Editorials

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Israel is being held responsible for the lives and safety of six recaptured...

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NEARLY 200 human rights organisations are holding Israel fully responsible for the lives and safety of six Palestinian prisoners who tunnelled their way out...

The Tories are planning to smash the trade unions – To defend the right...

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THE General Council of the TUC is set to meet on Tuesday, in a meeting that has been kept a secret, lest large numbers...

Labour right wing gives Corbyn a lesson in ruthlessness!

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MPs on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed UK air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, with a total of 66...

Privateers Clean Up While Unemployed Demonised

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THE NEWS that the coalition government has very quietly slipped a clause into the contracts being handed out to private companies to run probation...

EU was ready to risk scrapping Good Friday Agreement to get ahead in the...

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THAT the Covid-19 pandemic world crisis has sharpened the contradictions of the capitalist system to the point of vaccine wars and revolutionary explosions is...

Inflation rages, the trade deficit widens and the bosses demand even tougher anti-union laws

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday kept rates at 0.5%. Inflation however is continuing to rise as world oil, wheat, meat, cotton and...

The TUC must support the Palestinian revolution and ban all Israeli exports to the...

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THE Arab League has called on the international community to end its silence on the continuing Israeli atrocities across Occupied Palestine, and to compel...

A mass demonstration against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has been called for October...

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A just-issued Coalition statement from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament states that: ‘In October, we will mark a year since the start of Israel’s...

Osborne pledges to hammer the poor and the unions

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IN an attempt to show some class war steel, Chancellor Osborne began his speech at the Tory Party conference with an assault on a...

International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli war crimes against Palestinians

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THE chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, confirmed on Wednesday that the ICC has opened a formal investigation into war...

US Supreme Court ruling destroys myth of bourgeois democracy and imposes dictatorship on US...

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On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that ex-President Donald Trump enjoys ‘absolute immunity’ for ‘official acts’ as president, a ruling that at a...

No Charges For The NHS – Kick The Coalition Out

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THE savage Tory-led coalition’s cuts programme to smash the NHS is now well under way! Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...

Iraq’s 50,000 ‘Ghost Soldiers’

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THE new Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has announced that an investigation has uncovered that the Iraqi state was paying the wages of 50,000...

French election results directly pose the issue of working class taking power

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THE SECOND and final round of voting for the French Parliament ended on Sunday night with the fascist National Rally (RN) party suffering a...

Inflation Is Cutting Pay At A Massive Rate – The Trade Unions Must Fight...

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THE purchasing power of workers’ pay packets is falling at the fastest rate since 2001. Between March and May, pay, excluding bonuses, was down 2.8%...

EU leaders installing a Greek puppet government

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A SUMMIT of all European Union members planned yesterday was cancelled to allow the Eurozone Finance Ministers to resume their talks held to ...

World capitalism at risk from imperialist war, bankers and IMF warn

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JAMIE Dimon, boss of America’s largest bank JP Morgan Chase, has issued a stark warning to his investors that the world may be facing...

Bring down Blair regime from the left

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THE Blair government suffered two body-blows yesterday. Blair’s main cabinet ally, Blunkett, was forced to resign, and the government’s 66 majority was reduced to...
BBC workers picketing Bush House this May

French revolution stuns EU bosses and political leaders

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THE 55 per cent vote, by the working class and the rural population of France against the European Constitution, is a body blow to...

Cbi Tells Tories – Impose Two Year Wage Freeze And Privatise!

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THE CBI BOSSES organisation yesterday called for an immediate freeze in the public sector pay bill for two years and a ‘re-engineering’ (destruction) ‘of...

Trump considers plans to dump a million Palestinians in Libya

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Last Friday, the American national broadcaster NBC News reported that White House sources had told it that the Donald Trump administration is actively considering...

Nationalise oil and energy industries under workers management and without compensation now!

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Yesterday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published its plan to cut energy bills by re-nationalising energy retail companies. The plan, issued in advance of next...

