Editorials

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As Johnson gets May mark-2 ready – workers must take action to take the...

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AS THE date for leaving the EU, October 31st comes closer and closer, all of the vultures are desperately gathering over the corpse of...

Complete the mass uprising in Ecuador with a socialist revolution to establish workers power!

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EIGHT police officers have been taken hostage in Ecuador during an escalating revolutionary uprising that has forced the government to flee from the capital,...

New head of IMF warns $19 trillion debt time bomb will crash world economy

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THE NEWLY-appointed head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued the starkest warning yet that world capitalism is on the point of...

Workers must lobby parliament on October 19th and call general strike to leave the...

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THE Supreme Court in Scotland yesterday delayed its decision on whether it would be necessary for the courts to intervene and force PM Johnson...

Brexit Moment Of Truth Fast Approaching! The Working Class Must Be Ready To Take...

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YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is...

US abandons Kurds in northern Syria and gives green light to Turkish invasion

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TURKEY has been given the green light to invade northern Syria by the US following the abrupt decision by the Trump administration on Sunday...

Johnson Now Speaking Out Of Both Sides Of His Mouth At The Same Time!

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LAST FRIDAY, evidence from Boris Johnson assured a Scottish court, in his own name, that he would send a letter to the EU, as...

Homelessness in rural England rises by a third in a year! Socialist revolution to...

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HOMELESSNESS in rural England has soared by as much as a third between 2012 and 2018, new figures released yesterday have shown. As rich...

Worldwide Capitalist Crisis Requires The Victory Of The World Socialist Revolution!

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YESTERDAY saw a massive escalation in the world trade war when the US was given the green light by the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...

Johnson Pleads For Compromise – The Working Class Must Finish The Job!

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BORIS Johnson revealed his plans for a Brexit deal at the Tory Party conference yesterday before formally putting his proposals to the EU. Johnson’s deal...

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...

Johnson using fear of revolution and civil war to drive through a deal...

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Opposition parties met yesterday in the offices of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to cobble together an agreement to replace Boris Johnson...

Saudis hit again! Victory to the Houthis! End war on Yemen!

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THE SAUDI regime has been hit again! The Yemeni Army yesterday released footage of a large-scale military offensive in which three Saudi brigades were...

Labour guilty of surrender and betrayal of Brexit – build new leadership in the...

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THE HOUSE of Commons erupted in an unprecedented exhibition of rage and fury by Labour MPs over Boris Johnson’s refusal to apologise for having...

Only socialist revolution can stop industrial collapse

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THE BALLYMENA-based Wrightbus company went bust yesterday, throwing 1,200 workers out of a job with immediate effect. On top of this, 1,700 jobs in the...

Trump fears spectre of socialist revolution

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ON TUESDAY, US President Donald Trump delivered his second address to the UN General Council but instead of the normal Trump arm-waving threats to...

Supreme Court rules against Brexit!

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BY A UNANIMOUS decision eleven judges in the Supreme Court declared that the five-week suspension, or prorogation, of Parliament is ‘unlawful, void and of...

BIS warns new ‘Lehman Brothers’ crash under way

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THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued yet another warning that the world’s banking system is heading for a monumental crash. The BIS,...

Only Socialist Revolution can force a break with the EU

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TOM Watson, the right wing deputy leader of the Labour Party, escaped being unceremoniously chucked out of his position over the weekend following an...

US assembling coalition to launch war on Iran! Workers of UK & US must...

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IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned that ‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ He was responding to threats from US...

Youth and workers in global strike against climate change – Time to end the...

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TODAY, a week of action across the world starts with a Global Climate Strike in at least 137 countries. This follows mass action in every...

Corbyn is just another Remainer – Build the new leadership in the Labour movement...

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IN HIS address last week at the TUC annual congress, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn informed delegates that Labour’s priority was to stop a No-Deal...

EU Makes A Fool Of Johnson – Time For The UK Working Class To...

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THE BRITISH Prime Minister was given the ‘Greek plus’ treatment by the EU leadership on Monday when the EU assembled British ‘Remainers’ to boo...

46,000 auto workers close down GM as the class struggle erupts in US

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ON SUNDAY night 46,000 members of the United Automobile Workers (UAW), employed by General Motors in America, walked out on indefinite strike in a...

