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Teachers marching in Athens last month

Irish Trade Unions Put The Tuc To Shame

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LAST Friday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a 100,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin, with demonstrations in many other Irish cities and...

Put an end to bankrupt capitalism! Forward to the victory of the world socialist...

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THE CRISIS of capitalism is now acute. It has reached the point of explosion, with its very life blood – gas and electricity now...

Britain Leading The Way To Slump Says The Imf

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LAST October the IMF predicted world output would increase by 2.2 per cent in 2009. Yesterday it changed its tune saying that world output...

EU leaders installing a Greek puppet government

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A SUMMIT of all European Union members planned yesterday was cancelled to allow the Eurozone Finance Ministers to resume their talks held to ...

Requiem For The British Economy !

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GORDON Brown, the man who sold off a good portion of the British gold reserves for a relative pittance, and boasted that he had...

No Future In Slump-Hit Austerity-Blighted Eu!

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UK MANUFACTURING output in October fell at its fastest rate since June, just-released official figures show. Output fell by 1.3%, the Office for National Statistics...

Europe on strike from France, to Greece, from Germany to the UK – forward...

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THE strike wave is spreading throughout Europe! In France workers are making it crystal clear that they will never allow the increases in the retirement...

Eurasian Economic Union, and the China-Russia gas plan, a double blow against imperialism!

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RUSSIA, Belarus and Kazakhstan have just signed the historic Eurasian Economic Union. It comes into effect in January 2015, and will get rid of...

Cameron washes his hands of steel industry – steelworkers must occupy and organise...

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CAMERON yesterday gave the ‘V’ sign to the appeals by the Unite and TUC leadership that there must be a temporary nationalisation of Tata...

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...

Bankers’ forecasts wrong again! New banking crash will ignite revolution!

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THE BANK of England has admitted what it calls a ‘Michael Fish’ moment over its failure to predict the 2007-8 banking crash and its...

Russia’s response to the EU’s Georgia threats

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THE Russian government said yesterday there had been a ‘responsible’ outcome to Monday’s European Union summit called to discuss the recent fighting between Russia...

Trump escalates his war against Iran and the workers of the world!

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IN what amounts to a declaration of war between US imperialism and Iran, US president Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that a massive US...

Brown Trying To Buy Time For Capitalism

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LAST week a Tory MP had to apologise to the House of Commons because he had said that the government should ‘let the recession...

Workers Must Defend The Palestinian People By Bringing Down The US And UK Governments!

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THE head of the politburo of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has issued a stern warning against any Israeli military operation on the southern...

FBU must fight against a Police Commissioner controlled ‘Fire Service’

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THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...

Human Rights Watch Denounces Israeli Apartheid Crimes!

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AN international leading human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Israeli authorities in a 213-page report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed:...

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...

Disband the police and go forward to a Workers State and Socialism!

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TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced another government ‘initiative’ this week, this time ordering the police to ‘crackdown on crime’. The very idea that the...

Oust Sunak and bring back the call-up says the Tory Telegraph beating the...

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THE TORY Daily Telegraph yesterday sounded the alarm bells, in the face of the ever deepening crisis of British capitalism. It was a double-barrelled message,...

Teachers must not fight alone – TUC must call a general strike

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The annual conferences of the two largest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, meeting at the weekend heard that the unions and the...

Hunt blames the working class for capitalist crisis as Tories prepare a class war...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been in Washington this week attending the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, the main economic...

Forest Gate report justifies police-state tactics

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THE official Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) published its report yesterday into complaints against the Metropolitan Police over its huge police raid in Forest...

Defend All A&E’s – Stop The NHS Cuts And Closures!

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THE message from Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England about the NHS crisis, is ‘what crisis?’ There are just too many...

UK must follow Ireland’s lead and organise general strike action in support of Palestine!

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RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, announced on Thursday that Ireland will not take part in next year’s Eurovision song contest if Israel is a contestant,...

Obama’s Second Coming – Full Of Empty Words

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OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...

Labour Sets Out To Transform Capitalism!

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SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell made it perfectly clear at Labour’s Conference on the Economy that the Labour Party was now for ‘transforming capitalism’, and...

Money No Object For Privatising Schools

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A REPORT published yesterday by the public spending watchdog the National Audit Office reveals the massive amount of money the Tory-led coalition is prepared...

Blair’s Iraq adventure bites the dust

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday had a meeting with the long standing CIA agent and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, who is now posing as the...

Palestinian Presidency Condemns The Killing Of Six Palestinians By The Zionist Occupiers!

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THE Palestinian presidency has expressed its strong condemnation and rejection of the crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces in Jenin camp yesterday evening,...

Expropriate The Venture Capitalists

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WE are living in the period of the death agony of the capitalist system. It is only natural then, that out of the shadows should...

Simpson Aims To Prop Up The Brown Government

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AT a time when the working class is starting to roar like a lion and demand and vote by over 90 per cent majorities...

Jobs And War Crisis Piles Up For Obama

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YESTERDAY afternoon Barack Obama was in discussion with his economic advisers and with his allies as the crisis of US imperialism intensified on the...

Workers of the world unite to fight for the victory of Palestine!

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ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’, heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza,...

US raids Libyan stooges!

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THE Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, put into power by a murderous NATO campaign that culminated in the murder of Colonel Gadaffi, has called...

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...

‘A DIFFICULT TIME AHEAD’ WARNS B of E CHIEF, KING

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CPI inflation is expected to hit 5% later this year due to higher energy and other utility bills that will continue rising by up...

Gmb Cuts Cash To Labour While Unite To Discuss A Boycott

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THE GMB Central Executive Council (CEC) has voted to reduce its current levels of affiliation to the Labour Party from 420,000 to 50,000 from...

Blair To Get The Four O’Clock Knock

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THE arrest and questioning of Lord Levy, the man who got millions in donations for Labour’s election campaigns, and the fact that...

Inflation up as Blair-Brown move to cut wages!

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INFLATION in the UK is accelerating out of control. According to the latest Labour government figures which grossly underestimate the process the Consumer...

Recall the TUC Congress now to sack the TUC leaders for their refusal to...

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LAST month, the TUC unanimously passed an emergency motion headed: ‘Stop the escalation of war in the Middle East’ and committed the TUC ‘to...

Tories declare class war to the finish – time for trade unions to organise...

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ON THE EVE of the unprecedented strike by nurses and ambulance workers, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak said that he will not ‘back down’...

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...

Speak English Or Else – Minister Tells The Poor!

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UNEMPLOYED people who cannot speak English will have to show they are learning the language or lose benefits, the government has announced. This is...

Hunt trying to assassinate the NHS!

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JEREMY HUNT, who did a stint as a very pro-Murdoch Culture Secretary, was reshuffled out of that job and became Health Secretary as a...