against the War march  from Parliament to Downing Street on Wednesday

The revolution in Nepal – part of the world revolution

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LEON Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution shows how ‘the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations lead directly, in our epoch, to the...

Capitalism Is On Its Knees – Time To Organise World Socialist Revolution!

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THE UK’s Oxfam said yesterday that Israel has already destroyed more than 80% of the water and sewerage networks in the Gaza Strip, leading...

Humanitarian imperialists get ready for a bloodbath

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DESPITE all of the hurrahs coming from the manic bourgeois media, the imperialist powers have a very big problem with Libya, and the Libyan...

Unite votes for speed-up and savage cuts at GM Vauxhall

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THE Vauxhall-Opel GM bosses statement put out yesterday claimed as its subject: ‘Vauxhall and Opel employees dive into their pockets to support the company...

‘Left’ Tsipras government humiliated as workers abstain in general election

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SYRIZA (the coalition of the left) party crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party in the...

Workers Must Support Corbyn Against The Tory And Labour Witch-Hunters!

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THE BOURGEOIS media and Labour’s right wing pro-Zionists have no shame, as their attempts to label Labour leader Corbyn an anti-Semite show – otherwise...

‘Let them go bust’ says Bank of England chief

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, in a letter to the House of Commons Treasury select committee has warned that efforts...

Bush and Blair’s ‘democratic Iraq’

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PRESIDENT George Bush is due to meet with his puppet Prime Minister of Iraq, Maliki, in the Jordanian capital of Amman, to discuss Bush’s...

TUC must call a General Strike to defend NHS

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JUNIOR doctors start six days of strike action today, the longest strike by doctors in the history of the NHS, over their demand for...

Forward With The World Socialist Revolution!

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ON every front – the economic, the political and the ideological – the capitalist ruling classes and their system are reeling and in desperate...

Capitalism’s Historical Crisis Demands Socialist Revolution

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THE historic crisis of world capitalism has come to a head with a vengeance, with both the once mighty US economy and the European...

Sa Police Massacre Platinum Miners

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SOUTH AFRICAN workers have been shocked by the ANC government’s police force shooting dead over 30 miners at the Lonmin UK-owned platinum mine. Fifty...