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May Government ‘Hanging By A Thread’ – Cme Rings The Alarm Bells For World...

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THE WORLD’S capitalists are ringing the alarm bells at the prospect that the May government will fall. The US CME Group that owns and operates...

Farage calls for mass deportation and detention centres

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AT A press conference yesterday Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, set out the programme of mass deportation and detention of migrants if Reform...

UK must follow Ireland’s lead and organise general strike action in support of Palestine!

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RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, announced on Thursday that Ireland will not take part in next year’s Eurovision song contest if Israel is a contestant,...

TUC must call a general strike to free Palestine now!

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OVER a million workers and youth marched in London on Saturday to a rally outside the US Embassy, in a ‘National March for Palestine’...

No to a Barber sell-out – It’s trade union action that’s required!

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THE TUC announced on Saturday that ‘Royal Mail and the CWU have in recent days been in contact with the TUC over the current...

PFI debts are strangling NHS

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LAST Friday, the ‘independent’ health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), finally issued its report on healthcare provision at the Barts Healthcare Trust,...

NSA Spies on ‘Allies’

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THE French interior minister, Manuel Valls, reacted with shock and horror at the revelations in the French newspaper Le Monde that the US spy...

Starmer Warns Of The Risk Of A New World War!

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PM Keir Starmer has warned of a ‘risk of escalation’ beyond the Middle East to the rest of the world i.e. a new World...

Royal Mail shares frenzy grips bankrupt bosses

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TODAY is the official starting day of trading on the stock exchange in Royal Mail shares, a sell-off that has been greeted in the...

Wall Street Crashes And With It Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy!

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JUST TEN YEARS after the 2008 great banking disaster began – with the working class still paying the price for it with massively...

Nationalise the Banks!

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As the scandal engulfing the banks accelerates daily, so the attempts by both Labour and coalition party leaders to pretend they can stop future crises...

Russian strike on foreign mercenary centre in Ukraine a massive blow against imperialist war...

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ON SUNDAY morning around 30 cruise missiles fired by the Russian military hit the mis-named International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in western Ukraine, which...

Starmer urges send British jets to the Ukraine to combat Russia!

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Dispatching British fighter jets to Ukraine ‘to police the skies against Russia above the Ukraine’, emerged as a planning proposal at Sir Keir Starmer’s...

Thirty Day Countdown To Attack 0N Iran

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DOWNING STREET denials that there is a meeting today of top military, state and government officials to discuss the implications of a US attack...
The Israeli Apartheid Wall at Abu Dis on the outskirts of Jerusalem – the Israelis have begun to build the ‘third phase’  of the wall to encircle Bethlehem and Hebron

January 1– police to get blanket arrest and covert op powers

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POLICE are to have blanket arrest and covert operations powers of a type that will make tinpot dictatorships throughout the world green with envy,...

Browne echoes Bush on need for bigger army

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PRESIDENT Bush, on Wednesday, called for a major expansion of the US army, and yesterday, the British Defence Minister, Browne, slavishly echoed his master’s...

Defend state education – defeat academies drive

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TEACHERS at Copland School in Wembley, who took part in their fifth one day strike against being forced into academy status yesterday, must be...

Murdoch Empire Still Remains To Be Broken

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PRIME Minister Cameron used his usual tactic at prime minister’s questions yesterday, when asked why he brought a criminal into 10 Downing Street...

Workers must use their power to smash capitalism and put an end to the...

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SINCE the onset of Israel’s brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli military’s use of live ammunition to kill and wound Palestinian...

Syria counter-revolutionary alliance

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THE counter-revolutionary alliance between US imperialism and the Stalinist bureaucracy emerged into the light of day last Saturday with the joint framework agreement between...

US imperialism is on collision course with the rest of the world in the...

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IMMEDIATELY following the US illegal attack and kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro last Friday, the Trump administration has placed US imperialism on a...

France will be ‘brought to a standstill’ as workers and youth take on the...

