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Balls and the ‘Little Englanders’ adopt racism as their policy

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‘WE were wrong to allow so many eastern Europeans into Britain,’ says Ed Balls, referring to the large number of migrants from Poland and...

Israeli high school students refuse to serve and oppose the oppression of the Palestinians!

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HUNDREDS of Israeli high school students in a ‘Youth Against Dictatorship’ statement have announced that they will refuse to serve in the Israeli military...

One third of all people in UK have lived in poverty in the past...

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ONE in three people in the country have ‘experienced poverty’ in the past four years. According to figures produced by the Office for National Statistics,...

ACTION must be taken by the trade unions to defend the NHS

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THE crisis of the NHS has reached the point of its transformation. Because of the fake NHS pricing mechanisms imposed by Labour, NHS hospitals are...

Merkel defeated in Berlin

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THE economic collapse of the eurozone continues to drive a huge political crisis for bourgeois political parties across Europe as splits on how to...

TUC must call general strike to bring down the Tories, and nationalise the banks...

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WITH the Tories set to decide whether they want Boris Johnson or Sunak to continue with the job of completely destroying all of the...
Locked-our Gate Gourmet pickets want official backing from the TGWU to win their jobs back

Blair convinces nobody with his education market

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YESTERDAY saw the Prime Minister seeking to reinvent himself as the champion of the people and a supporter of ‘social justice’. Speaking in...

Imperialist Vultures Gather Over Syria

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HAVING failed to overthrow President Assad of Syria by force of arms, the imperialist powers are now turning to Russia, and are seeking the...

600,000 workers and youth march for Palestine – the TUC must call a general...

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600,000 WORKERS AND YOUTH marched from Central London to Whitehall on Saturday in a massive show of strength and solidarity with the masses of...

World Bank chief fears youth and world revolution!

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When the President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, concluded a summit of the bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the statement...

Greek blood money debt bonds for sale!

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BANKRUPTED Greece, still up to its neck in debt, is to sell five-year bonds, in the country’s first long-term debt sale since its international...

Labour must condemn any secret talks with the Tories and mobilise to bring them...

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‘I GOT us into this mess, and I will get us out of it’ PM May told the massed ranks of Tory backbenchers at...

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...

The Desperate Housing Crisis!

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IT WAS Frederick Engels who said that the housing problem and capitalism were inseparable, and that to get rid of the former you would...

Savage Greek property tax provokes mass revolt

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In the past few days electricity bills delivered to Greek households have contained a demand for the hated new property tax. This tax, which ranges...

Trade union action to beat ‘stagflation’

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TODAY 800,000 local council workers, members of the UNISON and UNITE trade unions, begin a two-day strike against a government-imposed wage cut, an offer...

Ex-Defence Minister Fox Demands A Class War Against Workers And Their Trade Unions!

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THE coalition’s ex-Defence Secretary, Fox, put forward his demands for the Tory-led coalition’s March 21 crisis budget yesterday in the Financial Times. It was a...

EU raises the need for a European army, navy and airforce

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THE super-imperialist ambitions of the European Union (EU) have begun to emerge in the wake of its Brexit defeat in the UK. So far, its...

Neither savage deflation or massive inflation but socialism!

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LABOUR’S last Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has urged the Tories to set about printing or borrowing even more money to finance growth. It must be remembered...

Revolutionary crisis in France

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The first round of voting in the French presidential election, held last Sunday, produced an unprecedented defeat for the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his...

UK ruling class turns on President Biden over Afghanistan disaster for imperialism!

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THERE is no doubt that the humiliating UK-US rout in Afghanistan is a colossal victory for the Taliban, and all oppressed nations, and at...

Imperialists In A Panic Over Syria’s Ghouta Victory!

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THE Syrian government has denied the terrorist claims, that were expected, that Syria has launched a chemical attack on its own city of Douma,...

Nagasaki anti-militarism!

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LAST week saw the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest war crimes in human history, the dropping of the two Atomic bombs onto...

