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Satellite to celebrate 30th anniversary of Iranian Revolution

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IRAN launched its first satellite into space powered by its own rocket system, Safir-2, on Monday night. The research and telecommunication satellite was put...

Troika poised to show Greece the door

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GREEK PM Antonis Samaras is meeting the organisation of Greece’s international creditors, the Troika (IMF, EU, ECB), to try to persuade it to give...

Soros financing Pro-EU campaign in UK – Workers must demand that the UK quits...

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US-HUNGARIAN billionaire George Soros has denounced Brexit as an ‘immensely damaging process’ for both the United Kingdom and the European Union, and has arrived...

Even Tory press admit British capitalism facing ruin – socialist revolution only answer for...

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IF TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak harboured any hope that Wednesday’s spending review would reassure anyone that British capitalism could be rescued from complete ruin...

Capitalist state steps back from the brink!

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BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...

Barber’s secret meetings with Tories

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BRENDAN BARBER, general secretary of the TUC, who doubles as a director of the Bank of England, has been at it once again, doing...

Bank of England demands wage cuts to keep businesses and the government from going...

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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released figures yesterday on the average pay across the UK, which they claimed saw an increase of 6.2%...

Unions Must Fight Savage Bbc Job Cuts

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THE BBC backed up by the Brown government is set to ride roughshod over its workforce pushing through 2,700 job cuts, with up...

US heading for revolution!

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THE US coronavirus epidemic surpassed two million infections on Wednesday while health officials said that many new infections are likely as a result of...

Dempsey’s Five Deadly Options

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THE US chief of staff, General Dempsey, has written an Open Letter to the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, Carl Levin, about the...
The locked-out Gate Gourmet workers fighting for their reinstatement will continue their daily demonstrations on the grass bank

Stop The Airports, Call Out The Tgwu And The Tuc!

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It has just been confirmed what we already knew – that the Gate Gourmet bosses, in a well planned action, provoked a walk-out by...

Labour And Trade Union Leaders Move To The Right!

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THE Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Liam Byrne, yesterday joined hands with Cameron and Osborne with his declaration in the Guardian newspaper that Beveridge,...

Blair is speeding up the privatisation drive

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ON all fronts the Blair government is speeding up its privatisation offensive, so that his governments can leave as their legacy for big...

Carney warning over banks ‘too big to fail’

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UK economic output rose by 0.8% between July and September, official GDP figures show. The data adds to a 0.7% GDP rise in the...

Spanish youth shake Zapatero government

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The Spanish municipal and regional elections that were held on Sunday took place under unprecedented conditions as thousands of youth and workers defied the...

US assembling coalition to launch war on Iran! Workers of UK & US must...

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IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned that ‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ He was responding to threats from US...

South African workers must bring down the ANC and take the power!

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SOUTH Africa has erupted with the announcement yesterday that the ANC government plans to deploy 25,000 troops after days of violent uprising by workers...

US debt deal increases economic crisis and puts the US on the road to...

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THE National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare says the following about Obama’s debt deal that savages the poor and leaves the rich...

Trade union inquiry needed into London transport disaster

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YESTERDAY’S tube and bus disaster in London, with 33 dead and hundreds injured, has already been claimed as a terrorist attack, despite the fact...

British capitalism, backward, parasitic, and ripe for revolution

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A REPORT by business research firm Datamonitor says that people in the UK are borrowing on average almost twice that of citizens in other...

Hurrah! The brave Syrian people are taking back Aleppo and defeating imperialist powers!

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REJOICE, rejoice at the great victories that the brave Syrian people are having in their struggle to prevent the Western imperialist powers and their...

Britannia sinking beneath the waves of the capitalist crisis!

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THE bourgeois media is currently working overtime publicising the ‘bad news’ about the British capitalist economy. Everybody now knows that youth unemployment (the 16-24 age...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers were confident of victory yesterday

US Puppets Can’t Agree On Iraq Constitution!

