Editorials

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Business rates hike is to bankrupt the NHS – Time to bring the ...

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NHS hospitals and GP surgeries in England and Wales face a massive £635 million hike in their business rates by the May government over...

Labour’s new leaders tell right wing that they can vote to bomb Syria along...

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LABOUR MPs should be given a free vote on military action in Syria, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said on Tuesday night, at a Guardian-sponsored...

Trump’s Terrorist Regime Kills Iranian Leaders As It Drives Forward To A New Middle...

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IRAN’S most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been murdered by a US air strike in Iraq. The...

Labour strikebreakers back BA’s anti-union drive

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British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union has...

Lobby the TUC on 27 April to demand they take action to support the...

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THE lobby of the TUC general council meeting tomorrow is crucial for the fight, not just in defence of the junior doctors, but to...

US troops to fight in Iraq and Syria!

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THE US has changed policy on Iraq and Syria overnight, and will now allow US ground troops to assault targets in both countries and...

Scrap the regional fire control centres!

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THE House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee report on the government’s plan, to replace 46 Fire Control centres with nine new...

‘Stand and Deliver’ – EU highwaymen demand 100bn euros!

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THE attempt of the political representatives of the EU to make the UK working class stand and deliver up to, or even over, 100bn...

The GMB understands the need for redundancies

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JCB has announced 400 more redundancies, blaming a ‘significant’ reduction in incoming orders. The redundancies are made up of 297 shop floor jobs and 101...

EU crisis deepens in London and Athens

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THE great EU referendum crisis in the UK has sharpened after PM Cameron denied his earlier remarks that after he had negotiated a deal...

Israel prison service is beating and assaulting female Palestinian detainees inside Damon prison!

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IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned Israeli forces’ brutal aggression against Palestinian women at Damon Prison in the Palestinian occupied territories. ‘Beating female Palestinian...

UK – At The Mercy Of The World Crisis Of Capitalism

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BANK OF ENGLAND Governor King looked into his teacup yesterday morning at his press conference and all he could see was leaves, leaving him...

Resistance erupts over ‘austerity’, as EU crisis worsens

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THE government of President Nicolas Sarkozy announced yesterday the raising of the pension age in France from 60 to 62. Workers will have to...

70 children blown to pieces by terror gangs in Syria and not a word...

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IN SYRIA a massive car bomb deliberately targeting people awaiting evacuation from Syrian towns being besieged by the so-called ‘rebel’ forces, in reality a...

Carillion pension fund looted to pay billions to shareholders and bosses

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THE collapse of the construction company Carillion has again thrown a spotlight on the systematic theft and looting of billions of pounds from workers’...

Cameron prepared to use Navy against refugee boats!

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DAVID Cameron dramatically escalated the British government’s war against refugees fleeing imperialist war in the Middle East and North Africa when he announced...

Answer The ‘Shock And Awe’ Budget With A General Strike

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THE Tory-Lib Dem shock and awe budget is due next Tuesday. Already workers, pensioners and youth are calling for action against this savage attack that...

US imperialism plans oil and gas war!

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THE news that America intends to ‘flood the world’ with cheap liquefied natural gas (LNG) reveals just how far advanced US imperialism is along...

Corbyn On The Ballot Paper – Another Defeat For Labour Right Wing!

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THE decision of the Labour Party NEC in a secret vote, by 18-14, for Labour leader Corbyn to go forward onto the leadership ballot...

Imperialist drive to war with Russia takes leap forward

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THE war preparations by the imperialist nations against Russia took a giant leap forward this week with NATO and non-NATO troops massed in north-western...

Since bankrupt capitalism offers workers a ‘bleak old age’– get rid of it!

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LORD McFall, who has been examining private sector pension schemes, has concluded in his Workplace Retirement Income Commission review, that workers on private pensions...

