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Obama seeks wider support for central Asian war

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PRESIDENT Obama has shaken his supporters with his admission that the war in Afghanistan is not being won, and that he is willing to...

Lobby the TUC Congress on September 9th – demand it calls a...

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THE mass of the UK workers support the heroic national liberation struggle of the Palestinian people for their state of Palestine, and the enormous...

French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda

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IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...

The Treasury and the Banks are in a panic over the Metro crash!

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UK Treasury officials are locked in talks with the Bank of England after Metro Bank’s shares plunged by more than 31%. The bank is now...

Turkey Invades Northern Iraq

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THOUSANDS of Turkish soldiers, backing a number of tank led armoured columns, crossed into northern Iraq on Thursday evening, after a massive artillery bombardment...

Banks teeter on edge of collapse – Official

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THE European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of its latest stress tests carried out on 123 European banks on Sunday, results which showed...

Bank of England to unleash hyperinflation in a desperate attempt to save capitalism

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REPORTS emerged over the weekend that the Bank of England is on the verge of announcing another massive round of money printing to pay...

Hamas urges workers of the world to march on the first anniversary of the...

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THE Hamas revolutionary leadership yesterday called for organising mass marches and broad solidarity events in all cities and capitals of the world on the...

Tories Splitting Over Eu Crisis!

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WHETHER British capitalism should remain within the crisis-ridden, sinking ship of the EU, or strike out on its own has immediately split the Tory...

No Increase In Military Spending – The Enemy Is At Home!

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AFTER over a decade of savage austerity measures, during which wages have been driven down and millions made dependent on food banks, the House...

Wal-Mart Asda Blinks First To Avoid Costly Five Day Strike Action

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‘GMB members win the right to collective bargaining in the UK, Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots’, is what the GMB trade union optimistically labelled the...

Biden contemplates unilateral action against the US debt mountain and organising military action against...

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PRESIDENT Biden on Sunday, speaking in Hiroshima, the scene of a US-UK atom bombing, was forced to address the US banking crisis and whether...

Brexit Is Blowing Up The Two-Party System Of Rule – The Working Class Must...

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PM MAY yesterday made an appeal for MPs to ‘stand together as democrats and patriots’, to support her withdrawal deal. This is after her resolution...

Kick May And The Tories Out Now With A General Strike! Forward To...

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PM MAY yesterday morning announced she was resigning as Tory leader and Prime Minister in two weeks on June 7. May said that the...

The crisis is leaving the working class no alternative to revolution

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A FURTHER nail was driven into the coffin of British capitalism this week with the release of figures showing that the income from overseas...

UK Must Stop Arming Saudi Arabia And Must Rush Food Aid To The Yemen

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THE TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that all those behind the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi should be brought to justice,...

After the BA battle ‘pirate Walsh’ seeks to shut down Iberia, sacking 3,800!

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IAG chairman Walsh plans to axe 3,800 jobs – a fifth of the Spanish Iberia airline’s workforce – in a country where unemployment is...

Fake war on Crony Capitalism

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On Monday the LibDem leader, Nick Clegg, added his views to the emerging consensus between Labour and the Tories that the problem with British...

US Begins Serious Peace Talks With Taliban – It Now Knows It Cannot Win...

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THE 2001 SEPTEMBER 11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York was seized on by President Bush as the green light for...

Sunak promises bankers unlimited profits while Haldane warns of economic collapse!

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ON WEDNESDAY Andy Haldane, outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England (BoE), delivered a message of doom for the British economy in a...

US workers mobilise in fight for trade unions and unionisation!

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STARBUCKS, the world’s largest coffee chain, has been stunned by an explosion of its workers demanding trade union rights across America. Last year, a group...

Occupy UK Car Plants! Call General Strike To Bring In Workers Government To Nationalise...

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THE UNITE union, representing car workers, said yesterday that its members will fight ‘tooth and nail’ to safeguard Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant, and urged...

Localism Act 2011 Being Used To Build Up An Army Of Homeless People!

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UNDER the Localism Act 2011, councils were granted greater powers to restrict access to social housing. Vulnerable people are now unable to access social...

