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Hague Must Resign Over Libyan Debacle

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THE latest NATO war crime, the bombing of the Libyan TV station, killing three technicians, was a repeat of a similar war crime,...

Obama Attempts To Ride The Revolutionary Tiger

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IN his speech on Thursday, President Obama made it clear that the United States is currently attempting to ride the tiger of revolution. He said:...

Gaza war crimes exposed – unions must call worldwide boycott of Israel

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ISRAELI soldiers at a military academy have exposed the essence of the cold-blooded and murderous nature of the recent Israeli army onslaught into the...

Nationalise All The Banks And Abolish Mortgage Debt

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UP to 1.5 million fixed rate mortgage holders are going to have to renegotiate their mortgages in the New Year. Many of them are already...

Free Joe Glenton! End criminal occupation!

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DEMONSTRATIONS will be staged in eight different countries today, from Britain and the United States to Poland and Italy, demanding the release of British...

French revolutionary tactics show British workers the way

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THE two general strikes and the massive mobilisations of trade unionists, students, lycee students, and unemployed and working class youth which brought millions onto...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers getting support at the Hillingdon council depot

British Imperialism Wants To Redraw Map

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IRAQ is in the middle of a civil war, the country’s former interim puppet prime minister, Iyad Allawi, said yesterday. Allawi was appointed by...

Now send Brown packing – forward to a workers government!

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Blair stood down yesterday, driven out of power by the Iraqi insurgency and the British workers’ determination to defend their welfare state. The disorientated...

The Banking Standards Commission selects three scapegoats for the capitalist crisis

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THE farcically misnamed Banking Standards Commission (as if the banks had any standards) was created to try and prevent an even bigger banking collapse...

CWU leaders agree surrender terms!

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AFTER calling off last winter’s national strike by their members in Royal Mail without the members’ agreement – and without their members’ demands to...

Brown Targets The Working Class For Special Measures

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BROWN’S proud boast yesterday in his pre-budget speech was that ‘In no other decade has Britain’s personal wealth – up 60 per cent –...

US-UK Forces Must Quit Afghanistan Now!

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THE position of the imperialist powers in Afghanistan has become completely untenable. Their forces are not wanted either by the Taleban or the mass...

Free Kendall-Smith! Stop the war against Iraq!

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THE Labour movement must salute the courageous action of Flight-Lieutenant Kendall-Smith who yesterday declared, after a court martial had found him guilty on five...

Tory Coalition Turns To Civil War Tactics!

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THE Tory-led coalition is planning to reintroduce the Riot Act nearly 40 years after it was abolished in England and Wales. Under proposals set out...

Smith Commission’s anti-working class Trojan Horse

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THE Smith Commission has proposed, with the support of all the major parties, that the Scottish Parliament should have the power to set income...

Trade Unions Must Take Action To Smash The Bedroom Tax!

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TODAY is the day when the outrageous Bedroom Tax begins and hundreds of thousands of working people will see between 14% and 25% of...

National Guard ‘armed, locked and loaded’ in New Orleans

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LOUISIANA State Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin have deployed 300 heavily-armed National Guard troops and 60 state police on the streets of...

Intensifying crisis can only be resolved by world socialist revolution!

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SO FAR twelve global banks have been publicly linked to the Libor rate-rigging scandal, and face as much as $22 billion in combined regulatory...

Ashdown – Not Wanted In Afghanistan

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FOLLOWING the recent expulsion by the Afghan puppet government of two British diplomats – they were carrying out secret negotiations with the Taleban in...

Poodle Brown can’t say no to Bush

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PRIME MINISTER Brown showed yesterday, at his joint press conference with President Bush, that such is the historic decline and collapse of the power...

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...

Cameron Favours New Anti-Union Laws

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LAST Saturday, the Tory leader, Cameron, told the Daily Telegraph that if he should win the General Election he is ready to toughen the...

