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Biden releases heavily redacted documents to ‘prove’ no Saudi involvement in 9/11 attack

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ON THE 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the twin towers in New York the FBI released a newly declassified 16-page document detailing...

Tensions rise in the Baltics and the Balkans!

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LAST WEEK the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice visited Moscow to meet with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. She insisted that although Russia...

Trump moves to make a deal with the Stalinist bureaucracy – workers must move...

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UKRAINE has agreed the terms of a major minerals deal with the US, a senior official in Kiev has told the BBC. US President...

The Working Class Must Intervene To Resolve The Brexit ‘Debate’!

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LAST Tuesday afternoon, in the House of Commons, the knives were out for the Brexit referendum result, and for the millions of workers who...

Break The Blockade Of Gaza!

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GAZA is being reduced from a massive prison for the Palestinian people to one in which they are homeless, jobless, and beginning to go...

Barrett appointed to US Supreme Court in drive to declare a Trump defeat a...

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WITH JUST eight days to go before the US presidential election the right wing judge Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the American Supreme...

British Military Opposes Any Petraeus Surge In Afghanistan

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GENERAL Petraeus is now the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, and has declared that he intends to organise a NATO ‘surge’ in...

Answer Tory preparations to make strikes illegal with a general strike

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DR Mary Bousted, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), made a last minute plea to the Tories on Sunday for...

US, UK Ambassadors Are Run Out Of Libya By Their Former Agents!

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HMS Enterprise has arrived near to Tripoli to evacuate any remaining British people who want to leave Libya, after the British embassy was shut...

Labour demands students foot the bill to bail out bankrupt universities

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ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means...

Ed Balls ending Universal Benefit

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YESTERDAY the Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, announced that the Labour Party has officially abandoned the principle of universal benefits in the interests of...

Don’t Let Them Close Down Our Hospitals!

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THE PLAN to strip Chase Farm Hospital, in Enfield, of its accident and emergency and maternity services is now being implemented with health chiefs...

The Chief Banker Condemns The Banks

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THE governor of the bank of England, Mervyn King, has launched a scathing attack on the major UK banks, accusing them of trying to...

Three Defeats For Tory Welfare Bill

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THE Tory/LibDem coalition suffered three defeats on Wednesday; in the House of Lords over their plans to slash £1.6 billion from the benefits of...

FBU anger mounting – strike action on the way!

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FIREFIGHTERS risk their lives every time they are called out. They never know what they are going to have to tackle, and often do...

AS THE CAPITALIST CRISIS DEEPENS, MPs WANT A DICTATORSHIP OVER THE INTERNET!

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THE UK faces a ‘democratic crisis’ with voters being targeted with ‘pernicious views’ and data being manipulated, a parliamentary MPs committee warns. According to...

US imperialism ramps up attacks on Venezuela in order to effect regime change and...

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Last Saturday morning, US president Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he was closing down the airspace ‘above and surrounding Venezuela’...

Junior doctors are fighting for the NHS – demand the TUC stands with them,...

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TODAY’S strike by junior doctors must be supported by the entire trade union movement and the working class. What is at stake in this dispute...

Zionist pogrom against Palestinians – TUC must be forced to call a general...

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THE invasion of the West Bank city of Jenin by 2,000 Israeli troops backed up by drone and air strikes has so far killed...

Trump Courts North Korea To Avoid A War On Two Fronts!

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THE SIGNED Joint Statement of US President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, issued from the Singapore Summit yesterday morning, commits Trump ‘to provide...

Over A Million Pensioners Are Now Working

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THE petty 5,000 fall in the number of the unemployed (that is the number of workless who are calculated to be looking for...

After levelling Mosul and Raqqa, the US-UK-French alliance is moving into northern Syria

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THE FALSE claims of the Ministry of Defence that there were no civilian casualties in UK air strikes on Iraq, namely on Mosul, have...

BoE chief: British capitalism ‘turning clock back’ to 18th century!

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THE SPLIT in the leading bodies of the Bank of England over whether or not to raise interest rates has emerged just shortly after...

