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Victory To Hamas As Lieberman Quits!

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THE United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met behind closed doors over the situation in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, but failed to reach an...

Eu To Throw Irish Workers To The Wolves

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PRESSURE is being piled onto the Irish government to accept a further EU bail-out of between 60bn to 80bn euros, which will mean handing...

Saudi Leader Bin Salman Urges Talks Between The US And Iran!

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THE SAUDI Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose oilfields were hit recently by a devastating drone and cruise missile attack which he blamed on...

Get Ready For War says NATO, as capitalist crisis reaches its explosion point!

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‘CIVILIANS IN THE WEST must prepare for all-out war with Russia within the next 20 years’, a NATO Admiral, Rob Bauer warned in the...

Prigozhin And Key Wagner Aides Killed In Embraer-135 Private Jet Explosion!

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AN Embraer-135 private jet crashed in the Tver Region north of Moscow on Wednesday. All 10 people on board were killed, according to preliminary...

Welcome All Refugees – Forward To The Socialist United States Of Europe!

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THE European Union was yesterday reeling, split and divided over the issue of taking quotas of refugees from the masses flooding into Europe. These masses...

Putin’s Recognition Of The Republics Of Donetsk And Lugansk Shocks US & UK Imperialism!

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THE DECISION of Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise the Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, and to order Russian troops to intervene to prevent...

Cameron and NATO mobilise to send refugees back!

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BRITAIN is sending ‘vital military assets’ (in Cameron’s words) to be part of the NATO force that will be intercepting refugee boats seeking to...

Hold Criminal Governments To Account, Says Cameron

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UK Prime Minister David Cameron called for the ‘criminal’ Syrian government to be held to account, and threatened Syria’s people that there would be...

Labour Nec Gives In To Tory-Zionist Witch-Hunt!

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THE Labour Party’s NEC on Tuesday gave way to the Tory-Zionist witch-hunt and agreed to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of...

Labour To Slash The Benefits Of The Sick And The ‘Suspect’

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The Labour government is absolutely determined to impress its big business backers and show them that it is ready to take action against ‘slackers’...

US bombings condemned as a War Crime

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THE medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has rightly denounced the targeted bombing by US planes of its medical centre in the...

Join lobby of TUC to demand it calls strike action to end the Zionist...

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted with fury yesterday following the announcement on Monday that the Labour government was suspending some arms sales to...

Reeves’ pre-budget speech a message that the Labour government is ready to carry out...

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YESTERDAY morning Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves gave an unprecedented pre-budget speech designed, she said, to address ‘speculation’ about what she would be announcing in...

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...

British capitalism hit by unending crisis – put it out of its misery with...

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WITH the petrol stations closing, British capitalism suffered another shock yesterday when it was announced that the UK’s second biggest oil refinery is on...

Defend jobs, wages and rights – bring down Brown government

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PRIME Minister Brown’s alliance with the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party has paid off with the passage by nine votes of his amendment to the...

Warning – Police Are Armed And Dangerous!

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THAT the times are really changing was rammed home once again yesterday. People are angrily reacting to the news that 4,000 highly trained police officers...

Forward to the victory of Syria – no deal with Kerry and Obama

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US SECRETARY of State John Kerry arrived in Moscow yesterday to see Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov and also President Putin. His mission, during which he...

Visteon Workers Show The Way – Occupy To Defend Jobs!

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THE Visteon plants in Belfast, Enfield, and Basildon, formerly owned by the Ford Motor Company, but now supplying parts to the motor car industry,...

Tories target workers, disabled and children to pay the bankers’ debts!

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OSBORNE said of his emergency Budget yesterday; ‘Yes it is tough; but it is also fair.’ Further on in his speech he allowed just...

Councils to be given more police state powers!

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HOME SECRETARY Alan Johnson is introducing new police state powers for councils next week. These will not be discussed in the House of Commons...

Israel invades Rafah and blocks all aid to Gaza – working class must call...

