Editorials

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Israelis Bomb Gaza And Shell The Lebanon

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FOUR Lebanese soldiers were killed and at least four wounded when Israeli tanks opened fire at Lebanese positions on the border with Israel shortly...

Grenfell fire and corona pandemic underline that under capitalism life is cheap! Overthrow...

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THE GRENFELL inquiry has heard from the bosses of both the insulation and the cladding companies that produced the flammable material installed on the...

TUC leaders must bin Johnson’s empty pledges and call a general strike to bring...

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PM JOHNSON’S Tory conference speech was completely empty bombast that sought to cover over the economic catastrophe that is developing throughout the capitalist system...

INDICATIVE VOTES ARE REJECTED FOR A SECOND TIME – UK MUST LEAVE EU ON...

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THE PLAN for a parliamentary coup against the 2016 Referendum result, that instructed the government  to leave the EU, by forcing through the House...

Supporting Iraq or Palestine is to be a crime!

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RESPONDING immediately to Tory pressure, Prime Minister Blair yesterday launched his programme of draconian attacks on basic rights and liberties, for a reign of...

Workers of the world unite in the struggle for socialism!

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THE UK authorities issued National Insurance numbers to 713,000 overseas workers in the year to April 2007. The WRP and the News Line are pleased...

Dubai dashes bourgeois hopes – world revolution is the answer!

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DUBAI’S ‘debt repayment’ postponement for six months has brought renewed havoc to European, Asian and North American stock markets. They have all been reminded that...

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...

Massive run on Spanish banks shakes the EU and the euro

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THE European Central Bank has reported that outflows from the Spanish banks reached 74bn euros (£59bn) in the month of July,...

Workers must respond to developing trade war by getting rid of capitalism!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump launched a world-wide trade war last Friday with his declaration that he will impose a 25 per cent tariff on...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers getting support at the Hillingdon council depot

British Imperialism Wants To Redraw Map

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IRAQ is in the middle of a civil war, the country’s former interim puppet prime minister, Iyad Allawi, said yesterday. Allawi was appointed by...

Tory Austerity forces parents to rely on baby banks for essentials – time to...

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IN LAST year’s autumn budget Tory chancellor Philip Hammond claimed that ‘austerity is coming to an end’ in Britain. Hammond’s claim backed up Theresa May’s...

EU crisis deepens in London and Athens

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THE great EU referendum crisis in the UK has sharpened after PM Cameron denied his earlier remarks that after he had negotiated a deal...

£65bn PFI Nightmare for the NHS!

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THE PFI Private Finance Initiative was brought in by the Major Tory government, and while it was opposed by Labour in opposition, it was...

FBU leaders, fire chiefs and Home Office unite to throw firefighters into the ...

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FITTING masks to NHS workers, moving dead infected bodies, driving ambulances, making face shields, carrying out tests and delivering food to the elderly: all...

Washington Hits Its Debt Limit – After A ‘Devastating Default’ The Bosses Will...

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THE US RULING CLASS has hit its debt limit, with the Treasury Department now taking measures to try to prevent a devastating default. Reaching the...

Workers must break Fortress Europe with Socialist Revolutions!

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REFUGEE Day, last Wednesday, highlighted the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War with the number forcibly displaced reaching its highest for the...
Demonstration on January 20 outside the US embassy in London against Bush and Blair’s ‘war on terror

Defend Iran Againstfrench And US Threats

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THE French government is threatening Iran with retribution if it does not give up its nuclear energy programme. The French Prime Minister, De Villepin, one...

Crisis-ridden US imperialism to stay in Afghanistan and send troops to Cameroon!

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama has admitted defeat in Afghanistan and has decided to keep 5,500 US troops there when he leaves office in 2017, according...

Saudi Leader Bin Salman Urges Talks Between The US And Iran!

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THE SAUDI Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose oilfields were hit recently by a devastating drone and cruise missile attack which he blamed on...

Turkish army invades northern Iraq while US planes bomb Syrian army

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has called talks on Syria in New York for December 18-19. Kerry said that the United States and its...

