Editorials

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US–UK organising Palestinian civil war

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THERE is no doubt that the US and UK ruling classes are hard at work seeking to organise a Palestinian civil war. The object is...

NATO’s arms being exported from Libya to terrorists everywhere

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THE NATO armed intervention that supported the Islamist revolt in Libya succeeded in murdering Colonel Gadaffi and smashed up the most advanced and prosperous...

Iraqi puppet government splits after Maliki refuses to order US withdrawal

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THE political bloc of anti-occupation Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, yesterday quit the Iraqi puppet government with its six ministers quitting the cabinet. They walked out...

Bring Out All The Unions To Defend The NHS!

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THE situation could not be clearer. The whole of the trade union movement and the majority of non-trade unionists support the 24-hour strike actions...

GM’s Reilly insists no decision made on which plants are to close

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GENERAL Motors’ head of operations in Europe, Nick Reilly, has a history – he was in charge of the operation that shut down Vauxhall...

Economy is busted – a deeper slump, rate rises, wage cuts and revolution...

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IN his letter to Chancellor Osborne, the Bank of England governor Kings asks: ‘Why has inflation moved away from the target?’ His answer is: ‘three...

Tory ‘war on terror’ used in war on Junior Doctors

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EMAILS, made public this week, between the Tory government and the head of NHS England, Sir Bruce Keogh, reveal the way the Tories attempted...

Brown lambasts Tube strikers and public sector workers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown mounted an outspoken attack on members of the RMT railworkers’ union on strike at the London Underground bankrupt maintenance company...

Ruling Class Targets The Political Levy

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THERE has been a frenzied hue and cry raging for weeks now over the minor mistakes of Labour cabinet ministers over relatively minor...

Unite Helps Bosses Cut Workers’ Wages

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THE UNITE trade union leaders yesterday were in full flight praising Toyota workers for taking their advice and assisting the bosses by accepting a...

Snap General Election Farce!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Brown, a cautious and bumbling, conservative politician, is due to decide this weekend whether to take a big gamble and call...

Ferguson battle anticipates US revolution

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THE tactics weaponry and ammunition used in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, by the police and Missouri National Guard, have led to...

Capitalist State In A Crisis

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THE capitalist state establishment was yesterday rushing into the breach to prop up the ailing head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, Britain’s...

Lesson from by-elections: Labour Party’s finished! Build the revolutionary party!

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JEREMY Corbyn MP, leader of the Labour Party, said yesterday on the Stoke-on-Trent Central and Copeland by-elections results that ‘Labour’s victory in Stoke is...

Patients & staff paying price of £1bn NHS under-spend

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LABOUR ministers are boasting that the projected £983m under-spend in the National Health Service are evidence that it has regained its ‘financial footing’. Health Secretary...

Labour can only offer youth police state repression

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THE Labour government is bringing in additional legislation under which children as young as 14 years old will be banned from wearing hoods or...

US military targeting Iran and Hezbollah

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YESTERDAY the US military was linking Iran directly to attacks on their troops, including an attack at Karbala in which five US troops were...

Lessons of 1926 are vital for today!

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THIS year there is great interest in the 80th anniversary of the general strike of 1926. It is not hard to work out why....

Capitalist Debt Crisis Demands A Socialist Revolution!

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THE deepening world capitalist crisis is poised to see entire nation states defaulting, plunging their banks into an even more desperate crisis, deepening the...

Irish Union Votes To Repudiate Bank Debt!

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The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union is to contact ‘like-minded unions’ to seek ‘international legal opinion regarding the possibility of mounting a successful legal...

Bush Visit To Form Alliance With ‘Axis Of Evil’

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THERE has been a spate of hectic diplomatic activity in the Middle East, since the Israeli defeat in the Lebanon and the Congressional mid-term...

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...

Workers of the world unite in the struggle for socialism

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OVER 600,000 workers have come to work in the UK from the eight nations which joined the European Union in 2004, said Home Office...

Labour racists seek state dictatorship over immigrants

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JUST imagine the furore there would be if British migrants to India were told that they would have to be conversant in Hindi, be...

Housing costs soar!

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SINCE Labour took office in 1997, house prices have gone up four times more quickly than workers’ pay, according to figures published by the...

A fighting Public Sector Alliance to defend wages and jobs

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THE Communication Workers Union yesterday announced its latest plans for strike action after the first national strike for a decade last week, which was...

Trade union bureaucrats put two fingers up to May Day

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TRUE to form, the voice of the trade union bureaucracy, the Stalinist Morning Star counted tens of thousands of marchers on the TUC’s May...

Bp Leads Shares Crash As Banking Crisis Grows!

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OIL giant BP’s share price has fallen nearly 17 per cent to £4.12, its lowest level since March 2009. The sharp sell-off came as it...

McCluskey must meet with Gate Gourmet sacked workers!

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LEN McCluskey, winner of the election for the post of Unite general secretary, said on Wednesday that ‘I have a huge agenda in front...

US and EU backed armed mobs run riot in the Ukraine!

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THE imperialist backed Ukrainian right-wing, including self-declared fascist movements, have brazenly made a call to arms, and to prove the point on Tuesday shot...

Clinton, Netanyahu make a bloc on settlements

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PALESTINE Authority President Mahmud Abbas has been completely undermined by the latest declaration of US Secretary of State Clinton. In it she supported the Israeli...

Revolution the only way out of capitalism’s debt crisis

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NEXT week, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, will be announcing the results of his spending review to parliament, outlining £20 billion of austerity cuts...
Demonstration in London on January 26 demanding the release of Omar Deghayes and all other detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp

Workers Of The World Unite Against Imperialism

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THE sight of Danish embassies burning in Beirut and Damascus leaves no doubt as to the depth of anger of Muslim people at the...

BMA Junior Doctors reject Tory-imposed contract!

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THE decision by the British Medical Association (BMA) to refuse to re-enter contract negotiations for doctors in training will be welcomed by every trade...

French join anti-Iran war party

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FRENCH Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Sunday that in relation to Iran: ‘We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is...

The world must act to defend Palestinians

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YESTERDAY morning Israel announced that all the crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel were closed. Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak...

Blockade the oil refineries and nationalise the oil industry to slash petrol prices

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THE Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has just warned that we are rapidly heading for a petrol price of £7.40 a gallon, a catastrophe that...

Victory to the Syrian army in Idlib! Forward with the Turkish workers revolution...

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THE TURKISH government has said it will not hesitate to invade Syria to prevent the Syrian army pressing ahead with its counter-terrorism offensive to...

Fight VAT increases with mass actions to bring down coalition

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THE increase of VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent today will mean destitution for millions of unemployed and low paid workers...

Take action to defeat Labour’s plan to smash the NHS

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THE leaking of Department of Health (DoH) documents, including ‘Pay and Workforce Strategy for 2008-11’, reveals the Labour government’s plan to slash NHS...

Palestinian masses break the blockade and start tearing down the walls

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THE Palestinian revolution has shown the way forward by blowing a massive hole in the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, so that hundreds of...

Egyptian workers inspiring the workers and youth of the world!

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THE Egyptian workers delivered another massive blow at imperialism, Arab feudalists, Zionism and the Egyptian pro-imperialist military when hundreds of thousands of them reoccupied...

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...

Labour to match the Tories cut for cut!

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‘BUT my argument starts by recognising that tough times will continue,’ said Labour leader Miliband yesterday on his policy for dealing with the crisis. He...

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...