Editorials

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Trade unions must take action to defend the NHS

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AS far as the NHS is concerned the vultures are now gathering for the kill. On Monday, News Line publicised a leaked e-mail ...

Tory Party Breaking Apart Over Eu Referendum

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LEAVING the EU could lead to the break up of the UK, said former Tory leader and former Foreign Secretary, William Hague yesterday. Since the...

Davis Calls On The Cabinet To Revolt – Now Is The Time To Bring...

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NOW that the ex-Brexit negotiator Davis has called for the Cabinet to rise up against the May government’s permanent Customs Union, and her plan...

The Chagos Islanders Must Be Returned To Their Homes

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YESTERDAY the Court of Appeal ruled that the Blair government had carried out an Abuse of Power when it overruled the assurance given by...

Privatisation and health care are opposites!

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YESTERDAY Southern Cross announced 3,000 redundancies. Its crash is underway with the lives of thousands of elderly residents at stake as well as the...

Bosses demand Labour government wages all-out austerity war on workers as UK capitalism collapses...

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THE UK’s main bosses’ organisation, the CBI, has turned on the Labour government with a vengeance over the increase in employers’ National Insurance Contribution...

Action needed to stop them smashing the NHS

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NHS England warned yesterday that by 2020-21 the gap between the NHS budget and rising costs could reach £30bn, meaning that when the current...

Stock markets crash as capitalism drives into recession – Socialist revolution only way forward

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THE CRASH on the global stock markets carried on yesterday as the world financial markets reeled from the shock realisation that the once mighty...

Victory to Assad! Stop bombing Libya – withdraw UK special forces!

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ON Monday the US launched air strikes on the Libyan city of Sirte against ISIL, at the request of one of the current Libyan...

Overthrowing capitalism only way to eradicate Covid variants

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THE NEW variant strain of Covid-19, given the name Omicron by the World Health Organisation (WHO), burst onto the world scene last week although...

Nationalise Bp, Shell And All The Gas And Oil Companies

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BP’s profits are soaring, it is getting fabulously richer while more and more working class motorists are forced to take their cars...

Trump’s ‘war on two fronts’ against ‘millions of illegal immigrants’ at home...

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THE US military is sending an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East as it builds up war tensions to try to intimidate Iran...

Afghan crisis – more combat troops to be sent

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THE British government’s Defence Secretary, Des Browne, said yesterday that he would be making a statement to the House of Commons as soon as...

General Council must be made to resign for refusing to fight anti-union Bill!

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YESTERDAY morning, the TUC commented on the vote in the House of Commons on the third reading of the Trade Union Bill, which is...

Hunt blames the working class for capitalist crisis as Tories prepare a class war...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been in Washington this week attending the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, the main economic...

Corbyn comes out on top as May is jeered, laughed at and heckled!

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THE separate questioning by SKY’s Faisal Islam, Jeremy Paxman and a small audience, of Labour leader Corbyn and PM May showed just how disorientated...

Nationalise BA – Get Rid Of Work-For-Nothing Capitalism

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THE Willie Walsh plan for rescuing BA from the capitalist crisis is quite straightforward. He has gone beyond wage cuts, he wants ‘his’ 40,000...

Bush dresses down ‘quitter’ Brown!

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BUSH flew into London yesterday after sending a public order to Gordon Brown, via the Observer newspaper. This was that Brown must not announce...

Right Wingers Provoking Labour Split

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UNITE leader Len McCluskey has issued a statement refuting the claims that Jeremy Corbyn was responsible for Tom Watson’s ending the union-led efforts to...

Brown’s worthless apology for imperialist child trafficking

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FOR centuries British capitalism has sought to export its surplus populations and its trouble makers to the rest of the world. Rebellious trade unionists such...

Palestinians are rising up to defend their land and achieve their State of Palestine...

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THE temperature is rising all over the Middle East as US and Israel seek to force the Palestinians to accept the dirty ‘deal of...

War on welfare – revolution the only way forward

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Yesterday, more than two million people on Incapacity Benefit found themselves officially labelled by the Tory-LibDem coalition as scroungers and parasites living off the...

