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US at centre of world capitalist collapses

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‘THERE is a real sense in markets today of the economy falling off a cliff.’ That was the verdict of Michael Saunders, the chief...

US Unions Gear Up To Elect Obama Into The White House

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THE US trade unions are gearing up for the battle to get Barack Obama elected as the president of the United States, believing that...

Fighting inflation means fighting capitalism

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CHANCELLOR Darling said on Sunday that pay rises for people ‘from the boardroom to the shopfloor’ need to be ‘consistent’ with the 2% inflation...

SAFETY CRIMES ‘FILTERED OUT’ says report

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At least twice as many people die from fatal injuries at work than are victims of homicide, a new report from the Centre for...

Get British troops out of Afghanistan now!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...

McGUINNESS PLEDGES WAR ON RACISM

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By JOHN COULTER Irish political journalist THE sectarian war in Ireland is over, but the war on racism has begun. That was the pledge from Sinn...

London Lecturers’ Pay Strike!

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COLLEGE lecturers in London, members of the University and College Union (UCU), will take strike action on Monday (9 June). And further action across England...

Food Price Hikes Grip West Africa

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Benin is one of several West African states gripped by soaring food prices. In a scene on a popular Benin TV series, a farmer named...

Police ‘Yobs’ Bait Home Secretary

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THE very well paid police force – loaded up with housing and other benefits, on Wednesday bit the hand that has been feeding...

TREATMENT BY TELECARE! – Brown’s alternative to District General Hospitals and...

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Speaking yesterday to charities, NHS workers, trade unions and local government leaders, prime minister Brown announced the publication of a consultation document on ‘options...

Embers May Flare Up!

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May Day greetings from Gulzar Ahmad Chaudhry General Secretary of the Pakistan Trade Unions ‘NO chimney and funnel of any factory or mill was...

The ‘Silent Tsunami’ Hits Sri Lanka

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HUMANITARIAN agencies in Sri Lanka have told the UN agency IRIN that they are preparing for the fallout as increasing...

Workers Fury Forces Brown Retreat!

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Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday called for the 10p tax rate to be restored in full. He was speaking after Prime Minister...

OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY –The second Russian revolution will...

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Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 9. War or peace? This essay was published in the New York daily newspaper Novy...

‘COMPENSATE LOW PAID NOW’ – Prentis warns Brown

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‘The abolition of the 10p tax rate has dealt a body blow to millions of low paid workers,’ UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis said...

DARLING KNEW! – that 10p measure would hurt low paid

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Chancellor Darling admitted yesterday that ‘of course’ he knew that abolishing the 10p tax rate would affect five million low-paid workers. However, in an interview...

Darling Robs The Poor To Prop Up The Bankers

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CHANCELLOR Darling yesterday admitted that the Labour government, cold-bloodedly, in the last budget, abolished the 10p tax rate for the lower paid, knowing that...

SOARING INFLATION – as bankers demand billions more from Brown

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Soaring factory prices have seen UK producer inflation reach its highest rate, 6.2%, in nearly 17 years in March. Annual ‘output price inflation’ at 6.2%,...

Replace Bankrupt Capitalism With World Socialism!

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THERE is not the slightest doubt that capitalism worldwide is in its greatest crisis ever. The US-UK failed attempt to occupy Iraq and...

LABOUR WILL VICTIMISE LOW PAID – insists Hutton

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Business Secretary John Hutton yesterday ruled out a rethink on the decision to scrap the lowest tax band, amid claims that the Brown government...

KEEP LEWISHAM HOSPITAL OPEN! – march today

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HEALTH workers, trade unionists, pensioners and residents from the SE London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley are marching today against plans to...

SOUTH EAST LONDON HOSPITALS ‘SERVICE RECONFIGURATION’ – a closure and privatisation...

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A ‘service reconfiguration’ for  Outer South East London Service is being proposed. Outer South East London comprises the boroughs of Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley....

CONFUSE AND CONCEAL! – the NHS and the independent sector treatment...

