Editorials

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Half a million families will lose their homes if rates are put up, warns...

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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...

Labour manifesto – a recipe for selling off the NHS and the Welfare State!

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THEY say that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and Gordon Brown proved the point yesterday when he began his forward to...

US workers reject Obama’s rescue of bankers and bosses

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SCOTT Brown’s victory for the Republican Party, in the Massachusetts election for the US Senate, does not mean that US workers can’t wait to...

British capitalism is on its knees – put an end to it with a...

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WITH British capitalism on its knees and the Tory Party and the ruling class split from stem to stern over the European Union, Tory...

Irish government disintegrates – forward to a workers and small farmers government

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AFTER the resignation of the Foreign Minister and four other members of the Irish cabinet, the Prime Minister, Cowen has resigned as the...

230,000 tenants face eviction as ban ends this weekend – Only socialist revolution can...

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ON SATURDAY the ban on evicting tenants in England and Wales, introduced by the Tories at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, is due...

Russian troops return to bases, giving the Ukrainian government the chance to break with...

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RUSSIAN troops have completed their training drills in Belarus, very close to neighbouring Ukraine, and will begin returning to their bases, the Ministry of...

Afghan election re-run collapses – US, UK completely discredited!

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AFGHANISTAN’S re-run election will be held on November 7th as scheduled, said the Afghan Electoral Commission yesterday. It is to have just one candidate,...

Time for regime change in Labour Party – kick out Starmer!

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Up to Wednesday, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer was in a state of complete denial about the depth of the rebellion amongst his own...

Sarkozy sentenced to three years for corruption – Cameron still evades justice!

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FRENCH ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption. He was convicted of trying to...

One day general strike to defend the NHS

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IN the last two months the trade union movement and NHS professional organisations have been forced to take serious notice of the deepening crisis...

British capitalism, backward, parasitic, and ripe for revolution

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A REPORT by business research firm Datamonitor says that people in the UK are borrowing on average almost twice that of citizens in other...

Hands off Serwotka – Sack the Coalition!

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AT a time when the whole of the working class and the middle class is under the most savage attacks from the Tory Lib-Dem...

Workers of the world must follow the lead of the students and take general...

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THE Geneva-based rights group, Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) says Israel is ‘intentionally’ demolishing schools and medical facilities, including those run by the UN agency...

The return of Duncan Smith, Cameron’s Workhouse Master

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THE announcement that Iain Duncan Smith has been re-appointed as Work and Pensions Secretary and charged by Cameron to step up the Tory onslaught...

TUC conference swings to the right – a new leadership must be built!

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THIS year’s annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference marked a historic lurch to the right by the leadership of the trade unions. At a time...

Kick out TUC leaders who warn of a tsunami of job losses but refuse...

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NEW ANALYSIS by the research group the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) has shown that unemployment in the UK will be a massive increase...

US Crisis Explodes On The Streets As Trump Threatens War With North Korea And...

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US PRESIDENT Trump, dedicated to ‘making America great again’, to further enrich the bosses and the bankers at the expense of the US workers...

University applications are plummeting! Call General Strike to scrap all uni fees, restore grants...

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SOARING university tuition fees, rents in student halls being hiked up, the complete removal of the student grant and the spiralling cost of living...

Trump and Pence threaten Venezuela with military intervention!

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PRESIDENT Trump, in his latest speech on restarting the Afghan war, made it clear he is not just interested in ‘killing terrorists’. He insisted: ‘We...

Israel’s finance minister orders preparations for the Israeli annexation of occupied West Bank

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ISRAEL’S extreme right wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, on Monday ordered preparations for the Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of Donald...

TUC must immediately act to stop Clarence House staff sackings by the monarchy and...

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THE PCS trade union has called for the proposed staff redundancies at Clarence House to be halted and pledged to support every member of...

PM Johnson Set To Put Brexit Deal With The EU To A Vote Today...

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ANYTHING and everything is being used to try and prevent the House of Commons voting to give its support to the government’s Brexit deal...

PM Johnson wants a nuclear rearmament drive to confront China!

