Editorials

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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...
Gate Gourmet workers say: WE WANT VICTORY! – while TGWU leaders discuss compulsory redundancies and loss of unfair dismissal rights!

US Threatens Syria With War

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THE US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, who was recently transferred from Afghanistan, last Monday threatened the Syrian government with war. He accused Syria of...

US government shuts down as ruling class split widens

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THE US government has begun to shut itself down after the two houses of Congress failed to agree a budget by midnight Monday. The Republican-led...

Victoria Nuland – The Organiser Of Ukraine Coup Visits Athens!

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IN Greece, the Syriza government, which was elected to break with the Troika of the European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank,...

Police to be ‘reformed’ along RUC lines

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SIR Ronald Flanagan, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary in England and Wales, and the senior police adviser to the Home Secretary, will publish a...

Israel Is Blocking Gaza Gas And Selling It To Egypt

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ISRAEL IS currently preventing gas from entering the Gaza Strip and is selling it to Egypt – while Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip are...

Egyptian Revolution Drives Zionism Into Massive Crisis!

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PALESTINIANS are poised to march in their millions on 15th September both inside and outside the occupied territories, and throughout the world, including...

Lobby TUC April 24 – make them call a general strike

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THE News Line calls for a massive lobby of the next meeting of the TUC General Council on Wednesday 24th April, to demand the...

Tgwu Leaders Seek To Sell Deal For Gate Gourmet

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‘THEY are trying to break our unity. We reject this deal.’ This is what pickets near to the Gate Gourmet plant told News Line...

French Socialist government turns on the workers

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THE French Socialist government has said it will raise Value Added Tax and cut public spending, kicking the working class and the poor in...

BIS Report – Global ‘Debt Trap’ set to crash world capitalism

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THE SWISS based Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank for central banks’, has issued a new warning about the global ‘debt trap’...

Terminal 5 – BA gets ready for its ‘Wapping’

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THE buzz word in the financial media yesterday was ‘Wapping’. The media was referring to the union busting operation carried through by Rupert Murdoch in...

UK and US have lost the war and now they want to steal any...

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AFTER a tortuous series of talks in Geneva the Russian Foreign minister Lavrov has announced the signing of five documents which include agreements reached...

French unions must call general strike to smash Macron’s murderous police forces!

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FRANCE’S President Emmanuel Macron, after his panicky early return to France from an EU summit, has now been forced to postpone a planned state...

Biden in Kiev trying to shore up coupist regime

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US Vice-President Joe Biden told the assembled right wingers at the Ukraine parliament yesterday that the US stands with the country’s new leaders in...

Form Councils Of Action To Stop All Evictions! Take Over Empty Properties To House...

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THE UK is in the grip of a huge housing crisis with workers who have jobs and earn wages being evicted by greedy landlords...

Doctor Reid seizes the helm!

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YESTERDAY the 24 suspects accused by the state of ‘a plot to commit murder on an unimaginable scale’ by blowing up 10 airliners with...

Tories target workers, disabled and children to pay the bankers’ debts!

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OSBORNE said of his emergency Budget yesterday; ‘Yes it is tough; but it is also fair.’ Further on in his speech he allowed just...

Iran frees sailors – time to withdraw all British troops from Iraq

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THE decision of the Iranian leadership to unconditionally free the fifteen British sailors and marines, who trespassed into Iranian waters, and also to leave...

Labour says ‘full speed ahead’ with police state measures – The unions must call...

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GOVERNMENT plans to expand the use of ‘Orwellian’ live-facial recognition camera surveillance to every town and city in England and Wales will allow dangerous...

UK Is £2 Trillion In Debt – Tories Are Ringing The Alarm Bells...

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UK GOVERNMENT debt has risen above £2 trillion and hit £2.004 trillion for July. The debt is £227.6bn more than last year. It is...

Halt the NHS race to the bottom

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AT a time when the privately owned treatment centres are being handed billions of pounds of the NHS Budget, without any investigation of just...

