Editorials

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Brown’s worthless apology for imperialist child trafficking

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FOR centuries British capitalism has sought to export its surplus populations and its trouble makers to the rest of the world. Rebellious trade unionists such...

Make the TUC take action to defend the NHS

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YESTERDAY both Blair and Hewitt mocked NHS workers insulting their intelligence with the Hewitt line that this year was the best ever year for...

Johnson Prepared To Starve UK Workers To Aid Ukraine’s War To Weaken Russia!

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have both warned that the war in Ukraine could last years, as Russian...

Labour Pushes For Pensions War

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MORE than half a million civil servants are to be told that they will have to pay a lot more towards their pensions. This is...

Geithner-Obama Warn Republicans ‘Don’t Hold Usa To Ransom!’

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BOTH US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and President Obama issued warnings to the Republican Party on Monday that, so dire is the world crisis,...

Rescue us from Syrian quagmire! US–UK call out to Putin!

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THE US and UK are stuck deep into the Syrian quagmire – a quagmire of their own making. They have achieved a situation where millions...

Taleban Cease-Fire In Swat Angers US!

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THE Pakistani Taleban in the Swat valley border areas with Afghanistan have signed a permanent cease-fire with the Pakistan government and are starting to...

Labour crisis deepens in face of collapsing economy!

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PM Keir Starmer’s Labour government, still reeling from its major retreats over the welfare cuts to incapacity PIP benefits and the winter fuel payments,...

Break with the EU NOW! Forward to a socialist UK!

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FOLLOWING the intervention of ex-PM Tony Blair to demand that the UK remains in the EU, all the counter-revolutionary, anti-working class forces have begun...

Renationalise railways or regime change says ASLEF

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ASLEF is the first trade union to call for ‘regime change’, a change in the leadership of the Labour government if it continues to...

Labour Party leaders knife Corbyn to prepare way for National Government with...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party over his remarks on Thursday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn’s...

Bosses Want The NHS To Bail Out The Energy Companies!!!

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THE Tory drive to impose capitalist ‘business models’ on the NHS with the constant demand for cuts and financial stability at the cost of...

Students and universities under savage coalition attack

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IN ORDER that the universities can have their budgets slashed and be privatised or closed, students are to be charged up to £9,000 a...

Eurozone crisis creating revolution – build the Fourth International

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THE barrage of propaganda from every mouthpiece of the capitalist class that the economic crisis of capitalism is over, suffered a blow last week with...

Israel withdraws its 98th Commando division from Gaza as Cairo talks are due...

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SIX months into Israel’s criminal war on Gaza, Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters have been engaged in intense combat around the city of Khan...

Trump boasts America is ‘greatest civilisation’ on Earth – while preparing war on working...

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Donald Trump’s speech at his inauguration as US president on Monday did not include a number of the crucial measures he insisted would be...

Take strike action to defend wages and jobs

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RAPIDLY rising food, gas, electricity and petrol prices pushed up the cost of living in January, even according to the government’s rigged inflation rate...

UK Pirates Plan Somalia Onslaught!

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YESTERDAY, a conference was convened in London to organise the intervention into Somalia by imperialist forces, led by the UK, acting under the cover of...

No Ifs, No Buts – TUC must call an immediate general strike to support...

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Over 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street last Saturday in a massive demonstration of support for Palestine and demanding an end...

Establish the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in 2017!

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THE Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saeb Erekat has denounced the ongoing escalation by the Israeli government against its Palestinian citizens as...

Biden Leads The Charge For Russian Regime Change!

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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden made his first annual State of the Union Address late Tuesday night, opening with an attack on Russia that was...

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...

UK capitalism crashes under impact of energy crisis – put it out of its...

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TORY ministers were locked in crisis talks with energy suppliers yesterday as the threat of gas shortages in Britain are so huge that they...

US-UK Troops Will Intervene Into Pakistan In Obamas’ War!

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JUST a week ago General Petraeus, the US commander, declared that ‘We have two weeks to save Pakistan!’ We are now witnessing just how the...

EU banker Draghi imposed as Italian Prime Minister in desperate attempt to prevent a...

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BANKRUPT Italian capitalism moved on Tuesday night to cement the dictatorship of the bankers over the country when the president Sergio Mattarela unilaterally appointed...

‘Demilitarisation’ in the north and Shoot to Kill in Britain!

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JUST minutes after the IRA issued a statement that it was giving up its historic armed struggle, the British army began demolishing a watch...

Tory plans to ‘save’ British capitalism are nothing but a subsidy for the bosses

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YESTERDAY Tory prime minister Theresa May announced a new era of state intervention to ‘save’ British capitalism. According to this strategy, selected sectors will be...

World Crisis Driving Capitalism Into Wars And Revolutions – Time To Carry Out The...

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WITH the US, EU and the UK capitalist economies and regimes in a growing and desperate economic and political crisis, the imperialist powers are...

Declare the Palestinian state!

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LAST Tuesday night it was confirmed by the United States that its much-vaunted ‘peace’ initiative over Palestine had collapsed. The State Department was forced to...

Defend every job, occupy to stop closures, and nationalise the major industries

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics produced figures showing the record breaking numbers of unemployed and the record breaking growth of unemployment. UK unemployment...

Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism!

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CHANCELLOR Darling flew to the US yesterday to meet with fellow finance ministers, and Federal Treasury Secretary Paulson, for the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting. Yesterday...

Israeli genocide to be celebrated at Albert Hall Balfour Centenary!

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YESTERDAY as the International Day for the Protection of Children was celebrated in countries across the world, the Palestinian Authority (PA) released chilling figures...

NATO gets ready for pre-emptive nuclear strike

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NATO has developed a tactic for halting the ‘imminent’ spread of nuclear weapons or of other weapons of mass destruction. This is a formula tailor-made...

Corbyn is playing the May game!

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MONDAY’s speech to the Charity Commission by the unelected Tory prime minister, Theresa May, revealed the weakness of the Tory government and its intense fear...

Trump sends in National Guard to take over America’s capital city

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On Monday, US president Donald Trump declared a ‘crime emergency’ in Washington DC, the capital city of America, using this as a pretext to...

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...

US plans to use nuclear bunker busters against Iran

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THE New Yorker has published an article by award winning journalist Seymour Hersh, that claims that the US administration of President G W Bush...

Nationalise the energy companies to end fuel poverty

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PM Brown has rejected out of hand the trade union demand for a Windfall Tax on the oil, gas and energy companies, that are...

Lagarde says Greek euro exit will ‘probably’ not mean end of euro

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THE head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, admitted on Thursday that she could not ‘preclude’ Greece being forced out of the eurozone. This...

Kabul Taking The Place Of Saigon In The Pantheon Of US Imperialist Disasters

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THE Taleban yesterday carried out another daring attack in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, with gun and shellfire taking place near to...

Bank and government split as crisis deepens

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THE decision of the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King to name and shame the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Darling, as...

TUC leader O’Grady makes PM May a unity offer!

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IN a lecture to the London School of Economics (LSE) on Tuesday TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady made a ‘national government’ call to the...

Sustainability & Transformation Plans mean NHS cuts and privatisation! Kick the Tories out!

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THE TORY government has launched its new offensive in the war against the NHS, and this time it is an attack by stealth. Sustainability and...

US piracy forces down Bolivian plane in search for Snowden

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THERE is not the slightest doubt that Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have done a huge service to the whole of...

The Libyan people must drive out the imperialists and their agents and resume ownership...

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ON JUNE 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were shot dead by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official...