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World banks on verge of collapse – forward with world socialist revolution

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WHEN one of the biggest banks in the world is forced to publish an open letter to staff, investors and depositors that, contrary to...

Forward to the State of Palestine – from the river to the sea –...

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IN a telephone conversation yesterday, President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the latest developments in Palestine, especially in light of...

Trump hails his economic miracle – and reveals his fear of the US and...

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ON TUESDAY, president Donald Trump delivered his much-delayed annual State of the Union speech to the US Congress, held up by the longest-ever shutdown...

Now Is The Time To Bring Down The Tories! Forward To A Workers Government!

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TORY Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, resigned his cabinet post on Wednesday, admitting that his behaviour had ‘fallen below the high standards required’ of a...

Tories secret plan for fire sale of NHS land and a mass closure of...

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DETAILS of the secret Tory plan for a ‘fire sale’ of NHS land and buildings emerged yesterday following an analysis carried out for the...

UN poverty expert slams Tory ‘hypocrisy’ over austerity – end poverty with socialist revolution 

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THE UNITED Nations rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston, has issued a damning attack on the Tory government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic describing...

Bankrupt capitalism deserves to perish

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THE major British banks want to be able to use a ‘wider range’ of collateral, meaning their very dodgy mortgage portfolios, for the billions...

Routine NHS operations to be privatised!

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Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director, has said that private companies will be asked to carry out routine operations to relieve pressure on...

Defend North Korea’s right to defend itself from Imperialist War

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IN HIS New Year speech North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un warned US imperialism not to start a nuclear war against the country saying that...

Greek students erupt against state controlling universities with riot police

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GREEK students fought a pitched battle with riot police in Athens on Wednesday as the Greek parliament debated new laws to station security personnel...

Trump Threatens North Korea With ‘Fire And Fury!’

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SPEAKING in New Jersey, President Trump has delivered a final warning to North Korea. He said that, ‘North Korea best not make any more threats...

The UN Committee Against Torture Condemns Israeli Regime!

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THE United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of ‘organised torture’ against Palestinians. In a report published...

The bosses are dumping their crisis onto the backs of workers. It is time...

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YESTERDAY nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%. This is the sixth...

Victory to Syria – US and UK imperialism out of the Middle East!

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‘THE hope that the ceasefire in Syria will be reinstated is very little now,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted on Tuesday. ‘We are expressing serious...

UK gov is bullying councils to keep schools open – while TUC issues mass...

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THE Johnson government’s Covid-19 crisis intensified as it ordered London and most of Essex and Hertfordshire to join Tier 3 at 00:01 GMT yesterday. This...

Carney plans for state robbery of bank depositors’ cash!

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ON Tuesday, amidst all the turmoil of the US presidential election, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, announced a financial bombshell...

Biden contemplates unilateral action against the US debt mountain and organising military action against...

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PRESIDENT Biden on Sunday, speaking in Hiroshima, the scene of a US-UK atom bombing, was forced to address the US banking crisis and whether...

Smash Universal Credit by kicking out the Tories

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SINCE Universal Credit was devised over seven years ago, the Tories have gone to great lengths to keep from the public exactly how it...

Johnson refuses to resign – organise a general strike to kick him and the...

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BORIS Johnson opened prime minister’s question time yesterday by apologising for giving the impression that lockdown rules, imposed by his Tory government, had not...

Victory to Syria! Defeat imperialist war drive with world socialist revolution!

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THE DEATHS of dozens of civilians including young children in Syrian town Khan Sheikhoun has been seized on by imperialism as a weapon to...

The world crisis and the fascist slaughter in Norway

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THE fascist, Breivik, who carried out the mass murder of up to 100, mainly youth in Oslo and attempted to murder the Labour Prime...

The laws of the capitalist crisis dominate

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AT the centre of the current media drive to find out, identify, and persecute the individuals, whether bankers and/or politicians who are held to...

Obama regime collapses in chaos – as Syria peace battles to emerge!

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ON December 8, the White House said that the outgoing US President Barack Obama had relaxed the so-called Arms Export Control Act for the...

