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Workers must support Russia – the US-UK trade unions must stop war drive by...

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FOR SOME weeks the UK and US ruling classes have been telling the world that Russia is just waiting to invade the Ukraine, that...

Tories out to destroy free speech

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THE full extent of the Tory plans to smash up the right to free speech was revealed yesterday by an unlikely source, the new...

The Great Pension Robbery – Contributions have tripled! This government must go! Call...

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MILLIONS of workers, as of yesterday, have been hit for six. The amount that comes out of their wages in pension contributions now...

Unions must call general strikes to support Gaza and end imperialist war drive

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ON MONDAY, Israeli warplanes bombed the Iranian consulate, which is situated next to the embassy building in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing seven Iranian...

Nationalise the major industries to defend jobs

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GERMANY, the world’s biggest exporter of commodities, and the strong man of the EU, has begun to slump with government figures showing that its...

UK politicians send letter urging Starmer to ‘act now’ over Gaza – time for...

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A JOINT letter signed by leading politicians in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales was sent to Labour prime minister Keir Starmer yesterday calling for...

Strikebreaker Hunt demands ‘call off NHS strike!’

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‘BRITAIN needs a pay rise!’ These were the cynical words of PM Cameron last Friday in Washington, after five years of remorseless wage-cutting in...

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...

Smash The Bedroom Tax – Bring Down The Tories!

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AN explosive report into the effect of the ‘Bedroom Tax’ on families throughout the country was published on Thursday – sneaked out on the...

Sunak Wants A War With Russia And A Class War Against The Working Class...

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THE British ruling class has decided that there is only one way out of the historic crisis of British capitalism, and that is to...

Northern Gaza subjected to ‘heinous massacres’ for 20 days

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YESTERDAY, the Palestinian news agency WAFA detailed that Northern Gaza is being subjected to ‘the most heinous massacres’ by Israeli forces for 20 days...

Students and UCU to ‘take to the streets!’

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SHOWING contempt for parliament, the watchdog for university access (Offa) yesterday gave the green light to all universities to increase tuition fees in England...

pass Bill or face financial panic, bank closures and ruin – Bush tells Senate...

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THE US president George Bush has been so frightened at the prospect of a 1929 collapse and a 1930s depression gripping the US that...

Trade unions must unite to defend bursaries and stop hospital closures!

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TWO very important NHS trade union conferences are currently taking place this week, the RCN, nurses union, and the BMA doctors. Already the RCN supported...

Occupy the steel works! Force TUC to call a general strike to bring down...

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BRITISH capitalism is bankrupt. The ruling class, abetted by the trade union leaders, are letting the historic steel industry go to the wall. Five months...

UK workers will not go the way of Greece and Syriza – Quit the...

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THE G20 has concluded with the imperialist powers at each others’ throats after being under permanent siege by tens of thousands of anti-capitalist youth. The...

Miliband launches attack on unions and the Labour Party

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LABOUR leader Miliband is planning to allow non-Labour Party members to be registered as supporters, and to vote in leadership elections, in the affiliated...

State threatens Climate Change Camp

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YESTERDAY dozens of police officers were inspecting the beginning of the Climate Change camp, in a sportsfield owned by Imperial College, less than 1,000...

The fight to free Palestine is inseparable from the British socialist revolution!

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IN response to a pledge by US President-elect Donald Trump to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Palestinian ambassador to the United...

Labour supports and covers up for torturers

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THE Court of Appeal yesterday forced the British Labour government and its Foreign Secretary, Miliband to publish seven paragraphs concerning the torture of a...

Net Closing In On Iraq War Criminals

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THE Brown government has been told by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, to release the minutes of two cabinet meetings, from March 7th and...

Please help us – Hague appeals to Russia & China!

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SPEAKING at the Royal United Services Institute on Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Hague reported that: ‘On January 16th, a terrorist group linked to Al...

TUC calls Emergency Special Congress to fight anti-strike laws – demand it calls a...

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FOLLOWING the Tories announcing on Monday that they had completed their ‘consultation period’ over the minimum service levels rules for railway, ambulance and border...

Capitalism has reached the end of the road – it’s time for a...

