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EU and Arab workers must unite to smash imperialism

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FRENCH police have arrested several suspects over the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine massacre in Paris, which killed 12 people to ‘avenge an insult to...

Answer Tories’ ‘war to finish’ on trade unions by demanding the TUC immediately call...

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YESTERDAY, NHS consultants began a 48-hour strike that has propelled a head-on confrontation between doctors and their union, the BMA, and a Tory government...

Blair And Cameron – Tweedleedum And Tweedledee!

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YESTERDAY the new leader of the Tory Party, David Cameron publicly disowned the Tory Party manifesto, written for the last general election, just seven...

Making the country fit for the gangmasters

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AT the just concluded TUC Congress, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, openly condemned the description of ‘globalisation’ as ‘a race to the...

Hands Off Addenbrooke’s – Stop The Savage NHS Cuts By Bringing Down The Tories!

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THE prestigious and world famous NHS Addenbrooke’s Hospital has been placed into special measures. UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis commented yesterday: ‘This is a shocking...

Obama To The Right Of Bush Over Palestine

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THE US democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama, during his visit to Palestine, refused to go back on his earlier statement, made at a Zionist...

Hezbollah unites the Arab masses against Zionism and imperialism

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THERE is not the slightest doubt about it – Hezbollah’s military action in the Shabaa Farms area of the disputed border with Israel, showed...

BBC reveals how police abuse body cameras – time to disband the police and...

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IN 2005, the Metropolitan Police introduced a trial of body-worn cameras for police officers, a move that was quickly rolled out by forces throughout...

RBS crashes as banks get set for rate rises

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LOSSES AT the state owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) were twice as bad as expected, at £1.13bn and much bigger than the £950...

NHS to be butchered to pay the bankers’ debts

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LARGE-scale hospital cuts and closures are now being organised for immediately after the next general election. These cuts have been dictated by the current enormously...

UK stage deliberate provocation in the Black Sea as part of its imperialist war...

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ON WEDNESDAY, Britain staged a deliberate provocation when it sent the warship HMS Defender steaming through Russian territorial waters in the Black Sea. The Defender...

Assange extradition decision Monday! Unions must call industrial action to prevent any attempt...

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange is facing a sentence of up to 175 years in a high-security ‘Supermax’ prison if he is extradited from the...

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...

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...

Israeli Police Attack Anti-Netanyahu Demonstrators As Israel Explodes!

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ISRAELI police arrested 12 people and used water cannons before dawn on Sunday to disperse furious protesters against the policies of PM Netanyahu. Tens of...

Biden keeps US embassy in Jerusalem! He is continuing where Trump left off! US...

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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden will keep the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem, his nominee for Secretary of State Antony Blinken affirmed at his...

Obama Puts British Imperialism In Its Place

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WITH more than 100 million gallons of oil already freed to spew all over the US Gulf coast, the ‘special relationship’ between the US...

Lobbying Bill A Conscious Attack On The Working Class

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THE Tory-led coalition’s proposed new Lobbying Bill is sending shock waves throughout the leadership of the TUC, as its full import becomes known. This bill,...

US not winning in Afghanistan admits US military chief

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ADMIRAL Mullen the US chief of the general staff has stated that he is not convinced that the US is winning the war in...

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...
A delegation of Gate Gourmet locked-out workers are welcomed at the Hounslow UNISON AGM

The continuing collapse of leadership in the FBU

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THE leadership of the FBU ignominiously collapsed at yesterday’s FBU recall conference, held to decide on industrial action to defend the final salary pensions...

Egyptian Army Mobilises For Military Coup

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GENERAL Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s army chief, whose force is paid for by the United States, has warned that the current political crisis ‘could...

NHSTogether must organise strike action to defend GPs!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown’s government is targeting General Practitioners (GPs) in its rush to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). Two key barriers to a...

IPCC admits Special Branch acted illegally to assist drawing up ‘blacklist’ for bosses!

