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Palestine Unity Government Formed – Now The World Must End Occupation!

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THE Palestinian unity government has been sworn in, and has the backing of both the Fatah and Hamas movements. The defiant formation of the national...

Miliband wants a US style Democratic Party not a Labour Party

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THE kind of party that Labour Party leader Miliband wants will be no different from the US Democratic Party, if he is allowed to...

Steel workers must reject the Tata steel deal – vote ‘NO!’

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AT the end of this month, steel workers at Port Talbot are to vote on a deal struck between their unions and Tata Steel...

Starmer clears out Corbynite Long-Bailey to clear the way for a national government with...

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LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has unceremoniously sacked shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. This is the MP who was the main contender standing against...

The answer to ‘Fat Cat Thursday’ – Socialist Revolution

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THE MASSIVE gap in wealth between workers and the bosses has once again been highlighted in a new report which shows that the chief...

US and Saudi Arabia are slaughtering Yemenis while Israel is assassinating Palestinian journalists!

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A LEADING member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi yesterday indicted US imperialism saying that it is killing thousands of Yemeni civilians...

Tories Consciously Undermining The Union!

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THE Tories this week pushed through parliament their plans for ‘English votes for English laws’ under which only English MPs would have the right...

No to school reopening and a forced return to work – for a general...

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WHILE the Tories were hailing the relaxation of the lockdown rules that came into effect yesterday in England as a giant step forward, senior...

60,000 families face eviction under Tory Housing Bill

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60,000 HOUSEHOLDS in England face being thrown out of their council houses next year as a result of the Tories ‘pay to stay’ policy. Under...

50% rise in SA farmworkers’ wages is just the start!

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THE Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) has welcomed, as a ‘short term victory’, an increase in the minimum wage for farmworkers from R69...

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...

Brexit crisis deepens reflecting the death agony of British capitalism!

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THE British ruling class, far from recovering from the Brexit mutiny, when its chosen policy for saving British capitalism – that of ceding...

The TUC must tell the Tories to condemn Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ or...

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ON TUESDAY night, US President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side finally unveiled to the world his ‘Deal of...

British capitalism hits the rocks!

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IN THE early hours of last Friday, a seismic crash in the value of the pound against the dollar caused panic amongst the world’s...

There Is No Christmas Truce For Palestinians As Israel Attacks Both Gaza And The...

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ISRAELI warplanes at dawn yesterday launched a series of airstrikes against several posts across the besieged Gaza Strip, causing extensive material damage. WAFA’s correspondent reported...

Forward With The World Socialist Revolution!

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ON every front – the economic, the political and the ideological – the capitalist ruling classes and their system are reeling and in desperate...

Obama Ready To Step Up Intervention Into Syria

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THE just re-elected US President, Barack Obama, yesterday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to use chemical weapons against the NATO-supported opposition forces, saying...

World crisis driving forward the European socialist revolution!

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THE BOURGEOIS financial markets opened yesterday to the unprecedented news that Germany has sold 3.9 billion euros of debt at a negative rate of...

Defiant Assad Puts Imperialists Into A Crisis!

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PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...

Chuck out the TUC leaders who are incapable of defending jobs and wages!

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UNITE, the largest union in Britain and Ireland, reacted to the news that Sheffield University has decided to sack over 8,000 of its employees...

Rejoice – Syrian forces on the outskirts of Palmyra!

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THE Fars news agency has reported that ‘At approximately 11:45pm (Damascus Time) on Tuesday night, the Syrian Army’s “Tiger Forces”, backed by Hezbollah, the...

By Recognising The Golan Heights As Part Of Israel, Trump Is Opting For A...

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ON MONDAY, US President Donald Trump signed a declaration that recognised Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over Syria’s Golan Heights. The strategically important Golan Heights are recognised in...

TUC traitors issue joint statement with the CBI bosses, the ETUC and Business...

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THE TUC leaders have just issued an unprecedented joint statement with the bosses of the CBI, the ETUC and Business Europe ahead of June’s...

