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Geithner-Obama Warn Republicans ‘Don’t Hold Usa To Ransom!’

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BOTH US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and President Obama issued warnings to the Republican Party on Monday that, so dire is the world crisis,...

Defend North Korea! Prevent nuclear war by a revolutionary disarming of imperialism!

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IN AN OPEN declaration that it is prepared to plunge the world into a nuclear war US imperialism has threatened that it ‘is prepared...

‘This is 1914 all over again’

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THE architects of the Common Market, the forerunner of the European Union, freely admitted that they were seeking to carry out peacefully what Adolf...

For the capitalist state the enemy is at home

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THE launch in parliament of the new book, ‘Blacklisted: the Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists’, saw Labour MP John McDonnell read...

Lesson from TUC is build the WRP NOW!

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AFTER only two days of the annual TUC Congress the message is startlingly clear, the trade union and the working class movement stands at...

Bill launched to stamp down on protests! Fight war on workers with all out...

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ON TUESDAY, the Tories unveiled The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill to stamp down on protests and give the police, courts and the...

Build the Fourth International – the world party of the socialist revolution!

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ON Thursday, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the starkest warning yet that the debt crisis gripping the eurozone...

May wants to rip up the basic rights of the working class! Put her...

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IN the seven short weeks since Tory Prime Minister Theresa May announced out of the blue that she was calling a snap general election,...

Full Support For The Ukrainian Workers!

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GUNFIRE erupted Sunday morning at a checkpoint, established by workers on the outskirts of the city of Slavyansk in Eastern Ukraine. In the skirmishing, one...

Motor City Goes Bankrupt – Unions Denounce Orr Power Grab!

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DETROIT, once the motor car capital of the USA where hundreds of thousands of workers used to flock looking for good jobs in the...

US piracy forces down Bolivian plane in search for Snowden

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THERE is not the slightest doubt that Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have done a huge service to the whole of...

Labour will not reverse hospital closures!

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THE Health Services Journal (HSJ) has just revealed that the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) officials are keeping confidential (that is well hidden) until...

The capitalist state cannot be reformed – it must be smashed and replaced with...

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IN THE TORY leadership campaign, of the six candidates left after the first round of voting five went to Oxford University and every one...

With Labour government in crisis bankers and bosses step up calls for a National...

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THE DEMAND for a National Government to rescue the British economy from bankruptcy is rapidly emerging in the bourgeois press, as the only way...

After one year of the Libyan slaughter – Forward to Damascus urge Cameron, Sarkozy...

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THE Libyan people are being told that they must celebrate the first anniversary of the ‘revolution’ (in fact, counter-revolution) that has destroyed their country,...

World crisis spurring on world revolution

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THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has forecast that there is a bumpy road ahead for both the national and the...

Trump escalates his war against Iran and the workers of the world!

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IN what amounts to a declaration of war between US imperialism and Iran, US president Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that a massive US...

Israel extends genocidal war to ‘safe’ city of Rafah

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US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken arrived in Egypt yesterday at the start of yet another Middle East tour – his fifth since the...

Disband the police and go forward to a Workers State and Socialism!

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TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced another government ‘initiative’ this week, this time ordering the police to ‘crackdown on crime’. The very idea that the...

Time to expropriate the banks and jail the bankers

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THIS week has seen the essence of the banking fraternity emerge after HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, which was rescued by the UK taxpayers in...

Miliband to support Tory cuts and Royal Mail privatisation!

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ED MILIBAND, the new Labour Party leader, has made it perfectly clear that his victory does not mean that he is going to oppose...

Russia Gives Nuclear Warning

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RUSSIA’S military chief of staff General Baluyevsky has said Russia is ready to use force, pre-emptively if necessary and with nuclear weapons, to defend...

The lesson of Orgreave is smash the capitalist state!

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THE Independent Police Complaints Commission issued a report on Friday detailing the findings of its two and a half year long inquiry into...

