Editorials

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Capitalism’s ‘Ship Of Fools’ Heading For The Rocks!

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WHEN the most right-wing Tory supporting newspaper in the country turns on the Tory government, accusing it of gross incompetence and heading for disaster,...

Sunak pledges limitless billions of pounds to prolong war on Russia – nothing for...

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major policy speech last night, pledged to maintain and even increase military aid to Ukraine to...

Only re-nationalisation of energy industry under socialism can prevent fuel poverty

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BRITISH capitalism in the 21st century cannot guarantee even the most basic pre-requisites for life if you are not wealthy. This is the stark message...

Tahrir Square demonstrators stand fast against army command and secret police attacks

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AFTER the dictator Mubarak’s insistence, on Tuesday night, that he will remain president of Egypt until next September, the ‘managed change’ for Egypt, favoured...

General Strike To Defend The Cwu! Smash The Union Busters! Defeat Privatisation!

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POSTAL workers are not surprised at the leak which shows that Royal Mail management, with the support of the Brown government, intends to impose...

TUC must take action to stop Labour’s NHS privatisation

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UNISON accused the government yesterday of a ‘fundamental breach of trust’. This was after the Department of Health placed an advertisement in the official...

Labour leader Starmer supports the monarchy, opposes strikes and pickets, and writes for...

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WORKERS WILL be astonished to learn that Labour leader Keir Starmer, on Saturday, just after the council elections wrote a commentary for the Daily...

Don’t watch the Tamils being slaughtered – join the Parliament Square protests!

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THE Sri Lanka Army yesterday stepped up its murderous shelling of its so-called ‘safety zone’ in the Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal and Vadduvaakal areas of north-east...

The capitalist state tools up for the struggle against the working class

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YESTERDAY, Prime Minister Blair made a written statement to the House of Commons announcing that the Home Office is to be split in two. There...

Answer The ‘Shock And Awe’ Budget With A General Strike

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THE Tory-Lib Dem shock and awe budget is due next Tuesday. Already workers, pensioners and youth are calling for action against this savage attack that...

Labour sells out on state education

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THE Labour shadow education minister, Stephen Twigg, made a speech yesterday that was billed as ‘wresting’ the initiative on education from the Tories –...

Mandelson to read last rites for GM Luton – workers must occupy the plant...

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BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson – who did not lift a finger to save the LDV van factory from administration, to which it was consigned...

Wave of corporate defaults looms across the world – Socialist revolution the only answer...

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A WAVE of corporate defaults is imminent throughout the US and Europe, analysts at the German Deutsche Bank warn in its annual study released...

Working class erupts as inflation rips through Europe – build sections of the 4th...

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EUROPE has erupted in strikes as workers rise up against raging inflation which is driving down living standards to poverty levels across the EU. Germany,...

The Death Agony Of The Blair Government

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THE Blair government is now under attack from all sides, after its Prime Minister turned yellow and refused to attend the House of Commons...

No ‘bounce back’ as UK economy shrinks by further 1.5% in three months

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IT SPEAKS volumes for the disastrous state of British capitalism that news that the UK economy has collapsed by a further 1.5% in the...

Social care starved of funds – one million without support

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A new report, Care in Crisis, issued by Age UK spells out exactly what the Tory-led coalition’s destruction of the welfare state means for...

Manchester students tear down the fences. UK workers and youth are building up for...

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STUDENTS have torn down prison-like fencing erected around their campus on the first day of the new nationwide lockdown. As the Tories allowed the second...

Respond to the death agony of imperialism by organising the victory of the worldwide...

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ON FRIDAY, June 21, The Republic of Armenia officially recognised the State of Palestine, raising the number of countries that recognise Palestinian statehood to...

No economic solution to capitalist crisis as BIS warns financial markets at risk

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THE BANK for International Settlements (BIS) – dubbed the bank for central banks – issued a dire warning in its latest quarterly review that...

RENATIONALISE NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS FIELDS! Bring down the Brown government!

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YESTERDAY road hauliers made it crystal clear that the Labour government had seven days to make a big cut in fuel duty, to save...

Workers rise up – Stop the closure of Ealing Maternity Unit!

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ON MAY 7 Labour won the Ealing Central and Acton seat from the Tories, with Rupa Huq getting 22,002 votes, a massive 13%...

Fire doors fail! Millions at risk! Kick Tories out before another fire breaks out!

