Editorials

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UK stage deliberate provocation in the Black Sea as part of its imperialist war...

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ON WEDNESDAY, Britain staged a deliberate provocation when it sent the warship HMS Defender steaming through Russian territorial waters in the Black Sea. The Defender...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the plant yesterday midday after police stopped them picketing on nearby Beacon Hill

Police death squads are ok says ACPO

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THERE is no need to change the strategy police use to deal with suicide bombers – to put as many bullets into their brain...

Nationalise the PFI parasites!

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EVERY year the Labour government is handing over £40bn to the consortia of financiers, property developers and construction giants in payments for Private Finance...

US-UK-Eu The Imperialist Split Widens!

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AS the world crisis of capitalism develops at breakneck speed, so the splits between the imperialist nations become more open, pitching the US against...

Dollar collapse puts bankers into a spin

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THE dollar has continued to collapse against the other major capitalist currencies leaving the pound at its highest price against the dollar since Britain...

Break with the EU – Forward to the British socialist revolution and Socialist United...

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THE POLITICAL and economic crisis over Brexit has reached explosion point this week, with negotiations between the Tory government and the leaders of the...

100 Million Nigerians live on less than $1 a day – despite Nigeria’s vast...

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THE numbers of Nigerians living in poverty, in the midst of vast oil riches, has risen to nearly 61 per cent. Poverty has risen sharply...

Bankers’ forecasts wrong again! New banking crash will ignite revolution!

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THE BANK of England has admitted what it calls a ‘Michael Fish’ moment over its failure to predict the 2007-8 banking crash and its...

Cameron gets his EU marching orders!

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US president Barak Obama has issued his sternest warning yet to the Tory government of the dangers of Britain leaving the European Union. In an...

Unite betrays Ealing strikers – Time to build a revolutionary leadership in the unions

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THE ANGER expressed by Ealing Parking Service workers at the way in which the Unite leadership has sold their strike down the river reflects...

Tories Want To Turn Trade Unions Into Labour Fronts For The Bosses With Their...

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THE TORIES are proposing to turn free and independent trade unions into ‘Labour Fronts’ run by the bosses with their new anti-trade union legislation. Under...

Inflation Letting Rip As Darling Fiddles

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CONSUMER Prices Index (CPI) inflation has been driven up to 3.5 per cent in January by, amongst other factors, VAT returning to 17.5...

Starmer’s Labour regime must be replaced by a workers’ government

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Sir Keir Starmer is set to become the UK’s first Labour prime minister since 2010 after his party’s landslide general election victory. Labour is...

Imperialists Drive To Break Up Iraq

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THERE can be only one gainer from a civil war in Iraq, that will lead to the breaking up of the country into three...

Trump’s declaration that American imperialism will ‘take over Gaza’ must be answered with World...

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US president Donald Trump, at a joint press conference with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, announced that America would ‘take over Gaza’...
A coachload of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers came to the TGWU’s London headquarters to speak with TGWU National Secretary Brendan Gold about his betrayal of the locked out workers

US workers need revolutionary leadership

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A CRISIS, with the most revolutionary implications for the working class, is erupting in the US, with GM, the world’s biggest motorcar producer announcing...

Trade unions must bring down crisis-ridden Tories, break with the EU and bring in...

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THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...

Trump caves in over Ukraine – now is the time to get rid of...

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AMERICA’S junior imperialist allies in the UK and Europe were in a state of shock as details of US president Donald Trump’s climbdown over...

Carney plans for state robbery of bank depositors’ cash!

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ON Tuesday, amidst all the turmoil of the US presidential election, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, announced a financial bombshell...

Saddam Murder Within Days

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THE decision to hang the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, and also the Iraqi Vice-President, Taha Yasin Ramadan – whose sentence was increased from life...

Hands Off Syria – Forward to World Revolution

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THE imperialist military alliance, NATO, meets today at the request of Turkey which will be invoking Article 4 of its treaty which covers threats...

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...

Tory Party disintegrating – working class must prepare to seize power now!

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THE CONSERVATIVE Party is tearing itself apart this week as Tory MPs await with trepidation the result of the inquiry by Sue Gray into...

Boots Joins The NHS Privatisation Drive

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CHEMIST giant Boots wants to breach the NHS system by bringing GPs and consultants into its stores as part of an alleged drive to...

World Crisis driving world revolution – Build the Fourth International!

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LAST week it was the turn of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to issue its latest warning that world capitalism is on the point...

The Bank Of England Drops Its Debt Bombshell

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THE world’s banks have now lost £1.8 trillion the Bank of England has reported in its Financial Stability Report. This is as a result of...

Essential relationship = master and servant

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US President Barak Obama, in his speech to both houses of parliament last Wednesday, did little more than restate the old George Bush doctrine...

Bush Threatens North Korea With War

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YESTERDAY North Korea shook the imperialist powers who had assumed that the workers state would not dare to proceed to test a nuclear weapon. North...

Unions Must Take Strike Action To Stop ‘Son Of Star Wars’

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THE real content of the ‘war against terror’ (a tool for promoting imperialist interests and for grabbing the world’s resources) has been proven with...

ECB interest rate cut is last throw of the dice. Forward with European socialist...

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ON Thursday afternoon Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced that the bank has cut its benchmark interest rate from 0.5%...

Socialist revolution only solution to capitalist crisis

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer returned from holiday at the weekend to announce his new ‘robust’ plan to freeze the cap on electricity and gas...

Abbas-Obama Talks Fail To Reach Agreement!

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JUST BEFORE his talks with President Abbas on Monday, President Obama said: ‘I think everybody understands the outlines of what a peace deal would...

No renegotiations – Merkel and Sarkozy warn Greece

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THE fact that Papandreou has had to sack the Greek Military General Staff at the same time as he has angered Sarkozy and Merkel...

Europe’s energy bill hit $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the start...

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THE SOARING price of energy has cost Europe $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the beginning of the biggest, deepest economic crisis...

Anti-Brexit coup under way – ‘Country before Party’ means bringing in military police state!

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WITH PM May seeking a miracle rescue by the EU getting rid of the backstop, in the real world a coup is being launched...

Government’s fake inflation rate falls as cost of living rises

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THE Government’s UK inflation rate figure fell again, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), for the third month in a row, down...

Starmer’s ‘No’ to ban on arms to Israel must be met with a general...

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer, in the House of Commons on Monday, defended Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’ while lamenting ‘the region cannot endure...

TUC MUST demand recognition of the State of Palestine and call for an international...

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SPEAKING in Madrid yesterday, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the recognition of a Palestinian state is ‘in Europe’s geopolitical interests’. The Spanish...

Take Decisive Action To Win Postal Struggle

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AFTER almost two days of discussions, the CWU leadership has rejected the call of the membership of the union for indefinite strike action, and...

Bma Must Throw Out Tory Health Plans!

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GPs have already expressed their opposition to the Coalition plan to privatise the NHS being pushed into law by Health Secretary Lansley. They have...

US warns Pakistan over gas pipeline link with Iran

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THE Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Monday officially inaugurated the final construction phase of the Iran-Pakistan gas...

Bank of England pushes up interest rates as inflation spirals out of control!

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THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and decided to increase the interest rate by 0.25% to 0.75% in a futile attempt...

The CWU leaders are refusing to fight for their membership

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THE unsolicited public display of pacifism yesterday by the CWU leadership, in the face of the most vicious daily attacks on their membership...

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...

Victory To Syria – Smash Is, The Nusra Front And Their Western Backers –...

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AT THE same time as the Nusra Front and the remnants of IS were shelling Damascus, and the Turkish imperialists were killing Kurds in...