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BA Strike Ballot Result Today

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TODAY Unite is announcing the result of its second strike ballot in three months for 13,000 BA cabin crew, which is expected to show...

National action to defend JDE workers – force TUC to call a ...

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LAST Wednesday the international coffee giant JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) issued dismissal notices to nearly 300 of its workers at the Banbury plant who...

Windrush just ‘tip of the iceberg’ – time to kick out the Tories and...

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IN A MONUMENTAL act of cynicism, the Tory government on Monday announced that this Friday will be designated ‘Windrush Day’ and that henceforth 22nd...

China responds to Obama!

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CHINA’S state media have responded to Barak Obama’s Pentagon announcement that the US is turning its back on the North Atlantic, and therefore...

Obama’s War Being Stepped Up

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THE government of Pakistan yesterday summoned the US ambassador to Islamabad to protest at yet another US drone missile attack on Pakistani civilians. ...

Johnson Declares War On Youth With ‘Chain Gang’ Threat

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PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has declared war on youth in the UK with his ‘Beating Crime Plan’ which labels youth as ‘criminal’ and targets...

Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown

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TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...

Only a sliding scale of wages can defend workers from inflation

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OFFICIAL figures have confirmed that consumer price inflation surged to 5.4% in 12 months to December – up from 5.1% month before – the...

Abbas backs Hamas – no ceasefire till blockade ended

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has backed calls by Hamas for an end to the economic blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel as one...

BIS warning of global financial crash!

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GLOBAL financial markets are dangerously stretched and may unwind with shock force as liquidity dries up, the Bank of International Settlements has warned. BIS boss...

Youth jailed for protesting against Israeli atrocities

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IN DECEMBER 2008, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth marched to the Israeli embassy, in a number of demonstrations, denouncing the Israeli onslaught...

Labour must condemn any secret talks with the Tories and mobilise to bring them...

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‘I GOT us into this mess, and I will get us out of it’ PM May told the massed ranks of Tory backbenchers at...

Workers must fight for Palestine and bring down the Tory government that celebrates the...

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THE NATIONAL march and rally demanding ‘Justice Now: Make it Right for Palestine’ is a massive demonstration of the support and solidarity that exists...

Hospitals and schools are being hit by uncapped energy bills

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THE SKYROCKETING increase in energy bills is driving the health and education services to the wall, with leaders in both these vital services warning...

Build workers militias all over the Ukraine!

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THE illegal Ukrainian regime, that came to power through a US-EU-backed and financed coup, yesterday accused Russia of carrying out an armed invasion of...

Italian Workers And Youth Throw A Giant Spanner Into The Eu Works!

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THE Italian general election results have shaken the European Union after the governing ‘Centre Left’ pro-EU coalition, led by Matteo Renzi, got just 22.8%...

Tuc Must Act Over Cameron’s War!

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ON MONDAY the bourgeois press proclaimed the rag-bag of mercenaries and brigands who make up the so-called ‘rebels’ had crushed the forces loyal to...

Israeli minister Ben-Gvir calls for collective punishment against Palestinians!

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THE fascist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has renewed his calls for collective punishment against all Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday...

General Strike to answer Tory strike ban

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ON Friday the Tories finally produced their plans to ban strikes throughout the public sector should they win the next general election. Draconian new legislation...

China must scrap the ‘one country two social systems’ policy and declare for a...

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CHINA has condemned the counter-revolutionaries who stormed and vandalised the Hong Kong parliament building on Monday and raised the flag of the former occupying...

Putin’s cuts decree will drive forward political revolution!

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THE Putin regime has been hit hard by the world capitalist crisis, especially by the fall in oil prices, and the effect that the...

Royal Mail getting ready for New Year war!

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BRENDAN Barber has won another battle honour from the employers. His first was at Gate Gourmet, which publicly congratulated him on its website for the...

Solidarity action over Lineker sacking causes Tories to crumble – now is time to...

