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No Military Action Against Iran – At This Point Says Rice

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BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has just revealed the policy of the British government on Iraq – or has he? He said that Iran...

As Israel implodes – forward to the Palestinian State where Palestinian and Jewish workers...

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AFTER 27 weeks of mass Israeli and Palestinian protests, Israel’s legislature has approved the first reading of a racist and divisive plan drawn up...

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...

Sinking Deeper Into The Afghan Morass

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THE talk by the commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, that ‘missions by special forces and air strikes by unmanned...

Workers rise up – Stop the closure of Ealing Maternity Unit!

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ON MAY 7 Labour won the Ealing Central and Acton seat from the Tories, with Rupa Huq getting 22,002 votes, a massive 13%...

Israeli terror is being stepped up – It is time for the workers of...

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THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank, amid...

Police officer who attacked Tomlinson will not even be charged with assault!

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HARRY STANLEY was shot dead by armed police in Hackney in September 1999. They said that they thought that he was carrying a shotgun...

Make the TUC take action to defend the NHS

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YESTERDAY both Blair and Hewitt mocked NHS workers insulting their intelligence with the Hewitt line that this year was the best ever year for...

Capitalism kills – UK death rate increased by Tory austerity war on workers

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ON MONDAY, the BMJ health journal published the results of its research into the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and the austerity policies ruthlessly...

Truss demands war across Europe to crush Russia!

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IN A KEYNOTE foreign policy speech at London’s Mansion House last night, Tory foreign secretary Liz Truss dispensed with the fiction of the imperialist...

BMA has shown the way – now all trade unions must take action to...

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ON Monday, the BMA conference (ARM) passed unanimously a vote of No Confidence in the Tory-led coalition’s Health Secretary, Hunt, and also called for...

Israel declares UN agency UNRWA a terrorist organisation and bans it from providing any...

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The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on Monday passed a motion banning UNRWA (the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency) from operating inside Israel and occupied...

British capitalism is breaking apart

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THE one clear message that emerged from Cameron’s speech yesterday was that the political representatives of the capitalist class in Britain have given up...

FBU pensions victory sets precedent for all public service workers

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THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) won a massive victory not only for their members but for all public service workers when the employment tribunal...

Tories have driven NHS to breaking point! The trade unions must call a general...

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THE NHS is at breaking point! This is the warning from doctors, nurses and NHS staff, furious that the Tories did absolutely nothing to...

Entwistle Put To The Sword

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THE crisis of the capitalist state is rapidly deepening after the just-appointed ex-Director General of the BBC, George Entwistle, was publicly put to the...

Business Secretary Reynolds can’t keep blast furnaces going!

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THE British Labour government’s business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep...

Backstabber Starmer Is Splitting Labour. He Wants To Be Part Of A Tory-Led...

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JEREMY Corbyn will not be a Labour candidate at the next general election, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has said. Corbyn the former...

Coalition plans to punish and freeze the elderly

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IT was the German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller, who said: ‘In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up...

Throw Out The Tories – Forward To A Workers Government

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TODAY the working class and the majority of the middle class must put the Cameron government out of office and return the Labour Party...

Tories Want To Go From Starving Children To Pauperising Pensioners!

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THIS week Tory prime minister Boris Johnson was forced to make a humiliating retreat over free school meals following a campaign led by the...

The developing capitalist crisis demands the organisation of the socialist revolution

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SHRINKING UK trade figures released yesterday of a decline of 0.1 per cent of GDP in May, following a 0.3 per cent fall in...

EU economy at the end of the road

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THE economy of the Eurozone countries is sinking even deeper into crisis making a mockery of all the talk about an economic ‘recovery’. This was...
Gate Gourmet workers picket on the hill near the factory the day after the TUC Congress voted to give its full support for their struggle

Opportunist union leaders sell public sector workers’ future

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OPPORTUNIST trade union leaders in the health, education and civil service sectors yesterday sold out the future of public sector workers by agreeing that...