Tories Plan To Bomb Syria And Send Troops To Libya

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NEWS LINE congratulates the German workers who have given a big welcome to the Syrian and other refugees who have shown such an indomitable...

Crisis of US economy deepens and UK follows suit!

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THE US economy has seen 7.6 million jobs destroyed since the US and worldwide slump began, and then deepened, after the crash of the...

No Cash For Operations – While £900 Million Pfi Scheme Collapses

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EX-LABOUR MP Alice Mahon is considering taking the NHS to the High Court after the service refused to allow her access to a drug...

Cwu Leaders Must Call Indefinite Strike Action

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HALF WAY through the CWU’s two weeks of rolling strike action it is perfectly clear that well over 90 per cent of the CWU’s...

A Nest Of Opportunists!

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THE class basis of the Blairite ‘Third Way’ politics is now being clearly revealed for all to see. It is a one hundred per...

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...

Housing crash on the way!

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THE latest Bank of England figures show that the number of new mortgages being given to house buyers has fallen by 20 per cent...

‘WE ARE AT WAR’ says Greek PM as workers prepare to storm parliament

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THE Greek Socialist Party Prime Minister, Yiorghos Papandreou, told his party’s parliamentary deputies last Saturday that ‘no one likes emergency procedures but we are...

End the Iraq and Afghan wars! Let the Chagossians return home!

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ON the fifth anniversary of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the working class and the young people of the UK and the US,...

Blair will ‘run criminals out of the country’

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IT was Mussolini who said that he would drive the Mafia out of Italy and send it packing to the United States. Mussolini went...

UK has not offered to take in a single Syrian refugee!

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THE fact that the UK ruling coalition is involved up to its neck in organising the war in Syria, and is also keeping it...

CWU must spread the action to the entire public sector

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THE reality of the situation facing postal workers is that after two series of mass strike actions during which they have shown they are...

Don’t raise rates Chambers of Commerce warns B of E

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ON the eve of the Bank of England’s monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting over the Bank’s interest rate, the British Chambers of Commerce has...

Answer Brown’s attacks with a general strike

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THE rapidly deepening debt crisis of the capitalist system is leading to a financial collapse and a slump of historic proportions as the bankers’...

By-elections spell out depth of the coalition crisis

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LABOUR has won three by-elections, holding Croydon North, Middlesbrough and Rotherham, while the coalition governing parties were wiped out. The Tories came behind UKIP, their...

General Strike To Smash Fees And Bring Down The Coalition

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TENS of thousands of students and youth are marching today in central London to denounce the tripling of tuition fees to £9,000, and to...

Obama Declares War On The Pakistani People!

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PRESIDENT OBAMA yesterday announced a ‘comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan Pakistan’. He deliberately linked the two countries together, to try to show that there could...

Smash the capitalist state, sack the chief constables, no to police commissioners!

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THE Tory-LibDem coalition is set to introduce a ‘reform programme’ for the police that will establish regimes of elected police commissioners, who will have...

Mass murder in the Med!

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THIS week the UN announced that 300 migrants had drowned after being forced into unseaworthy boats in a desperate attempt to escape the wars...

Gate Gourmet Workers Lead The Way!

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ON SUNDAY, hundreds of workers from Gate Gourmet, who were locked out and sacked by the company on August 10, 2005, are marching with...

Trump Sheds ‘Crocodile Tears’ For Victims Of Thursday’s Downing Of Ukrainian Plane!

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ON FRIDAY January 3rd, the USA carried out a terrorist drone attack on Baghdad airport, murdering General Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary...

Occupy And Nationalise UK Gm Plants Now!

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BOTH Spain and the UK have refused to sign the Memorandum of Understanding that binds together the Magna-Sberbank-GM deal under which there are...

Demagogue Brown ‘names and shames’ the public sector

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THE PCS trade union yesterday accused the bankers’ Prime Minister, Gordon Brown of ‘beginning a bidding war on who can cut the most.’ The...