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‘POLICE, including Special Branches, supplied information that appeared on the blacklist, funded by the country’s major construction firms, the Consulting Association and/or other agencies,...

Class issues in Zimbabwe’s elections

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AS IS to be expected the imperialists, with Britain in the lead, are engaging in an economic blockade, black propaganda, etc to get rid...

Holder warns of Ferguson powder keg throughout USA

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US ATTORNEY General Eric Holder says leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, must take ‘immediate, wholesale action’ after a report of widespread racial bias in its...

Abolish the mountains of debt with revolution!

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THE world capitalist crisis is turning the UK into a country composed of a relative handful of the very, very rich, a middle and...

Osborne’s regime of pay freezes and wage cuts

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IN his last budget speech before the general election, Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made the astounding claim that living standards will ‘grow strongly every...

There will be no ‘Maidan-style counter-revolution’ in Belarus declares President Lukashenko

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CONGRATULATIONS to President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. He received over 80 per cent of the vote in the Belarus presidential election and saw off...

Starmer promises the working class ‘pain’ – workers will respond with a socialist revolution!

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PM STARMER told an invited audience yesterday morning in the Downing Street Rose Garden: ‘I promised this government would serve people like you.’ He told...

Junior doctors will vote to reject rotten Hunt-BMA deal!

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THE BMA leadership have allowed themselves to be taken for a ride by Health Secretary Hunt! The government that imposed provocation after provocation onto the...

Don’t raise rates Chambers of Commerce warns B of E

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ON the eve of the Bank of England’s monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting over the Bank’s interest rate, the British Chambers of Commerce has...

TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defend the NHS

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TODAY junior doctors launch four days of strike action throughout the NHS in England over the demand for a 35% pay increase to make...

Decade of Tory NHS cuts has disabled the NHS! 4.6m now wait for operations....

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THE SURGE in coronavirus cases in January hit key services including cancer and even routine surgery, NHS England figures released on Thursday exposed. Over the...

Britain Has Been, Is, And Will Continue Talking With The Taleban

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PRIME Minister Brown told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that British forces are ‘winning the battle against the insurgency’ in Afghanistan. Using...

McCluskey denounces Labour’s right wing who worked for a Tory victory!

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THE general secretary of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, has reacted with fury over the revelations contained in the leaked internal report by the...

By-elections spell out depth of the coalition crisis

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LABOUR has won three by-elections, holding Croydon North, Middlesbrough and Rotherham, while the coalition governing parties were wiped out. The Tories came behind UKIP, their...

World Economic Forum declares capitalist ‘global order’ destabilised by imperialist war and political crisis

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THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) opened its meeting at the Swiss resort of Davos this week under the storm clouds of an economic and...

Unions Dither While NHS Logistics Is Sold!

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LAST Wednesday, the trade unions with the support of the majority of the Labour Party constituency parties defeated the government on the vital issue...

Massacre of over 800 civilians in Syria by imperialist-supported HTS regime forces

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YESTERDAY it was reported that as many as 1,300 people, including over 800 civilians, were killed in the Syrian cities of Latakia and Tartous...

Hands Off Syria – To ‘End The Cruelty And Carnage’

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THE heads of five major UN agencies have issued a joint appeal to the international community, a code phrase for the imperialist...

Labour And Its Supporters Are Getting Ready For Actions Against The Trade Unions!

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PROVIDED you are an ex-Taleban fighter who now supports the British government, you are very welcome to enter and stay in the UK, and...

We Salute The Heroes Of Paris Who Stood Up To 9,180 Riot Police Who...

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IN PARIS, on Saturday, against the advice of the more moderate members of the ‘Yellow Vests’ movement, 10,000 French workers and youth demonstrated their...

No Prosecutions – Let Off For Those Who Destroyed 6500 Mg Rover Jobs

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THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said it does not intend to launch a criminal investigation into the collapse of carmaker MG Rover. It was...

Tory split emerges with demands on Johnson for a budget that makes war on...

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IN ADVANCE of the budget next week, former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond delivered a shot across the bows of the Tory government with a...