US ‘putting a knife to China’s neck’

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ON MONDAY the Chinese government issued a document accusing US president Donald Trump’s administration of ‘trade bullyism practices’ that represent the ‘greatest source of...

Capitalism’s biggest crisis since 1706, warns BofE! Make it its last with a socialist...

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THE BANK of England’s latest report, released on Thursday, has revealed the full extent of the catastrophic crisis of capitalism, now writhing around in...

Privatisation destroys infrastructure

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BRITAIN’S infrastructure was reduced to complete meltdown over Christmas through a combination of high winds and heavy rainfall. Not because of blinding snow storms, hurricane...

ICC refuses to act over Israel’s Gaza war crimes

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PALESTINIAN youth and workers marched very bravely all over the occupied territories last Friday on Land Day, and they were met as usual by...

Localism Act 2011 Being Used To Build Up An Army Of Homeless People!

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UNDER the Localism Act 2011, councils were granted greater powers to restrict access to social housing. Vulnerable people are now unable to access social...

If one guard is sacked the TUC must call the whole working class out!

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THE STRIKE of the Southern guards, which begins on Tuesday, is a pivotal struggle for the entire working class. What is under threat is...

Central Banks to increase global debt timebomb with QE

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CENTRAL banks in America, Europe and Japan are on the verge of printing and handing out to their banks hundreds of billions of pounds...

Tories Splitting Over Eu Crisis!

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WHETHER British capitalism should remain within the crisis-ridden, sinking ship of the EU, or strike out on its own has immediately split the Tory...

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,...

Shut Kensington council down! Form a Council of Action to run the Borough!

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'THE COUNCIL needs to be shut down … Workers should take over and workers' unions should defend them,' Zoe Bernard from Ladbroke Grove, said...

Trump victory shatters the Democratic Party and shows the US working class is...

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THE Democrats lost the presidential election some time ago, when the party nominated Hillary Clinton for the presidency and pushed Bernie Sanders aside using...

Workers must bring down May government, break with the EU NOW and go forward...

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THE Tory government and party is now split into warring groups, one of which is pursuing a leadership election to knife their leader May...

Royal Mail workers must set the date for their all out strike action!

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ON TUESDAY, postal workers delivered a massive 94.5% YES vote to strike in defence of their jobs, pay and conditions and the very existence...

With The Tories At Their Weakest Now Is The Time For A General Strike...

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SATURDAY’S massive turnout for the trade union sponsored mass demonstration with its lead banner declaring ‘Not One Day More – Tories out’ has spread...

Deutsche Bank collapse will crash the world’s banking system!

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DEUTSCHE Bank, the largest and most important bank in Europe, sacked its British born chief executive John Cryan after just three years in the...

Italy on the edge of the abyss – the UK is next

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THE European Union is being broken on the rocks of the deepening crisis of the world capitalist order. The leaders of France and Germany are...

Trump lauds huge tax cuts, slams migrants, keeps G Bay open and plans war...

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PRESIDENT Trump began his ‘State of the Union’ speech on Tuesday night by repeatedly congratulating himself, saying, ‘Less than one year has passed since...

The Working Class Must Intervene To Ensure That Parliament Is Not Allowed To Smash...

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THE British ruling class is in big trouble indeed when it has to turn to Karl Marx and his ‘18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon’...

Blair Wants To Split The Labour Party And Join With Remain Tories And Lib-Dems!

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THE DEPTH of the crisis of the UK ruling class can be gauged by the fact that they have been forced to bring the...

Tories want to gag the trade unions as well as chain them!

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STRIKING unions are to be gagged as well as chained, the TUC’s general secretary Frances O’Grady has said, referring to a consultation document linked...

One third of all people in UK have lived in poverty in the past...

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ONE in three people in the country have ‘experienced poverty’ in the past four years. According to figures produced by the Office for National Statistics,...

Bulgarians Hit Out At Cameron

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THE President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, has correctly rebuked Tory leader Cameron for peddling nationalism and isolationism. It is ironic that the UK – which...