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Support Iran’s right to a nuclear programme

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YESTERDAY in London, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, met to discuss hauling Iran in front of the Security...

TUC right wing determined to stay in the EU whatever it costs the working...

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AT this year’s annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) the right-wing of the trade union bureaucracy will attempt to commit the working...

Obama Ready To Step Up Intervention Into Syria

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THE just re-elected US President, Barack Obama, yesterday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to use chemical weapons against the NATO-supported opposition forces, saying...

Putin’s speech confirms the bankruptcy of the Stalinist bureaucracy

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RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin opened his annual State of the Nation address on Wednesday by highlighting that Russia has been able for the first...

US closes Yemen embassy

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THE US emphasised that it had gone to war on the territory of the Yemen yesterday, by closing its embassy in the Yemeni...

May Refuses To Sack Hunt And Commits Herself To Class War Not ‘One Nation’!

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PM MAY, under the guise of adopting a ‘one nation’ policy which treasures the poor and the needy much more than the rich, has...

Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!

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AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...

War on welfare – revolution the only way forward

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Yesterday, more than two million people on Incapacity Benefit found themselves officially labelled by the Tory-LibDem coalition as scroungers and parasites living off the...

Sinn Fein Takes Its Seat On Six Counties Policing Board

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DAITHI McKay, Martina Anderson and Alex Maskey of Sinn Fein have just taken their seats on the Policing Board of the PSNI, the...

Victory to Assad – Forward to the Palestinian state!

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MAKING use of Russian air power, the Syrian army is now pressing forward on all fronts, driving back the Islamists who are now negotiating...

Hamas Condemns Arab States Joining NATO Anti-Russian War Manoeuvres!

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HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement which recently fought a successful 11 day war with Israel against its occupation of Palestine, has condemned the participation...

Merkel’s Short-Lived Victory

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ON Thursday, the German Parliament (Bundestag) voted by 523 to 85 to increase the funds available to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) from...

Only answer to capitalist crisis – build WRP and sections of 4th International to...

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THE CRISIS in the Tory party sharpened over the weekend, as the requirement to dump the economic collapse of British capitalism onto the backs...

25 years since the Malvinas war

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THE 1982 Malvinas (Falklands War) was a decisive event not just for Britain’s Foreign Policy but for its home policy. The islands off the Argentinian...

US vetoes UN resolution on Gaza as it openly ‘stands with Israel’ in imperialism’s...

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ON WEDNESDAY, the US vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demanding ‘an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’ in Gaza. The draft resolution also...

Bush’s ‘Defining Hour’ Or When The Bell Tolls For Imperialism

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BUSH opened his 2007 State of the Union speech with an open admission that his regime is facing defeat both at home and abroad....

Nut Warns Over Free Schools And Academies

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COMMENTING on the latest Education at a Glance report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Christine Blower, General Secretary of the...

General Rose supports the Iraqis right to fight occupiers

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GENERAL Rose, who was the commander of the UN forces in Bosnia, has just publicly supported the right of the Iraqi insurgents to fight...

Trump hails his economic miracle – and reveals his fear of the US and...

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ON TUESDAY, president Donald Trump delivered his much-delayed annual State of the Union speech to the US Congress, held up by the longest-ever shutdown...

Sharon unleashes bombing raids and assassinations on the Palestinians

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THE Israeli government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has launched a new war on Palestinians living in territories under Zionist occupation less than three...

US And Iraqi Puppets Massacre A Thousand In Sadr City

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IRAQI deputies to the puppet parliament, who are Iraqi nationalists and who support Moqtada al-Sadr have denounced the US puppet government of Premier...

TUC calls Emergency Special Congress to fight anti-strike laws – demand it calls a...

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FOLLOWING the Tories announcing on Monday that they had completed their ‘consultation period’ over the minimum service levels rules for railway, ambulance and border...

Coup Against Corbyn Underway As Head Rabbi Announces He Is ‘Not Fit For High...