Oecd Warns That World Economy Faces Deeper Slump

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GLOBAL growth for 2013 and 2014 has been downgraded ‘significantly’ by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), because of the crisis in...

War from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa

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THE whole of the area from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa is now one great killing zone where US-UK imperialism either kills at...

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...

Coalition launches Royal Mail ‘Blitzkrieg’ – Recall CWU conference!

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A ‘blitzkrieg strategy’ was how the bourgeois press dubbed last Monday’s announcement by business minister, Michael Fallon, that he was starting the process of...

McDonnell refuses to even whisper the word ‘socialism’

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A FEW short weeks ago at the Labour Party conference, the ‘left’ shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, proudly announced that the party would no longer...

Smash all fees – build a new leadership in the NUS!

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TODAY will see the second wave of student anger against the Tory government’s decision to treble tuition fees from around £3,000 to £9,000 a...
Gate Gourmet workers still on the picket line after being locked out for over 8 weeks

Smash Privatisation – Renationalise!

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THE privatisation of the railways has been a complete disaster and for the families of those killed in rail crashes it is a disaster...

Israel Approves Ceasefire Agreement With The US And Vows To Continue Its War With...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday evening that his government has approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon, following weeks of...

Brown Wants To Introduce Youth Conscription

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PRIME Minister Brown on Sunday promised that bringing in a compulsory community service programme for youth will be a part of his next general...

Demoralised Tory leaders are demanding a national government

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THE prospects for the 2015 May 7 general election – taking place after more than five years of savage austerity measures that have...

Cruddas scandal – ruling class split over Cameron leadership

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The resignation by the chief Tory fundraiser and party co-treasurer, Peter Cruddas, late on Saturday gave one more glimpse into the corruption that lies...

Johnson-Sunak Are Preparing A Winter War Against The British Working Class!

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THE UK working class is heading into the greatest ever winter struggle in its history, much greater than any of the ‘winters of discontent’...

Cameron washes his hands of steel industry – steelworkers must occupy and organise...

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CAMERON yesterday gave the ‘V’ sign to the appeals by the Unite and TUC leadership that there must be a temporary nationalisation of Tata...

Arab League – accomplices of imperialism

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The leaders of the 22 member Arab League meeting on Saturday came out decisively on the side of imperialism when they issued a call...

Millions Of Workers And Youth Join The Struggle To Liberate Palestine And Establish The...

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SATURDAY saw a vast crowd of 250,000 workers, including very large numbers of enthusiastic and determined youth, take to the streets of London for...

Labour Continues To Persecute The Poor

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LABOUR’S leaders love the rich and have no time for the poor. As a government, Labour turned Britain into a second tax-free home for Russian...

Ferguson erupts as police killer goes free

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THE US town of Ferguson, Missouri erupted yesterday after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against a white policeman, Darren Wilson, ...

Puppet court ‘convicts’ defiant Saddam

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THE court that convicted President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to be hung for crimes against humanity was a creation of imperialism, made up of...

The Brown Government Is The Enemy Of The People

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PREMIER BROWN told his monthly news briefing yesterday of the war that he is waging on the country’s youth and the 110,000 ‘problem families’...

After massive London march for Palestine, the TUC must call a general strike for...

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UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell has confirmed that the Israeli army has killed over 50 children in deadly attacks in Jabalia, northern Gaza, during...

The UK workers movement and the TUC must give their immediate and decisive support...

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YAHYA Sinwar, the political leader of the Hamas Movement, has written to Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, the head of the Ansar Allah Movement, conveying his profound...

British imperialism stretched to breaking point – forward to the socialist revolution

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JUST a week after Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured President George W Bush, that he had fallen into line with the requirements of the...

Giant investment companies dump shares as world banking crash looms

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Testifying to MPs at the Treasury Committee yesterday, Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, issued a sharp rebuke to Labour chancellor Rachel...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing over the weekend are determined to be reinstated

Trade unions and the Labour government

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AT the Labour Party conference, the trade unions and a large minority of Labour constituency parties defeated the Labour government on at least five...