Editorials

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Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobbying the TUC Congress on September 12

Hands off Iran – Forward to the state of Palestine

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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has voiced his ‘dismay’ over remarks by Iran’s president calling for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. Annan...

Putin Alarm At US War Drive

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THE fact that the deepening capitalist crisis is turning the whole planet into a US war zone has begun to seriously alarm the Russian...

National action to defend JDE workers – force TUC to call a ...

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LAST Wednesday the international coffee giant JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) issued dismissal notices to nearly 300 of its workers at the Banbury plant who...

US Closes Its Embassy In Kiev As It Hands Over Missiles To Ukraine To...

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THE likelihood of an escalation in the Ukraine conflict could significantly increase in the next two months, as long as the just-defeated US President...

Tories torn apart by crisis – build the WRP to lead struggle for power!

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NEARLY one year ago the Tories under Boris Johnson won a resounding victory in the general election winning a massive 80-seat majority in the...

No end to austerity under the Tories – workers must act to kick them...

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TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered not so much a Spring Statement to parliament yesterday as a half hour of self-congratulation and boasting about how...

Sunak’s speech a declaration of war on workers to make them pay for the...

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his speech to the Tory Party conference yesterday pledged to ‘double down’ on his plans to resuscitate drowning British...

Close Down The US Base On Diego Garcia!

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FOREIGN Secretary Miliband yesterday admitted in the House of Commons that previous government denials that the island of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands...

Bankers promote permanent austerity! Nationalise the banks through a socialist revolution – the only...

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RICHARD SHARP, a member of the Bank of England’s Financial Stability Committee has warned that the UK is heading for a Venezuelan-style economic crash...

US workers taking the revolutionary road

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THE Baltimore protests over the police killing of 25-year-old African-American Freddie Gray have spread all over the USA. Gray died of a spinal cord...

Bank of England pledges to ride to the rescue of capitalism!

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THE BANK of England yesterday vowed that it would ride to the rescue of the world’s financial markets by joining with other central banks...
Palestinian flats in Rafah full of shell and bullet holes because of Israeli army shelling

Emergency Action needed to win Gate Gourmet dispute

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THE Gate Gourmet strikers are fighting in the most determined fashion to win back their jobs in the face of a hostile union busting...
Kentish Town FBU chairman Ben Sprung (centre) was among the many trade unionists who joined the Gate Gourmet  locked-out workers six months anniversary picket last Friday

Overthrow British capitalism to end imperialist atrocities

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THE brutalising, maiming, beating and even killing of the ‘subject peoples’ by imperialist troops is part and parcel of the imperialist system and tradition,...

US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis and NATO to organise a war with...

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PM Boris Johnson said yesterday that Ukrainians are ‘fighting heroically’ and with ‘great success’ in some places against Russian troops who have intervened to...

Open up the NHS demands Bush and the US drug companies

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NOT content with wrecking Iraq, the US administration is moving in to wreck the British NHS on behalf of the US drug companies. ...

SA hunger can only be ended by a socialist revolution

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ONE in four South Africans are unemployed, and poverty is rife eighteen years after the release of Nelson Mandela and 14 years after he...

May appeals to Labour Right-Wing to save her

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THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained...

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...

MPs’ Committee blames councils over homeless and dodges government!

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THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...

Charge G4S With The Mubenga Killing!

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THE THREE G4S guards who unlawfully killed Jimmy Mubenga in 2010 – when he was just 46 years old – using restraint holds as...

Blair’s generation of imperialist war

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After President Bush has informed the world that 20,000 more US troops are to be sent to Iraq, and his Secretary of State, Rice...

Obama seeks wider support for central Asian war

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PRESIDENT Obama has shaken his supporters with his admission that the war in Afghanistan is not being won, and that he is willing to...

Brown cuts workers’ pay to underwrite the bankers

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YESTERDAY was an historic day, with Prime Minister Brown pledging to bail out the banks. At the TUC Congress, Labour Party leader Brown told...

Build The Greek Section Of The Fourth International!

