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Israel’s finance minister orders preparations for the Israeli annexation of occupied West Bank

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ISRAEL’S extreme right wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, on Monday ordered preparations for the Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of Donald...

Myanmar working class intervene with powerful general strike to bring down Military Junta!

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MYANMAR (formerly called Burma) was brought to a halt yesterday as hundreds of thousands of workers and youth answered the call for a general...

Lesson from by-elections: Labour Party’s finished! Build the revolutionary party!

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JEREMY Corbyn MP, leader of the Labour Party, said yesterday on the Stoke-on-Trent Central and Copeland by-elections results that ‘Labour’s victory in Stoke is...

US and Saudi Arabia are slaughtering Yemenis while Israel is assassinating Palestinian journalists!

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A LEADING member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi yesterday indicted US imperialism saying that it is killing thousands of Yemeni civilians...

French General Strike As Working Class Defends Its Pension Rights Against Macron And The...

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FRANCE yesterday was paralysed by a general strike called by the trade unions in response to the attempts by the government of president Macron...

EU banker Draghi imposed as Italian Prime Minister in desperate attempt to prevent a...

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BANKRUPT Italian capitalism moved on Tuesday night to cement the dictatorship of the bankers over the country when the president Sergio Mattarela unilaterally appointed...

Care for the Elderly crisis – capitalist barbarism at work

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WHEN workers pass the age at which their labour can be exploited for profit they become a useless burden on society as far as...

Iraqi resistance forces Maliki to back down

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AS Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s 72-hour amnesty deadline for militia fighters in Basra to hand over their weapons ran out yesterday, this leader of...

EU tearing itself apart while British capitalism collapses under a sovereign debt crisis

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On Friday EU leaders gathered for a three-day summit to agree on a proposed £1.6 trillion financial plan to bail out the national states...

US forced to back down over North Korea and agree talks

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IN A DRAMATIC about face, US Vice President Mike Pence stated yesterday that the Trump administration is now looking at holding diplomatic talks with...

Labour Must Pledge To Recognise Palestine And To Stop Arming Israel

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700 BRITISH artists have signed a pledge to boycott Israel as long as it ‘continues to deny basic Palestinian rights’. The group, Artists for Palestine...

Rate cuts and printing pound notes – Brown’s recipe for disaster

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THE Bank of England yesterday cut interest rates to 1.5 per cent, the lowest level in its 315-year history, since the start of the...

UK capitalism is being torn apart politically and economically

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THE CRISIS restrictions on Greater Manchester by the Tories reveal that the collapse of British capitalism has reached such a point that the unity...

High Court rejects legal challenge to Labour arming Zionist genocide – now workers and...

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ON MONDAY, the High Court in London rejected a legal challenge brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq against the decision of...

Desperate Osborne swings the axe as the capitalist crisis deepens

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IN HIS Spending Review of yesterday, drawn up at a time when the capitalist crisis is deepening, with inflation rising and the banks warning...

Blair looks to the ‘Axis of Evil’ for rescue

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THE killing of four British soldiers in Basra on Sunday with at least three seriously injured, and the killing of six US soldiers in...

Bosses Demand Lift The Lockdown While Pensioners Are Locked In At Home!

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WITH British capitalism up to its neck in hundreds of billions of debt, and with the middle class small proprietors ruined, the cry is...

Chinese Stalinists’ bid to rescue bankrupt capitalism

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CHINESE Stalinist leader President Hu Jintao has sent Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Vice President Xi Jinping on international visits in a vain attempt...

US is complicit in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp massacre that killed 274 Palestinians!

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ON Friday, Israeli forces launched a murderous attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza with bombs directed at its market place, which...

Forward With The South African Socialist Revolution!

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THE decision by the ANC government to talk to the Amcu trade union, which has won away from the NUM majority membership status in...

A desperate Bank of England pumps another £100 billion of free money into the...

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THE BANK of England (BoE) yesterday unleashed another round of Quantitative Easing (QE), adding another £100 billion to the amount of ‘free’ money they...