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ON MONDAY evening, the political bureau of Hamas announced that it had approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. This surprise move prompted the BBC’s International...

News Line Editorial Board New Year Statement

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary New Year greetings for 2026 to the Palestinian people whose intransigence and resistance against Zionism...

Time for regime change in Labour Party – kick out Starmer!

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Up to Wednesday, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer was in a state of complete denial about the depth of the rebellion amongst his own...

TUC Leaders Waste Time Writing To Truss For ‘A Cast-Iron Assurance’!

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YESTERDAY’S capitalist press was full of dire warnings of the massive increases in taxation that the Truss government is planning, and with it the...

Lobby the trade union leaders to insist TUC calls a general strike to stop...

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ANY Israeli attempt to displace Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to Jordan will be considered a ‘declaration of war’, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman...

The US is being humiliated in Iraq – not Saddam

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IT IS the United States of America that is being humiliated in Iraq and not Saddam Hussein. The idea that putting pictures – provided by...

Trump Backs Counter-Revolution Against Chinese Workers – Time To Complete The World Socialist Revolution!

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US president Donald Trump yesterday seized the opportunity for US imperialism to make a provocative intervention in the internal affairs of China by backing...

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...

May defends capitalism, Corbyn wants it ‘restructured’. It must be overthrown through the socialist...

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‘THE FREE market economy,’ in other words capitalism, ‘is unquestionably the best, and indeed the only sustainable, means of increasing the living standards of...

National action to defend JDE workers – force TUC to call a ...

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LAST Wednesday the international coffee giant JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) issued dismissal notices to nearly 300 of its workers at the Banbury plant who...

Abbas Ready For Talks And A Deal With Netanyahu!

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PALESTINIAN Authority President, Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared his willingness to work with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, adding that he hoped to get...

Murdoch Empire Still Remains To Be Broken

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PRIME Minister Cameron used his usual tactic at prime minister’s questions yesterday, when asked why he brought a criminal into 10 Downing Street...

Anarchists Being Used To Increase Police-State Powers

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LAST Saturday’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against the coalitions cuts policy has shaken the coalition, and given the capitalist state a lot to think about. Such...

Blair looks to the ‘Axis of Evil’ for rescue

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THE killing of four British soldiers in Basra on Sunday with at least three seriously injured, and the killing of six US soldiers in...

The Enemy Is At Home! No British Tanks For The Ukraine – Bring Down...

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THE RUSSIAN armed forces will destroy US-made M1 Abrams tanks and other NATO military equipment if they are supplied to Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to...

Inflation Now Out Of Control!

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ACCORDING to the latest figures, factory input inflation – that is the increase in raw materials paid for by manufacturers – rose by a...

Netanyahu under siege as he imposes sanctions on Palestine!

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THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...

Labour’s crisis deepens the more it embraces Tory austerity!

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THE bourgeois press is awash with the news that Labour leader, Ed Miliband, is facing calls from within his own shadow cabinet for him...

Time To Put Demoralised Capitalism Out Of Its Misery With A Socialist Revolution!

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‘THOSE of us in the economic realm must navigate blindly through the fog. We face a plausible spectrum ranging from V-shaped relief to L-shaped...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TGWU executive committee on Tuesday morning demanding the ‘Compromise Agreement’ with the company be scrapped

Brown wants to form a Blairite government

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has confirmed to the BBC that he will run a Blairite administration if he becomes prime minister. He said that...

Pakistan’s creeping coup being organised by the US

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A FEW weeks ago President Obama announced 30,000 extra US troops for Afghanistan. Now the US has given its full support to President Karzai of...

Tories to wield privatisation axe!

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AFTER years of promising that the NHS is ‘safe in our hands’ accompanied by pledges that budgets would be protected with a ring fence...

Call a General Strike!

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THE Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have submitted a motion to next week’s TUC congress calling for the TUC to organise a co-ordinated...