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A Plague Of Locusts

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ONCE again the spotlight has been put on the private equity locusts. This time a Financial Times investigation has shown how TPG, CVS and...

The battle for public opinion has been won – now take action to win...

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THE postal workers have the support of the mass of the British people, the public sector trade unions and the other trade unions making...

Zionists intervene to try and prevent Corbyn-led Labour government!

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WITH THE Tory government split, divided, and on the rocks after refusing to carry out the 2016 referendum instruction to ‘Leave the EU’, the...

Chelsea Tories just could not wait to start evicting

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JUST hours after Tory leader Cameron announced that council houses were no longer going to be ‘homes for life’ – but were to be...

French elections ‘shaken’ by surge in working class support for socialist policies

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THIS WEEK has seen a dramatic upsurge of support amongst workers and youth in France for the outsider left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the...

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...

Public debt and pensions black hole

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THE right-wing, free market think tank, the Adam Smith Institute, yesterday hit out at the Tories’ ‘deeply immoral’ failure to bring down the national...

Police demand sources for Dowler leak

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THE Metropolitan police are seeking a court order to force Guardian journalists to reveal their sources for the information that Milly Dowler’s ...

UK ‘pirates’ are doing the USA’s dirty work policing the Med to keep out...

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IRAN has summoned the UK ambassador after UK marines illegally seized an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar. British Royal Marines swooped in...

As Capitalism Shuts Down Workers Must Be Mobilised To Fight For Socialism!

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THE SCENE has been set for today’s budget by the crash of the stockmarkets on Monday March 9th when trillions of pounds were wiped...

Firefighters, postal workers, teachers must unite to smash privatisation!

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THE TORY-led coalition is working overtime to privatise the public sector and turn it into a bonanza, a big killing for the big business...

Kerry Calls In Stalinist Bureaucracy To ‘Resolve’ Syrian Crisis

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IN its hour of need – with Syria resisting massively the attempt at ‘regime change’ organised by the US-UK-Turkey axis, and carried out by...

Victory To The Arab Socialist Revolution!

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THE world capitalist crisis is driving forward the working class and poor of the world to carry through the world socialist revolution, and replace...

Tory Big Brother will be spying on everybody!

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THE News International empire’s phone hacking and spying, and the way that it sought to regulate the government and bend the police force to...

NHS 2007: Pull your own teeth out!

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EVERY day Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Health Secretary Alan Johnson churn out propaganda about ‘improving’ the National Health Service (NHS) and people’s...

Unite The Masses In The Gulf Against Imperialism

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SADDAM HUSSEIN went to his death bravely and heroically, executed by agents of imperialism – the leaders of a puppet government that came to...

Australian workers defeat Abbott government over GP tax

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AUSTRALIA’S biggest health union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), is celebrating the defeat of the Tory Abbott government, which has had...

The Crisis In The Ukraine!

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THE OSCE has revealed the 12-point roadmap behind the September 5 truce signed in Minsk. The document, titled ‘Protocol on the results of consultations...

Furious Hague threatens to recognise the Syrian opposition as the government!

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RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad. He was cheered by tens of thousands of pro-Assad...

WORKING CLASS ACTION TO LEAVE EU ON MARCH 29 IS NEEDED TO DEFEAT MPs...

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PM MAY confirmed yesterday that she will be running off today to meet with EU president Donald Tusk to beg for an extension to...

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...

Trade unions must fight zero hours contracts

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THE news that over one million workers now have ‘zero hours contracts’ and work only when their employer wants them, have no holidays or...

Tories To Ban Right To Strike!

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THE next Tory government will introduce a threshold on union ballots for strike action. PM Cameron has said: ‘I want a Conservative government to...

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...

‘Wrong body’ insult confirms racist state

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Just one week after a demonstration in London by the United Families and Friends Campaign against deaths in police custody has come the shocking...

Labour looks to bitcoin to avoid state bankruptcy

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A TRULY desperate British ruling class is capable of any dodgy manoeuvre to try and avoid the UK state bankruptcy that is inexorably approaching! The...

Greek debt is on an ‘explosive path’ says the IMF

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THE International Monetary Fund has warned that Greece’s debts are on an ‘explosive path’ in its first annual review of the country’s economy since...

Struggle against Assad and Iran more important to US-UK gangsters than defeating ISIS

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UK Prime Minister Cameron said yesterday that the UK supports US airstrikes against the IS not with boots on the ground, but by other...

NHS leaders in Scotland come out in the open with plans to destroy the...

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THE BBC yesterday revealed that NHS leaders in Scotland have been discussing setting up a ‘two-tier’ health service. These discussions were recorded in draft minutes...

US–UK demands war while Karzai calls for peace with Taleban

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US Defence Secretary Gates, and the new US military commander in Afghanistan, General Petraeus have recently been canvassing in London for a doubling of...

King sees nothing but the ‘black cloud of uncertainty’

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THE Governor of the Bank of England yesterday poured gallons of ice cold water over the prospects of British and world capitalism. King cut the...

Grenfell – never again! Build Councils of Action – organise a general strike! Get...

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THE HORROR felt by millions of people after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, immediately...

British Ruling Class To Send Depleted Uranium Shells To The Ukraine!

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THE UK government is sending depleted uranium shells for use in the Challenger 2 tanks gifted to Ukraine, a move CND has condemned as...

EU economy at the end of the road

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THE economy of the Eurozone countries is sinking even deeper into crisis making a mockery of all the talk about an economic ‘recovery’. This was...

Time for regime change in Labour Party – kick out Starmer!

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Up to Wednesday, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer was in a state of complete denial about the depth of the rebellion amongst his own...

Bankrupt capitalism must be replaced by a socialist revolution

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The political shock waves caused by Donald Trump’s election as US President on Wednesday will undermine the already collapsing fragile economies of world capitalism,...

Tory-Led Coalition Breaking Apart – Bring It Down!

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WHILE the Prime Minister is being hailed by the anti-EU section of the Tory Party as standing up for the UK like a...

Staffing cuts causing ‘avoidable’ maternal deaths

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AN independent inquiry into the unusually large number of maternal deaths in London over the past two years has confirmed that the government policy of...

Boeing shares crash – company stands accused of cost cutting that risked air safety

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THE US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has been brought to its knees following two catastrophic crashes of its bestselling aircraft, the short haul 737 Max...

Israel-US considering attack on Syria and Iran

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LATE last week, a leading Israeli minister said that the only people left in southern Lebanon were connected to Hezbollah, giving the Israeli military...

Defend the right to strike with a general strike to bring down the Tory...

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YESTERDAY the RMT rail workers trade union warned that an all-out assault on workers’ rights was taking place as BA used the Network Rail...

British Army To Brown – ‘Stand And Deliver’

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THE armed forces chiefs have entered politics and are to present the government with a shopping list of purchases that it must make, or...

Take strike action to support FBU!

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THE London Firefighters one day strike last Saturday has drawn a swift response from the capitalist state, via their mouthpieces in the bourgeois press. Commenting...

Syria wins the war! Foreign Sec Hunt admits Assad is here to stay! Workers...

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TORY Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has admitted for the first time that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will remain in office. Hunt made the remark...

Tories engineer NHS ‘humanitarian crisis!’

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OVER the weekend the British Red Cross made a call on the May government to allocate the necessary funds for health and social care,...