Editorials

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Capitalism in deflationary crisis

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THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...

Stock Markets crash and the bosses panic after Trump pledges 50% tariffs on Canadian...

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FEAR gripped the stockmarkets yesterday after Donald Trump first of all threatened to double tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from Canada to...

Build workers militias all over the Ukraine!

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THE illegal Ukrainian regime, that came to power through a US-EU-backed and financed coup, yesterday accused Russia of carrying out an armed invasion of...

Tories rejected scientific advice in order to keep capitalism open at all costs

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TORY science minister George Freeman admitted yesterday that the government had rejected the advice of its own experts at SAGE over restrictions designed to...

NHS to pay for bank crisis – time to bury capitalism not the NHS

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IN HIS first interview since becoming the coalition Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt spelt out bluntly that capitalism could no longer afford a national health...

General Strike On May 1 ‘Public Service Day’

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THE PCS civil servants trade union has confirmed that up to 270,000 civil servants will be stopping work on May 1 against the Blair-Brown...

Workers must apply ‘French tactics’ against a parliament that is trying to steal Brexit!

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BRITISH parliamentary democracy was exposed as nothing more than a chaotic and rapidly collapsing sham on Tuesday when, for the first time in history,...

Corbyn stabs Brexit in the back for the benefit of the bosses and...

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LABOUR leader Corbyn, in his response to PM May’s Monday update to the House of Commons ahead of this week’s European Council, made it...

Break The Blockade Of Gaza!

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GAZA is being reduced from a massive prison for the Palestinian people to one in which they are homeless, jobless, and beginning to go...

Capitalism Plunging Downwards – Socialist Revolutions Required

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ON Monday, President Obama addressed the prospect of the USA going bust saying: ‘So to even entertain the idea of this happening – of...

Time For Jewish And Palestinian Workers To Unite In A Single State With Jerusalem...

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A NOTORIOUS far-right Israeli minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has reported that he has got permission from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form his own armed...

Massive price increases for millions of workers yesterday while giant energy companies make billions...

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YESTERDAY was dubbed ‘Awful April’ in the press, as millions of households throughout the UK were hit by massive price increases across the board...

Now is the time to establish the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital!

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ISRAEL’S governing coalition has become a minority in parliament after lawmaker Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi from the Meretz party, quit her post. Zoabi announced her resignation...

Smash the Bedroom Tax with a general strike!

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A GRANDMOTHER, who because of the Bedroom Tax, had to pay an extra £20 a week, has thrown herself in front of a...

Economic collapse driving US capitalism towards war with China

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AT THE end of January, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading high-tech companies – the so called ‘Magnificent Seven’ –...

Crisis Of Capitalism Reaches The Point Of Explosion! Socialist Revolution Is The Only...

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EUROPEAN leaders are set to meet today for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine. They are frightened that Russia and the USA...

Palestinian Prisoners Society Warns Of A Dangerous Escalation In The Systematic Repression Of Palestinian...

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THE Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have warned of a dangerous escalation in the systematic repression carried out...

Brown’s foreign policy shaped by defeats in Iraq & Afghanistan

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FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband, the ‘rising star’ in the government, was given the task of presenting Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s foreign policy strategy at...

Get Rid Of Crisis-Ridden Capitalism With A Worldwide Socialist Revolution!

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GLOBAL financial markets fell like crazy on Monday after a rise in coronavirus cases renewed fears and panic that the entire system is heading...

Smash the zero-hours, agency worker ‘gig economy’ with a general strike to kick the...

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ZERO-hours contracts, zero rights, zero future: this is the vision the Tories have for a ‘modern’ hire and fire workforce, where the Uber model...

The battle for public opinion has been won – now take action to win...

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THE postal workers have the support of the mass of the British people, the public sector trade unions and the other trade unions making...

Lammy, Labour’s Foreign Secretary, Is Whipping Up War Fever Against Russia!

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THE UK’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State have both been very busy whipping up a ‘war fever’...

Occupy To Stop Hospital Closures

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THE Chief Executive of the NHS, Sir David Nicholson, had a stark message for hospitals when he told the BBC yesterday that they would...

