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Chinese and Russian Stalinists are getting burnt by the crisis

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THE Chinese Stalinists are now paying an enormous price for linking their fate with that of US capitalism. First of all they declared parts of...

Hague recognises Syrian opposition while Qatar and Saudis supply the guns and cash!

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The ‘Friends of Syria Conference’ in Tunis has seen the representatives of the United States and the UK, Clinton and Hague, laying into Russia...

Free Joe Glenton! End criminal occupation!

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DEMONSTRATIONS will be staged in eight different countries today, from Britain and the United States to Poland and Italy, demanding the release of British...

Blair and Brown threaten the trade unions

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THE message from the Blair-Brown leadership to the trade unions and their leaders is ‘face up to globalisation or cease to exist’. Even the two’s...

Capitalism in deflationary crisis

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THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...

US-UK strikes at Syrian army on eve of Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia –...

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LAST Monday, the US-led coalition airforce in the Middle East, that includes the UK, attacked and bombed Al-Bukamal near the Syrian border with Iraq...

Truss insists workers must pay for war sanctions on Russia

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TORY Foreign Secretary Liz Truss bluntly told British workers and their families that they will be made to pay the price for the imperialist...

Flammable insulation & cladding, tower blocks built to collapse & fire services stripped to...

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LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan says Londoners have been let down after the Tory government rejected his request for new firefighting equipment.  Tory Home Secretary Amber...

Carney steps up his anti-May war!

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THE war between the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, and Tory prime minister Theresa May was stepped up on Wednesday when...

Bury bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism

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SUNDAY marked the fifth anniversary of the biggest banking collapse in the history of capitalism to date. On 15 September 2008 Lehman Brothers, a massive...

Now is the time to break the siege of Gaza

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FREEDOM FLOTILLA Volunteers seized during Israel’s murderous raid of last Sunday night, many of whom were beaten and tortured (see page one) are...

Workers must answer state preparations by forcing through Brexit and putting an end to...

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AFTER the news that over 3,000 troops were being mobilised for action after Brexit Day on March 29th, we have now been told that...

At least three provinces reject the US’ Iraq constitution

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IT IS remarkable that in a ‘constitutional referendum’ organised by a puppet government, in a country under occupation by the US and the UK,...

Ruling class full of fear as UK workers demand a break with the EU...

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DESPITE the Queen’s plea for ‘reasonableness’ the knives are out for tomorrow’s House of Commons debate on the EU with rival amendments tabled to...

Dont Talk To Israeli Leaders Say Palestinian Youth

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OVER the past two days, Palestine National Authority security forces have been using force to try to prevent peaceful demonstrations of Palestinian youth opposing...

Tories Are Returning To Their ‘Starve The Workers’ Tactic!

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WITH the capitalist system in its greatest ever crisis, the British Tories are beginning to debate about what is the best way out of...

PM Sunak Ditches HS2 And Launches Savage Cuts To Smash The Trade Unions!

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THE GMB trade union yesterday slammed the scrapping of the HS2 Northern route, the biggest cut in the rail network since the days of...

Severe Child Poverty On The Rise Under Labour

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RESEARCH by charity ‘Save the Children’ has found that between 2004 and 2008, an additional 260,000 children were pushed into severe poverty in the...

Child death toll reaches over 5,500 in Gaza as Israel extends its war on...

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YESTERDAY was World Children’s Day, the United Nations annual day for action on children’s rights which marked the adoption by the UN of the...

Labour launches jobs massacre – savage benefit cuts and tax rises ahead!

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JUST two days after the Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spring mini-budget ‘to grow the economy’ out of economic collapse, thousands and thousands of job losses...

US piracy forces down Bolivian plane in search for Snowden

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THERE is not the slightest doubt that Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have done a huge service to the whole of...

Hammond and Carney in ‘war games’

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THE Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, and the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, were forced to sit a test...

TUC must call a general strike to bring in a workers government and socialism

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THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) will be holding its annual conference in Brighton from Sunday 7th September to Wednesday 10th September. It is taking place...

