Editorials

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Iran Has The Right To Nuclear Power

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THE Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, made it very clear last Wednesday what Iran’s position is on its right to develop...

Inflation Persists As Mpc Rate Rise Faction Grows

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WITH CPI inflation reaching 3.2 per cent (0.2 per cent down), inflation for June remained 1.2 per cent above the Bank of England target....

Karzai calls for rethink, as Taleban attacks mount

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THE Afghan ‘government’ has called for a rethink of the US-led fight against the Taleban, after heavy casualties to civilians caused by US air...

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...

Trump lauds huge tax cuts, slams migrants, keeps G Bay open and plans war...

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PRESIDENT Trump began his ‘State of the Union’ speech on Tuesday night by repeatedly congratulating himself, saying, ‘Less than one year has passed since...

Bma Calls For Independent Inquiry Into NHS Crisis

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A WOMAN died yesterday in an ambulance while waiting in a queue of around 15 emergency vehicles outside the A&E at Morriston Hospital in...

EU threatens a ‘march on Rome’ to prevent collapse

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AS THE EU crisis continues to sweep through the continent, a German MEP, Markus Ferber, offered his blunt assessment of the steps that the...

Browne’s speech: Taleban fighters throw NATO into crisis

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LABOUR’S Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted yesterday that the Taleban resistance movement in Afghanistan is making NATO’s attempt to control the country ‘harder than...

Answer Tory racist deportation offensive with a general strike!

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THE TORY policy of creating a ‘hostile environment’ for the Windrush Generation – the thousands of men, women and their children that came over...

Tories Want To Go From Starving Children To Pauperising Pensioners!

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THIS week Tory prime minister Boris Johnson was forced to make a humiliating retreat over free school meals following a campaign led by 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...

Brown warns ‘bumps in the road ahead’

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has presided over a capitalist state rescue of the bankrupt banking system, which has seen the deployment of up...

Euro zone high stakes gamble with 1 trillion euros on the table

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Euro-zone leaders have taken the desperate measure of risking all on one throw of the dice, after advancing an almost $1 trillion package...

Strikes hit hospitals and airports as workers rise up against wage cutting!

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WHILE the Tories tear themselves apart awaiting the heavily redacted report by Sue Gray into Boris Johnson and all the parties at Downing Street...

Tories plan Boot Camps for Youth

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THE Tory attacks on youth have reached a fever pitch over the past week with the announcement of more measures to be taken by...

Workers Must Take Action To Permanently Prorogue Parliament And Bring In Socialism!

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NEXT Tuesday the Supreme Court is to hear the government’s appeal against last Tuesday’s verdict of Scotland’s highest civil court that PM Johnson’s proroguing...

Fight slave labour bosses at Gate Gourmet and Irish Ferries

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THE British and Irish trade unions are under serious and heavy attack at Gate Gourmet at Heathrow airport, and at Irish Ferries. At Gate Gourmet,...

Starmer calls for ‘coalition of the willing’ as world capitalism tears itself apart 

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer addressed Parliament yesterday reporting on the emergency defence summit of European leaders he’d convened in London at the weekend. This...

Almost 100,000 youth flee Ukraine as the imperialist powers seek to provoke an imperialist...

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NEARLY 100,000 men of fighting age have fled Ukraine in the last two months, as the fascist-supported regime of Volodymyr Zelensky desperately scrambles to...

Growing fears over another bank crash

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THERE were renewed calls yesterday by Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and other political leaders of major capitalist countries for international cooperation to tackle the...

Labour told British capitalism needs its own ‘Elon Musk’ to avoid disaster

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Last week, The Daily Telegraph newspaper published an article that clearly set out the dangers of a revolutionary upsurge by workers and youth resulting...

Contradictions of UK capitalism sharpening to explosion point!

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TORY PM Cameron has declared, in the last few days, that he will be pushing through austerity measures until the end of the next...

Austerity and Universal Credit to continue!

