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Stop the A&E closures! End the £50bn of NHS cuts! Defend the NHS by...

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GROWING demand on A&E departments will make them unsustainable if effective action is not taken quickly, according to MPs on the Health Committee. Launching a...

UK Trade Unions Must Give Full Support To Palestinians!

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ONE more Palestinian journalist, along with several members of her family, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s...

Conference On ‘Inclusive Capitalism’ Fears The Worst For The System!

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ON Tuesday the world’s major investors, plus celebrities such as ex-President Clinton, confirmed admirers, and even relics of feudal society such as Prince Charles,...

US bombings condemned as a War Crime

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THE medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has rightly denounced the targeted bombing by US planes of its medical centre in the...

Osborne reveals new 10% cuts, while Duncan Smith volunteers to put welfare to the...

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SEVEN departments of government, the Ministry of Justice, Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Energy and Climate Change, HM Treasury, the Cabinet...

Tories are being whipped into line by the international banks!

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‘A SPEECH to calm the party and the country’ was how the Tory-supporting Daily Mail greeted the speech by newly installed prime minister Rishi...

Ireland’s ‘mother and baby’ homes report – Church and state complicit in 9,000...

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NINE thousand children died in Irish ‘mother and baby’ homes run by the Catholic Church throughout the 20th century, a long awaited report has...

Workers forced into debt and facing jail to keep the banks from crashing

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T EMERGED yesterday that the number of debt repayment orders issued by the courts last year reached a record level of 1.15 million. These official...

Hague refuses to halt assault on Sirte

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ON Tuesday Foreign Minister Hague told Sky TV that he would not tell the counter-revolutionaries to cancel their planned assault on the city of...

Hamas Urges Free Nations To Intervene To Stop Israel Weaponising Food! Act To Break...

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza has confirmed that the Israeli occupation has utterly failed in its attempt to distribute aid within ‘racial...

The USA Is Determined To Surrender Afghanistan To The Taliban!

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A SEVEN-DAY ‘reduction in violence’ between the US and the Afghan Taliban began on February 21, with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying,...

Labour plans ruthless cuts and mass privatisation of public sector to ‘save’ British capitalism

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The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public...

Workers’ rights can only be secured by revolution

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YESTERDAY the former ‘hammer’ of the teachers trade unions, Michael Gove, the new Justice Secretary who wants to abolish the Human Rights Act, was...

French workers are battling a Macron dictatorship while workers are now taking strike action...

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THOUSANDS of French workers have blocked a key highway around Paris and have stepped up strike action at oil refineries in a new massive...

Stop the A&E closure programme by booting out the Tory coalition

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JUST days after Health Secretary Hunt was found to be acting unlawfully with his plan to close the A&E and other facilities at Lewisham...

To disband the police force and defend the NHS from privateers the TUC...

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ON Thursday, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced new government reforms of the police disciplinary system which means that in future any police officer...

McDonnell refuses to even whisper the word ‘socialism’

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A FEW short weeks ago at the Labour Party conference, the ‘left’ shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, proudly announced that the party would no longer...

Tories mired in scandal over Cameron and Greensill as financial collapse the ‘canary in...

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THE MOST recent development in the collapse of Greensill Capital has been the revelations of all the lobbying for government bail-outs by ex-Tory prime...

Tories aiming for a national government

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LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation was one in which the ruling class could not rule in the old way, and was riven with...

Arrest the criminals and charge them for the murder of every man, woman and...

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‘71 DEAD. And still no arrests? How come?’ read three large billboards on trucks demanding justice following the Grenfell Tower fire. They were...

Israel bombs ‘safe’ Rafah camp with Palestinians ‘burnt alive’ in melting tents

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ON SUNDAY night, Israeli planes launched a devastating attack on a tent camp in the Tel Al Sultan neighbourhood in western Rafah which is...

BBC reveals how police abuse body cameras – time to disband the police and...

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IN 2005, the Metropolitan Police introduced a trial of body-worn cameras for police officers, a move that was quickly rolled out by forces throughout...