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FRANCE was in flames on Saturday as hundreds of thousands of workers and youth took to the streets in mass demonstrations across the country...

Israel imitates the Nazis with its murderous attacks on Palestinians!

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ISRAELI forces on Thursday evening sealed off the main entrance to Duma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to...

Build Councils of Action – Forward to the General Strike!

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500 WORKERS and youth, men, women and children marched yesterday through Southall to Ealing to defend Ealing hospital whose closure has begun with...

RMT victory in ScotRail dispute shows the way forward for working class

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ON WEDNESDAY, the RMT transport union members won a massive victory in their fight against the ‘pitiful’ pay offer from ScotRail. RMT members at ScotRail,...

Bankrupts On Parade!

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THE leaders of Labour, ‘New’ or otherwise, chose to debate their leadership credentials yesterday over the Murdoch-owned Sky TV, the centre of the Murdoch...

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...

If one guard is sacked the TUC must call the whole working class out!

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THE STRIKE of the Southern guards, which begins on Tuesday, is a pivotal struggle for the entire working class. What is under threat is...

Russian troops return to bases, giving the Ukrainian government the chance to break with...

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RUSSIAN troops have completed their training drills in Belarus, very close to neighbouring Ukraine, and will begin returning to their bases, the Ministry of...

Inflation Surges As Bosses Slash Wages And Jobs

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THE government revealed yesterday that inflation shot up in December with CPI inflation reaching 3.7% (up from 3.3%), and the RPI rate, which...

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...

Workers must defend the right of postal workers to strike in December!

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THE MASSIVE vote by postal workers for strike action in December over Royal Mail tearing up the previous agreements on pay and conditions has...

Fight Tory class war programme – bring down the Coalition!

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OSBORNE began his spending review speech yesterday by saying that: ‘Today’s the day when Britain steps back from the brink’. In fact, his speech represented...

More anti-union laws, no rights at work, the elderly being abused in their homes...

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has said the danger for the UK from the economic crisis, particularly the crisis in the...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday in the freezing cold

Bring Down Blair Over Pensions

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THE big pensions clash between the trade unions and the government is underway after nine unions representing 1.5 million council workers agreed to ballot...

Obama’s Amnesty For Torturers – ‘They Were Just Obeying Orders’

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CENTRAL Intelligence Agency employees who tortured people in the Guantanamo Bay and Bagram Bay US concentration camps as terrorist suspects held without charge or...

Teachers Vote For General Strike

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AT THEIR annual conference last Saturday the NUT (National Union of Teachers) passed a resolution committing the union to a strike ballot over attacks...

Bosses demand Labour government wages all-out austerity war on workers as UK capitalism collapses...

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THE UK’s main bosses’ organisation, the CBI, has turned on the Labour government with a vengeance over the increase in employers’ National Insurance Contribution...

Inflation Now Out Of Control!

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ACCORDING to the latest figures, factory input inflation – that is the increase in raw materials paid for by manufacturers – rose by a...

US And Israel Are Buying Time To Prolong The War Says Hamas Leader

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A SENIOR official of the Hamas resistance group says the US and Israel are pursuing a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in a...

Big business to take over NHS funds

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THE Labour government is speeding up the break-up, privatisation and destruction of the National Health Service, despite the vote at the Labour Party Conference...

Coalition Will Not Be Shifted Away From NHS Privatisation

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THE Coalition’s ‘blueprint’ for the privatisation of the NHS has suffered a set-back when it became clear last week that even supporters of privatisation...

Tesco Volunteers For The Cobra Strike- Breaking Committee

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THE fact that the Civil Contingencies Committee (COBRA) is in session over the implications of the fuel crisis, and more specifically, that the crisis...

Teachers At War With The Government!

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THE two biggest teachers unions have begun their annual conferences, where they will challenge the government over pay, Ofsted inspections and England’s Academies and...

Support Palestinian General Strike

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TEACHERS, hospital workers and other government workers have come out on general strike in the West Bank and Gaza Strip following the non-payment of...