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‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street

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YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...

Occupy Grangemouth to defend the union, jobs, wages and pensions

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UNITE has urged Grangemouth workers not to give in to Ineos’ ‘menacing’ tactics to sign away their rights, saying it was looking to take...

UK and US complicit in Saudi Arabian war crimes

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LAST Saturday saw what was one of the worst atrocities committed in the Yemen since Saudi Arabia, along with its Gulf allies, launched an...

Tory Austerity forces parents to rely on baby banks for essentials – time to...

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IN LAST year’s autumn budget Tory chancellor Philip Hammond claimed that ‘austerity is coming to an end’ in Britain. Hammond’s claim backed up Theresa May’s...

Beginning of the end for Johnson – finish Tories off with a general strike

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WHEN The Daily Telegraph carries as its banner headline ‘Beginning of the end for Boris?’ then it is certain that plots to dump him...

CWU leaders capitulate to Royal Mail bosses – Time to build a new leadership...

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LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...

Defeat imperialist coup attempt in Ukraine

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THE refusal at the last minute by the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovich, to sign up to a ‘partnership’ deal with the EU has led...

Israel Approves Ceasefire Agreement With The US And Vows To Continue Its War With...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday evening that his government has approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon, following weeks of...

Nationalise LDV and the motor car industry

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LDV, the Birmingham van factory said yesterday it would continue to look for funding until 6 May when it is due to formally go...

Iraq’s 50,000 ‘Ghost Soldiers’

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THE new Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has announced that an investigation has uncovered that the Iraqi state was paying the wages of 50,000...

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...

French working class must take power to begin the European Socialist revolution!

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NEARLY a quarter of a million French workers have taken part in mass rallies across the country against the French fascists, calling on the...

Mossad’s prints all over Gaza bombing!

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YESTERDAY in the aftermath of the bombing in Gaza that killed five leading Hamas fighters, and a five-year-old girl, accusations and counter-accusations were being...

Putin lays down law to Soviet states

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THE Putin regime has infuriated the British bourgeoisie by its strengthening of the state owned gas and oil sectors of the Russian economy, at...

Only A Socialist Revolution Can Feed The Planet

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OXFAM warned yesterday that average prices of staple crops will more than double in 20 years if urgent action is not taken to change...

Zionist pogrom against Palestinians – TUC must be forced to call a general...

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THE invasion of the West Bank city of Jenin by 2,000 Israeli troops backed up by drone and air strikes has so far killed...

Pensioners being lined up for Tory austerity attack

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A NEW report by The Resolution Foundation think-tank on pensions and pensioners is nothing more than a clarion call for pensions to be cut...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers receive full support from paul Brown, T&G convenor  and Jagi Vadgama, Chairman of Fulwell bus garage

Build up pensions battle against Blair government

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AFTER the disgraceful sell out of final salary pensions by union leaders of the NHS, civil service and local government trade unions, the basic...

Starmer’s Labour declares war on refugees!

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ON Wednesday, Labour prime minister, and former human rights lawyer, Keir Starmer declared that the Labour government is preparing for a war on asylum...

Miliband adopts Osborne’s programme to smash Welfare State!

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband’s speech on the party’s economic strategy showed conclusively that the Labour Party leaders are prepared to completely destroy the Welfare...

UK stage deliberate provocation in the Black Sea as part of its imperialist war...

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ON WEDNESDAY, Britain staged a deliberate provocation when it sent the warship HMS Defender steaming through Russian territorial waters in the Black Sea. The Defender...

10 million workers will be hit by tax increases as Labour ‘picks the side’...

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LOWEST paid workers will be hit the hardest by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves budget’s ‘stealth tax’ unveiled on Wednesday. Reeves desperate to avoid accusations of...

TUC must act on its resolution, organise the complete boycott of Israel, call a...

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MISSILES are raining down on the people of Gaza, as the Israelis step up their war to prevent the establishment of the state of...

May wants to put the UK into chains

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WE already know that new legislation to be put forward by the government has as one of its features ‘internal relocation’ for British passport...

Palestinian masses break the blockade and start tearing down the walls

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THE Palestinian revolution has shown the way forward by blowing a massive hole in the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, so that hundreds of...

Tory Big Brother will be spying on everybody!

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THE News International empire’s phone hacking and spying, and the way that it sought to regulate the government and bend the police force to...

World capitalism breaking apart – time to end it with socialist revolution

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THIS WEEK, the final nail was driven into the coffin of the political and economic consensus that has dominated world capitalism from the end...
A thousand nurses from all over the country attended Thursday’s lobby of parliament organised by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot to defend jobs

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LAST May, MG Rover was closed without a struggle. Last month the closure of Peugeot was announced and this week we have been told...

As Coalition stumbles – bring it down!

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THE Coalition regime is in big trouble after it faced defeat in the House of Commons last night over its measure to reorganise the...

Hunt’s Autumn budget – brings in the open dictatorship of the bankers!

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YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn budget – the second budget from the government in under two months. The first was the disastrous...

Israeli terror is being stepped up – It is time for the workers of...

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THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank, amid...

Defending the NHS means sacking the BMA leadership

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THE BMA leadership yesterday came out in favour of NHS rationing. It also supported the NHS having a written constitution, and being run by...

MPs condemn Labour’s ‘surveillance society’

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THE House of Commons votes on Wednesday on extending the amount of time that the police can hold a ‘terrorist suspect’ without charging them...

Hunt tells workers to let their families freeze to support the war on Russia!

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has issued the call for workers to go without heating this winter to support the imperialist war on Russia. Appearing before...

Irish and UK ruling classes uniting against working class

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MARX says in his 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak,...

Miliband Lashes Out At The Unions

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ON Wednesday night the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, launched a scathing attack on the leader of the largest trade union, Unite, denouncing him for...

McCluskey has learnt nothing from the 1970s and 80s except to surrender

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IT is clear from Unite leader McCluskey’s article in the Guardian yesterday that he has learnt nothing from the struggles of the 1970s...

Iran nuclear talks at crucial stage as Saudis bomb Yemen

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AT THE same time as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf state planes, with US support, are bombing the Yemen and its Houthi Shia rebels,...

TUC must support the railworkers by calling a general strike to bring down the...

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WORKERS up and down the country, struggling to feed their families in the face of a massive price inflation that is growing all the...

Stop BA & Stop Baa Airports, To Win Cabin Crew Struggle!

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BA cabin crew yesterday rejected the latest offer from BA with a massive 67 per cent voting to throw out by 3,419 votes to...

Bank of England has no tools to prevent capitalism crashing – socialist revolution is...

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ANDREW Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, used an interview on the BBC yesterday to once again insist that British capitalism is...

No Military Action Against Iran – At This Point Says Rice

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BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has just revealed the policy of the British government on Iraq – or has he? He said that Iran...

President Trump Panics – And Pledges To Send In The Nuclear Submarines!

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TRUMP’S declaration that he is sending two nuclear submarines into ‘appropriate regions’ to threaten Russia, has made public that he is preparing for the...

BIS predicts deflation and depression

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LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...

US dollar is in free fall – now is the time for the World...

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GOLD prices fell back five per cent on Thursday after peaking at a record $5,500 an ounce on Monday as speculators took their profits...