Editorials

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Bankers get their bonuses – workers get stick

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THE coalition, as expected, has signalled to the bankers that their multi-million bonuses are safe, emboldening the head of Barclays to tell the House...

Bush wants to wreck the Palestinian Mecca agreement

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AHEAD of next Monday’s summit in Jerusalem, President George Bush’s administration is setting out to wreck the agreement reached in Mecca on February 8...

BoE chief: British capitalism ‘turning clock back’ to 18th century!

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THE SPLIT in the leading bodies of the Bank of England over whether or not to raise interest rates has emerged just shortly after...

NHS under attack – DEFEND IT NOW!

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THE capitalist crisis and the massive indebtedness of British capitalism, with its national debt closing fast on its GDP of £1.4...

Greece Can’t Pay – Workers Won’t Pay!

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ACCORDING to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, Greece has a much bigger budget deficit than that reported by the Greek government last year....

Defend North Korea Against Imperialist Attack!

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THE US and its South Korean puppets are set to begin their largest ever joint military exercises amid the high tensions that they have...

Workers and youth forward to the Socialist revolution!

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LAST Sunday the president of the National Union of Students (NUS), Aaron Porter, made a surprise visit to a meeting of students occupying University...

British capitalism is collapsing – TUC must call a general strike to kick out...

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NEW car sales in Britain plunged in March by 15.7% compared to the same period last year, a massive drop that spells out the...

Time to put an end to ‘zombie’ capitalism with socialist revolution

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STEPHEN Welton, head of the small business investors group the Business Growth Fund (BFG), warned this weekend that the UK economy is in the...

Now Organise The General Strike!

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SATURDAY’S mass marches in London, Glasgow and Belfast were marches to bring down the coalition, regardless of the intentions of their TUC organisers who...

Afghan nightmare for British troops

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COLONEL Gordon Messenger, in charge of the future deployment of British troops in the Helmand region of Afghanistan, was putting a brave face on...

Tories out to destroy free speech

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THE full extent of the Tory plans to smash up the right to free speech was revealed yesterday by an unlikely source, the new...

Fatah Must Change Its Leadership

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THE victory of the Hamas movement in the fighting in the Gaza Strip is a huge setback for the imperialist diplomacy of the US...

British Ruling Class Is Split – Forward With The British Socialist Revolution!

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THE FACT that a section of the capitalist state leaked the UK ambassador Darroch’s damning estimation of the abilities of President Trump and his...

Osborne demands smash Welfare States throughout the EU

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THE crisis of British capitalism deepened yesterday with Chancellor Osborne warning the EU ‘We can’t go on like this’, while the Ford motor company...

Trade union bureaucrats put two fingers up to May Day

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TRUE to form, the voice of the trade union bureaucracy, the Stalinist Morning Star counted tens of thousands of marchers on the TUC’s May...

Banking parasites still riding high off of the public purse

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THE Committee of Public Accounts today publishes a report which reveals in the words of its chair Margaret Hodge that: ‘The peak of the...

Eurozone caught in ‘debt trap’ with no way out – Socialist Revolution is the...

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THE LATEST dire prediction on the precarious economic state of the eurozone came from three former chief executives of the European Central Bank (ECB),...

Defend Russia against the imperialist US-EU war ‘coalition’!

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ON THE eve of his visit to Ukraine, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband declared that the purpose of talks with ‘international partners’ was to...

Forward to the State of Palestine! Down with Zionism and Imperialist conspiracies to...

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ARREST warrants for genocide for Israeli PM Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant were finally issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) this...

No evidence for ‘street cleaners’ plot’ against Pope

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TO ADD to the drama surrounding the visit of the Pope – who set the scene with his, and his associates’ attacks on...

May Day uprising: in France and across Europe workers rise up against capitalist crisis

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THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets throughout France on Sunday sending a clear ‘message’ that workers are preparing a massive...

The way to peace in the Ukraine is to restore the Soviet Union!