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TENS of thousands of students, teachers and trade unionists are expected to take to the streets of Athens and other major Greek cities on...

Imperialist Vipers At Work

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FROM the early 1980s, the CIA and MI6, directed by the US and UK governments of the day, supported and armed the Mujahideen in...

Tory hypocrites vow to create a land of ‘opportunity for all’

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TORY leader Cameron treated his audience to a big dose of Tory hypocrisy yesterday, when he vowed in the final speech to the Tory...

Carillion pension fund looted to pay billions to shareholders and bosses

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THE collapse of the construction company Carillion has again thrown a spotlight on the systematic theft and looting of billions of pounds from workers’...

Stop regeneration, and start the refurbishment and building of council houses

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THE Fire Brigades Union has called for a public inquiry into the fatal fire in the Camberwell high rise block which claimed six lives....

Soros financing Pro-EU campaign in UK – Workers must demand that the UK quits...

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US-HUNGARIAN billionaire George Soros has denounced Brexit as an ‘immensely damaging process’ for both the United Kingdom and the European Union, and has arrived...

Tory Crisis Deepens As Economy Crashes And Coronavirus Surges!

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‘WE WERE hoping for a V: a rapid economic bounceback. We would have probably settled for a W: a wobbly recovery, with dips along...

US Ruling Class Offers Iran A Rotten Deal

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday said that the US would talk to Iran if it will suspend its nuclear programme. Rice made...

Starmer is making the poor pay for the crisis. The TUC must strike to...

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FOLLOWING the failure of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ panic visit to beg, or borrow, £600 million from China, the Labour government of Keir Starmer is...

Darling’s plan to make workers pay for crisis

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CHANCELLOR Darling made his pre-budget speech to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon in the form of a Labour general election manifesto. His line was...

Sack the government not doctors and nurses

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A REPORT leaked this weekend spells out exactly how the Tory-led coalition means to destroy completely the National Health Service and is preparing to...

Corbyn comes out on top as May is jeered, laughed at and heckled!

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THE separate questioning by SKY’s Faisal Islam, Jeremy Paxman and a small audience, of Labour leader Corbyn and PM May showed just how disorientated...

UK workers must support the Hamas call for action against genocide!

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in a statement on Wednesday, called on the ‘free people of the world to escalate popular protest’ against the...

UK and US trade unions must support the Palestinian socialist revolution!

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WHILE the US and UK backed Israeli murder machine, both civil and military is at work on a daily basis killing Palestinian men women...

Unions Must Answer Truss Threats By Calling A General Strike To Bring Down The...

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THE Margaret Thatcher look-alike, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, is seeking to sound like, look like and act like Margaret Thatcher, as she vows to...

Germany’s two largest banks in merger talks, creating Europe’s biggest ‘zombie bank’

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LAST weekend the two largest German banks, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, entered merger talks in a last desperate measure to delay a banking collapse...

TUC to lobby Tory Party conference – to change Tory policy

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THE TUC General Council statement issued on Saturday constitutes a betrayal of the working class and the trade unions. It seeks to divert...

Palestinian Prisoners Go 0N Hunger Strike For Unity

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PALESTINIANS are commemorating Land Day, the 35th anniversary of the uprising against Israel’s land theft, in which six young protesters were killed by...

Times Rich List shows that austerity UK has become a paradise for the...

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THE just-published Sunday Times rich list shows that in austerity-hit UK – where millions of workers have not had a rise in the ten...

Carnage and bloodbath on world stock markets deepens – socialist revolution is the only...

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LAST Monday, the American Dow Jones Index, which records the share prices of the top US companies and banks, recorded the biggest drop in...
The head of the London march in Whitehall shortly after setting off from Parliament Square

A British ‘barbaric act of aggression’ in Basra

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THE Labour Government’s Defence Secretary, John Reid, declared yesterday that sending six Warrior tanks to demolish the wall of a prison compound in Basra,...

597 homeless deaths, 130,000 homeless children! Slum landlords and capitalism must be got rid...

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FIVE hundred and ninety-seven homeless people died on the streets of Britain last year, up from 482 the year before – in fact homeless...