MI5 and labour witch-hunters attack torture exposers

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HOME Secretary Johnson and MI5 director general, Evans, yesterday launched a hysterical witch-hunt against the exposers of the fact that both MI5 and the...

Students and UCU to ‘take to the streets!’

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SHOWING contempt for parliament, the watchdog for university access (Offa) yesterday gave the green light to all universities to increase tuition fees in England...

Death while under ‘restraint’

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THE death of a 46-year-old family man being deported from Heathrow has thrown the spotlight on the entire racist immigration policy and its private...

FOOD BANKS becoming the rule in poverty-stricken UK

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THERE are currently 270 food banks across the UK where poverty-stricken workers and youth are directed to get subsistence amounts of food. As the capitalist...

US Working Class At The Crossroads – Break With The Democrats Now!

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EVERYWHERE, from the motor car industry to the mines of Appalacia, the US working class is struggling for its jobs and its trade union...

Prison torture allegations – abolish G4S!

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THE news that allegations that forced injections and electric shocks were used on prisoners at a South African prison run by the UK-owned G4S,...

The biggest fall in living standards since 1931!

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THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that living costs have risen 25% in the past five years and placed an ‘unprecedented’ financial burden on...

Labour MPs being whipped to keep Tories in power!

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer instructed his party’s MPs to abstain in last night’s vote on the Tories’ new Covid regulations tier system, thus ensuring...

Anti-Brexit Coup Underway – Workers Must Take Action To Force UK Out Of Eu...

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ON FRIDAY PM MAY let it be known that if she did not think that her EU deal would be agreed by parliament she...

Labour Must Expel The Splitters And Battle For A Corbyn-Led Government!

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SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell has revealed he is ‘worried and saddened’ about the prospect of the Labour Party being split by the fake ‘Labour...

World capitalism is set to crash – It must be replaced with the World...

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JUST five months after being elected with a landslide majority, a life or death political and economic crisis has engulfed British capitalism. Labour PM Sir...

Ukrainian workers are fighting the US-UK backed gangsters

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THE rapidly developing crisis in the Ukraine, has placed the issue of the defence of the Ukraine from this imperialist-backed assault, and the brigands...

MPs’ Committee fears new mortgage bubble!

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A VERY nervous House of Commons Treasury Select Committee has just asked the Bank of England to clarify its role in ensuring that the...

Repeal all racist immigration laws

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SHOCK, HORROR, the BBC has just found out that between 26 and 35 per cent of all of the migrants that are encouraged to...

Starmer’s Labour declares war on refugees!

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ON Wednesday, Labour prime minister, and former human rights lawyer, Keir Starmer declared that the Labour government is preparing for a war on asylum...

Socialist revolution only answer to capitalist debt crisis

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RACHEL Reeves is due to deliver her first Autumn Budget as Labour Chancellor next Wednesday, and is already promising ‘tough decisions’ on cuts and...

103 years of the Balfour Declaration – British workers must fight to liberate...

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ON NOVEMBER 2nd 1917, during the first great imperialist war, the UK ruling class committed one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century...

Reformists Miliband and Balls sink to new depths of treachery – build the revolutionary...

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YESTERDAY Labour leader Ed Miliband delivered his keynote speech to the party conference in which he firmly aligned himself with every reactionary anti-working class...

Labour crisis deepens in face of collapsing economy!

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PM Keir Starmer’s Labour government, still reeling from its major retreats over the welfare cuts to incapacity PIP benefits and the winter fuel payments,...

With their anti-migrants and anti-trade union laws the Tories are the common enemy of...

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On Monday, over 180 UK health professionals and representatives from leading medical bodies sent a letter to Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak denouncing the...

Afghan election re-run collapses – US, UK completely discredited!

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AFGHANISTAN’S re-run election will be held on November 7th as scheduled, said the Afghan Electoral Commission yesterday. It is to have just one candidate,...