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WITH just over two weeks to go before the general election, the campaign by the Tories and their right-wing supporters in the Labour Party...

TUC must end its shameful silence on Palestine and be forced to call a...

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Last Saturday, over 170,000 workers, students and youth marched through London in support of the struggle of the Palestinians against the occupation of their...

Nationalise LDV and GM Vauxhall – no Royal Mail privatisation!

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WITH even more right-wing forces seeking to bring down the Brown government from the right, trade unions now have an opportunity to show their...

Vote Wrp – Keep The Tories Out– Forward To The Socialist Revolution

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100,000 trade unionists and youth marched in Athens yesterday against the EU-IMF savage cuts programme being carried out by the Papandreou ‘socialist’ government. Today millions...

Tory plans to ‘save’ British capitalism are nothing but a subsidy for the bosses

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YESTERDAY Tory prime minister Theresa May announced a new era of state intervention to ‘save’ British capitalism. According to this strategy, selected sectors will be...

ROYAL MAIL PRIVATISATION WILL BE RESISTED – says postal workers leader

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A LONDON postal workers’ leader yesterday warned the government they will face massive opposition, if they go ahead and try to break Labour’s election...

Boots Joins The NHS Privatisation Drive

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CHEMIST giant Boots wants to breach the NHS system by bringing GPs and consultants into its stores as part of an alleged drive to...

Inflation carries on cutting wages, pensions and benefits

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THE Office of National Statistics has given the figures on inflation rates for last month which confirm that British capitalism faces total economic collapse,...

Defending US ‘strategic interests’ leads directly to imperialist war

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IT WAS CLAUSEWITZ who said that war is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means. In unveiling a large number of...

One thousand anti-ICE protests across US!

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OVER 1,000 protests erupted across the US at the weekend over the extra-judicial murder of Renee Nicole Good by an agent of Immigration and...

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 ...

UK government must answer war crimes charges in both Iraq and Yemen!

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has condemned UK war crimes in both the Yemen and in Iraq. In the Yemen UK-supplied weaponry to Saudi Arabia has been...

Only A Socialist Revolution Can Defend Jobs, Homes, Basic Rights And Deal With Climate...

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THE TUC’s ‘Put People First’ march on Saturday brought 50,000 workers and youth onto the streets marching behind powerful contingents from the GMB and...

Chinese Revolution Has Made Huge Advances, While Capitalism Gets Ready For Its Great Crash...

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NOT SO long ago in the late 1930s ‘European concessions’ on the Chinese mainland contained ‘European Only’ parks, some with signs declaring ‘no dogs...

Arrogant Carney Rubbishes Miliband!

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THIS week, in an attempt to cash in on the universal hatred felt by the working class and middle classes towards banks and bankers,...

Unite must stop Heathrow to win the BA struggle!

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Striking British Airways cabin crew began another five days of strike action last night. On the eve of the action BA cabin crew told...

Nato Wants 2,500 More Troops In Afghanistan

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ANOTHER British soldier has died after a shooting in the Iraqi town of Al-Qurna, north of Basra. The soldier was the 118th member of...

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...

The Bank of E grapples with the contradictions of the capitalist economy

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IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...

Worst NHS winter crisis ever! NHS unions must join health strike in the north...

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A&Es axed, children’s hospitals closed, nurses driven out because of overwork and under-pay, junior doctors at the point of exhaustion, GP surgeries shut down,...

Unite must hit back and defend its members, with full TUC support

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THE petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth complex in central Scotland is to close with the loss of over 800 jobs, owner Ineos announced...

US and EU backed armed mobs run riot in the Ukraine!

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THE imperialist backed Ukrainian right-wing, including self-declared fascist movements, have brazenly made a call to arms, and to prove the point on Tuesday shot...

Blair Instructed Foreign Office To Break The Law

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YESTERDAY the Reprieve charity reported that: ‘Previously secret Government memos prove Prime Minister Tony Blair ordered the Foreign Office to violate its legal obligation...