Editorials

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Beginning of the end for Johnson – finish Tories off with a general strike

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WHEN The Daily Telegraph carries as its banner headline ‘Beginning of the end for Boris?’ then it is certain that plots to dump him...

Hundreds of blocks of flats are found to be death traps – over 3...

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IN THE HUGE public outcry at the deaths of 72 people in the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, the demand for safety checks...

Tuc Must Defend Palestinians And Call A General Strike To Completely Boycott Israel...

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THE Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has just announced in a statement that Ahmed Badr Abdullah Abu Ali, a resident of Yatta city in the...

The UN Committee Against Torture Condemns Israeli Regime!

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THE United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of ‘organised torture’ against Palestinians. In a report published...

Horizon scandal piles more pressure on Tories as they face accusations of demanding compensation...

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The Horizon IT scandal of the hounding of over 900 completely innocent Post Office managers by the Post Office leading to multiple prosecutions for...

Bank of England is clueless as financial crisis drives socialist revolution

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IN what must be the most blinding statement of the obvious, senior members of the Bank of England admitted yesterday that they did not...
UAW Delphi Protesters assemble outside the Detroit Motor show

Blair’s plans remain a ‘Trojan Horse’ for an education market

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A political storm of the highest order has broken out in Greece over mass phone-tapping. This follows revelations, at a special press-conference last Thursday in...

For the capitalist state the enemy is at home

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THE launch in parliament of the new book, ‘Blacklisted: the Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists’, saw Labour MP John McDonnell read...

Italian banks’ debt of over £300 billion will crash the world banks

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FOR years the Italian banking system has been kept on a life-support system of government bailouts as it sinks under the weight of astronomical...

Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action With The Nurses To Bring Down...

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NURSING STAFF have voted to strike in the majority of NHS hospitals across the UK, and the nurses union, the RCN, has called on...

TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION TO FORCE PM MAY TO RETURN VENEZUELA’S GOLD AT...

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LAST Wednesday US national security advisor John Bolton threatened that the US administration was putting every foreign bank ‘on notice’ if they failed to...

Trump And Blair Are Furious As The Taliban Heads For Government!

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THE success of the Taliban movement and the mass of the Afghan people in securing a US and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the...

Tories trying to stampede MPs into supporting war in Syria!

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THE tragic loss of the Russian airliner flying out of the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh killing 224 people, is being used by the...

‘Keep The Ground Aflame With Popular Resistance’ Urges President Abbas

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THE PALESTINIAN President, Mahmoud Abbas has called for more popular resistance and warned ‘We should not underestimate it’. He has called for further visits to...

Rice Visit Is To Stir Up Wars And Civil Wars

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US Secretary of State Rice’s visit to the Middle East is to organise the conditions for US attacks on both Iran and...

UK-NATO attempt on Gadaffi’s life fails!

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THE murderous attack on the home of Saif al Arab, the youngest son of Colonel Gadaffi, killed Saif and three grand children of the...

On The Eve Of The Budget, Workers Are Demanding Action To Bring Down...

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THE TUC General Council has met and issued a statement on the crisis. In it, it disgracefully treats the Tory government as a potential...

Passchendaele – where imperialism murdered hundreds of thousands of British & German workers

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THE BATTLE of Passchendaele saw 275,000 British soldiers, workers in uniform, killed or wounded alongside 220,000 German workers in uniform. This was a great imperialist...

US workers bracing themselves for ‘fiscal cliff’

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THE US labour movement is now bracing itself for a last minute ‘deal’ on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ with the Republican Party, in which the...

Capitalism cannot solve housing crisis – only socialism can!

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IN his emergency budget Chancellor Osborne made it crystal clear that the Housing Benefit of those struggling to exist under crisis-ridden capitalism was one...

Expropriate the bosses and bankers!

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YESTERDAY in Warwick, Labour leader Miliband mustered a battery of very ‘moral’ arguments about ‘fairness’, and the colonial origins of non-dom status, as if...

