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‘Historic shock’ of inflation will drive workers and youth to socialist revolution

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TODAY British workers and their families face the biggest attack on their living standards since records of cost of living increases were first recorded...

Labour blindfolds itself so as not to see the developing capitalist crisis!

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THE Labour Party manifesto launched on Tuesday contained a number of slight but significant changes from the draft leaked to the press last week. On...

Palestinians warn that UK troops on the ground in Gaza under pretext of supporting...

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PALESTINIANS have warned Britain and other Western countries backing the US, against deploying troops on the ground in the besieged Gaza Strip under the...

Smash Royal Mail privatisation, defend the NHS, bring down the Brown government, forward to...

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WORKERS at Lindsey power station, the Royal Mail and doctors have shown their strength in rejecting and fighting attacks on their jobs, their wages...

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...

Speak English Or Else – Minister Tells The Poor!

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UNEMPLOYED people who cannot speak English will have to show they are learning the language or lose benefits, the government has announced. This is...

Working Class In Ukraine Winning Over The Army

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ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...

US Ruling Class Split At Home And Abroad

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PRESIDENT Obama attacked the Republicans on Monday over an incendiary letter, sent by them to Iran’s leaders, seeking to sabotage his foreign policy...

Counter-revolution in the classroom

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A report issued yesterday outlining proposals to establish in Manchester an army-run ‘free school’, has given yet another sinister twist to the campaign by...

Stalinism betrays Libya – build Fourth International to smash imperialism

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As forces loyal to the Libyan revolution and its leader Colonel Gadaffi continue to fight on against the NATO-led onslaught on Tripoli, the imperialist...

Support the firefighters and the postal workers

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FIRE chiefs in Warwickshire are planning to close seven fire stations and axe a third of fire appliances with the loss of one hundred...

King urinates on the green shoots of recovery

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‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...

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...

Unemployment rises to 5.1% as the Tories and bosses move to fire millions...

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THE UK’s unemployment figure rose to 5.1% in the three months to December, a five-year high, official figures from the Office for National Statistics...

Russian Military Chief Warns Don’t Attack Iran

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AN Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that the Iranian government hopes that the International Atomic Energy Agency will produce an unbiased report on...

Russia Considering ‘Partnership’ With The US

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US DEFENCE Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday insisted that the US change of mind over basing tracking radar and anti-missile missiles in Poland and...

Hamas urges workers of the world to take action and salutes the growing mass...

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IN A statement issued on Friday to mark International Jerusalem Day, Hamas declared that the occasion arrives this year as the Palestinian people steadfastly...

Tory ‘crackdown’ on youth inspired by fear of young people as a revolutionary force

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak yesterday launched a ‘crackdown’ on anti-social behaviour and begging, as the centrepiece of government policies in what is a...

US at centre of world capitalist collapses

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‘THERE is a real sense in markets today of the economy falling off a cliff.’ That was the verdict of Michael Saunders, the chief...

Israeli land robbery continues as Human Rights Watch condemns Hamas!

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ISRAEL has ordered Palestinian landowners to evacuate their land in the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli authorities...

Cameron and Tories in crisis

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THE understanding that in times of acute capitalist crisis the ruling class can no longer rule in the old way is being borne out...

Occupy UK Car Plants! Call General Strike To Bring In Workers Government To Nationalise...

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THE UNITE union, representing car workers, said yesterday that its members will fight ‘tooth and nail’ to safeguard Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant, and urged...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the plant yesterday midday after police stopped them picketing on nearby Beacon Hill

Police death squads are ok says ACPO

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THERE is no need to change the strategy police use to deal with suicide bombers – to put as many bullets into their brain...

US ruling class fears an uprising by workers following Wisconsin shooting

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PROTESTS in the US state of Wisconsin erupted on Sunday evening following another shooting by police of a reportedly unarmed black man. According to reports,...

Labour refuses to demand the resignation of Health Secretary Hunt!