Brown is hungry for cash – sell off the palaces and the Duchy of...

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THE Prime Minister began yesterday to sell off anything and everything that can be used to raise much needed cash, £16bn in fact, to...

PFI privateers having looted the NHS and the public sector are now pushing for...

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THE EXTENT of the full-scale looting of the country’s public buildings by giant offshore private companies has been highlighted in a report by a...

Bush In Middle East To Organise New War Against Hezbollah

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US President George W Bush has arrived in the Middle East and has vowed to bolster up the Lebanese army and to tackle Hezbollah,...

Security Council extends Iraq occupation mandate

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THE imperialists and their Chinese and Russian stooges on the UN Security Council have extended the mandate of the US-led occupation armies in Iraq,...

The Death Agony Of Capitalism! Time For The Working Class To Bury It!

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ON MONDAY night, US President Donald Trump announced via a tweet that he would stop all applications from foreign nationals seeking permanent residence in...

Stop Cameron’s counter-revolution at home and abroad!

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CAMERON told the House of Commons on Monday afternoon in his statement on national security strategy that: ‘On Thursday I will make the case for Britain...

British Capitalism Is On The Rocks And Needs Replacing With A Nationalised And Planned...

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THE BANK OF ENGLAND has issued a warning that not only will the bankrupted UK economy not grow in the wake of the Rachel...

Defend the NHS! Stop the wholly-owned subsidiaries in their tracks!

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THERE are Unite and Unison trade union protests in York and Chesterfield today against moves by two NHS trusts to set up wholly-owned subsidiaries...

Abbas to meet Kerry for decisive talks

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas is to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris today to discuss the peace talks with Israeli, US and...

STPs are an agency of international capitalism, a Trojan Horse for the privatisation...

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THE TORY Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) have been shrouded in secrecy right from the start as the Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, did...

Trump dumps Ukraine as US capitalism gears up for war on the working class...

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Last Friday, US president Donald Trump met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in a ‘summit’ that Trump boasted would finally end the imperialist ‘proxy’...

Johnson Getting Ready To Follow Trump, End The Lockdown And Bring In Millions Of...

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THE MASSIVE ‘Black Lives Matter’ marches this weekend saw millions of workers internationally and tens of thousands of youth and workers in the UK...

Scrap the Special Immigration Commission

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AT a time when the government is still seeking to extend the period the police have for holding a person without charging them from...

YELTSIN – the hero of western capitalism, a corrupt and criminal Stalinist

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THE bourgeois media and bourgeois political leaders have made it perfectly clear in the last few days that Boris Yeltsin, the...

Football fans rise up to drive back the big capitalist bosses!

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ON SUNDAY night, the investment bankers, venture capitalists and hedge funds, who own the six biggest football clubs in Britain, announced that they were...

Ludicrous Cameron claims Tories are the workers’ party

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CAMERON began his election manifesto speech yesterday morning by insulting the intelligence of the listeners by stating ‘We are the party of working people,...

Hold Criminal Governments To Account, Says Cameron

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UK Prime Minister David Cameron called for the ‘criminal’ Syrian government to be held to account, and threatened Syria’s people that there would be...

Junior doctors have been ‘insulted’ by exclusion from any NHS pay rise. They...

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JUNIOR doctors have been excluded from any NHS pay rise, and they are furious. Yesterday, their union, the British Medical Association (BMA), announced they...

Sinn Fein joins the UK capitalist state

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‘THE time is now right to support the PSNI’ (Police Service of Northern Ireland), Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams told delegates at the Sinn...

German election crisis for Merkel

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The economic and political crisis in the Eurozone countries is now firmly expressing itself in Germany, the dominant capitalist nation in Europe and the...

Organise general strike to defend CWU

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ROYAL Mail, backed by Brown and Mandelson, are making no secret of the fact that they intend to stamp on the CWU, in order...

Israeli Murder Machine Continues Operations Despite Phony ‘Peace Plan!’

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at...