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Mervyn King The Bankrupt Representative 0F A Bankrupt Social System!

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ON Wednesday night, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, delivered a speech that amounted to little more than an extensive...

Bush dresses down ‘quitter’ Brown!

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BUSH flew into London yesterday after sending a public order to Gordon Brown, via the Observer newspaper. This was that Brown must not announce...

Syria’s parliament denounces the 1917 Balfour Declaration as invalid. UK parliament must do the...

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THE Syrian parliament has shown the way to the rest of the world by denouncing as ‘invalid’ the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which handed Palestine...

Labour continues NHS privatisation offensive!

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LABOUR Health Minister Burnham yesterday officially launched the extended choice network, a new extended list of hospitals and clinics, that include 15 private treatment...

Gove calls for parents to scab

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Over the weekend the Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove issued a call for parents to volunteer to break Thursday’s strike by civil servants and...

Lagarde Calls For ‘Brave Action’ To Inflate Economies

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IMF Managing Director Lagarde has warned that the world economy is ‘too weak for comfort’, and that it could be heading for years of...

Bring down Blair regime from the left

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THE Blair government suffered two body-blows yesterday. Blair’s main cabinet ally, Blunkett, was forced to resign, and the government’s 66 majority was reduced to...

As Capitalism Shuts Down Workers Must Be Mobilised To Fight For Socialism!

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THE SCENE has been set for today’s budget by the crash of the stockmarkets on Monday March 9th when trillions of pounds were wiped...

The Not So Great Recovery!

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THE UK economy grew by 0.8% in the second quarter of 2014, official figures are said to show. The figures, from the Office for National...

Hewitt, Hoon and Cameron fail to shift Brown

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ON Wednesday mid-day, ex-ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon sent a text to all Labour MPs asking them to support a call for a...

Deal Aimed At Strangling Cwu Branches

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THE CWU trade union has agreed a ‘landmark’ agreement with Royal Mail. CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward said: ‘The agreement breaks new ground in...

State Department rubbishes ‘ignorant’ Blair

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A POLITICALLY ‘sick’ Prime Minister Blair was yesterday delivered another major blow, this time at the hands of the US State Department, when...

US debt crisis will crash Wall Street and plunge the US and world capitalism...

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THE US economy, the largest and most powerful capitalist economy in the world, is in the grip of a crisis that will plunge America...

Tgwu Leaders Seek To Sell Deal For Gate Gourmet

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‘THEY are trying to break our unity. We reject this deal.’ This is what pickets near to the Gate Gourmet plant told News Line...

US Secretary of State Kerry and Chief of Staff Dunford speak with Netanyahu

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THE US has reacted with fury to Russia’s ‘interference’ in the Middle East, that is, its invitation to President Assad to visit Moscow, and...

US policy of attacking independent media outlets is proven

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THERE have been quite a large number of journalists killed by US forces in Iraq, among them employees of Reuters and other European news...

Tories boost their navy in the Gulf, part of a ‘Maritime Coalition’ against Iran!...

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TORY foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to ‘reverse cuts to the size of the Royal Navy’ if he becomes prime minister. Hunt has...

All out this Saturday to kick the Tories out! Forward to a workers...

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EVERY WORKER AND YOUTH must take to the streets for this Saturday’s million strong: ‘Kick the Tories out march. Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell...

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...

NHS to become part of leisure industry!

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It’s now official – NHS hospitals under the Tory-dominated coalition government are set to become little more than a franchise of the leisure and...

Struggle against Assad and Iran more important to US-UK gangsters than defeating ISIS

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UK Prime Minister Cameron said yesterday that the UK supports US airstrikes against the IS not with boots on the ground, but by other...

Iraqi Masses To March Against Deal To Extend US Mandate

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US defence chief Robert Gates has been briefing US politicians on the proposal to extend the US mandate in Iraq. This expires this December...

National strike action for jobs and union agreements!

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LEADERS of the Unite and GMB trade unions are recommending a new jobs offer to a mass meeting at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, Lincolnshire,...