Macron demands dictatorship throughout the EU – UK must leave EU on March 29th!

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron, currently fighting a civil war with millions of French workers, has proposed a series of ‘reforms’ that he says will...

Students and universities under savage coalition attack

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IN ORDER that the universities can have their budgets slashed and be privatised or closed, students are to be charged up to £9,000 a...

A Case Of Strange Bedfellows

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THE Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come back from the US convinced that the Labour government must change its position against the use...

Johnson moves to put the skids under Prescott

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THE Blairite cabinet, faced with the working class rejecting Blair, his war on Iraq, his onslaught on the Welfare State, and with popular revulsion...

Obama To The Right Of Bush Over Palestine

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THE US democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama, during his visit to Palestine, refused to go back on his earlier statement, made at a Zionist...

Recession-hit UK and EU diving into economic crash while Trump declares trade war on...

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Yesterday, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) issued a warning to Labour’s chancellor Rachel Reeves that growth expectations amongst UK companies have taken ‘a...

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...

Now sack the union leaders to bring down the Tories and bring in a...

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THE ‘Leave’ victory in the just-held referendum constitutes a huge revolutionary victory for the working class and the poor of the UK who voted...

Sanctions on Russia rebound on US as countries dump the dollar as dominant world...

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ONE OF the main consequences of the US-led sanctions designed to strangle the Russian economy and lead to regime change has been to hasten...

Socialist revolution is the only way to smash capitalist police state!

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ON TUESDAY, the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, US president Joe Biden met with Floyd family members. The meeting...

Obama Warning For Russia And China

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PRESIDENT Obama’s State of the Union message saw the ‘lame-duck’ president, into the last period of his rule, seeking to convince US workers that...

The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...

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MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...

After one year of the Libyan slaughter – Forward to Damascus urge Cameron, Sarkozy...

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THE Libyan people are being told that they must celebrate the first anniversary of the ‘revolution’ (in fact, counter-revolution) that has destroyed their country,...

Obama seeks wider support for central Asian war

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PRESIDENT Obama has shaken his supporters with his admission that the war in Afghanistan is not being won, and that he is willing to...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza – forward to the Palestinian state with Jerusalem...

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A UNITED NATIONS inquiry has found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza through a ‘systematic campaign to destroy Palestinian life’, including attacks on...

Victoria Nuland – The Organiser Of Ukraine Coup Visits Athens!

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IN Greece, the Syriza government, which was elected to break with the Troika of the European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank,...

Euro crisis hits youth hardest – forward with European socialist revolution

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THERE is no more pathetic sight than that of European bourgeois politicians and economists manically trying to convince both themselves and the world at...

Truss insists workers must pay for war sanctions on Russia

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TORY Foreign Secretary Liz Truss bluntly told British workers and their families that they will be made to pay the price for the imperialist...

Crisis Forces Osborne To Re-Write His Budget!

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LAST November 25th in his Autumn Statement Chancellor Osborne was full of praise for the way that allegedly the UK was now full set...

Time For Action To Defend The NHS!

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YESTERDAY both the RCN nurses and the Royal College of Physicians made it perfectly clear that the time has arrived when action to defend...

US government will shut down tomorrow as the political and economic crisis in America...

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THE FEDERAL government will shut down tomorrow as Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress are in a bitter dispute over budget cuts to...

Don’t watch the Tamils being slaughtered – join the Parliament Square protests!

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THE Sri Lanka Army yesterday stepped up its murderous shelling of its so-called ‘safety zone’ in the Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal and Vadduvaakal areas of north-east...

Head of Oxfam GB damns UK as ‘morally incoherent’ over arming the Israeli genocide!

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THE head of Oxfam GB, Halima Begum, has damned the UK government for supplying arms to Israel while simultaneously providing humanitarian aid to Gaza...

Mossad’s prints all over Gaza bombing!

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YESTERDAY in the aftermath of the bombing in Gaza that killed five leading Hamas fighters, and a five-year-old girl, accusations and counter-accusations were being...