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Tory Party trying to blame China to cover up their own culpability in the...

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THE TORY Party has launched a massive campaign to blame China to cover up their own culpability in the rapid spread of the coronavirus,...

Australian workers defeat Abbott government over GP tax

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AUSTRALIA’S biggest health union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), is celebrating the defeat of the Tory Abbott government, which has had...

Blair’s ‘summary power’ for war on the working class

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched the Labour government’s new ‘Respect Action Plan’ yesterday, declaring that he was setting out to overthrow basic democratic rights...

Mandelson is sacked! NOW Forward to a Workers Government that will nationalise...

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EARLY yesterday morning, Labour’s Foreign Office released a statement that announced the sacking of Peter Mandelson as the UK ambassador to the United States...

Forward With The Zimbabwean Socialist Revolution!

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THE PRESIDENT of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was forced to abandon his planned visit to the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos this week and...

Obama allies with Clinton and McCain, and ignores the unions

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US WORKERS will be asking themselves what the recent presidential election campaign was all about when Obama was fighting for change and saying that...

Capitalism is facing its biggest ever collapse – time to replace it with the...

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THE working class is now facing the fastest and biggest rise in the cost of living for four decades. At the same time, many...

Labour Defence Secretary sends a message to Moscow

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THE defence review will send a ‘message to Moscow’ about Britain’s ‘readiness to fight if required’, Defence Secretary John Healey has told the BBC. Ripping...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers PARMJIT BAINS (right) and PARMJEET SIDHU with Hounslow UNISON member MARIE ROWLANDS

Restore the NHS! Bring down Blair

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair made clear yesterday that the government is determined to force through the cuts and closures, privatisation and destruction of...

Opus Dei Speaks Out From The Cabinet

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ONE of Opus Dei’s members in the Labour Cabinet, Ruth Kelly, yesterday made a call to close down Muslim schools that promote ‘isolationism’. Opus Dei...

General Strike to defend the NHS!

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On the eve of its annual conference the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has produced damning evidence that explodes the lies that the savage...

Break with the EU NOW! Forward to a socialist UK!

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FOLLOWING the intervention of ex-PM Tony Blair to demand that the UK remains in the EU, all the counter-revolutionary, anti-working class forces have begun...

Sunak pledges limitless billions of pounds to prolong war on Russia – nothing for...

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major policy speech last night, pledged to maintain and even increase military aid to Ukraine to...

Students Under Attack–Restore Free State Education!

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THE NUS has just published its Poverty Commission Report which shows how education costs are rising, condemning students to live in poverty and blighting...

Bank of England warns global financial crash is coming!

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Last week, the Bank of England issued another of its increasingly strident warnings that a ‘sudden correction’ in the value of major technological companies...

Ex-head of Fed warns ‘US capitalism under threat’

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SPEAKING at the Policy Exchange in London this week Alan Greenspan, former head of the US Federal Reserve Bank, issued his direst warning about...

The Unity Of The Working Class With The Oppressed Nations Is The Way To...

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IRAN launched a multiple missile attack against two bases in Iraq that contain US troops and other coalition forces on Wednesday night in retaliation...

World Crisis Driving Capitalism Into Wars And Revolutions – Time To Carry Out The...

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WITH the US, EU and the UK capitalist economies and regimes in a growing and desperate economic and political crisis, the imperialist powers are...

Defend the NHS – Kick the Tories Out!

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BARTS Health NHS Trust, the biggest hospital trust in the country, will go £134.9 million in the red by the end of March according...

Defend the Tamil people! Unite the Sri Lankan workers! Bring down the Rajipakse...

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THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...

Trade union leaders must be forced to act in support of Palestine and for...

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YESTERDAY, US president Donald Trump kept the world waiting for him while he made up his mind about intervening on the side of Israel...

Working Class Is On The March – It Is Refusing To Pay The Bill...

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THE UK working class is on the march, spurred forward by the worldwide crisis of the capitalist system, with Britain very much the weakest...