Syria counter-revolutionary alliance

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THE counter-revolutionary alliance between US imperialism and the Stalinist bureaucracy emerged into the light of day last Saturday with the joint framework agreement between...

TUC traitors issue joint statement with the CBI bosses, the ETUC and Business...

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THE TUC leaders have just issued an unprecedented joint statement with the bosses of the CBI, the ETUC and Business Europe ahead of June’s...

An entire nation becomes the ‘enemy within!’

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AT ONE TIME the ‘enemy within’ was well defined as being the working class, especially its militant trade unionists and Trotskyists. Now capitalism is in...

Bring Down The May Government – Forward To A Socialist UK And A...

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ONE HUNDRED years after the Balfour Declaration, the PLO and the Palestinian masses are demanding that the UK government apologise for it and its...

British capitalism remains on the floor with wages falling and part-time working booming

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THE number of people estimated to be out of work in the UK fell by 133,000 to a ‘five-year low’ of 2.2 million in...

Tories are the party of the bankers, the bosses and the landlords! Tenants beware!

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THE south-east London borough of Newham achieved the dubious record of having the biggest rise in house prices in the whole of the UK...

More anti-union laws, no rights at work, the elderly being abused in their homes...

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has said the danger for the UK from the economic crisis, particularly the crisis in the...

Israel Seeking To Drive The Palestinians Out Of Their Country – It Is Time...

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THE Gaza Strip-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the West Bank-headquartered Palestinian Authority have vehemently condemned the escalation of the Israeli regime’s deadly aggression...

Answer Johnson’s war on the right to strike with a general strike and a...

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HOURS after winning the December 12 election, Tory leader Johnson at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in central London announced that ‘We now speak...

Workers Arise – May, Johnson And The Entire Tory Regime Must Go Now!

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ON Tuesday evening, Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, announced, concerning the materials used to...

Central Banks to increase global debt timebomb with QE

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CENTRAL banks in America, Europe and Japan are on the verge of printing and handing out to their banks hundreds of billions of pounds...

Cbi Demands Huge Cuts To Save The Bosses

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THE employers organisation, the CBI, yesterday demanded that the Tory coalition government go even further than it has pledged, in destroying benefits and...

Return The Malvinas To Argentina!

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PERU has cancelled a visit by a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Montrose, that had been due this week. Peruvian Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo said: ‘This...

Tory arrogance only possible because of TUC servility

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THE past week has been dominated by the sheer arrogance of the Tory-led coalition as it prepares to implement its plans for the wholesale...

Smash capitalism to end hire and fire at will and poverty pay

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WHAT kind of future capitalism has in store for the entire working class was forcibly brought home this week – a future where workers...

Capitalism is crashing and must be replaced by a socialist revolution!

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THE only way that bankrupt capitalism can survive is through making the working people of the world pay for its crisis with their jobs,...

US AND EU SLUG IT OUT AT 55th MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE!

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THE just-concluded 55th Munich Security Conference saw the conflict between the US and the EU break out openly and venemously. German Chancellor Merkel and other...

Tory war on refugees is a class issue for the working class

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IN THEIR latest attack on refugees the Tories are preparing to use nets to disable boats and dinghies attempting the dangerous Channel crossing. This tactic...

Ireland’s ‘mother and baby’ homes report – Church and state complicit in 9,000...

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NINE thousand children died in Irish ‘mother and baby’ homes run by the Catholic Church throughout the 20th century, a long awaited report has...

Palestinians warn Israel over Jabal al-Baba ethnic cleansing!

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday warned Israel that the Jabal al-Baba community to the east of Jerusalem is a red line, warning...

Bring Out All The Unions To Defend The NHS!

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THE situation could not be clearer. The whole of the trade union movement and the majority of non-trade unionists support the 24-hour strike actions...

Greece Can’t Pay – Workers Won’t Pay!

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ACCORDING to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, Greece has a much bigger budget deficit than that reported by the Greek government last year....