US Imperialism desperate to dominate its rivals

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INTERNATIONAL ‘free trade’ agreements represent the attempt by the vast multi-national capitalist corporations to completely dominate the globe. The domination they seek is over...

Victorious Syria Reopens Aleppo Airport!

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THE SYRIAN government has reopened Aleppo airport for civilian flights in a great victory over the US-UK axis which, supported by Turkey, has sought...

Bush In Middle East To Organise New War Against Hezbollah

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US President George W Bush has arrived in the Middle East and has vowed to bolster up the Lebanese army and to tackle Hezbollah,...

Tory Party Turns On Cameron Over Syria

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PRIME Minister Cameron said last Thursday night that he would respect the defeat of his ‘strike Syria’ government motion by 285-272 in the House...

Obama opens up class war front against US workers!

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LAST WEEK President Obama, speaking at the Pentagon, told the American people that he was going to open up a new front for the...

Banks learnt nothing from the 2008 crash as world debt and UK credit card...

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RBS, still over 70% state-owned, is the worst prepared of the UK’s biggest banks to cope with the next financial crisis, a crisis which...

Scandal-hit government steps up attack on unions

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IN her speech to the annual Tolpuddle Martyr’s rally held last Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady lambasted the coalition government over the Transparency...

Whither the NHS is still to be decided!

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THE fury of the Blairite Milburn over the changes to the Health Bill that have been forced on the Tory-led coalition by the massive...

Eu Meltdown

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CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...

Act To Stop The Privatisation Of Royal Mail!

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ROYAL MAIL bosses, Chairman Allan Leighton and Chief Executive Adam Crozier, are calling on the Labour government to give the go-ahead for them to...

Netanyahu’s ‘Pyrrhic Victory’ – He Still Faces Criminal Charges And The Palestinian Revolution

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has claimed a ‘huge win’ in a vote that challenged his leadership of the Likud party. Netanyahu secured 72.5%...

Law lords rule for US imperialism to keep the Chagossians in exile

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THE House of Lords appeal court yesterday reversed the three decisions taken by seven senior judges, in previous court hearings, that the Chagos Islanders...

Tory-Lib Dem Butchers Outline The Task Ahead

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TORY CHANCELLOR Osborne provided an outline of his £6.2bn of spending cuts for 2010-11 yesterday, with Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laws...

Sack Starmer Not Corbyn – No National Government!

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FORMER LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the Labour Party’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and pay damages of over £500,000 to so-called party...

Corbyn comes good for the bosses’ and bankers’ EU

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CORBYN has been transformed into his opposite as far as the ruling class and Labour’s rabid Blairite right wing is concerned. He has gone...

One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin

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EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...

Greek Debt Crisis Set To Explode Under The Eu!

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TALKS on a Greek debt deal, it was reported yesterday, have ‘hit a snag’. The Institute of International Finance (IIF), and their creditors group...

EU economy at the end of the road

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THE economy of the Eurozone countries is sinking even deeper into crisis making a mockery of all the talk about an economic ‘recovery’. This was...

Academies hoard £2.5 billion

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ACADEMY schools in England are sitting on a vast hoard of cash estimated to be nearly £2.5 billion, or more than £550,000 per school. Money...

Italian banks’ debt of over £300 billion will crash the world banks

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FOR years the Italian banking system has been kept on a life-support system of government bailouts as it sinks under the weight of astronomical...

NHSTogether must organise strike action to defend GPs!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown’s government is targeting General Practitioners (GPs) in its rush to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). Two key barriers to a...

JOHN KERRY’S LAST STAND! – derided by Netanyahu!

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu damned US Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Wednesday over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict saying that it was biased...

Imperialism Playing With Syrian Fire

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SYRIA’S Ba’athist leader Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western action against his country will cause an ‘earthquake’ that will ‘burn the whole region’, and...

Now is the time to form a Palestinian government of national unity

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‘YOU do not want peace at all. You have destroyed all chances of peace and you should bear all the responsibility,’ Palestinian President Abbas...