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America on verge of ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

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NEARLY 42 million American workers and their families face losing access to food stamps as funding for what is officially called the Supplement Nutritional...

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...

Replace Starmer’s anti-worker Labour regime with a workers government and socialism!

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THE TUC yesterday published a poll of over 3,000 voters which showed conclusively overwhelming support for workers rights and pay increases to match the...

Biden in Kiev trying to shore up coupist regime

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US Vice-President Joe Biden told the assembled right wingers at the Ukraine parliament yesterday that the US stands with the country’s new leaders in...

The judiciary seeks to bar the way! Open it up with a socialist revolution!

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YESTERDAY’S ruling by three High Court judges that the Tory government does not have the right to trigger Article 50 is the latest and...

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...

Smash Trump’s ‘deal of the century’! Forward to the independent state of Palestine!

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THE US-sponsored three-day conference held this week in the Gulf state of Bahrain to unveil the first stage of Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the...

World banking crisis driving world revolution!

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LAST WEEK the Bank of England (BoE) finally confessed that it doesn’t understand its own quantitative easing programme (QE) – the central, in fact...

Boycott Israel after Gaza massacres

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ISRAEL faced widespread international condemnation over the killing of eight Palestinian civilians on Friday, including three children while they picnicked on a Gaza beach....

Governor King fears crash – time to go forward to socialism

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Last Friday, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, issued a dire warning that Britain risks another financial crisis unless the government introduces...

Tories abolish youth housing benefit! Resolve the housing crisis with a socialist...

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THE TORIES have stepped up their war on youth, pushing through legislation last Friday which strips all young unemployed people under the age of...

Nati0Nalise Gm Vauxhall And Ellesmere Port!

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VAUXHALL factories at Ellesmere Port and Luton will close if GM’s talks with the Labour government for the Treasury to take over the financing...

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...

DEFEND THE NHS – DOWN WITH TORY ANTI-UNION LAWS – MAKE TUC CALL A...

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NURSES will ‘absolutely not’ pause a 48-hour strike in England on May 1st, said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday – and it...

Youth Are Showing The Way! Now The Trade Unions Must Call A General Strike...

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THE Israeli occupation army is continuing its aggression against the city of Jenin in Occupied Palestine for the second day in a row, leaving...

Universal Credit cannot be reformed – it must be scrapped through mass strike action...

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MORE than 1.2 million people are on Universal Credit, while more than 100 new Jobcentres will be operating it by Christmas. Universal Credit is...

Stagnant Eu Heading For A Crash!

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EUROZONE inflation has fallen to its lowest level since the height of the 2008 financial collapse, sliding further into what the European Central Bank...

Israel receives a warning from Hezbollah!

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PALESTINIAN children in Israeli jails are being subjected to torture, and physical and psychological abuse by Israeli officials, says the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’...

Egyptian Revolution Drives Zionism Into Massive Crisis!

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PALESTINIANS are poised to march in their millions on 15th September both inside and outside the occupied territories, and throughout the world, including...

Indignation is not enough – working class needs socialist policies

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IN HIS first election speech, Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, expressed his anger and indignation over the policies of austerity ruthlessly carried out by...

Organise general strike to defend CWU

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ROYAL Mail, backed by Brown and Mandelson, are making no secret of the fact that they intend to stamp on the CWU, in order...

Labour adopts coalition cuts

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THE three-day meeting of Labour’s ‘policy forum’ ended on Sunday with a massive vote to commit the Labour Party to carrying on with the...

National emergency declared in NHS as waiting lists soar!

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Senior NHS doctors declared a state of national emergency in the NHS yesterday as waiting lists soared, with thousands of patients being treated in...

Right Sector Leader Advising The Military

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THIS week all pretence that the illegal regime, that took power in an imperialist-inspired and financed coup last year, rests on ‘popular democratic’ support,...

Coalition Will Not Be Shifted Away From NHS Privatisation

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THE Coalition’s ‘blueprint’ for the privatisation of the NHS has suffered a set-back when it became clear last week that even supporters of privatisation...

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...

Carney and May fall out on the high wire with a huge gale...

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BANK of England Governor Carney has fallen out with PM May telling her that he will not take orders from politicians on what the...

Stop The Airport To Win The BA Cabin Crew Struggle!

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BA has moved closer to a merger with Spanish national carrier Iberia after striking a deal with its pension trustees to ‘neutralise’ its pensions...

Labour’s Budget seeks to dump the British bosses’ debt crisis onto the backs of...

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ON Wednesday October 30, Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to deliver the first Autumn budget by Starmer’s government. The ground work for this budget...

The working class is being turned into the working homeless! Capitalism is rotting!...

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NURSES, firefighters, and teachers are so badly paid that many are doing second jobs in order to survive! A vast majority rely on in-work...

Government plans to smash up health and safety laws

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THE Tory-led coalition is pushing full steam ahead with its plans to completely smash up the health and safety legislation and leave hundreds of...

Now sack the union leaders to bring down the Tories and bring in a...

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THE ‘Leave’ victory in the just-held referendum constitutes a huge revolutionary victory for the working class and the poor of the UK who voted...

The EU crisis is threatening catastrophe

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THE UN’S International Labour Organisation has issued a dire warning of the disaster that will follow on from Greece being evicted from the EU...

Recall TUC to demand an indefinite general strike to kick out the Tories

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At its annual conference yesterday, the leaders of the National Education Union (NEU) reported that the latest Tory pay offer was rejected by an...

Tories must be made to withdraw junior doctors’ contract and abandon contract imposition!

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THE proposal, made by 22 medical colleges and faculties for a five-day pause in the drive to impose new junior doctors’ contracts in England,...

Bank of England – workers must pay for capitalist inflation – Only socialist revolution...

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NOT TO WORRY about spiralling inflation, MPs were told on Monday by senior members of the Bank of England, as the soaring cost of...

Workers across the UK erupt against cuts to wages, pensions and conditions – demand...

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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at 58 universities across the UK have come out on a three day strike, starting today,...

Cameron orders SAS killers onto British streets

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NEARLY 2,000 new spies are to be immediately recruited by the British state, prime minister David Cameron announced yesterday. Speaking from the G20 summit being...

£65bn PFI Nightmare for the NHS!

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THE PFI Private Finance Initiative was brought in by the Major Tory government, and while it was opposed by Labour in opposition, it was...

Inflation rages, the trade deficit widens and the bosses demand even tougher anti-union laws

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday kept rates at 0.5%. Inflation however is continuing to rise as world oil, wheat, meat, cotton and...

Revolution At Home And Abroad – Victory To Hamas And To The UK Workers...

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THE appointment of Yahya Sinwar as the new political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, after the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, has...

Defend your homes with a socialist revolution!

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THE Thatcherite dream of creating a nation of home owners is already a nightmare for millions struggling to make their mortgage repayments. It is...

May Day uprising: in France and across Europe workers rise up against capitalist crisis

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THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets throughout France on Sunday sending a clear ‘message’ that workers are preparing a massive...

Deepening crisis means revolution in the UK and Ireland

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THE amount of new public sector borrowing in the UK hit a record of £15.9bn for August. This is £1.8 billion higher than in...

Blair backs Israel’s blitz on Lebanon

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PRIME Minister Blair made clear yesterday that the Labour government is not calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war on the Lebanon. Instead, Blair...