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Russia’s response to the EU’s Georgia threats

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THE Russian government said yesterday there had been a ‘responsible’ outcome to Monday’s European Union summit called to discuss the recent fighting between Russia...

Occupy Corus! No Sackings! Renationalise Now!

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THERE were oceans of tears yesterday for the 1,700 workers who are to be sacked when Corus mothballs the greater part of its plant...

Labour told British capitalism needs its own ‘Elon Musk’ to avoid disaster

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Last week, The Daily Telegraph newspaper published an article that clearly set out the dangers of a revolutionary upsurge by workers and youth resulting...

US–UK organising Palestinian civil war

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THERE is no doubt that the US and UK ruling classes are hard at work seeking to organise a Palestinian civil war. The object is...

Smash the capitalist state, sack the chief constables, no to police commissioners!

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THE Tory-LibDem coalition is set to introduce a ‘reform programme’ for the police that will establish regimes of elected police commissioners, who will have...

Workers and elderly to be hammered for the benefit of privateers

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CURRENTLY all over the country A&E’s are being closed, in some areas entire hospitals are to be demolished, while the number of private patients...

Pre-empt savage cuts with a general strike!

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LIB DEM leader Nick Clegg has reiterated his original claim there will need to be ‘savage’ spending cuts. Clegg put forward the same...

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...

Ukrainian Workers Will Foil All Of The Plots To Restore Capitalism To The Ukraine!

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US President Donald Trump has said that Kiev can ‘win all of Ukraine back in its original form,’ marking a major shift in his...

Britain ‘drifting’ towards a police state–Manchester Chief Constable

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SIR Peter Fahy, Greater Manchester Chief Constable and vice-chair of the National Counter-Terrorism Committee, has warned that the fight against ‘extremism’ is leading to...

The US’ allies in Egypt are at each other’s throats!

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THE bloodbath in Egypt last Wednesday, which saw hundreds of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood cut down in cold blood by the Egyptian army,...

Working Class Is On The March – Tuc Must Call A General Strike To...

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DRIVEN forward by the shock of capitalism’s energy catastrophe the working class is now on the march. Unite Wales union NHS members have voted to...

Baker Reveals That Brexit Committee Was A Front And That May Never Intended...

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PARLIAMENT OF ITS OWN FREE WILL handed over the decision as to whether the UK should remain in or leave the EU to the...

Sunak Gets Labour Cheers As He Mounts Perilous Rescue Operation For Capitalism!

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CHANCELLOR Sunak received Labour cheers for his statement in parliament on Thursday, as the Tories fought to regain some popularity after the continuing exposure...

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...

US-Turkey Fighting Over Northern Syria!

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THE Syrian government has condemned the invasion of northern Syria by Turkish ground forces, cynically called ‘Operation Olive Branch’, an invasion that was preceded...

Gaza – Israeli soldiers admit killing Palestinians without restrictions, out of ‘boredom’!

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THE Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Wednesday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into recent confessions by Israeli soldiers...

Osborne to slash £5bn from welfare – answer with general strike

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In today’s Autumn statement on the economy, the Tory chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, will announce that he intends to ‘kick start’ British...

Cameron-Osborne Are No Joke!

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THE row over the Tories so-called ‘pasty tax’ has become a dangerous diversion in the hands of the Labour leadership who are intent on...

Brown champions more police powers and public sector pay cuts

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told police chiefs yesterday that he will do ‘everything to give you the resources’ and ‘we will not shirk from giving...

UK workers must organise political and industrial action to make sure the UK leaves...

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TORY PRIME minister Theresa May suffered another humiliating defeat in parliament on Tuesday when the latest version of her ‘deal’ with the EU was...

Johnson Now Speaking Out Of Both Sides Of His Mouth At The Same Time!

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LAST FRIDAY, evidence from Boris Johnson assured a Scottish court, in his own name, that he would send a letter to the EU, as...

