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Russia And China Support Greek Privatisation

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THE Greek working class and the youth are suffering under the ‘Iron Heel’ of the Troika (the European Union the European Central Bank and...

Obama Heading For The Fiscal Cliff – US Workers Beware!

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OBAMA’S re-election is a product of the refusal of US workers to allow an all-out robber baron of capitalism, Romney, to have control over...

Down with all zero-hours contracts!

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‘JOBSEEKERS’ will lose their benefits, or their Universal Credit when it is introduced, if they turn down zero-hours contracts, the government has said. This new...

US And Iraqi Puppets Massacre A Thousand In Sadr City

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IRAQI deputies to the puppet parliament, who are Iraqi nationalists and who support Moqtada al-Sadr have denounced the US puppet government of Premier...

US troops flee from Afghan fighters – time to quit Afghanistan

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US and Afghan troops have quit the village where Taleban fighters fought their way into a US base and killed nine US soldiers wounding...

Russia must intervene to drive Kiev junta out!

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FOLLOWING the illegal Ukrainian presidential election – called to try and legitimise the imperialist-inspired coup – the billionaire, Petro Poroshenko, wasted no time in...

World banking crisis driving world revolution!

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LAST WEEK the Bank of England (BoE) finally confessed that it doesn’t understand its own quantitative easing programme (QE) – the central, in fact...

Capitalist Debt Crisis Demands A Socialist Revolution!

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THE deepening world capitalist crisis is poised to see entire nation states defaulting, plunging their banks into an even more desperate crisis, deepening the...

PM May hammers the poor as 7,585 families receive 50p housing benefit!

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PM MAY makes a lot of noise about her concern for the ‘just about managing’, ie the middle classes in crisis-ridden Britain. In fact,...

Zionists’ murderous onslaught on Palestinians – UK unions must act now!

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A ONE-day strike was called yesterday by Palestinians in the city of Jenin following the murder of two Palestinians by Israeli troops in a...

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...

Defend Iran And North Korea By Smashing Imperialism!

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NORTH Korea’s Foreign Minister in Tehran on Wednesday criticised the US’ decision to re-impose sanctions on Iran as a ‘wrong move’, that runs contrary...

The Oxford Blood Money Must Be Returned To Sender At Once!

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IN ITS LATEST ATROCITY, the University of Oxford has grabbed with both hands more than £12m in dirty money from the Alexander Mosley Trust. This...

Workers must mobilise to disarm the capitalist state to end police killings of workers...

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RASHAN Jermaine Charles died after being arrested by the police in the early hours of Saturday morning, July 22 on Kingsland Road, Hackney, east...

UAE & Israel ‘normalise’ relations! The UK must NOW recognise the Palestinian state with...

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US PRESIDENT Trump announced on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel will ‘normalise’ relations. UAE is the first Arab nation to...

Trump hails his economic miracle – and reveals his fear of the US and...

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ON TUESDAY, president Donald Trump delivered his much-delayed annual State of the Union speech to the US Congress, held up by the longest-ever shutdown...

Britain ordered to slash spending on welfare benefits or face huge tax rises

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BRITAIN must cut spending on welfare benefits or face a miserable cycle of repeated tax rises every year, JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank,...

Brown pleads in Jeddah for more oil and £100bn of investment in UK

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FÎRST of all we saw the Bush-Blair attack on Iraq, whose strategic purpose was to expropriate Iraq’s oil in order to lower the world...

Renationalise The Royal Mail!

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SHARES in the privatised Royal Mail are down 2.5% after Ofcom ruled the universal postal service, which obliges the Royal Mail to deliver across...

Royal Mail steps up closure plan – CWU must act

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Postal workers were hit last week with the announcement by Royal Mail that it is stepping up its closure plan for half of the...

Cameron At War At Home And Abroad

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CAMERON’S Monday ‘European Council’ statement to parliament was all about the crisis of imperialism, its wars abroad, and dictatorship at home. He managed to discuss...

Irish enforced bail-out will bring EU to breaking point!

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IRISH Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and the Irish government, are being forced onto their knees by the EU and the European Central Bank...

