Editorials

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Israel’s murderous attacks on Palestinian children

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LAST Friday saw the opening moves by the Palestinian Authority to bring the state of Israel before the international courts to answer for its...

Call strike action to defeat Tory plans to destroy university system

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YESTERDAY, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published a detailed report into the effects of the Tory higher education bill due to return to...

No amount of pressure will force the Tories to even talk about pay –...

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TENS of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers across England walked out yesterday at the start of two days of strike action. Members of the...

German workers join European strike wave

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MORE than 20,000 German doctors are taking strike action all this week demanding a cut in working hours and a 30-per-cent pay rise. The...

Brown’s Britain = super-exploitation and death for workers

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GORDON Brown is now infamous as the friend of the equity capitalists who, thanks to him, pay no taxes, while he insists that the...

Trump To Invite Netanyahu To His Inauguration!

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PRESIDENT-ELECT Trump’s advisers are planning to invite Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the president-elect’s inauguration ceremony, so as to publicly stress just...

Cable grovels – a prisoner of the Tories

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CABLE, the man who was threatening the ‘nuclear option’ of walking out of the Tory-led coalition, has meanwhile grovelled to his Tory betters. This was...

Labour leaders split over increasing income tax and abolishing welfare state!

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YESTERDAY’S ‘bombshell U-turn’ over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget plans not to increase income tax has exposed the civil war in...

Don’t Stop At Dumping Slavers, Dump The UK And US Ruling Classes With Socialist...

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THE TORY leadership reacted in fury this week after the statue of the notorious slave trader Edward Colston was torn down and dumped in...

RBS bankers joked about destroying the US housing market

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THIS week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a load of emails and transcripts of phone conversations between senior executives of RBS, the...

UK Workers Are Threatened By Covid-19 Mutations – Trade Unions Must Bring Down Tories...

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HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...

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...

Norfolk & Norwich NHS Trust – screwed by the PFI bandits

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THE Octagon private sector consortium has been branded the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’ by a House of Commons committee. MPs on the public accounts...

Cable threatens unions – answer with Indefinite general strike

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VINCE CABLE, the coalition Business Secretary, used his speech to the GMB union’s annual conference yesterday to deliver a stark warning to the unions...

IMF Declares UK Economy going bust

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The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the gravest warning yet on the state of the UK economy on Tuesday,...

UN Condemns Eu Over Mass Murder In The Med!

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THE UN refugee agency has said once again that not enough is being done to save the lives of the tens of thousands of...

Yates Demands A Heavily Armed Paramilitary Police Force!

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BRITAIN’S top counter-terrorism officer, Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner Yates, has demanded that paramilitary police forces be established in the UK, and insists that they...

End TUC collaboration with Tories

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The news this week that Unison, the largest public sector union, has launched a legal challenge to the coalition government’s white paper on the...

Nationalise all Industry and Banks – not just Railways

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THE demand for the re-nationalisation of the railways and public transport is becoming unstoppable, as workers and the vast majority of the middle classes...

Gaza war crimes exposed – unions must call worldwide boycott of Israel

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ISRAELI soldiers at a military academy have exposed the essence of the cold-blooded and murderous nature of the recent Israeli army onslaught into the...

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...

A desperate Israeli ruling class prepares to escalate the war into the Lebanon!

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WHILE US president Joe Biden is desperately peddling a phoney ‘peace plan,’ in an effort to divert the massive tidal wave of anger sweeping...

MI5 deceived parliament – the judges decide

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‘ONLY a full public inquiry will answer the public’s concerns about what has been done in our name,’ said the Reprieve organisation yesterday, following...

Tories Accuse Striking Nurses Of Murder As They Move To Knife NHS With Privatisation!

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YESTERDAY Tory Health Secretary Barclay, who is refusing to negotiate with the NHS trade unions over NHS pay, accused striking nurses of putting patients’...

Tuc Leaders Are Betraying The Working Class

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THE 150,000 workers who turned out in London on Saturday, as well as the thousands in Glasgow and Belfast, represent a massive change...

