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Only socialist revolutions can defeat missile threat

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ROMANIAN President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that Romania will host US interceptor missiles along its border with the Russian Federation. This latest missile plan...

Workers will demand Unite’s national action against fire and rehire be stepped up to...

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YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...

World Dollar Debt Crisis!

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YET another authoritative report detailing the developing world banking crisis has surfaced – a report which if shorn of its dry academic language paints...

Sack the RBS bankers! Workers management of the nationalised banks!

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CITY Minister Lord Myners yesterday said shareholders should take action to stop million pound bonuses after Royal Bank of Scotland directors threatened to resign...

Turkey And Libya Prepare For Med Oil War Against Greece, And Egypt!

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AN EXPLOSIVE situation that threatens all-out war between the NATO powers is fast developing in the Mediterranean region in a struggle to seize the...

Syria’s victory over the imperialist powers will transform Middle East

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad confirmed yesterday that his government will pardon all ‘militants’ who turn in their weapons, stressing that the policy has been...

Tories Stepping Up The Class War While The Tuc Is Calling A Lobby Of...

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THE TORY government has made it crystal clear that its current reorganisation is being made in order to carry out a very serious assault...

Corbyn’s Balancing Act Faces Its Moment Of Truth!

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THE ABRUPT decision by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage not to contest the 317 seats held by the Tories in the general election means...

RBS crashes as banks get set for rate rises

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LOSSES AT the state owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) were twice as bad as expected, at £1.13bn and much bigger than the £950...

King urinates on the green shoots of recovery

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‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...

Hands off Syria – its people must decide its future

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THE Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has reiterated that the sole way to resolve Syria’s current crisis is through a ‘national model’. He added: ‘What...

Johnson Getting Ready To Follow Trump, End The Lockdown And Bring In Millions Of...

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THE MASSIVE ‘Black Lives Matter’ marches this weekend saw millions of workers internationally and tens of thousands of youth and workers in the UK...

French publisher arrested in UK under anti-terror laws as ruling classes unite against workers

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ON Monday, Ernest Moret, who works at the Paris based publisher Editions La Fabrique, was stopped by Metropolitan Police officers after travelling to London...

Capitalism in deflationary crisis

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THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...

The TUC must support the Palestinian revolution and ban all Israeli exports to the...

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THE Arab League has called on the international community to end its silence on the continuing Israeli atrocities across Occupied Palestine, and to compel...

Time To Destroy The Anti-Union Laws With A General Strike And A Socialist Revolution!

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THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...

Forward To The British Socialist Revolution!

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THE DAILY Telegraph has been speculating on: ‘What would a 21st century British coup look like?’ in an opinion piece written by Paul...

Gove And May Brazen It Out As Labour Refuses To Demand Resignations

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WHAT stood out like a sore thumb when the emergency question was put to Home Secretary May in the House of Commons, on Monday...

Victory to Assad – Forward to the Palestinian state!

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MAKING use of Russian air power, the Syrian army is now pressing forward on all fronts, driving back the Islamists who are now negotiating...

TUC stands idly by watching the Tories bringing in anti-union laws and forming a...

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PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak met Benjamin Netanyahu at Downing Street yesterday, just as the Israeli leader faces a huge crisis at home after he...

GM jobs crisis hits UK-EU!

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THE week long closure of the two remaining GM owned Vauxhall plants in the UK at Luton and Ellesmere Port which started yesterday marks...

End The Blockade Of Gaza – End The Occupation Of Palestine!

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THE United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday condemned the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, stating the obvious that the siege inflicts pain...

The Imf Issues Warning To The UK And Europe

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecast for Britain for the third time in nine months and warned George Osborne that...

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...

Oxfam’s Pleas To The Bankers Will Be Ignored – World Revolution Is The...

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‘THE IMF must abandon demands for austerity as the cost-of-living crisis drives up hunger and poverty worldwide’ is the demand being made by Oxfam. Oxfam’s...

Tories Open Up The Battle Against Socialism

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THE content of the ‘devolution campaign’, which has now developed into the ‘Home Rule for England campaign’ was revealed yesterday when Tory Justice Secretary...

EUROPE IN CRISIS! Build the 4th International!

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IT was no accident that last Thursday’s storming of the Greek state broadcasting (ERT) building by riot police and the brutal eviction of the...

Nato Murders Civilians In Tripoli Air Strikes

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IN another night of terror, murder and horror NATO, allegedly making war on Libya to protect civilians from air attack, has been murdering...

Bank of England suspected of serious fraud!

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THE Bank of England this week was revealed to be under investigation by no less than the Serious Fraud Office. Founded in 1694, the Bank...

Blockade the oil refineries and nationalise the oil industry to slash petrol prices

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THE Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has just warned that we are rapidly heading for a petrol price of £7.40 a gallon, a catastrophe that...

Starmer forced to condemn the racist police force – Disband it now!

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FRESH from the Labour Party conference on Thursday, the Prime Minister Kier Starmer was forced to condemn the ‘shocking’ racism and misogyny in the...

Build millions of council homes to solve housing crisis

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CRISIS, the national charity for single homeless people, correctly fears that a massive surge in homelessness is ahead, as it opens its nine Crisis...

Orgreave and Hillsborough cover-ups! Smash the capitalist state!

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The call by the general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, Chris Kitchen, for the investigation into the police cover-up over the Hillsborough...

The Oxford Blood Money Must Be Returned To Sender At Once!

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IN ITS LATEST ATROCITY, the University of Oxford has grabbed with both hands more than £12m in dirty money from the Alexander Mosley Trust. This...

US pilots confronted Boeing over safety before Ethiopia crash and were ignored!

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SECRET recordings have revealed that the American pilots union confronted US aircraft manufacturer Boeing about the safety of their bestselling 737 Max 8 plane...

Drive Tory rabble out with a general strike to bring in a workers government...

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THE House of Commons privileges committee published its report into former prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday and it turned out to be even more...

Students Under Attack–Restore Free State Education!

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THE NUS has just published its Poverty Commission Report which shows how education costs are rising, condemning students to live in poverty and blighting...

Chinese Stalinists Feeling The Anger Of The Masses

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THIS week, as part of the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party, the party general secretary and China’s president, Ho...

Rate Rise Shock – Condemned As Panic By Tuc

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BIG BUSINESS, the stockmarkets and the TUC were shaken yesterday midday when the Bank of England raised its interest rates by a quarter of...

Coalition opts for new anti-union laws and dictatorship

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CIVIL SERVANTS are angry that Cabinet Office minister, and head of the Star Chamber to force through government policy, Francis Maude, is going...

Brown Threatens Royal Mail Funding!

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AT THE CWU rally at Central Hall yesterday afternoon, CWU leader Billy Hayes presented a successful outcome of the postal workers struggle as relying...

Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill – sky high food prices here...

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DURING a public on-line question and answer session on Monday, the Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill warned that higher food prices ‘may...

Euro Crisis Intensifies!

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GERMANY’S Chancellor, Angela Merkel, says she is satisfied with the EU deal to help finance the debt-laden eurozone banks without the sovereign state, in...

Tamil And Sinhalese Workers Must Unite To End Rajapakse Dictatorship

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THE Rajapakse dictatorship in Sri Lanka, which is backed with British finance and arms, and British big business investment, is continuing with its dictatorship...

Quit Afghanistan now says Ashdown – as Cameron and Hague plan new wars in...

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EX-Special Boat Service operative Ashdown can recognise a major defeat when it stares him in the face, and refuses to go away. He has called...