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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,...

Greek crisis sharpens – the working class must take the power!

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AHEAD of today’s summit of the European Union the Greek transport minister issued an open threat that unless striking transport workers returned to work...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the plant yesterday midday after police stopped them picketing on nearby Beacon Hill

Police death squads are ok says ACPO

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THERE is no need to change the strategy police use to deal with suicide bombers – to put as many bullets into their brain...

Hamas Denounces Netanyahu-Pompeo Saudi Mission!

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PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s secret flight to Saudi Arabia, where he reportedly met with Saudi Crown Prince...

Labour reach new depths of treachery over NHS

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AT the weekend the new Labour shadow health secretary, Andrew Burnham, delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the NHS with the announcement...

US Patriots In Gulf Prepare Way For Israeli Strike At Iran

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THE US has moved to prepare the way for an Israeli strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities by deploying missile shields in Qatar, the UAE,...

IMF predicts ‘worst economic fallout since the Great Depression’ – Only way out of...

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INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund’s (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday: ‘We anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.’ ‘Just three months ago, we...

TUC unites with bosses to plead with Tories for aviation bail-out rather than fight...

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YESTERDAY the TUC joined with aviation bosses and Heathrow management in a joint statement calling for the Tories to ‘protect the UK’s vital aviation...

MAY DAY 2009 – A movement for World Socialist Revolution!

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MILLIONS of workers took to the streets on May Day in countries throughout the world, from Los Angeles to London, Havana to Harare. Several May...

US getting ready to attack Iran! It has warned its allies if you buy...

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US DEFENCE Secretary James Mattis has said that the United States will have no cooperation with the Russian military in Syria, at least...

US Supreme Court ruling destroys myth of bourgeois democracy and imposes dictatorship on US...

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On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that ex-President Donald Trump enjoys ‘absolute immunity’ for ‘official acts’ as president, a ruling that at a...

Troika poised to show Greece the door

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GREEK PM Antonis Samaras is meeting the organisation of Greece’s international creditors, the Troika (IMF, EU, ECB), to try to persuade it to give...

Now send Brown packing – forward to a workers government!

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Blair stood down yesterday, driven out of power by the Iraqi insurgency and the British workers’ determination to defend their welfare state. The disorientated...

EU threatens a ‘march on Rome’ to prevent collapse

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AS THE EU crisis continues to sweep through the continent, a German MEP, Markus Ferber, offered his blunt assessment of the steps that the...

NHS is running out of surgeons, nurses and midwives!

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ON Thursday midwives handed in a petition to 10 Downing Street condemning the government on the grounds that it was putting the lives of...

Puppet master Obama gives puppet Cameron’s strings a tweak

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THE White House on Thursday issued a ‘Readout of the President’s Call with Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom’. The record of the phone...

Pensioners and workers will unite to demand a general strike to end Tory attack...

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak this week put every pensioner in the country on notice that along with workers they will be forced to pay...

Time To Put Demoralised Capitalism Out Of Its Misery With A Socialist Revolution!

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‘THOSE of us in the economic realm must navigate blindly through the fog. We face a plausible spectrum ranging from V-shaped relief to L-shaped...

Tory new definition of terrorism in a crackdown on all opposition to Zionist...

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MICHAEL Gove, the Tory Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, is due this week to unveil plans to ban individuals and...

Trump declares trade war on world – only socialist revolution can resolve this crisis

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DONALD Trump wasted no time after his victory in Tuesday’s presidential election to declare his intention to wage a new trade war on the...

Health unions in head-on collision with the government over pay! Entire working...

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UNIONS representing NHS workers have written directly to the Tory government over their pay. The fourteen unions represent over a million NHS workers. The...

Only one solution to the death agony of capitalism: bury it now with...

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EVEN sections of the bourgeois media, and the bourgeoisie that it represents, were yesterday able to describe the appearance of the current world...

World Crisis driving world revolution – Build the Fourth International!

