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Labour Reshuffles Amidst The Resignations

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JOHN Hutton, the fourth Labour Cabinet minister to quit in the past week, has left his post and will also quit as an MP,...

Imperialist provocations against Iran a prelude to war

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IMPERIALIST preparations for war against Iran were ramped up even further on Tuesday with completely unsubstantiated claims that Iran was responsible for the ‘hijacking’...

Netanyahu bans Al Jazeera operations in Israel and the occupied territories on the eve...

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THE Netanyahu government has decided to close Al Jazeera’s channel in Israel and to ban it from the occupied Palestinian territories. The Cabinet vote yesterday...

As capitalist inflation lets rip, Sunak turns to the Ukraine’s war with Russia as...

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INFLATION was at 8.7% in the year to May, the same rate as it was in April, creating hundreds of thousands of hungry families...

Defend every job, occupy to stop closures, and nationalise the major industries

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics produced figures showing the record breaking numbers of unemployed and the record breaking growth of unemployment. UK unemployment...

Head teachers up in arms – schools being cut to the bone! All-out strike...

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MORE than 7,000 heads have written a joint letter to 3.5 million families warning of the acute funding crisis in schools. The heads insist...

Clinton, Hague beat war drums over Syria

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YESTERDAY US and UK diplomats were foaming at the mouth over an alleged massacre by the Syrian armed forces of men women and...

Al-Sadr Calls To End US Occupation Of Iraq

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THE White House has finally endorsed the text of the US-Iraq unequal treaty that will allow the US to keep 150,000 troops in Iraq...

Britain ‘drifting’ towards a police state–Manchester Chief Constable

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SIR Peter Fahy, Greater Manchester Chief Constable and vice-chair of the National Counter-Terrorism Committee, has warned that the fight against ‘extremism’ is leading to...

TUC must call a general strike at once to defend the Palestinian people from...

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THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said yesterday that the number of Palestinians who have been driven from their...

Ukraine dumped by an imperialism too weak to defeat Russia

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IT HAS become clear over the past days that Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky have been unceremoniously dumped by the imperialist powers and...

Tusk pleads for Trump to end trade war with warning it will turn into...

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PRESIDENT of the European Council Donald Tusk yesterday issued a desperate plea for Europe, China, America and Russia to ‘work together’ and ‘prevent conflict...

Ukrainian Right Wing Draws Closer To Nato

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THE decision by the Ukrainian government to offer joint use of missile attack and space early warning systems to the Western powers...

Soviet Workers And Youth Want The Ussr Restored!

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THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...

Trotskyism is the Marxism of today

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THIS Sunday’s rally marks the 68th anniversary of the assasination of Leon Trotsky, and the 39 years of the Trotskyist daily paper, first published...

Zionist regime escalates genocide in Gaza City

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SINCE the Israeli regime’s war cabinet vote last week to occupy Gaza City and force the removal of its entire Palestinian population of one...

Fatah junta seizes control of the West Bank

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YESTERDAY President Abbas decreed the ending of parliamentary rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as he appointed an illegal government headed...

IMF fears world revolution as the world economic crisis deepens

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another dire warning about the economic crisis raging throughout the world yesterday with its head, Kristalina Georgieva, saying...

The UK banks were rescued – Now the Tories are throwing the steel industry...

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LABOUR PM Gordon Brown, after the financial collapse in 2008 and with the full support of the Tories, rescued the UK banks from their...

Police chief Blair must resign says Maria Otone de Menezes

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YESTERDAY, the parents of Jean Charles de Menezes retraced the final journey taken by their son, an entirely innocent man who was shot dead...

US ‘Defence Cutbacks’ are a cynical fraud!

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WHEN the gullible read the headline paragraph, that US Defence Secretary, Chuck Hagel, has unveiled plans to ‘shrink’ the US Army to its smallest...

McDonnell wants a corporatist deal with the capitalists!

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SHADOW Chancellor McDonnel’s speech to the Labour Party conference was remarkable for its lack of treatment of the crisis of capitalism. He focused...