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FIRE doors in the Grenfell Tower failed, providing further evidence that this horrific tragedy could have been prevented. There is not a shadow of...

Iran nuclear talks at crucial stage as Saudis bomb Yemen

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AT THE same time as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf state planes, with US support, are bombing the Yemen and its Houthi Shia rebels,...

Master Obama Slaps Down Servant Cameron!

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PM CAMERON received an almighty slap in the face on Wednesday when the Obama administration effectively told him to shut up and drop all...

Desperate UK and French imperialism begins new ‘Grab for Africa’

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EARLIER this week French aircraft bombed the positions of the anti-imperialist forces in the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) led by Laurent Gbagbo, while French...

Universal Credit cannot be reformed – it must be scrapped through mass strike action...

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MORE than 1.2 million people are on Universal Credit, while more than 100 new Jobcentres will be operating it by Christmas. Universal Credit is...

UK military torn apart by ‘internal warfare’

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THE ARMED wing of the British capitalist state is being torn apart by ‘internal warfare’, according to a report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph. This major...

Middle East gripped by revolutionary crisis

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THE crisis in Palestine and the crisis in the Middle East is deepening rapidly to the point where its contradictions are sharpening to the...

Hayes & Ward must go! Build a new leadership in the CWU!

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AS 2,000 postal workers were gearing up for a 24-hour strike on Friday against Royal Mail’s plans to close mail centres, Dave Ward, the...

Arab League – accomplices of imperialism

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The leaders of the 22 member Arab League meeting on Saturday came out decisively on the side of imperialism when they issued a call...

Build the Fourth International! Victory to the World Socialist Revolution!

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YESTERDAY, millions of Egyptian workers and youth, from Alexandria to Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the city of Luxor and Ports Said and Suez, marched...

Bosses Want The NHS To Bail Out The Energy Companies!!!

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THE Tory drive to impose capitalist ‘business models’ on the NHS with the constant demand for cuts and financial stability at the cost of...

Don’t raise rates Chambers of Commerce warns B of E

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ON the eve of the Bank of England’s monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting over the Bank’s interest rate, the British Chambers of Commerce has...

Israel bombs last functioning hospital in Gaza – working class must force TUC to...

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THE ISRAELI regime intensified its relentless land and air bombardment of Gaza this weekend, including the bombing of the last functioning hospital in Gaza...

Abolish PFI and contract cleaners to stop NHS bugs deaths

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THE number of deaths linked to the hospital bug Clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA. Deaths involving Clostridium difficile rose by 69 per...

‘Historic shock’ of inflation will drive workers and youth to socialist revolution

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TODAY British workers and their families face the biggest attack on their living standards since records of cost of living increases were first recorded...

Middle Class Faces Mass Unemployment. It Must Unite With The The Working Class To...

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THE CRISIS engulfing British capitalism has drawn the organised working class, along with youth and entire sections of the middle class, into the struggle...

Build Millions Of Council Homes To House The Homeless

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HOMELESS people die thirty years before the national average, says the latest research from Sheffield University commissioned by Crisis, the national charity for single...

Tories seeking to bust the CWU and all of NHS trade unions. Time to...

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THE CWU trade union representing postal workers says Royal Mail’s chief executive Simon Thompson is to blame for a round of strikes in the...

Labour’Shuts Out Black And Asian Masses

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THE ‘biggest shake-up of the immigration system in 45 years’ got underway yesterday, according to the Brown government. The ‘shake-up’ is that the British ruling...

Crisis Of British Capitalism Is Reaching Explosive Proportions – Disaster Ahead Say Insolvency Specialists!

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THE NUMBER of British businesses in immense financial distress and on the brink of collapse has soared by 25% to 650,000 during the past...

Labour crisis deepens in face of collapsing economy!

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PM Keir Starmer’s Labour government, still reeling from its major retreats over the welfare cuts to incapacity PIP benefits and the winter fuel payments,...

Bush Desperate ‘To Aid Burma’ But Watches Palestinians Starve!

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THERE is an obvious contradiction in the fact that while the US and the UK are considering fighting their way into Burma to ‘bring...

Bankers warn of global debt time bomb. Socialist revolution is the only answer

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THIS WEEK, the global banking body, the Institute of International Finance (IIF), revealed that global debt had shot up to an eye-watering $281 trillion...