Junior doctors revolution forces BMA leader to resign

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THE BMA chairman, James Johnson has quit, forced out of office by the uprising of the junior doctors, who were not prepared to see...

State to give bankrupt bankers cash in exchange for their paper rubbish

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PRIME Minister Brown has made an appeal to the Wall Street bankers to be honest, surely a contradiction in terms. He wants them to publicly...

June 30th must be a one-day general strike!

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PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union leader Mark Serwotka said yesterday, just before the massive vote for strike action on June 30th by his PCS...

Crisis Of Capitalism Reaches The Point Of Explosion! Socialist Revolution Is The Only...

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EUROPEAN leaders are set to meet today for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine. They are frightened that Russia and the USA...

Politically bankrupt Starmer will seek to force the working class to pay for the...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s speech at the TUC Congress yesterday spelt out precisely to delegates that this Labour government is determined to inflict all the pain...

Teachers, parents and students taking action to defend education

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OVER the past week, lecturers have been on strike against sackings, parents are occupying schools to stop their closure, and students, angry at high...

No to Zuma or Ramaphosa –the South African workers must take the power!

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THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has noted the shocking testimony given to City Press by police officers who were among those...

Eurasian Economic Union, and the China-Russia gas plan, a double blow against imperialism!

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RUSSIA, Belarus and Kazakhstan have just signed the historic Eurasian Economic Union. It comes into effect in January 2015, and will get rid of...

Trump is threatening to attack Iran! US and UK workers must respond by removing...

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LONDON witnessed one of the largest pro-Palestine demonstrations since the ceasefire agreement was signed in October 2025, with more than 100,000 people marching through...

More ‘breadline poor’ after 10 years of Labour governments

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The gap between the rich and poor has widened in recent years and is greater than at any time in the past 40 years,...

Labour Right Wing Moves To Split Lp On Behalf Of The Tories!

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WITH his tale that Unite leader McCluskey (currently up for re-election) intends to pay the union’s political cash over to the pro-Corbyn grass roots...

Peace Prize for the ‘Fourth Reich’

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The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe’, according to Thorbjoern Jagland...

Winograd Inquiry confirms Israel has feet of clay

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THE Israeli inquiry into its July 2006 attack on the Lebanon has found that it was ‘a large and serious failure’. It also...

Make May Day the start of a general strike to smash the capitalist state...

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YESTERDAY, the High Court in London ruled that the strike action by nurses on May 2nd was unlawful under existing Tory anti-union laws. Pat Cullen,...

FBU must fight against a Police Commissioner controlled ‘Fire Service’

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THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...

Join the YS lobby of the TUC on September 11 to call a general...

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THE GRENFELL Tower disaster was a turning point for the working class where the callous and ruthless nature of the ruling class was exposed...

Global youth are striking against climate change! To save the planet capitalism must be...

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YOUTH in their hundreds of thousands rose up all over the world yesterday in a global strike against climate change. In every continent, and in...

Revolution is the only way forwards!

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THE working class of Europe is rising up to fight the savage spending cuts now being imposed by governments across the Continent. When the UK...

EU set to EXPLODE

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THE developing world-wide economic crisis is now bringing the contradictions inside the EU together and sharpening them to the point of a massive transformation...

Bring down the Tories to stop the destruction of the NHS!

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ON FRIDAY the GMB trade union declared that ‘Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt must resign,’ and warned that that the ‘NHS is tailspinning into...

There was no fire safety report before refurbishing Grenfell – Build Council of Action...

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GRENFELL Tower was safe until the refurbishment took place, when it was wrapped in highly flammable insulation and cladding, described by fire safety experts...

Hunt stays silent over whether government was informed of plot against Khashoggi by...

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IT HAS got very hot in the warmongers’ kitchen when reputedly fire-proof US militarists like US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, and Secretary of State...

Defend all GM jobs! Occupy and Nationalise UK’s Vauxhall plants!

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ON Thursday May 21, GM announced that ‘Representatives of Unite, the union, signed the UK Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and European framework agreement in...