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Targeted assassination of journalists as Zionist regime plans military occupation and massacre of Palestinians...

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LATE on Sunday, a deliberate Israeli drone attack hit a tent for journalists located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, killing...

Only answer to banking crisis is expropriation!

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THE COALITION government’s policy to ‘ring-fence’ the banks is at best a cosmetic attempt to appear to be trying to protect retail banking, and...

CWU strike is solid

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On the picket line at Greenford Mail Centre in west London yesterday morning, CWU member Stephen Byrne told News Line: ‘Today and tomorrow are...

Oldham stuns Tories as workers reject ruling class invitation to destroy Corbyn!

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THE Oldham by-election did not go according to the ruling class-Tory script. There was no collapse in the Labour vote. Corbyn was not sacked...

US and UK are being driven to war by the growing capitalist crisis

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US SECRETARY of state Mike Pompeo used his speech in Berlin last Friday to threaten nothing short of war against Russia, China and Iran,...

One day FBU strikes must pave the way for a general strike!

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LAST Friday the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced that it would kick off its defence of jobs and conditions with two days of strike...

Congress Must Sack O’Grady And Mobilise To Bring Down The Tories!

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THE ‘leader’ of the Trade Union Congress, Frances O’Grady yesterday stabbed millions of workers in the back when she declared on The Andrew Marr...

Bring down the Tories on June 8th to save the NHS, and end benefit...

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ON JUNE 23 2016 the adventurers Cameron and Osborne, the then PM and Chancellor, came unstuck when they lost their EU referendum and were...

Mandelson Gives The Thumbs Down To Luton!

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BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson declared yesterday morning, before he even reached the Luton GM plant, that there would be no nationalisation of GM Luton –...

Syrian Workers Must Take The Power And Bring In A Workers Government And Socialism!

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LARGE NUMBERS of workers and youth have occupied the Damascus residence of the just-deposed President Assad, with Damascus placed under a curfew. After the collapse,...

The Bank Of England Drops Its Debt Bombshell

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THE world’s banks have now lost £1.8 trillion the Bank of England has reported in its Financial Stability Report. This is as a result of...

Japanese Imperialists Flex Their Muscles

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JAPANESE Nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just been re-elected and has immediately begun a drive to prepare for war against China and North...

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...

Russia Pledges Its Support For Serbia

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DEPUTY Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was in Belgrade yesterday for talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Medvedev is...

Now sack the union leaders to bring down the Tories and bring in a...

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THE ‘Leave’ victory in the just-held referendum constitutes a huge revolutionary victory for the working class and the poor of the UK who voted...

US/North Korean Summit sabotaged by Bolton & Pence. End imperialist war through the world...

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THE SUMMIT between North Korean President Kim Jong-un and US President Trump was cancelled by Trump on Thursday. It was US National Security Adviser...

US crisis intensifies!

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THE US dollar, reflecting the crisis of the US capitalist economy, is now sinking fast against both the euro and the pound sterling. Rising...

EU and US fall out over oil, gas and Russian sanctions!

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THE INCREASINGLY fractious relationship between the US and its rival capitalist bloc the European Union, is on the point of erupting into a full...

Workers Must Take Action To Permanently Prorogue Parliament And Bring In Socialism!

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NEXT Tuesday the Supreme Court is to hear the government’s appeal against last Tuesday’s verdict of Scotland’s highest civil court that PM Johnson’s proroguing...

As the capitalist system rushes towards the precipice – the great gains of the...

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PANIC gripped the UK ruling class yesterday as the bond markets ‘were thrown into chaos and a crisis’ that is bringing new cost of...

TUC conference swings to the right – a new leadership must be built!

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THIS year’s annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference marked a historic lurch to the right by the leadership of the trade unions. At a time...

Cameron Launches Campaign For UK To Remain In The Eu

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CAMERON yesterday launched his campaign for a ‘Yes’ vote in an EU referendum – which has been pencilled in for June 2016 – telling...

