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Banking Crisis Heading For The Precipice!

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THE INABILITY of the US economy to recover from its jobs slump, alongside the colossal indebtedness of the EU banks – German, Italian, French...

Unemployment and inflation surges as Cameron threatens immigrants’ benefits

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THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown....

Answer Tory plans to use military as strike breakers with a general strike...

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With nurses and thousands of NHS workers planning to take national strike action next month over their demands for pay increases to protect them...

UK, US And EU Workers And Youth Must Support Iranian Revolution – The Enemy...

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FRESH from his failure to grab Greenland US President Donald Trump has turned his attention to the Iranian Revolution and issued his warning to...

UK workers must force the TUC to call a general strike to support Palestine!

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HAMAS leader Yahya Sinwar was murdered on Thursday in Rafah, southern Gaza, by Israeli troops after a tank shelled the building he entered. Seen defiantly...

Pogromist Johnson Speaks Up For The Security Services

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BORIS JOHNSON writes in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, in the wake of the Rigby trial, ‘the most important question now is how we prevent other...

Tory lies over ‘Syrian gas attack’ exposed!

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THE ENTIRE justification for last Friday’s illegal bombing of Syria by British, US and French forces is falling apart rapidly as the truth emerges. The...

Euro Crisis Intensifies!

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GERMANY’S Chancellor, Angela Merkel, says she is satisfied with the EU deal to help finance the debt-laden eurozone banks without the sovereign state, in...

Don’t let them drive the trade unions out of politics

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IT IS now becoming obvious that the furore over parliamentary expenses and their alleged misuse, involving at least one leading Tory MP, was just...

Wal-Mart Asda Blinks First To Avoid Costly Five Day Strike Action

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‘GMB members win the right to collective bargaining in the UK, Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots’, is what the GMB trade union optimistically labelled the...

Unions Must Be Made To Take Action To Defend Steel Industry Jobs And Pensions!

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THE TORY government is on the brink of a savage attack on Tata Steel workers’ pensions, and after four weeks of consultation will be...

Take Strike Action To Halt Closure Of Automated Mail Centres

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ROYAL MAIL, acting on its brief from the government has announced the closure of major automated sorting centres which will affect Liverpool. Oldham, Bolton,...

Egyptian Revolution Drives Zionism Into Massive Crisis!

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PALESTINIANS are poised to march in their millions on 15th September both inside and outside the occupied territories, and throughout the world, including...

Trump sends 15,000 troops to Mexican border – threatening to open fire on migrants!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump spat on the Statue of Liberty this week and the revolutionary history of the United States, especially its call from...

Barber’s two ‘big worries’, the crisis of capitalism and workers’ anger!

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BRENDAN Barber the TUC general secretary in his New Year message confesses that he has two ‘big worries’ for the year 2008. He...

Socialist revolution the only road for youth!

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The Centre for Cities has predicted that the number of long-term unemployed young people, between 16 and 24 years of age in Britain, will...

Working class will refuse to pay for Carillion bankruptcy

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THE BANKRUPTCY last January of Carillion, Britain’s largest construction company, is going to cost the working class more than £150 million on top of...

GM quits South Africa as car giants go from a credit fuelled boom to...

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THE shock decision announced last week that General Motors (GM), the world’s largest car manufacturer, is ending production of vehicles in South Africa is...

After the US-UK defeat in Afghanistan, al-Houthi calls on the US and Saudis to...

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AT A press conference held on the Kabul airport tarmac, on Monday afternoon, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the US had been defeated and...

840,000 tenants are facing eviction over rent arrears – only socialist revolution can stop...

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A REPORT by the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has warned of a ‘rent debt crisis’ as up to 840,000 people in England and...

Spanish workers on the road to revolution

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SPANISH PM Mariano Rajoy has just announced a 3% VAT rise from 18%-21%, and a series of austerity measures that will cut the Spanish...

UK banks fail stress test while manufacturing collapses

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LAST Friday the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the results of its stress test on 51 of the biggest banks throughout Europe and Britain. Fearful...

Left Fabianism cannot beat the bosses! Forward to the British socialist revolution!

