Editorials

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Sainsbury Gets Out While The Going Is Good

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WITH the police closing in to interview him under caution about the cash for peerages scandal, and after his government has been stunned by...

Balls and the ‘Little Englanders’ adopt racism as their policy

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‘WE were wrong to allow so many eastern Europeans into Britain,’ says Ed Balls, referring to the large number of migrants from Poland and...

Capitalism’s Greatest Crisis Driving World Revolution!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, finally admitted publicly that British and world capitalism faced their ‘worst crisis ever’, a crisis...

Egypt bombs Derna and pledges Libyan intervention

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EGYPT’S Air Force, on Monday morning bombed Islamic State positions in Derna, Libya, after IS beheaded 21 Coptic Christian Egyptians. The city was also bombed...

Bush moves towards intervention with ‘free hostages’ call

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PRESIDENT BUSH has laid the basis for military intervention against Iran with his condemnation of Iran’s ‘inexcusable behaviour’ in arresting the 15 British sailors...

Israeli Police Cancel Settlers March! Trade Unions Must Take Action Now To Establish Palestinian...

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ISRAELI police yesterday cancelled tomorrow’s annual massive settlers’ march through Jerusalem. The march celebrates the occupation of the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967 and...

House nuisance neighbours in containers says Field

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LABOUR’S war against the working class and the poor continues, with Birkenhead MP Frank Field advocating that nuisance neighbours should be evicted and ‘housed’...

Corbyn must drive out Labour’s Remain right wing – Time to build the WRP

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WEDNESDAY’S meeting of the Labour Party’s shadow cabinet saw the deep split in the Labour leadership widen into a chasm as former loyal Corbyn...

Mandelson to read last rites for GM Luton – workers must occupy the plant...

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BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson – who did not lift a finger to save the LDV van factory from administration, to which it was consigned...

TUC must take action to stop the extradition of Julian Assange and to release...

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JULIAN ASSANGE, who has lost his latest legal appeal, is ‘dangerously close’ to being extradited to the US, his family and observers of his...

End herd immunity capitalist barbarism with a socialist revolution!

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THE DEMAND for capitalism to ‘reopen’ under the umbrella of the discredited theory that herd immunity is the only way to combat coronavirus has...

Break with the EU – Forward to the British socialist revolution and Socialist United...

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THE POLITICAL and economic crisis over Brexit has reached explosion point this week, with negotiations between the Tory government and the leaders of the...

War on the unemployed – bring down the coalition

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THE news this weekend that the private companies are bidding for 40 new welfare contracts represents another stage in the Tory-LibDem coalition’s relentless drive...

Bank of England to unleash hyperinflation in a desperate attempt to save capitalism

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REPORTS emerged over the weekend that the Bank of England is on the verge of announcing another massive round of money printing to pay...

Having removed Mursi, the Egyptian masses will march forward to socialism

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THE move by the Egyptian military leadership to overthrow the Muslim Brotherhood government of President Mursi represents a decisive development in the Egyptian revolution...

US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Agreed – Awaits Trump’s Signature!

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LAST week the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said Washington is not seeking a permanent military presence in Afghanistan, after the Taliban said...

Follow Holby City Equity Take Strike Action With Junior Doctors

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THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...

Death rate rising rapidly – savage Tory cuts to blame!

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MASSIVE Tory cuts are undermining the NHS and threatening the lives of many thousands. There is already an investigation taking place after  whistleblower Sarah Hayes, a...

A UK G-Bay & more armed police as Tories seek big majority to force...

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NEW Guantanamo Bay-style jails-within-jails are being opened for the first time in the UK to incarcerate ‘extremists of all kinds’, while police are being...

The Israelis are bombing Palestine and killing thousands. The TUC must call a...

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ISRAEL’S air force has delivered strikes on some 60 Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the press office of...

Biden keeps US embassy in Jerusalem! He is continuing where Trump left off! US...

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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden will keep the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem, his nominee for Secretary of State Antony Blinken affirmed at his...

Quit the EU now – defend jobs, forward to socialism!

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A PROPOSED law giving PM Johnson’s government the power to reject parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU passed its first reading in...

