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Net Closing In On Iraq War Criminals

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THE Brown government has been told by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, to release the minutes of two cabinet meetings, from March 7th and...

Kick May And The Tories Out Now With A General Strike! Forward To...

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PM MAY yesterday morning announced she was resigning as Tory leader and Prime Minister in two weeks on June 7. May said that the...

Tory war on unemployed must be answered with a general strike to kick them...

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THE LATEST Tory onslaught on the unemployed was revealed by Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday when he praised the ‘Way...

Take mass action on September 21 to stop NHS privatisation

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UNISON members working for NHS Logistics will take two 24-hour strikes over the next two weeks to fight the Labour plan to privatise the...

Workers rise up – Stop the closure of Ealing Maternity Unit!

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ON MAY 7 Labour won the Ealing Central and Acton seat from the Tories, with Rupa Huq getting 22,002 votes, a massive 13%...

Never mind the claimants – use lie detectors on the politicians

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WORK and Pensions Minister John Hutton said yesterday that lie detectors will be used to help root out benefit cheats in job centres later...

Blair skating on the thinnest of thin ice

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PRIME Minister Blair has been secretly questioned, for a second time, by police investigating allegations that honours were sold for cash by his government....

Biden administration in crisis over Israeli failure to defeat Hamas

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CHUCK SCHUMER, the Democratic Senate majority leader, described as the highest ranking Jewish official in the United States and top ally of president Joe...

Beginning of the end for Johnson – finish Tories off with a general strike

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WHEN The Daily Telegraph carries as its banner headline ‘Beginning of the end for Boris?’ then it is certain that plots to dump him...

Answer Cameron’s war on two fronts with a General Strike

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DAVID Cameron’s speech outlining his ‘five-year plan to fight extremism’ was in reality an outline of the Tory government’s war plans for both the...

Cameron and Tories in crisis

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THE understanding that in times of acute capitalist crisis the ruling class can no longer rule in the old way is being borne out...

Bush moves towards intervention with ‘free hostages’ call

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PRESIDENT BUSH has laid the basis for military intervention against Iran with his condemnation of Iran’s ‘inexcusable behaviour’ in arresting the 15 British sailors...

Fire service cut to the bone! Kick Tories out before another deadly fire breaks...

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THE time between a 999 call and fire engines arriving on to the scene of a fire has increased. This is despite the Fire...

Egyptian Military Shut Down Gaza Power Supply

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ALI AL-HAYIK, the head of Gaza’s Federation of Industries and the Palestinian Businessmen Association on the Gaza Strip, warned yesterday that dozens of factories...

Latvia Urges UK To Introduce Conscription To Fight Russian Workers!

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A SPLIT and divided Tory Party is facing electoral wipeout as the number of infighting Tory factions grow and lash out at each other,...

Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Coalition!

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TRANSPORT UNION RMT has called on its members and the entire trade union movement to get out on the streets in full support of...

Confident Of US Support Israeli Terrorists Kill Three Palestinian Youths And Torture Five Others!

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ISRAELI forces have shot and killed three young Palestinians during overnight raids on several areas of the occupied West Bank. Two of the victims lost...

Police provocateurs at large

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GREEN party MP Caroline Lucas has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the case of an undercover police officer and his possible involvement in...

Tory Nationality & Borders Bill will make rescuing refugees from drowning illegal!

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ON MONDAY night, the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (the Policing Bill) passed its third reading in Parliament on its way to...

Charles pushes confrontation with Russia

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PRINCE Charles’s comparison of President Putin with Hitler, and Putin’s actions in the Ukraine as comparable with Hitler’s treatment of the peoples of...

Holbrooke, Blair, Thaci, mafia wars and organ theft

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THE Council of Europe has named the Kosovo Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, as a mafia leader who organised the sale of drugs and weapons...

Time To Put The Tories Out As Dup Payment Hits The Rocks!

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THE ultra fragility of the May government has been underlined by the fact that its attempts to stay in office via a £1bn payment...

