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Financial Crisis Worsening, Says The Imf

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IN its just-published Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF has found that ‘Confidence remains fragile despite recent policy actions’, and that the ‘Euro area...

Kick The Profiteers Out Of The NHS!

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THE report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire gives official and damming evidence of the plundering...

UK cluster bombs used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen war crimes

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THE NEWS yesterday that analysis by UK government officials that British-made cluster bombs are being used by the Saudi-led coalition in its war against...

Labour’s ‘business friendly’ manifesto is declaration of war on the working class!

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer launched the party’s ‘business friendly’ election manifesto in Manchester yesterday morning with the promise that a Labour government would put...

Russia’s response to the EU’s Georgia threats

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THE Russian government said yesterday there had been a ‘responsible’ outcome to Monday’s European Union summit called to discuss the recent fighting between Russia...

US And UK Ruling Class Are Humbled In Afghanistan – Forward To The Victory...

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THE US ruling class, and its UK and German allies have suffered a historic defeat in Afghanistan. This is the verdict of the former UK...

Trump’s war on Venezuela draws condemnation from China and Russia

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Russia and China have both expressed their support for Venezuela as it confronts a US blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving the country...

Capitalist crisis deepens – socialist revolution the answer

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JUSTICE Secretary, Jack Straw, yesterday dismissed Tory claims that Labour is facing its own Black Wednesday, over Northern Rock and the missing data discs...

Reject the SNP attempt to split the working class! Forward to Socialist United States...

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THE LEADER of the Scottish Nationalist Party, Nicola Sturgeon, dropped a bombshell yesterday with her announcement that she intends to push through a vote...

The split in the British ruling class is clearing the way for the British...

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THE POUND was sent crashing down yesterday against the US dollar and the euro prompting the bourgeois press to howl about ‘the end of...

The Tories are planning to smash the trade unions – To defend the right...

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THE General Council of the TUC is set to meet on Tuesday, in a meeting that has been kept a secret, lest large numbers...

Sunak’s emergency ‘cost of living package’ a sign of Tory desperation in the face...

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ORY chancellor Rishi Sunak announced an emergency cost of living package to the House of Commons yesterday, as soaring inflation that is driving millions...

The fate of UK banks linked to the fate of South Africa’s Zuma –...

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‘THIS is the third high-profile money-laundering scandal to involve major British banks this year,’ John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said yesterday, responding to reports...

Democrats and Republicans sink their differences when it comes to imperialist war

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WHILE US president Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night was met with impotent angry silence by Democrats, there...

Youth are being hit the hardest by bankrupt capitalism!

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SKY-ROCKETING youth unemployment figures just released reveal that nearly one million young people in the UK are not in employment, up from 500,000 in...

Bring down the Cameron-Murdoch police state

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YESTERDAY’S parliamentary committee sessions saw News International stand brazenly in denial of any knowledge of the phone hacking that took place at the News...

UK readying for war in the Gulf

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THE West’s escalation of its onslaught on Iran could see Britain sending military reinforcements to the Gulf shortly, following the passage of HMS Argyll...

Reactionary Gove wants a pro-imperialist syllabus

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THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has advanced his plan to rid the GCSE English exam of classic books and plays he considers to...

Britain Boarded The Grace 1 Off Gibraltar To Protect US And UK Oil Thieves...

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ON JULY 4th, 30 Royal Marines boarded the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 off Gibraltar, allegedly on orders from the USA, because of suspicions...

Brexit crisis coming to a head – Quit the EU Now – Forward to...

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TOMORROW will see the moment of truth for both the Tory and Labour Parties when May’s programme for a Brexit that will leave the...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers in high spirits welcomed Father Christmas at their mass picket yesterday

Public sector unions must take strike action over pensions

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THE Fire Brigades Union said yesterday that it will consider industrial action over government plans to ‘reform’ its members’ pensions by dramatically extending the...

