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Netanyahu marches against terrorism in Paris!

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WHEN the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine lampooned the prophet, it knew that it was trampling over the religious susceptibilities of millions of Muslims, and...

The working class must force its leaders to call a general strike to bring...

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PM Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation will make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the world to go on strike, a...

Putin And Lavrov Come To Obama’s Rescue!

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OBAMA had been facing massive opposition in every State of the Union, with opinion polls saying that he faced defeat in any Congressional vote...

Bigot Straw Stirs Up Division Amongst Workers

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LABOUR MP Straw has been a Blackburn MP for 27 years and has long been aware that numbers of Muslim women in Blackburn wear...

Japan Boosts Its Military Spending!

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WHILE the US and the UK have reduced their military spending, under pressure from the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system, the new...

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...

Return The Malvinas To Argentina!

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PERU has cancelled a visit by a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Montrose, that had been due this week. Peruvian Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo said: ‘This...

UK workers must bring down Trump’s Tories to leave the EU and bring in...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has named three of his Tory candidates to replace May as the prime minister of his choice. All three of Trump’s...

McDonnell wants a corporatist deal with the capitalists!

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SHADOW Chancellor McDonnel’s speech to the Labour Party conference was remarkable for its lack of treatment of the crisis of capitalism. He focused...

Bank of England demands wage cuts to keep businesses and the government from going...

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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released figures yesterday on the average pay across the UK, which they claimed saw an increase of 6.2%...

America on verge of bankruptcy US Treasury Secretary warns

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US TREASURY Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday warned congressional leaders that the Treasury will run out of cash next month and the federal government...

Starmer defends Reeves in an attempt to save both their jobs and UK capitalism!

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KEIR STARMER, at a press conference yesterday,  defended last week’s budget and crucially made a last ditch attempt to save his job and that...

NATO chief tells Starmer spend more on weapons or ‘learn to speak Russian’

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THE Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, was in Britain this week meeting with Labour Prime minister Keir Starmer to hammer home the demand...

It’s The Afghans Who Will Have To Retake Musa Qala

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CURRENTLY a great deal of propaganda hot air is being expended hailing the action that British forces are taking to ‘liberate’ the town of...

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...

The government refuses to release the Shrewsbury 24 trial secret papers

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THE ruling class state machinations that secured the jailing of a number of Shrewsbury pickets after the first national building workers strike in...

French election results directly pose the issue of working class taking power

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THE SECOND and final round of voting for the French Parliament ended on Sunday night with the fascist National Rally (RN) party suffering a...

Unions must purge Brown cabinet!

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THE defeat of the Labour Party in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election – by 7,860 votes, making a 17.6% swing to the Tories from...

Ukrainian coup under way!

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UKRAINE’S President Viktor Yanukovych announced early yesterday the terms of the agreement that he had made with the Ukrainian pro-EU, pro-US opposition during talks...

Trump revels in charges of treason as US is gripped by a death agony...

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YESTERDAY evening, former US president Donald Trump, accompanied by a US Secret Service Motorcade, swept up to Fulton county jail and handed himself in...

Truss insists no retreat as she prepares to split Tories and move to dictatorship

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TORY Prime Minister Liz Truss finally emerged from Downing Street yesterday to make her first public statement on the economic crisis that has brought...

Cameron’s goose is well and truly cooked!

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THE Liberal Democrats have won the Eastleigh by-election, with the UK Independence Party pushing the Conservatives into third place, with Labour as also-rans. Mike Thornton...

Blair will ‘run criminals out of the country’

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IT was Mussolini who said that he would drive the Mafia out of Italy and send it packing to the United States. Mussolini went...

Palestine – the UK unions must take action in support of Palestinian people!

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THE Palestinian Presidency has strongly condemned the ‘dangerous Israeli escalation against our people in the Gaza Strip, which so far has resulted in the...

Cameron declares war on public sector – unions must answer with general strike

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Tory prime minister, David Cameron, has finally come clean about the coalition plans for destroying the welfare state and the entire public sector. Yesterday, he...

Egyptian revolution in permanence!

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THE Egyptian army opened fire on thousands of workers and young people in Tahrir Square on Saturday morning, killing four and wounding 117. ...

King admits no recovery in sight

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THE Bank of England governor, Mervyn King got ready for a somersault in economic policy yesterday, when he told the Treasury Select Committee that...

The Death Penalty For Breivik – No Platform For Fascists!

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THE fascist who killed 77 people, the majority of them at a youth school of the Norwegian Young Socialists, in bomb and gun attacks...

Labour becoming the Party of ‘remain’! Break with the EU through socialist revolution!

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TO THE ALARM and anger of all those Labour supporters who voted to break from the EU, Labour is swiftly and openly becoming...

Israel Steps Up Its Genocide. The TUC Must Call A General Strike Now...

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THE Palestinian Civil Defence Society (PCDS) reported on Tuesday that it has received numerous appeals regarding people trapped alive under rubble from homes and...

Disorientated Johnson quotes Lenin to CBI while Starmer tells bosses we will do what...

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BOTH Tory prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer spoke at the annual conference of the leading bosses’ organisation, the Confederation of...

Call A General Strike Now!

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THE demand for a general strike to bring down the government has been driven by the working class onto the immediate agenda of the...

Make It ‘Doomsday’ For The Coalition Not For Council Housing

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THE ‘social housing’ budget in England is to be slashed by more than 50 per cent. Up to 90 per cent of the market rent...

Low Interest Rates And Quantitative Easing Forever Pledges Carney

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THE new Bank of England governor Carney yesterday in his ‘Inflation Report’ gave big business a sample of his ‘forward guidance’. This amounted to inflation,...

Government determined to destroy District General Hospitals

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THE HSJ (Health Service Journal) has done a service to the NHS, and its tens of millions of users. It has revealed just how...

Pope Benedict Pours Fuel On The Fire Then Says Sorry

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EX SS soldier Pope Benedict XVI yesterday apologised in person for causing offence to Muslims in a speech in Bavaria last week. In his...

Trump Coup Attempt Fails

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ON WEDNESDAY afternoon thousands of US president Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington before storming the US Congress to put a stop to the...

Bank of England issues warning as pound crashes

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DITCHING his opposition to a new third runway at Heathrow airport on Thursday, Ed Miliband, the UK Energy Secretary, not only cravenly abandoned his...

Break with the EU – Forward to the British socialist revolution and Socialist United...

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THE POLITICAL and economic crisis over Brexit has reached explosion point this week, with negotiations between the Tory government and the leaders of the...

Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...

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LAST week, the Tories’ strike-breaking agency worker regulations were thrown out after the High Court ruled they were unlawful. This judgement quashed an appeal by...

Down With The US-Israel Axis – Forward To A UK Workers Government That Will...

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ISRAEL celebrated the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem on Monday, recognising the city as the ‘the capital of Israel’ by massacring 60...

Capitalism is ‘At War’ – answer Cameron with general strike

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BRITISH capitalism is ‘at war’ Cameron told the bosses yesterday, an ‘economic war’ which requires the state to rip up the rule book, strip off...

US workers deal Bush, Blair and Olmert a heavy blow

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WHAT is being called in the US a ‘voter uprising’ has driven Bush’s Republicans out of their control of the House of Representatives, and...

Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!

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THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...

Tories to slash public services by £17bn

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UK PUBLIC services will be slashed by up to £17 billion, the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned, as Tory chancellor Rishi...