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Labour launches jobs massacre – savage benefit cuts and tax rises...

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JUST two days after the Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spring mini-budget ‘to grow the economy’ out of economic collapse, thousands and thousands of job losses...

More than 30 Labour MPs oppose Starmer’s assault on benefits...

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KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...

More than 30 Labour MPs oppose Starmer’s assault on benefits...

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KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...

Reeves budget drives split in party as Labour MPs fear anger...

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves denied that Wednesday’s Budget was anything other than a massive austerity attack on workers with the sick and disabled deliberately...

Labour Slashes Welfare Benefits To Make The Poorest Pay For...

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LABOUR CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves made further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement yesterday. The government announced big welfare spending reductions...

Labour Budget Will Drive 250,000 Into Poverty!

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a vicious £4.8bn cuts onslaught on the working class and poor in her Spring Statement yesterday. According to the government’s...

US unions demand no cuts to Medicaid and education

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Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members across the country have been holding demonstrations throughout the last week against the plans of US President Trump...

Starmer urges send British jets to the Ukraine to combat Russia!

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Dispatching British fighter jets to Ukraine ‘to police the skies against Russia above the Ukraine’, emerged as a planning proposal at Sir Keir Starmer’s...

Labour splits emerging as Starmer faces ‘mother of all rebellions’

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FOLLOWING Prime Minister’s Questions session in Parliament on Wednesday left wing Labour MP Richard Burgon went on social media warning that Keir Starmer will...

Labour Taking Action To Make The Workers And The Poor Pay...

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THERE is no doubt that Labour’s proposed benefit cuts are a ‘violation of workers rights’ which will harm ill, disabled and poorer workers in...

Labour targets disabled with £5bn cuts

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LABOUR’S announcement of £5 billion a year benefits cuts to be snatched from one million disabled and mentally ill workers were denounced by trade...

620,000 sick and disabled will lose £675 a month under Labour’s...

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer is prepared to defy the growing anger of workers by pushing through welfare cuts that will impoverish over 600,000...

Washington lawsuit against Trump attack on unions

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A coalition of American unions has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation...

War exposes weakness and bankruptcy of capitalism in UK and Europe!

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CITY AM, the business and financial newspaper, published an opinion piece yesterday which included a lengthy quote from Karl Marx on the profound effects...

Stock markets crash as capitalism drives into recession – Socialist revolution...

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THE CRASH on the global stock markets carried on yesterday as the world financial markets reeled from the shock realisation that the once mighty...

400 Birmingham binmen on all-out strike against £8,000 pay cut!

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BIRMINGHAM binworkers began indefinite strike action yesterday, Tuesday 11 March, determined to defeat the ‘commissioners’, who were handed control of the council by the...

Britain is set to rearm with the working class paying the...

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THE Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he is willing to give up his war with Russia in the Ukraine, and is also...

Labour Is Planning Big Welfare Cuts!

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to initiate a new regime of widespread welfare cuts, throwing thousands of sick, disabled and mentally ill off...

US capitalism faces fiscal ‘heart attack’ – socialist revolution is the...

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AT midnight (US time) on Monday, US president Trump made good his threat to impose his long-threatened 25% trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada...

US capitalism faces fiscal ‘heart attack’ – socialist revolution is the...

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AT midnight (US time) on Monday, US president Trump made good his threat to impose his long-threatened 25% trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada...

University of California workers strike for pay! – while unions condemn...

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Tens of thousands of workers at University of California campuses and UC health care facilities started a 48-hour strike on Wednesday. The strike includes more...

Youth are being hit the hardest by bankrupt capitalism!

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SKY-ROCKETING youth unemployment figures just released reveal that nearly one million young people in the UK are not in employment, up from 500,000 in...

Starmer pledges billions for military while doctors and nurses are hired...

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Washington yesterday for a first meeting with President Trump since his inauguration last month. The situation in Ukraine...

Labour echoes Trump and Musk in demanding slashing jobs and workers...

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LAST week, TUC general secretary Paul Nowak along with trade union leaders from across the world attended a two-day conference organised by the World...

UK and US workers must unite to smash capitalism and imperialism!...

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ELON Musk’s chainsaw wielding stunt with Argentine President Javier Milei before a conservative convention in the US on Thursday was a call to war...

‘Let us fight together to transform workers’ lives across the world!’...

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COSATU President Zingiswa Losi addressed Day One of the South African trade union movement Conference in Cape Town on Tuesday: ‘Comrades! Brothers and Sisters!...

UK must ban all goods in whole or in part from...

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A group of 62 MPs and peers across parties have written to trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds to demand the government takes measures to ban...

Unions fighting for jobs, pay and services – time for a...

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Birmingham bin strikers fighting race to the bottom Striking Birmingham bin workers have rejected a one off non-consolidated cash offer from Birmingham council but only if they accept a brutal...

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

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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...

Keep Musk’s hands off workers’ data! – AFL-CIO launches legal action...

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The AFL-CIO and several of its affiliated government employee unions, last Wednesday, launched a legal action over fears that Elon Musk’s Department of Government...

Portland, Oregon unions are ready to strike over contract negotiations breakdown!

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Two Portland, Oregon unions representing city employees are getting closer to walking off the job over a breakdown in contract negotiations. The American Federation of...

Crisis of German Capitalism nears breaking point – the Banks must...

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Amid a major slump in the German economy, the profits of the giant Deutsche Bank, the country’s largest, crashed a huge 92 per cent...

Teamsters vote 85% for national strike at Costco for a fair...

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Teamsters members at the supermarket Costco across the United States voted by an overwhelming 85 per cent margin on Thursday to authorise a national...

At least 78 starved to death in Buffelsfontein massacre – locals...

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No more ‘illegal miners’ are believed to be trapped underground at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein South Africa, volunteers working with rescue teams...

Starmer is making the poor pay for the crisis. The TUC...

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FOLLOWING the failure of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ panic visit to beg, or borrow, £600 million from China, the Labour government of Keir Starmer is...

Labour plans ruthless cuts and mass privatisation of public sector to...

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The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public...

UK economy is crashing into bankruptcy under the impact of the...

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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...

Labour to launch war on disabled

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THE LABOUR government will declare war on the disabled when Chancellor Reeves returns from China this week it was reported yesterday, as the media...

AFL-CIO & SEIU are reuniting in the United States – 13...

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THE AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced on Thursday that they are reuniting to launch ‘a new, long-term effort to make...

Honduras threatens to expel US troops in retaliation for Trump’s mass...

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Honduras has threatened to expel United States troops, retaliating against incoming President Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations of refugees and asylum...

2025 – Victory for Palestine and World Socialist Revolution

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NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD NEW YEAR STATEMENT 2025 THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2025 to all our readers and to the...

Teamsters begin largest ever strike against Amazon in US history!

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The Teamsters union started the largest strike against Amazon in United States history on Thursday morning. The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow...

Teamsters ballot for strike action after Costco rejected the union’s plans

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The Teamsters union in the Unites States said on Thursday it will ballot its members about taking strike action after the supermarket chain Costco...

Trump pushes US and world capitalism into slump and recession

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LEADING bourgeois economists are making doom laden predictions about the effect of Donald Trump’s pledges to ‘make America great’ through trade wars and expelling...

Radiographers demand pay restoration!

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THE NHS will haemorrhage staff unless pay is restored to match national averages, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) warned on Tuesday. The SoR has submitted...