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Israel imitates the Nazis with its murderous attacks on Palestinians!

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ISRAELI forces on Thursday evening sealed off the main entrance to Duma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to...

Tories promise money for schools in the Tory shires, and ‘reasonable force’ for working...

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YESTERDAY the Department for Education announced that it will be pushing for higher pay for newly qualified teachers as part of the Tory government’s...

US Threatens China As It Seeks To Drive Back World Revolution!

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ON FRIDAY the foreign ministry of the Kuomintang- ruled territory of Chinese Taipei vowed to further deepen its close military alliance with the US...

Woodley Refuses To Call For Nati0Nalisation

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TONY WOODLEY the TGWU leader and co-leader of the new UNITE trade union has already presided over the closure of a large chunk of...

Rail strike ‘solid and determined’ as passengers join union in demanding re-nationalisation

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YESTERDAY’S strike by RMT guards working for the privateer Southern rail network was ‘rock solid’, with RMT general secretary Mick Cash saying: ‘The resilience...

Organise a general strike to kick out the Tory-LibDem regime

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EVERYONE has had the chance to work out what the Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition government’s Comprehensive Spending Review means, with £81bn in cuts hitting jobs...

Trade unions must take strike action to stop BBC terror campaign against the elderly

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THE BBC has announced that it intends to send squads to the homes of over-75s to make sure that they pay their TV licence...

Dictatorial powers for Home Secretary

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DAVID Anderson QC, the government’s ‘independent reviewer’ of terrorism legislation, asked a basic question about the powers that Home Secretary May’s will acquire if...

Cameron to ‘Keep capitalism safe’ with more savage attacks on workers!

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ON Wednesday, King, the governor of the Bank of England, said of the developing crisis in the eurozone that his Monetary Policy Committee believes...

British workers must make the TUC call a general strike to bring in the...

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THE United Nations has confirmed that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city...

Welcome All Refugees – Forward To The Socialist United States Of Europe!

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THE European Union was yesterday reeling, split and divided over the issue of taking quotas of refugees from the masses flooding into Europe. These masses...

Cameron’s all-powerful police state is to fight the working class

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THE beginning of PM Cameron’s speech to the recalled House of Commons was an attempt to divorce the youth uprising that is taking place...

Obama Finds It Tough Going In Moscow

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PRESIDENT Obama has urged a ‘reset’ in relations between the US and Russia. This comes after the defeat that the US and NATO suffered in...

Israeli Army Rehearsing The Taking Of Gaza City!

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BESIEGED GAZA is under a heavy non-stop Israeli siege and onslaught. The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has warned Israel of ‘dangerous consequences’ as the...

Bring Down Crisis-Ridden Tories – Quit The Eu Now!

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THE PATHETIC political collapse of PM May is the result of the massive hostility of the UK working class to her ripping up the...

Stop Royal Mail being thrown to the private equity wolves!

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POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...

Steel workers must reject the Tata steel deal – vote ‘NO!’

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AT the end of this month, steel workers at Port Talbot are to vote on a deal struck between their unions and Tata Steel...

The raging coronavirus crisis is smashing up the worldwide capitalist economy!

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ON FRIDAY £60 billion was wiped off the UK’s leading companies. The FTSE 100 plunged by 3.62%. In the US a rate cut saw...

Capitalist State Prefers Brown Over Cameron

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LABOUR Prime Minister Brown is the choice of the capitalist state should there be a hung parliament on May 7, even if the...

The UN Committee Against Torture Condemns Israeli Regime!

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THE United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of ‘organised torture’ against Palestinians. In a report published...

End the ‘gig economy’ and all cheap labour! Kick the Tories out!

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THE DRIVE by the bosses to force every worker in Britain into the so-called ‘gig economy’ has hit the headlines again this week with...

The Banking Standards Commission selects three scapegoats for the capitalist crisis

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THE farcically misnamed Banking Standards Commission (as if the banks had any standards) was created to try and prevent an even bigger banking collapse...