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THE MAYOR of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, has split the Ukrainian leadership over the issue of Russian sovereignty over the Crimea. Rejecting President Zelensky’s refusal to...

BA workers reject wage cuts! Renationalise BA Now!

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A MASS meeting of more than 3,000 British Airways cabin crew workers yesterday threw out by a massive majority the airline’s plans to slash...

US-Egyptian Coup Under Way In Libya!

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THE drive by General Khalifa Haftat to overthrow the remnants of the Libyan government, and take on and defeat the Al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood...

Russia Under Attack!

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RUSSIA IS UNDER FULL SCALE ATTACK with oil prices now down to $60 a barrel and the Saudis and the Gulf states saying that...

Following renationalisation of Southeastern, the trade unions must call a general strike to bring...

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SOUTHEASTERN rail collapsed into public ownership yesterday with the RMT revealing the true cost of the government’s slavish devotion to subsidising private profit capitalism. In...

Accept £4 billion of London NHS cuts or pay for treatment says NHS England

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LONDON Hospitals are at ‘breaking point’ according to a report from NHS England over a £4 billion funding gap. NHS England (London region) director Dr...

Afghanistan – A Graveyard For Imperialist Adventurers

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THE debacle of the rigged Afghan elections, held under the guns of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, is just a reflection of an even...

US and Israel – Get out of Syria! Aid the Syrian people by ...

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SYRIAN air defences shot down one of four Israeli warplanes targeting a military site near Palmyra on Friday, the General Command of the Syrian...

‘New Leader – Old Agenda’

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IN a motion for next month’s Trades Union Congress, UNISON correctly says the use of private firms in public services is ‘harmful, wasteful, and...

World Capitalist Crisis Hits China!

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THE world crisis of capitalism has now erupted once again and has the deformed workers’ state of China in its sights, and no doubt...

Drive Tory rabble out with a general strike to bring in a workers government...

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THE House of Commons privileges committee published its report into former prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday and it turned out to be even more...

Routine NHS operations to be privatised!

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Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director, has said that private companies will be asked to carry out routine operations to relieve pressure on...

Tories aim to drive NHS back to 1930s – bring the coalition down with...

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Dr Mark Porter, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) Hospital Consultants Committee, in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, has spelt out clearly...

Answer 30% savage cuts with a general strike!

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YESTERDAY the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, proudly announced that four government departments have agreed to make cuts in their budgets of 8% a year...

Blair and Cameron unite to split the Labour Party

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NINETY Five Labour MPs voted against the government’s renewal of the Trident programme in the House of Commons on Wednesday evening as the Labour...

Horsemeat Scandal

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What started off last month as news, that traces of horsemeat DNA had been discovered by the Irish Food Standards agency in some supermarket beefburgers,...

EU and US fall out over oil, gas and Russian sanctions!

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THE INCREASINGLY fractious relationship between the US and its rival capitalist bloc the European Union, is on the point of erupting into a full...

Hunt Plans To Force The Disabled To Work – Time To Bring Down The...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Budget speech yesterday in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up to a...

Johnson goes down with coronavirus – plunging his anti-working class regime into crisis! Time...

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THE TRADE union leaders and the Labour Party are currently cementing their role as the most enthusiastic would-be partners of the Tory government and...

Imperialist War abroad and class war at home – a general strike is the...

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THE Trade Union Congress is meeting at a very crucial time for the working people of the UK and for the working people of...

Stop children and immigrants being used as ‘cash cows’

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EVIDENCE is emerging about the extent to which the Tory policy of creating a ‘hostile climate’ for immigrant workers is being used by the...

QUEEN’S SPEECH:Making the poor pay & more police powers

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THE Queen’s Speech yesterday was dominated by the unprecedented world financial crisis and deepening slump, and its impact on decrepit British imperialism. It opened: ‘My...

Imperialism In Crisis – As Islamist Clients Turn On Their Masters

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IMPERIALISM is in disarray. Tens of thousands of Islamist fighters – initially assisted by western governments, such as the UK government, and their secret...