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LAST week it was the turn of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to issue its latest warning that world capitalism is on the point...

Time To Sack The Leadership Of The FBU!

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YESTERDAY’S closure of ten London fire stations, with the loss of 552 firefighter jobs and the axing of 14 fire engines, shows how little...

May wants to rip up the basic rights of the working class! Put her...

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IN the seven short weeks since Tory Prime Minister Theresa May announced out of the blue that she was calling a snap general election,...

Biden’s ‘ironclad’ support for Israel as imperialism prepares for all-out war in Middle East

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AT a press conference on Wednesday evening, US president Joe Biden announced that American imperialism was prepared for an all-out war in the Middle...

Tories trying to stampede MPs into supporting war in Syria!

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THE tragic loss of the Russian airliner flying out of the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh killing 224 people, is being used by the...

Tory budget–tax relief for bosses, tax increases for low paid!

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THE headlines in the bourgeois press yesterday howled about Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, breaking a cast-iron Tory election manifesto pledge that there would be...

May assumes dictatorial powers over Parliament – time to bring her down with a...

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TORY Prime Minister Theresa May was determined on Monday to avoid a substantive vote in Parliament on ‘her right’ to go to war and...

Coalition to widen student loans system!

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LAST Thursday the government announced that it was starting a consultation process on its plans to widen the student loans system in further education...

Withdraw all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan

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THE fact that six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to remain in Afghanistan to support the 4,000 British troops who are being assembled in...

A fighting Public Sector Alliance to defend wages and jobs

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THE Communication Workers Union yesterday announced its latest plans for strike action after the first national strike for a decade last week, which was...

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...

Support the postal workers – Bring down Brown government

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GORDON Brown launched his government of national unity yesterday by giving ex-Tory Sean Woodward a job in the cabinet (he defected from the Tories...
PATRICA DA SILVA ARMANI (speaking), ALEX PERIERA and VIVIEN MENEZES FIGUEIREDO (behind), cousins of Jean Charles de Menezes at the Stockwell Tube vigil six months after he was shot dead by police

All out for the News Line–Gate Gourmet sacked workers conference

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THE sacked Gate Gourmet workers were locked out almost six months ago on August 10th-11th 2005 by a management and an owner that was...

Tories plan Boot Camps for Youth

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THE Tory attacks on youth have reached a fever pitch over the past week with the announcement of more measures to be taken by...

Economic and political collapse of British capitalism – socialist revolution the only answer

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THE KNIVES are out for Tory prime minister Boris Johnson after his disastrous performance over sleaze, U-turns over social care and now his bizarre...

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...

Tories increasingly looking to ditch Johnson while Starmer lines up for place in a...

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PRIME Minister Boris Johnson jetted off to India yesterday in advance of the vote by MPs on a Labour motion to launch an investigation...

Junior Doct0Rs’ Struggle Is Not Over – Reject Barber’s ‘New Contract’

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JOHAN Malawana, the Chair of the Junior Doctors Committee, addressing the BMA annual conference in Belfast, told delegates that: ‘This was the year when...

Tory Party On The Rocks!

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THE Survation poll for the Mail on Sunday shows that UKIP, with turncoat Tory MP Carswell as their candidate, will win the October Clacton...

56 Refugees forced to sleep in a single office! Boot the Tories and their...

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REFUGEES are being held in office space in Kent, with as many as 56 women and children crammed into a single room, sleeping together...

Big business to take over NHS funds

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THE Labour government is speeding up the break-up, privatisation and destruction of the National Health Service, despite the vote at the Labour Party Conference...

Industry collapses in UK under impact of capitalist crisis

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THE UK economy stagnated with no growth in the last quarter of 2019, according to official figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics). Gross...

Blair & Brown’s NHS cuts boost the Tories

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ONLY those with short memories, or strong stomachs, did not have to stop themselves vomiting when hearing Tory leader David Cameron talk about his...