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Trump’s Terrorist Regime Kills Iranian Leaders As It Drives Forward To A New Middle...

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IRAN’S most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been murdered by a US air strike in Iraq. The...

Saudi Arabia issues its demands to Qatar – submit or be crushed

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YESTERDAY, Saudi Arabia issued a set of 13 wide-ranging demands to Qatar which it insists have to be met before the sanctions imposed on...

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...

Tories to prop up Blair over Trident, the shape of things to come

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LARGE numbers of Labour MPs are opposed to Blair’s programme to renew the Trident submarine based, nuclear weapons delivery system. The eventual cost...

BA Strike Ballot Result Today

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TODAY Unite is announcing the result of its second strike ballot in three months for 13,000 BA cabin crew, which is expected to show...

Smash the STPs! Trade unions must occupy hospitals threatened with savage cuts and closures!

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THERE is no doubt that the 44 STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) that were prepared in secret are in fact part of one Tory...

The IMF sees the writing on the wall with second warning in 24 hours...

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THE International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report has given its second warning in 24 hours about a new financial catastrophe that it sees coming...

Osborne pledges balanced austerity budgets

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CHANCELLOR Osborne used his annual address at the Mansion House on Wednesday night to announce that he will be selling off the government’s share...

Workers do Battle All Over Europe!

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GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...

Britain’s national debt has tripled – as the UK economy breaks down – nationalisation...

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THE British National Debt has almost tripled in the period between 2005 and 2025, outpacing all the other major capitalist states. Britain now has a...

US workers and youth won’t tolerate racist murders

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THE eruption of a mass movement in over 100 US cities condemning the clearing of George Zimmerman for the murder of black teenager Trayvon...

Johnson demands pensioners and workers must suffer poverty to keep inflation down

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TORY prime minister Boris Johnson was interviewed yesterday on ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme and announced that there will be no attempt to increase...

UK Attorney General Lord Hermer raises spectre of the rise of fascism in UK!

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AT a speech delivered to the Royal United Services Institute on Thursday evening, Sir Richard Hermer KC, the Attorney General, and the Labour government’s...

US, UK and EU trade unions must take general strike action to defeat Israel’s...

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THE Israeli regime started its threatened ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah with an intense bombardment of the city on Sunday...

Tories crushed in by-elections – TUC must take action now to bring them down!

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THE TORIES have been smashed by two huge by-election defeats, in a couple of their ‘safe’ seats, Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, where their large...

UN expert slams group of democratic states for ‘psychological torture’ of Julian Assange

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The United Nations expert on torture has condemned the psychological torture inflicted on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying: ‘In 20 years of work with...

Tories and Labour get ready for more state repressions

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HOME Secretary Theresa May said yesterday that thousands of people are potentially at risk of being radicalised in the UK. ...

Force the TUC to call general strike to bring down Tories!

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THE working class is being left with no alternative by the government than to take general strike action to prevent all of its gains...

Cluster bombs still killing Lebanese children

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The UN’s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, yesterday described Israel’s use of cluster bombs in south Lebanon during the final three days of the conflict...

Tory coalition aims to smash council housing and housing benefit!

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IN his Emergency Budget, the Tory Chancellor Osborne said his government’s intention was to eliminate the ‘structural current deficit’ of the government by cutting...

The Enemy Is At Home! No British Tanks For The Ukraine – Bring Down...

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THE RUSSIAN armed forces will destroy US-made M1 Abrams tanks and other NATO military equipment if they are supplied to Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to...

Defend jobs, wages and basic rights – forward to a workers government

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JOBS are now going in a huge avalanche. The Lloyds Banking Group, where the government has the major stake, is set to begin a...

Labour government splits over ‘class war plan’ to raise income tax rates

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MAJOR splits have emerged in the Labour government Cabinet over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s class-war plans to raise income tax rates...

TUC must end its shameful silence on Palestine and be forced to call a...

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Last Saturday, over 170,000 workers, students and youth marched through London in support of the struggle of the Palestinians against the occupation of their...

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...

Rate Rises Will Lead To Banking Collapse

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ON Thursday night, the captains of British capitalism assembled for a sumptuous banquet at London’s Mansion House to listen to the latest economic plans...

Step up the public sector strike to a general strike

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THE National Executive of the Public and Civil Servants Union (PCS) have called out their members in England on a one-day strike on Wednesday...

Bank shares fall while AIG and HBOS live on borrowed time!

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SHARE price collapses continued yesterday after the bankrupting of the fourth largest US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and the ‘rescue’ of Merrill Lynch by...

TIME TO FIGHT FOR THE NHS – the Junior Doctors have shown the way!

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THE official figures for NHS trusts in England for the first three months of the financial year (April to June) have just been released...

No socialist programme for Corbyn!

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LABOUR leader Corbyn was full of confidence as he opened his campaign to be re-elected as leader of the Labour Party yesterday. He said:...

Hamas demands prosecution of ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ for war crimes against Palestinians

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IN RESPONSE to the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) announcement on Monday that it is closing its operation in Gaza, the Hamas resistance movement...

Unions Must Call Action To Halt Tory Law Equating Journalism With Terrorism! They Must...

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THE NUJ is warning that Home Office plans to ‘reform’ The Official Secrets Act ‘are a severe threat to journalism’. It is calling on...

PM Sunak Ditches HS2 And Launches Savage Cuts To Smash The Trade Unions!

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THE GMB trade union yesterday slammed the scrapping of the HS2 Northern route, the biggest cut in the rail network since the days of...

Bank of England implicated in illegal Libor rigging

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THE Bank of England, the UKs central bank and guardian of the country’s banking system, along with being responsible for the running of British...

Take Action To Stop US-UK-Israel Attack On Iran

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WHAT is being termed as a coalition of trade unions (Unison, the GMB and Amicus), charities and faith groups yesterday warned Tony Blair that...

Anti-Russian war alliance begins to crumble as head of German navy quits!

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GERMANY’S navy chief has resigned from his post after drawing criticism from the German government and Ukraine over his remarks in support of Russian...

Hain resigns after police are called in!

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PETER HAIN – the former Young Liberal radical, and then leader, in the 1970s of the Anti-Apartheid campaign and then the Anti-Nazi League –...

US Must Quit Iraq At Once! Says Ex-CIA Chief

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THE US state is beginning to split over the war in Iraq, so severe is the pounding that US troops and the US leadership...
A million French workers, youth and students marched through Paris yesterday against the government’s plan for youth

French And British Workers Take Action Against The Bosses

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IT was Karl Marx who said that the French would start the revolution, that the British would be inspired to take it further and...

Obama set to expand the Afghan war

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PRESIDENT Obama is set to throw tonnes of petrol onto the Afghan flames. After months of strategic and tactical discussions with his military and political...

US at the Security Council traces the crisis back to Lenin and Trotsky

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SAMANTHA Power, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, did not waste any time in attacking the Russian veto of the imperialists’ ...

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,...

Tory lies over ‘Syrian gas attack’ exposed!

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THE ENTIRE justification for last Friday’s illegal bombing of Syria by British, US and French forces is falling apart rapidly as the truth emerges. The...

Middle East On The Brink As Mad Dog Israel Attacks Beirut, Baghdad & Damascus!

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LEBANON’s president, Michel Aoun, on Monday condemned an Israeli drone attack on Beirut at the weekend as a ‘declaration of war’ that justifies a...

Brown Favours Bush’s ‘New World Order’

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has spoken of the need for a ‘new world order’. He is not embarrassed that this is what President Clinton and...