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Youth for revolution!

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THE massive growth in unemployment sparked by the worldwide financial collapse in the capitalist system in 2008 is hitting youth so hard that the...

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...

While FIFA looks the other way Palestinian children are being tortured

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IT is a monstrous betrayal of the Palestinian people that the FIFA Congress immersed itself in the corrupt affairs of billionaire, big business soccer,...

Brown pleads in Jeddah for more oil and £100bn of investment in UK

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FÎRST of all we saw the Bush-Blair attack on Iraq, whose strategic purpose was to expropriate Iraq’s oil in order to lower the world...

Celebrate the first 70 years by bringing down the Tories and ending the cuts

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THE NHS was the product of war and revolution, namely the slaughter of soldiers and civilians fighting fascism in World War 2, and...

US debt deal increases economic crisis and puts the US on the road to...

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THE National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare says the following about Obama’s debt deal that savages the poor and leaves the rich...

Smash Universal Credit by smashing the Tories

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ON WEDNESDAY this week, the Tory government whipped its MPs to vote down a motion from the Labour Party calling for the release of...

G20 bankrupts meet protected by 10,000 riot police batons

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LEADERS of the major capitalist states, and the leaders of Russia and China, who have linked their fate to the future of the crisis...

Build the 4th International in the US

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THE decision of the United Steelworkers of America trade union to follow the lead of the just-failed Democratic contender, John Edwards, whom the steelworkers...

DRIVE THE MAY GOVERNMENT OUT! MARCH ON PARLIAMENT ON JULY 1st!

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THE May government has now entered the world of the surreal. It has just about been able to schedule a Queen’s Speech of sorts...

UK capitalism is in its death agony – Now is the time to organise...

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THE UK economy is heading for a recession and a slump as the latest official figures show. It shrank between July and September by...

Starmer – the Labour Party ‘fit to govern’ for bosses and the bankers...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer, in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday, pledged that he is ‘not just pro-business’ but wants to...

Throw the paltry Tory NHS pay cut ‘offer’ out! Nothing less than 3.9%+£800 will...

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NHS staff who have suffered a 15% pay cut since 2010 have been offered a ‘new deal’ from the government. A leaked document shows...

Police get armed as the state prepares for a showdown with working class

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JUST over a month ago, Tory prime minister David Cameron announced that hundreds of extra armed police would be sent around the country to...

Socialist revolution is the only answer to the ‘economic tsunami’ swamping capitalism!

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THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...

American dream turns to nightmare!

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HUNDREDS of US cities are going bust, either destroyed by the banking and property collapse or by the crisis of the major US industries. The...

Decisive Action Needed To Defend Welfare State!

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THE working class is rising up to defend the Welfare State. On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of workers and members of the public took...

UK arms Ukraine and prepares to send troops as imperialism gears up for war...

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THIS WEEK the deal between the Tory and Ukrainian government to allow Kiev to buy British warships and missiles, using a £1.7 billion-pound loan...

Tory lies over ‘Syrian gas attack’ exposed!

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THE ENTIRE justification for last Friday’s illegal bombing of Syria by British, US and French forces is falling apart rapidly as the truth emerges. The...

May Attacks The Pensioners And Pursues Them Into The Grave!

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PM MAY unveiled the Tory election manifesto yesterday in Halifax as she dumped Cameron’s policy towards the elderly and instead gave them a good...

Time To Sack The Leadership Of The FBU!

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YESTERDAY’S closure of ten London fire stations, with the loss of 552 firefighter jobs and the axing of 14 fire engines, shows how little...

Amazon Rugeley One Of The Most Dangerous Workplaces In Britain!

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WORKING in an Amazon warehouse, a woman in the last months of pregnancy was forced to stand for ten hours a day, while another...

Spooks fear revolution

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THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...

Chavez Visit Poses World Revolution

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THE visit of the left bourgeois nationalist leaders Evo Morales of Bolivia and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela to Europe is much appreciated, and is...

Iranian Foreign Minister Condemns Usa For Killing Dozens Of Sailors!

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IRANIAN Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has vowed that the United States will ‘bitterly regret’ sinking Iran’s Frigate Dena in international waters that led to...

Obama champions murdering Americans abroad!

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OBAMA, in his speech on Thursday at Fort McNair, presented himself as a president eager to end the foreign wars of the USA, and...

NATO massacres Libyan civilians to loot the country’s oil

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THE bloody massacre of 85 Libyan men, women and children by NATO in the town of Zlitan exposes once and for all that when...

Student nurses to be forced to pay for training!

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THE results of the ‘consultation’ launched by the Tories on the 7th April on the proposal to end NHS funded bursaries for student...

Growing fears over another bank crash

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THERE were renewed calls yesterday by Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and other political leaders of major capitalist countries for international cooperation to tackle the...

Bailing out banks and sacking public sector workers splits the unions

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THE UNISON and Unite trade unions have split. The former has formed an alliance with the EU public sector trade unions ver.di and CGIL and...

Blair’s Iraq adventure bites the dust

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday had a meeting with the long standing CIA agent and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, who is now posing as the...

Tory war on two fronts against Russia and working class at home

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THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...

UK & US whipping up anti-Russia and anti-China hysteria – It won’t work –...

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A ‘RED SCARE’ is well under way, with the US and UK governments launching hourly attacks on both Russia and China in a frenzy...

No socialist programme for Corbyn!

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LABOUR leader Corbyn was full of confidence as he opened his campaign to be re-elected as leader of the Labour Party yesterday. He said:...

Chancellor Reeves slashes regulations that inhibit banks from taking the ‘risks’ that crashed the economy...

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Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves revealed her plans to slash the rules and regulations that have inhibited the banks and financial speculators from taking risks,...

The time has come to organise the British socialist revolution!

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THE abject and grovelling performance of PM Keir Starmer in parliament on Thursday succeeded in uniting Labour and Tory MPs who howled with rage...

Private equity group to ‘cut and slash’ Chrysler

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DAIMLERCHRYSLER is selling a 80.1 per cent share in its crisis-hit American Chrysler division to the private equity group Cerberus for $7.4bn. President George...

60,000 families face eviction under Tory Housing Bill

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60,000 HOUSEHOLDS in England face being thrown out of their council houses next year as a result of the Tories ‘pay to stay’ policy. Under...

NOW is the time for the TUC to call a general strike to support...

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THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...

Brown guarantees the banks while he cuts workers wages

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THE Brown government has not just guaranteed all of the Northern Rock bank deposits, it has also underwritten its so called ‘commercial paper’, that...

Free Mohammed al-Qiq

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The Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq is close to death according to independent doctors who have visited him in the hospital where he is being...

Forward with the Greek socialist revolution

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THE Greek working class remains undefeated as the clashes between teachers and students with the riot police in Salonica on Thursday have proven. The source...

Trump dumps Ukraine as US capitalism gears up for war on the working class...

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Last Friday, US president Donald Trump met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in a ‘summit’ that Trump boasted would finally end the imperialist ‘proxy’...

Workers Must Take Action To Put An End To Capitalism

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THE TIME is here when workers must respond to the growing chorus from the professional servants of the bourgeoisie for savage, and even more...

Macron convenes crisis meeting after rushing back to France from EU summit!

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron convened a crisis meeting yesterday amid a wave of working class uprisings that engulfed France after a 17-year-old driver was...