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US Troops Return To Syria To Grab Its Oil Resources – While The Iraqi...

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US TROOPS are back in military bases in north eastern Syria which they had previously evacuated ahead of Turkey’s military action against Kurdish forces...

UNISON ‘ready to strike’ while Brown is bringing bosses into his cabinet

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‘I SEND this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...

Bourgeoisie Trembles At The Approaching Catastrophe!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, made it clear this week that the banking system faces total collapse due to ‘systemic...

Fire service cut to the bone! Kick Tories out before another deadly fire breaks...

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THE time between a 999 call and fire engines arriving on to the scene of a fire has increased. This is despite the Fire...

Down with all zero-hours contracts!

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‘JOBSEEKERS’ will lose their benefits, or their Universal Credit when it is introduced, if they turn down zero-hours contracts, the government has said. This new...

Netanyahu rages against genocidal Israeli state being ‘isolated’ and threatened by the mass movement...

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YESTERDAY, the Israeli state deliberately shut down all communication services in Gaza, cutting off approximately 800,000 Palestinians in the Strip from the outside world. This...

Abolish the monarchy – forward to a workers’ republic and socialism!

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DETAILS of the settlement between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre to end her claim that she was forced to have sex with the Duke...

‘Cameron ‘wouldn’t last 30 seconds’ if voters back leaving EU

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PM Cameron earlier last week insisted he would remain Prime Minister even if he lost the June 23 referendum. This position has been challenged in...

Business Secretary Cable Tells Vauxhall Workers: You’Re On Your Own!

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LAST MAY the Unite union leaders agreed for their members in the UK that they would provide savings of 106m euros over four years,...

World crisis of capitalism places socialist revolution on immediate agenda

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ON FRIDAY the global stock markets reached a record increase with shares values shooting up by over £5 billion in what is being hailed...

Royal Mail getting ready for New Year war!

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BRENDAN Barber has won another battle honour from the employers. His first was at Gate Gourmet, which publicly congratulated him on its website for the...

Universities in crisis – courses slashed, thousands to be sacked and fees to soar!

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UNIVERSITIES are being hit hard by the capitalist crisis with thousands of jobs and courses going, and with students facing a lifting of the...

30% rise in the numbers ‘sleeping rough’!

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THE number of people forced to live and sleep on the streets has more than doubled since 2010, the year the Tory-led coalition came...

BofE house price warning!

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SIR Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, is a very worried man – with good reason. What is keeping him awake...

Tories Will Have The Power ‘To Censor The Internet’ To Silence Opposition To Imperialist...

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THE TORY government is attempting to assume the absolute power to censor the internet as part of its new Online Safety Bill – a...

The state is looking to take control

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THE capitalist state used to be the mailed fist concealed within the velvet glove in Britain. Its real power was covered by the parliamentary...

Brown justifies anti-union action and pay cuts

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown insisted yesterday that meagre pay rises, that are phased in and amount to a pay cut, will be imposed by...

Revolutionary crisis shaking regimes all over Europe

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GERMAN Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy on Saturday decreed that the preservation of the euro required a 70bn euro currency reserve fund and...

Junior doctors and student nurses lead the way Now call a general strike!

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THE decision by the BMA on Monday to walk away from the negotiations over the imposition of new contracts for junior doctors and to...

TUC must take a stand against Israeli genocide and the anti-union laws by calling...

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ON Tuesday night, the United Nations General Assembly vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was passed overwhelmingly with 10 countries, led by the...

Netanyahu fills new Israeli government with racists and fascists for a pogrom against...

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On Wednesday, the recently elected president of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, finally announced that he has assembled a ruling coalition cabinet between his Likud party...

The TUC Must Call A General Strike To Stop The Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians!

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ISRAELI occupation forces have committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of...

Capitalist state kept quiet about illegal phone tapping

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METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has ordered a senior officer to ‘establish the facts’ – concerning the knowledge that the police had –...

Capitalism is a broken system – nationalise the banks and the car industry

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British Banks have been recapitalised by the working class, who were not consulted by the government before the Prime Minister took the decision...

British Army To Brown – ‘Stand And Deliver’

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THE armed forces chiefs have entered politics and are to present the government with a shopping list of purchases that it must make, or...

British capitalism is bust, time to put it out of its misery

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FOR THE first time a comprehensive analysis of the economic and social impact of the war waged by the Tory government under Margaret Thatcher...

Economic crisis of capitalism can only be resolved with socialist revolution

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THE PLUNGE of world capitalism over the precipice of an almighty crash has become so obvious that a sense of panic is gripping bourgeois...

Cwu Crisis Conference!

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THE Royal Mail’s pay, pension and bonuses award worth £3million for Chief Executive Adam Crozier was a major slap in the face for all...

Trump And Blair Are Furious As The Taliban Heads For Government!

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THE success of the Taliban movement and the mass of the Afghan people in securing a US and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the...

Cbi Tells Tories – Impose Two Year Wage Freeze And Privatise!

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THE CBI BOSSES organisation yesterday called for an immediate freeze in the public sector pay bill for two years and a ‘re-engineering’ (destruction) ‘of...

Puppet court ‘convicts’ defiant Saddam

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THE court that convicted President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to be hung for crimes against humanity was a creation of imperialism, made up of...

Leave The EU Now! Call A General Strike To Defend Jobs! Stop Pleading...

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THE UK’s negotiator with the EU, Lord Frost, has said that there is still time for the UK and the EU to agree a...

Miliband’s ‘fight door-to-door’ bombast has no answers for workers and youth

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ED MILIBAND kicked-off Labour’s election campaign yesterday with a speech full of bombast and empty promises, but which has at its core the main...

Labour Taking Action To Make The Workers And The Poor Pay For The Crisis...

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THERE is no doubt that Labour’s proposed benefit cuts are a ‘violation of workers rights’ which will harm ill, disabled and poorer workers in...

Truss Is Planning Regional Pay And More Anti-Union Laws For ‘Lazy And Idle’ British...

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THE OUT OF CONTROL UK inflation rate has hit double digits – 10.1% according to the Office for National Statistics. It says it’s at...

270,000 civil servants to strike!

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UP to 270,000 civil and public servants from across the UK are set to launch a month of industrial action, with a 48 hour...

Solidarity action over Lineker sacking causes Tories to crumble – now is time to...

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BOTH the BBC and the Tories were in a state of meltdown over the weekend following the decision of the BBC bosses, urged on...

The Palestinian revolution is driving Israel back! End the occupation of Palestine! Forward to...

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HAMAS declared a ‘historic victory’ of Palestinians in their struggle against the occupying regime of Israel yesterday, after the Israeli regime conceded an unconditional...

Businesses threaten to relocate before Brexit! Nationalise them and put them under workers’ management!

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RESEARCH for the Institute of Directors showed yesterday that a third of UK businesses are considering moving abroad after Brexit. The IoD said that...

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...

Coalition Will Not Be Shifted Away From NHS Privatisation

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THE Coalition’s ‘blueprint’ for the privatisation of the NHS has suffered a set-back when it became clear last week that even supporters of privatisation...

Trump and Fallon slam May’s deal while ‘Remainer’ Corbyn prepares to debate with ‘Remainer’...

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THE BREXIT war sharpened yesterday when both President Trump and ex-Tory Minister Michael Fallon rounded on May’s capitulation to the EU through her recognition...

TUC – defend the junior doctors, call a general strike now!

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THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...

Austerity and Universal Credit to continue!

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TORY chancellor Philip Hammond made a climb down in his budget speech yesterday to Theresa May, but there was no climb down over continuing...

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...