Editorials

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‘Fools Gold’ Sends Stock Markets Rocketing Upwards

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BOTH Wall Street and the London stock markets made record advances yesterday. The FTSE 100 index rocketed upwards on Friday morning adding £80billion to share...

Howard condemns ‘judicial activists’ as security risks

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Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...

Greek workers and Palestinian masses are allies

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THE Greek Pasok capitalist government, that is using its state forces to bludgeon and gas tens of thousands of workers protesting against its sell-off...

US arms Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia for war with Iran

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THAT the US is preparing a new great war in the Middle East and the Gulf to destroy Iran and Syria is crystal clear...

Arab bourgeoisie – an agency of imperialism

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THE Viva Palestina convoy has found out that, when it comes to preventing aid reaching the much-battered and besieged Gaza Strip, the Mubarak...

Revolution coming to North America!

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THE continuing Egyptian revolution – in particular the determined occupations of Tahrir Square and the fearless struggle of Egypt’s workers for their rights...

Israeli Dress Rehearsal For Attack On Iran!

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US officials yesterday admitted that a major military exercise, which saw more than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighter jets taking part in...

Chancellor Brown To Scrap Pensions Deal

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EX-CBI bosses leader Lord Turner’s report into the future of pensions – commissioned by the Blair government – is due to be published on...

UK Pirates Plan Somalia Onslaught!

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YESTERDAY, a conference was convened in London to organise the intervention into Somalia by imperialist forces, led by the UK, acting under the cover of...

No Prosecutions – Let Off For Those Who Destroyed 6500 Mg Rover Jobs

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THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said it does not intend to launch a criminal investigation into the collapse of carmaker MG Rover. It was...

Taleban in control in Pakistan border regions as US moves to step up war

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THE accession of President Obama has not in the slightest held up, or held back, the massive air attacks that are being made by...
Members of the CGT, France’s largest trade union federation, arrive at Place d’Italie at the end of Tuesday’s demonstration

Blair threatens to ‘close the book’ on the north

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THE British and Irish premiers yesterday outlined their plan to restore direct rule from Westminster, via Dublin, if the Paisleyite DUP does not agree...

Cameron orders SAS killers onto British streets

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NEARLY 2,000 new spies are to be immediately recruited by the British state, prime minister David Cameron announced yesterday. Speaking from the G20 summit being...

Afghan election re-run collapses – US, UK completely discredited!

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AFGHANISTAN’S re-run election will be held on November 7th as scheduled, said the Afghan Electoral Commission yesterday. It is to have just one candidate,...

At least three provinces reject the US’ Iraq constitution

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IT IS remarkable that in a ‘constitutional referendum’ organised by a puppet government, in a country under occupation by the US and the UK,...
Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC Congress in Brighton on September 12 insisting on their reinstatement

Delphi Battle Looms For US Trade Unions

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THE battle lines are being drawn up in the United States between the vanguard of the working class in the auto industry and the...

Give Employment Tribunals power to make employers take back sacked workers

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FOLLOWING an increase in the number of employment tribunals – after an attempt was made two years ago to make it deliberately harder for...

Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!

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AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...

Irish banks ‘death spiral’ – forward to socialist revolution

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THE latest stage in the complete disintegration of the Irish banking system was described by one analyst of the capitalist market as a ‘death...

Iraqi Masses To March Against Deal To Extend US Mandate

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US defence chief Robert Gates has been briefing US politicians on the proposal to extend the US mandate in Iraq. This expires this December...

Right wing coupists routed in Labour NEC elections!

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SUPPORTERS of Labour leader Corbyn have swept the board in elections to Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, routing the right wing and giving it...

Police chief rejects Orwellian Britain

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THE deputy chief constable of Hampshire Ian Readhead said yesterday that Britain could become a surveillance society with cameras on every street corner. As...

Stop BA & Stop Baa Airports, To Win Cabin Crew Struggle!

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BA cabin crew yesterday rejected the latest offer from BA with a massive 67 per cent voting to throw out by 3,419 votes to...

Smash Brown’s budget cuts, and wage freeze policy

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told the House of Commons last Thursday that he will reduce the Whitehall budget by up to 20 per cent in...

Crisis Deepening Rapidly – Socialism The Only Answer

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IN ‘going-broke Britain’ the number of people becoming insolvent in England and Wales in 2009 was 134,142, according to official data from the Insolvency...

All Out On May 1!

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown have declared war on the public services and their staff, with closures, cuts, redundancies and pay...
Locked-our Gate Gourmet pickets want official backing from the TGWU to win their jobs back

Blair convinces nobody with his education market

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YESTERDAY saw the Prime Minister seeking to reinvent himself as the champion of the people and a supporter of ‘social justice’. Speaking in...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the factory

Organise a general strike over pensions!

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ABOUT 1.5 million local council workers are to strike on March 28 to defend their local government pension scheme. It is being described as...

Israel Threatens Palestine With The ‘Iron Fist’

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ISRAEL has greeted the exercise by the Palestinians of their democratic right to elect Hamas as their governing party, with the most concentrated attacks...

RMT ready to stop Network Rail

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THE RMT railworkers trade union has confirmed that members on Network Rail maintenance have voted by 77% for strike action in response...

UK death squads in the north – a warning for today

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LAST night’s Panorama programme, entitled ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Force’, threw yet more light on the murderous activities of the British state in its war...

Defend the NHS budget Drive out the privateers Nationalise the drug companies

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THE voice of the NHS managers spoke up yesterday. The NHS Confederation reported ‘The health service in England won’t survive unchanged’. This is doublespeak, for...

Lift the siege on the Palestinians!

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PRIME Minister Ismail Haniya’s Palestinian Authority (PA) national unity government, sworn in on Saturday, is being recognised and supported by more and more...

Osborne seeking showdown with unions

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ON Thursday the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, made an emergency statement to parliament on the international economic crisis that is engulfing British capitalism to...

Blair criminalising an entire nation

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YESTERDAY the Labour government was carrying on with its campaign to demonise the country’s youth, reaching truly laughable levels of trivial pursuit. Its supporter,...

Bush plans coming unstuck in Pakistan

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PRESIDENT Musharraf swore in a new caretaker puppet government yesterday to lead crisis-hit Pakistan towards rigged elections in January, when demonstrations and all rallies...

Tory-type austerity is now Ball’s centre ground

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WRITING in the Guardian this week, Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, made it clear that the Labour leadership’s economic policy consisted solely of moving...

Kelly plans new attacks on council tenants

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RUTH Kelly, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has backed proposals to end the long-term secure tenancies of working-class families living in...

Stop The Afghan War – The Enemy Is At Home

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DEMOCRATIC presidents and prime ministers such as Obama and Brown have rushed into the Afghan breach to rubber-stamp their stooge Karzai as the president...

Build the WRP!

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AT SATURDAY’S march to defend the Welfare State, workers from across the country were clear that action will have to be taken to defend...

Smash the capitalist state – the only way to get justice for Blair Peach!

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THE Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) today released the report of Commander Cass into the events surrounding the death of Blair Peach in Southall, west...

Bourgeois democracy conceals cabinet diktat

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THE Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Straw, on Tuesday, told the House of Commons that he had, as Minister, taken the...

Vote Wrp – Keep The Tories Out– Forward To The Socialist Revolution

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100,000 trade unionists and youth marched in Athens yesterday against the EU-IMF savage cuts programme being carried out by the Papandreou ‘socialist’ government. Today millions...

Workers do Battle All Over Europe!

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GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...

Police are not workers in uniform

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THE Police Federation has demanded that the Home Secretary resign after her refusal to backdate their 2.5 per cent pay award, and has decided...