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UK Trade Unions Must Take Action To Support The Sudanese Workers And Youth Revolution!

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SUDAN has been in the midst of an enormous economic and political crisis since the masses of workers and youth overthrew the UK- and...

Israeli Murder Machine Continues Operations Despite Phony ‘Peace Plan!’

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at...

London’s Met police to be split with directly recruited detectives!

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THE news yesterday that, for the first time, London’s Metropolitan police will be directly recruiting plainclothed detectives with no previous experience of policing is...

Cancel Pfi Contracts To Defend The NHS

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THAT NHS hospitals cannot pay back the huge multi-million Private Finance Initiative (PFI) ‘debt’ to the banks is well known. The coalition government and its...

Corbyn must demand to recall parliament at once to stop any UK attack on...

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IT is becoming clearer that PM May intends that UK land, air and naval forces will take part in the Franco-American strike against Syria...

Benefit Sanctions Are Starving Children!

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100,000 children were left to starve last year as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s drive to cut benefit payments to the unemployed...

With UK debt at £2.13tn, BofE is set to let inflation rip!

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THE DECREPIT state of British capitalism has been exposed for all to see. There is borrowing at an all-time high, industry is shutting down,...

The Stalinist theory of one country with two social systems has encouraged the...

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THE EVENTS in Hong Kong over the past month have seen thousands of people storming the Hong Kong parliament and raising the Union Jack...

Cutting deposit rates below zero is a gigantic gamble!

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AN ‘historic gamble’, a giant ‘leap into the unknown’ – these were just two of the headlines that greeted the news that last Thursday...

Ukrainian Stalinists giving way to EU-backed regime-change attempt

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THE Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, of the Stalinist Party of the Regions resigned on Tuesday in an attempt to draw the EU-backed right-wing...

Hamas Condemns Arab States Joining NATO Anti-Russian War Manoeuvres!

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HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement which recently fought a successful 11 day war with Israel against its occupation of Palestine, has condemned the participation...

‘A positive response’ says Bush on Iran

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US President George W Bush has welcomed Iran’s initial reaction to a proposal from the EU states designed to achieve a deal with...

Tory And Labour Leaders Reveal Their Feet Of Clay In Their First General Election...

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THE TORY and Labour Party leaders, Johnson and Corbyn, revealed their feet of clay during their first general election debate on Tuesday night, when...

Unions must call a general strike to support Gaza and put an end to...

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THE Bureau of the UN General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People reaffirmed last Wednesday night its...

Capitalism kills

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Thousands of Bangladeshi workers erupted onto the streets of the capital Dhaka yesterday in fury at the fire on Saturday at a garment factory...

Re-nationalise the Railways

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Yesterday’s announcement that the Tory-led coalition government’s much heralded investment in the railways is to be financed solely through fare increases is a catastrophe...

Hamas election win – a victory for resistance

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HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) won a resounding victory in Wednesday’s general election securing 76 seats in the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), on the...

‘Freedom’ for Local Government means only the rich will prosper!

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THE Independent Commission on Local Government Finance has said England’s local authorities need ‘urgent devolution of powers, funding and taxes’, and that Public Services...

Hamas’ statement on the ceasefire. Millions of British workers support Hamas – so must...

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HAMAS and Israel have expressed in statements their readiness to resume hostilities after they agreed to a Qatar-mediated pause in fighting. The deal includes the...

Demoralised Simpson says Cameron rather than Miliband!

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ON the eve of the TUC Congress, the TUC leader, Brendan Barber, has issued a call to the Brown government to tax the rich. There...

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...

Rail Companies ‘milking the system’ – Renationalise the Railways now

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RAIL passengers are being hit by rail fare hikes that are ‘truly staggering’, according to the Labour Party transport spokesman Andy McDonald. The increases, which...

Disorientated Johnson quotes Lenin to CBI while Starmer tells bosses we will do what...

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BOTH Tory prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer spoke at the annual conference of the leading bosses’ organisation, the Confederation of...

US Trade Unions Ready To Take Action To Bring Down Trump!

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IN AN unprecedented move, the American trade union AFL-CIO federation (the US equivalent of the TUC) issued a statement last Friday warning that the...

‘Terror attacks’ strengthen the capitalist state

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THE failed terror attacks on Park Lane and Glasgow Airport far from being a huge blow against British imperialism will in fact be welcomed...

Smash Labour’s capitalist police state plans! TUC must call general strike!

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STARMER'S Labour government’s move to turn Britain into a police state has taken a dramatic step forward this week with its announcement of plans...

Lecturers & students must strike to end all university fees and restore grants!

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THE LATEST increase in university tuition fees in England to £9,250 by the Tory government has been launched without any announcement from the Department...

US Unemployment Rises Along With Repossessions!

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THE number of US workers signing up for unemployment benefits and leaving non-farming payrolls has risen sharply for the second consecutive week. The US Labour...

Cable grovels – a prisoner of the Tories

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CABLE, the man who was threatening the ‘nuclear option’ of walking out of the Tory-led coalition, has meanwhile grovelled to his Tory betters. This was...

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...

Defend jobs, wages and basic rights – forward to a workers government

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JOBS are now going in a huge avalanche. The Lloyds Banking Group, where the government has the major stake, is set to begin a...

US-UK Forces Must Quit Afghanistan Now!

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THE position of the imperialist powers in Afghanistan has become completely untenable. Their forces are not wanted either by the Taleban or the mass...

Austria now Europe’s ‘Lehman Brothers’ nightmare

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A ‘LEHMAN BROTHERS debt crisis’ in the heartland of Europe is how the news that a major Austrian bank collapsed last week was described...

President Obama is heading for a fall

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SPEAKING before the NATO summit President Obama made clear that his business in Europe was to raise a war party for Afghanistan, when...

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...

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 government forced to borrow £18 billion last month as UK capitalism crashes into...

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SPIRALLING public spending and interest payments on government debt have forced Chancellor Rachel Reeves to borrow £18 billion last month, the highest August figure...

No more cuts! Defend the public services!

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THE Newquay disaster proves what most people knew to be the case – that cuts in the fire service inevitably cost lives. Newquay is...

South African workers must bring down the ANC and take the power!

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SOUTH Africa has erupted with the announcement yesterday that the ANC government plans to deploy 25,000 troops after days of violent uprising by workers...

Workers will demand Unite’s national action against fire and rehire be stepped up to...

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YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...

Starmer declares Labour now under ‘new management’ of the bosses – unions must...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer yesterday threw down the gauntlet to the trade union movement when his office announced that ‘Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is...

Palestinians defiant as Gulf State rulers forge war alliance with Israel

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YESTERDAY Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett met with the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayad al-Nahyan, in the first official state...

Blair Instructed Foreign Office To Break The Law

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YESTERDAY the Reprieve charity reported that: ‘Previously secret Government memos prove Prime Minister Tony Blair ordered the Foreign Office to violate its legal obligation...

LOW PAY – TUC Commission shows the problem, but runs away from a solution

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YESTERDAY the TUC revealed in its ‘Commission on Vulnerable Employment’ report what everybody already knows. This is that low pay and slave labour...

FBU Warns Tory PM And London’s Labour Mayor ‘Not To Impose Unthinkable Cuts!’

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has vowed to fight ‘unthinkable’ proposals to cut the budget for the London Fire Brigade by £25m over two...