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Right wingers killing each other in the Ukraine – while their US-EU masters look...

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THE reactionary parties that were assisted by the EU and the US to take power by the coup on February 22 2014, that placed...

Obama recognises the limits of US power

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PRESIDENT Obama yesterday gave the go-ahead for a massive attack on the Afghan people in which tens of thousands of men, women and children...

Serco boasts of massive profits out of failed test and trace contract

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OFFICIAL figures released last week revealed the total collapse of the Tories’ Test and Trace programme run by private companies. Analysis of these figures show...

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...

Brown insists on wage cuts for workers & billions for bankers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown justified pay cuts for workers in the public services and the billions handed over by the Treasury to the bankrupt...

Obama Attempts To Ride The Revolutionary Tiger

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IN his speech on Thursday, President Obama made it clear that the United States is currently attempting to ride the tiger of revolution. He said:...

Capitalism has no ‘safety net’ to save it from economic crash

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) can no longer act as the world’s ‘lender of last resort’ according to a task force of currency experts...

Trump Courts North Korea To Avoid A War On Two Fronts!

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THE SIGNED Joint Statement of US President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, issued from the Singapore Summit yesterday morning, commits Trump ‘to provide...

Hague refuses to halt assault on Sirte

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ON Tuesday Foreign Minister Hague told Sky TV that he would not tell the counter-revolutionaries to cancel their planned assault on the city of...

Britannia sinking beneath the waves of the capitalist crisis!

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THE bourgeois media is currently working overtime publicising the ‘bad news’ about the British capitalist economy. Everybody now knows that youth unemployment (the 16-24 age...

Kick the Tories out! Get rid of capitalism to prevent a health catastrophe of...

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NHS WAITING lists in England could more than double in the coming months, from the current figure of 5.3 million people to around 13...

McDonnell: Those who died in Grenfell were ‘murdered by political decisions!’

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LABOUR shadow chancellor John McDonnell has come out and said openly what the vast majority of people in the country believe – that those...

Hands Off Syria – To ‘End The Cruelty And Carnage’

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THE heads of five major UN agencies have issued a joint appeal to the international community, a code phrase for the imperialist...

Time to put an end to ‘zombie’ capitalism with socialist revolution

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STEPHEN Welton, head of the small business investors group the Business Growth Fund (BFG), warned this weekend that the UK economy is in the...

UK Pirates Plan Somalia Onslaught!

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YESTERDAY, a conference was convened in London to organise the intervention into Somalia by imperialist forces, led by the UK, acting under the cover of...

Get British troops out of Iraq now!

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair told troops in Basra on Thursday: ‘We want to draw down our forces. We don’t want to keep people here...

US Gunships Attack Fallujah As Sunni And Shia Unite!

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THE US military has started using attack helicopters as well as jet fighters and bombers in attacks against the cities of Fallujah and...

MI5 deceived parliament – the judges decide

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‘ONLY a full public inquiry will answer the public’s concerns about what has been done in our name,’ said the Reprieve organisation yesterday, following...

Defend Palestinians against Israeli military terror!

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TEN members of the Palestinian resistance movement, members of the Al-Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad, were killed in missile attacks by Israeli warplanes in...

Britain Leading The Way To Slump Says The Imf

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LAST October the IMF predicted world output would increase by 2.2 per cent in 2009. Yesterday it changed its tune saying that world output...

Tory racist attack on

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34,000 FOREIGN students have had their visas cancelled and over 1,000 have been kicked out of the country as a result of the racist...

BREXIT ‘DO OR DIE’ ON OCTOBER 31st NEEDS A GENERAL STRIKE TO FORCE IT...

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PM JOHNSON urged MPs last night to back his EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill and approve a three-day timetable to consider the legislation and adopt...

TUC must support junior doctors with a general strike!

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THE decision by the British Medical Association to authorise fresh strike action by junior doctors over the imposition of a new work contract is...

Labour-Tory Race To The Right!

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TEACHERS will have to be re-licensed every few years or face the sack under a future Labour government. This is the just unveilled position of...

Palestine Faces Starvation! Now Is The Time For The Workers Of The World To...

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ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued their assault on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp for the 97th consecutive day on Sunday, carrying...

Trump’s economic miracle is in fact a mountain of debt that US workers will...

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IN HIS State of the Union address last week, US president Donald Trump boasted that under his leadership the American economy had undergone a...

Unions must pull the plug on the BNP!

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THE BNP, a fascist movement, is to be promoted by the BBC with an invitation about to be sent to it to appear on...

‘Cameron ‘wouldn’t last 30 seconds’ if voters back leaving EU

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PM Cameron earlier last week insisted he would remain Prime Minister even if he lost the June 23 referendum. This position has been challenged in...

All Trade Unions Must Support The Junior Doctors!

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THE decision by the Junior Doctors Committee (JDC) of the BMA to ballot for industrial action is a courageous stand against the government’s imposition...

Capitalism is ‘At War’ – answer Cameron with general strike

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BRITISH capitalism is ‘at war’ Cameron told the bosses yesterday, an ‘economic war’ which requires the state to rip up the rule book, strip off...

Stop the return of British troops to Helmand province!

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THE Taleban armed forces are now retaking Sangin town in Helmand Province, which was taken over as a British responsibility after the retreat from...

Shell bites the dust – forward to the political revolution

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THE massive Royal Shell energy giant, which purchased the Sakhalin-2 concession for a song from Boris Yeltsin, was yesterday brought down to earth with...

No support for imperialist war in Syria – forward with world socialist revolution

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TODAY, the House of Commons is to engage in an emergency debate on Britain joining the US bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria. In this...

BMA launch ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into Pandemic

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DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has launched its own ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic. This is ahead of the Tory...

One million youth unemployed – Capitalism has got to go!

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THE three months to September to 2.62 million, as youth unemployment rose above a million. Yet not one trade union leader called for action...

Tanks enter West Bank as Zionist regime escalates genocidal war

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ON SUNDAY, Israeli military forces deployed tanks into the northern West Bank refuge camp at Jenin, a move denounced by the Hamas resistance movement as...

Time for a general strike to stop the war!

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‘THIS is a tremendous demonstration of the anger of the British people against what Blair has done in Iraq and is threatening to do...

150,000 Deaths – Tories Put The Bosses First – They Refuse To Lock Down...

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THE BMA yesterday condemned the 150,000 Covid deaths, so far, since the start of the pandemic. The reason for the mountain of corpses is...

Chile – workers and youth vote to smash Pinochet-era constitution

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TENS of thousands of Chilean workers and youth flooded the main square of the capital Santiago on Sunday celebrating the result of the referendum...

The Spark That Started A Revolution!

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OVER a million Greeks stopped work yesterday in a general strike while tens of thousands of Greek workers, unemployed and youth rallied in front...

Labour has no answer to the problems that the working class and middle class...

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MILIBAND’S Labour Party yesterday said that if it was the government it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job. This...

US-UK Beat War Drums Over The Ukraine – Workers Must Get Ready For General...

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THE United States, and its NATO allies, with the UK in the lead, and the right wing Ukrainian regime out in front are daily...

Hodge tries to stop any condemnation of Israel as a racist, apartheid state

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THE ORCHESTRATED witch-hunt against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over scurrilous accusations that he and indeed vast numbers of Labour Party members are in fact...

The only way to solve the housing crisis!

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WRITING in the ‘Housing Question’ in 1872, Frederick Engels declared that the bourgeoisie was incapable of solving the housing question. He wrote: ‘As long as...

North Korea Has The Right To Self Defence

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YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...