Editorials

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Politically bankrupt Starmer will seek to force the working class to pay for the...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s speech at the TUC Congress yesterday spelt out precisely to delegates that this Labour government is determined to inflict all the pain...

Ukraine – Under The Iron Heel Of The Imf!

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THE coupist regime in Kiev has reached a preliminary deal with the International Monetary Fund to try to unlock $27 billion of ‘international support’...

Labour Pledges More Austerity!

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POLITICAL ‘role reversal’ is the phrase being bandied about by bourgeois political commentators as they scratch their heads trying to make comparisons between the...

American dream turns to nightmare!

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HUNDREDS of US cities are going bust, either destroyed by the banking and property collapse or by the crisis of the major US industries. The...

US, UK, Turkey Make Sure Syrian Truce Collapses

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A POWERFUL car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday, on the first day of the Syrian cease-fire, killing five people and injuring 32. Thus was...

Workers will ignore Tory attempts to make Russia their enemy – the enemy is...

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YESTERDAY’S statement by Theresa May to parliament on the range of ‘reprisals’ against Russia for the alleged involvement of the Russian state in the...

Starmer’s ‘reshuffle’ sidelines Reeves and provokes a financial meltdown of British capitalism

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THE UK parliament returned from the summer holidays on Monday and Labour prime minister Keir Starmer immediately caused a meltdown in the economy. The immediate...

Bosses Want The NHS To Bail Out The Energy Companies!!!

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THE Tory drive to impose capitalist ‘business models’ on the NHS with the constant demand for cuts and financial stability at the cost of...

NHS held to ransom by Cyber terrorists – Hunt must resign and the...

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ON FRIDAY afternoon a terrorist cyber attack was launched on the NHS in England and Scotland that brought it to a standstill in many...

US Imperialism organised botched plot to overthrow Venezuela’s President!

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ON WEDNESDAY, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emphatically denied to reporters that the US had any involvement in the failed attempt by...

Bank rate rigging ‘Everyone was at it’

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The crisis resulting from the bank rate rigging scandal that has engulfed Barclays took a dramatic turn over the weekend with the revelation that...

Tory Civil War – Now Is The Time To Bring Them Down

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IT is an expression of the depth of the crisis of British capitalism, that Duncan Smith, the ex-Tory leader, the would-be Puritan...

Japan Rearming To Back US Aggression Against China

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THE Japanese government, ignoring yet again its own constitution, which bans Japan having aggressive military forces, has approved a new national security strategy, and...

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....

Balls to make workers pay for Bank debts

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IN yesterday’s speech Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, committed any future Labour government to savage attacks on all the gains of the welfare state in...

British capitalism’s crisis of rule

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THE inability of the Tories to pull ahead in the opinion polls, proves that 13 years of Labour rule has not been enough to...

Detroit gets its dictator over workers’ jobs, unions and wages

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AN emergency manager, in fact a financial dictator with powers over jobs, wages and conditions, has been appointed for the bankrupt US city of...

May wants to put the UK into chains

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WE already know that new legislation to be put forward by the government has as one of its features ‘internal relocation’ for British passport...

The Spectre Of Revolution Stalks Europe Says Farage

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IT was Karl Marx who in 1848, two months before the February revolution erupted in France, began the Communist Manifesto with the words ‘A...

Bush Visit To Form Alliance With ‘Axis Of Evil’

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THERE has been a spate of hectic diplomatic activity in the Middle East, since the Israeli defeat in the Lebanon and the Congressional mid-term...

EU torn apart by Covid pandemic – forward to Socialist United States of...

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THE DEADLY third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is ripping the EU apart over vaccinations and lockdowns. In Germany, with 9,549 new cases and 180...

Greek Workers And Youth Are On The Road To Revolution!

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MASSES of workers and youth clashed with the state forces in the Greek capital Athens yesterday, on the first day of a 48-hour general...

Dempsey’s Five Deadly Options

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THE US chief of staff, General Dempsey, has written an Open Letter to the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, Carl Levin, about the...

Trump splits US ruling class with demand they give up vast profits in China

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ON THE eve of the G7 Summit in France over the weekend US president Donald Trump ordered US companies to leave China and move...

