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Tory enforcers paid £1,500 a day to push through savage Northants cuts! TUC must...

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TWENTY-one libraries closing, rubbish collections and road maintenance stripped to the bone, hundreds of council workers sacked, children’s services axed – these were...

Only socialist revolutions can defeat missile threat

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ROMANIAN President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that Romania will host US interceptor missiles along its border with the Russian Federation. This latest missile plan...

Rice supervises raising Middle East tensions

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THE US through its secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who has been in the Middle East for a week, is working hard to raise...

Production down, inflation up, pensioners savings destroyed – the ‘recovery’ so far!

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INFLATION may stay above 3% during the rest of this year, according to Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England. He...

Anti-Russian Pogrom At The G20!

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PRESIDENT PUTIN has left the G20 summit in Australia early after a relentless attack on Russia was mounted by the USA-UK axis and its...

Zionist state disintegrating over failure to defeat Palestinian resistance 

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THE disintegration of the Zionist regime is becoming more and more public as reports emerge that over 100,000 Israelis have stopped showing up for...

Zionists intervene to try and prevent Corbyn-led Labour government!

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WITH THE Tory government split, divided, and on the rocks after refusing to carry out the 2016 referendum instruction to ‘Leave the EU’, the...

ACTION must be taken by the trade unions to defend the NHS

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THE crisis of the NHS has reached the point of its transformation. Because of the fake NHS pricing mechanisms imposed by Labour, NHS hospitals are...

High Court rejects legal challenge to Labour arming Zionist genocide – now workers and...

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ON MONDAY, the High Court in London rejected a legal challenge brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq against the decision of...

Bank of England is clueless as financial crisis drives socialist revolution

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IN what must be the most blinding statement of the obvious, senior members of the Bank of England admitted yesterday that they did not...

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...

TUC right wing determined to stay in the EU whatever it costs the working...

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AT this year’s annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) the right-wing of the trade union bureaucracy will attempt to commit the working...

Unite and the major trade unions must defend jobs with occupations and a general...

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THE UK government is considering intervening in large UK companies through ‘Project Birch’ to ‘save’ the firms that are going bust by more government...

Afghanistan – A Graveyard For Imperialist Adventurers

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THE debacle of the rigged Afghan elections, held under the guns of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, is just a reflection of an even...

Close Down The US Base On Diego Garcia!

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FOREIGN Secretary Miliband yesterday admitted in the House of Commons that previous government denials that the island of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands...

Bankers’ bonuses are a diversion

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The headline news throughout the bourgeois media yesterday was that Stephen Hester, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had magnanimously bowed to...

UK trade unions must fight PM Johnson’s decision to oppose Israel going before the...

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PALESTINE has called upon the international community as well as signatories to the Geneva Conventions to take on their responsibilities concerning protection of Palestinian...

Crisis of European capitalism deepens – Down with the EU! Forward to the Socialist...

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THE Bank of England delivered its first announcement of 2017 on the economy yesterday, claiming that British capitalism had defied all expectations of a...

Long live the Iraqi, Lebanese and Palestinian revolutions! Drive the imperialists out of the...

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IRAQI government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi told the official Iraqi News Agency on Saturday that the authorities are going to issue arrest warrants for a...

US economy has crashed into recession – time to put capitalism out of its...

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THE US, the most powerful economy in the world, has already crashed into a recession that will shatter the capitalist world. This is the inescapable...

‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher’ the Daily Telegraph advises Tory...

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SATURDAY’S Daily Telegraph gave the Tory leadership candidates some advice. This was: ‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher – and the...

LOW PAY – TUC Commission shows the problem, but runs away from a solution

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YESTERDAY the TUC revealed in its ‘Commission on Vulnerable Employment’ report what everybody already knows. This is that low pay and slave labour...

McDonnell wants a corporatist deal with the capitalists!

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SHADOW Chancellor McDonnel’s speech to the Labour Party conference was remarkable for its lack of treatment of the crisis of capitalism. He focused...

