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Massive strike action by US workers demands $15 an hour nationwide!

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FAST food workers in 15 cities across America came out on strike on Tuesday demanding a nationwide $15 minimum wage, union recognition rights and...

Businesses threaten to relocate before Brexit! Nationalise them and put them under workers’ management!

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RESEARCH for the Institute of Directors showed yesterday that a third of UK businesses are considering moving abroad after Brexit. The IoD said that...

Restoring nurses’ & midwives’ bursaries – a matter of life or death for...

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THERE is a desperate lack of nurses in the NHS. Currently, overloaded nurses are doing the job of three people, working 12-hour shifts in...

TUC leader pleads with EU president

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YESTERDAY, Tory leader David Cameron hosted a breakfast meeting with the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, as part of his campaign to...

The youth of Europe are rising up against their governments and the EU! Forward...

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YOUTH across Europe are a revolutionary force that are ready to rise up against the ‘generation in power’ in their countries and in the...

Egypt bombs Derna and pledges Libyan intervention

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EGYPT’S Air Force, on Monday morning bombed Islamic State positions in Derna, Libya, after IS beheaded 21 Coptic Christian Egyptians. The city was also bombed...

Starmer wants British boots on ground in Ukraine and to force workers to pay...

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IN ADVANCE of yesterday’s panic meeting of EU and UK leaders in Paris, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer announced that he is prepared to...

Time to drive the Tories out! TUC must call a general strike to give...

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AFTER the Tory insult of a 1% pay offer to the heroic health workers, the working class and youth are boiling with anger and...

Capitalism’s world crisis can only be resolved through socialist revolution

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THE LATEST latest annual report from the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) on the economic crises gripping world capitalism couldn’t have been clearer –...

Furious Hague threatens to recognise the Syrian opposition as the government!

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RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad. He was cheered by tens of thousands of pro-Assad...

Workers and the trade unions must take action to bring down split Tories!

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ON Friday 15th September 14 trade unions representing over a million nurses and NHS staff wrote to Tory Chancellor Hammond, to demand a 3.9%...

Trump Says Bin Salman Innocent Until Proven Guilty – After Khashoggi Is Butchered In...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has cautioned against rushing to blame Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince over the disappearance and butchering of Saudi journalist...

US Longshoremen show the way with strike action on May Day to stop the...

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DOCKWORKERS of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to stop work for eight hours in all US West Coast ports on May...

UK workers must act to help end occupation of Palestine!

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SIXTY-SEVEN years after the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, when Israel was founded by a massive Zionist terror against the Palestinian people, the Palestinian...

US to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist movement

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THE US yesterday raised tensions considerably between itself and Iran by declaring that the main body of armed men maintained by the Iranian...

Balls promises more cuts under Labour

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THE shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, made his keynote speech to the annual conference of the Labour Party yesterday setting out the economic policy of...

TORIES TRY TO BRIBE GPs TO CUT HOSPITAL REFERRALS!

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RESEARCH conducted by the medical magazine Pulse has uncovered the fact that local GP practices are being offered bribes of thousands of pounds to...

TUC leaders plead while workers starve

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IN advance of the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announcing to parliament on Wednesday his spending review, which will detail exactly how he intends to...

Time To Sack The Leadership Of The FBU!

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YESTERDAY’S closure of ten London fire stations, with the loss of 552 firefighter jobs and the axing of 14 fire engines, shows how little...

Boycott the EU elections and force a break with the EU through a revolutionary...

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BOTH the sheer bankruptcy of British capitalism and the impotence of Tory Prime Minister Theresa May were on public display on Wednesday night as...

As world crisis deepens the UK working class needs to take power and bring...

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THE working class of the world faces a revolutionary autumn and winter, as the major imperialist powers step up their war in the Ukraine...

Palestinian Prisoners Are Staging A Mass Hunger Strike – Now Is The Time ...

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PALESTINIAN prisoners are staging a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest against crackdowns and mistreatment by the prison officials. They say their strike,...

Brown’s empty words cannot hide he is the bankers’ man

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‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...

Toxic Tories lash out at immigrants and the poor

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PEOPLE who do not speak fluent English will be barred from public sector jobs which involve working directly with the public, the government has...

Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Egypt

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THE US-backed and financed Egyptian army has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the US-backed and financed Muslim Brotherhood government (which supports the imperialist powers...

Cameron Favours New Anti-Union Laws

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LAST Saturday, the Tory leader, Cameron, told the Daily Telegraph that if he should win the General Election he is ready to toughen the...

Make Hammond’s Budget his last by a general strike to kick the Tories out...

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THE Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, closed his autumn budget statement on Wednesday with the announcement that this would be his ‘first and last’. Faithfully obeying...

Grenfell fire and corona pandemic underline that under capitalism life is cheap! Overthrow...

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THE GRENFELL inquiry has heard from the bosses of both the insulation and the cladding companies that produced the flammable material installed on the...

DECISIVE ACTION NEEDED TO DEfEND THE NHS AND WELFARE STATE

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On Tuesday, NHS North West London announced that it would close A&E departments at Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing Hospitals. Two million west...

Political crisis in Europe

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The political crisis for the European bourgeoisie deepened yesterday following the results of exit polls at the end of the first round of voting...

Tory Big Brother will be spying on everybody!

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THE News International empire’s phone hacking and spying, and the way that it sought to regulate the government and bend the police force to...

Central Banks in disarray as capitalism poised for a crash

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THE disarray and panic that is a permanent state for the central banks of Europe and America was on open display yesterday. In the US,...

May defends capitalism, Corbyn wants it ‘restructured’. It must be overthrown through the socialist...

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‘THE FREE market economy,’ in other words capitalism, ‘is unquestionably the best, and indeed the only sustainable, means of increasing the living standards of...

Imperialism threatens Iran but is fearful of the working class at home!

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Donald Trump’s belligerent ‘last-chance’ threat to Iran to resume diplomatic talks about abandoning its nuclear programme or face US military attacks in two weeks,...

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...

UK ruling class turns on President Biden over Afghanistan disaster for imperialism!

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THERE is no doubt that the humiliating UK-US rout in Afghanistan is a colossal victory for the Taliban, and all oppressed nations, and at...

After November 5th rout build new leadership in the FBU

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THE News Line salutes the London FBU membership which has stood firm in its defence of terms and conditions against a pre-planned massive onslaught...

Tory Ambulance Privatisation Drive!

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FIGURES extracted this week by Freedom of Information requests prove conclusively that the privatisation of the ambulance service is being pushed through by the...

Police cover-up over military-style operation against City protests

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IAN TOMLINSON, a 47-year-old news vendor in the City of London, collapsed at 7.25pm on April 1 on his way home from work during...

Cutting deposit rates below zero is a gigantic gamble!

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AN ‘historic gamble’, a giant ‘leap into the unknown’ – these were just two of the headlines that greeted the news that last Thursday...

Take Decisive Action To Win Postal Struggle

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AFTER almost two days of discussions, the CWU leadership has rejected the call of the membership of the union for indefinite strike action, and...

Bosses share bonanza

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THE ages old reformist illusion that the worst excesses of capitalism can be curbed through a mixture of indignation and moral outrage received yet...

UK Pirates Plan Somalia Onslaught!

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YESTERDAY, a conference was convened in London to organise the intervention into Somalia by imperialist forces, led by the UK, acting under the cover of...

Biden Leads The Charge For Russian Regime Change!

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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden made his first annual State of the Union Address late Tuesday night, opening with an attack on Russia that was...

Obama Compares Bp With Osama Bin Laden

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US PRESIDENT Barack Obama said yesterday that the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have the same impact on the US...