Editorials

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US arms Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia for war with Iran

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THAT the US is preparing a new great war in the Middle East and the Gulf to destroy Iran and Syria is crystal clear...

Benefits cuts frenzy grips coalition

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THE New Year has kicked off with a frenzied attack by both Tory and their LibDem coalition partners on the low paid, unemployed, the...

Spooks fear revolution

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THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...

Claimant count rises as UK economy carries on sinking!

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UK unemployment fell by 36,000 in the three months to the end of March, to 2.46 million. However, the number of people receiving...

Cox joins the war criminals with her plan to attack Syria!

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ON Monday evening in the House of Commons Labour MP Jo Cox came to the rescue of Cameron and the Tories when she...

Socialist revolution will see the war criminals jailed!

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A REPORT released yesterday by the Iraq Fatality Investigations, led by former High Court judge George Newman, has condemned the actions of four British...

Hezbollah Battling Thousands Of Israeli Troops

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THE Israeli government has been given the go-ahead by President Bush to mobilise up to 30,000 reservists, who are now joining the battle to...

Hamas’ statement on the ceasefire. Millions of British workers support Hamas – so must...

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HAMAS and Israel have expressed in statements their readiness to resume hostilities after they agreed to a Qatar-mediated pause in fighting. The deal includes the...

NO Apology to UNITE – Miliband to continue with anti-union campaign!

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UNITE’S general secretary Len McCluskey has said he is delighted the union has been ‘vindicated’ over the Falkirk ‘vote-rigging’ allegations Labour has decided no individual...

High Court rejects legal challenge to Labour arming Zionist genocide – now workers and...

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ON MONDAY, the High Court in London rejected a legal challenge brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq against the decision of...

Israeli regime is on the path to collapse says Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah!

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THE Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement stated yesterday that the Israeli far-right cabinet’s insistence on pushing ahead with its controversial judicial overhaul...

Supreme Court votes for EU again, as Labour demands a ‘meaningful vote’ to frustrate...

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AS EXPECTED, the Supreme Court has ruled against the government’s appeal, challenging its previous verdict that Parliament must vote on whether the government can...

Tackling cost of living crisis means tackling capitalism

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LABOUR leader Miliband yesterday lashed out at the payday lenders and the way that these vulture capitalists are preying on the poor, making life...

King warns the ruling class to tackle the causes of the crisis

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ADDRESSING a press conference yesterday afternoon, the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, said that ‘Tackling the symptoms of the crisis without...

Kick the Tories out! Get rid of capitalism to prevent a health catastrophe of...

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NHS WAITING lists in England could more than double in the coming months, from the current figure of 5.3 million people to around 13...

US–UK organising a long and bloody war in Afghanistan/Pakistan

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THERE are currently more than 70,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan under Nato command. The Obama administration plans to send in an additional 21,000 troops. 12,000...

Israel is in its death agony – the US, UK and EU trade unions...

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THE ISRAELI war cabinet minister Gantz has threatened to resign and completely split the ruling Israeli group unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out...

Heseltine joins Blair’s campaign for an anti-Brexit uprising!

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LORD Heseltine is notorious for his closure of the mining industry in 1993, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the Major...

Government forced to revive the NHS Trusts it was bankrupting

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IN the face of the rising anger of junior doctors, nurses, consultants, ancillary workers and patients over the Labour government’s policy of deliberately crashing...

Simpson And Woodley Are Betraying The Working Class!

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THE joint general secretaries of Unite, Britain’s biggest union, met with Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling at Number 11 on Thursday for crisis talks on...

Recall the TUC Congress now to sack the TUC leaders for their refusal to...

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LAST month, the TUC unanimously passed an emergency motion headed: ‘Stop the escalation of war in the Middle East’ and committed the TUC ‘to...

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...

Hunt warned by bankers that tax cuts must be funded through savage austerity cuts...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is preparing to deliver a Spring budget on Wednesday 6th March which he has signalled will concentrate on tax cuts...

SLUMP DEEPENS – only one way out – REVOLUTION!

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THE bourgeois propaganda machine was all set yesterday to spin an expected 0.04 per cent increase in GDP into a ‘the slump is over’...

Stop the great pensions robbery!

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2.5 million public service employees are being told how much extra the coalition government intends to force them to pay in pension contributions from...

Israeli regime is in a desperate crisis while the Palestinian masses have emerged stronger...

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ISRAEL has emerged out of its failed military attempt to crush Hamas much weaker and much more crisis-ridden, while the Palestinians are now much...

Blair Conversion Seals His Counter-Revolutionary Role

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TONY BLAIR, his hands still dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and with financial scandals swirling all round...

Sharon’s deception at the United Nations

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ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to cut a figure as the liberator of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip at the United...

Answer Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill with a general strike to kick the...

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THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets at the weekend in mass ‘kill the bill’ demonstrations across the country against the...

Answer attacks on welfare state with a general strike

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THE LOCAL Government Association (LGA) yesterday warned that the increase in council tax bills by 5% will do absolutely nothing to halt the continued...

Crunch Time For The British Banks

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BOTH the HSBC and Barclays banks along with the Royal Bank of Scotland have suffered major share losses in the past week, as investors...

Wall Street Crashes And With It Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy!

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JUST TEN YEARS after the 2008 great banking disaster began – with the working class still paying the price for it with massively...

Reject Tory fake pledges on NHS funding – Only Socialism will guarantee the NHS

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THE SURPRISE announcement by Theresa May on Sunday that the Tories had plans to put £20 billion of extra funding into the NHS over...

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...

EU Warmongers Getting Ready For War – As The Capitalist Crisis Heads For A...

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RUSSIAN leader Vladimir Putin said yesterday that ‘Europe is offering proposals for a “peace plan” for Ukraine that are unacceptable to Russia.’ He added that:...

What A Difference The War Drive Against Russia Makes For Ukrainian Refugees!

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THE Tory government is offering all households in the UK £350 a month to take in people fleeing the war in the Ukraine. Housing...

Don’t stop at the House of Lords! Abolish Parliament and go forward to a...

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ON Wednesday night, a spokesman for the Tory government delivered a blunt message to the House of Lords that they either accepted Brexit or...

No Fees Or Loans And Restore Student Grants For All!

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AFTER Blair and Brown abolished students’ grants and introduced a regime of fee paying for university education – putting an end to free university...

Brave Gazans Set Out To Break The Israeli Sea Blockade

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A NUMBER of Palestinian activists yesterday set off in two boats on a sea journey from Gaza towards the naval limits set by Israel,...

Smash Universal Credit! It is the tool for ruling through fear and mass evictions!

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THOUSANDS of families in England will be spending Christmas in fear that the New Year will bring eviction from their homes. This was the message...

Tories Consciously Undermining The Union!

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THE Tories this week pushed through parliament their plans for ‘English votes for English laws’ under which only English MPs would have the right...

Hamas responds to Abbas’ speech at the United Nations!

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THE Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, responded Thursday to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly, affirming that Palestinian resistance...

One thousand anti-ICE protests across US!

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OVER 1,000 protests erupted across the US at the weekend over the extra-judicial murder of Renee Nicole Good by an agent of Immigration and...

Trade unions must take action to defend state pension!

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ON WEDNESDAY the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, David Gauke, cynically used the fact that parliament was closing down for the holidays to announce...

Bomb Gadaffi Out Of Power Urges General Richards

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THE NATO war that was supposedly being waged to defend Libyan civilians must be stepped up and Libya’s infrastructure destroyed if Colonel Gadaffi is...