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Terrified financial investors dump UK stocks – time for a general strike to dump...

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US President Donald Trump rolled into Britain on Tuesday night, his second state visit as President, to bask in the adulation of PM Keir...

TUC boss springs to defence of the Labour government!

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On Saturday, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak issued a New Year’s Message that was an attempt to shore up the Labour government in the...

Boycott the EU elections and force a break with the EU through a revolutionary...

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BOTH the sheer bankruptcy of British capitalism and the impotence of Tory Prime Minister Theresa May were on public display on Wednesday night as...

South Africa crashes into economic depression – socialist revolution is the only way forward

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ON WEDNESDAY South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the death at the age of 91 of George Bizos, the renowned human rights lawyer who...

Trade union leaders should resign as well!

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IN a statement on Friday, the day after the general election disaster for reformism, the TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady showed just what a...

Starmer Recruiting Right Wing Tories To Run Any Labour Gov!

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THE Labour Party is defending, welcoming right wing Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the party despite anger from many backbench MPs and workers at...

The British ruling class embraces a corpse

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MARGARET Thatcher was ignored by the bourgeoisie for 23 years after she was put out of office by the Tory leadership in 1990. This...

Red Cross confirms that the Afghan ‘Black Hole’ does exist

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THE Red Cross has confirmed that the US airbase at Bagram does contain a prison within a prison, complete with a torture chamber, that...

Trump forces NATO ‘allies’ to capitulate to US imperialist war drive

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THE TWO-DAY NATO summit ended yesterday with US president Donald Trump walking out and announcing that he had forced the European nations to submit...
The front of the 50,000-strong London demonstration on March 18 demanding the withdrawal of all occupation troops from Iraq

US Falls Out With Iraqi Puppets

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PRESIDENT Bush has fallen out with the major section of his puppet regime in Iraq, that is the Dawa Party and the United Iraq...

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 Warning For Russia And China

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PRESIDENT Obama’s State of the Union message saw the ‘lame-duck’ president, into the last period of his rule, seeking to convince US workers that...

Brown must end UK support for Rajapakse – Victory to the Tamil Tigers

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THE government of Sri Lanka led by President Rajapakse is currently fighting a war on two fronts, on behalf of US and UK imperialism. On...

Capitalist governments crumble as crisis deepens!

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ALL over the capitalist world, governments and administrations of all kinds are crumbling, as the deepening of the world crisis of capitalism sharpens the...

Shias And Sunnis Must Form Revolutionary Government In Iraq

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THE Kurdistan Region intelligence chief, Lahur Jangi, has said that according to his estimates there were 400 to 450 British nationals in the ranks...

Bank of England warns global financial crash is coming!

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Last week, the Bank of England issued another of its increasingly strident warnings that a ‘sudden correction’ in the value of major technological companies...

NHS held to ransom by Cyber terrorists – Hunt must resign and the...

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ON FRIDAY afternoon a terrorist cyber attack was launched on the NHS in England and Scotland that brought it to a standstill in many...

Revolution On The March In The Eu!

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THE working class pushing forward against the EU’s austerity programmes has thrust the Eurozone into crisis, and created the conditions for the collapse of...

Super-rich elite is thumbing its nose at super-exploited workers and commuters!

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RESEARCH into FTSE 100 chief executives’ pay packages and the just-published findings have confirmed to angry workers that they have been taken for a...

Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership

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THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...

Brown, Cameron & Clegg unite to rescue bankrupt capitalism

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THE manufacturing sector of the British economy shrank last month at the fastest rate for 17 years, that is since 1992, according to figures...

UNISON condemns Blair for breaking NHS promise

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UNISON Head of Health, Karen Jennings, has condemned Labour government plans to allow private treatment centres to poach NHS staff, breaking a Labour government...

Defending the NHS means sacking the BMA leadership

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THE BMA leadership yesterday came out in favour of NHS rationing. It also supported the NHS having a written constitution, and being run by...

