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Trade Unions Must Name The Date For The General Strike To Free Palestine And...

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OVER 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday, protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. The protest, organised by the...

Labour government prepares for war with Russia with working class expected to pay the...

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Yesterday, The Daily Telegraph newspaper revealed that ‘Britain is secretly preparing for a direct military attack by Russia’ with the Starmer Labour government ordering...

The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...

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THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...

Victory to Syria! Defeat imperialist war drive with world socialist revolution!

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THE DEATHS of dozens of civilians including young children in Syrian town Khan Sheikhoun has been seized on by imperialism as a weapon to...

Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism!

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CHANCELLOR Darling flew to the US yesterday to meet with fellow finance ministers, and Federal Treasury Secretary Paulson, for the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting. Yesterday...

US, UK, Karzai Drive To Bribe The Taleban

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ON the eve of the Afghan conference in London this week, UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take control...

Hodge Spreads Subversion In The Fabian Society

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THE Labour government is visibly collapsing day by day, with even ministers expressing opposition and saying that they had doubts about Blair’s foreign ...

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....

Obama allies with Clinton and McCain, and ignores the unions

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US WORKERS will be asking themselves what the recent presidential election campaign was all about when Obama was fighting for change and saying that...

Working class must call general strikes to force implementation of UN resolution on Gaza...

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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members on Monday finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the genocidal war being waged...

TUC on its knees – time for a revolutionary leadership!

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THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...

Opus Dei Speaks Out From The Cabinet

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ONE of Opus Dei’s members in the Labour Cabinet, Ruth Kelly, yesterday made a call to close down Muslim schools that promote ‘isolationism’. Opus Dei...

Slump ‘deepening at an alarming pace’

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THE British Chambers of Commerce yesterday published its Fourth Quarter Economic Survey of nearly 6,000 businesses. It highlights what it called ‘a...

Civil war declared as Tories are torn apart by the capitalist crisis – Kick...

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CIVIL WAR in the Tory Party has erupted as Boris Johnson and his allies launch a coordinated attack on PM Rishi Sunak, with the...

US debt crisis forces Biden to abandon trip to ramp up support for war...

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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden turned up in the Japanese city of Hiroshima yesterday for a meeting of the G7 leaders over the weekend designed...

End the occupation of Iraq! Bring down the Bush regime!

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A VOTE in the Senate of the United States on Saturday fell just four votes short of the two-thirds needed to debate a resolution...
The head of the London march in Whitehall shortly after setting off from Parliament Square

A British ‘barbaric act of aggression’ in Basra

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THE Labour Government’s Defence Secretary, John Reid, declared yesterday that sending six Warrior tanks to demolish the wall of a prison compound in Basra,...

May government is Thatcherite says the Resolution Foundation

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THE just-published Resolution Foundation’s annual audit of living standards shows that the May government, far from seeking to lighten the load of the poor,...

High Court rejects legal challenge to Labour arming Zionist genocide – now workers and...

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ON MONDAY, the High Court in London rejected a legal challenge brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq against the decision of...

Italian Banks on verge of crash following Renzi’s defeat

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THE defeat for the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, in Sunday’s referendum to change the Italian constitution and concentrate the political power in his...

Europe’s energy bill hit $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the start...

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THE SOARING price of energy has cost Europe $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the beginning of the biggest, deepest economic crisis...

The Banks Are All Northern Rocks!

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TEXAS PACIFIC GROUP’S decision to cut and run, taking with it the £179 million that was to be used to buy 23 per cent...

Federal Reserve Opens The Inflationary Floodgates!

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BANK SHARES rose rapidly yesterday with the news that the Federal Reserve Bank is to open up the inflationary floodgates and re-prop up the...

Hamas defiant over Trump’s threat to unleash hell on Gaza 

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HAMAS was defiant in its response yesterday to the threats by US president Donald Trump that he would  cancel the ceasefire agreement in Gaza...

Gove declares war on state education! Kick the Tories out!

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THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has unleashed yet another broadside against state education and the teaching profession in a speech on Monday where...

Revolutionary generation will lead British socialist revolution

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LAST Sunday’s News Line Anniversary meeting, which greeted the Young Socialists’ March for Jobs and Free Education, was a historic moment in the history...

Labour saves Cameron

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Just six weeks in power and the Tory government are so weak and divided that they can only survive through the treacherous support of...

Labour reach new depths of treachery over NHS

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AT the weekend the new Labour shadow health secretary, Andrew Burnham, delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the NHS with the announcement...

Britain Has Been, Is, And Will Continue Talking With The Taleban

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PRIME Minister Brown told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that British forces are ‘winning the battle against the insurgency’ in Afghanistan. Using...

Israel slaughters Gaza Strip Palestinians

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AT the same time as the Fatah leader, President Abbas is meeting the Israeli Premier Olmert for the continuing ‘peace talks’, that were launched...

‘New Leader – Old Agenda’

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IN a motion for next month’s Trades Union Congress, UNISON correctly says the use of private firms in public services is ‘harmful, wasteful, and...

Trump OKs tactical nuclear weapons for use against Russia, China and N Korea!

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PRESIDENT Trump and his military chiefs believe the US’ nuclear weapons are seen as too big to be used, and that this means that...

US threatens Iran and Venezuela

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YESTERDAY the United States Secretary of Defence and Secretary of State, Gates and Clinton, threatened Iran with extreme sanctions if it insisted on its...

Bank of England to ‘crucify the consumer’

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NOT ONLY has the world crisis of capitalism now been accepted as the reality by even the most sceptical of the bourgeoisie, its different...

The Republicans Are In A Desperate Crisis While The Democrats Have No Way Forward...

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US PRESIDENT TRUMP going down with the coronavirus has sharpened the crisis of the imperialist powers, including the UK, who were up till now...

THE STERN REVIEW: Trust me, I’m a banker!

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ON WEDNESDAY Sir Nicholas Stern presented his Review of the Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown. Stern is the Chief Economist...

Youth slave labour plan by Osborne and Co

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THE Tory Prime Minister Cameron and his LibDem Deputy Clegg visited the Olympic site in Stratford yesterday to spell out that the only future...

Army is ‘sick’ from Iraq & Afghan campaigns

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ONE in every fourteen British soldiers, almost 7,000 are sick or injured at a time when every regiment of 600 faces a shortfall of...

‘Bloodbath’ in Gaza hospitals as Israel ramps up genocidal war

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A NEW REPORT by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has indicted Israel for using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. Omar Shakir, HRW’s Israel...

World crisis driving forward the European socialist revolution!

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THE BOURGEOIS financial markets opened yesterday to the unprecedented news that Germany has sold 3.9 billion euros of debt at a negative rate of...

Trade union leaders trying to manage capitalism

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Rising unemployment is a national emergency declared the TUC yesterday after the government revealed that 150,000 workers had lost their jobs in the last...

Orwell’s 1984 is small fry compared to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in 2018!

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AN ACADEMIC who created an app which ‘harvested’ data from 50 million people now says he has been made ‘a scapegoat’ for the scandal...

US threatens the UK over 5G – while the Tory Party splits over the...

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THE BANKRUPTCY of British capitalism is there for all to see. Yesterday the Johnson Tory government was faced with making a serious break with...

Millions of Palestinians facing death by starvation – unions must call general strikes in...

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UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, has accused Israel of ‘starving civilians’ including a million children in Gaza by deliberately blocking food...

Clarke staggers on as Tories hold back from resignation call

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The ex-Home Secretary Blunkett was forced to resign after interfering to get his lover’s nanny special treatment from the passport office, and then seeking...