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Lid lifted on US torture regime while the UK’s role is redacted!

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THE REPORT by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) very belatedly exposes the CIA torture regime that was imposed after the 2001...

Half of adults in UK face being crushed by debt – Socialist Revolution the...

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THE GIGANTIC scale of personal debt in Britain has been revealed in the publication yesterday of the biggest ever survey of households conducted by...

Spanish Opel workers vote for strike action!

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WORKERS at Opel’s factory in Zaragossa, Spain, have announced four days of strikes starting next week, after failing to reach an agreement with Magna...

Euro zone high stakes gamble with 1 trillion euros on the table

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Euro-zone leaders have taken the desperate measure of risking all on one throw of the dice, after advancing an almost $1 trillion package...

Disband The Met Police – Get Rid Of UK Capitalism – Forward With The...

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THE latest available statistics give an indication of just how diseased the Metropolitan Police is, and just how great the need is for it...

Miners charged with murder – ANC stands with the bosses!

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANC government and its state apparatus have taken a very clear class stand, alongside international capital, with their decision to charge...

Now is the time to break the siege of Gaza

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FREEDOM FLOTILLA Volunteers seized during Israel’s murderous raid of last Sunday night, many of whom were beaten and tortured (see page one) are...

Durham Miners’ Gala must demand a General Strike!

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TENS OF thousands of workers and youth are taking part in today’s historic Durham Miners’ Gala at a time when the capitalist system is...

Hurry And Make Peace With Taleban Urge Mps

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THE start of an Afghan-led peace deal with the Taleban is needed to secure the future of Afghanistan after British troops leave, a group...

Hamas salutes the victory of the Syrian people which points the way forward for...

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THE head of Hamas’ foreign political bureau Khaled Mishaal, said yesterday that the victory of the Syrian people heralds the victory for the Islamic...

Corporations and businesses face bankruptcy across UK & Europe as loan defaults double in...

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A WAVE of companies across the UK and the rest of Europe will be forced into bankruptcy as new figures show that the default...

No to school reopening and a forced return to work – for a general...

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WHILE the Tories were hailing the relaxation of the lockdown rules that came into effect yesterday in England as a giant step forward, senior...

King urinates on the green shoots of recovery

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‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...

‘A positive response’ says Bush on Iran

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US President George W Bush has welcomed Iran’s initial reaction to a proposal from the EU states designed to achieve a deal with...

US arms Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia for war with Iran

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THAT the US is preparing a new great war in the Middle East and the Gulf to destroy Iran and Syria is crystal clear...

Gove declares war on state education! Kick the Tories out!

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THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has unleashed yet another broadside against state education and the teaching profession in a speech on Monday where...

Workers action shakes Rajapakse

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A FIERCE struggle has erupted in Sri Lanka between the military-police dictatorship of Mahinda Rajapakse and over a hundred thousand garment workers in the...

State to give bankrupt bankers cash in exchange for their paper rubbish

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PRIME Minister Brown has made an appeal to the Wall Street bankers to be honest, surely a contradiction in terms. He wants them to publicly...

TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers

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THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...

US sanctions UN human rights expert after her damning ‘economy of genocide’ report on...

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FRANCESCA Albanese, the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has been sanctioned by the US government after she...

Car Factories Could Be Closed In A Matter Of Weeks Says Unite! Occupy Them...

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FOR THE first time since coronavirus erupted in China shutting down Chinese manufacturing, cutting off the supply of vital components and commodities to the...

Cutting deposit rates below zero is a gigantic gamble!

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AN ‘historic gamble’, a giant ‘leap into the unknown’ – these were just two of the headlines that greeted the news that last Thursday...

King rocks MPs with £61.6bn secret emergency loan revelation

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THE Bank of England governor, Mervyn King, has dropped a bombshell in a letter to the House of Commons Treasury Committee. He revealed...

Deutsche Bank on verge of catastrophic crash that will bring down world banks

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THE GIANT German Deutsche Bank announced yesterday that it was slashing more than 7,000 jobs from its global investment arm as part of a...

Johnson’s new attack to break up the NHS

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LABOUR’S Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans yesterday to allow well-off patients to make so-called ‘co-payments’ for drugs and extra treatments, while still receiving...

Forward to a public sector general strike to smash Brown’s wage cutting policies

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GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...

THE TUC must take general strike action to support Palestine and bring in a...

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‘THE report issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhry, on the Israeli-induced starvation in the Gaza Strip...

Labour’s deputy leader plans a party-within-a-party to smash Labour

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THE PLOTS by the Labour right-wing, led by the deputy leader Tom Watson, to completely split the Labour Party and remove Corbyn have accelerated...

The knife without a blade as Hunt defies May!

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MAY’S ‘reshuffle’ that never was continues her recent career in which everything that could go wrong has, but such is the feebleness of...

Labour – Dancing To A Tory Tune – Is Attacking The Trade Unions

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THE Unite union, which in recent years has prevented the Labour Party from going bust and has financed its election campaigns with donations of...

Labour prepares for war – time to kick them out!

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IT was revealed this week that the Labour government is set to introduce changes to a new armed forces bill, due to come before...

Cameron Get Out – follow Harper’s lead!

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HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...

As Israel Steps Up Its Massacre Of Palestinians The TUC And Trade Unions Worldwide...

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THE Israeli occupation forces in Palestine are continuing with their genocide and have committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the...

Tories are the party of the bankers, the bosses and the landlords! Tenants beware!

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THE south-east London borough of Newham achieved the dubious record of having the biggest rise in house prices in the whole of the UK...

UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...

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LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...

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...

UK political crisis emerges over demands for ceasefire in Gaza!

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THE House of Commons dived headlong into a political crisis as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support for...

Ukraine – Under The Iron Heel Of The Imf!

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THE coupist regime in Kiev has reached a preliminary deal with the International Monetary Fund to try to unlock $27 billion of ‘international support’...

Cox joins the war criminals with her plan to attack Syria!

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ON Monday evening in the House of Commons Labour MP Jo Cox came to the rescue of Cameron and the Tories when she...

Victory To Gadaffi – Defeat The Nato Gangsters!

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ON Saturday, Colonel Gadaffi stated that the counter-revolutionary groups that had tried to rise up in a number of areas in Tripoli had been...

End war crimes by destroying capitalism with socialist revolution

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THE TORY defence secretary Ben Wallace has been ordered by a judge to come up with an explanation as to why the British government...

Canada Bans Arms Sales To Israel – UK And US Workers Must Force Their...

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A CANADIAN government official said that Canada will stop exporting weapons to Israel due to the continued international criticism of its ongoing war on...

Trump Threatens To De-Fund New York, Seattle And Portland!

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THE TRUMP administration has stepped up its war on ‘Marxists and radicals’ naming three major cities that it has targeted to strip of their...

Macron’s response promising permanent austerity will drive revolution forward

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ON THURSDAY evening French president Emmanuel Macron finally made a public address outlining his response to the revolutionary uprising of workers, youth and the...

British capitalism is stuck in the mire of slump!

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THE UK’s public sector net borrowing hit a record high of £20.3 billion in November, official figures show. The figure was the highest for any...