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Strike wave through Europe poses issue of working class taking power

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THIS week a headline in one of the bourgeois papers declared ‘Europe Grinds to a Halt’ and for once the hyperbole was justified as...

Super-rich elite is thumbing its nose at super-exploited workers and commuters!

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RESEARCH into FTSE 100 chief executives’ pay packages and the just-published findings have confirmed to angry workers that they have been taken for a...

Tory ‘hostile environment’ programme alive and kicking – Stop mass deportation flight!

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THE PLANNED deportation of 50 people to Jamaica, many of whom came to the UK as children, shows that the Tories racist hounding of immigrant...

US workers bracing themselves for ‘fiscal cliff’

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THE US labour movement is now bracing itself for a last minute ‘deal’ on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ with the Republican Party, in which the...

Israel’s finance minister orders preparations for the Israeli annexation of occupied West Bank

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ISRAEL’S extreme right wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, on Monday ordered preparations for the Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of Donald...

Now is the time to build the world Trotskyist movement!

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ON Wednesday, the general secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady, penned another begging letter to the Tory government, this time to the Secretary of...

Nato Declines To Follow Bush’s Orders

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THE outgoing US president, George W Bush, has spent the entire week pledging a Nato expansion eastwards, and that states such as Albania, Croatia,...

Call Goes Up For An ‘Organisation For The Maintenance Of Supplies’ As Bosses Get...

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THE DAILY Telegraph yesterday called to ‘Combat strikes with contingency plans’ after observing that ‘What has been billed as a Winter of Discontent in...

Bosses Demand That Sunak Brings In Laws To Chain Up The Trade Unions!

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THE British working class is showing a real class determination and ability to defend its jobs, its wages, its basic rights and its families,...

The TUC must tell the Tories to condemn Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ or...

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ON TUESDAY night, US President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side finally unveiled to the world his ‘Deal of...

US troops flee from Afghan fighters – time to quit Afghanistan

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US and Afghan troops have quit the village where Taleban fighters fought their way into a US base and killed nine US soldiers wounding...

Only Socialist Revolution will end capitalist inequality

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The US is on the verge of slipping below bankrupt Greece on a world index of wealth inequality – this is the stark conclusion...

Respond to the death agony of imperialism by organising the victory of the worldwide...

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ON FRIDAY, June 21, The Republic of Armenia officially recognised the State of Palestine, raising the number of countries that recognise Palestinian statehood to...
The WRP’s rally on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution on November 12th. Its main slogan ‘Forward to the World  October!’is very relevent for this new year, 2018. Palestinian ambassador MANUEL HASSASSIAN is addressing the rally

2018 – The Year For World Revolution!

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New Year Manifesto by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary greetings for 2018 to all our readers,...

Working Class Must Bring Split And Divided Tories Down!

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THE EU crisis of the Tory party has really reached the point of no return when the US President, Donald Trump, is...

Reject BA Sell-Out!

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THERE can be only one response by BA cabin crew to the latest attempt by the national leadership of Unite to impose a ‘settlement’...

America Getting Ready For Revolution!

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AMERICA has erupted this week as the working class and youth have responded to the continued and unending violence meted out to them on...

Kick May And The Tories Out Now With A General Strike! Forward To...

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PM MAY yesterday morning announced she was resigning as Tory leader and Prime Minister in two weeks on June 7. May said that the...

Blair’s decisive moment of NHS transition

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LABOUR’S re-spun campaign to close local Accident and Emergency Departments, and entire District General Hospitals, in favour of Regional Centres of Excellence got under...

‘Vile police’ and Tory grandees battle it out!

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A PETTY incident – the refusal of Downing Street police officers to allow the Tory chief whip to ride his bicycle through the gates...

Panic reigns supreme under bankrupt capitalism

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THE sense of panic and of impending doom is running wild amongst the international banks and the world bourgeoisie as they are forced to...

Ukraine and imperialists stage provocation in Azov Sea

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ON SUNDAY the Ukrainian regime, with the complicity of its EU and US imperialist backers, staged a provocative military action by the illegal incursion...