Labour right-wing removes whip from Corbyn

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BY A UNANIMOUS vote on Tuesday the disciplinary panel of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee overturned the suspension of former leader Jeremy Corbyn...

320 children were slaughtered by Israel in Gaza War

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ISRAEL’S military onslaught on Gaza, where it not only used massive bombs and missiles but banned cluster bombs and white phosphorus weapons, killed 1,387...

Expropriate the landlords, build millions of council homes

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WHEN the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, starts accusing his coalition government of ‘Kosovo-style social cleansing’ in the capital over the plans to...

No justice under capitalism for De Menezes family

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THE decision of the Crown Prosecution Service that no individual will be charged over the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes, but that the...

UK Workers Must Support Venezuela Against US, Eu, UK Attempts At Regime Change

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MRS THATCHER notoriously revived her political fortunes in 1982 by going to war with Argentina. She flew to the US to insist that its...

The Bully State and forced labour is to replace the Welfare State

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TWO hundred thousand young people aged between 16 and 18, 11 per cent of that total age group, who are unemployed with no...

Gm-Fiat Shock For World’s Motor Workers

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GENERAL Motors is about to end its ‘honeymoon’ relations with the US motor workers’ trade union, the UAW. Up till now the UAW leaders have...

Clinton declares war on Putin and on Russia

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THE Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US Secretary of State, Clinton, of giving the Russian right wing – many of them...

Parliament Votes Lords Resolution Banning Any UK ‘No Deal’ Into Law!

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THE HOUSE of Commons on Monday night voted by 390 votes to 81 to turn a House of Lords resolution into legislation that bans...

Middle East gripped by revolutionary crisis

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THE crisis in Palestine and the crisis in the Middle East is deepening rapidly to the point where its contradictions are sharpening to the...

Rebellion erupts against Osborne’s budget attack on disabled!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s just-declared Budget has touched off such anger that he is already being counselled to abandon his masterplan to make savage cuts on...

US-UK-Eu The Imperialist Split Widens!

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AS the world crisis of capitalism develops at breakneck speed, so the splits between the imperialist nations become more open, pitching the US against...

Police spies inquiry reveals the capitalist state conspiracy against the working class and its...

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IN HIS opening statements to the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the lawyer acting for the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence condemned the inquiry for...

British capitalism is on its knees – put an end to it with a...

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WITH British capitalism on its knees and the Tory Party and the ruling class split from stem to stern over the European Union, Tory...

Call General Strike Over Pensions

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UNISON leader Dave Prentis yesterday confessed that local government union leaders were unwilling combatants with the Blair government, over its plan to smash their...

Starmer’s Labour Would Not Spend Any More Money On Public Services –...

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THE LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer appeared on the Laura Keunssberg Show on the BBC yesterday where he refused to say whether a Labour...

Collapse of Greensill Capital – another Lehman Brothers crisis!

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THE COLLAPSE of Greensill Capital, a finance company which acted as a massive lender to companies, has sent shock waves throughout the UK steel...

NO Apology to UNITE – Miliband to continue with anti-union campaign!

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UNITE’S general secretary Len McCluskey has said he is delighted the union has been ‘vindicated’ over the Falkirk ‘vote-rigging’ allegations Labour has decided no individual...

US not winning in Afghanistan admits US military chief

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ADMIRAL Mullen the US chief of the general staff has stated that he is not convinced that the US is winning the war in...

Royal Mail steps up closure plan – CWU must act

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Postal workers were hit last week with the announcement by Royal Mail that it is stepping up its closure plan for half of the...

Bush defends waterboarding and torture

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US President, George W Bush, last Saturday revealed the inseparable connection between imperialism and atrocities when he vetoed Congressional legislation that would have...

Unemployment and inflation surges as Cameron threatens immigrants’ benefits

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THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown....

Israel boasts it will wipe Iran ‘off the face of the Earth’ as imperialism...

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IRAN’S president Ebrahim Raeisi has condemned comments made by US president Joe Biden at a meeting last week with Israeli leaders where he pronounced:...