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US Gunships Attack Fallujah As Sunni And Shia Unite!

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THE US military has started using attack helicopters as well as jet fighters and bombers in attacks against the cities of Fallujah and...

Build workers militias all over the Ukraine!

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THE illegal Ukrainian regime, that came to power through a US-EU-backed and financed coup, yesterday accused Russia of carrying out an armed invasion of...

Lord Turner gives up on capitalism – forward to the socialist revolution!

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CAPITALISM is not delivering on its promise to raise living standards, Lord Adair Turner, a former head of the business lobby the CBI, has...

UK workers must force the TUC to call a general strike to support Palestine!

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HAMAS leader Yahya Sinwar was murdered on Thursday in Rafah, southern Gaza, by Israeli troops after a tank shelled the building he entered. Seen defiantly...

US Seeking Long-Term Bases In Iraq

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THE United States and its puppet Iraqi government are seeking to renew the UN mandate for Iraq for just one year, meaning that the...

Labour MPs must vote to break from the EU today, and prepare to go...

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ON THURSDAY morning, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and Tory PM Johnson announced a Brexit deal. After three years, the EU...

Laws’ resignation holes the coalition!

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ON Monday May 25th, David Laws, the new Chief Secretary of the Treasury, standing next to his master Chancellor Osborne, announced that the £6.2...

Tory split looms as King warns on new housing disaster

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LORD Howe, who is credited with bringing Thatcher down, now seems to be about to perform the same service for PM David Cameron, with...

Brown planned troops on the streets after Lehman collapse

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IN 2008, the then-Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, actively considered ordering armed troops onto the streets of Britain as his response to the collapse...

IDS’ war to starve and break the poor!

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JUST how ruthlessly Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is conducting the ruling class’ war on the poor can be seen in...

UK trade unions must support the Palestinian people and assist them to establish their...

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PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi told European diplomats on Tuesday that relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to...

A bankers budget from a bankers government

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DESPITE all the government statements against leaking government information before it is to go before the House of Commons, the Treasury was at it...

Macron desperate to reassert French imperial rule in Lebanon

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FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron stepped up his blatant interference in Lebanon on Sunday when he issued Lebanese politicians an ultimatum that they must form...

Shares crashing as oil nears $100 a barrel

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THE US dollar is reeling against the euro. The US sub-mortgage crisis is deepening, with housing starts down by 10 per cent in September, while...

BA, car output and production crashes!

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BRITISH Airways has just announced a loss before tax of £401m for the year to 31 March, a collapse from a profit of £922m...

Arrogant Tories Say It’s Pay Cuts Or The Sack!

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THE allegedly ‘independent’ pay review bodies have recommended a below-inflation 1% pay ‘increase’ for public sector staff, but no increase at all for hundreds...

UK economy is crashing into bankruptcy under the impact of the world capitalist crisis!

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THE TORY Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride has refused to call for the resignation of Labour’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Asked by Camilla Tomney on GB News...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers in high spirits welcomed Father Christmas at their mass picket yesterday

Public sector unions must take strike action over pensions

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THE Fire Brigades Union said yesterday that it will consider industrial action over government plans to ‘reform’ its members’ pensions by dramatically extending the...

98 deaths in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan

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ON the brink of the third anniversary of the Anglo-US invasion of Iraq, the US based Human Rights First organisation has released a report...

Judges Take Just 5 Minutes To Reject Hunt’s Appeal

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THE Court of Appeal’s ruling yesterday that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt did not have legal power to implement cuts at Lewisham Hospital in south-east...

The Workers Of The World do Support Palestine – Now Is The Time...

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TENS of thousands marched through central London on Saturday reiterating their calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, for the UK to stop arming...

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...

Save the NHS by bringing down the Tories and expropriating the bosses and the...

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THE NHS is the greatest of the gains that the working class made in the period immediately after the Second World War. It was brought...

Starmer wants British boots on ground in Ukraine and to force workers to pay...

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IN ADVANCE of yesterday’s panic meeting of EU and UK leaders in Paris, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer announced that he is prepared to...

May Attacks The Pensioners And Pursues Them Into The Grave!

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PM MAY unveiled the Tory election manifesto yesterday in Halifax as she dumped Cameron’s policy towards the elderly and instead gave them a good...

Oecd Calls For A Giant Firewall!

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UK economic growth for the last quarter of 2011 has been revised downwards to a 0.3% contraction, another body blow to those who had...

German economy crashing into recession

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GERMANY, the EU’s biggest economy, is fast heading into recession according to economists who are growing increasingly fearful that inflation fuelled by the EU...

The world’s capitalists quake in their boots as coronavirus shuts down Chinese factories halting...

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‘THE WORKSHOP of the world is closed,’ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote in the Telegraph on Thursday predicting a colossal disaster for capitalism if the massive...

Cameron and Tories in crisis

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THE understanding that in times of acute capitalist crisis the ruling class can no longer rule in the old way is being borne out...

Tory Civil War – Now Is The Time To Bring Them Down

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IT is an expression of the depth of the crisis of British capitalism, that Duncan Smith, the ex-Tory leader, the would-be Puritan...

Second Round French election farce – Forward to the French Socialist revolution!

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THE SECOND round of the French regional elections last Sunday confirmed that the French workers have had enough of the bourgeois, Bonapartist, fascist and...

Osborne Mugs The Pensioners!

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WEDNESDAY’S budget left no room for doubt about who the coalition government intends should pay to bail out the bankrupt British economy – pensioners,...

Tory War On Teachers

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THE Tory conference this week stepped up its vicious attack on teachers and their unions with education secretary Michael Gove treating them, as befits...

Forward With The European Socialist Revolution!

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ON MONDAY in the House of Commons, ex-Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw rounded on the government stating: ‘Instead of sheltering behind complacent language and...

The Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes To Bring Down Capitalism!

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SEVERAL human rights organisations have condemned the UK Supreme Court’s decision that a lawsuit against the government, challenging its continued arms sales to Israel,...

Leaving the European Union will require a workers socialist revolution!

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PM MAY last Monday afternoon, in her first statement to MPs in parliament since her Florence speech last month and her debacle at the...

Free the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ volunteers! Organise an armada to break the Gaza blockade!Forward to...

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NINETEEN members of the six ship ‘Freedom Flotilla’ were yesterday murdered by Israeli special forces in a major war crime, and a larger...

Forward to the Third Intifada

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THE US SPECIAL envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, who negotiated the basis of the power sharing agreement in the north of Ireland,...

Stop The Afghan War – The Enemy Is At Home

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DEMOCRATIC presidents and prime ministers such as Obama and Brown have rushed into the Afghan breach to rubber-stamp their stooge Karzai as the president...

Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action With The Nurses To Bring Down...

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NURSING STAFF have voted to strike in the majority of NHS hospitals across the UK, and the nurses union, the RCN, has called on...

Debt crisis requires social revolution

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WHEN it comes to desperate, mindless optimism the French president, Francois Hollande, is a world leader. In a speech given in Japan over the weekend,...

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...

For A Nuclear Bomb Free Middle East

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IRAN took a calculated risk yesterday when it reached an agreement with the US and its allies that it would allow extensive and exhaustive...

Workers shake Labour to its foundations with their vote for Brexit!

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THE EU elections have shattered both the Labour and the Tory parties. With a national turnout of 37%, Labour got 13.6 of the vote, the...

CWU must spread the action to the entire public sector

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THE reality of the situation facing postal workers is that after two series of mass strike actions during which they have shown they are...