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Jamaican High Commissioner demands halt deportations! End May’s hostile environment by kicking the Tories...

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‘WE MAY very well be deporting people who are entitled to be here,’ the Jamaican High Commissioner said, calling on the UK government to...
Gate Gourmet workers still on the picket line after being locked out for over 8 weeks

Smash Privatisation – Renationalise!

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THE privatisation of the railways has been a complete disaster and for the families of those killed in rail crashes it is a disaster...

Force the TUC to call general strike to bring down Tories!

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THE working class is being left with no alternative by the government than to take general strike action to prevent all of its gains...

America on verge of ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

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NEARLY 42 million American workers and their families face losing access to food stamps as funding for what is officially called the Supplement Nutritional...

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...

Trade union bureaucrats put two fingers up to May Day

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TRUE to form, the voice of the trade union bureaucracy, the Stalinist Morning Star counted tens of thousands of marchers on the TUC’s May...

Cape Town – first major metropolitan city to run out of water!

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THE water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa’s second largest city, has become explosive as experts now estimate that ‘Day Zero’, the day when...

Occupy GM plants to defend jobs! Nationalise the car industry!

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GENERAL MOTORS European operations, which include Opel plants in Germany, the Ellesmere Port Vauxhall car plant and Luton’s IBC van plant in Britain, have...

Defend jobs, pay & services: Lobby the TUC! Build councils of action!

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THE Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee decided yesterday to make no change in its base interest rate and to leave it at...

Brown promises to ‘renew new Labour’

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown, the pretender to the Labour leadership and 10 Downing Street, told the Labour Party conference in Brighton yesterday: ‘Our mission is...

BIS Report – global ‘debt trap’ risk higher than ever and set to crash...

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THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in its annual ‘health check’ on the world’s financial system has once again warned about the huge...

French revolutionary tactics show British workers the way

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THE two general strikes and the massive mobilisations of trade unionists, students, lycee students, and unemployed and working class youth which brought millions onto...

Osborne pledges balanced austerity budgets

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CHANCELLOR Osborne used his annual address at the Mansion House on Wednesday night to announce that he will be selling off the government’s share...

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...

Mandelson’s Secret Business Interests!

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PETER Mandelson is one of five Labour government cabinet ministers who insists on his business interests being a secret and for that purpose has...

Sunak Budget to prepare for mass unemployment and austerity war on workers

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MANY of the measures announced in yesterday’s Budget by Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak had been widely publicised in the run up to his appearance...

Interest rates held at 4.75% as inflation increases!

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THE Bank of England yesterday held UK interest rates at 4.75% until at least next February. This follows two cuts to the interest rates this...

More redundancies required at Vauxhall UK plants

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UNDER the cover of a Voluntary Separation Programme GM is seeking to push through more redundancies at GM Vauxhall including a number at Ellesmere...

Throw Out Bankrupt Sunak And The Tories With A General Strike!

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TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak, at a cabinet briefing before unveiling his latest spending review in Parliament yesterday, warned that the forecast for the UK...

No Ifs, No Buts – TUC must call an immediate general strike to support...

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Over 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street last Saturday in a massive demonstration of support for Palestine and demanding an end...

Poverty under capitalism is ‘killing people on a grand scale’

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‘SOCIAL injustice is killing people on a grand scale.’ This is the conclusion of the World Health Organisation’s Commission on Social Determinants of...

Revolution and counter-revolution in Bahrain and Libya

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THE US State Department urged US citizens on Tuesday not to travel to Bahrain and suggested Americans there should leave at once due ...

To stop Tories axing the NHS, TUC must call a general strike!

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SECRET plans have been uncovered to cut £23bn from the NHS. Such a cut, if it is allowed to proceed would mean the closure...

Shias And Sunnis Must Form Revolutionary Government In Iraq

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THE Kurdistan Region intelligence chief, Lahur Jangi, has said that according to his estimates there were 400 to 450 British nationals in the ranks...

Tories offer GPs ‘cash for cuts’ to stop patients getting hospital treatment – unions...

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THE GP website Pulse revealed this week that in four areas in England local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have set up a ‘profit-sharing’ scheme...

Huge food inflation as bosses and unions agree on wage cuts and job cuts

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WORKERS in Britain are now feeling the ‘benefits’ of the British government’s policy of printing money to rescue the banks while allowing the pound...

Right wing getting ready to split the Labour Party!

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THE hysterical witch-hunting of Jeremy Corbyn that is being carried out by the bourgeois media, marshalled by Labour’s right wing pro-Tory rebel MPs, is...

After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!

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PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...

Unemployment at 7.7 per cent – food banks facing huge demand

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UK jobless officially fell to 2.49m in the latest government figures, for the three months to August, showing a slight fall of 18,000, not...

End low pay through a general strike!

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TODAY, hundreds of thousands of workers and young people will take to the streets of London, Glasgow and Belfast in mass demonstrations called by...

French General Strike escalates in fight to bring down Macron

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THE MASS strikes and demonstrations throughout France today mark the sharp escalation of the confrontation between French workers and the ‘bankers’ government of president...

Britain, Germany, Spain And The US Poised On The Brink Of Recession

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THE European Commission stated yesterday that the UK, Germany and Spain, key members of the EU, with Germany being the world’s biggest exporter, are...

Down with barbaric vaccine wars! Put an end to backward capitalism with socialist revolutions!

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A VACCINE war broke out between the European Union and the UK last week over the supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus. The...

Starmer Betrays The Working Class By Planning A Massive Rise In Military Spending!

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LABOUR PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer has almost immediately betrayed the massive working class electorate that voted him into office as Prime Minister. His first action...

PFI, Foundation Trusts and £20bn of Tory cuts are preparing NHS closures & privatisation

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FIGURES publicised by Labour’s shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, have shown that one third of England’s hospitals have been completely full at some time...

Return The Malvinas To Argentina!

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PERU has cancelled a visit by a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Montrose, that had been due this week. Peruvian Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo said: ‘This...

Drive to bring local performance-related pay into the NHS must be defeated

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THE chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) Chris Hopson, representing more than 200 NHS trusts across England, has called for the ripping...

Britain Scuttling Out Of Iraq

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DEFENCE Secretary Browne has just visited Baghdad where he declared that the pace of the British rout in Iraq is to be accelerated, with...

UK death squads in the north – a warning for today

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LAST night’s Panorama programme, entitled ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Force’, threw yet more light on the murderous activities of the British state in its war...

Organise a general strike! Bring down Brown government! Go forward to socialism

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THE leaders of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the University and College Union (UCU) and the...

Tories Bringing In New Police State Powers For Use Against Workers And The Trade...

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THE LAW Courts are to get new police state powers to be used against striking trade unionists and protesting workers. The powers will stop the...

Defend General Practice by driving privateers out of the NHS and nationalising the drug...

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THE head of the Royal College of GPs yesterday said that the job of full-time GPs was now ‘undoable’ owing to the huge pressures...

Israel to build rail link into West Bank

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IT IS well known that the desire of the Zionist ruling class in Israel to expand the area under its rule is unquenchable, and...

Royal Mail workers must set the date for their all out strike action!

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ON TUESDAY, postal workers delivered a massive 94.5% YES vote to strike in defence of their jobs, pay and conditions and the very existence...

Cox joins the war criminals with her plan to attack Syria!

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ON Monday evening in the House of Commons Labour MP Jo Cox came to the rescue of Cameron and the Tories when she...