Eu Meltdown

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CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...

New Leadership Needed In Cwu

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YESTERDAY the number two CWU leader Dave Ward was boasting that the super-flexibility deal that the leadership put to the membership and which over...

Corbyn calls for a National Government – Workers must demand a socialist government

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday wrote a letter to leaders of the LibDems, the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party along with selected...

Miliband pledges to save bankrupt capitalism, the issue is to overthow it

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TUESDAY'S speech to the Labour Party conference has been greeted with an outpouring of joy from the leadership of the trade unions and the...

THE BANK looks to inflation to pauperise the workers and Middle Class

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THE pound fell sharply on Wednesday against both the dollar and the euro as the money markets were shaken to the core by the...

Brown pleads in Jeddah for more oil and £100bn of investment in UK

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FÎRST of all we saw the Bush-Blair attack on Iraq, whose strategic purpose was to expropriate Iraq’s oil in order to lower the world...

Gm-Fiat Shock For World’s Motor Workers

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GENERAL Motors is about to end its ‘honeymoon’ relations with the US motor workers’ trade union, the UAW. Up till now the UAW leaders have...

Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any attack on the country

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THE commander of Iran’s armed forces Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard said on Tuesday that Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any...

GPs denounce Tory plans to roll out vaccine for putting patient lives at risk

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VER 1,000 GPs have written to Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock demanding that the government produces a ‘full plan’ for the roll out of...

Tuc Congress Leaders Refuse To Fight!

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ON Sunday at the TUC Congress delegates voted unanimously to defend the right to strike, with GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny declaring: ‘If the...

Defend state university education against the coalition barbarians!

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LORD Browne’s review of university funding is to recommend a threefold increase in tuition fees. Lord Browne (former head of BP) is proposing to raise...

Biden insists on Israel’s right to commit genocide in Gaza while Tories insist arrest...

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US president Joe Biden has defended American imperialism’s Israeli ally and denounced the decision of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, to...

Capitalism on the brink of destroying humanity – World Socialist Revolution is the only...

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CAPITALISM has dived into the abyss of a world crisis that threatens not simply trade wars but world wars on a scale never seen...

TUC must call a general strike in support of the RMT and to bring...

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch joined the picket line at London’s Euston Station yesterday morning after pay talks with the Tories collapsed on Monday. Earlier,...

Private equity group to ‘cut and slash’ Chrysler

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DAIMLERCHRYSLER is selling a 80.1 per cent share in its crisis-hit American Chrysler division to the private equity group Cerberus for $7.4bn. President George...

Welcome all Refugees! Bankrupt EU spreads racist poison!

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THE Danish parliament has just voted to rob asylum seekers of their valuables – so that they pay for their upkeep. This policy immediately brings...

Capitalism’s crisis– Socialist revolution, the only solution!

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THE OFFICIAL annual rate of inflation leapt in February, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Figures published yesterday showed that the Consumer Prices...

From Thatcher to Blair and Cameron – a common determination to smash the Welfare...

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THE just-released Thatcher papers confirm that the Tory leader had a very real hatred of the NHS and the Welfare State and, along with...

Netanyahu’s coalition rips away façade of Israeli ‘democracy’ – trade unions must boycott Israel

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OVER 10,000 people took to the streets of the main Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday in protest against the policies unveiled last...

End all complicity with Zionist genocide – demand TUC call a general strike to...

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ON THURSDAY, Palestinians commemorated the 77th anniversary of Nakba, the Catastrophe, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land by...

UK capitalism crashes under impact of energy crisis – put it out of its...

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TORY ministers were locked in crisis talks with energy suppliers yesterday as the threat of gas shortages in Britain are so huge that they...

Over A Million Pensioners Are Now Working

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THE petty 5,000 fall in the number of the unemployed (that is the number of workless who are calculated to be looking for...

Capitalism living on ‘borrowed time and borrowed money’ – put an end to it...

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OFFICIAL figures released today by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show what every working person in the country knows, that prices in all...