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Shut down the House of Lords and purge the House of Commons! Leave the...

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THE MAY government avoided a House of Commons defeat for the Brexit Withdrawal Bill last Tuesday by making promises to the leading Tory Remainer,...

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...

NO Apology to UNITE – Miliband to continue with anti-union campaign!

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UNITE’S general secretary Len McCluskey has said he is delighted the union has been ‘vindicated’ over the Falkirk ‘vote-rigging’ allegations Labour has decided no individual...

Victory for Uber workers – now end the gig economy for good with socialist...

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THE LARGE taxi app company Uber announced yesterday it would start treating over 70,000 of its drivers in the UK as employed workers entitled...

Labour pauperises the pensioners – bring it down now!

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FOOD RETAILERS complain that they have been hit by a major increase in shoplifting as workers struggle to put food on the table for...

Sack Gove, May and Cameron! TUC must call a general strike to bring down...

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EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove, who has carried forward the privatisation battle against the teaching trade unions, and driven forward the Free School-Academy agenda,...

Workers In The UK And The Middle East Must Unite To Smash Capitalism And...

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THE JORDANIAN Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh has just warned against vicious attempts by the Israeli regime to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and...

Standard and Poor puts a pistol to the head of the eurozone

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GERMAN Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble has said Standard & Poor’s (S&P) threat to downgrade all eurozone countries, and saddle them with ruinous interest charges...

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...

Afghan war aid to be quadrupled as education and jobs are slashed!

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BRITISH troops are to to leave Afghanistan by 2014, and a phased withdrawal is due to begin before the end of 2010. This is...

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...

Defend NHS with occupations and a general strike to bring down the government

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Yesterday saw the second reading of the Tory-led coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill in Parliament, a bill designed to facilitate the wholesale closure...

Permanent wage-cutting and zero-hour contracts are all that capitalism has to offer

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THE Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.4%, down from 6.5% in May, with the number of people unemployed...

Firefighters, postal workers, teachers must unite to smash privatisation!

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THE TORY-led coalition is working overtime to privatise the public sector and turn it into a bonanza, a big killing for the big business...

Met chief demands police be beyond the law

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IT emerged yesterday that the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, has been lobbying the Tory home secretary for changes in the...

An NHS For The Rich!

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THE BMA and the main TUC trade unions are completely opposed to the Health and Social Care Bill and have given up all efforts...

Bank of England & US Fed continue to pump out free money to attempt...

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England announced that it will be keeping interest rates on hold at the historical low of 0.1%. This was the unanimous...
PCS  banners on last Saturday’s march to mark the third anniversary of the war on Iraq

The blind Chancellor who cannot see the crisis

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday could not see and would not even hear of a crisis in the British capitalist economy that he has presided...

The working class in its essence is Trotskyist – Now build up its ...

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WORLDWIDE the class struggle is being driven forward by the deepening world crisis of capitalism. This dictates to the bourgeoisie that its survival depends...

Labour plans war on refugees and asylum seekers

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THE LABOUR government of Keir Starmer continues its collapse into total chaos and breakdown this week with a sharp turn to the right orchestrated...

Unions must demand TUC call a general strike to support junior doctors and defend...

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TODAY is the first of four days of strike action by junior doctors throughout the health service in England, in what is the biggest...

General Strike to answer Tory strike ban

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ON Friday the Tories finally produced their plans to ban strikes throughout the public sector should they win the next general election. Draconian new legislation...

Nurses determined to fight the Tories – all trade unions must strike with them...

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The annual conference of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Brighton this week is taking place at a time when the entire NHS...

Global youth are striking against climate change! To save the planet capitalism must be...

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YOUTH in their hundreds of thousands rose up all over the world yesterday in a global strike against climate change. In every continent, and in...

Abolish student loans and debt, and restore grants!

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LAST Monday the coalition government’s drive to privatise every single public service and completely smash up the welfare state took yet another grotesque turn...

Tories and Labour right-wing call for war with Russia

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WAR hysteria dominated the Parliamentary debate on Tuesday, with both Tory and Labour MPs pushing for a full-scale war against Russia over unproven accusations...

Working class erupts throughout the EU – Forward to the Socialist United States of...

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THE CRISIS-RIDDEN EU is exploding as workers from the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Catalonia rise up against the open dictatorship of...

Occupy Grangemouth to defend the union, jobs, wages and pensions

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UNITE has urged Grangemouth workers not to give in to Ineos’ ‘menacing’ tactics to sign away their rights, saying it was looking to take...

Bank and government split as crisis deepens

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THE decision of the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King to name and shame the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Darling, as...

US economy slumps as Obama proposes huge budget debts

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THE American economy contracted by 6.2 per cent in the last three months of last year, as consumer spending dropped by 4.3 per cent...

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...

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...

Obama about-turn on war crimes!

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PRESIDENT Obama said one thing before his election, and now he is saying something else altogether. During his campaign he stood up against the torture...

Zionists deliberately targeting Christians in Palestine

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GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has announced that the Israeli occupation army has killed 20 Palestinian Christians in the Gaza Strip during over 14...

TUC appeal to Osborne – a conscious act of treachery

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IN January the European Trades Union Confederation (ETUC) issued the call for trade unionists across the continent to rally on the eve of the...

Junior doctors must call new strike and the BMA and TUC must stop with...

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THE BMA warned yesterday that ‘Politically driven mismanagement is undermining patient care in England. It was responding to a report from the King’s Fund...

The working class is the hero of the hour – it smashed the Tory...

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IT says something about the scale of the defeat that the Tories and the bosses have suffered over the Mayoral election in London...

The Death Agony Of The Blair Government

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THE Blair government is now under attack from all sides, after its Prime Minister turned yellow and refused to attend the House of Commons...

No Plan B – kick the coalition out!

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The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has gone through its ritual presentation of an ‘alternative’ budget in advance of the coalition government’s budget to be...

Workers targeted by loan companies to pay for private medical treatment

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‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) deals, along with other personal loan arrangements, are being aggressively pushed out for NHS patients as part of the...

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,...

French youth revolution will set Europe ablaze!

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NEITHER the Gendarmerie, nor troops or even the fatwas of the ‘holy men’ can stop the French youth rebellion, which is the product of...

Trade Unions must stop the New Year mass sackings with a general strike

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UNEMPLOYMENT is set to rocket, over and just after Christmas, when up to 100,000 public sector workers are to get their redundancy notices so...

Bring down Blair regime from the left

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THE Blair government suffered two body-blows yesterday. Blair’s main cabinet ally, Blunkett, was forced to resign, and the government’s 66 majority was reduced to...

Defend Libyan revolution! Stop and bring down the oil thieves! Victory to Gadaffi!

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THE French ruling class yesterday officially recognised the Libyan counter-revolutionary rebels of the Transitional National Council as the country's legitimate government, and is due...