Worst NHS winter crisis ever! NHS unions must join health strike in the north...

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A&Es axed, children’s hospitals closed, nurses driven out because of overwork and under-pay, junior doctors at the point of exhaustion, GP surgeries shut down,...

Sterling disaster – it crashes against the $ and the €

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BANK of England governor King’s report, on the immediate prospects for British capitalism has produced a run on the pound – so precarious is...

The UK banks were rescued – Now the Tories are throwing the steel industry...

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LABOUR PM Gordon Brown, after the financial collapse in 2008 and with the full support of the Tories, rescued the UK banks from their...

British workers require socialism not circuses!

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FOR the second day running the bourgeois media have been dominated by the Olympic opening extravaganza organised brilliantly by Danny Boyle, who used and...

TUC must call a general strike to free Palestine now!

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OVER a million workers and youth marched in London on Saturday to a rally outside the US Embassy, in a ‘National March for Palestine’...

NHS faces privatisation – kick out the coalition now!

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EVERY week without fail, doctors, medical journals, and health experts produce authoritative studies that ram home the fact that under this Tory-led coalition government...

Another US blow for Pakistan!

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THE US Congress yesterday froze $700 million of aid to its ally Pakistan until it gets assurances that Pakistan will combat the spread of...

Labour pledges limitless billions to arm Ukraine while refusing to support workers’ pay demands

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IN A speech yesterday at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Labour’s shadow defence secretary, John Healey, pledged that any future Labour government would...

Developing Oil Crisis Makes It All The More Vital That The Working Class Takes...

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THE SAUDI REGIME, backed to the hilt by the US and the UK, yesterday admitted that the Houthi movement’s drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s...

Nationalise the Banks!

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As the scandal engulfing the banks accelerates daily, so the attempts by both Labour and coalition party leaders to pretend they can stop future crises...

Corbyn must drive out Labour’s Remain right wing – Time to build the WRP

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WEDNESDAY’S meeting of the Labour Party’s shadow cabinet saw the deep split in the Labour leadership widen into a chasm as former loyal Corbyn...

TUC leaders plead while workers starve

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IN advance of the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announcing to parliament on Wednesday his spending review, which will detail exactly how he intends to...

Starmer plans to use racism to split working class in an attempt to hold...

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THERE has been an outpouring of rage over the speech by Labour prime minister Keir Starmer on Monday unveiling the government’s immigration White Paper...

US and EU backed armed mobs run riot in the Ukraine!

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THE imperialist backed Ukrainian right-wing, including self-declared fascist movements, have brazenly made a call to arms, and to prove the point on Tuesday shot...

US imperialism is planning to split Gaza!

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ON Friday, the Guardian newspaper revealed the latest plan from the US military to entrench the division of Gaza by creating a fortified ‘green...

Chuck out the coalition to deal with growing mass unemployment

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UK unemployment has increased to 2.64m, a rise of 128,000 in the three months to October, the highest level since 1994, with 1,027,000 youth...

TUC must call a general strike at once to defend the Palestinian people from...

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THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said yesterday that the number of Palestinians who have been driven from their...

General strike shakes the Rajapaksa regime! Forward to workers power!

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LAST Thursday, the Sri Lankan capital Colombo was halted as hundreds of thousands of trade unionists and their supporters took to the streets in...

World capitalism is in its death agony – forward with the world socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY’S ‘solution’ to the economic crisis of Cyprus is simply the decision of the EU bankers and the IMF to completely bankrupt the country...

Even the right-wing bourgeois press is being threatened by the state!

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THE furore in the bourgeois press about the lenient treatment handed out to the Tory culture secretary, Maria Miller, who was found guilty of...

World crisis driving forward the European socialist revolution!

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THE BOURGEOIS financial markets opened yesterday to the unprecedented news that Germany has sold 3.9 billion euros of debt at a negative rate of...

News International bought policemen and state officials, and dictated to political parties

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THE Leveson Inquiry has exposed the diseased nature of British capitalism, its ruling class and its state apparatus. The state, during the period of...