The TUC must support the Palestinian march on Gaza with a general strike in...

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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of displaced Palestinian citizens resumed on Wednesday morning their march back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip which Israel...

US healthcare privateer to head NHS England!

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WITH the appointment of Simon Stevens as the new head of NHS England, the Tory-led coalition have put in charge of the day-to-day running...

End imperialist wars with victory of the world socialist revolution!

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ON SUNDAY, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth insisted publicly that, despite the illegal bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, Donald Trump’s administration...

Answer Brown’s attacks with a general strike

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THE rapidly deepening debt crisis of the capitalist system is leading to a financial collapse and a slump of historic proportions as the bankers’...

China has beaten coronavirus while Tories will allow 60% of the population to be...

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CHINA’S Wuhan province reported a zero increase in new coronavirus infections last week. China has beaten the virus and with no new cases, their...

Kick out the TUC leaders who collaborate with the Tories – build a revolutionary...

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IN HIS INTERVIEW with the Spectator magazine Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak made it quite clear that in the New Year there will have to...

The crisis is leaving the working class no alternative to revolution

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A FURTHER nail was driven into the coffin of British capitalism this week with the release of figures showing that the income from overseas...

Deselect the right wing Blairite MPs who want to split the Labour Party

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THE DECISIVE move of the working class to vote to leave the EU has not only upset the bankers and bosses of the EU,...

Deepening capitalist crisis is driving the US-UK axis to war with Russia!

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US DEFENCE Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the US fleet of warships to remain in the Mediterranean Sea, driving up the tensions between the...

Starmer Recruiting Right Wing Tories To Run Any Labour Gov!

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THE Labour Party is defending, welcoming right wing Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the party despite anger from many backbench MPs and workers at...

‘Vile police’ and Tory grandees battle it out!

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A PETTY incident – the refusal of Downing Street police officers to allow the Tory chief whip to ride his bicycle through the gates...

60,000 families face eviction under Tory Housing Bill

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60,000 HOUSEHOLDS in England face being thrown out of their council houses next year as a result of the Tories ‘pay to stay’ policy. Under...

All Out On May 1!

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown have declared war on the public services and their staff, with closures, cuts, redundancies and pay...

While NHS workers demand action, Prentis and Barber stay on their knees

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YESTERDAY thousands of NHS workers took part in the ‘NHS Together’ Lobby of Parliament to demand an end to NHS privatisation. The lobbying...

Rail strike ‘solid and determined’ as passengers join union in demanding re-nationalisation

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YESTERDAY’S strike by RMT guards working for the privateer Southern rail network was ‘rock solid’, with RMT general secretary Mick Cash saying: ‘The resilience...

Nationalise the pharmaceutical corporations!

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A REPORT into the expenditure of the National Health Service on drugs, published by the government’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday, reveals that...

Occupy Honda, Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tories, Quit The Eu...

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THE Unite trade union has described Honda’s decision to press ahead with the closure of its Swindon plant by 2021 as a ‘body-blow of...

Record numbers miss out on first choice secondary schools – Bring all schools back...

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NATIONAL Offer Day was yesterday, with record numbers of children missing out on their first choice of secondary school. More than half a million...

Drive Out Zero-Hours Contracts

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FIGURES released last Wednesday purport to show the UK unemployment rate for the three months to September fell to 7.4% from 7.6% – a...

Disorientated Johnson quotes Lenin to CBI while Starmer tells bosses we will do what...

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BOTH Tory prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer spoke at the annual conference of the leading bosses’ organisation, the Confederation of...

Crazy UK capitalism won’t dump disaster prone nuclear power

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GUNTHER Oettinger, the EU’s energy commissioner, has compared the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster – with its repeated explosions of nuclear material and...

World Trembles At Prospect Of US Rate Rise!

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JAMES Bullard, the head of the St Louis Fed, told a recent City Week Forum in London that investors are far too complacent and...

End low pay through a general strike!

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TODAY, hundreds of thousands of workers and young people will take to the streets of London, Glasgow and Belfast in mass demonstrations called by...