Editorials

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Expropriate The Venture Capitalists

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WE are living in the period of the death agony of the capitalist system. It is only natural then, that out of the shadows should...

Imperialism is the real terrorist, not Hezbollah

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LATE ON Tuesday, Parliament passed without a vote a motion from the Tory home secretary, Sajid Javid, proscribing Hezbollah, which he claimed was a...

Demand the TUC call a general strike to defend NHS workers from Tory pay...

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IF THE Tories hoped that the last minute scramble to head off the anger of NHS workers by increasing the derisory and insulting 1%...

EU and Arab workers must unite to smash imperialism

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FRENCH police have arrested several suspects over the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine massacre in Paris, which killed 12 people to ‘avenge an insult to...

US Patriots In Gulf Prepare Way For Israeli Strike At Iran

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THE US has moved to prepare the way for an Israeli strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities by deploying missile shields in Qatar, the UAE,...

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...

Rice calls for US-Africa open markets deal

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THE US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, is currently touring Africa, putting forward the US plan to establish free trade and open markets with...

Hewitt, Hoon and Cameron fail to shift Brown

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ON Wednesday mid-day, ex-ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon sent a text to all Labour MPs asking them to support a call for a...

Bankrupt UK economy plunges deeper into slump

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There was no cheer for the British bourgeoisie on Monday when three separate reports from the Institute of Chartered accountants and the accountancy group...

Working class erupts as inflation rips through Europe – build sections of the 4th...

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EUROPE has erupted in strikes as workers rise up against raging inflation which is driving down living standards to poverty levels across the EU. Germany,...

Trump Coup Attempt Fails

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ON WEDNESDAY afternoon thousands of US president Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington before storming the US Congress to put a stop to the...

The Way Forward – Starve The Working Class Says King!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, in his Tuesday night speech detailed the source of the gigantic inflationary rise in living costs that...

Yellen signs up to Gordon Brown’s ‘no more boom or bust’ on the brink...

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IN A SPEECH in London last Tuesday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, announced to a disbelieving world that the...

US Secretary of State Kerry and Chief of Staff Dunford speak with Netanyahu

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THE US has reacted with fury to Russia’s ‘interference’ in the Middle East, that is, its invitation to President Assad to visit Moscow, and...

Quit Afghanistan now says Ashdown – as Cameron and Hague plan new wars in...

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EX-Special Boat Service operative Ashdown can recognise a major defeat when it stares him in the face, and refuses to go away. He has called...

Corporatist union leaders are serving the bosses

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WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...

Victory To The Palestinian Revolution!

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THE LATEST statistics produced by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics show clearly that Israeli domination of the occupied Palestinian territories has lead to...

Abbas calls for a Government of the State of Palestine!

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday that, ‘We are here today for all of us...

Capitalist state steps back from the brink!

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BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...

Call a one day general strike to defend the NHS

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YESTERDAY the leaders of the NHS trade unions were in their own words ‘raising the heat over the future of the NHS’. What resolute and...

Tory Nationality & Borders Bill will make rescuing refugees from drowning illegal!

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ON MONDAY night, the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (the Policing Bill) passed its third reading in Parliament on its way to...

Labour policy is pauperising graduates

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FIFTY EIGHT per cent of graduates find they are still relying on their parents for financial support three years after graduation, a survey commissioned...

Smash Royal Mail privatisation, defend the NHS, bring down the Brown government, forward to...

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WORKERS at Lindsey power station, the Royal Mail and doctors have shown their strength in rejecting and fighting attacks on their jobs, their wages...

Arrogant Trump Assumes His Bonaparte Pose While Threatening The Lives Of Hundreds Of...

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THE ARROGANT would-be dictator Trump has issued the workers of the world with his ultimatum that they must either stand and deliver to him...

UAW refusal to accept immediate wage cuts scuppers bail-out

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THE $14bn (£9.4bn) bail-out deal for the Big Three US car giants has failed to get the support of the US Senate. Its refusal came...

Right wing Labour wants to make sure that the UK never leaves the European...

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IN LAST Friday’s letter to EU President Donald Tusk the Prime Minister, Theresa May, made it very clear that she had surrendered to the...

Deeper Into The Afghan Quagmire

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BRITAIN’S top general in Afghanistan has backed the call of his US commander for 40,000 more troops to be sent into the Afghan quagmire,...

Deepening crisis means revolution in the UK and Ireland

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THE amount of new public sector borrowing in the UK hit a record of £15.9bn for August. This is £1.8 billion higher than in...

Imperialism opens gates of hell in North Africa

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TORY prime minister David Cameron has promised that British imperialism is prepared to wage a war lasting decades throughout Africa and the Middle East...

Poroshenko crushed in elections – forward to Ukrainian workers taking back power and returning...

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THE WORKERS and small farmers of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the right-wing oligarchs and to the EU and US imperialism when they...

Defend the NHS with trade union led occupations and a general strike!

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THE creation of new nursing assistant posts should be scrapped and money invested in ‘real nurses’, experts said yesterday ahead of the rollout of...

Obama Heading For The Fiscal Cliff – US Workers Beware!

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OBAMA’S re-election is a product of the refusal of US workers to allow an all-out robber baron of capitalism, Romney, to have control over...

Ukraine dumped by an imperialism too weak to defeat Russia

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IT HAS become clear over the past days that Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky have been unceremoniously dumped by the imperialist powers and...

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...

The Treasury and the Banks are in a panic over the Metro crash!

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UK Treasury officials are locked in talks with the Bank of England after Metro Bank’s shares plunged by more than 31%. The bank is now...

ANC in crisis as workers and poor demand their liberation from capitalism

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YESTERDAY the South African president Thabo Mbeki said that the acrimony in the African National Congress, the mainly black ruling party in South Africa,...

Blair demands end of EU farm subsidies

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THE knives are out between the British ruling class and its Franco-German opposite numbers. The press conference at the end of Blair’s visit to Moscow,...
BBC workers picketing Bush House this May

French revolution stuns EU bosses and political leaders

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THE 55 per cent vote, by the working class and the rural population of France against the European Constitution, is a body blow to...

Call a general strike – build Councils of Action – forward to Socialism

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THE Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said yesterday that the government should ban strikes by workers in essential services, adding that this...

Hezbollah Battling Thousands Of Israeli Troops

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THE Israeli government has been given the go-ahead by President Bush to mobilise up to 30,000 reservists, who are now joining the battle to...

The trade unions must follow the example of the ruling class and deal with...

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THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...

Close Down The US Base On Diego Garcia!

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FOREIGN Secretary Miliband yesterday admitted in the House of Commons that previous government denials that the island of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands...

Working class must break with Labour now, the only prop of the Tory government...

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100 TORY MPs voted against Boris Johnson’s ‘Plan B’ Covid restriction on Tuesday night, defying predictions earlier that Johnson had ‘won over’ a large...

Starmer’s ‘No’ to ban on arms to Israel must be met with a general...

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer, in the House of Commons on Monday, defended Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’ while lamenting ‘the region cannot endure...

The Banking Standards Commission selects three scapegoats for the capitalist crisis

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THE farcically misnamed Banking Standards Commission (as if the banks had any standards) was created to try and prevent an even bigger banking collapse...