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LABOUR Leader Corbyn, launching Labour’s manifesto at Bradford University yesterday, sought to launch a gradual Fabian ‘revolution’, at a snail’s pace, to begin to...

Data bases and electronic spying won’t save the bourgeoisie

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THE inventor of the genetic technology behind the national DNA database has said that the database’s unlimited expansion to include millions of people who...

Tory Government Is Going For A Showdown With The Rail Unions!

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THE cost of living is now rocketing thanks to PM Johnson’s and Foreign Secretary Truss’ determination to inflame the war in the Ukraine and...

Bank of England Governor warns of ‘apocalyptic’ food crisis and admits Bank powerless to...

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ANDREW Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, bluntly spelt out to MPs that the world faces an ‘apocalyptic’ food crisis that will have...

Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’

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TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...

Zionist regime escalates genocide in Gaza City

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SINCE the Israeli regime’s war cabinet vote last week to occupy Gaza City and force the removal of its entire Palestinian population of one...

Massive Protests In Romania And Hungary

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MASS protests are erupting in the eastern wing of the EU, in Romania and Hungary, against the austerity programmes of EU governments whose countries...

Hague Beats The War Drums Against Syria

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YESTERDAY saw the spectacle of Foreign Secretary Hague complaining that every Jihadist on the planet was heading for Syria, after both he and his...

Break with the EU now! Forward to a Workers Government and the United...

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WHEN TORY PM May went to the European Union to try and sell her Chequers plan she was met with a unanimous ‘NO’ from...

Act To Stop The Privatisation Of Royal Mail!

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ROYAL MAIL bosses, Chairman Allan Leighton and Chief Executive Adam Crozier, are calling on the Labour government to give the go-ahead for them to...

Pensions are now a revolutionary question

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TUC leader, Brendan Barber, said yesterday in his gloom and doom-ridden New Year’s message that the Lord Adair Turner pensions report created ‘tough decisions’,...

The Fire Brigade Is Not To Blame For The Grenfell Inferno!

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‘THE whole thing was hell, it was like a war zone,’ fire crew manager Charlie Batterbee, part of the first crew who entered Grenfell...

Israeli air raids on Gaza as Netanyahu threatens war with Iran!

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THE Palestinian government has condemned the Saturday night-Sunday morning Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip which killed two Palestinian youth and injured many...

No Pensions sell-out! Sack Prentis and Barber! Forward to the General Strike! Build new...

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THE reformist trade union leaders are once again, on the pensions issue, showing that they are organically incapable of defending the basic gains of...

Tory austerity gives workers choice of ‘eat, heat or pay rent’ – Time to...

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‘EAT, heat or pay rent’ that is the stark choice facing millions of low paid and unemployed workers living in private rented accommodation in...

EU raises the need for a European army, navy and airforce

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THE super-imperialist ambitions of the European Union (EU) have begun to emerge in the wake of its Brexit defeat in the UK. So far, its...

White House interns demand Biden calls a permanent ceasefire in Gaza!

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AS ISRAEL ramps up its war efforts to slaughter even more Palestinians in southern Gaza, in the US a group of White House interns...

Free the five and give them full British citizenship

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THE UK government has requested the release of five British residents from US custody at Guantanamo Bay, something which the Blair government, in which...

Super-rich elite is thumbing its nose at super-exploited workers and commuters!

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RESEARCH into FTSE 100 chief executives’ pay packages and the just-published findings have confirmed to angry workers that they have been taken for a...

Queen’s Speech leaked as axe set to fall on public sector and business grants!

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THE leaking of the Queen’s budget speech is unprecedented, and is an expression of the depth of the split and the cynicism in the...

USA supplies Syrian gangs with latest anti-tank weapons

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THE US, UK and Saudi-backed and organised ‘rebels’ who have failed to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, who has the support...

While Israel Lifts Its Lockdown, The Palestinian People Are Dying In Droves!

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THE PALESTINIAN Authority’s Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission said yesterday that the Israeli occupation authorities are maintaining the unfair policy of medical negligence of...

Refugees branded as ‘illegals’ by EU

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THIS week, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, threatened that the EU would deport the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist...