Editorials

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‘The Final Demise Of The Two State Solution’ Says Ashrawi!

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THE Palestinian National Council (PNC), the Palestinian parliament in exile, said on Monday that the decision of the Israeli ruling Likud party to impose...

Palestine at boiling point – take action now to establish the Palestinian state!

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THE victory of the people of Gaza in the 51 day war, imposed on them by Israel’s attempt to completely destroy Gaza has changed...

Unison Leaders Vote For Another Blairite Government

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FOR the whole period that Labour Left MP John McDonnell was seeking to get the backing of the 40 plus MPs that would have...

Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum seekers on to...

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THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...

Tories wiped out in North Shropshire by-election. Now is the time for the TUC...

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THE VOTE came in at 4am on Friday morning for the North Shropshire by-election. The Liberal Democrats won, taking a seat the Tories have...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside their  caravan at Heathrow yesterday

Pakistan PM forced to condemn US raid

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THE Pakistani Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, yesterday spelt out that Pakistan cannot accept actions like the recent US cross-border air strike on a village...

EU crisis sharpening to breaking point!

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US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is attending the meeting of the EU Finance Ministers in Poland to convey the alarm of the...

US Spy Agencies Pull Rug From Beneath Bush And Cheney

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THE Iranian government has welcomed the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report, to which all the US spying agencies contributed, which states that Iran...

Scourge of privatisation opens the NHS up to fraud!

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ACCORDING to the BBC Panorama programme, broadcast last night, the NHS is being defrauded of £5 billion a year, a massive loss to a...

Trump moves to make a deal with the Stalinist bureaucracy – workers must move...

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UKRAINE has agreed the terms of a major minerals deal with the US, a senior official in Kiev has told the BBC. US President...

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...

World Socialist Revolution only answer to capitalist war at home and abroad!

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The political crisis of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia, that emerged dramatically on Friday with the march on Moscow by the mercenary Wagner group,...

Carney tells banks to find £11.4 billion to save them going bust

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DESPITE all the recent words from Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, about the underlying health of British capitalism, his actions yesterday...

No Pensions sell-out! Sack Prentis and Barber! Forward to the General Strike! Build new...

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THE reformist trade union leaders are once again, on the pensions issue, showing that they are organically incapable of defending the basic gains of...

Putin cuddles up to the West over Ukraine!

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SUNDAY night’s meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has shown conclusively the counter-revolutionary nature of...

Worldwide strikes against Amazon’s brutal exploitation of workers – socialist revolution only answer

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WORKERS at the online retail giant Amazon warehouse in Minnesota were out on a six hours-long strike yesterday called to coincide with the company’s...

Turkey Invades Northern Iraq

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THOUSANDS of Turkish soldiers, backing a number of tank led armoured columns, crossed into northern Iraq on Thursday evening, after a massive artillery bombardment...

Trade Unions Must Dump Starmer And Labour’s Right Wing And Call A General Strike...

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THE general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey has responded to Labour’s massive council election defeats and its disastrous loss in the Hartlepool...

Crisis-ridden US imperialism to stay in Afghanistan and send troops to Cameroon!

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama has admitted defeat in Afghanistan and has decided to keep 5,500 US troops there when he leaves office in 2017, according...

May’s EU capitulation defeated again! Working class must rise up to ensure no-deal break...

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TORY PM Theresa May was defeated again by Parliament on Thursday evening. A motion put forward to support the government’s Brexit strategy fell, with...

SNP join Tories in refusing any pay negotiations with nurses

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THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Scotland has voted overwhelmingly to reject the final pay offer from the nationalist SNP government, meaning Scottish...

Labour MPs being whipped to keep Tories in power!

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer instructed his party’s MPs to abstain in last night’s vote on the Tories’ new Covid regulations tier system, thus ensuring...

Greek blood money debt bonds for sale!

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BANKRUPTED Greece, still up to its neck in debt, is to sell five-year bonds, in the country’s first long-term debt sale since its international...

Corporatist union leaders are serving the bosses

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WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...

Hamas condemns the US murderous Doha strike

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PALESTINIAN resistance factions and Hamas officials have condemned the Israeli occupation’s strike on the Qatari capital Doha that targeted Hamas leadership and members of...

British imperialism’s major ally, Saudi Arabia is up to its neck in promoting terrorism...

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A REPORT by the Henry Jackson Society, published yesterday, named Saudi Arabia as the main foreign promoter of Islamic extremism in Britain, stating that...

Half of England owned by less than 1% of the population! Expropriate the...

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THIS YEAR an estimated 4,677 people a night are sleeping rough on the streets of Britain, a figure that has increased for the past...

Iran condemns the mass bombing of Iranian cities

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IRAN has fiercely condemned the massive Israeli aerial bombing of several cities and the targeted assassinations of military leaders and nuclear scientists on Thursday...

A First For The Labour Party – A Leader Who Was A Key Official...

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SIR KEIR Starmer, the ex-Director of Public Prosecutions, and currently the leader of the Labour Party, has just engaged in a second key mission...

By-elections spell out depth of the coalition crisis

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LABOUR has won three by-elections, holding Croydon North, Middlesbrough and Rotherham, while the coalition governing parties were wiped out. The Tories came behind UKIP, their...

‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street

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YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...

Palestinian leadership says peace talks will fail!

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THE Palestinian leadership in Ramallah is working on the basis that the peace talks with Israel will fail and that both sides know...

Massive turn-out of workers to fight Tory austerity

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THE 250,000 workers and youth who marched on Saturday, along with the thousands who also marched in Glasgow and Liverpool, proved once again that...

Bank of England – people will just have to accept poverty as the price...

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HUW PILL, the chief economist at the Bank of England, has made the official position of the bankers crystal clear when he insisted that...

Turn The November 30Th Strike Into An Indefinite General Strike

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THERE can be only one demand for next week’s one-day strike by public sector workers and that must be for the TUC to call...

Maliki Objects To US-Puppet Army Raid On Sadr City

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YESTERDAY was the first day after the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad announced that he had given the Iraqi puppet government a timetable...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow yesterday insist that theTGWU should refuse to accept compulsory redundancies

Iraqi puppets feel the noose tightening

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IN the last few days the Iraqi puppet National Assembly, whose authority does not run outside of the Green Zone US fortress in central...

Eurozone Crisis Is Hitting Every Country

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IN a week when Greece and Spain witnessed massive strikes and demonstrations against austerity measures – designed to drive the working class and youth...

Mass Unemployment And Poverty Is All Capitalism Has To Offer Workers And Youth!

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THE NUMBER of people claiming unemployment benefit in the UK soared to 2.1 million in April – the first full month of the coronavirus...

Merkel’s Short-Lived Victory

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ON Thursday, the German Parliament (Bundestag) voted by 523 to 85 to increase the funds available to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) from...

The TUC must now call mass general strike action in support of Palestine and...

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THE Hamas movement said on Saturday that the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the northern Gaza Strip and the Israeli occupation army’s attacks on...

EU is going up in flames! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!

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THE European Union is like a huge powder magazine that started to smoulder even before the Brexit vote in the UK on June 23rd,...

Renegade Field joins Cameron – while Milibands search for a ‘new opportunism’

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FRANK Field, the notorious Labour party right winger has joined the Tory coalition and is to be its ‘Poverty Tsar’, no doubt bringing back...

The Deputy Prime Minister resigns, but the May government is allowed to continue!

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ON WEDNESDAY PM May was finally forced to sack her Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green following an inquiry by officials from the Cabinet Office...

Call national strike action! Form a public sector alliance!

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OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...