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ON MONDAY, in the House of Commons, Health Secretary Hunt was asked an urgent question as to why he had covered up for, and...

Time to smash Brown’s public sector reform (privatisation)

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PREMIER Brown’s pre-budget comment piece in the Financial Times was written so that he could talk directly to his constituency, the bosses. He...

Capitalist world crisis is rapidly deepening – creating the conditions where the working class...

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SHOCK economic data on Thursday revealed a crash of 0.1 per cent in the UK’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two consecutive months, with...

Greek Workers And Youth Are On The Road To Revolution!

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MASSES of workers and youth clashed with the state forces in the Greek capital Athens yesterday, on the first day of a 48-hour general...

Inflation Out Of Control, Rate Rise On The Way

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INFLATION is on the rise with the CPI rate increasing from 3.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent, while the RPI rate rose from...

Overthrow of Niger’s pro-imperialist government a massive blow to imperialism

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THE OUSTING of Niger president Mohamed Bazoum by the military has sent shock waves across the imperialist world, with France and the United States...

Bank of England is damned by House of Lords committee for not bringing down...

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WHEN Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Chancellor Jeremy Hunt boasted last week that they were responsible for bringing down the official inflation...
Sacked Finance Ministry women cleaners celebrating the anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising in1973 leading to the bringing down of the hated Regime of Colonels dictatorship. Greek workers are determined to bring down the current austerity regime in Jan

MANIFESTO FOR 2015 – The Year for World Revolution

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THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings, as we enter the new year of 2015, to the working people of the world. We...

Rice supervises raising Middle East tensions

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THE US through its secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who has been in the Middle East for a week, is working hard to raise...

Reject Eu Diktat Attempt – Leave The Eu At Once !

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THE GIGANTIC farce of the Brexit negotiations hit a brick wall this week with EU officials accusing the British of failing to reveal its...

Tories Greet NHS 70Th Annniversary With More NHS Cuts!

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WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...

The world crisis and the fascist slaughter in Norway

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THE fascist, Breivik, who carried out the mass murder of up to 100, mainly youth in Oslo and attempted to murder the Labour Prime...

TUC must call a general strike to free Palestine now!

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OVER a million workers and youth marched in London on Saturday to a rally outside the US Embassy, in a ‘National March for Palestine’...

Tuc C0Ngress Must Give Corbyn And Palestine 100% Backing!

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YESTERDAY’S editorial of the bosses’ and bankers’ Sunday Telegraph gave its marching orders to Labour’s right wing and fake lefts, saying of Labour leader...

Fight Tory class war programme – bring down the Coalition!

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OSBORNE began his spending review speech yesterday by saying that: ‘Today’s the day when Britain steps back from the brink’. In fact, his speech represented...

EU set to EXPLODE

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THE developing world-wide economic crisis is now bringing the contradictions inside the EU together and sharpening them to the point of a massive transformation...

Unions to call for London-wide strike action to defeat Tory attack on TfL workers

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RAIL unions have pledged mass industrial action in response to the Tory attacks on the jobs, pay and pensions of workers at TfL (Transport...

Eu To Throw Irish Workers To The Wolves

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PRESSURE is being piled onto the Irish government to accept a further EU bail-out of between 60bn to 80bn euros, which will mean handing...

Hamas & Fatah agree to Palestinian elections to form government to defeat Zionism and...

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A NEW unity between all Palestinian factions against the common enemy – Israel and the US – is rapidly developing. The leadership of the...

Recall the TUC Congress now to sack the TUC leaders for their refusal to...

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LAST month, the TUC unanimously passed an emergency motion headed: ‘Stop the escalation of war in the Middle East’ and committed the TUC ‘to...

Brown, Mitchell and Obama threaten Palestinians with a dirty deal

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PALESTINIANS are once again being threatened with a dirty deal after the Netanyahu-Brown meeting in London. After a Brown declaration that Britain is Israel’s ‘true...