Labour gives support to Tories’ austerity cuts

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Two reports this week bring home that the reality facing millions of workers and their families under this rotten, bankrupt British capitalist system is...

Labour will not reverse hospital closures!

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THE Health Services Journal (HSJ) has just revealed that the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) officials are keeping confidential (that is well hidden) until...

Labour plans to criminalise the entire working class

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THE government is planning ‘behaviour orders’ for people considered to be at risk of committing a violent crime. Class prejudice, ie racial and working...

No sackings, or wage ‘holidays’ for bankrupt banks and councils

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YESTERDAY the Brown government was emphasising that it had no interest in running the three banks that it was ‘part-nationalising’ (rescuing) with £37bn of...

Inflation rising – slashing wages and threatening jobs! Trade unions must take action to...

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INFLATION rose to 3.1% in November, the highest in nearly six years, as the squeeze on households continued and prices rose, slashing further into...

High Court rules Tory laws on use of agency workers to break strikes is...

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THE Tories suffered a setback yesterday in their drive to legalise strike breaking when the High Court ruled that its agency worker regulations are...

Trump and Fallon slam May’s deal while ‘Remainer’ Corbyn prepares to debate with ‘Remainer’...

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THE BREXIT war sharpened yesterday when both President Trump and ex-Tory Minister Michael Fallon rounded on May’s capitulation to the EU through her recognition...

Crisis hit Osborne pledges ruthless class war on workers, pensioners and youth

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CHANCELLOR Osborne began his Autumn Statement yesterday ‘We will do whatever it takes to protect Britain from this debt storm . ....

Smash The Thatcherite Tory Party With A General Strike And A Socialist Revolution!

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IN YESTERDAY’s Daily Telegraph, Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport, displayed his 100% hatred of trade unions and trade unionists. Reacting to the...

Defend all GM jobs! Occupy and Nationalise UK’s Vauxhall plants!

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ON Thursday May 21, GM announced that ‘Representatives of Unite, the union, signed the UK Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and European framework agreement in...

Irish Union Votes To Repudiate Bank Debt!

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The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union is to contact ‘like-minded unions’ to seek ‘international legal opinion regarding the possibility of mounting a successful legal...

May’s Britain a hostile place for workers and youth – Now is the time...

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DESTITUTION under May’s crippled Tory government is soaring to levels not seen since the Victorian times. The roll-out of Universal Credit has created...

Defence Secretary Hagel cements US-Japan imperialist alliance

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SPEAKING in Japan alongside Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera on Saturday, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel pledged the US’ ‘complete and absolute commitment to...

Blair Called In To Advise Trump On Gaza, And Dealing With The Revolutionary Palestinian...

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‘I met murder on the way – He had the mask of Castlereagh – Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him:’ THESE are the famous...

Tories declare class war to the finish – time for trade unions to organise...

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ON THE EVE of the unprecedented strike by nurses and ambulance workers, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak said that he will not ‘back down’...

NO Apology to UNITE – Miliband to continue with anti-union campaign!

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UNITE’S general secretary Len McCluskey has said he is delighted the union has been ‘vindicated’ over the Falkirk ‘vote-rigging’ allegations Labour has decided no individual...

Force the TUC to call general strike to bring down Tories!

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THE working class is being left with no alternative by the government than to take general strike action to prevent all of its gains...

‘Remainer’ May gives the UK parliament the final say!

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PM MAY yesterday told a Lancaster House press conference of her government’s plan to quit the dictatorial EU and its Single Market. Harkening back to...

Biden contemplates unilateral action against the US debt mountain and organising military action against...

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PRESIDENT Biden on Sunday, speaking in Hiroshima, the scene of a US-UK atom bombing, was forced to address the US banking crisis and whether...

BoE chief: British capitalism ‘turning clock back’ to 18th century!

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THE SPLIT in the leading bodies of the Bank of England over whether or not to raise interest rates has emerged just shortly after...

A billionaires’ paradise – the UK under Blair and Brown

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IN the last 12 months the working class and the vast majority of the middle class have desperately struggled under a huge and...