Blair fans anti-youth hysteria – while capitalist state gunmen return to work

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YESTERDAY the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, joined in the hysterical attack that the state and bosses are launching on Britain’s youth. Millions of young people...

By 278 votes to 0 MPs vote for extending the Universal Credit top-up beyond...

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THE TORY government was delivered a massive blow on Monday evening when it was defeated by 278 votes to 0 when MPs voted for...

Under Brown They Don’t Pay Any Any Taxes

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GORDON Brown in his budget got rid of the lowest rate of tax, 10p in the pound, thereby setting out to further punish the...

The Tory Telegraph and Tebbit slam the parliamentary parties

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THE decaying and gangrenous state of bourgeois democracy and its parliamentary system has been more than revealed by the expenses scandals that are racking...

Bury bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism

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SUNDAY marked the fifth anniversary of the biggest banking collapse in the history of capitalism to date. On 15 September 2008 Lehman Brothers, a massive...

CORBYN, McDONNELL SET TO BETRAY AS BREXIT ‘DAY OF DECISION’ APPROACHES!

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SENIOR Labour Party leaders are at war with each other over the best way to betray the 2016 referendum result, when PM Boris Johnson...

Recall TUC to demand an indefinite general strike to kick out the Tories

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At its annual conference yesterday, the leaders of the National Education Union (NEU) reported that the latest Tory pay offer was rejected by an...

US launches the new grab for Africa!

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PRESIDENT Obama has hailed the ‘new Africa that is emerging’, as US imperialism seeks to re-grab Africa after its destruction of the Libyan Jamahiriyah....

It’s The Afghans Who Will Have To Retake Musa Qala

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CURRENTLY a great deal of propaganda hot air is being expended hailing the action that British forces are taking to ‘liberate’ the town of...

Capitalism is a broken system – nationalise the banks and the car industry

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British Banks have been recapitalised by the working class, who were not consulted by the government before the Prime Minister took the decision...

Smash the capitalist state – the only way to get justice for Blair Peach!

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THE Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) today released the report of Commander Cass into the events surrounding the death of Blair Peach in Southall, west...

Baghdad bombings blow to Bush!

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MORE than 200 people were killed in Baghdad on Wednesday in five bombings. This is the highest number of deaths in a single day...

US and Israel step up the war against the Palestinian masses!

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PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi, on Monday, condemned the decision of the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation to strip the High Court of...

The Banking Standards Commission selects three scapegoats for the capitalist crisis

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THE farcically misnamed Banking Standards Commission (as if the banks had any standards) was created to try and prevent an even bigger banking collapse...

UK troops are on the Polish border – while US and UK forces are...

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BRITISH TROOPS are now on the Belarus-Polish border answering a request by the Polish government to give it military support against thousands of Middle...

Tories boost their navy in the Gulf, part of a ‘Maritime Coalition’ against Iran!...

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TORY foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to ‘reverse cuts to the size of the Royal Navy’ if he becomes prime minister. Hunt has...

Defend the right to strike with a general strike to bring down the Tory...

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YESTERDAY the RMT rail workers trade union warned that an all-out assault on workers’ rights was taking place as BA used the Network Rail...

Nato air strikes clear way for counter-revolutionaries

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IT is now crystal clear that the Nato airforces are in Libya to blast a way through the Libyan people, both fighters and civilians,...

TUC must call a general strike to expropriate the bosses and put an end...

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MATT WRACK, the President of the TUC and the general secretary of the FBU, correctly said on election day, July 4th, that Labour’s post-election...

Tories Stepping Up The Class War While The Tuc Is Calling A Lobby Of...

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THE TORY government has made it crystal clear that its current reorganisation is being made in order to carry out a very serious assault...

Tuc Leaders Are Betraying The Working Class

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THE 150,000 workers who turned out in London on Saturday, as well as the thousands in Glasgow and Belfast, represent a massive change...

Anger over Saddam’s death silences Blair

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AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...

Nationalise BA to defend wages, jobs and pensions

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BA managers were yesterday pledging a ‘fight to the death’ with the Unite trade union and its members to force through cuts in wages,...