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...

Geneva Report Issues Dire Warning!

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JUST six years after the beginning of the 2008 financial collapse – at a time when Cameron and Co. are talking about a recovery,...

State threatens Climate Change Camp

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YESTERDAY dozens of police officers were inspecting the beginning of the Climate Change camp, in a sportsfield owned by Imperial College, less than 1,000...

More ‘breadline poor’ after 10 years of Labour governments

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The gap between the rich and poor has widened in recent years and is greater than at any time in the past 40 years,...

Capitalism can’t afford common retirement age or decent pensions

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CAPITALIST Britain is being driven backwards, not forwards by the deepening crisis of capitalism and the policies of the Blair-Brown Labour government, dedicated to...

Tgwu Leaders Seek To Sell Deal For Gate Gourmet

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‘THEY are trying to break our unity. We reject this deal.’ This is what pickets near to the Gate Gourmet plant told News Line...

UK troops are on the Polish border – while US and UK forces are...

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BRITISH TROOPS are now on the Belarus-Polish border answering a request by the Polish government to give it military support against thousands of Middle...

All trade unions must come out with the nurses to bring down the Tories...

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THE 10,000 workers and youth who took part in the ‘Britain is Broken’ march in London on Saturday were marching for action to bring...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters held out placards and shouted slogans during their successful picket at Heathrow yesterday

Blair puts ‘the country’ before the Labour Party

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BLAIR came clean on at least one issue at his monthly press conference and that was where his loyalties lie. They definitely do not lie...

Army demanding reinforcements for Afghanistan

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JUST a few months ago, the then Defence Minister John Reid was telling the media – while trying to douse public concern...

World Capitalist Crisis Hits China!

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THE world crisis of capitalism has now erupted once again and has the deformed workers’ state of China in its sights, and no doubt...

Myanmar – working class intervene with national strikes to bring down military dictatorship

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WORKERS across Myanmar (formally Burma) came out on a nationwide general strike yesterday demanding the overthrow of the military dictatorship which was imposed last...

TUC – defend the junior doctors, call a general strike now!

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THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...

Blair’s ‘legacy’– Student debts set to soar!

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THIS week, as college and school students receive their A level examination results and consider going to university, the latest survey by the NatWest...

Berezovskiy calls for the violent overthrow of Putin

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FOR some time the Blair government has been bringing in draconian anti-terrorist legislation, such as the Terrorism Act 2000. It has been boldly ‘identifying’ terrorism...

Intensifying crisis can only be resolved by world socialist revolution!

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SO FAR twelve global banks have been publicly linked to the Libor rate-rigging scandal, and face as much as $22 billion in combined regulatory...

Tories to create a slave wage army of youth!

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DAVID Cameron yesterday pledged that a future Tory government would ‘effectively abolish’ youth unemployment by simply forcing every young person to do ‘community work’...

Labour Taking Action To Make The Workers And The Poor Pay For The Crisis...

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THERE is no doubt that Labour’s proposed benefit cuts are a ‘violation of workers rights’ which will harm ill, disabled and poorer workers in...

EU is breaking up! Euro & banks are set to crash. Smash the EU...

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TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond, speaking about the Brexit crisis from the World Economic Forum in Davos, said yesterday: ‘It is absolutely clear that if...

It is the tyranny of the minority that must be ended through socialist...

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THE ‘tyranny of the majority’ should not dictate exit from the EU, former Tory PM John Major said yesterday, in remarks that have sparked...

Workers must stop the imperialist war drive with socialist revolutions!

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IN her notorious speech on Wednesday night, at the Lord Mayor’s banquet in London, the Tory Foreign Secretary and would-be successor to Boris Johnson,...

Tories split over massive debt crisis! Make the bosses pay for their crisis through...

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THE TORY Party split over how to pay off the massive debt run up bailing out the bosses during the coronavirus pandemic is now...

Israel receives a warning from Hezbollah!

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PALESTINIAN children in Israeli jails are being subjected to torture, and physical and psychological abuse by Israeli officials, says the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’...