Form Councils Of Action To Stop All Evictions! Take Over Empty Properties To House...

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THE UK is in the grip of a huge housing crisis with workers who have jobs and earn wages being evicted by greedy landlords...

Tackling cost of living crisis means tackling capitalism

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LABOUR leader Miliband yesterday lashed out at the payday lenders and the way that these vulture capitalists are preying on the poor, making life...

Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring the Tories down and bring...

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EVERY day brings a new savage attack by this Tory government on the NHS. At the beginning of the week the shock announcement broke that...

Cameron crushed and out – now kick out the rest!

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THE working class has delivered a crushing blow not just to Tory leaders Cameron and his chancellor Osborne but to the bankers and capitalists...

Bomb Gadaffi Out Of Power Urges General Richards

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THE NATO war that was supposedly being waged to defend Libyan civilians must be stepped up and Libya’s infrastructure destroyed if Colonel Gadaffi is...

US imperialism prepares for a bloodbath to overthrow legitimate government in Venezuela

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DURING an anti-government demonstration in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, on Wednesday the head of the country’s National Assembly Juan Guaido launched a right-wing coup against...

UK workers must support the struggle for Palestinian state!

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EARLY on Wednesday morning Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinian youth, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old, and injured at least two others...

Only socialist revolutions can defeat missile threat

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ROMANIAN President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that Romania will host US interceptor missiles along its border with the Russian Federation. This latest missile plan...

Grenfell – never again! Build Councils of Action – organise a general strike! Get...

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THE HORROR felt by millions of people after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, immediately...

Stop Royal Mail being thrown to the private equity wolves!

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POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...

Only Socialist Revolution can force a break with the EU

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TOM Watson, the right wing deputy leader of the Labour Party, escaped being unceremoniously chucked out of his position over the weekend following an...

UK troops to Russia’s borders while Tories threaten more bombings of Yemen

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ON the day that Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak addressed parliament – to justify bombing Yemen last Friday without bothering to consult MPs –...

Tories refuse to negotiate – opt for a fight to the finish. Junior doctors...

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YESTERDAY the BMA junior doctors’ leader Dr Johann Malawana said, referring to the forthcoming strike actions: ‘No junior doctor wants to take this action,...

Capitalism’s world economy is heading for a catastrophe – the only way out is...

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‘THE US is staring at a possible hard landing while Europe is struggling and China is sinking!’ This is the message from the Daily Telegraph’s...

Only one solution to the death agony of capitalism: bury it now with...

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EVEN sections of the bourgeois media, and the bourgeoisie that it represents, were yesterday able to describe the appearance of the current world...

Bush & Brown move in to exploit protests in Myanmar

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UNITED States President George Bush declared at the end of last week: ‘I call on all nations that have influence with the (Myanmar) regime...

Brown promises to ‘renew new Labour’

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown, the pretender to the Labour leadership and 10 Downing Street, told the Labour Party conference in Brighton yesterday: ‘Our mission is...

Truss Reveals That She Is Planning Huge Wage Cuts For Workers – Kick The...

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AT A TIME when the cost of living is rocketing Tory leadership contender Truss has been forced to publicly scrap her plan to link...

Pfi Robbers Are On The Job! Expropriate Them Now!

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THE PRIVATE Finance Initiative (PFI) that Gordon Brown introduced during the Brown-Blair Labour governments has provided a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions for...

Troika poised to show Greece the door

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GREEK PM Antonis Samaras is meeting the organisation of Greece’s international creditors, the Troika (IMF, EU, ECB), to try to persuade it to give...

By Recognising The Golan Heights As Part Of Israel, Trump Is Opting For A...

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ON MONDAY, US President Donald Trump signed a declaration that recognised Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over Syria’s Golan Heights. The strategically important Golan Heights are recognised in...

Israel is a terrorist state – while anti-Zionism is not a form of racism!

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YOU can tell that the split and divided Tory party and capitalist class in the UK are in very serious trouble when they have...

Unemployment and inflation rising, as British capitalism crumbles!

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THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 43,000 to 2.5 million during the three months to February, the highest figure since...