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Civil Rights lawyers closed down by Tories

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THE law firm that has spent ten years representing the Iraqi victims of the brutal imperialist invasion of their country and the subsequent occupation...

Panic And Alarm Over Housing Bubble

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THE OECD has in effect, accused the Bank of England and the Coalition government of blindly organising another banking disaster, under the cover of...

May defends capitalism, Corbyn wants it ‘restructured’. It must be overthrown through the socialist...

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‘THE FREE market economy,’ in other words capitalism, ‘is unquestionably the best, and indeed the only sustainable, means of increasing the living standards of...

PM May hammers the poor as 7,585 families receive 50p housing benefit!

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PM MAY makes a lot of noise about her concern for the ‘just about managing’, ie the middle classes in crisis-ridden Britain. In fact,...

UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...

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LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...

For the capitalist state the enemy is at home

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THE launch in parliament of the new book, ‘Blacklisted: the Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists’, saw Labour MP John McDonnell read...

EU tearing itself apart while British capitalism collapses under a sovereign debt crisis

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On Friday EU leaders gathered for a three-day summit to agree on a proposed £1.6 trillion financial plan to bail out the national states...

UK workers must act to help end occupation of Palestine!

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SIXTY-SEVEN years after the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, when Israel was founded by a massive Zionist terror against the Palestinian people, the Palestinian...

IPCC admits Special Branch acted illegally to assist drawing up ‘blacklist’ for bosses!

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‘POLICE, including Special Branches, supplied information that appeared on the blacklist, funded by the country’s major construction firms, the Consulting Association and/or other agencies,...

Israel Remains Putin’s ‘Partner!’

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THE RESPONSE of Russia’s political leadership, led by Vladimir Putin, to the Israeli raid on Syria that led to the death of 15 Russian...

Soros backed ‘Fifth Column’ calls for second EU referendum – Workers must force the...

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THE EU Brexit chief negotiator has declared that he is not prepared to compromise with the UK government over the decision of the British...

Sudanese workers must form a workers’ government to rule Sudan!

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SUDAN’S military leaders have scrapped all existing agreements with the main opposition coalition, and have cynically declared they will hold elections within nine months. The...

Left Fabianism cannot beat the bosses! Forward to the British socialist revolution!

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LABOUR Leader Corbyn, launching Labour’s manifesto at Bradford University yesterday, sought to launch a gradual Fabian ‘revolution’, at a snail’s pace, to begin to...

Joint Russian & UK Salisbury investigation: The only way to uncover the truth!

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RUSSIA says the UK shows no interest in conducting a joint investigation into the alleged assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia,...

May Loses Support Of Both The Remainers And Leavers – Looks To Labour To...

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THAT BANKRUPT British capitalism and imperialism is unable to stand on its own two feet anymore is obvious. It faces the prospect of the...

Tories’ attempt to recreate the British Empire demands a revolutionary response

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TORY Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s speech yesterday called for the UK to be ‘realistic about our global position’, insisting that this means recognising that...

Bring Down May Government! Quit The Eu Now! Forward To A Workers Government And...

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THE MAY government is now in a full Brexit retreat, a retreat that is turning into a rout! There is to be a vote this...

Refugees branded as ‘illegals’ by EU

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THIS week, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, threatened that the EU would deport the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist...

Trade unions must bring down crisis-ridden Tories, break with the EU and bring in...

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THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...

OECD predicts economic disaster as UK chief of staff predicts war with Russia!

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WILLIAM WHITE, the head of the OECD’s review body, warned before the Davos Summit on Monday that: ‘All the market indicators right now look...

May Called And Lost ‘Snap Election’ – Now Drive Her Out Of Office!

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THE Tory Party has now suffered its second self-inflicted disaster in just under a year. On June 23 2016, it lost the EU referendum that...

46,000 auto workers close down GM as the class struggle erupts in US

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ON SUNDAY night 46,000 members of the United Automobile Workers (UAW), employed by General Motors in America, walked out on indefinite strike in a...

Johnson Will Use His Dictatorial Powers Against The Working Class!

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THE DEBATE on the adjournment of Parliament for a month until April 21 took place immediately after the Tory emergency legislation passed though the...