Palestine erupts on 44th anniversary of Six-Day-war

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IN 1967, Israel, in the infamous ‘Six-Day War’, used its air power, and its backing from the Western powers, to defeat Arab armies and...

World economy on brink of collapse

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THE capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step over the brink into the abyss of collapse with the news that the euro debt...

Expropriate the bankers and bosses!

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IT WAS asserted by economists long ago that labour is the source of all wealth, and Federick Engels – the lifelong friend and collaborator...

Zero Tolerance For Cameron Coalition

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CAMERON and the coalition are currently conducting a ruthless campaign against youth. This is ruling class justice at its most hideous, red in tooth...

A UK G-Bay & more armed police as Tories seek big majority to force...

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NEW Guantanamo Bay-style jails-within-jails are being opened for the first time in the UK to incarcerate ‘extremists of all kinds’, while police are being...

NHS Care Cancelled Until Further Notice! Time To Get The Tories Out!

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DR RICHARD Fawcett, a Royal Stoke Hospital consultant, has apologised for ‘third world’ conditions in the hospital’s A&E, saying that he was ‘heartbroken’ to...

Second wave drives deaths up by 98%! Get rid of capitalism now … it’s...

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THE SECOND wave of coronavirus has hit the UK with devastating consequences, and the Tory government’s efforts at bringing in measures to curb the...

World debt crisis can only be resolved through world socialist revolution

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JEROME Powell the new chairman of the US central Bank, the Fed, will be pushing for an increase in interest rates this week with...

Revealed – plan for US imperialism to take complete control of Gaza after Palestinians...

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ON Sunday, the Washington Post paper reported details of a 38-page ‘prospectus’ that is circulating ‘within the Trump administration’ laying out plans to ‘take...

After levelling Mosul and Raqqa, the US-UK-French alliance is moving into northern Syria

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THE FALSE claims of the Ministry of Defence that there were no civilian casualties in UK air strikes on Iraq, namely on Mosul, have...
Herts firefighters lobbying Downing Street  during a boycott of a Number 10 reception for ‘Buncefied heroes’

Brown Warns Against Labour ‘Extremists’

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday did his best to hand back the political initiative to his politically battered and discredited Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...

Nationalise All The Banks And Abolish Mortgage Debt

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UP to 1.5 million fixed rate mortgage holders are going to have to renegotiate their mortgages in the New Year. Many of them are already...

Law cannot be allowed to get in the way of profiteering

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THE Attorney General – the same official who ruled after much equivocation that the war with Iraq was legal – on Thursday told the...

Trade Unions Must Act To Secure Nurses’ & Doctors’ Pay Rise!

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PM BORIS JOHNSON has said that there is a ‘moral duty’ to get all children back into schools in England next month. Writing in...

Youth reject a life in debt!

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AFTER almost 10 years of a Labour government under Prime Minister Blair, young people who get jobs after leaving university find they end up...

Israel is preparing new Lebanese war

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ISRAEL’S armed forces commander, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, speaking to Israeli High School pupils last week, asked and answered a question rooted in the current...

Answer Hunt’s ‘eye-watering’ austerity cuts to restore the confidence of the bankers with...

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THE UNITE trade union kicked off a campaign yesterday morning to call on Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt to ‘use...

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...

Working class turns on the Blair-Brown gang

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LABOUR suffered a net loss of 331 seats in local elections in England and Wales on 1 May. It also lost out to Tory...

Governor of BoE blames workers for inflation – Only a sliding scale of wages...

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WITH INFLATION in the UK running at over 7% and gas and electricity bills shooting up by 54%, millions of workers face being driven...

AMCU rejects corporatist agreement with SA bosses

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THE decision by the South African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) not to sign the Framework Agreement for a Sustainable Mining Industry...

Trump’s tax cuts for corporations will lead to the ‘mother of all crashes’

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LAST Wednesday US president Donald Trump unveiled what he called the ‘biggest tax cuts in history’ – tax cuts only for the giant corporations...

TUC leaders must bin Johnson’s empty pledges and call a general strike to bring...

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PM JOHNSON’S Tory conference speech was completely empty bombast that sought to cover over the economic catastrophe that is developing throughout the capitalist system...

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...