Tory attack on migrants is an attack on the working class!

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MIGRANT workers who work illegally in England and Wales are to face up to six months in prison under especially vindictive anti-migrant proposals to...

Tory austerity plus ‘Project Fear’ produces terror!

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THE News Line and Workers Revolutionary Party extend our condolences to the family of Labour MP Jo Cox who was murdered in her West...

SA hunger can only be ended by a socialist revolution

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ONE in four South Africans are unemployed, and poverty is rife eighteen years after the release of Nelson Mandela and 14 years after he...

There can be no return to Bretton Woods – world socialist revolution is the...

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AN ARTICLE in the Business section of the Daily Telegraph yesterday laid bare the historic depth of the crisis of world capitalism today. The article,...

Join the YS lobby of the TUC on September 11 to call a general...

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THE GRENFELL Tower disaster was a turning point for the working class where the callous and ruthless nature of the ruling class was exposed...

Bush and Blair’s war against democratic rights

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IN the United States it has just been revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has been secretly collecting the internal documents of...

Israel in favour of Gaza Truce ONLY when it has crushed Hamas!

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ISRAEL on Wednesday said it backed Egyptian efforts to mediate a truce with Hamas in and around Gaza but also at the same time...

Israel Shaken By Syrian Missile Defences Success!

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THE ISRAELI ruling class has been shocked by Syrian missile defences being able to, and Syria having the audacity to, shoot down a US-supplied...

Cornwall Marches To Save Fire Service

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TWO hundred firefighters and control room staff were joined by thousands of angry local residents in a 13-mile march from Camborne to Falmouth on...

World Bank Report – capitalism  stands on brink of financial crash

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THE WORLD stands on the brink of a financial crash according to the latest biannual Global Economic Prospects report from the World Bank. This warns...

Hamas Calls For The Working People Of The World To Take Part In Massive...

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THE Hamas Movement has called on the world’s free people and the Arab and Islamic nations to actively participate in massive and angry rallies...

NSA Spies on ‘Allies’

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THE French interior minister, Manuel Valls, reacted with shock and horror at the revelations in the French newspaper Le Monde that the US spy...

King Abdullah Of Jordan Calls For Immediate End To Israeli Aggression!

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KING Abdullah II of Jordan warned yesterday against the catastrophic repercussions of the ongoing Israeli destruction of Gaza, emphasising the urgent need to address...

To Get Rid Of The Coronavirus – Get Rid Of The Capitalist Drive For...

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YESTERDAY, Boris Johnson announced new emergency laws making social gatherings of more than six people illegal in England from next Monday. This law applies to...

The Enemy Is At Home! No British Tanks For The Ukraine – Bring Down...

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THE RUSSIAN armed forces will destroy US-made M1 Abrams tanks and other NATO military equipment if they are supplied to Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to...

Parliament Votes Lords Resolution Banning Any UK ‘No Deal’ Into Law!

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THE HOUSE of Commons on Monday night voted by 390 votes to 81 to turn a House of Lords resolution into legislation that bans...

The state is looking to take control

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THE capitalist state used to be the mailed fist concealed within the velvet glove in Britain. Its real power was covered by the parliamentary...

Labour plans war on refugees and asylum seekers

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THE LABOUR government of Keir Starmer continues its collapse into total chaos and breakdown this week with a sharp turn to the right orchestrated...

Oecd Calls For A Giant Firewall!

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UK economic growth for the last quarter of 2011 has been revised downwards to a 0.3% contraction, another body blow to those who had...

It’s Trump versus the courts. Now is the time with the bosses split and...

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A HUGE political crisis hit US president Donald Trump yesterday when a US federal trade court in New York ruled that most of his...

Banking parasites still riding high off of the public purse

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THE Committee of Public Accounts today publishes a report which reveals in the words of its chair Margaret Hodge that: ‘The peak of the...

London Is Now A No-Go Area According To The Met Police!

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IN advance of today’s mass demonstrations in support of Palestine, the Tories have launched a campaign to crack down on all opposition to the...