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TORY chancellor Philip Hammond made a climb down in his budget speech yesterday to Theresa May, but there was no climb down over continuing...

Impotent Osborne Lashes Out At The Workers

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TORY chancellor George Osborne started his budget speech last Wednesday with a confession that British capitalism is totally impotent in the face of the...

Russia tells Ukraine – pay the market rate

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THE Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that ‘Russia has begun implementing a scenario intended to destabilise the Ukrainian economy’, adding that this was ‘despite...

TUC line up with CBI and Tory Chancellor Sunak to impose wage cuts and...

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ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...

Join the lobby of the TUC to demand they call an immediate general strike...

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OVER 100,000 Royal Mail workers are striking again today. 30,000 BT Openreach engineers, along with 10,000 BT call centre workers are also on strike,...

Victory to the Syrian people over Turkish invaders – end imperialist wars through socialist...

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SYRIAN army troops yesterday moved swiftly to march into northern Syria to confront Turkish invasion forces just hours after the Syrian government reached an...

TUC corporatists must be kicked out! Come to the ATUA conference to build a...

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THE TRADE Union Congress (TUC) organised the knifing in the back of the Southern guards’ and drivers’ struggle on Thursday, brokering a ‘deal’...

Nato Murderers!

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IT is enshrined in International Maritime Law that any ship, whether civilian or military, is bound to answer distress calls and render assistance to...

Gold Hits Record High As Trump Steps Up His War On US Workers!

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GOLD hit a record high on Wall Street on Monday as increasing numbers of frightened investors dumped the dollar and sought safety by purchasing...

Tories Split Over The Johnson–Sunak Decision To Raise National Insurance Contributions In April!

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PM JOHNSON’S decision to bloc with Chancellor Sunak to see that National Insurance Contributions are raised in April by £12.9 billion has widened the...

Disarm imperialism through the victory of the world socialist revolution!

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LAST week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a whole series of blogs on its website warning that the entire US banking...

Brown Hauls Down The Flag

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LIKE a thief in the night Prime Minister Brown sneaked into Basra airport on Saturday night to tell British troops that their period of...

Defend the NHS – bring down the government!

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Yesterday the NHS was officially opened up by the coalition government to the vultures of the private healthcare industry, whose only aim is to...

Defiant Assad Puts Imperialists Into A Crisis!

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PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...

Hutton provocation will result in ‘summer pensions war’

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TODAY’S publication of the Hutton Report on public sector pensions will be like a red rag to a bull as far as the membership...

Time For The TUC To Call A General Strike – ‘Losing The Right...

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THE TUC, the Equality Trust, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and Runnymede Trust on Tuesday warned that the Strikes Bill,...

British imperialism being cut down to size by the crisis

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BRITISH imperialism, at the height of its power and even up to the 1930s, had at its heart the dictum of sea power, that...

Credit Suisse sold at knockdown price in last ditch attempt to avert world banking...

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THE CAPITALIST world banking system hurtled even deeper into a massive crash this weekend when the central banks of Europe, UK and US forced...

Rising Fuel Bills Mean Many More Unnecessary Winter Deaths!

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THOUSANDS of people die each year from illnesses linked to fuel poverty. Last year was a very cold winter, and this year’s winter is already...

Corbyn calls for a National Government – Workers must demand a socialist government

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday wrote a letter to leaders of the LibDems, the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party along with selected...

The return of Duncan Smith, Cameron’s Workhouse Master

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THE announcement that Iain Duncan Smith has been re-appointed as Work and Pensions Secretary and charged by Cameron to step up the Tory onslaught...

Labour racists seek state dictatorship over immigrants

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JUST imagine the furore there would be if British migrants to India were told that they would have to be conversant in Hindi, be...

NATO chief tells Starmer spend more on weapons or ‘learn to speak Russian’

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THE Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, was in Britain this week meeting with Labour Prime minister Keir Starmer to hammer home the demand...