Labour offers NHS bosses £30,000 bonuses as it reorganises the NHS as a model...

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LABOUR health secretary Wes Streeting has proposed NHS bosses pocketing £30,000 bonuses under a new plan he has devised which he claims will incentivise...

Gove’s new ‘extremism definition’ prepares way for crackdown on all opposition to Israeli genocide

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COMMUNITIES secretary Michael Gove in Parliament yesterday made a short statement introducing the Tories new definition of extremism which now encompasses ‘non-violent extremism’. Almost all...

As The Economic And Political Crisis Of Capitalism Deepens The US And UK...

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WORKERS throughout the world have experienced, through massive job losses and huge wage cuts, just how the world crisis of the capitalist system is...

Nato Wants 2,500 More Troops In Afghanistan

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ANOTHER British soldier has died after a shooting in the Iraqi town of Al-Qurna, north of Basra. The soldier was the 118th member of...

Answer Tory plans to use military as strike breakers with a general strike...

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With nurses and thousands of NHS workers planning to take national strike action next month over their demands for pay increases to protect them...

US workers reject Obama’s rescue of bankers and bosses

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SCOTT Brown’s victory for the Republican Party, in the Massachusetts election for the US Senate, does not mean that US workers can’t wait to...

Tories in chaos as Paterson resigns amidst sleaze accusations – time to kick...

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THE TORY government was in chaos yesterday following Tuesday’s vote to disband the existing Standards Committee replacing it with a Tory dominated committee to...

Turkish Workers Rise Against Erdogan!

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RELATIVES of around 150 miners, missing after the deadly mine explosion at the privatised Soma mine in western Turkey, are maintaining a permanent vigil...

Hamas Urges Palestinian Youth To Escalate The Conflict With Israeli Forces!

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THE Hamas Movement has urged the young people of the West Bank and all the Palestinian masses to join forces with each other and...

World Bank Report – capitalism  stands on brink of financial crash

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THE WORLD stands on the brink of a financial crash according to the latest biannual Global Economic Prospects report from the World Bank. This warns...

Labour government rotting from within – time for a general strike to bring it...

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THE SHOCK resignation of MP Rosie Duffield from the Labour Party has revealed the bankruptcy of the Keir Starmer regime that is literally rotting...

Starmer gets pat on the head from Trump for Labour ramping up class war...

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THE cringing prostration of Labour prime minster Keir Starmer to US president Donald Trump finally paid off at the weekend when Trump condescended to...

UK workers must support the struggle for Palestinian state!

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EARLY on Wednesday morning Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinian youth, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old, and injured at least two others...

Hunt Plans To Force The Disabled To Work – Time To Bring Down The...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Budget speech yesterday in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up to a...

A&E closures cost lives

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For the first time since the process of closing accident and emergency units in hospitals up and down the country was started by the...

Corbyn, O’Grady and McCluskey are determined to prevent workers from getting rid of Cameron

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YESTERDAY, under orders from Tory leader Cameron, most of the King’s horses and most of the King’s men of the major trade trade unions...

UK steel industry collapse – occupy to defend jobs, nationalise the steel industry

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THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...

Greek Revolution Erupts – With The Youth In The Lead!

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IN all of the Greek cities there were clashes throughout yesterday between workers and youth and the riot police, and other Greek special forces....

Tory MPs demand May resigns while Labour refuses to call for her removal

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THERESA May returned from her Easter break to face Tory MPs united in demanding her resignation. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, met...

US Unemployment Rises Along With Repossessions!

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THE number of US workers signing up for unemployment benefits and leaving non-farming payrolls has risen sharply for the second consecutive week. The US Labour...

Capitalist State Tooling Up F0R Civil War

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A SCOTLAND YARD review into the 2010 summer riots ‘Four Days in August’ shows very clearly that the capitalist state in the UK...

US-Israel steps up the war against Hamas and also against the working people of...

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ALI Damush, the vice chairman of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, said yesterday that Israel had resumed its aggression on Gaza by US decision. He...