Justice – Just Another Bourgeois Commodity For Sale

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THE Coalition’s ‘Justice Secretary’ Chris Grayling plans to make further savage cuts in the £2bn legal aid bill in England and Wales, to...

The Death Agony Of Capitalism! Time For The Working Class To Bury It!

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ON MONDAY night, US President Donald Trump announced via a tweet that he would stop all applications from foreign nationals seeking permanent residence in...

US government will shut down tomorrow as the political and economic crisis in America...

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THE FEDERAL government will shut down tomorrow as Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress are in a bitter dispute over budget cuts to...

Production Slump Shocks Coalition As Crisis Deepens

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THE UK capitalist economy slumped in the fourth quarter of 2010, contracting by 0.5 per cent, instead of the meagre 0.5 per cent growth...

Trump Wants The Whole World To Pay For The Crisis And Death Agony Of...

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DEEP splits among the imperialist powers emerged this week over the rapidly growing support for a Palestinian state, at the same time as Trump...

TUC must support doctors strike and NHS by calling a general strike to kick...

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Resident doctors began five days of strike action yesterday following the overwhelming rejection, 83% to 17%, of Labour health secretary Wes Streeting’s latest pathetic...

General Sanders Says That The UK Army Must Be Ready For A War To...

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THE new Chief of the General staff, Sir Patrick Sanders, yesterday urged that Britain must be ready to fight Putin, comparing the present situation...

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...

Unite leaders beg the Tories for permanent furlough! New leadership required in trade...

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UNITE, with a membership of 1.4 million, wielding the power to strike and shut down vast proportions of industry, has reduced itself to begging...

Disband the ‘institutionally racist, sexist and broken’ Met Police – forward to a workers’...

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THE report by Baroness Louise Casey into the Metropolitan Police yesterday damned the force as ‘institutionally racist, sexist and broken’. The report was commissioned by...

Salute the victorious Palestinian hunger strikers – Forward to the Palestinian state

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WE SALUTE the victory of the heroic 1,600 Palestinian hunger strikers who fought Israel to the brink of death, and remain alive having...

Clinton declares war on Putin and on Russia

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THE Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US Secretary of State, Clinton, of giving the Russian right wing – many of them...

Darling Outlines Cuts For All – Except The Bankers And Bosses

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THE price of gold has touched $1,000 an ounce for the first time in six months, more than three times greater than what it...

Blair Gang In Disarray After Pm Fails To Vote

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YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair was insisting that he can push through his right wing capitalist ‘reform programme’ despite suffering a double defeat at the...

Revisionists in alliance with Tory right-winger Ian Duncan Smith

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AT a time when the crisis of the Labour government is reaching the point of explosion, the WRP and the Young Socialists are calling...

Almost 100,000 youth flee Ukraine as the imperialist powers seek to provoke an imperialist...

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NEARLY 100,000 men of fighting age have fled Ukraine in the last two months, as the fascist-supported regime of Volodymyr Zelensky desperately scrambles to...

Employment figures mask the real crisis of British capitalism

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THE BIG lie of this minority Tory government is that British capitalism is thriving, its economy is in vigorous good health and that workers...

Trump’s declaration that American imperialism will ‘take over Gaza’ must be answered with World...

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US president Donald Trump, at a joint press conference with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, announced that America would ‘take over Gaza’...

Youth will rise up against savage Tory attacks!

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IT is definitely no fun being young under the Tories! As is well known, the Tories are absolutely desperate to be the party that hammers...

BBC reveals how police abuse body cameras – time to disband the police and...

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IN 2005, the Metropolitan Police introduced a trial of body-worn cameras for police officers, a move that was quickly rolled out by forces throughout...

Capitalism is on the rocks with the USA on the brink of a historic...

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 4.5%, the twelfth consecutive increase in a row, pushing up borrowing costs to the...

Gold Shooting Upwards As The Dollar Plunges!

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THE price of gold hit a record of 1,111.20 dollars an ounce in trading in London on Monday, as the dollar weakened after a...

Tories are unable to beat Covid virus – time to bring them down and...

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YESTERDAY, the BMA revealed in a statement that thousands of doctors feared that the NHS would not be able to cope with the ‘incredible...