Editorials

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After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!

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PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...

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...

Imperialist lies over Aleppo – a cover for their own war crimes

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SUNDAY’S emergency meeting of the UN Security Council witnessed the orchestrated attack on the Syrian people and Russia by the imperialist powers. The meeting was...

US credit experts warn a crash is coming

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NEWS IS quietly emerging from the top of the US banking fraternity that, despite the wild euphoria that has gripped the world financial centres...

MI5 and labour witch-hunters attack torture exposers

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HOME Secretary Johnson and MI5 director general, Evans, yesterday launched a hysterical witch-hunt against the exposers of the fact that both MI5 and the...

Cowardly Corbyn desperately walks the tightrope over the EU and the single market!

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LABOUR’S right wing were furious on Friday after the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party conference blocked a vote on single market membership. Instead,...

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...

Sack TUC traitors who collaborate with Tories and bosses – Build a new leadership...

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CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak opened his Budget speech on Wednesday with an appeal to ‘put aside party politics, and act in the national interest’ in...

The TUC supports the UK and US war plan for the Ukraine, and demands...

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THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor...

Forward with the European socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...

Labour can only offer youth police state repression

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THE Labour government is bringing in additional legislation under which children as young as 14 years old will be banned from wearing hoods or...

Labour’s Budget seeks to dump the British bosses’ debt crisis onto the backs of...

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ON Wednesday October 30, Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to deliver the first Autumn budget by Starmer’s government. The ground work for this budget...

Labour will let bankers’ bonuses soar and make the working class pay for capitalist...

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LABOUR’S shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday pledged any future Labour government to be the bankers’ best friend, ready and willing to facilitate awarding massive...

Gove calls for parents to scab

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Over the weekend the Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove issued a call for parents to volunteer to break Thursday’s strike by civil servants and...

Knives Out Inside The Tory Party– Time For The Working Class To Bring Them...

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AS THE Tory party implodes, and the lynch mob search mounts for the author or authors of the ‘Dirty Dossier’ that named 40MPs and...

Defend NHS with occupations and a general strike to bring down the government

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Yesterday saw the second reading of the Tory-led coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill in Parliament, a bill designed to facilitate the wholesale closure...

Revolution At Home And Abroad – Victory To Hamas And To The UK Workers...

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THE appointment of Yahya Sinwar as the new political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, after the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, has...

The only way to really defend Venezuela is for the working class to smash...

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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech last Tuesday night that a coup attempt by a small group of the military had...

Imperialist powers are preparing for war with Russia by sending in the Islamists!

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ELEVEN people have been detained after an attack by Islamists at a Moscow concert hall that killed 137, the head of Russia’s Federal Security...

TUC leaders can’t get enough of the EU’s corrupt corporatism and its anti-working class...

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TUC GENERAL secretary Frances O’Grady this week re-hashed all the arguments used by the TUC before the 2016 referendum that only by remaining captive...

Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’

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TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...

Big pensions for bosses, poverty for workers

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A new report by the Incomes Data Services and the High Pay Commission has thrown the spotlight on the issue of pensions, and the...

Unions Must Be Made To Take Action To Defend Steel Industry Jobs And Pensions!

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THE TORY government is on the brink of a savage attack on Tata Steel workers’ pensions, and after four weeks of consultation will be...

Cameron Threatens Eu With Bringing Forward Referendum

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THE German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned EU leaders that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg’s ex-PM Jean-Claude...

More and more repression in Brown’s Queen’s Speech

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THE Queen’s Speech yesterday outlined yet more attacks in the coming parliament on workers and youth in Britain by the Brown government, alongside a...

Labour ready for an emergency coalition

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ON the eve of the Labour Party conference, Ed Miliband has sought to win the support of the middle classes, and also drive a...

World crisis hits eurozone

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THE announcement by the unelected Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, that he is quitting the job  sent the Italian economy into a massive crisis...

Kick the Tories out! Get rid of capitalism to prevent a health catastrophe of...

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NHS WAITING lists in England could more than double in the coming months, from the current figure of 5.3 million people to around 13...

Johnson ditches Plan B – Time for working class to kick Tories out and...

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THE TORIES have pledged to dump all existing Covid restrictions in the next few weeks in England and ‘get life completely back to normal’. On...

Tories insist on ‘gagging orders’ to cover up for their crimes against workers

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IT EMERGED this week that the company hired by the Tories to test for flammable cladding on government and other public buildings in the...

No to a return of the Tories. Bring down Brown from the left

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BROWN has survived the resignations of Hutton, Purnell, Smith, Flint, Blears, Hoon and others, and remains Prime Minister for the moment. The next test comes...

Smash the anti-union laws with a general strike

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LAST Sunday fifty Tory MPs demanded the government bring in even more draconian laws aimed at breaking the growing strike movement that is gaining...

US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis and NATO to organise a war with...

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PM Boris Johnson said yesterday that Ukrainians are ‘fighting heroically’ and with ‘great success’ in some places against Russian troops who have intervened to...

New right-wing party to replace Tories being organised as spectre of revolution haunts British...

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AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the...
Gate Gourmet locke-out workers lobbying the TGWU Executive last Thursday morning demanding the union pay hardship pay to locked out workers who refuse to sign the Compromise Agreement

No hardship payments says Woodley

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TGWU leader Tony Woodley confirmed yesterday that the hardship payments to the locked out Gate Gourmet workers have been stopped. He informed a delegation of...

Anarchists Being Used To Increase Police-State Powers

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LAST Saturday’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against the coalitions cuts policy has shaken the coalition, and given the capitalist state a lot to think about. Such...

Woodley tells Blair to quit – Simpson urges policy change

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MAY DAY saw thousands of workers, among them Peugeot motor car workers, hospital workers facing the threat of redundancy, locked out Gate Gourmet workers,...

King Abdullah Of Jordan Calls For Immediate End To Israeli Aggression!

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KING Abdullah II of Jordan warned yesterday against the catastrophic repercussions of the ongoing Israeli destruction of Gaza, emphasising the urgent need to address...

UCU Warns Against Student Poll Tax

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1381 was the historic year when the peasantry rose up against the imposition of the Poll Tax in a revolt that speeded up the...

US Threatens China As It Seeks To Drive Back World Revolution!

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ON FRIDAY the foreign ministry of the Kuomintang- ruled territory of Chinese Taipei vowed to further deepen its close military alliance with the US...

Obama’s War Being Stepped Up

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THE government of Pakistan yesterday summoned the US ambassador to Islamabad to protest at yet another US drone missile attack on Pakistani civilians. ...

TUC must stand up for the disabled against the Tory government!

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THE UN has slammed the UK, which it says has violated the Convention on Disabled People’s Rights. A damning UN report released yesterday states that...

The bosses refuse to back May! Now is the time for a general strike...

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A PLAN by the Tories to demonstrate that the bosses of Britain’s leading companies are firmly behind the chaotic Brexit negotiations blew up in...

Unite cuts funding to Labour. All unions must break with Labour and call an...

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YESTERDAY Unite, the trade union with 1.4 million members, announced it will cut political donations to the Labour party and divert the money to...

‘Green Shoots’ – A Mirage Of Desperate Capitalists

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THE European Central Bank is having nightmares about the state of the 25 banks that underpin the financial system of the Eurozone within the...