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New head of IMF warns $19 trillion debt time bomb will crash world economy

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THE NEWLY-appointed head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued the starkest warning yet that world capitalism is on the point of...

Coupist regime begins ‘purification campaign’

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CURRENTLY the Ukrainian parliament is under siege by fascist bands led by the Svoboda and Right Sector movements demanding that MPs pass a law recognising...

On The Eve Of The Budget, Workers Are Demanding Action To Bring Down...

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THE TUC General Council has met and issued a statement on the crisis. In it, it disgracefully treats the Tory government as a potential...

Palestinians reaction to Israel’s onslaught has been to increase their support for revolutionary...

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A NEW opinion poll shows that public support for the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and armed confrontation, as the best means to end Israeli...

May reveals Tories fear of revolution

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YESTERDAY’S speech to the Charity Commission by Tory prime minister, Theresa May, attracted much comment on her proposals on raising the profile of mental health...

The Unity Of The Working Class With The Oppressed Nations Is The Way To...

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IRAN launched a multiple missile attack against two bases in Iraq that contain US troops and other coalition forces on Wednesday night in retaliation...

EU is going up in flames! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!

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THE European Union is like a huge powder magazine that started to smoulder even before the Brexit vote in the UK on June 23rd,...

‘Cameron ‘wouldn’t last 30 seconds’ if voters back leaving EU

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PM Cameron earlier last week insisted he would remain Prime Minister even if he lost the June 23 referendum. This position has been challenged in...

Civil Rights lawyers closed down by Tories

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THE law firm that has spent ten years representing the Iraqi victims of the brutal imperialist invasion of their country and the subsequent occupation...

Milburn makes his move for the Labour leadership

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TWO former Cabinet ministers have e-mailed all Labour MPs, calling for an ‘open debate’ on the party’s future. The two are Charles Clarke, the ex-Home...

Free Julian Assange! Imperialists are the real war criminals!

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JULIAN Assange’s extradition hearing resumed in London yesterday with the US government once again throwing in new charges at the last moment. According to reports,...

Bank of England to unleash hyperinflation in a desperate attempt to save capitalism

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REPORTS emerged over the weekend that the Bank of England is on the verge of announcing another massive round of money printing to pay...

An all-out assault on the working class and the poor

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TORY attempts to convince the working class, the middle class and the poor that the ‘recovery’ has begun and things are looking better, are...

Trump Is Organising A US Coup Not A Presidential Election Campaign!

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IN HIS FOURTH of July speech US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claims are out to...

Workers are giving 100% support to the ambulance service strikers – now finish off...

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THE GMB has suspended its Christmas Strike date for ambulance service workers, right at the time when the Tories are reeling from their deadly...

EU was ready to risk scrapping Good Friday Agreement to get ahead in the...

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THAT the Covid-19 pandemic world crisis has sharpened the contradictions of the capitalist system to the point of vaccine wars and revolutionary explosions is...

Support Palestinian General Strike

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TEACHERS, hospital workers and other government workers have come out on general strike in the West Bank and Gaza Strip following the non-payment of...

Hague, Cameron will join Obama’s war on Syria

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PRIME MINISTER Cameron and Foreign Secretary Hague, despite the fact that the Tory cabinet and party are split on the issue, yesterday gave their...

King admits no recovery in sight

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THE Bank of England governor, Mervyn King got ready for a somersault in economic policy yesterday, when he told the Treasury Select Committee that...

Unite Leader Graham Condemns Lammy For Refusing To Support BA Striking Workers

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THE leader of the Unite trade union has hit back at comments by David Lammy MP, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, on Sunday, that he...

Free Assange and Manning! The imperialists must be put on trial for ‘war crimes’!

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BRITISH police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in central London on Thursday, which is technically Ecuadorian territory, arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian who...

Workers will reject Tory ‘charm offensive’ – Time to kick them out with a...

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Mark Harper, the latest Tory transport secretary, appeared on the BBC yesterday morning to claim that the government was not responsible for blocking any...