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THE economic and political crisis gripping capitalism is causing despair and despondency amongst the bourgeoisie and its media representatives at the highest levels. This week,...

US-UK imperialist forces must be driven out of Syria and the Middle East!

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THE United States might have lost control over the situation in Syria and cannot fulfill their pledge to separate the opposition from the terrorists,...

Pogromist Johnson Speaks Up For The Security Services

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BORIS JOHNSON writes in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, in the wake of the Rigby trial, ‘the most important question now is how we prevent other...

Smash anti-strike law by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick out...

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ON MONDAY, with the Tory anti-strikes Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, back in the House of Commons for its final reading before passing into...

China, Russia Vote For Security Council Savage Sanctions Against North Korea

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THE UN Security Council last Friday unanimously adopted a new set of draconian US-proposed sanctions against North Korea to further strangle its energy supplies...

Terminal 5 – BA gets ready for its ‘Wapping’

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THE buzz word in the financial media yesterday was ‘Wapping’. The media was referring to the union busting operation carried through by Rupert Murdoch in...

Clinton, Hague beat war drums over Syria

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YESTERDAY US and UK diplomats were foaming at the mouth over an alleged massacre by the Syrian armed forces of men women and...

Hands Off Rt! Defend Democratic Rights! Russia Is Not The Enemy! Our...

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THE decision by the UK state-owned NatWest Bank to cancel RT’s (Russia Today) UK bank accounts is a crude attempt by...

Public debt and pensions black hole

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THE right-wing, free market think tank, the Adam Smith Institute, yesterday hit out at the Tories’ ‘deeply immoral’ failure to bring down the national...

Victory to Syria – down with imperialism and Stalinism!

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THE Syrian war has reached a ‘stalemate’ and President Bashar al-Assad’s government will call for a ceasefire at the Geneva conference on the state’s...

Answer Labour plans to drive youth off benefits with a general strike to kick...

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UNEMPLOYED youth are once again the number-one target for a Labour government, determined to slash the UK’s benefit spending. A year ago, Labour unveiled its...

Forward to the Palestinian state!

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ISRAEL’S Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered the termination of all non-security related coordination with the Palestinian Authority (PA), in response to the UN...

Spanish Opel workers vote for strike action!

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WORKERS at Opel’s factory in Zaragossa, Spain, have announced four days of strikes starting next week, after failing to reach an agreement with Magna...

Tories rejected scientific advice in order to keep capitalism open at all costs

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TORY science minister George Freeman admitted yesterday that the government had rejected the advice of its own experts at SAGE over restrictions designed to...

Restore the free NHS! Halt privatisation & kick out the profiteers!

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THE House of Commons Select Committee on Health published a report yesterday that set out to legitimise charging for healthcare within the National Health...

Rich 1% ‘Hoovering up’ all the wealth!

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IN advance of the Tory budget on Wednesday, where chancellor Osborne is due to announce even more savage austerity cuts, the charity Oxfam has...
Iraqi fighters who have got the US and British forces on he run in Iraq

Labour brings 20% interest payments into its health market

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NHS trust hospitals and Primary Care Trusts are to be charged 10 per cent interest on money they borrow from their strategic Health Authority...

Only a socialist revolution can win the Tamils’ right to self-determination

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THE News Line salutes the heroic self-sacrifice of the Tamil Tigers and the Tamil people as a whole. They have fought and are fighting not...

Tories Plan To Bring In Legal Strikebreakers To Force Workers To Accept Wage Cuts!

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DEPUTY Prime Minister Dominic Raab says the UK government cannot allow unions to win a battle for higher pay as it would supposedly fuel...

Drive to bring local performance-related pay into the NHS must be defeated

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THE chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) Chris Hopson, representing more than 200 NHS trusts across England, has called for the ripping...

US And Iraqi Puppets Massacre A Thousand In Sadr City

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IRAQI deputies to the puppet parliament, who are Iraqi nationalists and who support Moqtada al-Sadr have denounced the US puppet government of Premier...

Stop children and immigrants being used as ‘cash cows’

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EVIDENCE is emerging about the extent to which the Tory policy of creating a ‘hostile climate’ for immigrant workers is being used by the...