EU leaders installing a Greek puppet government

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A SUMMIT of all European Union members planned yesterday was cancelled to allow the Eurozone Finance Ministers to resume their talks held to ...

Crunch Time For The Eurozone

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August is traditionally the month when politicians, bankers and bureaucrats across Europe take an extended break away from the chaos of the economic meltdown...

Defend all GM jobs! Occupy and Nationalise UK’s Vauxhall plants!

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ON Thursday May 21, GM announced that ‘Representatives of Unite, the union, signed the UK Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and European framework agreement in...

Mursi follows on from Mubarak as the US’ man in Cairo

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PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...

Privatisation of roads and Royal Mail

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The leadership of the postal workers union (CWU) delivered a treacherous blow to their members when they hailed the announcement that the government is...

TAKE ACTION IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE – CALL GENERAL STRIKES IN US, EU and...

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NABIL Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, warned on Sunday of the grave consequences of Israel’s threats to carry out what could be...

Demand TUC call a General Strike!

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The leaders of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have refused to condemn Labour right-winger Alan Milburn for accepting a position with the Tory-led coalition...

Wall Street heading for a crash

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THE US Wall Street is fast heading for a crash according to the Bank of America (BoA) as the huge speculative bubble on the...

South Korea’s crisis with Martial Law declared reveals the death agony of the capitalist...

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economic stability in East Asia. This anti-communist idyll theme, has been shaken to the core after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, citing the...

Junior Doctors Are Defending The NHS – They Must Not Fight Alone!

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AS the April 26th-27th strike action of the junior doctors approaches, the chorus of reproaches from the likes of Dame Sally Davies, Sir Bruce...

Oxfam’s Pleas To The Bankers Will Be Ignored – World Revolution Is The...

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‘THE IMF must abandon demands for austerity as the cost-of-living crisis drives up hunger and poverty worldwide’ is the demand being made by Oxfam. Oxfam’s...

UK living standards ‘to fall behind Malta’ as UK capitalism crashes under debt

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ON Monday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its latest updated figures which showed that the average person now has £38 less to...

Imperialist Vipers At Work

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FROM the early 1980s, the CIA and MI6, directed by the US and UK governments of the day, supported and armed the Mujahideen in...

US Agent Maliki Turns On Shi’Ite Masses

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IN the last days of the Bush presidency, the US military has unleashed the Iraqi puppet army, led by its Prime Minister Maliki, to...

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...

Scrap the Public Private Partnership on the tube

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METRONET, the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) within London Underground, has collapsed financially after years of failure to provide services required by the capital’s transport system. It...

Israel launches ground attack on Gaza City as UN inquiry finds Israeli State officially...

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YESTERDAY, the Israeli Zionist state started its ground attack on Gaza City following weeks of heavy bombardment that has reduced it to rubble accompanied...

Arm The Palestinian Masses Now!

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ISRAEL has set Palestine ablaze yet again with the death in an Israeli prison of Maysarah Abu Hamdiyeh, a 64-year-old prisoner, who had been...

Gaza – Israeli soldiers admit killing Palestinians without restrictions, out of ‘boredom’!

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THE Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Wednesday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into recent confessions by Israeli soldiers...

Carey calls to ‘defend Britain’s Christian identity’

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IN a call that will be enthusiastically taken up by the BNP, which champions Christian civilisation, the ex-Archbishop of Canterbury, Carey has urged the...

Assad the main enemy, not IS say the US, France and the UK!

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ON Tuesday morning in New York President Putin said that determining the fate of Syria should be in the hands of the Syrians,...
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...

Egypt must keep open Gaza’s Rafah crossing!

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THE Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which has been closed for the past five months, was opened for two days at...

Privatisation destroys infrastructure

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BRITAIN’S infrastructure was reduced to complete meltdown over Christmas through a combination of high winds and heavy rainfall. Not because of blinding snow storms, hurricane...