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Ex-Defence Minister Fox Demands A Class War Against Workers And Their Trade Unions!

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THE coalition’s ex-Defence Secretary, Fox, put forward his demands for the Tory-led coalition’s March 21 crisis budget yesterday in the Financial Times. It was a...

No ‘bounce back’ as UK economy shrinks by further 1.5% in three months

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IT SPEAKS volumes for the disastrous state of British capitalism that news that the UK economy has collapsed by a further 1.5% in the...

US combat troops quit – Iraqi masses will now deal with the puppets they...

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THE last US army combat brigade pulled out of Iraq on Thursday morning, allegedly bringing to an end all US combat operations. These...

Defend the NHS – kick the government out!

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THE coalition’s much-vaunted consultation period over its proposals to smash up the NHS and privatise it out of existence finally came to an end...

US Congress To Vote On Raising The US Debt Ceiling – Workers Of The World...

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PRESIDENT Biden and his Republican opponents have announced they have agreed in principle to raise the US debt ceiling and to try to avert...

Havoc In The Eurozone!

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THE noose strangling the entire capitalist economy of Europe tightened round the neck of Germany yesterday with the news that the powerful Asian investment...

Benefits cuts frenzy grips coalition

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THE New Year has kicked off with a frenzied attack by both Tory and their LibDem coalition partners on the low paid, unemployed, the...

US-Turkey Fighting Over Northern Syria!

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THE Syrian government has condemned the invasion of northern Syria by Turkish ground forces, cynically called ‘Operation Olive Branch’, an invasion that was preceded...

A Capitalist Nightmare Confronts The Bosses As Economic Collapse And Revolution Nears!

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THIS week the Daily Telegraph has published a supplement ‘The Investors’ Handbook 2020’ subtitled: ‘Rising protectionism, negative interest rates, equity bubbles, debt mountains, trade...

BA workers reject wage cuts! Renationalise BA Now!

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A MASS meeting of more than 3,000 British Airways cabin crew workers yesterday threw out by a massive majority the airline’s plans to slash...

Central Bankers Are Condemned As ‘Useful Idiots’! Bosses Propagandist Borrows Lenin’s Phrase

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PRESIDENT Trump has described the new ‘utopia’ that the UK faces once it breaks with the EU, and the UK ruling class switches its...

Second Xmas on the dole for 700,000!

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ACCORDING to research published by the TUC on Monday, over 250,000 people will be spending their second successive Christmas on the dole. Even this figure...

Managers oppose the ‘enormous risk’ of the NHS White Paper

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NHS managers have warned in a report from the NHS Confederation that the Lansley NHS White Paper will lead to hospital closures and constitutes...

Mv Rachel Corrie Nears Gaza!

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NOT content with destroying its ‘alliance’ with Turkey by murdering nine of its citizens and wounding many more, the Israeli government has let it...

Met Police Still Taking Action Over Everard Vigil – Time To Disband The Met!

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SIX people have been charged by the Met police for allegedly breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules while attending the Sarah Everard vigil in south London. Many...

French riot police attack workers and youth on May Day

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MAY DAY in France erupted into state-organised violence when riot police attacked workers and youth in what was a blatant attempt to crack down...

Israeli Fury At Palestinian Unity!

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PALESTINIAN president, Mahmud Abbas, and Hamas leader, Khaled Mishaal, yesterday signed the Palestinian Unity Agreement in Cairo, putting an end to the split in...

New Labour Is Proposing 24-Hour Courts And Fast-Track Sentencing Of Workers And Youth!

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COURTS ARE now to sit for 24 hours in order to impose fast-track sentencing under New Labour Emergency Government plans to crack down on...

Obama Pledges To ‘Eliminate’ Threat Posed By Iran

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YESTERDAY Hillary Clinton revealed that she will formally end her campaign for the White House on Saturday, and throw her full support behind her...

Defend the NHS with a general strike! Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry!

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ONE in five new drugs will be rationed on the NHS under new plans to ‘save the health service money.’ This is the latest...

Miliband launches attack on unions and the Labour Party

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LABOUR leader Miliband is planning to allow non-Labour Party members to be registered as supporters, and to vote in leadership elections, in the affiliated...