US policy of attacking independent media outlets is proven

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THERE have been quite a large number of journalists killed by US forces in Iraq, among them employees of Reuters and other European news...

Trump And The US Ruling Class Up To Their Necks In The Afghan Quagmire!

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THE US ruling class and its leader President Trump (allegedly much versed in the ‘art of the deal’) are now up to their necks...

Hayes & Ward must go! Build a new leadership in the CWU!

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AS 2,000 postal workers were gearing up for a 24-hour strike on Friday against Royal Mail’s plans to close mail centres, Dave Ward, the...

‘Bleak Houses’ and desperate living conditions for workers and youth in the UK –...

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THE REPORT by Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, ‘Bleak houses: Tackling the crisis of family homelessness in England’, reveals the ‘terrible reality’...

Smash anti-strike law by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick out...

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ON MONDAY, with the Tory anti-strikes Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, back in the House of Commons for its final reading before passing into...

Wolf in sheep’s clothing at the TUC

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THE ‘Wolf’, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, at yesterday’s TUC Congress, sought to explain to the ‘sheep’, the working class,...

A Nest Of Opportunists!

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THE class basis of the Blairite ‘Third Way’ politics is now being clearly revealed for all to see. It is a one hundred per...

Putin draws a line and issues a warning over imperialist war preparations

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RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin slammed the Western powers in his annual end-of-year press conference yesterday, telling the assembled journalists that Russia was cheated by...

Forward To The General Strike – Bring Down The Coalition, Stop All The Cuts...

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500,000 workers, youth and pensioners marched through London on Saturday. Unlike the Labour leaders they were in total opposition to all of the savage cuts...

Tory ‘Orwellian’ attempts to cover Grenfell Tower atrocities in secrecy

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THE CAMPAIGN group ‘openDemocracy’ has revealed evidence of a concerted campaign by a secretive government Freedom of Information (FOI) screening unit to interfere with...

Stop NHS cuts and privatisation – a general strike to defend the NHS

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THE CRISIS in the NHS has reached a breaking point with NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation issuing an unprecedented joint report calling for...

French revolutionary tactics show British workers the way

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THE two general strikes and the massive mobilisations of trade unionists, students, lycee students, and unemployed and working class youth which brought millions onto...

The ‘Peace Process’ is a Fraud!

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THE long-serving Palestinian prisoners whom Israel has pledged to release, and whose pledge prepared the way for the Palestinian leader Abbas to reopen the...

Soros backed ‘Fifth Column’ calls for second EU referendum – Workers must force the...

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THE EU Brexit chief negotiator has declared that he is not prepared to compromise with the UK government over the decision of the British...

‘Left’ Tsipras government humiliated as workers abstain in general election

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SYRIZA (the coalition of the left) party crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party in the...

Take strike action to support the firefighters and trade unionism

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THE use of police dogs to ‘protect’ scabs at a south London fire station during yesterday’s one day strike by London FBU members shows...

No recovery in the US, EU or UK – socialism the only way forward

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THE UK’S Bank of England yesterday followed the lead of the US Federal Reserve Bank whose Chairman Bernanke had on Tuesday said that...

Capitalism in deflationary crisis

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THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...

Cameron to ‘Keep capitalism safe’ with more savage attacks on workers!

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ON Wednesday, King, the governor of the Bank of England, said of the developing crisis in the eurozone that his Monetary Policy Committee believes...

The Republicans Are In A Desperate Crisis While The Democrats Have No Way Forward...

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US PRESIDENT TRUMP going down with the coronavirus has sharpened the crisis of the imperialist powers, including the UK, who were up till now...

Darling Outlines Cuts For All – Except The Bankers And Bosses

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THE price of gold has touched $1,000 an ounce for the first time in six months, more than three times greater than what it...

University Fees £9,500 and rising! Socialist revolution will end all fees!

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NOT one, but two tuition fee hikes have been announced by the Tory government in the last two weeks: first to £9,250 and then...

Organise a general strike! Bring down Brown government! Go forward to socialism

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THE leaders of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the University and College Union (UCU) and the...