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Palestinian Prisoners Win A Victory Over Israeli Jailers As The Tuc Keeps Quiet Over...

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TENS of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated across the occupied territories for the 33rd straight week against the policies of Israel’s right wing extremist...

Starmer cuddles up to the Financial Times as he gets ready to stab the...

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WORLD capitalism and in particular British capitalism is in its greatest crisis ever with sections of the Tory party compeletely demoralised by the ‘Oceans...

The only way to ‘fix’ capitalism is to overthrow it and advance to socialism!

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THE euphoria over figures released this week that the UK inflation rate in July had dropped to 6.8%, meaning that prices were shooting up...

Latest inflation figures spur Tories and Bank of England to ramp up attack on...

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INFLATION figures yesterday, that recorded a drop in the inflation rate to 6.8% in July, have been greeted by the Tories and the Bank...

Germany crashes into recession – socialist revolution the only answer to capitalist crisis

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THE GERMAN economic recession has deepened, with the number of corporate insolvencies in the country sharply increasing in July. Almost a quarter more companies filed...

Short-term contracts driving teachers out of the profession

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THE EIS (Educational Institute of Scotland) has warned that the increasing use of short-term contracts in Scottish schools is driving many newly qualified teachers...

Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...

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LAST week, the Tories’ strike-breaking agency worker regulations were thrown out after the High Court ruled they were unlawful. This judgement quashed an appeal by...

Revolution is the only way out of capitalist debt crisis

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THE COLLAPSE of the popular discount high street retailer Wilko, with 12,500 of its workers facing being thrown out of a job, has thrown...

TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defend the NHS

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TODAY junior doctors launch four days of strike action throughout the NHS in England over the demand for a 35% pay increase to make...

British capitalism about ‘to fall off a cliff’ – Lobby the TUC on Monday...

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The Daily Telegraph has in recent months published a number of articles that have questioned not just the continued existence of the Tory government...

Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill – sky high food prices here...

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DURING a public on-line question and answer session on Monday, the Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill warned that higher food prices ‘may...

Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum seekers on to...

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THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...

Workers targeted by loan companies to pay for private medical treatment

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‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) deals, along with other personal loan arrangements, are being aggressively pushed out for NHS patients as part of the...

Tories rushing into NHS privatisation, while Labour attacks them for delaying the privatisation project!

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THE TORIES are planning to knife the NHS through a massive expansion of the private health sector. The Labour turncoats are meanwhile critical of them...

TUC warns interest rate increases driving unemployment but has no answer except to beg...

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YESTERDAY the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 5.25%, the 14th time in a row that rates have been increased as the...

Time For The US Working Class To Dump The Republicans And Democrats And Fight...

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FORMER US President Donald Trump has been charged with illegal plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat. He is accused of four counts including...

Overthrow of Niger’s pro-imperialist government a massive blow to imperialism

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THE OUSTING of Niger president Mohamed Bazoum by the military has sent shock waves across the imperialist world, with France and the United States...

Bank of England appoint Bernanke, the architect of QE, to rescue British capitalism from...

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At the weekend, bosses at the Bank of England announced that they had drafted in the ex-chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank (Fed),...

Tory Government Is Making War On The Rail Trade Unions – TUC Must Be...

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THE RMT has revealed that the private rail companies war on the rail trade unions is being financed by the UK government, who are...

Putin Makes An Offer To Africa That The Capitalists Are Incapable Of Making!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has told a summit of African leaders that Russia will give them tens of thousands of tonnes of grain within...

US Raises Interest Rates To The Highest Level In 22 Years – The Workers...

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THE US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years, as it fights to stabilise prices in the world’s...

Homelessness is growing like a plague – Nationalise the banks and the building industry...

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THE homelessness rate across England is at its highest since 2018, after Tory government policies have forced a record number of families to live...

Israeli regime is on the path to collapse says Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah!

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THE Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement stated yesterday that the Israeli far-right cabinet’s insistence on pushing ahead with its controversial judicial overhaul...

As Israel implodes – forward to the Palestinian State where Palestinian and Jewish workers...

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AFTER 27 weeks of mass Israeli and Palestinian protests, Israel’s legislature has approved the first reading of a racist and divisive plan drawn up...

