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World crisis lays waste Putin’s oligarchs!

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HISTORY has played a huge joke on the Stalinist bureaucracy. Under the rule of Gorbachev and Yeltsin it thought that it would be able to...

Bosses Call For Zero Wage Rises!

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CONSUMER price inflation fell in January, much less than was expected by the so-called experts. The Consumer Prices Index reached an annual rate of...

‘Hammer of the poor’ quits Labour to join Tory leadership

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EX-BANKER and City financier, Sir David Freud, is Labour’s ‘Workfare’ programme architect. He drew up the plans to force single parents and all but the...

Trade union leaders trying to manage capitalism

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Rising unemployment is a national emergency declared the TUC yesterday after the government revealed that 150,000 workers had lost their jobs in the last...

‘NATIONAL EMERGENCY!’ – TUC condemns 1.97 million unemployed

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THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) warned of a ‘national emergency’ yesterday as the latest unemployment figures were published, showing that UK unemployment rose to...

Billions for the bankers – wage cuts and sackings for...

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THE Royal Bank of Scotland was rescued with billions of taxpayers’ money after it made the biggest losses in the history of British banking,...

INCLUDE HEALTHCARE IN ECONOMIC RECOVERY PACKAGE urges SEIU

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‘Today, Congress took a first and important step to rebuilding the American Dream,’ said SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on Thursday as Senators from...

Chinese Stalinists’ bid to rescue bankrupt capitalism

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CHINESE Stalinist leader President Hu Jintao has sent Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Vice President Xi Jinping on international visits in a vain attempt...

Britain Leading The Way To Slump Says The Imf

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LAST October the IMF predicted world output would increase by 2.2 per cent in 2009. Yesterday it changed its tune saying that world output...

1.92 Million Unemployed

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UK unemployment rose by 131,000 to 1.92 million between September and November, the highest total since September 1997, figures from the Office for National...

Unreal capitalism deserves to perish!

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THE crash of the British banks continued yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland declared a £27bn loss for 2008 on Monday and its share...

BANKS MELTDOWN – Taxpayers to foot the bill

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The government yesterday extended its stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland to 70 per cent as RBS headed for a record UK £27bn-£28bn...

Brown gives billions more to the banks

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AMID banks posting further huge losses and their share prices collapsing, after the near extinction of the world’s largest banks last October, Prime Minister...

JCB AXES MORE JOBS! – despite £50 a week GMB wage...

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more than 3,300 jobs were axed or came under threat yesterday as prime minister Brown held his much-heralded ‘jobs summit’ with bosses and union...

Labour trying to hide jobless figures

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WITH unemployment set to go up by at least one million this year, to three million, the government is in a panic. Its panic is...

Programme of action needed to prevent capitalist catastrophe

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YESTERDAY Adams Childrenswear announced that it had closed down 111 of its stores throughout the UK, and that its remaining 160 shops would stay...

Go forward to socialism – only way to avoid threatening catastrophe!

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JAPAN is the second biggest power in the capitalist industrial world, behind the United States. It has just announced that its industrial output dropped...

Build millions of council homes to solve housing crisis

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CRISIS, the national charity for single homeless people, correctly fears that a massive surge in homelessness is ahead, as it opens its nine Crisis...

Help The Homeless! – Urges Crisis Charity

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Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people, yesterday warned of a potential surge in homelessness in 2009 as it opened the doors of...

REPLACE GREEK TUC BUREAUCRATS – demand youth

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GREEK school and university students and young workers staged various anti-government and anti-police mobilisations over the weekend throughout Greece. Dozens of local rallies were...

Labour Continues To Persecute The Poor

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LABOUR’S leaders love the rich and have no time for the poor. As a government, Labour turned Britain into a second tax-free home for Russian...

Postal Workers Demand Action – As Junior Minister Resigns

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‘We are fighting the government and business now,’ said Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region No.6 branch secretary Paul Olden yesterday. Commenting on the government’s...

Capitalism On The Rocks – Forward To Socialism

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THE number out of work in the UK rose by 137,000 to 1.86 million in the three months to October – the highest level...