Sharon’s deception at the United Nations

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ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to cut a figure as the liberator of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip at the United...

OFT have never fined a single payday lender!

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PUBLIC Accounts Committee chairwoman Margaret Hodge has revealed that the Office For Fair Trading (OFT) ‘have never fined a lender for exploiting individual clients’. In...

Israeli unions are striking for a Gaza ceasefire! The UK TUC must call a...

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A NATIONWIDE strike swept across Israel yesterday, intensifying the mass pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree an immediate cease-fire and a prisoner...

Capitalist financial markets instruct Reeves to make billions of pounds cuts to welfare!

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THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an influential independent economic think-tank that dispenses ‘advice’ on financial matters to the government, has weighed in this...

Trump Backs Counter-Revolution Against Chinese Workers – Time To Complete The World Socialist Revolution!

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US president Donald Trump yesterday seized the opportunity for US imperialism to make a provocative intervention in the internal affairs of China by backing...

Mosul Falls – Imperialist Policy Collapses In Middle East

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LARGE numbers of people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants from the ISIS pro-Al Qaeda group effectively...

Oil companies fight to carve up Libya

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IT HAS not taken long for the hyenas of the giant oil companies to descend on Libya’s oil and gas resources intent on both...

TUC urges Tories to ‘withdraw from the brink’. Stop pleading and call a general...

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THE TORY government is refusing to hold any serious negotiations with the rail trade unions for the simple reason that it is introducing anti-strike...

May staggers on with the help of Corbyn – time for working class to...

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THERESA May’s leadership crashed and burned on Monday when she suddenly announced that there would be no vote on her deal with the EU....

Trade unions must take action to boycott Israel, and halt all arms supplies!

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ISRAELI warplanes struck multiple targets across the Gaza Strip on Friday after a 72-hour ceasefire agreement ended at 8am, killing a child and injuring...

Rudd refuses inquiry into state attack on miners at Orgreave!

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HOME Secretary Amber Rudd told MPs on Monday in the House of Commons that a review into the police attack on pickets during the...

Award-winning photo of 9-year-old Palestinian amputee symbolises Gaza

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A HEARTBREAKING picture of a 9-year-old Palestinian boy who lost both his arms in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City has won the prestigious...

Zionist regime humiliated as Palestinians rise-up – Forward to The State of Palestine

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ISRAEL was dealt a massive humiliating blow early Monday morning when six Palestinian prisoners tunnelled their way out of the Gilbao maximum-security jail. Five of...

Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU

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THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...

Global gas crisis busting EU and NATO apart! Forward to United Socialist States of...

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A MAJOR global gas crisis has brought the crisis of the EU and the NATO military alliance to a head. The wholesale cost of gas...

NHS Staffing Crisis As Wages Are Forced Down And Conditions Worsened

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THE shortage of NHS staff in England is worsening official figures show. One in 11 posts is vacant, with the situation particularly bad...

Blair’s great pensions robbery

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LABOUR’S ‘pensions revolution’ is a major attack on the working class, the elderly and the youth. The origin of the ‘revolution’ is not that the...

The US, UK and Israel are ready to try to re-impose imperialism in the...

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YESTERDAY, the USA backed Israel unconditionally and along with the UK pushed through its plan for taking over the Gaza Strip, smashing Hamas and...

Labour manifesto – a recipe for selling off the NHS and the Welfare State!

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THEY say that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and Gordon Brown proved the point yesterday when he began his forward to...

Imperialism plotting bigger war! The TUC must call a general strike and kick out...

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US president Joe Biden on his whistlestop visit to Israel on Wednesday, gave the green light to plans for a full-scale ground invasion of...

Jobs For Youth – Smash The Cheap Labour Economy

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Youth unemployment is now higher than it was in 1997, with 702,000 young people aged 16-24 jobless, according to official figures released just before...

Junior doctors will vote to reject rotten Hunt-BMA deal!

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THE BMA leadership have allowed themselves to be taken for a ride by Health Secretary Hunt! The government that imposed provocation after provocation onto the...