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Smash the capitalist state, sack the chief constables, no to police commissioners!

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THE Tory-LibDem coalition is set to introduce a ‘reform programme’ for the police that will establish regimes of elected police commissioners, who will have...

Workers Reject Tories And Lib-Dems, Now Take Action To Get The Coalition Out!

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THE Tories and the LibDems were whipped around the country in the council elections, with Labour retaking Liverpool and numerous cities and towns, as...

EU set to EXPLODE

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THE developing world-wide economic crisis is now bringing the contradictions inside the EU together and sharpening them to the point of a massive transformation...
Youth in London burning the US flag in October 2001 after the war on Afghanistan began

Trade Unions Must Stop Labour Destroyng NHS

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THANKS to the Labour government’s health market the NHS is on the brink of a large number of hospital trust closures and thousands...

Putin Alarm At US War Drive

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THE fact that the deepening capitalist crisis is turning the whole planet into a US war zone has begun to seriously alarm the Russian...

Gove’s new ‘extremism definition’ prepares way for crackdown on all opposition to Israeli genocide

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COMMUNITIES secretary Michael Gove in Parliament yesterday made a short statement introducing the Tories new definition of extremism which now encompasses ‘non-violent extremism’. Almost all...

Contradictions of UK capitalism sharpening to explosion point!

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TORY PM Cameron has declared, in the last few days, that he will be pushing through austerity measures until the end of the next...

While FIFA looks the other way Palestinian children are being tortured

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IT is a monstrous betrayal of the Palestinian people that the FIFA Congress immersed itself in the corrupt affairs of billionaire, big business soccer,...

Capitalism is ‘At War’ – answer Cameron with general strike

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BRITISH capitalism is ‘at war’ Cameron told the bosses yesterday, an ‘economic war’ which requires the state to rip up the rule book, strip off...

Landlords ban DSS tenants! End the housing crisis through putting an end to...

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AT LEAST one in 10 landlords are ‘unlawfully’ advertising their flat for rent by saying that they do not accept tenants on housing benefit,...

CBI and Brown spell out the cuts message

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THE CBI New Year’s message calls for ‘a new and re-energised government by the summer, with – we hope – the authority to take...

Fighting Words Must Be Matched By Fighting Deeds!

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LAST Wednesday, Dave Prentis, general secretary of the country’s second largest union, Unison, made a speech urging a ‘popular uprising in defence of the...

Bankers get their bonuses – workers get stick

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THE coalition, as expected, has signalled to the bankers that their multi-million bonuses are safe, emboldening the head of Barclays to tell the House...

Opportunist Burnham launches drive to replace opportunist Miliband!

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BURNHAM, who served as Labour’s health secretary under Gordon Brown and enthusiastically pursued polices to privatise the NHS, cut its budget and bankrupt it...

Taxation Slump Hits Labour!

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A WEEK ago the Chairman of the Bank of England, King, suggested that those who said they were seeing the ‘green shoots of recovery’...

May assumes dictatorial powers over Parliament – time to bring her down with a...

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TORY Prime Minister Theresa May was determined on Monday to avoid a substantive vote in Parliament on ‘her right’ to go to war and...

No secret talks! Reinstate the strikes! Sack Hayes and Ward!

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THE CWU postal workers top leadership, Hayes and Ward, on Thursday called off the rolling strikes and suspended all strike action, except in the...

Demoralised Tory leaders are demanding a national government

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THE prospects for the 2015 May 7 general election – taking place after more than five years of savage austerity measures that have...

Occupy To Stop Steel Sackings – Bring Down The Tories To Nationalise Steel

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THE shutdown of the steel industry continued yesterday without a single call from the trade unions for action to stop the closures and defend...

General Rose supports the Iraqis right to fight occupiers

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GENERAL Rose, who was the commander of the UN forces in Bosnia, has just publicly supported the right of the Iraqi insurgents to fight...

Workers defeat Labour Party coupists with increased majority for Corbyn

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313,209 Labour Party members and supporters with their leadership vote for Jeremy Corbyn, have driven back the right wing coup attempt that was underway,...

Zionists’ murderous onslaught on Palestinians – UK unions must act now!

