Editorials

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Nationalise All The Banks And Abolish Mortgage Debt

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UP to 1.5 million fixed rate mortgage holders are going to have to renegotiate their mortgages in the New Year. Many of them are already...

Defend every job, bring down the Brown government, forward to socialism

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LLOYDS stated yesterday that its takeover of HBOS would save it at least £1.5bn a year, more than it had been expecting, which all...

Reeves budget drives split in party as Labour MPs fear anger of workers over...

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves denied that Wednesday’s Budget was anything other than a massive austerity attack on workers with the sick and disabled deliberately...

Cameron and NATO mobilise to send refugees back!

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BRITAIN is sending ‘vital military assets’ (in Cameron’s words) to be part of the NATO force that will be intercepting refugee boats seeking to...

Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any attack on the country

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THE commander of Iran’s armed forces Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard said on Tuesday that Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any...

Labour’s ambition is to make the UK a ‘defence industrial superpower’!

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ANNOUNCING the government’s spending review, which sets out day-to-day spending for the next four years, chancellor Rachel Reeves made a massive increase on defence...

US inspired attack on South Ossetia backfires

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THE correct intervention of the Russian army to defend the people of South Ossetia against the onslaught of the Georgian army has initially been...

Three party leaders make a ‘Vow’ that they cannot carry out!

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YESTERDAY saw a LibDem, Tory and Labour Party coalition scrambling to promise anything and everything in a desperate effort to save the UK...

Hague, Cameron will join Obama’s war on Syria

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PRIME MINISTER Cameron and Foreign Secretary Hague, despite the fact that the Tory cabinet and party are split on the issue, yesterday gave their...

Afghan war not worth fighting, say British workers

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SIR Jock Stirrup, the British army commander, has admitted that the great majority of the British people are opposed to the imperialist war in...

Trade unions must act over NHS crisis by organising a general strike

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HOSPITALS across the country are already running close to 100% bed occupancy and the full effects of winter haven’t even started to impact on...

Throw out the deal – build a new leadership in the CWU

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AFTER around eight or so weeks of secret negotiations – on-off-on talks – the CWU postal executive has capitulated to the Hayes Ward leadership,...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers were confident of victory yesterday

US Puppets Can’t Agree On Iraq Constitution!

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IRAQ’S puppet leaders are unable to agree on a constitution for the country despite all of the urgings from the US Secretary of Defence,...

Luxury liners are going in – but the aid is nowhere to be seen...

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THE fact that Luxury cruise liners are still docking in Haitian ports, not very far from the epicentre of the earthquake, which has killed...

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...

Supreme Court votes for EU again, as Labour demands a ‘meaningful vote’ to frustrate...

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AS EXPECTED, the Supreme Court has ruled against the government’s appeal, challenging its previous verdict that Parliament must vote on whether the government can...

Wages rising fast – a sick Tory joke!

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THE food bank charity, the Trussell Trust says it has handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the...

Time to expropriate the banks and jail the bankers

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THIS week has seen the essence of the banking fraternity emerge after HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, which was rescued by the UK taxpayers in...

Corbyn Displays The Bankruptcy Of Reformism At The TUC!

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WHAT has emerged out of the bankruptcy of Parliament this week is that the Labour leadership, along with the other opposition parties and rebel...

The bankers are in charge as Hunt postpones fiscal statement until November 17th

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TORY Chancellor Hunt announced yesterday that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed...

Bring Down May Government! Quit The Eu Now! Forward To A Workers Government And...

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THE MAY government is now in a full Brexit retreat, a retreat that is turning into a rout! There is to be a vote this...

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...

Rejoice – Syrian forces on the outskirts of Palmyra!

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THE Fars news agency has reported that ‘At approximately 11:45pm (Damascus Time) on Tuesday night, the Syrian Army’s “Tiger Forces”, backed by Hezbollah, the...

Tuc Congress Must Demand All British Troops Out Of Afghanistan!

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WITH ten British troops killed in Helmand province so that just hundreds of people could vote – and after five per cent turned out...

Lagarde says Greek euro exit will ‘probably’ not mean end of euro

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THE head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, admitted on Thursday that she could not ‘preclude’ Greece being forced out of the eurozone. This...

Israel’s finance minister orders preparations for the Israeli annexation of occupied West Bank

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ISRAEL’S extreme right wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, on Monday ordered preparations for the Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of Donald...

Tories to prop up Blair over Trident, the shape of things to come

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LARGE numbers of Labour MPs are opposed to Blair’s programme to renew the Trident submarine based, nuclear weapons delivery system. The eventual cost...

One Year Of The Egyptian Revolution!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday to mark one year since the start of the revolution...

Army Leaks Anti-Iraq War Propaganda

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THE leaking of a Ministry of Defence poll commissioned by senior British army officers has acted as an antidote to the fatuous pro-war propaganda...

Trump and Pompeo encourage Zionist Israel, while Biden prepares to accept land seizures!

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ISRAEL is in a race against time to create a fait accompli in Palestine before US President Donald Trump leaves office, Palestinian Prime Minister...

Forward with the Greek socialist revolution

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THE Greek working class remains undefeated as the clashes between teachers and students with the riot police in Salonica on Thursday have proven. The source...

TORIES FACE WIPE OUT – WHILE LABOUR MPs PLAN EU ELECTIONS COUP!

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WITH THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS fast approaching, the bourgeois democratic system through which the capitalist ruling class has ruled over the working class in the...

Labour government prepares for war with Russia with working class expected to pay the...

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Yesterday, The Daily Telegraph newspaper revealed that ‘Britain is secretly preparing for a direct military attack by Russia’ with the Starmer Labour government ordering...

Tories to make hundreds of thousands homeless – only socialism can solve housing crisis

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THE policy of the Tory-led coalition to slash housing benefit for the unemployed and low income families will result in hundreds of thousands being...

Blair Wants To Split The Labour Party And Join With Remain Tories And Lib-Dems!

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THE DEPTH of the crisis of the UK ruling class can be gauged by the fact that they have been forced to bring the...

Johnson fighting a war on two fronts against Russia and against the working class...

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PM JOHNSON in his Thursday speech in Blackpool unveiled his war on two fronts against the Russian workers abroad, and at home against the...

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...

Tory police state plans alive and well!

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PLANS for more secret court hearings, in the Justice and Security Bill, will create a ‘statutory straitjacket’ for judges, Martin Chamberlain, one of the...

Answer Brown’s attacks with a general strike

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THE rapidly deepening debt crisis of the capitalist system is leading to a financial collapse and a slump of historic proportions as the bankers’...

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...

What A Difference The War Drive Against Russia Makes For Ukrainian Refugees!

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THE Tory government is offering all households in the UK £350 a month to take in people fleeing the war in the Ukraine. Housing...

MANDELSON – Royal Mail privatisation & billions for big business

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BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson launched a £20bn loan guarantee scheme for medium and small businesses yesterday, aimed at getting banks to lend to companies...

Balls promises more cuts under Labour

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THE shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, made his keynote speech to the annual conference of the Labour Party yesterday setting out the economic policy of...

Gaza a disaster area! Take action to force Israel to lift its blockade!

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UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness said yesterday that large regions of the Gaza Strip are a ‘disaster area’. Furthermore he called on the world community to...

314,000 Sackings In Three Months As Tories And Bosses Blitz Workers’ Jobs!

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THE UK’s unemployment rate has risen to 4.8% in the three months to September, up from 4.5%, as the coronavirus continues to blitz workers’...