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Tuc Must Call General Strike To Kick Out Starmer’s Government

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THE continuing collapse of the Starmer-led Labour government was on public display on Wednesday when in a pathetic attempt to reassert his absolute control,...

New Israeli Regime ‘Will Work Against Peace’ Says Erekat

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THE new right-wing Israeli coalition government, just formed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, will be belligerent and work against peace, a senior Palestinian official...

Halt the NHS race to the bottom

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AT a time when the privately owned treatment centres are being handed billions of pounds of the NHS Budget, without any investigation of just...

Defend All Jobs And Services And Send The Bailiffs Packing!

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HARD PRESSED councils facing the threat of bankruptcy at the hands of the Tory government, and facing the prospect of having government commissioners imposed...

Tory Party trying to blame China to cover up their own culpability in the...

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THE TORY Party has launched a massive campaign to blame China to cover up their own culpability in the rapid spread of the coronavirus,...

Labour strikebreakers back BA’s anti-union drive

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British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union has...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TGWU executive committee on Tuesday morning demanding the ‘Compromise Agreement’ with the company be scrapped

Brown wants to form a Blairite government

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has confirmed to the BBC that he will run a Blairite administration if he becomes prime minister. He said that...

CBI demands pay cuts in the private and public sectors

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The CBI and ‘recruitment experts’ Harvey Nash revealed yesterday that half of all employers are planning to freeze pay altogether, and that only 4%...

HSBC a repeat offender that will never change

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IN September 2014 HSBC settled claims that it made false representations in selling mortgage bonds to the giant US mortgage companies Fannie Mae and...

Daily Telegraph warns capitalism has entered its ‘final act’ with UK the ‘tinderbox’ of...

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Such is the depth of the crisis in British capitalism that even the ultra-loyal Tory press can no longer pretend that the working class...

General Strike On May 1 ‘Public Service Day’

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THE PCS civil servants trade union has confirmed that up to 270,000 civil servants will be stopping work on May 1 against the Blair-Brown...

After the BA battle ‘pirate Walsh’ seeks to shut down Iberia, sacking 3,800!

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IAG chairman Walsh plans to axe 3,800 jobs – a fifth of the Spanish Iberia airline’s workforce – in a country where unemployment is...

Long Live the Libyan revolution!

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YESTERDAY the bourgeois media were demanding to know ‘exactly why this killer was freed’, calling Abdelbaset Ali al Megrahi a...

EU threatens a ‘march on Rome’ to prevent collapse

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AS THE EU crisis continues to sweep through the continent, a German MEP, Markus Ferber, offered his blunt assessment of the steps that the...

Britain hardest hit by world capitalist crisis

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YESTERDAY’S reports on the state of the economy reveal more about the catastrophe gripping British capitalism, part of the world crisis. • The Bank of...

Labour To Slash The Benefits Of The Sick And The ‘Suspect’

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The Labour government is absolutely determined to impress its big business backers and show them that it is ready to take action against ‘slackers’...

Stop the great pensions robbery!

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2.5 million public service employees are being told how much extra the coalition government intends to force them to pay in pension contributions from...

Defend Public Services through a general strike

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ON THE day that MPs were voting on going to war once again in the Middle East, a very senior civil servant made it...

End low pay through a general strike to kick out the government

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ON the day that NHS workers took strike action for the first time in 30 years, and in the case of midwives the first...

Cameron preparing more police state measures

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ON Wednesday, a cabinet level task force set up by Cameron last June to consider proposals for new laws aimed at combating ‘extremism’ published...

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...

Labour Must Bring Back Corbyn And Dump Starmer Now – After He Refused To...

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ONLY 15 Labour MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn, were prepared last Tuesday to vote against the Tories to bring the Johnson government down! The vote on...

Obama Dumps Two-State Solution!

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PROPONENTS of the two-state solution to Palestine, that is the creation of two separate states, Israel and Palestine through peaceful negotiations, with East Jerusalem...
A section of yesterday’s lobby of parliament against the ID Card Bill

It’s much later than Brown or Blair think

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THE working class electors in the safe Labour seat of Dunfermline and Fyfe ignored the crisis at the top of the Liberal Democrats, so...

