Editorials

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Grenfell Inferno – The Government And Council Ignored Warnings!

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THE fire that spread like an inferno through the Grenfell Tower block early Wednesday morning has claimed the lives of at least 17 people...

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...

Lilliputian Smith, the would-be great dictator!

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LABOUR right winger Owen Smith, in his desire to satisfy the big bosses and the bankers, is going even further than the Tories after...

Palestinians Condemn Trump – Now The UK Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action...

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PALESTINIAN factions have condemned US President Donald Trump’s statements, in which he discussed the possibility of displacing the residents of the Gaza Strip to...

Ruling class full of fear as UK workers demand a break with the EU...

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DESPITE the Queen’s plea for ‘reasonableness’ the knives are out for tomorrow’s House of Commons debate on the EU with rival amendments tabled to...

Libya disintegrates as robbers ‘privatise’ its wealth

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IT IS now obvious that the NATO-inspired and organised ‘revolution’ to overthrow the Gadaffi regime in Libya has resulted in a complete catastrophe for...

Restore the free NHS! Halt privatisation & kick out the profiteers!

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THE House of Commons Select Committee on Health published a report yesterday that set out to legitimise charging for healthcare within the National Health...

MI5 and labour witch-hunters attack torture exposers

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HOME Secretary Johnson and MI5 director general, Evans, yesterday launched a hysterical witch-hunt against the exposers of the fact that both MI5 and the...

Miliband’s ‘national interest’ is an ‘imperialist interest’

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FOREIGN Secretary Miliband declared to his audience, right at the start of his Oxford College speech last Tuesday evening, that ‘we’ must not let...

Time for the working class across the world to put an end to capitalist...

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On Monday, US president Donald Trump made a desperate attempt to try to prevent the entire world capitalist economy from collapsing into recession as...

US Spy Agencies Pull Rug From Beneath Bush And Cheney

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THE Iranian government has welcomed the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report, to which all the US spying agencies contributed, which states that Iran...

The GMB understands the need for redundancies

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JCB has announced 400 more redundancies, blaming a ‘significant’ reduction in incoming orders. The redundancies are made up of 297 shop floor jobs and 101...

China’s Historic Space Achievement demonstrates the strength of a planned economy

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YESTERDAY, a Chinese spacecraft made a giant leap forward in human exploration of space when it became the first ever to land on the...

UK heading for ‘no deal crisis’ – Only answer is a socialist revolution!

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THE MAY government on Tuesday defeated an attempt by 12 pro-EU Conservative MPs, supported by Labour EU Remainers, to destroy its revised post-Brexit trade...

Finland joins NATO as imperialism ramps up war drive

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YESTERDAY Finland formally joined NATO, becoming the 31st member of the US-led imperialist military bloc in what NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, described as ‘The...

In the drive to privatise, the Tories are abolishing the NHS!

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THE NHS is, in practice, being steadily and consciously abolished by the Tories as they drive relentlessly to the goal of a fully privatised...

Ban condemns assault on refugees, while Cameron gets ready to bomb Syria!

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is ‘shocked’ after Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon to force refugees – men,...

UK and US complicit in Saudi Arabian war crimes

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LAST Saturday saw what was one of the worst atrocities committed in the Yemen since Saudi Arabia, along with its Gulf allies, launched an...

Smash The Zionist Entity! Forward To The State Of Palestine!

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THE decision of an Israeli court to reject that the Israeli army and state were in any way responsible for the 2003 Israeli...

Massacre of over 800 civilians in Syria by imperialist-supported HTS regime forces

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YESTERDAY it was reported that as many as 1,300 people, including over 800 civilians, were killed in the Syrian cities of Latakia and Tartous...

BMA launch ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into Pandemic

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DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has launched its own ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic. This is ahead of the Tory...

Coalition plan to beat the poorest to aid the richest

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SO FAR trillions of pounds have been spent by the state, using taxpayers’ money, to rescue, prop up and save bankrupt banks and...

