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Biden keeps US embassy in Jerusalem! He is continuing where Trump left off! US...

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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden will keep the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem, his nominee for Secretary of State Antony Blinken affirmed at his...

Ireland – hurtling towards a socialist revolution

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THE right-wing Fine Gael party is set to form a coalition with its traditional partner, the right-wing Labour party, after a ‘political revolution’ which...

Mass Murder In Arab Jabur

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WHILE President Bush was allegedly talking peace in the Palestinian town of Ramallah on Thursday, US B1 bombers and F16 fighters were raining 40,000...

‘Refugees are not Terrorists’ – the real terrorists are the bosses and bankers

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LAST Saturday thousands of refugees and their supporters marched through the streets of the Italian capital, Rome, venting their anger over the police attack...

UK steel industry collapse – occupy to defend jobs, nationalise the steel industry

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THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...

UK Workers Are Threatened By Covid-19 Mutations – Trade Unions Must Bring Down Tories...

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HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...

Tories join with Labour to dump Johnson and prepare way for a national government

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YESTERDAY, MPs debated the motion from Labour that would refer the behaviour of prime minister Boris Johnson to the Commons standards committee to investigate...

Forest Gate report justifies police-state tactics

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THE official Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) published its report yesterday into complaints against the Metropolitan Police over its huge police raid in Forest...

June 30th must be a one-day general strike!

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PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union leader Mark Serwotka said yesterday, just before the massive vote for strike action on June 30th by his PCS...

Greek vote provokes revolutionary crisis

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YESTERDAY''S Greek presidential vote heralds the start of a fresh eurozone crisis that threatens to bring down the Eurozone and with it the whole...

‘One Last Big Push’ To Disaster

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PRESIDENT BUSH and his military advisors were yesterday poised to announce ‘one last big push’ for victory in Iraq, and that 20,000 more US...

Mubarak is finished – Forward to the socialist revolution

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The regime of Hosni Mubarak is finished, crushed by the millions of workers, middle class, poor and – most importantly – the youth who...

The great betrayal – NHS union leaders call off strike action!

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NHS trade unions have called off (‘suspended’) today’s strike and betrayed their members by accepting the government’s decision not to pay the...

Unemployment And Poverty Soaring!

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THE Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) confirmed what people already know, when it predicted yesterday that unemployment is set to rise, this...

Working class erupts as inflation rips through Europe – build sections of the 4th...

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EUROPE has erupted in strikes as workers rise up against raging inflation which is driving down living standards to poverty levels across the EU. Germany,...

Troika poised to show Greece the door

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GREEK PM Antonis Samaras is meeting the organisation of Greece’s international creditors, the Troika (IMF, EU, ECB), to try to persuade it to give...

US Rushes Drones And Hellfire Missiles To Iraq

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THE US has sent 75 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq, with many more on the way. They are to be used to try to...

Royal Navy warship sent to the Med to force refugee boats back to Libya!

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YESTERDAY, David Cameron formally announced that the Tory government would be sending a Royal Navy warship to the coast of Libya as part of...

Bankrupt capitalism aims to balance the books through foreign aid cuts and vicious austerity...

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ON TUESDAY, Tory PM Boris Johnson narrowly avoided defeat on a motion to cut UK foreign aid after a rebellion by Tory MPs. In the...

Obama orders review over Syria

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama has stepped up the number of US troops in Iraq to over 3,000 and has also admitted that there may be...

Grenfell crisis – many millions are living in unsafe buildings eight years after the...

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NEW research has found that 136 firefighters who were exposed to toxic smoke at Grenfell are now suffering from occupational diseases. 1 in 4...

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...

Israel Remains Putin’s ‘Partner!’

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THE RESPONSE of Russia’s political leadership, led by Vladimir Putin, to the Israeli raid on Syria that led to the death of 15 Russian...

Trump sends in US military

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday said he would deploy the US military to US states that don’t use the National Guard in sufficient...

US privateers are already taking over NHS services!

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THE ENDLESSLY repeated slogan that ‘The NHS is Not for Sale’ is completely empty in the face of the fact that US companies and...

‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war

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THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...

TUC must call a general strike to bring in a workers government and socialism

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THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) will be holding its annual conference in Brighton from Sunday 7th September to Wednesday 10th September. It is taking place...

Tories prepare for civil war against the working class

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IN HIS closing speech to the Tory conference, Cameron pledged that a future Tory government would scrap the Human Rights Act, a position that was...

Britain Scuttling Out Of Iraq

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DEFENCE Secretary Browne has just visited Baghdad where he declared that the pace of the British rout in Iraq is to be accelerated, with...

FBU anger mounting – strike action on the way!

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FIREFIGHTERS risk their lives every time they are called out. They never know what they are going to have to tackle, and often do...

Forward to the Third Intifada

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THE US SPECIAL envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, who negotiated the basis of the power sharing agreement in the north of Ireland,...

US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis to organise a new world war –...

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PM Boris Johnson is now fighting on two fronts. At home, against the Metropolitan Police inquiry into his law-breaking, and the demand that he be...

The Bully State and forced labour is to replace the Welfare State

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TWO hundred thousand young people aged between 16 and 18, 11 per cent of that total age group, who are unemployed with no...

Leave the EU with no deal! Forward with the socialist revolution!

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THE VOTES in Parliament on amendments to Theresa May’s Brexit deal saw the counter-revolutionary plots by MPs from all parties to smash the 2016...

UK banks will have to refinance £800bn of debt

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JUST days after the Tory-led coalition’s ‘emergency budget’ declared war on the working class, the poor, the middle class, children and pensioners – with...

Johnson Now Speaking Out Of Both Sides Of His Mouth At The Same Time!

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LAST FRIDAY, evidence from Boris Johnson assured a Scottish court, in his own name, that he would send a letter to the EU, as...

Junior doctors will vote to reject rotten Hunt-BMA deal!

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THE BMA leadership have allowed themselves to be taken for a ride by Health Secretary Hunt! The government that imposed provocation after provocation onto the...

Trades unions must take action to end NHS privatisation

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‘END this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare in England.’ This was the call from Dr Hamish Meldrum, the Chairman of...

100,000 march as trade union leaders fiddle while Tories burn NHS!

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SATURDAY’S 100,000-strong march to defend the NHS from the accelerating Tory drive to destroy it showed once again that the masses are ready to...

Reopen Mining Industry – No To Nuclear Power

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British capitalism is today facing a massive energy crisis, largely of its own making. It was after all, Thatcher and Heseltine who shut down...

Benefits War Against Sick

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THE Tory work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith yesterday launched yet another vitriolic attack on the unemployed, the sick and disabled. On Sunday he...

Call a general strike – build Councils of Action – forward to Socialism

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THE Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said yesterday that the government should ban strikes by workers in essential services, adding that this...

UK steel industry collapses!

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YESTERDAY the Tory business secretary, Sajid Javid, convened an emergency summit meeting in Rotherham on the dramatic collapse of the UK steel industry. From the...

Bank In A Crisis Over Further Rate Cuts

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THE Bank of England is acting like a rabbit frozen in the headlights of a powerful car. It knows that, this Thursday, it wants...

Nicholson warns huge debt crisis facing NHS after May 7

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JUST retired NHS chief Sir David Nicholson CBE has left the NHS with a pension pot worth almost £1.9 million, after earning a basic...