Over 100,000 could die because of fuel poverty in capitalist Britain

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OVER 100,000 people in Britain could literally freeze to death over the next 25 years because they are too poor to afford to adequately...

Tories crash – now boot them out with a general strike to bring in...

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THE TORIES have crashed with their twin by-elections disasters. They lost Kingswood, where Labour needed an 11-point swing and also lost Wellingborough, where an...

Gaza Residents Are Hit By Aid Strike!

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THERE has been a very bitter winter in Palestine especially in the war ravaged Gaza Strip where tens of thousands of Gazans’ homes were...

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...

Now send Brown packing – forward to a workers government!

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Blair stood down yesterday, driven out of power by the Iraqi insurgency and the British workers’ determination to defend their welfare state. The disorientated...

Billionaire steps in to bail out the Labour Party

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LAKSHMI Mittal, the Indian-born billionaire has donated £2m to the Labour Party, it was revealed yesterday. The fifth richest man in the world, who owns...

Public services face privatisation catastrophe! Renationalise the lot under workers’ control!

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THE COLLAPSES of Carillion, of East Coast Rail, of academy chain after academy chain, and now with the NAO report that private outsourcing giant...

Build the WRP!

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AT SATURDAY’S march to defend the Welfare State, workers from across the country were clear that action will have to be taken to defend...

Crisis deepens as shares crash worldwide!

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its concerns about Spain’s economy, saying ‘far-reaching’ reforms are needed to ensure its recovery. It said the country...

Trade Unions Must Act To Secure Nurses’ & Doctors’ Pay Rise!

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PM BORIS JOHNSON has said that there is a ‘moral duty’ to get all children back into schools in England next month. Writing in...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers winning great support from West London busworkers

Blair is deliberately smashing the NHS

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THE just announced 1,000 strong mass sackings at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire which includes 750 compulsory redundancies, as well as 370 nurses...

While the homeless sleep on the streets and workers battle to survive the rich...

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UK WORKERS have suffered privation and poverty ever since the 2008 financial crash, when the banks were bailed out by a Labour government at...

Chuck out the TUC leaders who are incapable of defending jobs and wages!

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UNITE, the largest union in Britain and Ireland, reacted to the news that Sheffield University has decided to sack over 8,000 of its employees...

Rowley reveals scale of police corruption – time to disband the police and go...

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THE newly installed Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, yesterday stated that the Met faced its biggest corruption crisis since the 1970s. The crisis, that...

New Labour Is Proposing 24-Hour Courts And Fast-Track Sentencing Of Workers And Youth!

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COURTS ARE now to sit for 24 hours in order to impose fast-track sentencing under New Labour Emergency Government plans to crack down on...

What A Difference The War Drive Against Russia Makes For Ukrainian Refugees!

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THE Tory government is offering all households in the UK £350 a month to take in people fleeing the war in the Ukraine. Housing...

Tory coronavirus inquiry is an attempt to put off reckoning with working class

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ON WEDNESDAY, Tory prime minister Boris Johnson announced that there would be ‘a full and independent inquiry’ into the government handling of the coronavirus...

Strikebreaker Hunt demands ‘call off NHS strike!’

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‘BRITAIN needs a pay rise!’ These were the cynical words of PM Cameron last Friday in Washington, after five years of remorseless wage-cutting in...

Withdraw British Troops From The Gulf And Iraq

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THE whole world can now contrast, at its leisure, the treatment of Iraqi prisoners held by the US at Abu Ghraib with that of...

Now is the time to form a Palestinian government of national unity

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‘YOU do not want peace at all. You have destroyed all chances of peace and you should bear all the responsibility,’ Palestinian President Abbas...

Israel Poised For Gaza Attack!

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ISRAEL is gearing up for another major attack on the Gaza Strip to try and drive back the revolutionary forces in the area. At the...

Cameron drives to war

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PM Cameron made it perfectly clear in the House of Commons on Wednesday that he is determined to go to war in Syria to...