GREEK YOUTH ATTACK POLICE STATIONS – While French students occupy lycées

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FOR the fifth consecutive day Greek school and university students and workers continued to demonstrate in the capital Athens and in virtually all cities...

SHADOW OF 1930s HANGS OVER BROWN-MERKEL SPLIT

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GERMANY’S Finance Minister Steinbruck yesterday attacked the Gordon Brown policy for saving the bankers and capitalists from the crisis, as recklessness itself. He described Labour’s...

Karamanlis threatens Greek youth!

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THE Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis delivered a 5-minute proclamation on all national TV channels and radio stations on Tuesday night condemning as ‘enemies...

Tories, Labour Unite To Beat The Unemployed

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The Brown government and the Tories yesterday joined forces to cane the unemployed. After Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell announced his ‘workfare’ Welfare Reform White...

Tories Ally Themselves With Purnell To Beat The Unemployed

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YESTERDAY in the House of Commons the Tories were glorying in the fact that their votes will make sure that Labour’s bill to force...

‘POVERTY, HUNGER, DISEASE AND UNEMPLOYMENT HAVE RISEN TO ALARMING LEVELS’ Palestinian...

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Palestinian Ambassador and Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Dr Riyad Mansour, has addressed an emergency session of the Security Council on the...

Greek Revolution Erupts – With The Youth In The Lead!

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IN all of the Greek cities there were clashes throughout yesterday between workers and youth and the riot police, and other Greek special forces....

Occupy GM, Ellesmere Port and Luton & nationalise to defend jobs

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THE UK’s biggest car manufacturer, Vauxhall, with plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton, has admitted its more than 5,000 jobs are under massive threat...

UAW reformists propose to surrender gains of US workers

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THE UAW leaders are prepared to ‘suspend’ all of the gains of US autoworkers to try and assist the big bosses of GM, Chrysler,...

PCS condemns job cuts!

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to go ahead with the closure of 93 offices...

BENEFIT CUTS AND ‘WARTIME POWERS’ – in Queen’s Speech

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday warned that the ‘welfare reform’ plans announced in the Queen’s Speech ‘are the wrong proposals at...

QUEEN’S SPEECH:Making the poor pay & more police powers

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THE Queen’s Speech yesterday was dominated by the unprecedented world financial crisis and deepening slump, and its impact on decrepit British imperialism. It opened: ‘My...

PCS REJECTS ‘BULLYING’ OF THE POOR – as government plans four-week...

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THE civil service union PCS said yesterday it was opposed to ‘punitive’ benefit cuts facing the unemployed, single parents and even the disabled, who...

NO RESCUE FOR CAPITALISM– FORWARD TO THE WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION! –...

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THE Labour leaders are terrified the whole capitalist system is going to go, News Line Editor Paddy O’Regan told an audience of 200 youth...

Resolve Crisis Of Leadership In Working Class

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THERE is nothing like the crisis of the capitalist system to bring out the essence of the Labour and trade union leaders, as labour...

GAZA HUNGER CRISIS! – Bakeries running out of bread as Al...

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THE newspaper Filastin has posted a feature on its website titled ‘Through Their Worst Phase of the Israeli Siege on Gaza’ exposing the...

Brown and Darling saving the bosses by savaging the workers

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AS is his way, the Prime Minister addressed the CBI bosses organisation yesterday, just hours before his Chancellor was due to declare to the...

‘NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PUNISH PARENTS’ – One Parent...

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Now is not the time to introduce legislation that will punish those parents who fail to make their way in a tough jobs market,...

Brown Trying To Buy Time For Capitalism

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LAST week a Tory MP had to apologise to the House of Commons because he had said that the government should ‘let the recession...

Tuc Condemns Attack On Single Parents

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The TUC and single parent charity Gingerbread yesterday condemned the Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell’s decision to press ahead with ‘welfare to work’ plans...

OBAMA’S ‘CHANGE’ IS NOT REAL – warn Iranian clerics

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AN IRANIAN cleric has criticised the letter written by the country’s president, Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, to the newly-elected American president, Barack Obama. ‘It appears that our...

Take action to defend jobs. Occupy and organise a general strike!

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FACED with the crash of the pound and the enormous 182,000 leap in the number of unemployed in the three months to October, the...