Defend university education! Forward to the British socialist revolution!

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‘LET THEM FAIL!’ declared yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in response to repeated calls for emergency government funding to rescue endangered English universities as the economic...

Unite Takes Action Against Serco BA And The Bank Of England!

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YESTERDAY striking Serco workers from Bart’s NHS Trust, striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew, and striking Bank of England workers marched and picketed the...

Trade unions must break with Blair and Brown to keep the Tories out

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THE right wing of the Labour Party was shaken to its core yesterday after Monday’s meeting of the General Council of the Scottish...

Reject Eu Diktat Attempt – Leave The Eu At Once !

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THE GIGANTIC farce of the Brexit negotiations hit a brick wall this week with EU officials accusing the British of failing to reveal its...

Police to be ‘reformed’ along RUC lines

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SIR Ronald Flanagan, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary in England and Wales, and the senior police adviser to the Home Secretary, will publish a...

The Oxford Blood Money Must Be Returned To Sender At Once!

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IN ITS LATEST ATROCITY, the University of Oxford has grabbed with both hands more than £12m in dirty money from the Alexander Mosley Trust. This...

UK, France & US ‘war of annihilation!’ on Raqqa – a war crime says...

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AMNESTY International carried out a field investigation in the city of Raqqa in Northern Syria. They have reported the true horror of the UK,...

Free first class medical care and accommodation for the sick and elderly

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ONCE again PM Gordon Brown and the Labour Party have revealed that while they rushed to handing over £150 billion to the bankers, they...

Smash the STPs! Trade unions must occupy hospitals threatened with savage cuts and closures!

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THERE is no doubt that the 44 STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) that were prepared in secret are in fact part of one Tory...

15,000 troops ready for Slavyansk assault!

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THERE are now more than 15,000 Ukrainian military servicemen plus reserve forces and the Right Sector movement, with around 160 tanks, 230 infantry combat...

‘We are not asking the west to choose our leaders’

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THIS was the defiant and revolutionary message that came out of Egypt from demonstrators, and was shown in the western media, in response to...

Sharp increase in unemployment as bankers and bosses demand sick and disabled be driven...

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YESTERDAY the latest unemployment figures were released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealing that UK unemployment had shot up by  85,000 in...

INDICATIVE VOTES ARE REJECTED FOR A SECOND TIME – UK MUST LEAVE EU ON...

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THE PLAN for a parliamentary coup against the 2016 Referendum result, that instructed the government  to leave the EU, by forcing through the House...

Right wing coupists routed in Labour NEC elections!

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SUPPORTERS of Labour leader Corbyn have swept the board in elections to Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, routing the right wing and giving it...

The UN must accept Palestinian statehood – Defeat the US-UK governments’ opposition!

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MEMBERS of the UN Security Council have failed to reach a consensus on the Palestinian bid to become a full member state of the...

Israel bombs last functioning hospital in Gaza – working class must force TUC to...

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THE ISRAELI regime intensified its relentless land and air bombardment of Gaza this weekend, including the bombing of the last functioning hospital in Gaza...

Police demand sources for Dowler leak

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THE Metropolitan police are seeking a court order to force Guardian journalists to reveal their sources for the information that Milly Dowler’s ...

Russia responds to NATO moving eastwards

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A RUSSIAN foreign ministry statement issued on Tuesday evening said: ‘If a US strategic anti-missile shield starts to be deployed near our borders, we...

Queen’s speech intensifies coalition attacks on jobs pensions and basic rights!

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THE Queen’s speech spelt out that her Tory-LibDem government is to step up its war against public sector pensions, continue to place the...

International inquiry finds no basis for Israeli claims against UNRWA that gave US and...

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IN JANUARY, the Israeli regime unleashed a propaganda campaign against UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East,...

G7 nations unanimous in support of Israeli war crimes in Gaza!

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THE United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Wednesday issued a damning statement that Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in...

TUC remains silent on Truss’s class war preparations – Join the lobby of the...

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TORY prime minister Liz Truss didn’t waste time. She fled the country immediately after the meltdown of her government at the Tory Party conference. Yesterday...