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Mubarak regime offers 15 per cent rise in pay and pensions!

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WORKERS and youth in Cairo held mass demonstrations yesterday following the release of the detained Google executive and facebook radical Wael Ghonim. The demonstrators in...

Argentina Warns UK Against Militarising The South Atlantic

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ARGENTINA is to raise the UK militarisation of the Malvinas Islands (Falklands) at the United Nations. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner...

Defeat BA’s union busting! All out in support of the cabin crew!

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ON THE eve of the four-day strike by British Airways cabin crew, which begins today, the company’s Chief Executive Willie Walsh stepped up his...

US-Turkey Fighting Over Northern Syria!

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THE Syrian government has condemned the invasion of northern Syria by Turkish ground forces, cynically called ‘Operation Olive Branch’, an invasion that was preceded...

Trade unions must bring down crisis-ridden Tories, break with the EU and bring in...

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THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...

Jail those responsible for Grenfell Tower inferno! Join the million march to kick the...

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SEVENTY six people are still unaccounted for after the Grenfell Tower inferno, police confirmed yesterday and also that criminal proceedings have begun to investigate...

Reject the SNP attempt to split the working class! Forward to Socialist United States...

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THE LEADER of the Scottish Nationalist Party, Nicola Sturgeon, dropped a bombshell yesterday with her announcement that she intends to push through a vote...

The TUC supports the UK and US war plan for the Ukraine, and demands...

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THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor...

Free The Prisoners Says Hamas And Stop Zionist Gaza Aggression!

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‘LET Christmas celebrations be a global occasion to intensify all forms of global solidarity, to stop the Zionist aggression on Gaza,’ the Hamas Movement...

Judiciary Now Leading The Charge Against 2016 Referendum!

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WE ARE now reaching the moment of truth in the struggle to carry out the result of the 2016 referendum which instructed Parliament that...

Syrian Army Has Pro-US ‘Rebels’ On The Run

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THE SYRIAN army is now having great successes against the pro-US and Islamic forces that have been seeking to destroy Syria and divide it...

Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe

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THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...

The first step towards a government of generals

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GENERAL Sir Richard Dannatt is to become Defence Minister if there is another Tory government. He will do so, not by becoming a Tory MP...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza – forward to the Palestinian state with Jerusalem...

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A UNITED NATIONS inquiry has found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza through a ‘systematic campaign to destroy Palestinian life’, including attacks on...

Labour leader Starmer supports the monarchy, opposes strikes and pickets, and writes for...

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WORKERS WILL be astonished to learn that Labour leader Keir Starmer, on Saturday, just after the council elections wrote a commentary for the Daily...

Victory to the Palestinian people – British trade unions must strike to stop Israel’s...

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NEWS LINE salutes the heroic determination of the Palestinian people in their struggle against the illegal and brutal Israeli occupation of their land. Yesterday, hundreds...

Notre-Dame Cathedral burnt out as Macron concentrates spending on civil war riot police and...

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron was forced to cancel his important address to the French nation on Monday night, after a massive fire erupted at...

Brown prepared to impose ‘unpopular measures’

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PRIME MINISTER Brown said yesterday that he will not be diverted from taking ‘unpopular’ decisions to ensure Britain gets through the global credit crunch....

The lesson from the tower block fire disaster is stop the fire service cuts!

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SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after...

Labour told British capitalism needs its own ‘Elon Musk’ to avoid disaster

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Last week, The Daily Telegraph newspaper published an article that clearly set out the dangers of a revolutionary upsurge by workers and youth resulting...

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...

Defend North Korea Against Imperialist Attack!

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THE US and its South Korean puppets are set to begin their largest ever joint military exercises amid the high tensions that they have...

Brown’s Britain = super-exploitation and death for workers

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GORDON Brown is now infamous as the friend of the equity capitalists who, thanks to him, pay no taxes, while he insists that the...

Netanyahu bans Al Jazeera operations in Israel and the occupied territories on the eve...

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THE Netanyahu government has decided to close Al Jazeera’s channel in Israel and to ban it from the occupied Palestinian territories. The Cabinet vote yesterday...

Barclays Vice Chair On NHS Commissioning Board

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YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Health told the House of Commons that the government will be taking a step back from the...

Giant investment companies dump shares as world banking crash looms

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Testifying to MPs at the Treasury Committee yesterday, Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, issued a sharp rebuke to Labour chancellor Rachel...

The madness of NHS and Fire Service privatisation!

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STEWART Jackson MP, a senior Member of the Committee of Public Accounts and the Tory MP for Peterborough, yesterday indicted his own government stating:...

Miners charged with murder – ANC stands with the bosses!

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANC government and its state apparatus have taken a very clear class stand, alongside international capital, with their decision to charge...

The judiciary seeks to bar the way! Open it up with a socialist revolution!

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YESTERDAY’S ruling by three High Court judges that the Tory government does not have the right to trigger Article 50 is the latest and...

There was no fire safety report before refurbishing Grenfell – Build Council of Action...

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GRENFELL Tower was safe until the refurbishment took place, when it was wrapped in highly flammable insulation and cladding, described by fire safety experts...

Blair stays at number 10 to try help Israel out of the Lebanese mire

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PRIME minister Blair, at the last minute, postponed his holiday to try to assist the UN Security Council efforts, headed by France, to fashion...

Build The Wrp And The Ys – Forward To The British Socialist Revolution

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NOW is the time to build the WRP and the Young Socialists into the leadership of the working class and the student youth...

Imperialism threatens Iran but is fearful of the working class at home!

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Donald Trump’s belligerent ‘last-chance’ threat to Iran to resume diplomatic talks about abandoning its nuclear programme or face US military attacks in two weeks,...

Social Revolution Is The Issue Not Terrorism!

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THE Continuity IRA and the Real IRA have opened fire and killed and wounded soldiers and policemen in the north of Ireland, breaking open...

Forward with the European socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...
Members of the CGT, France’s largest trade union federation, arrive at Place d’Italie at the end of Tuesday’s demonstration

Blair threatens to ‘close the book’ on the north

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THE British and Irish premiers yesterday outlined their plan to restore direct rule from Westminster, via Dublin, if the Paisleyite DUP does not agree...

Reject postal sell-out deal!

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THE reply of the leaders of the CWU postal workers union, Billy Hayes and Dave Ward, to the injunction obtained by the ruthless Royal...

Political crisis in Europe

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The political crisis for the European bourgeoisie deepened yesterday following the results of exit polls at the end of the first round of voting...

Israeli genocide exposed at International Court of Justice!

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YESTERDAY, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) met to consider the lawsuit filed by South Africa condemning Israel for the crime of committing genocide...

Palestinian leadership says peace talks will fail!

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THE Palestinian leadership in Ramallah is working on the basis that the peace talks with Israel will fail and that both sides know...

HSBC a repeat offender that will never change

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IN September 2014 HSBC settled claims that it made false representations in selling mortgage bonds to the giant US mortgage companies Fannie Mae and...

After Brexit, Forward To The European Socialist Revolution!

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PRIME Minister May in her letter to EU President Tusk has described the invoking of Article 50 to begin the UK’s withdrawal from the...

Trades unions must take action to end NHS privatisation

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‘END this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare in England.’ This was the call from Dr Hamish Meldrum, the Chairman of...

UK CPI rate increase only the start of inflation spiral

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that the UK inflation rate had more than doubled in April this year as energy costs...

Forced Labour schemes in crisis – bring down the coalition

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A concerted public relations exercise has been launched to vilify the unemployed and attack critics of its flagship policy of forcing those on Jobseekers...