IMF: World faces £9.5tn Covid bill as capitalism crashes into bankruptcy

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned yesterday that the Covid-19 crisis could cost the global economy a staggering £9.5 trillion in the biggest hit...

Hamas demands prosecution of ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ for war crimes against Palestinians

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IN RESPONSE to the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) announcement on Monday that it is closing its operation in Gaza, the Hamas resistance movement...

Tories Seeking To End The Lockdown To Save Capitalism – While Covid-19 Rages!

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ACCORDING to the Johns Hopkins University count, the coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 3,402,400 people worldwide and has claimed the lives of at...

Cuts will push councils to breaking point!

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THE cuts to local government funding will ‘push councils to breaking point’ according to council leaders. On Thursday the Tory Communities and Local Government minister, Kris Hopkins,...

News International, Parliament and the state

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THE revelation yesterday that the News of the World (NoW) newspaper had quietly suspended its assistant editor (news), Ian Edmondson, just before Christmas, has...

NO reconstruction, only destruction in Afghanistan

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THE top NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Jones, has just apologised for the death of up to 80 Afghan civilians in a series...

Bring down the Tories to end benefit cuts and homelessness!

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THE Tories are continuing to lash out at the working class and the poor. Last week housing charity Shelter revealed that new government figures on...

NHS leaders in Scotland come out in the open with plans to destroy the...

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THE BBC yesterday revealed that NHS leaders in Scotland have been discussing setting up a ‘two-tier’ health service. These discussions were recorded in draft minutes...

UK troops are on the Polish border – while US and UK forces are...

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BRITISH TROOPS are now on the Belarus-Polish border answering a request by the Polish government to give it military support against thousands of Middle...

Desperate Blair dashes to Baghdad

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WITH British troops in the south of Iraq in danger of taking heavy casualties at the hands of an insurgency that has taken over...

Imperialist illusions of reshaping the Middle East are shattered – forward to the world...

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Wednesday hailed the ceasefire agreement forced on the Israeli regime, saying that it has shattered prime minister Benjamin...

A Case Of Strange Bedfellows

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THE Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come back from the US convinced that the Labour government must change its position against the use...

FBU Warns Tory PM And London’s Labour Mayor ‘Not To Impose Unthinkable Cuts!’

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has vowed to fight ‘unthinkable’ proposals to cut the budget for the London Fire Brigade by £25m over two...

A desperate ruling class forced to wheel out Gordon Brown to ‘save the day’...

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WITH THE Tory government of Theresa May staggering from one crisis to another this week over the issue of Brexit, the desperation of the...

Putin’s withdrawal from Syria sends message to Assad and Obama!

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THE decision of President Putin to begin withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria, after giving President Assad just a few hours notice, constitutes a...

Reject Eu Diktat Attempt – Leave The Eu At Once !

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THE GIGANTIC farce of the Brexit negotiations hit a brick wall this week with EU officials accusing the British of failing to reveal its...

Labour Sets Out To Transform Capitalism!

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SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell made it perfectly clear at Labour’s Conference on the Economy that the Labour Party was now for ‘transforming capitalism’, and...

State Of Palestine Now Within Reach!

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ISRAEL, after 50 days of slaughter in which over 2,000 Palestinians were killed, many of them children, tens of thousands wounded and hundreds of...

Capitalist leaders have lost confidence in the system and are preparing for the worst!

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THESE are fearful times for the leaders of EU capitalism. The fear factor is not just present in Brussels. Admiral Alan West, who...

Bankrupt capitalism aims to balance the books through foreign aid cuts and vicious austerity...

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ON TUESDAY, Tory PM Boris Johnson narrowly avoided defeat on a motion to cut UK foreign aid after a rebellion by Tory MPs. In the...

Housing crash on the way!

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THE latest Bank of England figures show that the number of new mortgages being given to house buyers has fallen by 20 per cent...

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 ...

Mandelson’s Secret Business Interests!

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PETER Mandelson is one of five Labour government cabinet ministers who insists on his business interests being a secret and for that purpose has...