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A ONE-day strike was called yesterday by Palestinians in the city of Jenin following the murder of two Palestinians by Israeli troops in a...

Tories crushed in by-elections – TUC must take action now to bring them down!

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THE TORIES have been smashed by two huge by-election defeats, in a couple of their ‘safe’ seats, Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, where their large...

Tories seek to smash NHS up into 42 pieces! Entire working class must strike...

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TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new government White Paper in Parliament on Thursday pushing a complete reorganisation of the...

FBU Warns Tory PM And London’s Labour Mayor ‘Not To Impose Unthinkable Cuts!’

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has vowed to fight ‘unthinkable’ proposals to cut the budget for the London Fire Brigade by £25m over two...

Cameron’s all-powerful police state is to fight the working class

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THE beginning of PM Cameron’s speech to the recalled House of Commons was an attempt to divorce the youth uprising that is taking place...

TAKE ACTION to stop Chase Farm closure!

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THE Independent Reconfiguration Panel, set up to cut and close the NHS, has once again recommended to Health Secretary Lansley that the closure of...

Palestinians are rising up to defend their land and achieve their State of Palestine...

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THE temperature is rising all over the Middle East as US and Israel seek to force the Palestinians to accept the dirty ‘deal of...

Workers across the world support call for a ‘Strike for Gaza’

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HOSPITALS in the Gaza Strip are ‘stretched to breaking point’ and infections are ‘exploding’ the UN reported yesterday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination...

Tory-Led Coalition Sets Up A ‘Star Chamber’

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HISTORICALLY, the term Star Chamber is synonymous with feudal oppression and dictatorship over the people and over parliament, specifically with the attempts of...

Pound drops and inflation rises as recession grows

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THE pound fell to an exchange rate of $1.77 yesterday, its lowest level for two-and-a-half years. In June sterling was trading at $2, but...

British capitalism is going down, the working class must defend its rights and go...

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ON MONDAY shock figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed that Britain is £490 billion poorer than it was thought to be...

Demagogue Brown ‘names and shames’ the public sector

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THE PCS trade union yesterday accused the bankers’ Prime Minister, Gordon Brown of ‘beginning a bidding war on who can cut the most.’ The...

Irish Union Votes To Repudiate Bank Debt!

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The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union is to contact ‘like-minded unions’ to seek ‘international legal opinion regarding the possibility of mounting a successful legal...

Smash the surveillance society – smash the capitalist state!

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HARD on the heels of the revelations last June from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden that American and British spy agencies can access all...

Commissioners will slash and burn local services!

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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Tory County Council has imposed emergency spending controls twice in the last six months and is now in a ‘truly perilous state’, having...

Cotton Goes, But Savage Fire Cuts Continue – Workers Councils Of Action Must Impose...

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YESTERDAY, the London Fire Brigade’s (LFB) commissioner, Dany Cotton, announced that she was resigning from her post four months early. Cotton came under sustained criticism...

Join the WRP to organise a general strike and a socialist revolution!

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PM KeIr Starmer’s humiliating retreat on Tuesday, over his plans to drastically cut the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) benefits for disabled workers has opened...

End the NHS cuts! Reopen the A&Es!

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FINANCIAL pressures could get in the way of the drive to improve care following the Stafford Hospital scandal, experts said yesterday, confirming the obvious,...

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...

Union leaders must call action now over NHS pay or resign!

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THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour government has declared all-out war on all NHS staff with its decision to impose a...

Labour Set To Deport Thousands Of Asians And Africans

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RETROSPECTIVE changes to the Highly Skilled Migration Programme (HSMP) which originally passed into law in 2006 will mean thousands of non-EU migrants being forced...

Clarke staggers on as Tories hold back from resignation call

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The ex-Home Secretary Blunkett was forced to resign after interfering to get his lover’s nanny special treatment from the passport office, and then seeking...

Bring Down The Tories – Forward To A Workers Government!

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THE general election campaign by both Tories and Labour kicked off on Thursday night with separate television interviews of Cameron and Miliband. While Miliband was...

Afghan Airport blasts kill 90 including 13 US troops! Imperialism’s historic defeat must spur...

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THE US and UK’s military and political defeat in Afghanistan has laid bare the crisis of imperialism for the workers of the world to...