Police officer charged as a neo-Nazi recruiter! Another probed for ‘raping policewomen’. Disband the...

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A METROPOLITAN Police officer is facing jail after acting as a recruiter for a banned neo-Nazi terrorist group. PC Benjamin Hannam, from Edmonton in...

Hunt urges NHS to ‘Sign up for Safety’ while he cuts the service to...

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt is urging the NHS in England to reduce the number of serious mistakes being made and save 6,000 lives over the...

Revolution Is The Only Road For Youth

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RECORD numbers of young people, 835,000 18-24 year-olds, are not in school, college or work in England, official figures are showing. This is an increase...

Re-nationalise the Railways

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Yesterday’s announcement that the Tory-led coalition government’s much heralded investment in the railways is to be financed solely through fare increases is a catastrophe...

Yellen signs up to Gordon Brown’s ‘no more boom or bust’ on the brink...

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IN A SPEECH in London last Tuesday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, announced to a disbelieving world that the...

Morales pledges to rule for the oppressed

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EVO MORALES is the first Indian to become the President of Bolivia ending decades of rule by a white ruling class elite which presided...

NATO massacres Libyan civilians to loot the country’s oil

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THE bloody massacre of 85 Libyan men, women and children by NATO in the town of Zlitan exposes once and for all that when...

Car Factories Could Be Closed In A Matter Of Weeks Says Unite! Occupy Them...

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FOR THE first time since coronavirus erupted in China shutting down Chinese manufacturing, cutting off the supply of vital components and commodities to the...

US inflation rockets up – world sitting on a ‘time bomb’

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US INFLATION rate hit 7% last month – the highest since Ronald Reagan was president in 1982 – making it the seventh consecutive month...

US death toll rockets in Iraq

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FIVE more American troops were killed and three were captured near Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, in a pre-dawn attack on Saturday. The...

Defend the Royal Mail – Form a public sector alliance – Bring down the...

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FOLLOWING the publication of the coalition’s Postal Services Bill, Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, said: ‘The government has wasted no time in flogging...

European banks are ‘screwed’ as ‘uncertainty’ rules

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‘UNCERTAINTY’ is the word on the lips of every banker and bourgeois politician today as they grapple with a capitalist system that is unravelling...

16,000 Police Enforcers Hit London’s Streets

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A VAST force of police was mobilised for last night’s action against the masses of youth who have been showing just how much they...

Israeli high school students refuse to serve and oppose the oppression of the Palestinians!

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HUNDREDS of Israeli high school students in a ‘Youth Against Dictatorship’ statement have announced that they will refuse to serve in the Israeli military...

Israeli minister Ben-Gvir calls for collective punishment against Palestinians!

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THE fascist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has renewed his calls for collective punishment against all Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday...

The US and UK are making war on asylum seekers! Workers trade unions...

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THE Biden administration has imprisoned tens of thousands of asylum seekers in US prisons where they suffer lengthy detention, severe physical and psychological harm...

US getting ready to attack Iran! It has warned its allies if you buy...

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US DEFENCE Secretary James Mattis has said that the United States will have no cooperation with the Russian military in Syria, at least...

Palestinian Prisoners Are Staging A Mass Hunger Strike – Now Is The Time ...

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PALESTINIAN prisoners are staging a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest against crackdowns and mistreatment by the prison officials. They say their strike,...
TONY WOODLEY (centre) at the TUC Congress where he was forced to speak left by a massive lobby of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

General Motors slashes workers’ healthcare

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AMERICA’S largest manufacturing company, General Motors (GM), announced on Monday that its losses were $1.6bn in the three months to the end of September,...

Palestinian masses break the blockade and start tearing down the walls

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THE Palestinian revolution has shown the way forward by blowing a massive hole in the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, so that hundreds of...

Police prepare for ‘summer of rage!’

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YESTERDAY the bourgeois media was full of the thoughts of police chiefs who are preparing for a ‘summer of rage’, and pointing to the...