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Arrogant Crisis-Ridden Imperialists Threaten Russia!

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THE President of the crisis-ridden EU Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso yesterday told the BBC that the inclusion of Russia in any future...

Darling Outlines Cuts For All – Except The Bankers And Bosses

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THE price of gold has touched $1,000 an ounce for the first time in six months, more than three times greater than what it...

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...

Close down the Murdoch press – forward to a workers government

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LABOUR leader Miliband, true to form, has spoken up for new media ownership rules to limit Rupert Murdoch’s ‘dangerous’ and ‘unhealthy’ concentration of power. He...

US, UK, Karzai Drive To Bribe The Taleban

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ON the eve of the Afghan conference in London this week, UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take control...

Obama Puts British Imperialism In Its Place

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WITH more than 100 million gallons of oil already freed to spew all over the US Gulf coast, the ‘special relationship’ between the US...

‘Clear-cut robbery in Cyprus’ – the penalty for the crime is revolution!

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THE Cypriot parliament yesterday postponed an emergency session on the 7-10% banking tax imposed by the EU on every depositor in the country’s...

Majority of world banks ‘not economically viable’ according to report

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THE INTERNATIONAL management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company has published a global banking review which found that the majority of banks worldwide ‘may not...

Famine ‘unfolding’ in Gaza – trade unions must call general strikes to bring down...

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THE UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which monitors hunger and starvation across the world, yesterday issued a warning that the ‘worst case...
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...

All The Trade Unions Must Come Out With The Junior Doctors!

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PM Sunak has said he is yet to make a ‘final decision’ on whether to accept the recommended pay rises for public sector workers. Official...

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...

Capitalist recovery fraud is stoking working class fury

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WORKERS and young people will be forgiven if they believe that they are living in some parallel universe that has absolutely no connection with...

US imperialism plans oil and gas war!

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THE news that America intends to ‘flood the world’ with cheap liquefied natural gas (LNG) reveals just how far advanced US imperialism is along...

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...

No Charges For The NHS – Kick The Coalition Out

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THE savage Tory-led coalition’s cuts programme to smash the NHS is now well under way! Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...

The Trade Unions Must Defend Every Job!

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THE London and New York stock markets were in free fall yesterday, losing hundreds of points, with tens of billions of dollars and pounds...

‘Left’ Tsipras government humiliated as workers abstain in general election

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SYRIZA (the coalition of the left) party crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party in the...

Brown To Support US Air Strikes On Iran

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YESTERDAY the bourgeois media reported that Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who came to office pledging that the UK would cease to be Bush’s...

Merkel’s Short-Lived Victory

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ON Thursday, the German Parliament (Bundestag) voted by 523 to 85 to increase the funds available to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) from...

Murdoch Empire Still Remains To Be Broken

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PRIME Minister Cameron used his usual tactic at prime minister’s questions yesterday, when asked why he brought a criminal into 10 Downing Street...

Britain urges: ‘Prepare for war with Russia’ – workers however must remove the Labour...

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ECHOING the strident and alarmist calls to prepare for war against Russia from UK military chiefs, Al Carns, Labour’s UK Armed Forces Minister, warned...

Capitalist world order is tearing apart – forward to world socialist revolution!

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THE old world order of an all-powerful American capitalist system engaging in a rule-based and peaceful relationship with its allies in the UK and...

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...

Heading For A Housing Crash!

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ON MONDAY trading on the Wall Street stock market in New Century Financial shares was halted, as the second largest US sub-prime mortgage lender...

Defend the NHS – kick the government out

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THE final report into the crisis at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Hospital Trust is due to be published in January after a considerable delay. In fact, the...

Cowen making workers pay for capitalism’s crisis in Ireland

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IN A third attempt within six months to save bankrupt Irish capitalism, Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s Fianna Fail government unveiled a draconian budget on Tuesday,...

BA senses weakness of Woodley leadership

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BA yesterday threw the TGWU’s attempt at a compromise out of the window when it announced that all of its planes will be grounded...

Capitalism’s world crisis can only be resolved through socialist revolution

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THE LATEST latest annual report from the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) on the economic crises gripping world capitalism couldn’t have been clearer –...

50 years since Chile coup – vital lessons for the working class today

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MONDAY 11th September will be the 50th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Chilean military, led by general Augusto Pinochet, backed by...

Panic reigns supreme under bankrupt capitalism

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THE sense of panic and of impending doom is running wild amongst the international banks and the world bourgeoisie as they are forced to...

Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer foresees a summer of discontent organised by the far right

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ASKED yesterday whether the country faced a ‘Summer of Riots’, the Labour Party Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer responded: ‘It’s obvious to me, and...

Banks are crashing while 140,000 repossessions loom at Northern Rock

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THE HSBC bank has just declared a 28 per cent, $3.9bn fall in half year profits. It has written off another $3.7 billion...

Israel Is Blocking Gaza Gas And Selling It To Egypt

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ISRAEL IS currently preventing gas from entering the Gaza Strip and is selling it to Egypt – while Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip are...

Orwell’s 1984 is small fry compared to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in 2018!

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AN ACADEMIC who created an app which ‘harvested’ data from 50 million people now says he has been made ‘a scapegoat’ for the scandal...

Labour MPs shudder at the thought of a UK ‘Mamdani’ mass revolutionary eruption...

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‘THE security of Britain is a ‘national endeavour that cannot be the responsibility of the military alone’, Air Chief Marshall Sir Richard Knighton, the...

TUC Must Call A General Strike To Support The Palestinian Revolution!

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THE Hamas Movement has called upon the Arab and Islamic governments and the world’s free people to take all possible measures to break the...

US And Israel Are Buying Time To Prolong The War Says Hamas Leader

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A SENIOR official of the Hamas resistance group says the US and Israel are pursuing a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in a...

Stock markets crash as US supremacy in AI technology shattered by small Chinese company

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ON MONDAY, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading tech companies in a share crash caused by the tiny Chinese company DeepSeek. DeepSeek...

UK and US imperialism’s drive to war must be answered through the victory of...

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IN his ‘Letter to American Workers’, published in Pravda on August 22 1918, after the victorious Russian revolution, Lenin wrote, ‘We are now, as...

Ukraine – Under The Iron Heel Of The Imf!

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THE coupist regime in Kiev has reached a preliminary deal with the International Monetary Fund to try to unlock $27 billion of ‘international support’...

Carney urges united action by the bourgeoisie of Europe

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IN his speech in Dublin on Wednesday, Bank of England Governor Carney delivered a warning to the EU – as Greek shares collapsed on...

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...

Hamas answers Israeli massacre with a call for the Third Intifada

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YESTERDAY, not content with killing over 300 Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza, and seriously wounding 900, Israel was massing tanks on the...

NHS under attack – DEFEND IT NOW!

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THE capitalist crisis and the massive indebtedness of British capitalism, with its national debt closing fast on its GDP of £1.4...