Starving The Poor!

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AS hard evidence emerges about how the ‘local welfare assistance’ scheme is operating in practice across England, it is quite clear that deliberately starving...

Lobbying Bill A Conscious Attack On The Working Class

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THE Tory-led coalition’s proposed new Lobbying Bill is sending shock waves throughout the leadership of the TUC, as its full import becomes known. This bill,...

The Tory crisis is the source of the Labour ‘racism’ provocations!

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THE attempt to frame up Ken Livingstone as a rabid racist, after similar attempts to do the same to Labour leader Corbyn, who was...

Over 100,000 could die because of fuel poverty in capitalist Britain

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OVER 100,000 people in Britain could literally freeze to death over the next 25 years because they are too poor to afford to adequately...

Jewish workers support Corbyn! Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism! Forward to the Palestinian state!

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THE JEWISH Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies on Monday night launched a demonstration outside the House of Commons accusing Labour leader Jeremy...

End TUC collaboration with Tories

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The news this week that Unison, the largest public sector union, has launched a legal challenge to the coalition government’s white paper on the...

Sharon unleashes bombing raids and assassinations on the Palestinians

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THE Israeli government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has launched a new war on Palestinians living in territories under Zionist occupation less than three...

US seeking to destroy Venezuela – UK workers must take action

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AFTER the failure at the Guri hydroelectric power plant left much of Venezuela without power last Thursday night, Venezuelan authorities, after a huge effort,...

Labour terrorism against the unemployed

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UNEMPLOYED council and housing association tenants must be made to sign a new tenancy agreement under which they will agree to have their skill...

BMA demands STPs be ‘abandoned’! Now all trade unions must follow their lead and...

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ON MONDAY, the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting took a giant step forward when, after a struggle over the issue of STPs, it passed a...

US pilots confronted Boeing over safety before Ethiopia crash and were ignored!

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SECRET recordings have revealed that the American pilots union confronted US aircraft manufacturer Boeing about the safety of their bestselling 737 Max 8 plane...

It’s a sick society, not a ‘sick-note culture’ – as Cameron insults the unemployed

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A ‘UNIVERSAL Credit’ is to be introduced in 2013, to replace all existing benefits. Cameron’s Welfare Bill includes sanctions for those turning down jobs...

No ‘windfall tax’ – nationalise the energy companies

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TORY ministers are in a state of despair over the complete inability of the Johnson government to come up with any measures to ‘help’...

Ukraine dumped by an imperialism too weak to defeat Russia

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IT HAS become clear over the past days that Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky have been unceremoniously dumped by the imperialist powers and...

France sends in more troops to join US forces in Syria

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FRANCE, the former colonial power in Syria, has expanded its military presence in the country, supporting the United States which is organising Kurdish...

Conference On ‘Inclusive Capitalism’ Fears The Worst For The System!

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ON Tuesday the world’s major investors, plus celebrities such as ex-President Clinton, confirmed admirers, and even relics of feudal society such as Prince Charles,...

Unprecedented video reveals 15 Palestinian medics and humanitarian workers executed by Zionist troops

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TWO British Labour MPs were detained and deported by Israel on Saturday after they had attempted to enter the country as part of a...

Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America

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THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...

British capitalism is on the rocks of the capitalist crisis – the only way...

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IN THE Daily Telegraph of January 1st one Robert Tombs writes under a headline: ‘As in 1914 and 1939, we may be sleepwalking towards...

World Economic Crisis is driving the political crisis tearing US capitalism apart!

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THE political administration of the United States, the most powerful capitalist nation in the world, is publicly tearing itself apart in an open war...

Pentagon rails against the ‘Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act!’

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US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has issued a warning that legislation allowing families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia...

Tory ‘hostile environment’ programme alive and kicking – Stop mass deportation flight!

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THE PLANNED deportation of 50 people to Jamaica, many of whom came to the UK as children, shows that the Tories racist hounding of immigrant...

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...