Editorials

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Russia must recognise the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ‘On recognition in the Russian Federation of the documents and licence plates of vehicles issued to...

US Economy Declines – As States Go Bust!

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THE former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, has warned that the US economy is heading towards a deepening of the slump...

The working class is the hero of the hour – it smashed the Tory...

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IT says something about the scale of the defeat that the Tories and the bosses have suffered over the Mayoral election in London...

Euro zone high stakes gamble with 1 trillion euros on the table

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Euro-zone leaders have taken the desperate measure of risking all on one throw of the dice, after advancing an almost $1 trillion package...

Obama cementing anti-China alliance

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JUST ahead of his arrival in Japan yesterday, US President Barack Obama assured Japan that islands at the centre of its territorial disputes with...

Time for the US trade unions to break with Obama and form a...

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address attempted to present an image of a presidency that was capable of achieving something for the...

Quit The Eu Now! Forward To Socialism!

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KEIR Starmer, Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Leaving the EU, will, today in the House of Commons, open a debate for Labour on...

Renationalise The Energy Companies – The Only Policy For The Crisis!

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YESTERDAY early morning we heard from the BBC, and a number of pro-Tory daily newspapers, that Cameron had succeeded in trumping the Labour Party...

Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership

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THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...

Government responsible for seriously damaging the quality of mental health care!

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CUTS to adult mental health services in England are damaging the quality of care given to patients, a report by the King’s Fund...

Trump And Allies Plan To Attack And Loot Afghanistan!

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PRESIDENT Trump has told the US people he has changed his mind about Afghanistan being a futile conflict, and that now the US, and...

Justice – Just Another Bourgeois Commodity For Sale

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THE Coalition’s ‘Justice Secretary’ Chris Grayling plans to make further savage cuts in the £2bn legal aid bill in England and Wales, to...

Benefits War Against Sick

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THE Tory work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith yesterday launched yet another vitriolic attack on the unemployed, the sick and disabled. On Sunday he...

Labour votes against Manzoor motion to scrap tax credits bill!

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THE government has been dealt a blow in the House of Lords after the Lords voted to delay tax credit cuts, until an independent...

Private hospital forced to close surgery unit!

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A DAMNING report from the Care Quality Commission into the running of a private hospital has finally emerged in public some four months after...

Cameron Threatens Eu With Bringing Forward Referendum

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THE German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned EU leaders that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg’s ex-PM Jean-Claude...

King warns the ruling class to tackle the causes of the crisis

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ADDRESSING a press conference yesterday afternoon, the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, said that ‘Tackling the symptoms of the crisis without...

Occupy To Stop The Closure Of Hospitals And Fire Stations

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A STARK reminder of what the real face of privatisation means for the public services has been provided this week with the revelation that...

Desperate Situation In Gaza!

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THE situation in Gaza has deteriorated to its worst ever level, just one year after a truce that ended fighting between Israel and Hamas...

Make May apologise for 100 years of the Balfour Declaration!

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PM May has gone out of her way to insult the Palestinian people by declaring her pride in the 100th anniversary of the Balfour...

BA Cabin Crew strikers need a strategy to win – demand Unite bring out...

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TODAY BA mixed fleet cabin crew start another round of four days of strike action against poverty level wages that has meant them relying...

TUC shocked that Tories break their promises!

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THE TUC leadership reacted with shock when Theresa May made it quite clear that she had absolutely no intention of fulfilling her pledge to...

Putin Alarm At US War Drive

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THE fact that the deepening capitalist crisis is turning the whole planet into a US war zone has begun to seriously alarm the Russian...

Labour’s deputy leader plans a party-within-a-party to smash Labour

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THE PLOTS by the Labour right-wing, led by the deputy leader Tom Watson, to completely split the Labour Party and remove Corbyn have accelerated...

Tories-Lib Dems want more than £20bn of NHS cuts by 2014

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THE new Tory Secretary of State for Health Lansley was appointed on Wednesday and has immediately put on record that he will...

Anti-Semitic slander against Corbyn – state-orchestrated attempt to destroy Labour Party

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WEDNESDAY night’s Panorama programme ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’ marks a new and increasingly desperate stage in the state-orchestrated witch-hunt of Jeremy Corbyn with the aim...

Join WRP to build the revolutionary leadership!

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THE leadership scuffling that is taking place in the Labour Party is underlining one major fact – its crisis is terminal. This is a party...

Nationalise the drug companies and end agency staffing to save NHS

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THE NHS is today fighting for its life, with even more savage cuts to come after the election. The Tories are actively planning to regionalise...

G20 debt pile reaches $135 trillion – Capitalism is breaking apart – forward with...

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THIS WEEK the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another warning that the world capitalist financial system is on the verge of a gigantic...

Hunt stays silent over whether government was informed of plot against Khashoggi by...

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IT HAS got very hot in the warmongers’ kitchen when reputedly fire-proof US militarists like US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, and Secretary of State...

War Fever Against Russia

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THE US and the EU are set to stiffen and widen their sanctions against Russia. Their intention is to target its finances, energy...

Iraqi resistance forces Maliki to back down

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AS Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s 72-hour amnesty deadline for militia fighters in Basra to hand over their weapons ran out yesterday, this leader of...

Anti-Russian campaign of the US and UK ruling classes leads to the assassination of...

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THE assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, on Monday by an ex-policeman Mevlut Altintas – who was sacked after the failure...

Free the Chagos Islands – Britain’s own Guantánamo Bay!

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ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands. By 116...

Ten Million Households Are Suffering

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TEN million households are suffering from the financial and political crisis says Which? as it calls on the coalition government, ahead of its Autumn...

PM May gets panic attack – Labour must get after the Tory fox, and...

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IN HIS Birmingham rally on Saturday Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, got an ecstatic welcome from masses of people for his denunciation of the Tory...

Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!

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ON TUESDAY over three million French workers took to the streets with massive demonstrations in Paris and Marseilles to make sure that Sarkozy got...

Socialist revolution is the answer to capitalist austerity and poverty wages

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OVER a million public sector workers across Britain are paid poverty level wages according to a report issued yesterday by the Living Wage Foundation. 1.2...

‘We’re the insurgents now,’ declares Tony Blair!

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EX-LABOUR Premier Blair has summoned the anti-Brexit camp, that is the bosses, the bankers, the majority of Tory and Labour MPs and the majority...

Blair Instructed Foreign Office To Break The Law

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YESTERDAY the Reprieve charity reported that: ‘Previously secret Government memos prove Prime Minister Tony Blair ordered the Foreign Office to violate its legal obligation...

MPs damn Cameron for Libya but support ‘organised’ regime change in Middle East

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FIVE years after US imperialism, aided by their stooges in Britain and France, launched their bombing campaign against Libya and its leader Colonel Muammar...

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...

The lesson from the tower block fire disaster is stop the fire service cuts!

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SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after...

Unions Dither While NHS Logistics Is Sold!

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LAST Wednesday, the trade unions with the support of the majority of the Labour Party constituency parties defeated the government on the vital issue...

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...