Editorials

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Right Sector Leader Advising The Military

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THIS week all pretence that the illegal regime, that took power in an imperialist-inspired and financed coup last year, rests on ‘popular democratic’ support,...

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...

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...

British banks hit by Dubai collapse

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AFTER the Abu Dhabi stockmarket experienced a record one-day fall of 8.3 per cent, and Dubai’s Financial Market Index fell 7.3 per cent yesterday,...

Working class rising up in massive strike wave – time for unions to call...

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THE OFFICE for National Statistics (ONS) revealed yesterday that the number of days lost due to strikes last year was the highest since 1989. In...

NHS cuts and closures hitting millions while NHS England hands out goodies to the...

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PULSE, the GPs’ magazine, has done a great service for all NHS users by using the Freedom of Information Act to find out how...

Gove waging war on the teachers!

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THE Education Secretary Michael Gove has urged school governors and heads that teachers who work to rule are in breach of contract and should...

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...

Workers want the Tories out but don’t want Miliband and Balls back

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THIS IS the message that is coming out of the Bradford West by-election where Respect candidate George Galloway was ‘unexpectedly’, out of the blue,...

Oil Price Rises Driving Up Inflati0N

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RISING crude oil prices are driving up the price of petrol at the pumps. Petrol is now at around 92 pence a litre, an increase...

Israel extends Wall to grab Jerusalem

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THE Israeli Cabinet decided last Sunday to extend the route of the Zionists’ illegal ‘Security Wall’ to grab a large chunk of Palestinian East...

Defend right to asylum – defend right to strike – general strike now!

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YESTERDAY the Tories unveiled their ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ along with the admission that the bill itself is illegal under international law, not that this...

Lecturers & students must strike to end all university fees and restore grants!

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THE LATEST increase in university tuition fees in England to £9,250 by the Tory government has been launched without any announcement from the Department...

Obama about-turn on war crimes!

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PRESIDENT Obama said one thing before his election, and now he is saying something else altogether. During his campaign he stood up against the torture...

No Free Ride For The Tories

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THE terrorist atrocity in Manchester last Monday night which killed 22 young people at a pop concert has been seized upon by the Tories...

End misery of bankrupt capitalism with socialist revolution

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LAST Friday the European Banking Authority released the findings of this year’s Stress Test for European banks. These stress tests, introduced one year ago, are...

TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers

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THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...

Yellen signs up to Gordon Brown’s ‘no more boom or bust’ on the brink...

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IN A SPEECH in London last Tuesday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, announced to a disbelieving world that the...

Hamas Pledges That Assassinations Will Not Succeed In Breaking Its Will!

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THE Hamas Movement has affirmed that the assassinations carried out by Israel against resistance leaders ‘will not succeed in breaking its will or extinguishing...

Crazy UK capitalism won’t dump disaster prone nuclear power

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GUNTHER Oettinger, the EU’s energy commissioner, has compared the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster – with its repeated explosions of nuclear material and...

Brown Loves Bankers But Attacks Single Parents

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AT the same time as the Brown government continues to spend hundreds of billions to ‘preserve’ the bankers and the capitalist system, his government...

Blairites for Cameron – Milburn joins Hutton and Field – with more collaborators ...

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THE leading Blairite and Labour party member, Alan Milburn, who was forced to resign as Labour’s Health Secretary for his over-enthusiasm for complete NHS...

Tory-Lib Dem Budget hitting the poor hardest – IFS report

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WORKING class families and pensioners are being hit hardest by Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget. This is the key finding from a study by the...

Disorientated Johnson quotes Lenin to CBI while Starmer tells bosses we will do what...

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BOTH Tory prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer spoke at the annual conference of the leading bosses’ organisation, the Confederation of...

Trump fears spectre of socialist revolution

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ON TUESDAY, US President Donald Trump delivered his second address to the UN General Council but instead of the normal Trump arm-waving threats to...

Kerry threatens Assad with ‘total destruction of the ceasefire – and then back to...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that seeking military gains will not end the ‘civil war’. He added there...

USA tells Sunak that the UK must increase its military spending as NATO gets...

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THE UK has just been given its marching orders by the USA that it must boost the size of its armed forces in response...

Tories split and turn on each other while TUC Congress refuses to take general...

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THE Tory Party is now split and divided as the world- wide capitalist crisis deepens and the weakness of the imperialist powers becomes more...

Cameron wants to create an army of the homeless

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TORY LEADER Cameron yesterday unveiled the spectre of workers sleeping on the streets with his new diktat that council housing should no longer be...

Fight Tory class war programme – bring down the Coalition!

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OSBORNE began his spending review speech yesterday by saying that: ‘Today’s the day when Britain steps back from the brink’. In fact, his speech represented...

Police call for more repression

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METROPOLITAN Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur has submitted a document to the Labour government’s Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, calling for new laws that would...

Blair is speeding up the privatisation drive

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ON all fronts the Blair government is speeding up its privatisation offensive, so that his governments can leave as their legacy for big...

Zero Tolerance For Cameron Coalition

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CAMERON and the coalition are currently conducting a ruthless campaign against youth. This is ruling class justice at its most hideous, red in tooth...

Drive the fascists off the streets – forward to workers power and socialism!

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LAST Friday night, a racist gang attacked and seriously injured a teenage asylum seeker in Croydon. The Kurdish Iranian boy, age 17, was waiting with...

Blair’s ‘summary power’ for war on the working class

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched the Labour government’s new ‘Respect Action Plan’ yesterday, declaring that he was setting out to overthrow basic democratic rights...

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza – forward to the Palestinian state with Jerusalem...

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A UNITED NATIONS inquiry has found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza through a ‘systematic campaign to destroy Palestinian life’, including attacks on...

The Chagos Islanders Must Be Returned To Their Homes

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YESTERDAY the Court of Appeal ruled that the Blair government had carried out an Abuse of Power when it overruled the assurance given by...

Workers Must Tell Tuc And Starmer ‘Don’t Prop Up Johnson Bring Him Down!’

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IN HIS speech outside Downing Street on Monday PM Johnson made it crystal clear that the Tory Party, presiding over the greatest ever crisis...
Iraqis are determined to throw out the US-British occupation

Gate Gourmet Locked Out Workers Reject Woodley’s Rotten Compromise

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TGWU leader Tony Woodley’s speech at Southall on Monday, and his remarks to journalists both before and after the meeting, were a dereliction of...

Revolution – only way out for Ireland and Europe!

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THE Irish Government’s guaranteeing 100 per cent of all banking deposits has resulted in the Irish state drowning in a bottomless pit of bail-outs....

Blair Conversion Seals His Counter-Revolutionary Role

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TONY BLAIR, his hands still dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and with financial scandals swirling all round...

Assange extradition decision Monday! Unions must call industrial action to prevent any attempt...

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange is facing a sentence of up to 175 years in a high-security ‘Supermax’ prison if he is extradited from the...

French Workers Force Macron Back – Now They Will Bring Him Down!

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OH HOW the mighty have fallen! ‘Emperor Macron’, in the tradition of Napoleon III, has made no secret that he considers himself the master...

Gourmet locked-out workers smash Woodley-Barber ‘compromise’ deal

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THE Gate Gourmet catering company was forced to admit on Saturday that the ‘sweetheart’ deal, which the leaders of the TGWU and the ...

Saudi backers of ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Al Nusra Front accuse Qatar of...

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LAST month US president, Donald Trump, turned up in Saudi Arabia to give his unqualified support to the ruling Saudi monarchy and their fellow...