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Second Xmas on the dole for 700,000!

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ACCORDING to research published by the TUC on Monday, over 250,000 people will be spending their second successive Christmas on the dole. Even this figure...

Cuts will push councils to breaking point!

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THE cuts to local government funding will ‘push councils to breaking point’ according to council leaders. On Thursday the Tory Communities and Local Government minister, Kris Hopkins,...

False start for Psaki in sanctions assault race!

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US President Obama has not yet signed a bill clearing the way for more economic sanctions against Russia. The US State Department confirmed ...

Greek Stocks ‘Meltdown’

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THE Athens Stock Exchange collapsed again by 7.35 per cent on Thursday wiping 13 billion euros off shares. In the last three days it has...

Reinstate Ricky Matthews Demand 2,000 Striking Firefighters In Aylesbury March

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OVER 2,000 striking firefighters marched through Aylesbury on Tuesday chanting ‘Reinstate Ricky Matthews!’ The national demonstration took place during the Fire Brigades Union’s (FBU) national...

World banking system faces melt-down

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THE world crisis of capitalism has sharpened to the extent that even the staid Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has been forced to express...

Half a million families will lose their homes if rates are...

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IN its direst warning to date on the scale of personal debt, the Bank of England has predicted that half a million families will...

Osborne furious over ‘back to the 1930s’ taunt

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THE Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, was described in the bourgeois press as being ‘rattled’ by the news coverage of his Autumn Statement. In fact, ‘rattled’...

Ferguson resistance joins hands with Walmart workers

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THE US working class is now definitively on the march after six days of action in the town of Ferguson culminated in calls...

Black Friday mayhem in bankrupt UK

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BLACK Friday came to the UK yesterday with scenes of chaos and mayhem in supermarkets up and down the country, scenes that came close...

Hundreds Of Thousands Of NHS Workers Take Strike Action!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of NHS workers in England and the north of Ireland went on a four-hour strike on Monday morning. Nurses, cleaners, porters, midwives,...

Answer low pay with general strike

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ON the day that up to 400,000 health workers in England came out on a second four-hour strike over the refusal of the government...

Cameron and Osborne’s Waterloo

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AFTER the Tories’ defeat at the hands of a defector to UKIP in the recent Clacton by-election, David Cameron vowed that he would ‘throw...

Merkel defeated in Thuringia

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LEFT parties in Germany have agreed a historic coalition deal which will see the first left state government in Thuringia, East Germany, since the...

Students March For ‘Free Education Now!’

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SEVERAL students were arrested at the end of an occupation of Parliament Square by hundreds of student protesters on Wednesday. They were part of a...

‘Red lights flashing’ – Cameron signals more cuts

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WRITING in the Guardian yesterday, David Cameron announced that, following his meeting with world leaders at the G20 conference in Brisbane, he has suddenly...

FORWARD WITH THE WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION – –News Line Anniversary Rally...

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MORE than 200 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through Whitechapel to Bethnal Green in central London on Saturday to the News Line...

Anti-Russian Pogrom At The G20!

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PRESIDENT PUTIN has left the G20 summit in Australia early after a relentless attack on Russia was mounted by the USA-UK axis and its...

STOP YOUR BANKING ON THE ‘MIRAGE OF NEGOTIATIONS’ – urges Marwan...

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JAILED Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, the leader of the Second Intifada, has urged the Palestinian leadership to give its backing to armed resistance to...

Carney’s Last Stand!

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BANK of England Governor and chairman of the Financial Stability Board Mark Carney understands both that another major banking crash is on the way...

Capitalism in deflationary crisis

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THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...

US workers must form a Labour Party

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THE Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, and now controls both Houses of Congress, turning the final...

Bakers union demands £10 min wage – as Living Wage increase...

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‘£10 AN HOUR is the bare minimum that the trade union movement should demand as a minimum wage’, the Bakers Union said yesterday, as...

TUC must carry out decision for £10 Minimum Wage

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THE revelation from the accountancy firm KPMG that their research has shown that one in six people, over 5 million, in work earn less...

Bring down the Irish government to smash the Water Tax!

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OVER 150,000 people took part in nationwide protests last Saturday against the introduction of savage water charges throughout the Republic of Ireland. Up to 100...

Capitalism Gripped By Historic Crisis

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THE world crisis of capitalism is being hit by a convergence of the crisis to which all the central banks, economists and politicians have...

US Ends Quantitative Easing!

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THE US Federal Reserve has announced it is ending its quantitative easing (QE) stimulus programme begun in 2008. The six years since the banking collapse...

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...

US Trade Unions At The Crossroads

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THE most powerful capitalist economy in the world is now living on a veritable knife edge, liable at any moment to crash spectacularly, bringing...

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...

PUBLIC SECTOR ERUPTS! – TUC call a General Strike now!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of public sector workers from across the UK, joining the TUC demonstration through central London today, are furious that while rent,...

Civil servants strike solid!

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TENS of thousands of civil servants and allied workers expressed their anger at poverty pay, attacks on their pensions and privatisation during Wednesday’s solid...

BIS warning of global financial crash!

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GLOBAL financial markets are dangerously stretched and may unwind with shock force as liquidity dries up, the Bank of International Settlements has warned. BIS boss...

End low pay through a general strike to kick out the...

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ON the day that NHS workers took strike action for the first time in 30 years, and in the case of midwives the first...

Tories Use State Against Health Workers

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TRADE UNION leaders are angry that the government has organised police and army scabbing on today’s four-hour NHS strike over the refusal of the...

Fight against anti-union ‘right-to-work’ legislation is critical for US workers –...

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AS working people in the US are gearing up to get out and vote in mid-term Congressional and state elections on November 4, AFL-CIO...

Tories routed in Clacton – Labour hangs on in Heywood

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THURSDAY’S by-election in Clacton, caused by the defection to UKIP of the sitting Tory MP, Douglas Carswell, saw the Tory party completely routed. Carswell won...

Nationalise Reserve Bank to protect workers – NUMSA

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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has demanded the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank under workers’ control in a strongly worded...

Geneva Report Issues Dire Warning!

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JUST six years after the beginning of the 2008 financial collapse – at a time when Cameron and Co. are talking about a recovery,...

Eurozone meltdown!

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THE European Central Bank (ECB) monthly policy meeting took place in Naples last Thursday under riot conditions. While Europe’s financial movers and shakers met in...

Hungry and Homeless!

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‘EMERGENCY support schemes’, used by vulnerable families threatened with homelessness or who are struggling to put food on the table, are to be...

No let-up in NHS crisis – trade unions must act

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WITH the dust barely settled on both the Labour and Tory Party conferences, the brutal reality of the economic crisis gripping British capitalism is...

Put capitalism out of its misery with the socialist revolution

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THE one thing guaranteed by the world economic crisis of the capitalist system, is that all the weakness, greed and corruption of the ruling...

Defend Public Services through a general strike

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ON THE day that MPs were voting on going to war once again in the Middle East, a very senior civil servant made it...

Families of 44 Marikana miners killed by police give evidence

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ON SEPTEMBER 12 at the Farlam Commission into the deaths at Marikana, the families of the 44 people who died were telling their stories. The...