Lobby TUC Sept 7th to demand they call a general strike now for a...

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THE September strikes by RMT union members on London’s underground system are just the latest challenge to the super-austerity policies of PM Keir Starmer’s...

Never mind the claimants – use lie detectors on the politicians

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WORK and Pensions Minister John Hutton said yesterday that lie detectors will be used to help root out benefit cheats in job centres later...

Imperialist ‘vulture funds’ plundering Africa

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THE High Court in London was due to rule yesterday in the case of an American-owned investment fund suing the Zambian government to repay,...

Cameron and NATO mobilise to send refugees back!

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BRITAIN is sending ‘vital military assets’ (in Cameron’s words) to be part of the NATO force that will be intercepting refugee boats seeking to...

Capitalism reaches end of the road – time to overthrow it with a socialist...

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YESTERDAY, US president Donald Trump performed another humiliating retreat when he accused Ukrainian president Zelensky of being responsible for the war on Russia continuing. When...

Victory To Syria – Smash Is, The Nusra Front And Their Western Backers –...

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AT THE same time as the Nusra Front and the remnants of IS were shelling Damascus, and the Turkish imperialists were killing Kurds in...

British Capitalism Is On The Rocks! All Life Support Attempts Are Failing As The...

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SUCH is the crisis of British capitalism more than half of the adult population, 27 million people, have had to be financially assisted by...

UK living standards ‘to fall behind Malta’ as UK capitalism crashes under debt

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ON Monday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its latest updated figures which showed that the average person now has £38 less to...

Gove waging war on the teachers!

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THE Education Secretary Michael Gove has urged school governors and heads that teachers who work to rule are in breach of contract and should...

Occupy to fight mass sackings! Nationalise the motor car industry!

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GENERAL Motors yesterday presented the United States Department of Treasury with its restructuring plan to re-establish the bankrupt company through massive sackings of over...

US multi-billionaires tax revelations will fuel demand for the overthrow of bankrupt capitalism

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TAX RETURNS of America’s richest people have been leaked to the investigative website ProRepublica and prove that the mega wealthy have been paying little...

UK Workers Must Support Venezuela Against US, Eu, UK Attempts At Regime Change

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MRS THATCHER notoriously revived her political fortunes in 1982 by going to war with Argentina. She flew to the US to insist that its...

Unemployment and inflation surges as Cameron threatens immigrants’ benefits

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THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown....

Bring Down The Tories – Forward To A Workers Government!

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THE general election campaign by both Tories and Labour kicked off on Thursday night with separate television interviews of Cameron and Miliband. While Miliband was...

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...

Karzai dashes to bring Taleban into the government

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WHILE hundreds of Afghan civilians are being killed in General Petraeus’ Afghan surge, and British and US casualties escalate upwards despite the ‘victories’ being...
TGWU full-time officer OLIVER RICHARDSON addressing the Gate Gourmet mass picket yesterday morning

Public sector pensions battle set to erupt

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THE working class continues to pay a massive price for its reformist trade union leadership. This is completely committed to supporting the capitalist...

The Imf Issues Warning To The UK And Europe

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecast for Britain for the third time in nine months and warned George Osborne that...

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...

To defeat terrorism– withdraw from Iraq and smash imperialism

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THURSDAY’S ‘bomb attacks’ – which did not cause a single serious injury but caused widespread alarm and panic – not least amongst the security...

Banks Crashing – Time To Get Rid Of Capitalism And To Go Forward To...

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SHARES in banks around the world have crashed after a crisis at one US bank triggered fears of a wider crisis and the collapse...

ONLY a Socialist revolution can provide a future for workers and youth!

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TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled his latest attempt to resuscitate British capitalism in the midst of a crisis that has destroyed the economic...

World Crisis Of Capitalism Is Driving A World Revolution For Socialism

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THIS week the ‘big guns’ of the capitalist world banking system will each be holding their regular monthly meetings with only one question on...