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Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TGWU executive committee on Tuesday morning demanding the ‘Compromise Agreement’ with the company be scrapped

Brown wants to form a Blairite government

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has confirmed to the BBC that he will run a Blairite administration if he becomes prime minister. He said that...

Royal Mail getting ready for New Year war!

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BRENDAN Barber has won another battle honour from the employers. His first was at Gate Gourmet, which publicly congratulated him on its website for the...

Workers will ignore Tory attempts to make Russia their enemy – the enemy is...

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YESTERDAY’S statement by Theresa May to parliament on the range of ‘reprisals’ against Russia for the alleged involvement of the Russian state in the...

Bloomberg Flops! Sanders Must Stand For President – US Unions Must Form Labour Party!

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BILLIONAIRE Michael Bloomberg, whose wealth amounts to $64bn, has seen his bid to purchase first of all the Democratic nomination to be its presidential...

Its revolution or ruin for the Middle Class

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IT was Harold Macmillan back in the days of ‘You have never had it so good’ in the late 1950s and early 1960s who...

End the regime of forced prepayment meters – nationalise British Gas and all...

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IN THE WEEK when the giant oil and gas company Shell announced record profits of £32.2 billion, on the back of the soaring cost...

French revolution coming to a head!

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THE massive strike movement against the Socialist Party-imposed anti-union laws is continuing in France with the railways due to take national strike action today...

Salafist Provocateurs Playing Israel’s Game!

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A SALAFIST group yesterday claimed responsibility for a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip towards the Israeli town of Ashkelon on Saturday night, as...
Gate Gourmet workers still on the picket line after being locked out for over 8 weeks

Smash Privatisation – Renationalise!

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THE privatisation of the railways has been a complete disaster and for the families of those killed in rail crashes it is a disaster...

Greek Debt Crisis Set To Explode Under The Eu!

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TALKS on a Greek debt deal, it was reported yesterday, have ‘hit a snag’. The Institute of International Finance (IIF), and their creditors group...

Defend state university education against the coalition barbarians!

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LORD Browne’s review of university funding is to recommend a threefold increase in tuition fees. Lord Browne (former head of BP) is proposing to raise...

Build the Fourth International – the world party of the socialist revolution!

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ON Thursday, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the starkest warning yet that the debt crisis gripping the eurozone...

Blow the whistle on the Tories by kicking them out

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THE TORY health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, yesterday announced that the government is to issue for consultation draft guidelines that, it claims, will end the...

Replace Starmer’s anti-worker Labour regime with a workers government and socialism!

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THE TUC yesterday published a poll of over 3,000 voters which showed conclusively overwhelming support for workers rights and pay increases to match the...

The US and NATO are behind Georgia’s ‘declaration of war’

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AS the Russian government explained yesterday, the attack by Georgia on South Ossetia was expected, was well prepared and was a declaration of war,...

Tory War On Teachers

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THE Tory conference this week stepped up its vicious attack on teachers and their unions with education secretary Michael Gove treating them, as befits...

Police officer charged as a neo-Nazi recruiter! Another probed for ‘raping policewomen’. Disband the...

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A METROPOLITAN Police officer is facing jail after acting as a recruiter for a banned neo-Nazi terrorist group. PC Benjamin Hannam, from Edmonton in...

Unemployment at 7.7 per cent – food banks facing huge demand

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UK jobless officially fell to 2.49m in the latest government figures, for the three months to August, showing a slight fall of 18,000, not...

Prentis appeals to Brown in vain

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‘OUR time and patience is running out. The country is in a mess and we look to the Government to come up with serious...

Ice – Immigration Customs Enforcement Officers – Murder Alex Jeffrey Pretti!

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FOUR US immigration officers have shot and killed a 37-year-old man, Alex Jeffrey Pretti in front of screaming protesters in an anti-ICE protest in...

Starmer Recruiting Right Wing Tories To Run Any Labour Gov!

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THE Labour Party is defending, welcoming right wing Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the party despite anger from many backbench MPs and workers at...

The Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down Johnson And ...

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BORIS Johnson’s reaction to the Tory Party’s massive by-election defeats at Tiverton and Honiton and at Wakefield has been to reject the advice and...

Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire

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YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...

US multi-billionaires tax revelations will fuel demand for the overthrow of bankrupt capitalism

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TAX RETURNS of America’s richest people have been leaked to the investigative website ProRepublica and prove that the mega wealthy have been paying little...

It’s Bercow v Trump as the British ruling class splits between Washington and Brussels!

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SPEAKER Bercow, with his condemnation of any invitation to US President Trump to address both Houses of Parliament, has shown just how split and...

BoE chief: British capitalism ‘turning clock back’ to 18th century!

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THE SPLIT in the leading bodies of the Bank of England over whether or not to raise interest rates has emerged just shortly after...

TUC must call general strike to bring down Starmer government!

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LABOUR MPs are now warning that Keir Starmer’s days as Prime Minister are well and truly numbered. On Wednesday, a clearly shaken Starmer faced demands...

Johnson moves to put the skids under Prescott

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THE Blairite cabinet, faced with the working class rejecting Blair, his war on Iraq, his onslaught on the Welfare State, and with popular revulsion...

Blair Instructed Foreign Office To Break The Law

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YESTERDAY the Reprieve charity reported that: ‘Previously secret Government memos prove Prime Minister Tony Blair ordered the Foreign Office to violate its legal obligation...

Cameron-Obama Are Preparing A New Crusade

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BRITAIN and the US are to share expertise on ‘preventing radicalism’ and tackling domestic ‘violent extremism’, PM Cameron has announced. He warned that both...

Oil War Looms In The Caucasus!

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RUSSIA is recalling its ambassador to Tbilisi after Wednesday’s provocative arrests of four Russian officers on spying charges, and is beginning a partial evacuation...

TUC must call action now against the BoE and Tory theft of $1bn of...

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ONE BILLION dollars (£800m) worth of Venezuelan gold in the vaults of the Bank of England has been successfully seized, in an act of...

Labour right wing propping up the Tories!

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ACTING Labour Party leader Harriet Harman yesterday betrayed working people when she led over 100 Labour MPs in abstaining over the Welfare Bill which...

Watch out! The bank robbers are still at large!

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‘MORE and more leverage in the system. The whole building is about to collapse anytime now. . . Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab....

Israeli genocide exposed at International Court of Justice!

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YESTERDAY, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) met to consider the lawsuit filed by South Africa condemning Israel for the crime of committing genocide...

CWU leaders organise a consultative ballot !over pensions

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TRUE to form the CWU leadership is declining to give any kind of leadership to its massive membership on the vital issue of the...

Workers Must Take Action To Put An End To Capitalism

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THE TIME is here when workers must respond to the growing chorus from the professional servants of the bourgeoisie for savage, and even more...

Defiant Assad Puts Imperialists Into A Crisis!

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PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...

FBU pensions victory sets precedent for all public service workers

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THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) won a massive victory not only for their members but for all public service workers when the employment tribunal...

The Spark That Started A Revolution!

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OVER a million Greeks stopped work yesterday in a general strike while tens of thousands of Greek workers, unemployed and youth rallied in front...

Palestinians are rising up to defend their land and achieve their State of Palestine...

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THE temperature is rising all over the Middle East as US and Israel seek to force the Palestinians to accept the dirty ‘deal of...
Doctors from the Indian sub-continent have helped to build-up and sustain the NHS  – the new law will have disastrous consequences

Labour turns on Asian NHS doctors

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ANOTHER shameful page of British imperialist history has been turned. This time tens of thousands of Asian and African doctors, recruited to come to...

EU torn apart by Covid pandemic – forward to Socialist United States of...

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THE DEADLY third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is ripping the EU apart over vaccinations and lockdowns. In Germany, with 9,549 new cases and 180...

Idlib terrorist evacuation under way! With Syria now secured, now is the time to...

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TURKEY’S state-run Anadolu news agency has reported that the Nural-Din al-Zinki Islamist faction has removed rockets, mortars and missiles from the front line in...

Starmer Declares For Thatcher And Confirms He Is An Out And Out Enemy Of...

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LABOUR leader Starmer has yet again stabbed the working class in the back, with his praise for Margaret Thatcher, the Tory leader who sought...