Editorials

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Coalition plans to punish and freeze the elderly

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IT was the German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller, who said: ‘In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up...

NHS held to ransom by Cyber terrorists – Hunt must resign and the...

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ON FRIDAY afternoon a terrorist cyber attack was launched on the NHS in England and Scotland that brought it to a standstill in many...

MODERNITY = mass murder, executions and ID cards

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BLAIR yesterday announced the latest line of government spin – that compulsory ID cards, state-run mass fingerprinting and DNA bases, along with no-jury trials...

Tax Bonanza for NHS Privateers

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The private health companies, that are circling the NHS and salivating at the prospect of making billions of pounds profit out of the sick...

You must accept capitalism and its cuts orders Johnson

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YESTERDAY, Alan Johnson, the ex-CWU postal workers leader, warned the trade unions that they must accept the capitalist crisis, and as slaves of capital...

Royal Mail workers must set the date for their all out strike action!

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ON TUESDAY, postal workers delivered a massive 94.5% YES vote to strike in defence of their jobs, pay and conditions and the very existence...

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...

Junior Doctors Are Determined To Defeat The Tories

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TENS of thousands of junior doctors struck yesterday and made it very clear that they are not a protest movement, and that their first...

Trump boasts that stock markets have gained $6 trillion since his election!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday outlined his new national security strategy. He stressed: ‘When the American people speak, all of us should...

Coup Against Corbyn Underway As Head Rabbi Announces He Is ‘Not Fit For High...

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WITH just over two weeks to go before the general election, the campaign by the Tories and their right-wing supporters in the Labour Party...

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...

Labour Party breaking apart – now is the time to build the WRP to lead...

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THE Labour Party conference yesterday morning opened to boos and jeers from delegates furious at the Labour leadership’s manoeuvres to shunt the crunch vote...

Tory Big Brother will be spying on everybody!

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THE News International empire’s phone hacking and spying, and the way that it sought to regulate the government and bend the police force to...

Banking Crisis Heading For The Precipice!

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THE INABILITY of the US economy to recover from its jobs slump, alongside the colossal indebtedness of the EU banks – German, Italian, French...

The TUC Congress must demand that the State of Palestine is established from the...

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THE Palestinian Centre for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared has called on the international community to take serious and effective action to compel Israel...

Christoulas makes his call for REVOLUTION!

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A 77-YEAR-old Greek pensioner penned his political testament on Wednesday, before he blew his brains out in front of the Greek parliament, a parliament...

The Great Pension Robbery – Contributions have tripled! This government must go! Call...

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MILLIONS of workers, as of yesterday, have been hit for six. The amount that comes out of their wages in pension contributions now...

Coalition forcing in education commodity market

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that the government was organising an ‘NHS-style crash’ pushing through ‘reforms’ to create an education...

Coalition lies on NHS privatisation exposed – trade unions must act

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THE oft repeated claim by Tory prime minister Cameron that the coalition will not privatise the National Health Service has finally been exposed for...

Tories plan to govern without the support of the people or of parliament

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IN RECENT days, especially after the Tories recognised that they would not have an overall parliamentary majority, we have heard many words about the...

Time To Throw The Rotten Coalition Out!

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IT was put to Rupert Murdoch, at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday, that Thatcher could not have done without him and that he could not...

One year since the first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020!

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ON 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson outlined measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, with a series of stop-go lockdowns. Since then, of the major...

Demoralised Tories face an economic crash – put them out of their misery with...

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THE COMPLETE demoralisation of the Tories has dominated the front pages of the bourgeois press, with reports that PM Boris Johnson is facing a...

Massive strike action by US workers demands $15 an hour nationwide!

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FAST food workers in 15 cities across America came out on strike on Tuesday demanding a nationwide $15 minimum wage, union recognition rights and...

UK Workers Must Support Venezuela Against US, Eu, UK Attempts At Regime Change

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MRS THATCHER notoriously revived her political fortunes in 1982 by going to war with Argentina. She flew to the US to insist that its...

5.5 million households live in ‘fuel poverty’

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THE number of UK households in fuel poverty rose by one million in 2009 to 5.5 million. The figures from the Department of Energy...

Generals threaten coup against Macron as France and Europe face bankruptcy

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LAST WEEK, an explosive letter from 25 senior retired French generals was published in the right-wing Valeurs Actuelles magazine threatening President Macron with an...

Workers must bring down May government, break with the EU NOW and go forward...

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THE Tory government and party is now split into warring groups, one of which is pursuing a leadership election to knife their leader May...

US Crisis Explodes On The Streets As Trump Threatens War With North Korea And...

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US PRESIDENT Trump, dedicated to ‘making America great again’, to further enrich the bosses and the bankers at the expense of the US workers...

Israel Steps Up Its Genocide. The TUC Must Call A General Strike Now...

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THE Palestinian Civil Defence Society (PCDS) reported on Tuesday that it has received numerous appeals regarding people trapped alive under rubble from homes and...

May defends capitalism, Corbyn wants it ‘restructured’. It must be overthrown through the socialist...

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‘THE FREE market economy,’ in other words capitalism, ‘is unquestionably the best, and indeed the only sustainable, means of increasing the living standards of...

Palestine Unity Government Formed – Now The World Must End Occupation!

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THE Palestinian unity government has been sworn in, and has the backing of both the Fatah and Hamas movements. The defiant formation of the national...

Brown Targets The Working Class For Special Measures

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BROWN’S proud boast yesterday in his pre-budget speech was that ‘In no other decade has Britain’s personal wealth – up 60 per cent –...

A police-Fire Service merger is a Tory plan to destroy FBU and reorganise state...

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THE news that has emerged that the Tory police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire, Adam Simmonds, has been in secret talks for twelve weeks...

Italian banks’ debt of over £300 billion will crash the world banks

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FOR years the Italian banking system has been kept on a life-support system of government bailouts as it sinks under the weight of astronomical...

Nato Meets Behind Steel Barriers, Under No Fly Zone!

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THE NATO warlords are meeting in Newport today. That they are not the most popular people on the planet is proven by the...

Defence Secretary Hagel cements US-Japan imperialist alliance

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SPEAKING in Japan alongside Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera on Saturday, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel pledged the US’ ‘complete and absolute commitment to...
The front of the 50,000-strong London demonstration on March 18 demanding the withdrawal of all occupation troops from Iraq

US Falls Out With Iraqi Puppets

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PRESIDENT Bush has fallen out with the major section of his puppet regime in Iraq, that is the Dawa Party and the United Iraq...

Britain Scuttling Out Of Iraq

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DEFENCE Secretary Browne has just visited Baghdad where he declared that the pace of the British rout in Iraq is to be accelerated, with...

Revolution and counter-revolution in Bahrain and Libya

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THE US State Department urged US citizens on Tuesday not to travel to Bahrain and suggested Americans there should leave at once due ...

World crisis hits eurozone

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THE announcement by the unelected Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, that he is quitting the job  sent the Italian economy into a massive crisis...

Stop all evictions – socialist revolution the answer to mass homelessness

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YESTERDAY the temporary ban on evictions in England ended, leaving hundreds of thousands of people facing being thrown out of their homes for rent...

Drive the fascists off the streets – forward to workers power and socialism!

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LAST Friday night, a racist gang attacked and seriously injured a teenage asylum seeker in Croydon. The Kurdish Iranian boy, age 17, was waiting with...

Crime Pays – For The Banks

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‘BY means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of...

Corbyn appeases Labour’s right wing – the UK must leave the EU, as decided...

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THE UK was changed forever when the over-confident Tory leadership of Cameron and Osborne got the House of Commons to agree a resolution...