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WALSH SLAPS DOWN UNITE AND McCLUSKEY – Trade unions must call mass actions to...

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THE Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has urged BA to step back from its ‘opportunistic fire and rehire’ plans, which will send thousands of...

Zionists ramp up attack on Rafah as fierce fighting breaks out in the north...

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THE ISRAELI regime intensified its genocidal attack on the southern city of Rafah, which sits on the border with Egypt, over the weekend. Yesterday, Israeli...

Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves declares war on workers to rescue British capitalism from bankruptcy

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ON MONDAY, the new Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her shock and horror that no one had told her about a £22 billion ‘black...

Ludicrous Cameron claims Tories are the workers’ party

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CAMERON began his election manifesto speech yesterday morning by insulting the intelligence of the listeners by stating ‘We are the party of working people,...

Russia Considering ‘Partnership’ With The US

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US DEFENCE Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday insisted that the US change of mind over basing tracking radar and anti-missile missiles in Poland and...

Tory ‘power grab’ to save capitalism by bringing in a police state

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THE TORY rush towards creating a police state controlled directly by the government has even got the chief constables and Police and Crime Commissioners...

Libyan Counter- Revolutionaries Being Showered With Cash!

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WESTERN and Arab countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia have pledged $1bn for the right-wing stooges of imperialism in Benghazi, at the latest...

Resistance erupts over ‘austerity’, as EU crisis worsens

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THE government of President Nicolas Sarkozy announced yesterday the raising of the pension age in France from 60 to 62. Workers will have to...

Defend jobs, pay & services: Lobby the TUC! Build councils of action!

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THE Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee decided yesterday to make no change in its base interest rate and to leave it at...

Sanders takes lead as US workers and youth rise up against capitalist crisis

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THE US independent ‘democratic socialist’ Senator Bernie Sanders has become front-runner for the Democratic Party nomination to stand against Trump in the presidential election...

Johnson Treats ‘Doormat’ Starmer With Complete Contempt

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ON MONDAY night, prime minister Boris Johnson decreed that England’s third national lockdown would legally come into force on Tuesday night with parliament called...

French Election results: the 5th Republic is dead, forward to the Socialist Republic

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THE RESULT of the first round of the French Presidential election has justly been described as a ‘seismic’ shift in the country. For the first...

‘Bloodbath’ in Gaza hospitals as Israel ramps up genocidal war

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A NEW REPORT by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has indicted Israel for using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. Omar Shakir, HRW’s Israel...

Laws’ resignation holes the coalition!

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ON Monday May 25th, David Laws, the new Chief Secretary of the Treasury, standing next to his master Chancellor Osborne, announced that the £6.2...

MPs’ Committee blames councils over homeless and dodges government!

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THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...

‘Big Society’ – wholesale destruction of the Welfare State

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TORY prime minister, David Cameron, launched a desperate attempt yesterday to try and convince an incredulous public that his ‘Big Society’ policy is something...

PM May woos Labour’s right wing!

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ON THE eve of the Tory Party Conference, with the party split from stem to stern over Brexit, Tory leaders have announced that they...

TUC must call a general strike at once to defend the Palestinian people from...

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THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said yesterday that the number of Palestinians who have been driven from their...

World Crisis Is Ripping Eu Apart

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THE crisis of the European Union’s attempts to overcome the contradictions of European capitalism has landed the Tory Party into the gravest crisis of...

Pakistani workers & farmers pay for the imperialists’ crisis

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EVERY day the number of people affected by the torrential rain and flooding in Pakistan is mounting. More than 20 million have been hit....

Demand TUC call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws

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LAST November, the Tories were confidently predicting that when their anti-strike ‘Minimum Service Levels’ law was finally passed before Christmas, around 40% of rail...

Kwarteng Sacked – Truss On Borrowed Time – Working Class Must Kick Tories Out!

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KWASI Kwarteng was sacked yesterday afternoon as Tory Chancellor, just weeks after he announced huge unfunded tax cuts that triggered a financial crisis by...

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...

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...

Death rate running a third higher as NHS cuts take their toll!

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THE current death rate in England and Wales is running about one-third higher than its normal rate for this time of year, official statistics...

Revolution is the only way forwards!

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THE working class of Europe is rising up to fight the savage spending cuts now being imposed by governments across the Continent. When the UK...

Cowardly Corbyn desperately walks the tightrope over the EU and the single market!

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LABOUR’S right wing were furious on Friday after the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party conference blocked a vote on single market membership. Instead,...

ALL trade unions must strike with the nurses to bring down the Tories and...

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NURSES are to strike on Thursday 15th and Tuesday 20th December. At the same time CWU postal and RMT and ASLEF rail workers are...

Sunak Wants A War With Russia And A Class War Against The Working Class...

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THE British ruling class has decided that there is only one way out of the historic crisis of British capitalism, and that is to...

Left Asked To Form Greek Government

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FOLLOWING the failure to form a government by the leader of the Greek Tories, Antonis Samaras, the leader of the Coalition of...

Education Bombshell – The University Cuts Begin!

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday condemned the decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to reduce funding for university...

Post Office scandal piles pressure on all main political parties

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On Monday, the House of Commons was treated to the sight of MPs from all the political parties united in an orchestrated show of...

Israel is being held responsible for the lives and safety of six recaptured...

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NEARLY 200 human rights organisations are holding Israel fully responsible for the lives and safety of six Palestinian prisoners who tunnelled their way out...

Labour MPs must fight for a socialist solution to the crisis of capitalism in...

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WITH the UK’s Labour government set to face challenges from the left to the King’s Speech today, the Fire Brigades Union has urged MPs...

McDonnell: Those who died in Grenfell were ‘murdered by political decisions!’

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LABOUR shadow chancellor John McDonnell has come out and said openly what the vast majority of people in the country believe – that those...

Down with barbaric vaccine wars! Put an end to backward capitalism with socialist revolutions!

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A VACCINE war broke out between the European Union and the UK last week over the supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus. The...

Afghanistan – A Graveyard For Imperialist Adventurers

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THE debacle of the rigged Afghan elections, held under the guns of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, is just a reflection of an even...

Behind The Crisis Talks In Minsk On Wednesday!

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THE ‘peace talk’ that suggests Merkel and Hollande are seeking to organise a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis, acceptable to all, the imperialist...

Bankers raise interest rates to deepen the slump, and make workers pay for...

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THE Bank of England has raised UK interest rates to their highest level for 14 years as it battles to stem soaring prices, by...

Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Sri Lanka

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AFTER an exhausting, genocidal war, hugely costly in lives and resources, and in the face of a working class movement that is now demanding...

Rudd gone – May government and British capitalism next!

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THERE is a growing demoralisation in the ranks of the paid propagandists for British capitalism about the prospects for the British ruling class. Two important...

Top US banker warns of global capitalist crisis that ‘could eclipse anything since World...

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JAMIE DIMON, boss of JP Morgan, the largest,bank in America, has issued a stark warning that the US is facing its worst crisis since...

Moment of truth for Greece!

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GREECE’S Syriza government delayed yesterday’s 300m euros (£216m) debt repayment to the IMF, saying that it will pay over to the Troika (the...

Come to the News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance conference

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ON Saturday June 29, the News Line daily newspaper will be having a joint conference with the All Trades Unions Alliance, the body that...

Vote Leave – bring down the Tories. For a workers government to defend jobs,...

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THE UK Prime Minister, Cameron, has delivered a thinly disguised deadly threat to the UK working class. This is that if it has the...