Editorials

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Short-term contracts driving teachers out of the profession

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THE EIS (Educational Institute of Scotland) has warned that the increasing use of short-term contracts in Scottish schools is driving many newly qualified teachers...

US-UK bullies threaten war with Iran!

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THE Tory Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, declared the UK’s readiness to go to war with Iran last Thursday when he threatened that UK and...

Eu Abyss Opens As Irish Decide On Referendum

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THE Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos was in Brussels yesterday seeking final approval from Germany and France for Greece’s second bailout deal. Greece is continuing...

NHS to be butchered to pay the bankers’ debts

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LARGE-scale hospital cuts and closures are now being organised for immediately after the next general election. These cuts have been dictated by the current enormously...

Billions for the bankers – wage cuts and sackings for the workers

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THE Royal Bank of Scotland was rescued with billions of taxpayers’ money after it made the biggest losses in the history of British banking,...

US unions being driven to historic break with Democrats

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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last Friday that US workers want an ‘independent’ labour movement designed to help the working class, not a specific...

French unions must call general strike to smash Macron’s murderous police forces!

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FRANCE’S President Emmanuel Macron, after his panicky early return to France from an EU summit, has now been forced to postpone a planned state...

Sanders Warns The US Ruling Class Stay Out Of Iran! He Is Supported...

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BERNIE SANDERS, the US Senator, issued a live video on Tuesday warning that a war by the US against Iran would be ‘many times...

Junior doctors revolution forces BMA leader to resign

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THE BMA chairman, James Johnson has quit, forced out of office by the uprising of the junior doctors, who were not prepared to see...

Osborne furious over ‘back to the 1930s’ taunt

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THE Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, was described in the bourgeois press as being ‘rattled’ by the news coverage of his Autumn Statement. In fact, ‘rattled’...

There will be no ‘Maidan-style counter-revolution’ in Belarus declares President Lukashenko

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CONGRATULATIONS to President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. He received over 80 per cent of the vote in the Belarus presidential election and saw off...

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...
Gate Gourmet locked out workers listen attentively to a TGWU official outlining the deal that the union has made with the company

NHS A&E departmentsto be shut in scores

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THE policy of the Labour government, as far as the NHS is concerned, is to hand over more and more of the NHS budget...

Brexit Is Blowing Up The Two-Party System Of Rule – The Working Class Must...

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PM MAY yesterday made an appeal for MPs to ‘stand together as democrats and patriots’, to support her withdrawal deal. This is after her resolution...

Tories abolish youth housing benefit! Resolve the housing crisis with a socialist...

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THE TORIES have stepped up their war on youth, pushing through legislation last Friday which strips all young unemployed people under the age of...

Only a general strike can defeat Tory anti-union strike breakers law

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IN ADVANCE of last night’s vote in parliament on the Tory bill waging war on the right to strike by allowing employers to bring...

Sunak, Hunt declare war on the UK working class and the masses of Palestine!

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THE British ruling class, for all of its threats against the working class, the youth and the masses of Palestine, is on the run! Its...

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...

Ukrainian Stalinists giving way to EU-backed regime-change attempt

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THE Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, of the Stalinist Party of the Regions resigned on Tuesday in an attempt to draw the EU-backed right-wing...

Occupy To Stop The Closure Of Hospitals And Fire Stations

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A STARK reminder of what the real face of privatisation means for the public services has been provided this week with the revelation that...

Osborne hammers the workers, the welfare state, youth and the poor!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s first Tory government budget hammers the poor, the youth and the working class while lowering Corporation Tax and pledging to NATO an...

Bush and Congress head-to-head

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THE House of Representatives in the United States voted by 218 votes to 208 on Wednesday for a Bill to end the US occupation...

US-Israel Sign Joint Security Declaration, As US Stabs Palestinians In The Back Again!

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THE United States and Israel have signed a joint strategic declaration, repeating accusations against Iran and promising to confront that country’s nuclear programme, a...