Palestinian Consensus Government meets – Forward to the sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as...

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THE Palestinian National Consensus Government held its first meeting in three years in Gaza yesterday, a day after arriving in the besieged Gaza Strip...

Call A National All-Out Postal Strike To Renationalise The Postal Service!

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ON MONDAY, it was announced that over 97% of Communication Workers Union (CWU) members working in Royal Mail had voted for national strike action...

Israel launches ground attack on Gaza City as UN inquiry finds Israeli State officially...

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YESTERDAY, the Israeli Zionist state started its ground attack on Gaza City following weeks of heavy bombardment that has reduced it to rubble accompanied...

Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions

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A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...
Iraqi fighters who have got the US and British forces on he run in Iraq

Labour brings 20% interest payments into its health market

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NHS trust hospitals and Primary Care Trusts are to be charged 10 per cent interest on money they borrow from their strategic Health Authority...

Smash anti-strike bill by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick the...

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THE TUC yesterday published an analysis that showed that 5.5 million workers in England, Scotland and Wales would have their right to strike threatened...

PM May woos Labour’s right wing!

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ON THE eve of the Tory Party Conference, with the party split from stem to stern over Brexit, Tory leaders have announced that they...

Low Paid UK By Permission Of The Tuc!

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THE coalition government has named 70 companies that won’t pay workers the minimum wage. Even the government says that the 100 cases in the care...

‘The Final Demise Of The Two State Solution’ Says Ashrawi!

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THE Palestinian National Council (PNC), the Palestinian parliament in exile, said on Monday that the decision of the Israeli ruling Likud party to impose...

Capitalism cannot be reformed – it must be overthrown with Socialist Revolution.

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IN HIS speech on Saturday to the Labour Party Policy Forum Jeremy Corbyn proved that left reformism has absolutely no answers to the crisis...

Abolish The Gangmasters!

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THE scandal of the gangmasters has caused uproar in the working class, but the leaders of the trade union movement are helping to cover...

Workers must apply ‘French tactics’ against a parliament that is trying to steal Brexit!

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BRITISH parliamentary democracy was exposed as nothing more than a chaotic and rapidly collapsing sham on Tuesday when, for the first time in history,...

Cameron’s Worthless Pledges!

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CAMERON’S warning that the NHS must ‘Reform or die’ and his statement that the ‘NHS is in danger’, were clear admissions that there is...

Capitalism cannot solve housing crisis – only socialism can!

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IN his emergency budget Chancellor Osborne made it crystal clear that the Housing Benefit of those struggling to exist under crisis-ridden capitalism was one...

A Case Of Strange Bedfellows

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THE Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come back from the US convinced that the Labour government must change its position against the use...

Imperialist War Equals Massacre And Dehumanisation

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A US SOLDIER in Afghanistan has killed at least 16 civilians and wounded five men, women and children. Nato said it was investigating...

Stop Cameron’s counter-revolution at home and abroad!

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CAMERON told the House of Commons on Monday afternoon in his statement on national security strategy that: ‘On Thursday I will make the case for Britain...

Obama is encouraging Japanese nationalism and militarism

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THE new Japanese Premier, Shinzo Abe, is now in Washington in talks with President Obama, who declared last year that confronting China in the...

Army Leaks Anti-Iraq War Propaganda

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THE leaking of a Ministry of Defence poll commissioned by senior British army officers has acted as an antidote to the fatuous pro-war propaganda...

Sunak warns capitalism is reaching a ‘tipping point’ – time to overthrow it with...

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IN THE week after the hospital coronavirus death toll rose above 10,000, the lockdown measures are to be reviewed. Anticipating this review, Tory chancellor Rishi...

Boycott Israel – Arm the Palestinian masses! Forward to the Palestinian state with Jerusalem...

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HAMAS and Fatah have given sharply different responses to the adoption of Monday’s United Nations Security Council vote in favour of the Trump plan...

CBI bosses demand NHS privatisation

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THE CBI boss Richard Lambert spoke up yesterday at the CBI Public Service Summit to insist that the financial belt-tightening that the Brown government...