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BOTH the BBC and the Tories were in a state of meltdown over the weekend following the decision of the BBC bosses, urged on...

Osborne seeking showdown with unions

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ON Thursday the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, made an emergency statement to parliament on the international economic crisis that is engulfing British capitalism to...

Socialist Revolution To Put Bankrupt Bankers Out Of Their Misery

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IN its latest annual report, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank of central banks’, has warned that capitalism is ‘defenceless’ against...

UK CPI rate increase only the start of inflation spiral

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that the UK inflation rate had more than doubled in April this year as energy costs...

Howard condemns ‘judicial activists’ as security risks

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Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...

EU implementing its regime-change plan for Greece!

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GREECE’S Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras offered new concessions to the country’s creditors in a letter that was received by them last Tuesday. In the...

Forward To Workers Power In Egypt

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EGYPTIAN voters have approved a new constitution by 98.1 per cent, in a turn out of 36.8 per cent of those eligible to vote....

Hedge fund speculators make super-profits out of starving millions across the world

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A REPORT compiled by Unearthed, the investigative unit of the Greenpeace environmentalist organisation, and the independent journalist organisation Lighthouse Reports has thrown a light...

Met ‘rotten from top to bottom’ – disband it now!

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THE CONVICTION and life sentence of Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard was most certainly not the case of...

US imperialism is planning to split Gaza!

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ON Friday, the Guardian newspaper revealed the latest plan from the US military to entrench the division of Gaza by creating a fortified ‘green...

Workers must welcome all refugees and fight alongside them to get rid of capitalism!

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THE FRENCH government is to raze the Calais refugee camp to the ground ‘within days’, forcibly removing every man, woman and child. After six months...

Unelected Lords Lay The Basis For An Anti-Brexit Coup!

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THE House of Lords on Monday night passed amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill that provide a basis for a parliamentary coup to bin...

Bankers promote permanent austerity! Nationalise the banks through a socialist revolution – the only...

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RICHARD SHARP, a member of the Bank of England’s Financial Stability Committee has warned that the UK is heading for a Venezuelan-style economic crash...

British capitalism is bust, time to put it out of its misery

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FOR THE first time a comprehensive analysis of the economic and social impact of the war waged by the Tory government under Margaret Thatcher...

Student nurses join GPs and junior doctors in demanding action to defend the NHS

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THE determined drive by the Tory government to cut the pay and conditions of every NHS worker, as a prelude to the ultimate aim...

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...

US and UK cannot win Afghan hearts and minds!

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THE massacres of the Afghan civilian population by air and missile attacks continue, proving that imperialist armies are in the business of mass murder,...

Massive support for Tube workers’ strike – Now forward to a general strike

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London Underground is closed down today as Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) members staged another 24-hour strike over jobs, pensions and in defence of...

Bankrupt Britain Is On The Rocks! Now Is The Time To Go Forward To...

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JUST 50 days after being elected with an unassailable landslide 141-seat majority, the Labour government has replaced the hated Tory austerity cuts with Labour...

A&E closures cost lives

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For the first time since the process of closing accident and emergency units in hospitals up and down the country was started by the...

Workers will ignore Tory attempts to make Russia their enemy – the enemy is...

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YESTERDAY’S statement by Theresa May to parliament on the range of ‘reprisals’ against Russia for the alleged involvement of the Russian state in the...
Gate Gourmet locked-out worker PARMJIT bains addressing the conference

Huge $8.6bn loss at General Motors

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GENERAL Motors (GM) bosses admitted on Thursday that their losses for 2005 were $8.6bn, their largest since 1992 when the board of directors was...

Reply to the US-UK attacks on the Palestinians by making October 10th the first...

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THE Hamas movement has condemned the Israeli occupation’s brutal aerial attacks on Hezbollah and the Lebanon as a ‘dangerous escalation’ and ‘part of the...