Eurozone on brink of collapse – forward to Socialist United States of Europe

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The news yesterday that the cost of borrowing for Spain has jumped to over 6% will inevitably mean that for the country to stagger...

Bell Tolls For UK Capitalism On June 23 Referendum Day!

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THE Tory government is now split over its EU referendum, with six cabinet ministers, and over 100 MPs advocating a vote to leave the...

Defend every job, occupy to stop closures, and nationalise the major industries

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics produced figures showing the record breaking numbers of unemployed and the record breaking growth of unemployment. UK unemployment...

Coalition Aiming To Cut The Mentally Ill!

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THE government is planning to strip mentally ill people of their state benefits if they do not agree to undergo treatment for anxiety and...

British Capitalist Economy Down The Pan!

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THE latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) GDP figures show two quarters – six months – of zero growth in the British capitalist...

Taxation Slump Hits Labour!

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A WEEK ago the Chairman of the Bank of England, King, suggested that those who said they were seeing the ‘green shoots of recovery’...

The Palestinian leadership calls for international intervention. The workers of the world must respond!

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THE PALESTINIAN Presidential spokesman Abu Rudeineh yesterday morning called for urgent international intervention after Israeli police broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the...

Hands Off Addenbrooke’s – Stop The Savage NHS Cuts By Bringing Down The Tories!

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THE prestigious and world famous NHS Addenbrooke’s Hospital has been placed into special measures. UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis commented yesterday: ‘This is a shocking...

French workers move to bring down Sarkozy regime!

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YESTERDAY, the French railworkers’ trade unions began their indefinite strike action, to defeat the attempts of the Sarkozy regime to destroy their pension agreements,...

Tory counter-revolution must be defeated!

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THE Tories yesterday announced that as part of the autumn anti-trade union legislation they will be stopping public sector workers automatically paying subscriptions to...

Defend the NHS with a general strike! Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry!

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ONE in five new drugs will be rationed on the NHS under new plans to ‘save the health service money.’ This is the latest...

Teachers, parents and students taking action to defend education

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OVER the past week, lecturers have been on strike against sackings, parents are occupying schools to stop their closure, and students, angry at high...

Not just European banks but world capitalism is a ‘lost cause’

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THE panic gripping the world capitalist class over the impending crash of the banking system reached another new level on Monday with the publication...

Junior Doct0Rs’ Struggle Is Not Over – Reject Barber’s ‘New Contract’

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JOHAN Malawana, the Chair of the Junior Doctors Committee, addressing the BMA annual conference in Belfast, told delegates that: ‘This was the year when...

Saddam Murder Within Days

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THE decision to hang the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, and also the Iraqi Vice-President, Taha Yasin Ramadan – whose sentence was increased from life...

Imperialism plotting bigger war! The TUC must call a general strike and kick out...

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US president Joe Biden on his whistlestop visit to Israel on Wednesday, gave the green light to plans for a full-scale ground invasion of...

PM Johnson Set To Put Brexit Deal With The EU To A Vote Today...

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ANYTHING and everything is being used to try and prevent the House of Commons voting to give its support to the government’s Brexit deal...

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...

Obama’s New Crusade To ‘Save The Christians Of Iraq’

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THE USA and the UK have launched their new crusade on the pretext of saving the Christians and the Yazidis of Iraq from the...

Defend All Jobs And Services And Send The Bailiffs Packing!

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HARD PRESSED councils facing the threat of bankruptcy at the hands of the Tory government, and facing the prospect of having government commissioners imposed...

OCCUPY to stop NHS closures – demand unions call a general strike!

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THE West London Council of Action spoke out and acted for many workers yesterday when it launched the occupation of the Maternity...

Crisis deepens as shares crash worldwide!

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its concerns about Spain’s economy, saying ‘far-reaching’ reforms are needed to ensure its recovery. It said the country...