Developing Oil Crisis Makes It All The More Vital That The Working Class Takes...

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THE SAUDI REGIME, backed to the hilt by the US and the UK, yesterday admitted that the Houthi movement’s drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s...

EU announces further below-zero rate cuts and 2.6tn euro QE as new banking collapse...

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THE EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) has announced its biggest package of rate cuts and economic stimulus in three years as EU President Mario Draghi...

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...

Only Socialist Revolution can resolve the political and economic crisis and force a break...

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YESTERDAY, Scottish appeal court judges ruled that the decision by the Tory government to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the...

Corbyn Displays The Bankruptcy Of Reformism At The TUC!

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WHAT has emerged out of the bankruptcy of Parliament this week is that the Labour leadership, along with the other opposition parties and rebel...

Trump And The US Ruling Class Up To Their Necks In The Afghan Quagmire!

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THE US ruling class and its leader President Trump (allegedly much versed in the ‘art of the deal’) are now up to their necks...

Words Are Not Enough! The TUC Must Take Action To Prevent Workers Being Driven...

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WITH 21 TORY MPS having the whip removed from them, now being joined by more Tory defectors like Amber Rudd, and while Labour makes...

Bring the airports out in support of Ryanair and BA strikers! Nationalise the...

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THE BRITISH AIRWAYS pilots strike is on for both Monday and Tuesday in an escalating battle over pay. British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) BA...

TUC leaders back Remainers to keep the working class tied to the EU bosses...

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WITH THE annual conference of the TUC opening on Monday the leadership of the trade unions have produced a report detailing the catastrophic effects...

The Bankers Are Warming To Jeremy Corbyn – Now That He Is Changing His...

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BORIS Johnson’s Tory government suffered a massive defeat in the House of Commons on Tuesday night when 21 of its MPs rebelled and voted...

US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Agreed – Awaits Trump’s Signature!

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LAST week the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said Washington is not seeking a permanent military presence in Afghanistan, after the Taliban said...

Tories promise money for schools in the Tory shires, and ‘reasonable force’ for working...

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YESTERDAY the Department for Education announced that it will be pushing for higher pay for newly qualified teachers as part of the Tory government’s...

Workers must organise unions to take the UK out of the EU on October...

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THE EU’s Brexit negotiator Barnier has set the scene for this week’s ‘Brexit showdown’ in the House of Commons by rejecting out-of-hand PM Johnson’s...

Lobby TUC Sept 9 to demand break from EU now and for a general...

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THE REMAINER MPs have been dealt a minor blow by the Scottish courts. A Scottish judge has refused to order an immediate halt to...

Car industry collapses in UK and Europe under impact of capitalist crisis

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THE BRITISH car industry is steadily collapsing as a result of the world economic crisis, figures produced yesterday highlighted. According to the Society of Motor...

Johnson suspends Parliament. Leave the EU on 31 October & forward to a workers...

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YESTERDAY, the Tory government asked the Queen to suspend Parliament from 10 September, just days after MPs return, for 23 working days until 14...

Middle East On The Brink As Mad Dog Israel Attacks Beirut, Baghdad & Damascus!

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LEBANON’s president, Michel Aoun, on Monday condemned an Israeli drone attack on Beirut at the weekend as a ‘declaration of war’ that justifies a...

Trump splits US ruling class with demand they give up vast profits in China

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ON THE eve of the G7 Summit in France over the weekend US president Donald Trump ordered US companies to leave China and move...

Central Bankers Are Condemned As ‘Useful Idiots’! Bosses Propagandist Borrows Lenin’s Phrase

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PRESIDENT Trump has described the new ‘utopia’ that the UK faces once it breaks with the EU, and the UK ruling class switches its...

Palestinians are rising up to defend their land and achieve their State of Palestine...

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THE temperature is rising all over the Middle East as US and Israel seek to force the Palestinians to accept the dirty ‘deal of...

The UK Army Drive To Recruit Youth Is Stepped Up As The Crisis Of...

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THE BRITISH armed forces, especially the army, are making a big turn to recruit youth, with military colleges springing up everywhere. More than one-in-10 new...