Force Blair out now! Forward to a workers’ government!

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YESTERDAY was a letter writing day for Labour MPs. There were at least three different letters circulating among Labour MPs, including one signed by the...

Coaliton Policies Put The Elderly On The Breadline

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RISING costs and rampant price inflation are leaving half of older people living on the breadline. According to the AGE UK charity nearly half are...

Hunt’s Autumn budget – brings in the open dictatorship of the bankers!

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YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn budget – the second budget from the government in under two months. The first was the disastrous...

Davie and Turness resign from BBC in orchestrated campaign to end all criticism of...

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Tim Davie, director general of the BBC, and Deborah Turness, chief executive of BBC News, both abruptly resigned on Sunday night following a concerted...

Smash The Anti-Union Laws!

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THE RMT has called off its Network Rail strike action of signal workers after the judiciary declared it to be illegal, using the ruling...

US Ruling Class Fails To Assassinate Maduro – Workers Must Defend The Venezuelan...

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VENEZUELA’S President Nicolas Maduro has survived an assassination attempt during a military parade celebrating the 81st anniversary of the Bolivarian National Guard in the...

BA is intent on union-busting and wage-cutting! Balpa must stand fast and demand it...

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THE HIGH Court on Tuesday dismissed an attempt by British Airways to secure an interim judgement that would make planned strike action by pilots...

Law cannot be allowed to get in the way of profiteering

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THE Attorney General – the same official who ruled after much equivocation that the war with Iraq was legal – on Thursday told the...

The Egyptian Revolution Pushes Forward!

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THE leading group representing the Egyptian bourgeoisie, around President Mursi, who is known as Mubarak with a beard, has just been massively shocked by...

US-Turkey Fighting Over Northern Syria!

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THE Syrian government has condemned the invasion of northern Syria by Turkish ground forces, cynically called ‘Operation Olive Branch’, an invasion that was preceded...

Hero Mandela dies – Forward to socialism in South Africa

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NELSON Mandela, one of the great heroes of the anti-Apartheid struggle who was jailed for 27 years on Robben Island for his opposition to...

US heading for revolution!

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THE US coronavirus epidemic surpassed two million infections on Wednesday while health officials said that many new infections are likely as a result of...

US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis and NATO to organise a war with...

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PM Boris Johnson said yesterday that Ukrainians are ‘fighting heroically’ and with ‘great success’ in some places against Russian troops who have intervened to...

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...

The bosses refuse to back May! Now is the time for a general strike...

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A PLAN by the Tories to demonstrate that the bosses of Britain’s leading companies are firmly behind the chaotic Brexit negotiations blew up in...

Johnson’s Visit To Sweden And Finland Is To Expand The War Against Russia!

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PM BORIS Johnson is visiting Sweden and Finland to expand the war in Ukraine, and specifically to urge both nations to join the NATO...

Postal workers want indefinite strike action NOW!

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CWU members have voted, in a 67 per cent turnout, a much bigger turnout than in a British general election, for strike action, with...

Not just European banks but world capitalism is a ‘lost cause’

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THE panic gripping the world capitalist class over the impending crash of the banking system reached another new level on Monday with the publication...

Lammy, Labour’s Foreign Secretary, Is Whipping Up War Fever Against Russia!

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THE UK’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State have both been very busy whipping up a ‘war fever’...

ICJ Hearing on Israeli occupation of Palestine opens – working class must demand general...

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Yesterday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened its historic hearings into the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967. The ICJ, the United Nation’s...

Israel to build rail link into West Bank

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IT IS well known that the desire of the Zionist ruling class in Israel to expand the area under its rule is unquenchable, and...

Brown Hauls Down The Flag

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LIKE a thief in the night Prime Minister Brown sneaked into Basra airport on Saturday night to tell British troops that their period of...

Politically bankrupt Starmer will seek to force the working class to pay for the...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s speech at the TUC Congress yesterday spelt out precisely to delegates that this Labour government is determined to inflict all the pain...