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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...

Trade Union Bureaucracy Resumes Its Full Support For Pension Busting!

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ON December 20th the major local government trade unions, after coming under massive attack from their local government members, suspended their support, agreed on...

Leaving university £70,000 in debt!

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MEDICAL students will be left almost £70,000 in debt under Government plans to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees, the...

EU leaders took one minute to agree measures to discipline British workers!

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THE leaders of the EU took just one minute of discussion last Saturday to agree on imposing measures designed to beat the Tory government...

UN Admits Al-Qaeda Bombing Damascus!

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THE UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has admitted that Al-Qaeda is behind two deadly suicide car bomb attacks in Syria last week. Fifty-five people were...

Homelessness, fuel poverty & debt! Time to assign capitalism to the dustbin of history!

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AS TEMPERATURES plummet and the cold weather sets in, homeless charity Shelter calculated that over a quarter of a million people will wake up...

Aviation is going into the abyss! Nationalise the entire industry through a socialist revolution!

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RYANAIR is to cut 3,000 jobs representing 15% of its workforce, it was announced yesterday. British Airways is to cut up to 12,000 jobs and...

Class war sharpening – unions need new leaders

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YESTERDAY the Prime Minister, Cameron, was warning the BAA Unite workers that they must not strike. This was at least six hours before the result...

Trump Is Organising A US Coup Not A Presidential Election Campaign!

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IN HIS FOURTH of July speech US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claims are out to...

Only answer to banking crisis is expropriation!

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THE COALITION government’s policy to ‘ring-fence’ the banks is at best a cosmetic attempt to appear to be trying to protect retail banking, and...

Project Fear Gives Way To Pledges Of Retribution

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SPEAKING with Labour’s former Chancellor Lord Darling by his side, in full support, the Tory Chancellor Osborne yesterday pledged violent retribution against the electorate...

Socialist Revolution To Put Bankrupt Bankers Out Of Their Misery

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IN its latest annual report, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank of central banks’, has warned that capitalism is ‘defenceless’ against...

Nationalise the drug companies and end agency staffing to save NHS

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THE NHS is today fighting for its life, with even more savage cuts to come after the election. The Tories are actively planning to regionalise...

TUC leader pleads with EU president

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YESTERDAY, Tory leader David Cameron hosted a breakfast meeting with the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, as part of his campaign to...

Right wingers killing each other in the Ukraine – while their US-EU masters look...

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THE reactionary parties that were assisted by the EU and the US to take power by the coup on February 22 2014, that placed...

World Crisis Can Only Be Resolved By World Revolution!

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THE DEEPENING of the world crisis of capitalism is driving forward massive job cuts for workers across the world, as manufacturing industry globally faces...

Cameron the assassin

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WITH his announcement on Monday that he had personally authorised the killing by drone of two young British citizens in Syria, Cameron revealed himself...

Hands Off Rt! Defend Democratic Rights! Russia Is Not The Enemy! Our...

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THE decision by the UK state-owned NatWest Bank to cancel RT’s (Russia Today) UK bank accounts is a crude attempt by...

US healthcare privateer to head NHS England!

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WITH the appointment of Simon Stevens as the new head of NHS England, the Tory-led coalition have put in charge of the day-to-day running...

Britain Apologises To Chagossians – Now Hand Them Back Their Islands!

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BRITAIN has apologised to the Chagos Islanders for the ‘shameful’ way it evicted them from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The apology came...

The youth of Europe are rising up against their governments and the EU! Forward...

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YOUTH across Europe are a revolutionary force that are ready to rise up against the ‘generation in power’ in their countries and in the...

Don’t let Cameron bomb Syria – Forward to the victory of Syria and the...

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THE capitalist media and its Tory masters are working around the clock to drum up a majority for Cameron, made up of Tories and...

Hands off Serwotka – Sack the Coalition!

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AT a time when the whole of the working class and the middle class is under the most savage attacks from the Tory Lib-Dem...

TUC on its knees – time for a revolutionary leadership!

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THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...

Basic Rights To Be Dumped In The Bin!

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IN the wake of the French terror attacks PM Cameron has promised a ‘comprehensive piece of legislation’ to close the ‘safe spaces’ used by...

Imperialist Gangsters Prepare Iran War

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IN A situation where their NTC proteges are not even sitting securely in the saddle in Libya, the UK and the US ruling classes...

Support the Junior Doctors with a general strike!

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20,000 junior doctors, medical students, health workers and supporters marched in central London yesterday. As well there were well attended marches in Belfast and...

Eu Abyss Opens As Irish Decide On Referendum

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THE Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos was in Brussels yesterday seeking final approval from Germany and France for Greece’s second bailout deal. Greece is continuing...

Renationalise the Royal Mail – new leadership required for CWU

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THE full price for the capitulation of the CWU leadership over the privatisation of Royal Mail is now rapidly emerging. The union, which halted...

Blair seeking legislation to overrule the courts

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THE Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has had his plans for a government veto over the law courts made public after a leak of his...

World crisis reaching explosion point!

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AS the US government entered its first full week of shutdown, the ruling class in America and the world are in panic mode as...

US Gunships Attack Fallujah As Sunni And Shia Unite!

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THE US military has started using attack helicopters as well as jet fighters and bombers in attacks against the cities of Fallujah and...

Greek Crisis To Explode All Over Europe!

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AS 100,000 workers marched through Athens on May Day, and tens of thousands marched through large numbers of Greek towns and villages, it...

Support Catalonia! Forward With The Spanish Socialist Revolution!

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CATALONIA will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region said yesterday following the referendum, which savage...

British Capitalism Admits Its Bankruptcy

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THE final proof that British capitalism is beached on the rocks has arrived. The situation is so grave, and the reputation of UK bankers so...

Tory Civil War – Now Is The Time To Bring Them Down

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IT is an expression of the depth of the crisis of British capitalism, that Duncan Smith, the ex-Tory leader, the would-be Puritan...

Starving Yemenis Are Eating Leaves – While The UK Supplies Saudis With Bombs And...

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YEMENI families are starving with nothing to eat but leaves as Saudi Arabia steps up its deadly bombing campaign using British bombs and missiles...

French youth rise up over death of 24 year-old after police attack music festival

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THE GOVERNMENT of French president Emmanuel Macron went into a full blown crisis this week with riots in Nantes on Saturday where thousands of...

Wages still being slashed by price rises!

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THE CPI rate of inflation fell to 1.5% in the year to May 2014, down from 1.8% in April, according to the Office of...

Britain Is Ripe For Socialist Revolution

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THE British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) quarterly report has just discovered a situation that every worker and every shopper has been acquainted with for...

Private hospital forced to close surgery unit!

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A DAMNING report from the Care Quality Commission into the running of a private hospital has finally emerged in public some four months after...

Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership

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THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...

Iraqi resistance forces Maliki to back down

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AS Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s 72-hour amnesty deadline for militia fighters in Basra to hand over their weapons ran out yesterday, this leader of...

Trade Union Leaders Are Pulling Their Punches!

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IT is a disgrace that the trade union leaders who led the May 10th pensions strike, when 400,000 trade union members stopped work, refused...

NOVEMBER 30TH STRIKE ACTION THE BEGINNING OF A CLASS SHOWDOWN in UK!

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ON the very day that the public sector union Unison announced a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend pensions, the leadership...