Editorials

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Sunak kicks out Braverman – time to kick out the Tories by forcing the...

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YESTERDAY, the Sunak government finally got round to sacking Suella Braverman as home secretary, immediately replacing her with James Cleverly. In a surprise move, kept...

Tory Would-Be Leaders Are Paralysed With A Fear Of The Working Class! Bring Them...

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TUESDAY night’s live debate between the five remaining Tory hopefuls to replace Theresa May and become prime minister, was a stark demonstration of the...

Junior Doctors Are Defending The NHS – They Must Not Fight Alone!

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AS the April 26th-27th strike action of the junior doctors approaches, the chorus of reproaches from the likes of Dame Sally Davies, Sir Bruce...

Unison Leaders Vote For Another Blairite Government

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FOR the whole period that Labour Left MP John McDonnell was seeking to get the backing of the 40 plus MPs that would have...

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...

Boots Joins The NHS Privatisation Drive

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CHEMIST giant Boots wants to breach the NHS system by bringing GPs and consultants into its stores as part of an alleged drive to...

Trump champions the police and launches his war against communism and socialism!

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US PRESIDENT Trump, in his desperate attempt to win the November presidential election, has stepped up his war against the working class, branding all...

British forces in a crisis in Afghanistan

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THE British army went into Helmand province in Afghanistan like lions, with their officers explaining that they were going to take on the Taleban,...

Turkey Invades Northern Iraq

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THOUSANDS of Turkish soldiers, backing a number of tank led armoured columns, crossed into northern Iraq on Thursday evening, after a massive artillery bombardment...

Flood Disaster = Britain’s New Orleans

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WE all saw the Katrina disaster, and what it did to New Orleans, destroying whole areas of the city and making them uninhabitable to...

Tories Want To Turn Trade Unions Into Labour Fronts For The Bosses With Their...

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THE TORIES are proposing to turn free and independent trade unions into ‘Labour Fronts’ run by the bosses with their new anti-trade union legislation. Under...

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,...

Unions must take industrial action to defend the NHS

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THE Labour government is continuing to pressurise NHS Trusts to become Foundation Trust businesses, and is continuing to force through the privatisation process. To...

Pensioners and workers will unite to demand a general strike to end Tory attack...

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak this week put every pensioner in the country on notice that along with workers they will be forced to pay...

PCS strike – No compromise with Tories possible. A general strike to kick them...

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OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...

British Government Must Recognise Hamas

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IT IS AN indisputable fact that Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist, was freed by the Hamas movement just two weeks after Hamas took control...

UK capitalism is in its death agony – Now is the time to organise...

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THE UK economy is heading for a recession and a slump as the latest official figures show. It shrank between July and September by...

PM Johnson wants a nuclear rearmament drive to confront China!

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WITH Britain in a major economic and political crisis the Johnson government is not only preparing for a war with the UK working class,...

Only socialist revolutions can bring the ruling classes of the world to trial for...

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THE International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must halt its military offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza. This ruling came after South Africa...

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...

German election crisis for Merkel

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The economic and political crisis in the Eurozone countries is now firmly expressing itself in Germany, the dominant capitalist nation in Europe and the...

Consultants are fighting for the NHS – the working class must rally behind them...

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YESTERDAY, NHS consultants went out on a two-day strike, the first in nearly 50 years, over their demand for an increase in pay to...

Chinese Stalinists’ bid to rescue bankrupt capitalism

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CHINESE Stalinist leader President Hu Jintao has sent Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Vice President Xi Jinping on international visits in a vain attempt...

Blair on holiday – Commissioner Blair is in charge

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HOME Secretary Clarke is currently on holiday, after the Prime Minister insisted that he should not bow to public pressure and cancel it, as...

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,...

A&E closures cost lives

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For the first time since the process of closing accident and emergency units in hospitals up and down the country was started by the...

Labour under ex-prosecutor Starmer cannot win a general election – What is needed is...

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LABOUR has failed to dominate the council elections despite the illegal actions of PM Johnson, and the way that under his government living standards...

Unemployment, Slump, And Savage Cuts Driving Revolution Throughout Europe!

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THE Office for National Statistics said yesterday that UK unemployment rose by 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December,...

TUC Gen Sec Nowak wants workers to march in support of Ukrainian fascists!

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IN THE case of the UK trade union leadership, it is very much a case of what Lenin termed as ‘One Step Forward and...

UK Trade Unions Must Give Full Support To Palestinians!

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ONE more Palestinian journalist, along with several members of her family, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s...

Israel commits mass murder with impunity as the West steps up its campaign for...

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THE WEST’S ‘bastion of freedom and democracy’ in the Middle East, Zionist Israel, yesterday launched deadly attacks on a UN school housing hundreds of...

Kick Out Hancock And The Tories – Forward To The UK Socialist Revolution!

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WHEN The Daily Telegraph headlined on Saturday that ‘Reckless Hancock left care homes to fend for themselves’ the message was clear. It is that...

Tories plan to scrap hospitals and treat people at home

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YESTERDAY, the Tories announced their latest ploy to try and convince the country that in the face of all the evidence they actually support...

No ‘trade-off’ for the NHS: Kick out the Tories instead!

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THE HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stevens, yesterday released the report ‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’, a report that makes...

Rudd gone – May government and British capitalism next!

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THERE is a growing demoralisation in the ranks of the paid propagandists for British capitalism about the prospects for the British ruling class. Two important...
Rose Gentle (holding photograph) leads the Military Families Against the War march  from Parliament to Downing Street on Wednesday

The revolution in Nepal – part of the world revolution

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LEON Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution shows how ‘the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations lead directly, in our epoch, to the...

Crisis Ridden Capitalism Is Trying To Make The Working Class Pay The Full Bill...

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UK CAPITALISM is in crisis. After the falls in sterling, and the rampant oil, gas and food inflation, the ruling class is desperate and...

World banks on verge of collapse – forward with world socialist revolution

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WHEN one of the biggest banks in the world is forced to publish an open letter to staff, investors and depositors that, contrary to...

The trade unions must follow the example of the ruling class and deal with...

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THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...

Millions of children face hunger under Tory austerity – TUC must act!

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A SHOCKING study carried out by the GMB union released yesterday showed that almost one in ten school staff bring in their own food...

Capitalism”s Global Financial Ice Age

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THIS week saw a series of announcements from banks and economists about impending doom for capitalism. On Wednesday, the RBS bank advised all its clients...

Answer Tory preparations to make strikes illegal with a general strike

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DR Mary Bousted, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), made a last minute plea to the Tories on Sunday for...

Labour must move to stop war, and force the May government to resign!

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WHILE Trump and US Defence Secretary, General ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis were blowing hot and cold over whether they were going to attack Syria or...

Throw Out The Tories – Forward To A Workers Government

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TODAY the working class and the majority of the middle class must put the Cameron government out of office and return the Labour Party...

Chancellor’s ‘Spring Statement’ to continue austerity – It’s time to bring Tories down!

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CHANCELLOR Hammond has rejected calls by Labour and some Conservatives to announce the end of austerity in his ‘Spring Statement’ on Tuesday. Despite unveiling...