Editorials

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Imperialist war against Syria escalated – answer with socialist revolution

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THE past few days have seen an escalation of the imperialist war against Syria and the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today the Turkish government is...

TUC must act on its resolution, organise the complete boycott of Israel, call a...

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MISSILES are raining down on the people of Gaza, as the Israelis step up their war to prevent the establishment of the state of...

Tories lay groundwork for police military dictatorship to force a return to work

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THE INSTITUTE of Directors (IoD) has warned that 250,000 businesses could sack workers as the Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak runs down the furlough scheme. Sunak...

Tory budget–tax relief for bosses, tax increases for low paid!

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THE headlines in the bourgeois press yesterday howled about Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, breaking a cast-iron Tory election manifesto pledge that there would be...

Spies Who Fooled the World

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ON the eve of the tenth anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq by British and US forces the BBC’s  Panorama programme last night...

Russia Gives Nuclear Warning

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RUSSIA’S military chief of staff General Baluyevsky has said Russia is ready to use force, pre-emptively if necessary and with nuclear weapons, to defend...

US workers must form a Labour Party

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THE Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, and now controls both Houses of Congress, turning the final...

There Must Be Action To Halt Royal Mail And NHS Privatisation

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THE Royal Mail faces privatisation this summer after the passage of the Postal Services Bill through parliament yesterday after its third reading. The legislation will...

Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight and are begging Tories to extend...

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FROM TODAY the Tory furlough scheme starts to unwind with businesses forced to contribute 10% of furloughed workers’ wages, rising to 20% in August...

Capitalism cannot be reformed – it must be overthrown with Socialist Revolution.

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IN HIS speech on Saturday to the Labour Party Policy Forum Jeremy Corbyn proved that left reformism has absolutely no answers to the crisis...

Socialist revolution only solution to capitalist crisis

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer returned from holiday at the weekend to announce his new ‘robust’ plan to freeze the cap on electricity and gas...

Miliband Praises Attlee But Plans To Bury The Welfare State

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MlLIBAND, Balls and co are like circus performers on the highest of high wires, being buffeted by a huge economic gale that is pauperising...

Railworkers Are Fighting For All Workers! TUC Must Be Made To Call General Strike

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has responded to the rocketing inflation rate. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: ‘Inflation reaching...

Tories offer GPs ‘cash for cuts’ to stop patients getting hospital treatment – unions...

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THE GP website Pulse revealed this week that in four areas in England local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have set up a ‘profit-sharing’ scheme...

Privatisation and health care are opposites!

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YESTERDAY Southern Cross announced 3,000 redundancies. Its crash is underway with the lives of thousands of elderly residents at stake as well as the...

UK’s economic, political and health crisis is reaching breaking point! Only a socialist revolution...

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THE EDITORIALS in Friday’s and Saturday’s Daily Telegraph scream out for action to be taken by Labour leader Starmer to throw Corbyn and his...

Brown champions more police powers and public sector pay cuts

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told police chiefs yesterday that he will do ‘everything to give you the resources’ and ‘we will not shirk from giving...

Sunak Budget to prepare for mass unemployment and austerity war on workers

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MANY of the measures announced in yesterday’s Budget by Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak had been widely publicised in the run up to his appearance...

Red Cross confirms that the Afghan ‘Black Hole’ does exist

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THE Red Cross has confirmed that the US airbase at Bagram does contain a prison within a prison, complete with a torture chamber, that...

Jail the Bankers – Nationalise the Banks

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WHEN it comes to fraud and stealing vast amounts of money the banks make your average burglar or spiv look like the rank amateurs...

Tory conference splits as preparations for an extra-parliamentary party emerge!

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THE Tory Party annual conference opened on Monday and was immediately defined by ministers speaking to a near empty hall, as delegates couldn’t be...

Sack Gove not teachers, stop privatisation of schools

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TEACHERS in England returned to work this week facing an all-out assault on their jobs, their pay and the very existence of free state...

NATO massacres Libyan civilians to loot the country’s oil

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THE bloody massacre of 85 Libyan men, women and children by NATO in the town of Zlitan exposes once and for all that when...

UK Trade Unions Must Avenge The Murder Of Hamas Leader Al-Arouri!

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A COMPREHENSIVE strike is taking place throughout the governorates of the West Bank, denouncing the assassination of Hamas senior official, Saleh Al-Arouri, and the...

Forward with the European socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...

Disband the EU – forward to a Socialist United States of Europe

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THE latest attempt to advance, by sleight of hand, to a united capitalist state of the European Union for the benefit of the...

Trump and Pence threaten Venezuela with military intervention!

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PRESIDENT Trump, in his latest speech on restarting the Afghan war, made it clear he is not just interested in ‘killing terrorists’. He insisted: ‘We...

Millions of low paid US workers are on the march!

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FOLLOWING the Black Friday strike action at 1,500 WalMart stores throughout the US, fast-food workers in over 100 cities will walk off the job...

Egypt Joins The Siege Of Gaza!

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AT the same time as Mahmud Abbas is declaring that he will stop the eruption of a Third Intifada, the Egyptian government has actively...

An NHS For The Rich!

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THE BMA and the main TUC trade unions are completely opposed to the Health and Social Care Bill and have given up all efforts...

Henley New Labour Disaster – Less Votes Than The Bnp!

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LABOUR’s fifth place at Henley, shamefully behind the fascist BNP, will go down in history as an example of a party being thrust into...

Bosses predict massive shocks after UK general election!

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TO say that the international banking system and the world stock markets are in a state described as ‘nervous’ is to do great injustice...

World crisis spurring on world revolution

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THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has forecast that there is a bumpy road ahead for both the national and the...

UK ‘pirates’ are doing the USA’s dirty work policing the Med to keep out...

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IRAN has summoned the UK ambassador after UK marines illegally seized an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar. British Royal Marines swooped in...

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...

It Is Time For A Revolution Inside The Trade Unions To Defeat The Bosses’...

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THE UNITE leader Sharon Graham on Saturday in a speech in Coventry suspended all Coventry Labour councillors who are Unite members from the union...

Hundreds of blocks of flats are found to be death traps – over 3...

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IN THE HUGE public outcry at the deaths of 72 people in the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, the demand for safety checks...

Withdraw British Troops From The Gulf And Iraq

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THE whole world can now contrast, at its leisure, the treatment of Iraqi prisoners held by the US at Abu Ghraib with that of...

Cuts will push councils to breaking point!

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THE cuts to local government funding will ‘push councils to breaking point’ according to council leaders. On Thursday the Tory Communities and Local Government minister, Kris Hopkins,...

‘Clear-cut robbery in Cyprus’ – the penalty for the crime is revolution!

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THE Cypriot parliament yesterday postponed an emergency session on the 7-10% banking tax imposed by the EU on every depositor in the country’s...

‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street

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YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...

100,000 march as trade union leaders fiddle while Tories burn NHS!

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SATURDAY’S 100,000-strong march to defend the NHS from the accelerating Tory drive to destroy it showed once again that the masses are ready to...

Obama’s Second Coming – Full Of Empty Words

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OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...

British imperialism’s major ally, Saudi Arabia is up to its neck in promoting terrorism...

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A REPORT by the Henry Jackson Society, published yesterday, named Saudi Arabia as the main foreign promoter of Islamic extremism in Britain, stating that...

Tories to slash public services by £17bn

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UK PUBLIC services will be slashed by up to £17 billion, the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned, as Tory chancellor Rishi...