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Britain’s ‘Treasure Islands’ for the super rich – while it’s super austerity for...

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THE ‘Panama papers’ leak of 11 million documents shows that the rich and infamous worldwide, including heads of state, are avoiding taxation...

End imperialist wars with victory of the world socialist revolution!

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ON SUNDAY, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth insisted publicly that, despite the illegal bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, Donald Trump’s administration...

Fatah calls for a general strike and ‘Day of Rage’ – UK workers must...

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AT LEAST 40 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison of ‘Megiddo’ have joined the prisoners’ open-ended mass hunger strike, said the strikers Media Committee...

One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin

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EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...

The TUC must now call mass general strike action in support of Palestine and...

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THE Hamas movement said on Saturday that the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the northern Gaza Strip and the Israeli occupation army’s attacks on...

One year since the first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020!

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ON 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson outlined measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, with a series of stop-go lockdowns. Since then, of the major...

Eurozone crisis drives gold rush

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LAST week the Greek Syriza government avoided defaulting on its debt repayment to the IMF by the skin of its teeth. Just before Tuesday’s deadline...

Disorientated Johnson quotes Lenin to CBI while Starmer tells bosses we will do what...

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BOTH Tory prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer spoke at the annual conference of the leading bosses’ organisation, the Confederation of...

Capitalism must be overthrown to resolve its crisis!

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The propagandists for the bourgeois order are rushing to try and defend the capitalist system as being blameless as far as the crisis is...

TUC must support junior doctors with a general strike!

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THE decision by the British Medical Association to authorise fresh strike action by junior doctors over the imposition of a new work contract is...

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...

Bring Down May Government! Quit The Eu Now! Forward To A Workers Government And...

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THE MAY government is now in a full Brexit retreat, a retreat that is turning into a rout! There is to be a vote this...

Kiev, EU and US facing defeat in East Ukraine!

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UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...

War declared against the working class as 800 P&O seafarers are sacked and replaced...

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POWERFUL protests erupted in Liverpool, Hull and Dover yesterday after 800 P&O Ferries’ seafarers were sacked by decree and replaced by cheap labour. The RMT...

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...

Hamas Ready To Form A National Unity Government!

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ADDRESSING a national meeting of the leaders of Palestinian political factions in Gaza City on Saturday, Ismail Haniyah, the head of the Hamas political...

Unite’s ‘line in the sand’ must be enforced with strike action and occupations

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ONE of the leaders of Unite, the country’s largest union, yesterday stated that: ‘A line in the sand over further privatisation of the NHS...

General Motors & Ford threaten to stop production in US

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AS PAY negotiations between the American car giants General Motors (GM) and Ford, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have reached a critical point,...

Public Debt doubles – overthrow bankrupt capitalism

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The coalition government will be forced to accept this month that the bank bailout has more than doubled the size of the Public Debt...

Tories responsible for deaths in care homes and amongst NHS workers – Time to...

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THIS week, the Tories’ criminal liability for the deaths of thousands of health care workers, the elderly and the disabled was revealed in two...

Saudis Execute Shia Leader In Major US–UK Backed Provocation!

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THE Saudi autocrats, the major ally of the US and the UK in the Middle East, alongside Israel, have just thrown barrels of petrol...

Mv Rachel Corrie Nears Gaza!

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NOT content with destroying its ‘alliance’ with Turkey by murdering nine of its citizens and wounding many more, the Israeli government has let it...

Britain’s Criminal War Against The Kenyan Land Freedom Army

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BRITISH conscripts were sent out to Kenya in the 1950s, where they were turned into brutes and sadistic killers, in the war of British...

Occupy Vauxhall/Opel plants – nationalise GM Europe to defend jobs!

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General Motors plans to close the Opel plant in Antwerp, Belgium this winter, with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs. Workers in Antwerp...

Forward To The General Strike And A Workers Government!

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THE Daily Telegraph newspaper used its front page yesterday to kickstart a campaign for the police to enforce the Labour government’s latest terror laws...

Make Capitalism History! The Way To End Poverty

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TODAY’S Edinburgh march to ‘Make Poverty History’ will be led by Bishops, Cardinals and boss class politicians, in other words, by the religious and...

Trump is threatening to attack Iran! US and UK workers must respond by removing...

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LONDON witnessed one of the largest pro-Palestine demonstrations since the ceasefire agreement was signed in October 2025, with more than 100,000 people marching through...

Eurozone Crisis Is Hitting Every Country

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IN a week when Greece and Spain witnessed massive strikes and demonstrations against austerity measures – designed to drive the working class and youth...

Sack Gove, May and Cameron! TUC must call a general strike to bring down...

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EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove, who has carried forward the privatisation battle against the teaching trade unions, and driven forward the Free School-Academy agenda,...

UK workers must organise political and industrial action to make sure the UK leaves...

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TORY PRIME minister Theresa May suffered another humiliating defeat in parliament on Tuesday when the latest version of her ‘deal’ with the EU was...

Woodley And Barber Know No Shame!

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Trade union leaders in Europe have warned that the present ‘spectacular growth’ of the private equity venture capitalist deals is ‘unsustainable’ and ‘stoking up...

Cameron crushed and out – now kick out the rest!

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THE working class has delivered a crushing blow not just to Tory leaders Cameron and his chancellor Osborne but to the bankers and capitalists...

Israeli leaders call to annex West Bank to create a new Naqba!

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ISRAEL’S Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Uri Ariel speaking in Moscow, where he travelled with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, has...

Impotent Osborne Lashes Out At The Workers

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TORY chancellor George Osborne started his budget speech last Wednesday with a confession that British capitalism is totally impotent in the face of the...

Imperialist powers are preparing Middle East war – disarm them with socialist revolutions!

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AT a time when US President Trump and France’s Macron are plotting a permanent US presence in northern Syria, to be supported no...

Biden adds $4tn to the US’ already unsustainable debt!

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YESTERDAY, US president Joe Biden announced to a joint session of Congress his plans to unleash a massive round of government spending amounting to...

Hunt Planning New Blitz On NHS And NHS Workers!

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BOTH the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) trade unions yesterday warned that Health Secretary Hunt is planning...

TUC must call a general strike to defend the NHS

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WITH the latest five days of strike action by junior doctors due to end tomorrow, the British Medical Association (BMA) has already set in...

Not a very British revolution – just another attempt at a bourgeois coup

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THAT an ex-SAS officer from the 1970s, with current military-police commissioner connections through his succession of security businesses, as well as ‘strong connections to...

Johnson Pleads For Compromise – The Working Class Must Finish The Job!

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BORIS Johnson revealed his plans for a Brexit deal at the Tory Party conference yesterday before formally putting his proposals to the EU. Johnson’s deal...

Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions

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A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...

Syriza Begins T0 Swing To The Right!

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GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said he is confident that agreement can be reached with creditors over the repayment of ‘Greece’s debts’,...

Commissioners will slash and burn local services!

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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Tory County Council has imposed emergency spending controls twice in the last six months and is now in a ‘truly perilous state’, having...

The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general strike to kick...

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LIZ Truss appeared outside 10 Downing Street at 1.30pm yesterday to announce that she was resigning following a meeting with the Chairman of the...

Force Blair out now! Forward to a workers’ government!

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YESTERDAY was a letter writing day for Labour MPs. There were at least three different letters circulating among Labour MPs, including one signed by the...