Russia Condemns The Use Of Cluster Bombs In Ukraine While Scott Ritter Predicts A...

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RUSSIA has blamed the US after an attack conducted by the UK and US armed Ukrainian military forces using Washington-supplied cluster munitions killed Russian...

With the Anti-Union Laws waiting on Royal Assent, the TUC must be made to...

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LAST THURSDAY the government made a ‘final offer’ to the NHS consultants, a petty offer that they rejected out of hand. BMA Consultants Committee...

Consultants are fighting for the NHS – the working class must rally behind them...

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YESTERDAY, NHS consultants went out on a two-day strike, the first in nearly 50 years, over their demand for an increase in pay to...

The TUC must give its full support to the State of Palestine at once!

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THE International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to unveil an online electronic platform to allow the Palestinians to sue Israelis who commit war crimes. A...

Starmer splits Labour Party as he prepares for national government to ‘save’ bankrupt capitalism...

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LABOUR Party leader Sir Keir Starmer caused a public split in the Labour Party when, on Sunday, he committed any future Labour government to...

Sunak wants to abolish university degrees that don’t churn out ‘high earners’

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YESTERDAY, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak announced the latest attack on higher education with proposals to ‘limit the access’ to university degrees in England...

Starmer’s Labour Would Not Spend Any More Money On Public Services –...

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THE LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer appeared on the Laura Keunssberg Show on the BBC yesterday where he refused to say whether a Labour...

‘Strongman’ Sunak tells unions there will be no talks and that they must accept...

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THE British capitalist class and their government are now up to their necks in a massive crisis, that no attempts at fake bravado, or...

High Court rules Tory laws on use of agency workers to break strikes is...

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THE Tories suffered a setback yesterday in their drive to legalise strike breaking when the High Court ruled that its agency worker regulations are...

All The Trade Unions Must Come Out With The Junior Doctors!

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PM Sunak has said he is yet to make a ‘final decision’ on whether to accept the recommended pay rises for public sector workers. Official...

Hunt and Bailey will ‘do whatever is necessary’ to save bankrupt capitalism. Time to...

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ON MONDAY night, 400 leading figures from the world of high finance and corporate business gathered at the Mansion House in London to hear...

Unite leaders drop any criticism of Starmer – now is time to build a...

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THE RULES conference of Unite, the largest union donor to the Labour Party, yesterday voted to reject a motion calling to disaffiliate from the...

Biden In London To Tell UK Government That It Must Support Use Of...

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A GROWING number of Washington’s NATO allies – including Britain, Spain, Canada and Germany – have already declared their refusal to follow the US...

The markets panic and crash as capitalism heads for a major catastrophe!

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THE stock markets are crashing as the Tory government’s borrowing costs went soaring yesterday to a 15-year high, amid a global shares sell off...

Starmer attacks strikers while ruling class prepares to ditch Tories for a new party...

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THE general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), Jo Grady, delivered a stinging condemnation of Labour leader Keir Starmer yesterday after he...

Blair sets out the plans to privatise the NHS for his stooge Starmer to...

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AS the NHS celebrated its 75th anniversary yesterday former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair launched his latest campaign for complete privatisation of the health...

Zionist pogrom against Palestinians – TUC must be forced to call a general...

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THE invasion of the West Bank city of Jenin by 2,000 Israeli troops backed up by drone and air strikes has so far killed...

Capitalism has failed – time to end it with socialist revolution

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THE DEEP political and economic crisis engulfing British capitalism and the ruling class was forcibly expressed when yesterday’s Daily Telegraph published a comment article...

French unions must call general strike to smash Macron’s murderous police forces!

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FRANCE’S President Emmanuel Macron, after his panicky early return to France from an EU summit, has now been forced to postpone a planned state...

Macron convenes crisis meeting after rushing back to France from EU summit!

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron convened a crisis meeting yesterday amid a wave of working class uprisings that engulfed France after a 17-year-old driver was...

France erupts as youth rise up against capitalist state brutality!

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FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron was forced to convene a government emergency crisis meeting on Wednesday morning following two nights of protests and rioting across...