IRAQ – the last rites for the occupation and its stooges

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PRESIDENT George W Bush’s plan to stabilise Iraq through a military ‘surge’ is ‘a lost cause’, said the New York Times last Sunday. The New...

Now is the time to break the siege of Gaza

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FREEDOM FLOTILLA Volunteers seized during Israel’s murderous raid of last Sunday night, many of whom were beaten and tortured (see page one) are...

Stop the NHS being privatised! Defend funds for services – don’t use them for...

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The abolition of NHS England by merging it with the Department of Health, announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, is the...

Iraqi masses to march today to end the US-UK occupation

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ON THE eve of today’s expected one million strong march in Baghdad, called by Moqtada al-Sadr, against the US-UK occupation of Iraq, US tanks...

US abandons Kurds in northern Syria and gives green light to Turkish invasion

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TURKEY has been given the green light to invade northern Syria by the US following the abrupt decision by the Trump administration on Sunday...

Hamas denounces the Israeli Military hijacking of the Handala aid ship

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THE Hamas movement has strongly denounced the Israeli military hijacking of the Handala aid ship in international waters and the abduction of its passengers,...

Euro zone high stakes gamble with 1 trillion euros on the table

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Euro-zone leaders have taken the desperate measure of risking all on one throw of the dice, after advancing an almost $1 trillion package...

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...

Palestinian Premier Condemns Israel’s Killing Of Four Young Palestinians!

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has condemned the Israeli army killing of four young Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and...

After Corbyn’s victory TUC delegates must call a general strike

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THE left wing backbench MP, Jeremy Corbyn, won a stunning victory in the Labour Party leadership contest on Saturday, as the working class gave...

As Putin, Merkel, Macron And Erdogan Talk Peace In Istanbul, Israel And The...

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As Putin, Merkel, Macron and Erdogan were meeting in Istanbul on Saturday evening to discuss the future of Syria, Israeli planes were bombing Gaza...

Israel steps up its war to drive Palestinians from their homes!

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SCORES of armed Israeli settlers attacked the homes of Palestinians in the village of Sebastia in the occupied West Bank province of Nablus on...

UK political crisis explodes as Parliament refuses to support immediate ceasefire!

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THE House of Commons tied itself up into knots on Wednesday as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support...

Get Ready For War says NATO, as capitalist crisis reaches its explosion point!

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‘CIVILIANS IN THE WEST must prepare for all-out war with Russia within the next 20 years’, a NATO Admiral, Rob Bauer warned in the...

Renationalise the electricity and gas monopolies!

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POWERGEN, the energy monopoly, is putting up the prices of its gas and electricity services by 18.4 per cent and 9.7 per cent, next...

Cameron supervised the destruction of Guardian hard drives

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THE picture painted by Home Secretary May of the police doing their duty in the Snowden affair, as they saw it, without any government...

UK Workers Must Support Venezuela Against US, Eu, UK Attempts At Regime Change

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MRS THATCHER notoriously revived her political fortunes in 1982 by going to war with Argentina. She flew to the US to insist that its...

Don’t stop at the House of Lords! Abolish Parliament and go forward to a...

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ON Wednesday night, a spokesman for the Tory government delivered a blunt message to the House of Lords that they either accepted Brexit or...

Tories trying to stampede MPs into supporting war in Syria!

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THE tragic loss of the Russian airliner flying out of the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh killing 224 people, is being used by the...

US-UK imperialism has come to grief in Iraq

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IRAQ’S election commission has barred almost 500 candidates and many parties from running in the ‘national’ elections on 7 March. A parliamentary committee says that...

Hamas condemns the ‘massacre of the century’ in Palestine by Israel and its allies!

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HAMAS has said that the Israeli regime is engaged in committing a ‘massacre of the century’ in the Gaza Strip, with Tel Aviv carrying...

THE TUC leaders who have deserted junior doctors and the NHS must be kicked...

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YESTERDAY the Tory offensive against not just junior doctors but the entire foundation of the National Health Service reached a ‘watershed moment for the...