Mursi follows on from Mubarak as the US’ man in Cairo

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PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...

Vote ‘NO’ and organise Greek Socialist Revolution!

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THE Syriza party won the last Greek general election with its declarations that once elected it would put an end to the austerity dictatorship...

Support Catalonia! Forward With The Spanish Socialist Revolution!

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CATALONIA will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region said yesterday following the referendum, which savage...

UNISON must act to secure British withdrawal from Iraq

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DELEGATES at the UNISON national delegate conference last Thursday passed a motion demanding the withdrawal of all British troops from Iraq by the end...

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...

University lecturers start fresh mass strike action

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THE THIRD wave of a countrywide strike by members of the University and College Union (UCU) began yesterday with a five-day walkout at 38...

British forces in a crisis in Afghanistan

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THE British army went into Helmand province in Afghanistan like lions, with their officers explaining that they were going to take on the Taleban,...

Us Capitalism Is On The Rocks! The US Working Class Is Faced With...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump yesterday unveiled his three-phase plan for opening up businesses in America proclaiming, ‘We’re starting our life again. We’re starting rejuvenation...

US Imperialism organised botched plot to overthrow Venezuela’s President!

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ON WEDNESDAY, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emphatically denied to reporters that the US had any involvement in the failed attempt by...

Grenfell Tower – Tories tore up health and safety rules then invited cladding companies...

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AN INVESTIGATION by Sky News into the role of the firms that produce the plastic used to cover the exterior of Grenfell Tower has...

Out with Hunt, out with the rotten coalition!

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LABOUR is to demand a parliamentary vote over Culture Secretary Hunt’s breaching of the ministerial code, by refusing to take responsibility for the actions...

The Deputy Prime Minister resigns, but the May government is allowed to continue!

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ON WEDNESDAY PM May was finally forced to sack her Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green following an inquiry by officials from the Cabinet Office...

The Occupation Is Responsible For All Of The Killings In Palestine

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A PALESTINIAN teenager from occupied East Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early on Wednesday in revenge for the killing of three Israeli settler youth...

Unite leaders beg the Tories for permanent furlough! New leadership required in trade...

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UNITE, with a membership of 1.4 million, wielding the power to strike and shut down vast proportions of industry, has reduced itself to begging...

Hunt left in place to spearhead NHS Privatisation!

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ANYONE naive enough to believe for one second the promise made by the new Tory leader that dumping former chancellor George Osborne and replacing...

Developing Oil Crisis Makes It All The More Vital That The Working Class Takes...

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THE SAUDI REGIME, backed to the hilt by the US and the UK, yesterday admitted that the Houthi movement’s drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s...

Cornwall Marches To Save Fire Service

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TWO hundred firefighters and control room staff were joined by thousands of angry local residents in a 13-mile march from Camborne to Falmouth on...

Labour becoming the Party of ‘remain’! Break with the EU through socialist revolution!

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TO THE ALARM and anger of all those Labour supporters who voted to break from the EU, Labour is swiftly and openly becoming...

Police officer who attacked Tomlinson will not even be charged with assault!

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HARRY STANLEY was shot dead by armed police in Hackney in September 1999. They said that they thought that he was carrying a shotgun...

Imperialism Drives For A War With Russia And Continues Mass Murder In Gaza!

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YESTERDAY’S Daily Telegraph Editorial has called for ‘Supporting the Ukraine whatever it takes’ backing the Ukrainian attack on Russia to the hilt. It observed: ‘Faced...

Brown prepared to impose ‘unpopular measures’

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PRIME MINISTER Brown said yesterday that he will not be diverted from taking ‘unpopular’ decisions to ensure Britain gets through the global credit crunch....

Tory ‘crackdown’ on youth inspired by fear of young people as a revolutionary force

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak yesterday launched a ‘crackdown’ on anti-social behaviour and begging, as the centrepiece of government policies in what is a...

Trade Union Renegade Doing Blair’s Dirty Work

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THE former CWU postal workers trade union leader, Alan Johnson, yesterday moved into action at the behest of the Prime Minister to urge that...

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...