Keogh creating a two-tier inferior NHS and proud of it

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THE BIG push is on to destroy the national network of A&Es that millions of people depend on, and to convert at least 100...

Future of steel depends on the Tories, says McCluskey

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YESTERDAY, venture capitalists Greybull Capital, who purchased Tata’s steel works in Scunthorpe for £1, launched ‘British Steel’, hoping with the renaming, to...

TUC Must Support Next Saturday’s Mass Rally, Recognise The Palestinian State And Demand That...

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SATURDAY saw the concrete proof of just how much support the brave Palestinian people have won in their battle to undo the dirty work...

NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT PLAN AWAKENS MEMORIES OF THE 1960s and ’70s COUP PLOTS TO...

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THERE IS VERY great resistance to the proposal of Labour leader Corbyn that he should put down a motion of no confidence in PM...

End the legal thievery of the super-rich with expropriation and a socialist revolution!

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THE SECRET hidden world of the mega rich, giant corporations, hedge funds, politicians, heads of State and the Queen has had the spotlight thrown...

Second Unite ‘Pause For Peace’ Equals Surrender Attempt!

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THE Unite trade union leaders have declared their second ‘Pause for Peace’ in less than a week, in two fiercely fought industrial disputes –...

NHS bed & staffing crisis is a ‘Grenfell Tower waiting to happen’ – Call...

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THE NUMBER of NHS beds has halved in the last 30 years and proposals to slash bed numbers even further will make the ‘NHS a...

Gripped with crisis UK, US & French leaders abandon World Economic Forum

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THE ANNUAL get-together of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos has been hit by a number of notable absences...

Palestinians warn Israel over Jabal al-Baba ethnic cleansing!

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday warned Israel that the Jabal al-Baba community to the east of Jerusalem is a red line, warning...

Break with the EU NOW! Forward to a socialist UK!

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FOLLOWING the intervention of ex-PM Tony Blair to demand that the UK remains in the EU, all the counter-revolutionary, anti-working class forces have begun...

Trump hails his economic miracle – and reveals his fear of the US and...

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ON TUESDAY, president Donald Trump delivered his much-delayed annual State of the Union speech to the US Congress, held up by the longest-ever shutdown...

Workers will not pay for Carillion bankruptcy – drive out the privateers with...

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20,000 jobs in the UK and a similar number of jobs abroad are under threat with the collapse of the giant construction company Carillion...

Banks to do immigration checks! Smash this racist Tory government!

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FROM January 1st banks and building societies will be legally obliged to check the current accounts of 76 million account holders and compare them...

Trump Can’t Get Rid Of Obamacare – But US Workers Can Get Rid...

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PRESIDENT Trump’s efforts to smash ex-President Obama’s healthcare system, which provides cheaper health insurance for the low paid and the poor (Obamacare), have...

French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda

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IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...

Bank for International Settlements warns of full-blown banking crash

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THE Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of central bankers, in its latest quarterly review of the world banking system has just issued...

Bosses and bankers agree capitalism is ‘broken’ – time to put an end...

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ANY LINGERING doubts about the morbid terror that is gripping the capitalist class were dispelled this weekend when 50 of the leading bosses from...

Corbyn Called A ‘Stalinist’ As Labour Right Wing Plots For A Second Referendum

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LABOUR leader Corbyn has been accused of organising a ‘Stalinist purge’ after he sacked ex-leadership contender and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Smith on...

Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight mass unemployment – build a revolutionary...

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INTERVIEWED on Sky’s Sophy Ridge programme on Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady appealed for the Tories to unite with the TUC, saying: ‘Let’s...

New head of IMF warns $19 trillion debt time bomb will crash world economy

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THE NEWLY-appointed head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued the starkest warning yet that world capitalism is on the point of...

Rudd and May refuse to resign over Windrush, so no alternative but to kick...

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AT WEDNESDAY’S Prime Minister’s Question Time, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called for Tory Home Secretary Amber Rudd to resign – the only problem with...

Neither savage deflation or massive inflation but socialism!

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LABOUR’S last Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has urged the Tories to set about printing or borrowing even more money to finance growth. It must be remembered...