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TUC Gen Sec Nowak wants workers to march in support of Ukrainian fascists!

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IN THE case of the UK trade union leadership, it is very much a case of what Lenin termed as ‘One Step Forward and...

Entente Cordiale Is Binned As The UK Backstabs France Which Vows To Form A...

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IT HAS emerged that the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the UK and the US, to supply Australia with nuclear submarines was agreed in...

Tories continue to tear each other apart! Time for the working class to bring...

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THE government on Thursday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over Johnson’s unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal...

Fed raises rates, as US bankers resolve to make the world pay for their...

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THE US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point – its first increase since 2006. This is after years of...

Capitalism’s crisis– Socialist revolution, the only solution!

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THE OFFICIAL annual rate of inflation leapt in February, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Figures published yesterday showed that the Consumer Prices...

Scrap the Tory Health and Care Bill – it is a ‘privateers’ charter for...

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TORY PM Johnson’s new Health and Care Bill currently going through Parliament, is a fresh attack on the NHS by a Conservative Party that...

As occupation founders oil workers come to the fore

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A BRITISH soldier has been killed in southern Iraq, bringing the number of British troops who have died in Iraq to 150, with thousands...

Hold Criminal Governments To Account, Says Cameron

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UK Prime Minister David Cameron called for the ‘criminal’ Syrian government to be held to account, and threatened Syria’s people that there would be...

Bourgeoisie Trembles At The Approaching Catastrophe!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, made it clear this week that the banking system faces total collapse due to ‘systemic...

With the Anti-Union Laws waiting on Royal Assent, the TUC must be made to...

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LAST THURSDAY the government made a ‘final offer’ to the NHS consultants, a petty offer that they rejected out of hand. BMA Consultants Committee...

A Plague Of Locusts

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ONCE again the spotlight has been put on the private equity locusts. This time a Financial Times investigation has shown how TPG, CVS and...

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...

Down With US Plan For Middle East Nato – Forward With Struggle For...

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JORDAN’S King Abdullah II told CNBC television news network last week that he supports the formation of a NATO-style military alliance in the Middle...

Labour demands students foot the bill to bail out bankrupt universities

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ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means...

Working Class Doesn’t Want The Tories

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TO the shock and horror of the Tory Party, the latest YouGov poll shows that its lead over Labour has fallen to just two...

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...

Labour calls for gas and oil rationing to ‘solve’ the energy crisis

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THOUSANDS of people took to the streets across Britain on Saturday, demonstrating against the massive increase in energy prices and a cost of living...

Crazy UK capitalism won’t dump disaster prone nuclear power

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GUNTHER Oettinger, the EU’s energy commissioner, has compared the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster – with its repeated explosions of nuclear material and...

Capitalist crisis deepens – socialist revolution the answer

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JUSTICE Secretary, Jack Straw, yesterday dismissed Tory claims that Labour is facing its own Black Wednesday, over Northern Rock and the missing data discs...

Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism

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EVERYWHERE capitalism is crashing! Yesterday the FTSE 100 index fell to 3472.68 points making a 50 per cent crash from the FTSE’s...

UK heading for ‘no deal crisis’ – Only answer is a socialist revolution!

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THE MAY government on Tuesday defeated an attempt by 12 pro-EU Conservative MPs, supported by Labour EU Remainers, to destroy its revised post-Brexit trade...

Capitalism is dead in the water!

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ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...

Socialist revolution the answer to capitalist crisis

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ONE SURE SIGN that capitalism is rapidly heading for an economic crash of historic proportions is the regularity in which increasingly desperate articles are...

Ferguson Masses Begin To Disband The Police!

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AFTER the announcement of the resignation of the chief of police in Ferguson, St Louis, an evening and midnight demonstration and celebration outside the...

Trump Setting Out To Impose A Greater Israel On The Palestinians By Force...

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WITH his declaration that the Trump Administration no longer recognises that the imposed Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal, US Secretary...

Ukraine workers defy imperialism and Stalinism!

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THE News Line salutes the bravery and heroism of the Ukrainian working class who defied all the threats, intimidation and murderous attacks by forces...

US police murder of George Floyd is part of a war on the entire...

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THE WORKING class internationally has risen up in anger over the police murder of George Floyd in the US. The burning issue over police...

Kick Out The Spineless Trade Union Leaders Who Refuse To Call A General Strike...

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THE SENSE of alarm and downright terror mixed with a sense of helplessness amongst the British ruling class saturates the bourgeois press today as...

After the students national march . . .

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ALMOST 25,000 students marched through London on Sunday demanding free education, despite the lack-lustre campaign by the leadership of the National Union of Students...

The Tories are planning to smash the trade unions – To defend the right...

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THE General Council of the TUC is set to meet on Tuesday, in a meeting that has been kept a secret, lest large numbers...

Support Palestinian General Strike

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TEACHERS, hospital workers and other government workers have come out on general strike in the West Bank and Gaza Strip following the non-payment of...

One country two social systems breeding counter-revolution in China

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THE Hong Kong pro-democracy protests have now moved into their second week. The Hong Kong Federation of Students withdrew from planned negotiations on Friday, accusing...

War declared against the working class as 800 P&O seafarers are sacked and replaced...

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POWERFUL protests erupted in Liverpool, Hull and Dover yesterday after 800 P&O Ferries’ seafarers were sacked by decree and replaced by cheap labour. The RMT...

Brexit crisis coming to a head – Quit the EU Now – Forward to...

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TOMORROW will see the moment of truth for both the Tory and Labour Parties when May’s programme for a Brexit that will leave the...

Labour supports and covers up for torturers

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THE Court of Appeal yesterday forced the British Labour government and its Foreign Secretary, Miliband to publish seven paragraphs concerning the torture of a...

Israel attacks Gaza and Abbas cancels visit

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YESTERDAY an Israeli aircraft bombed a building of the Hamas-run Executive Force in Gaza, killing at least one person and injuring about 45 others....

Corbyn stabs Brexit in the back for the benefit of the bosses and...

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LABOUR leader Corbyn, in his response to PM May’s Monday update to the House of Commons ahead of this week’s European Council, made it...

Tories Want To Bomb Syria!

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TORY Defence Minister, Michael Fallon, with the full support of Cameron and leading members of the Labour Party, is calling for Britain to start...

Hamas defiant after Israel’s ‘unilateral ceasefire’

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PALESTINIAN resistance movements and their fighters remained defiant after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared on Saturday that the Israeli War Cabinet had decided to...

Britain to be one big prison!

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THE coalition government has published its plans to turn Britain into one big prison with its own version of the US’ two strikes and...

Forward to the Palestinian state!

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ISRAEL’S Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered the termination of all non-security related coordination with the Palestinian Authority (PA), in response to the UN...

IMF demands destruction of welfare state to save capitalism from debt crisis Answer bankers...

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THE IMF (International Monetary Fund) this week sounded the alarm bells for the world capitalist crisis when it announced the real scale of the...

Macron Beats The War Drums As Capitalist Crisis Deepens!

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A FINANCIAL TIMES report says a senior European defence official has acknowledged that ‘Western special forces’ are unofficially present in Ukraine, despite US-led NATO’s...

Blair paved the way for Davis and Howarth

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IT was Prime Minister Blair who insisted that the 7th July bombings and the July 21 attempted bombings were nothing to do with the...

Patients & staff paying price of £1bn NHS under-spend

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LABOUR ministers are boasting that the projected £983m under-spend in the National Health Service are evidence that it has regained its ‘financial footing’. Health Secretary...