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IRAQ’S puppet leaders are unable to agree on a constitution for the country despite all of the urgings from the US Secretary of Defence,...

Scotland Yard refuses to back down as the capitalist state gives up on bourgeois...

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TORY leadership rivals Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have found themselves leading the condemnation of Scotland Yard after a senior officer threatened to prosecute...

Starmer cuddles up to the Financial Times as he gets ready to stab the...

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WORLD capitalism and in particular British capitalism is in its greatest crisis ever with sections of the Tory party compeletely demoralised by the ‘Oceans...

‘Those who support Israeli aggression are partners in their crimes’ – Iranian Foreign Ministry

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Iranian armed forces have launched the tenth phase of Operation True Promise III by firing a barrage of missiles and drones toward the occupied...

Hamas urges workers of the world to take action and salutes the growing mass...

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IN A statement issued on Friday to mark International Jerusalem Day, Hamas declared that the occasion arrives this year as the Palestinian people steadfastly...

USA tells Sunak that the UK must increase its military spending as NATO gets...

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THE UK has just been given its marching orders by the USA that it must boost the size of its armed forces in response...

RCN to ballot for strike action

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THE announcement that the ruling body of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will meet on Friday to decide on balloting their members on...

Super-rich elite is thumbing its nose at super-exploited workers and commuters!

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RESEARCH into FTSE 100 chief executives’ pay packages and the just-published findings have confirmed to angry workers that they have been taken for a...

Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions

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A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...

Tory policies to defund and privatise the NHS responsible for Shrewsbury maternity disaster!

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THE INDEPENDENT Ockenden inquiry into maternity provisions at the Shrewsbury NHS Trust has revealed a horrific catalogue of failures contributing to the deaths of...

Tories mired in scandal over Cameron and Greensill as financial collapse the ‘canary in...

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THE MOST recent development in the collapse of Greensill Capital has been the revelations of all the lobbying for government bail-outs by ex-Tory prime...

French workers confront Macron’s Thatcherite assault

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TRAIN drivers and other workers at the French state railway SNFC began three months of rolling stoppages on Monday evening, as trade unions push...

Ukrainian Opposition Only Interested In Regime Change

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THE offer of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to ‘opposition leaders’ to take the premiership and other key positions in his elected government has...

Labour plans war to privatise Royal Mail

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THE Brown government is organising a £3bn sell-off of up to one third of the Royal Mail, a privatisation that will cost up to...

Gold Shooting Upwards As The Dollar Plunges!

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THE price of gold hit a record of 1,111.20 dollars an ounce in trading in London on Monday, as the dollar weakened after a...

One day FBU strikes must pave the way for a general strike!

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LAST Friday the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced that it would kick off its defence of jobs and conditions with two days of strike...

Spectre of Revolution hangs over World Economic Forum

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The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held at Davos in Switzerland, started this week with the spectre of the world socialist revolution...

Tories Challenge The Unions With Plan To Impose Low Pay

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UNIONS have reacted angrily to plans to scrap national pay rates for public sector workers. Chancellor George Osborne is expected to say civil...

EU implementing its regime-change plan for Greece!

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GREECE’S Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras offered new concessions to the country’s creditors in a letter that was received by them last Tuesday. In the...

Socialist revolution only solution to capitalist crisis

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer returned from holiday at the weekend to announce his new ‘robust’ plan to freeze the cap on electricity and gas...

Frost Quits Cabinet As Tory Party Crisis Deepens And Police Clash With Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Lockdown...

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LORD FROST has delivered a heavy blow at the John- son government with his resignation letter of last Saturday. He wrote: ‘You know my concerns...

Imperialists step up war preparations against Iran

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A report from the director of US national intelligence, James Clapper, issued last Tuesday signalled that imperialism’s war preparations against Iran have reached the...

Cameron lays out mass privatisation programme

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IN A speech yesterday, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, promised to privatise every public service in the country, to ‘open up’ public services...