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WITH Britain in a major economic and political crisis the Johnson government is not only preparing for a war with the UK working class,...

Workers rise up – Stop the closure of Ealing Maternity Unit!

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ON MAY 7 Labour won the Ealing Central and Acton seat from the Tories, with Rupa Huq getting 22,002 votes, a massive 13%...

Sudanese Masses Resistance Forces Junta To Agree To Murder Trial For Military Officers!

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EIGHT SENIOR military officers are to be charged in Sudan with crimes against humanity over their part in the mass killing of over 150...

NHS is faced with ‘mission impossible’ because of a Tory imposed ‘unbridgeable’ financial...

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NHS services in England are now, facing head on, a ‘mission impossible’ to meet the standards required by the government, the NHS ‘Providers’ health...

The great Labour democrats launch a purge so that they can support the Tories

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THE leader of one of the UK’s biggest trade unions has had his vote in the Labour leadership election rejected. His voting paper has...

Trump’s Terrorist Regime Kills Iranian Leaders As It Drives Forward To A New Middle...

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IRAN’S most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been murdered by a US air strike in Iraq. The...

The madness of NHS and Fire Service privatisation!

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STEWART Jackson MP, a senior Member of the Committee of Public Accounts and the Tory MP for Peterborough, yesterday indicted his own government stating:...

Tories out to destroy free speech

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THE full extent of the Tory plans to smash up the right to free speech was revealed yesterday by an unlikely source, the new...

The Occupation Is Responsible For All Of The Killings In Palestine

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A PALESTINIAN teenager from occupied East Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early on Wednesday in revenge for the killing of three Israeli settler youth...

Defend the NHS – bring down the government!

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Yesterday the NHS was officially opened up by the coalition government to the vultures of the private healthcare industry, whose only aim is to...

The Tory Party to evict pensioners and criminalise the disabled!

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THE Tory crusade has begun to resolve the capitalist crisis by heaping the cost of it onto the poor, the disabled, the elderly, the...

£490bn goes missing! Time to overthrow British capitalism, quit the EU and go forward...

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ALL THE talk by the Tories, and echoed by the Labour Party leadership, that capitalist Britain is fundamentally in good health economically, has just...

Tories Want To Turn Trade Unions Into Labour Fronts For The Bosses With Their...

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THE TORIES are proposing to turn free and independent trade unions into ‘Labour Fronts’ run by the bosses with their new anti-trade union legislation. Under...

RBS bankers joked about destroying the US housing market

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THIS week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a load of emails and transcripts of phone conversations between senior executives of RBS, the...

Unions must take action! Occupy Bombardier! Bring down the coalition! Nationalise to...

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THE proposed sacking of 1,500 Bombardier workers in Derby is the beginning of the end for the train construction industry in the UK, and...

Employment Minister Boles Threatens The Trade Unions!

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EMPLOYMENT Minister Nick Boles announced on Wednesday evening that the new anti-union legislation will govern industrial action in the fire, health, education, transport,...

Free Julian Assange – Jail The Imperialist Butchers

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was arrested in London yesterday and is now in jail, awaiting hearings to extradite him to Sweden where he will...

Tories face ‘historic defeat’ in elections – forward to kicking them out and bringing...

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THE TORIES face a ‘historic defeat’ in Thursday’s local elections, with a top Tory polling expert predicting they are on course to lose over...

We should have been the Thatcherites, Blair tells LP

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IN his parting speech as Prime Minister to the Labour Party conference, Blair administered his kiss of death to Gordon Brown, telling his Chancellor...

Three party leaders make a ‘Vow’ that they cannot carry out!

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YESTERDAY saw a LibDem, Tory and Labour Party coalition scrambling to promise anything and everything in a desperate effort to save the UK...

Israeli Dress Rehearsal For Attack On Iran!

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US officials yesterday admitted that a major military exercise, which saw more than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighter jets taking part in...

Blair is speeding up the privatisation drive

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ON all fronts the Blair government is speeding up its privatisation offensive, so that his governments can leave as their legacy for big...