Tories offer GPs ‘cash for cuts’ to stop patients getting hospital treatment – unions...

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THE GP website Pulse revealed this week that in four areas in England local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have set up a ‘profit-sharing’ scheme...

With Food Banks Going Broke And The Tories Targeting The Railways The TUC Must...

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THE TUC CONGRESS is set to meet on Tuesday October 18th, just as the Truss government is poised to take the rail trade unions...

Russian & Chinese Stalinists support US threats against Iran

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THE Chinese and Russian representatives at a meeting of the five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and Germany on...

The ‘gig economy’ is spreading throughout bankrupt British capitalism – time to advance to...

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4.7 MILLION workers are now employed in the gig economy, twice as many as in 2016 with nearly one in 10 working age adults...

Bolton Blaze Shows That Tackling Cladding Is A Life And Death Issue That Is...

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THE CLADDING (HPL) that encased the Bolton students’ accommodation block that was engulfed in flames last week was found, after examination by scientists, to...

No fighter planes for Ukraine – only a socialist revolution can stop imperialist war

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UKRAINIAN president Volodymyr Zelensky turned up in Britain on Wednesday to address Parliament in a speech demanding that the UK supply fighter planes for...

Working class will smash Johnson’s fantasies with socialist revolution

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TORY prime minster Boris Johnson yesterday delivered a speech composed entirely of wishful thinking from which reality was completely excluded. In Johnson’s fairy-tale world British...

Taleban Cease-Fire In Swat Angers US!

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THE Pakistani Taleban in the Swat valley border areas with Afghanistan have signed a permanent cease-fire with the Pakistan government and are starting to...

Putin Defies The Imperialists Diktat And Visits Mariupol Promising To Rapidly Rebuild The City!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has visited Mariupol and vowed that new comfortable residential quarters for the people will continue being constructed in Mariupol in...

Tories and Labour get ready for more state repressions

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HOME Secretary Theresa May said yesterday that thousands of people are potentially at risk of being radicalised in the UK. ...

Yellen signs up to Gordon Brown’s ‘no more boom or bust’ on the brink...

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IN A SPEECH in London last Tuesday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, announced to a disbelieving world that the...

Labour terrorism against the unemployed

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UNEMPLOYED council and housing association tenants must be made to sign a new tenancy agreement under which they will agree to have their skill...

Israel continues its all-out assault on the rights of the Palestinian people and all...

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A PALESTINIAN-FRENCH human rights lawyer whom Israel has stripped of his Jerusalem residency is at imminent risk of deportation, an Israeli group says. The HaMoked...

A mass demonstration against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has been called for October...

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A just-issued Coalition statement from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament states that: ‘In October, we will mark a year since the start of Israel’s...

Tories Are Split, Divided And Fighting Each Other – Time To Force The...

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THE TORY PARTY and its leadership are thrashing around in their death agony. The Tory crisis has reached the stage where Tory ministers have been...

Forward to the political revolution in the Ukraine

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UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yushchenko has mounted a coup attempt in the Ukraine, dissolving parliament and calling a snap general election on May 27th. The parliament...

Scottish Labour Call For A Gaza Ceasefire Must Be Supported By All Trade Unions...

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FORMER Mossad official, Rami Igra, has said all Palestinians in Gaza over the age of 4 deserve to face Israel’s collective punishment policy of...

STOP the Tory drive for 20,000 more police! Smash the capitalist state with a...

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THE CHIEF Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, in his ninth and final annual review, has warned that Tory PM Johnson’s promise to hire 20,000...

Blair jeered, and Gordon Brown condemns walk-out delegates

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YESTERDAY Premier Blair could not raise a single clap for his answers to questions about his privatisation drive in the public sector, in the...

It’s a Labour heaven for bankers but a hell for workers, youth and immigrants!

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THE class message of the Labour government is clear. It is that if you’re a banker, you can do no wrong and are...