Nationalise All The Banks To Bring In A Planned Socialist Economy!

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THE Tory Party has been driven to the brink of hysteria by the fact that the capitalist world banking system is on the brink...

US engulfed by political crisis as Biden is forced out

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ON SUNDAY, US president Joe Biden caved in to the demands of senior Democrats and the Wall Street supporters of the party to step...

Workers must call general strikes to break the Israeli siege of Palestine

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THE Hamas Ministry of Health said on Wednesday that 102 Palestinian citizens were martyred and 287 others injured in 5 Israeli massacres in Gaza...

Johnson Follows On In May’s Footsteps As He Seeks Eu Renegotiation!

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AFTER weeks of near silence, Boris Johnson finally emerged yesterday to launch his campaign for the leadership of the Tory party and replace May...

DECISIVE ACTION NEEDED TO DEfEND THE NHS AND WELFARE STATE

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On Tuesday, NHS North West London announced that it would close A&E departments at Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing Hospitals. Two million west...

Tory war on unemployed must be answered with a general strike to kick them...

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THE LATEST Tory onslaught on the unemployed was revealed by Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday when he praised the ‘Way...

Inflation Out Of Control – Only Solution Is Get Rid Of Capitalism!

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BRITISH capitalism has plunged even deeper into debt! It was revealed yesterday that interest payments on the massive £2.4 trillion national debt have more...

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...

Johnson wants Labour to junk the unions!

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LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor has declared that it is time for the Labour Party to completely dump the union bloc vote in future leadership elections. Johnson,...

‘Sell Everything!’ Shrieks The Rbs!

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IN his November Autumn statement, Chancellor Osborne was full of optimism that the crisis of world and British capitalism was being resolved, with his...

The needs of profit making are a higher morality than bourgeois law

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THE High Court yesterday ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption inquiry into a £43bn Saudi arms deal....

Take action to defend jobs. Occupy and organise a general strike!

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FACED with the crash of the pound and the enormous 182,000 leap in the number of unemployed in the three months to October, the...

US and South Korea ‘pour gasoline onto the fire’ says North Korea

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THE US and South Korea have begun conducting annual military drills, ignoring North Korean appeals to halt the exercises. Last week North Korea appeared to...

UK has not offered to take in a single Syrian refugee!

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THE fact that the UK ruling coalition is involved up to its neck in organising the war in Syria, and is also keeping it...

THE HOUSING CRISIS: Nationalise construction companies and banks!

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AVERAGE house prices in Britain are now 10.5 per cent lower than they were a year ago, according to figures published yesterday by Nationwide,...

Brown Favours Bush’s ‘New World Order’

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has spoken of the need for a ‘new world order’. He is not embarrassed that this is what President Clinton and...

170,000 workers marched for Palestine last Saturday. Trade unions must call a general...

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THE WHO (World Health Organisation) has joined the United Nations in urging Israel to immediately rescind orders for the imminent invasion of Gaza which...

Bank of England increases interest rates as capitalism dives into financial crash and recession

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THE BANK of England’s Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and voted to increase interest rates by 0.25%, pushing the rate up to 4.25% –...

Suicide guidelines for Jobcentres

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THE leaking of new guidelines to staff working with the unemployed exposes the barbarity of the coalition government’s onslaught on the sick, vulnerable and...

Blair fans anti-youth hysteria – while capitalist state gunmen return to work

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YESTERDAY the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, joined in the hysterical attack that the state and bosses are launching on Britain’s youth. Millions of young people...

Israel Is Targeting Protection Teams In Gaza As Part Of Its Genocidal Slaughter...

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WITH the number of Palestinian dead in Gaza rising to nearly 45,000 due to the US-backed Israeli genocide campaign, the Israeli occupation army’s appetite...

SA hunger can only be ended by a socialist revolution

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ONE in four South Africans are unemployed, and poverty is rife eighteen years after the release of Nelson Mandela and 14 years after he...

Corbyn must stand fast, remain LP leader and demand a general election NOW!

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ON June 23, the masses of the working class rose up and crushed the Cameron leadership of the Tory party by voting to leave...