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Osborne out to grind workers and youth into the ground

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IN HIS speech to the Tory faithful yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that he is going to grind the...

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...

Blair on holiday – Commissioner Blair is in charge

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HOME Secretary Clarke is currently on holiday, after the Prime Minister insisted that he should not bow to public pressure and cancel it, as...

Sack the Blairs – disband shoot– to–kill police

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YESTERDAY’s press conference heard how a 250 strong police raid, in the early hours of the morning, in Forest Gate led to a completely...

Government Plans Secret Courts!

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A REPORT issued yesterday by the civil rights group Amnesty describes the proposed Justice and Security Bill as being straight out of a Franz...

Benefits War Against Sick

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THE Tory work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith yesterday launched yet another vitriolic attack on the unemployed, the sick and disabled. On Sunday he...

Israel murders thousands of children in Gaza while Starmer and the Tories try to...

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Labour leader Keir Starmer, in a speech yesterday, reaffirmed his commitment to the genocidal war being waged by Israel against the Palestinian people in...

Panic And Alarm Over Housing Bubble

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THE OECD has in effect, accused the Bank of England and the Coalition government of blindly organising another banking disaster, under the cover of...

Ban all secret trials! Smash the capitalist state!

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AN unprecedented attempt by the government to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the UK has been blocked by the Court...

BA sacks 12,000 workers while Unite and the GMB register their ‘shock’ and nothing...

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THE GIANT Unite and GMB trade unions have greeted the news that British Airways is to make 12,000 workers redundant with shock, dismay and...

Tory war on unemployed must be answered with a general strike to kick them...

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THE LATEST Tory onslaught on the unemployed was revealed by Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday when he praised the ‘Way...

An entire nation becomes the ‘enemy within!’

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AT ONE TIME the ‘enemy within’ was well defined as being the working class, especially its militant trade unionists and Trotskyists. Now capitalism is in...

Bosses Declare War On Workers With An 80% Hike In Electricity And Gas Bills...

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THE UK’s energy bills are set to jump 80 per cent to an average of £3,549 per year from October, regulator Ofgem announced on...

A Capitalist Nightmare Confronts The Bosses As Economic Collapse And Revolution Nears!

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THIS week the Daily Telegraph has published a supplement ‘The Investors’ Handbook 2020’ subtitled: ‘Rising protectionism, negative interest rates, equity bubbles, debt mountains, trade...

RCN declares ‘national emergency’ in the NHS over ‘corridor care’!

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THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) acting general secretary, Professor Nicola Ranger, opened the union’s annual conference yesterday declaring a ‘national emergency’ in the...

President Trump Refuses To Meet The Family Of Jacob Blake!

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THE FATHER of Jacob Blake, the black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, refused to ‘play politics’ with his son’s life’ when President...

Russia Pledges Its Support For Serbia

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DEPUTY Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was in Belgrade yesterday for talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Medvedev is...

Bp Hitting Russian Rocks

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MANY senior foreign executives at oil giant BP’s Russian partnership TNK-BP are to be forced to leave Russia after their requests for work permits...

Crisis Forces Osborne To Re-Write His Budget!

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LAST November 25th in his Autumn Statement Chancellor Osborne was full of praise for the way that allegedly the UK was now full set...

Woodley tells Blair to quit – Simpson urges policy change

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MAY DAY saw thousands of workers, among them Peugeot motor car workers, hospital workers facing the threat of redundancy, locked out Gate Gourmet workers,...

The currency crash and the socialist revolution

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THE decision by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to abandon its three-year cap on the franc last Thursday has had an immediate and catastrophic...

TUC must boycott Israel!

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IT is a disgrace that at this week’s TUC Congress there are no resolutions on the Middle East and Afghanistan where over...

UK workers must force the TUC to call a general strike to support Palestine!

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HAMAS leader Yahya Sinwar was murdered on Thursday in Rafah, southern Gaza, by Israeli troops after a tank shelled the building he entered. Seen defiantly...

Working Class In Ukraine Winning Over The Army

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ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...

With inflation set to quadruple, the working class must take action to defend...

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UK inflation will quadruple to about 4% in the second half of next year and cut disposable income, the National Institute for Economic and...

Tories hand billions to private rail companies while demanding workers keep TfL from...

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THE TORIES unveiled this week proposals for funding Transport for London (TfL) that will force the working and middle class to bear the huge...

Israel launches ground attack on Gaza City as UN inquiry finds Israeli State officially...

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YESTERDAY, the Israeli Zionist state started its ground attack on Gaza City following weeks of heavy bombardment that has reduced it to rubble accompanied...

End low pay through a general strike!

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TODAY, hundreds of thousands of workers and young people will take to the streets of London, Glasgow and Belfast in mass demonstrations called by...

Derisory increase in minimum wage wiped out by inflation!

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APPROXIMATELY 2 million low paid workers will be covered by the increase in the national minimum wage that came into effect yesterday. Under this increase...

ICC prosecutor ‘equates the victim with the executioner’ in proposing arrest warrants for Israeli...

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YESTERDAY, Karim Khan KC, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), issued a statement proposing that arrest warrants be issued for Israeli...

Cameron-Osborne Are No Joke!

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THE row over the Tories so-called ‘pasty tax’ has become a dangerous diversion in the hands of the Labour leadership who are intent on...

Puppet court ‘convicts’ defiant Saddam

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THE court that convicted President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to be hung for crimes against humanity was a creation of imperialism, made up of...

Truss portrays herself as Thatcher’s heir as Tories scheme to make war on the...

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ON TUESDAY Tory Foreign Secretary Liz Truss used a photo opportunity to stake out her bid to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. The photo...

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...

Palestinian revolution on the march to Jerusalem!

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THE Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said that the Palestinians are determined to seek recognition of a Palestinian state from the United Nations...

‘Bleak Houses’ and desperate living conditions for workers and youth in the UK –...

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THE REPORT by Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, ‘Bleak houses: Tackling the crisis of family homelessness in England’, reveals the ‘terrible reality’...

Victory To Syria – Down With The US, UK And Israel

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THE unprovoked air strike by Israeli forces on a scientific research centre on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus is the opening shot...

Tory coronavirus inquiry is an attempt to put off reckoning with working class

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ON WEDNESDAY, Tory prime minister Boris Johnson announced that there would be ‘a full and independent inquiry’ into the government handling of the coronavirus...

Israel closes Irish embassy in fury over Ireland’s recognition of Palestine and its support...

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THE DECISION by the Israeli regime on Sunday to close its embassy in Dublin brought a swift response from Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) Simon...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers at a lobby of the Hillingdon TGWU office earlier this month

Occupy Peugeot! Build a new leadership in the unions!

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LEADERS of the trade unions said they were shocked by PSA Peugeot-Citroën’s announcement on Tuesday that it is closing its Ryton factory in Coventry,...

Brown must stop supporting the Rajapaksa government that murders Tamils

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THE Brown government rails on about ‘breaches of human rights’ allegedly taking place in Zimbabwe and Burma, and makes all kinds of allegations...

White House interns demand Biden calls a permanent ceasefire in Gaza!

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AS ISRAEL ramps up its war efforts to slaughter even more Palestinians in southern Gaza, in the US a group of White House interns...

Johnson-Sunak Are Preparing A Winter War Against The British Working Class!

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THE UK working class is heading into the greatest ever winter struggle in its history, much greater than any of the ‘winters of discontent’...

Take action to stop NHS cuts and closures

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IT is now obvious that the Labour government is setting out, at breakneck speed, to privatise the NHS. It has set up private treatment centres...

TUC – defend the junior doctors, call a general strike now!

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THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...