Civil Rights lawyers closed down by Tories

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THE law firm that has spent ten years representing the Iraqi victims of the brutal imperialist invasion of their country and the subsequent occupation...

CHILDREN ARE DYING EVERY DAY! Hospitals have been bombed! Doctors say that they have...

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THE UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned that already low levels of aid trickling into Gaza have dwindled further, with the situation...

Abolish The Gangmasters!

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THE scandal of the gangmasters has caused uproar in the working class, but the leaders of the trade union movement are helping to cover...

Chinese Stalinists fear workers political revolution!

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IN an extraordinary speech given at his annual press conference, the outgoing Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, warned that China risks a ‘historical tragedy’...

US-UK-EU are fighting a war on two fronts – against Russia and against their...

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SWEDEN AND FINLAND are expected to apply for NATO membership on May 17th, and no doubt they will be welcomed with ‘open arms’ since...

Students across the US rise up against genocidal war in Gaza showing the way...

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STUDENTS across America have risen up against the barbaric genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza and in support of Palestine in a...

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...

EU was ready to risk scrapping Good Friday Agreement to get ahead in the...

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THAT the Covid-19 pandemic world crisis has sharpened the contradictions of the capitalist system to the point of vaccine wars and revolutionary explosions is...

Hunt and Bailey will ‘do whatever is necessary’ to save bankrupt capitalism. Time to...

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ON MONDAY night, 400 leading figures from the world of high finance and corporate business gathered at the Mansion House in London to hear...

Nationalise BA to defend wages, jobs and pensions

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BA managers were yesterday pledging a ‘fight to the death’ with the Unite trade union and its members to force through cuts in wages,...

Nati0Nalise Gm Vauxhall And Ellesmere Port!

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VAUXHALL factories at Ellesmere Port and Luton will close if GM’s talks with the Labour government for the Treasury to take over the financing...

Greek workers on the march to socialist revolution

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THE Greek working class, Greek youth and the majority of the middle class and the small farmers have battled the EU imposed austerity programmes...

Stop the A&E closures! End the £50bn of NHS cuts! Defend the NHS by...

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GROWING demand on A&E departments will make them unsustainable if effective action is not taken quickly, according to MPs on the Health Committee. Launching a...

Corbyn’s speech is a cowardly surrender to the bosses and bankers

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yesterday defining Labour’s position on Brexit negotiations was nothing more than an abject and cowardly surrender to the bosses...

The workers of the world must now come to the aid of the Palestinian...

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‘OUR right to self-determination is inalienable. It is not tied to a timeframe’, Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Thursday said...

Tories Split Over The Johnson–Sunak Decision To Raise National Insurance Contributions In April!

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PM JOHNSON’S decision to bloc with Chancellor Sunak to see that National Insurance Contributions are raised in April by £12.9 billion has widened the...

Smash Labour’s capitalist police state plans! TUC must call general strike!

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STARMER'S Labour government’s move to turn Britain into a police state has taken a dramatic step forward this week with its announcement of plans...

Bank of England demands wage cuts to keep businesses and the government from going...

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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released figures yesterday on the average pay across the UK, which they claimed saw an increase of 6.2%...

France sends in more troops to join US forces in Syria

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FRANCE, the former colonial power in Syria, has expanded its military presence in the country, supporting the United States which is organising Kurdish...

Capitalism’s biggest crisis since 1706, warns BofE! Make it its last with a socialist...

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THE BANK of England’s latest report, released on Thursday, has revealed the full extent of the catastrophic crisis of capitalism, now writhing around in...

‘Red lights flashing’ – Cameron signals more cuts

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WRITING in the Guardian yesterday, David Cameron announced that, following his meeting with world leaders at the G20 conference in Brisbane, he has suddenly...

Bosses are taking the axe to the Welfare State, pensions and the NHS! Forward...

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IN MONDAY’S Daily Telegraph, Roger Bootle spells out the ‘fallacy’ in its business section that economic growth is the key to Britain’s survival as...

OECD predicts economic disaster as UK chief of staff predicts war with Russia!

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WILLIAM WHITE, the head of the OECD’s review body, warned before the Davos Summit on Monday that: ‘All the market indicators right now look...