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Super rich Kensington and Chelsea – thousands of empty properties and only 26...

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IN 21st century Britain, in the richest borough in London, working class children are being diagnosed with diseases and ailments that belong in the...

War of words between puppet Karzai and US

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THE Afghan puppet president, Karzai, has gone to Washington and been forced, by rising Afghan anger, to publicly complain about the actions of the...

One year after the massive Beirut port explosion the families of the victims are...

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A YEAR after the massive explosion at Beirut Port devastated the Lebanese capital, the victims’ grieving families are still waiting for answers, accountability and...

End misery of bankrupt capitalism with socialist revolution

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LAST Friday the European Banking Authority released the findings of this year’s Stress Test for European banks. These stress tests, introduced one year ago, are...

Tories Ally Themselves With Purnell To Beat The Unemployed

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YESTERDAY in the House of Commons the Tories were glorying in the fact that their votes will make sure that Labour’s bill to force...

Pensions crisis will revolutionise millions

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‘THERE is no obligation on the part of employers to provide pensions’, said the National Association of Pension Funds yesterday. This was its response to...

Gaza Residents Are Hit By Aid Strike!

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THERE has been a very bitter winter in Palestine especially in the war ravaged Gaza Strip where tens of thousands of Gazans’ homes were...

Unite Helps Bosses Cut Workers’ Wages

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THE UNITE trade union leaders yesterday were in full flight praising Toyota workers for taking their advice and assisting the bosses by accepting a...

Tories engineer NHS ‘humanitarian crisis!’

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OVER the weekend the British Red Cross made a call on the May government to allocate the necessary funds for health and social care,...

NO reconstruction, only destruction in Afghanistan

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THE top NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Jones, has just apologised for the death of up to 80 Afghan civilians in a series...

The NHS is one of the best!

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THE NHS has been under heavy attack by both Tory and Labour governments for the last 17 years. They want to privatise it and...

As Johnson gets May mark-2 ready – workers must take action to take the...

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AS THE date for leaving the EU, October 31st comes closer and closer, all of the vultures are desperately gathering over the corpse of...

Tory Would-Be Leaders Are Paralysed With A Fear Of The Working Class! Bring Them...

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TUESDAY night’s live debate between the five remaining Tory hopefuls to replace Theresa May and become prime minister, was a stark demonstration of the...

Kick The Profiteers Out Of The NHS!

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THE report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire gives official and damming evidence of the plundering...

Broken Hague Stands Down While Gove Is Terminated By Cameron!

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WILLIAM Hague has stood down as foreign secretary, but will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons till the next...

Workers targeted by loan companies to pay for private medical treatment

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‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) deals, along with other personal loan arrangements, are being aggressively pushed out for NHS patients as part of the...

Labour Party leaders move to stab Brexit in the back! Forward to a political...

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AS IS to be expected the Labour leadership has been unable to hold fast to the Corbyn line that the party will support Brexit....

Occupy UK Car Plants! Call General Strike To Bring In Workers Government To Nationalise...

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THE UNITE union, representing car workers, said yesterday that its members will fight ‘tooth and nail’ to safeguard Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant, and urged...

Managers oppose the ‘enormous risk’ of the NHS White Paper

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NHS managers have warned in a report from the NHS Confederation that the Lansley NHS White Paper will lead to hospital closures and constitutes...

Take action to stop the bosses closing factories and Tories privatising services!

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WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening, the UK bosses and bankers are using the US trade war, the developing banking collapse and slump (on...

Darling’s forecasts ‘too optimistic’, says Treasury Committee

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THE British capitalist economy and government finances are in a worse state than Chancellor Alistair Darling led everyone to believe when he delivered his...

Close the EU’s concentration camps!

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THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...

Abbas forced to break all contacts with Israel. Now restore national unity government with...

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PALESTINIAN President, Mahmud Abbas yesterday belatedly suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and other contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression on Gaza stops’. With 95...

US workers taking action to drive up wages and defend their jobs

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THE once-mighty US economy is facing a wave of strikes by powerful sections of the working class who are determined to drive up their...

UK living standards ‘to fall behind Malta’ as UK capitalism crashes under debt

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ON Monday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its latest updated figures which showed that the average person now has £38 less to...

Disabled to be impoverished by Welfare Bill

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As the Welfare Reform Bill progresses through the committee stage of the House of Lords so more evidence is emerging about the catastrophic effect it...

135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians tortured and murdered in Israeli prisons returned to Gaza

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THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that officials from Gaza’s health ministry had told it that at least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by...

Syria, the Kurdish people and the Turkish workers must stand together against imperialism!

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THIRTY-FIVE Syrian civilians have reportedly been killed and 75 others wounded by fresh Turkish artillery and tank fire plus air strikes on Jubb al...

UK, US & EU Trade Unions Must Take Action To Establish The State Of...

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THE Palestinian people are now being murdered by the Israeli ruling class with the UK, US and EU ruling classes looking on. The Ministry of...

New Labour fawns over the bourgeoisie

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YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair stepped in to try and save his Minister for Culture, Media and Sports, Tessa Jowell and also his government. So we...

Portuguese bailout accelerates EU disintegration

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THURSDAY’S announcement that Portugal had finally been forced into asking for a massive 90 billion euro (£79 bn) bailout from the European Central Bank...

EU threatens a ‘march on Rome’ to prevent collapse

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AS THE EU crisis continues to sweep through the continent, a German MEP, Markus Ferber, offered his blunt assessment of the steps that the...

Congress must call general strike to bring down the Tories and bring in a...

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THE TUC meets in Brighton this week for its most vital Congress in living memory. It meets at a time when the working class...
Iraqis are determined to throw out the US-British occupation

Gate Gourmet Locked Out Workers Reject Woodley’s Rotten Compromise

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TGWU leader Tony Woodley’s speech at Southall on Monday, and his remarks to journalists both before and after the meeting, were a dereliction of...

Build the Fourth International all over the EU – Forward with the European Socialist...

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THE Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) has announced that unemployment reached 27% last February, while youth unemployment (15-24 years old) reached 64.2%, from 54.1% in...

Tories Seeking To End The Lockdown To Save Capitalism – While Covid-19 Rages!

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ACCORDING to the Johns Hopkins University count, the coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 3,402,400 people worldwide and has claimed the lives of at...

The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...

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THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...

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...

War against Taleban spreads into Pakistan

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THE centre of Mingora as well as large parts of the provincial capital of Swat have been destroyed and are rubble after five weeks...

Parents Queue At 3Am To Get Their Children Into Breakfast Clubs!

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MORE than 130 parents queued outside a school in Cardiff, Wales from 3am Thursday morning to try and get their child a space at...

Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!

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ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...

3,000 new settler homes planned! Trade unions must take action to end Israeli...

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ISRAEL has approved more than 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank. Settlers have spent the last weeks engaging in a reign of...

Sunak’s Spring Statement reinforces Tory war to make workers pay for crisis

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TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak opened his Spring budget statement with a naked appeal for the nation to ‘pull together’ and that the nation should...

MPs’ Committee blames councils over homeless and dodges government!

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THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...

Tories are readying to impose new taxes, and engage in massive wage cutting! Remove...

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EARLIER this week, Apple was priced on the US stock market at $2.3tn (£1.7tn), more than the combined ‘value’ of the entire FTSE 100. The...