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THIS book shows that Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) have been introduced to give contracts to private companies to provide care for NHS patients,...

Labour Mounts Attack On Disabled

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Disability charities yesterday expressed concerns over Labour’s plans to introduce harsh work tests and force almost two million people off incapacity benefit. In his Budget...

A bankrupt budget for a bankrupt economy

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THE AIM of every government in 2008 is to ‘maintain stability through the world economic slowdown’, said Chancellor Darling yesterday in his budget...

Bankrupt Budget!

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In his first budget, Chancellor Darling hit the working class and middle class with big hikes in alcohol, tobacco and vehicle taxes while giving...

Banking disaster overshadows Brown-Darling budget

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BLACKSTONE, the world’s biggest private equity capitalist raider, has reported a collapse in its profits in the last three months...

Time to smash Brown’s public sector reform (privatisation)

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PREMIER Brown’s pre-budget comment piece in the Financial Times was written so that he could talk directly to his constituency, the bosses. He...

FBU anger mounting – strike action on the way!

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FIREFIGHTERS risk their lives every time they are called out. They never know what they are going to have to tackle, and often do...

Jordan On The Brink Of Revolution

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JORDAN has announced huge 76 per cent fuel price increases. In a statement the Jordanian government said that domestic fuel and kerosene prices had...

Labour’s Banker Kicks The Disabled!

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INVESTMENT banker David Freud is the adviser behind Prime Minister Brown’s plans to slash the benefits of the sick and the disabled. This is at...

Brown’s Planned ‘Reforms’ A Recipe For Ending The NHS

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On January 7th 2008, prime minister Gordon Brown made a key policy speech on the NHS, in which he called for ‘continued reform’ and...

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...

Fire Service Cuts And Station Closures Threatening Public Safety

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Humberside fire crews are warning that cuts and station closures will compromise public and firefighter safety. The warning came as local fire crews launch their...

Government Wants To ‘Rid North-East Of Any Witnesses Of The Carnage’

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COLOMBO has abrogated the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) to remove the presence of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) which was instrumental in exposing...

Brown pledges 150 private NHS hospitals and self treatment by 15...

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GORDON Brown made clear yesterday that his intention was to continue with the Blairite NHS counter-revolution. The message was that there were ‘no no-go...

Pm Brown Unveils ‘Self-Treatment’ By ‘Expert Patients’!

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Patients should ask ‘not what the NHS can do for you, but what you can do for the NHS,’ prime minister Brown warned yesterday. In...

Build The Wrp In 2008!

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THE TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, in his New Year’s message said that his two fears for 2008 were the dangers of a banking...

‘SPEND MORE ON FRONT LINE FIRE SERVICES,’ NOT COSTLY REGIONALISATION –...

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Plans to close down all forty six of the fire service’s 999 command and control centres in England and move to nine regional centres are...

The NHS must be free and available to all at the...

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RECENTLY there have been a few years of increased government spending on the NHS, after many years of chronic underspending. Most of the new...

Brown insists on wage cuts for workers & billions for bankers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown justified pay cuts for workers in the public services and the billions handed over by the Treasury to the bankrupt...

Nationalise All The Banks And Abolish Mortgage Debt

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UP to 1.5 million fixed rate mortgage holders are going to have to renegotiate their mortgages in the New Year. Many of them are already...

DON’T SHORT CHANGE WORKERS! – UNISON warns council chiefs

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Public sector union UNISON has warned councils in England not to short change workers when they plan their budgets for 2008. ‘Our members won’t settle...

Ruling Class Targets The Political Levy

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THERE has been a frenzied hue and cry raging for weeks now over the minor mistakes of Labour cabinet ministers over relatively minor...

‘WE ARE GETTING READY FOR REVOLUTION’ –WRP General Secretary Frank...

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‘We’re getting ready for revolution in Britain as part of the world socialist revolution.’ That was the message delivered by workers revolutionary Party General Secretary,...