Editorials

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Splits and crisis dominate Europe

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LAST weekend the French government collapsed as the splits within the cabinet turned into open warfare between President Holland and his finance minister, Arnaud...

Kiev, EU and US facing defeat in East Ukraine!

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UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...

State Of Palestine Now Within Reach!

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ISRAEL, after 50 days of slaughter in which over 2,000 Palestinians were killed, many of them children, tens of thousands wounded and hundreds of...

Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears

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AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...

French government collapses

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ON Monday the French government effectively collapsed as a direct result of a massive split in the leading ranks of the ruling Socialist Party...

May Hits Out At Liberties And Rights While Meyer Calls For An Alliance With...

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BRITISH Home Secretary May, driven by the desperate home and foreign policy crisis of British imperialism, is lashing out at basic rights in the...

Imperialism In Crisis – As Islamist Clients Turn On Their Masters

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IMPERIALISM is in disarray. Tens of thousands of Islamist fighters – initially assisted by western governments, such as the UK government, and their secret...

Stop All Arms Supplies To Israel – Impose Worldwide Trade Boycott

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HAMAS has accused Israel of violating the temporary ceasefire on Tuesday. It’s spokesman Moussa Abu Marzouq said on Wednesday that Israel ‘ended the truce...

Ferguson battle anticipates US revolution

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THE tactics weaponry and ammunition used in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, by the police and Missouri National Guard, have led to...

Bosses want a nation of coolies!

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WITH house prices increased by 10.2% (19% in London) in the last 12 months, and with rents at astronomic heights, plus rail fares about...

Support The Ys March For Jobs!

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YOUNG people today are under full scale attack from the Tory-led coalition. They are now fighting back. The Young Socialists are marching from...

Cameron poised to send UK troops into Iraq!

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PM Cameron is poised to send British troops into Iraq. This is why he is unwilling to recall Parliament after it rejected his...

Capitalism is dead in the water!

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ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...

Class Relati0Ns Sharpen In The Usa!

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POLICE in the US state of Missouri, in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, are continuing to clash with protesters nightly, amid growing anger...

Permanent wage-cutting and zero-hour contracts are all that capitalism has to offer

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THE Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.4%, down from 6.5% in May, with the number of people unemployed...

US coup in Baghdad

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THE US on Tuesday organised its own coup in Baghdad, attempting to place the previous long-term Maliki ally, Haidar al-Abadi, into the office of...

Massive debt crisis reaches breaking point!

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OVER the past few months there has been an increasing concern being expressed in the pages of the financial press about the huge bubble...

Obama’s New Crusade To ‘Save The Christians Of Iraq’

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THE USA and the UK have launched their new crusade on the pretext of saving the Christians and the Yazidis of Iraq from the...

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...

US launches the new grab for Africa!

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PRESIDENT Obama has hailed the ‘new Africa that is emerging’, as US imperialism seeks to re-grab Africa after its destruction of the Libyan Jamahiriyah....

House prices rise by 10.2% – as rate rise nears

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UK house prices in July were up 10.2% from a year earlier – the biggest annual change since September 2007. Halifax said that property prices...

Israeli withdrawal from Gaza a victory for Hamas and for the workers of the...

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ISRAEL on Tuesday completed the withdrawal of its troops from Gaza, as a 72-hour humanitarian truce took effect, and made preparations to take part...

100 years since the start of the great imperialist slaughter!

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YESTERDAY, August 4th, saw the leaders of the major imperialist powers remembering the centenary of the start of the first great imperialist slaughter, the...

US, UK Ambassadors Are Run Out Of Libya By Their Former Agents!

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HMS Enterprise has arrived near to Tripoli to evacuate any remaining British people who want to leave Libya, after the British embassy was shut...

Vultures Want To Pick At Argentina’s Bones

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FOR workers in Britain, Argentina may well appear to be a far off country in South America whose sovereign default on its debts to...

Stagnant Eu Heading For A Crash!

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EUROZONE inflation has fallen to its lowest level since the height of the 2008 financial collapse, sliding further into what the European Central Bank...

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...

War Fever Against Russia

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THE US and the EU are set to stiffen and widen their sanctions against Russia. Their intention is to target its finances, energy...

NHS faces privatisation – kick out the coalition now!

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EVERY week without fail, doctors, medical journals, and health experts produce authoritative studies that ram home the fact that under this Tory-led coalition government...

Forward to Palestine

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HAMAS on Sunday, along with the other Palestinian factions in Gaza, agreed to another 24-hour truce. Hamas’ statement read: ‘In response to the UN’s...

The Not So Great Recovery!

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THE UK economy grew by 0.8% in the second quarter of 2014, official figures are said to show. The figures, from the Office for National...

How to deal with the police spies and their state machine

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ACCORDING to an internal review conducted by the chief constable of Derbyshire, Mick Creedon, the London Metropolitan Police spying activities on the family of...

Abbas backs Hamas – no ceasefire till blockade ended

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has backed calls by Hamas for an end to the economic blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel as one...

Cameron & Obama threaten Russia and support Israel’s attack on Gaza

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CAMERON was in threatening mode on Monday in his statement to the House of Commons. He said that President Putin must use his influence to...

Labour adopts coalition cuts

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THE three-day meeting of Labour’s ‘policy forum’ ended on Sunday with a massive vote to commit the Labour Party to carrying on with the...

The US And The Eu Are The Gangsters

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WE are currently witnessing the greatest eruption of vilification against Russia and its leadership since the Fulton speech by Winston Churchill on March...

Israeli pogromists launch Gaza ground attack!

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IT didn’t take long for the Israeli government to carry out its plan to invade Gaza and carry out a pogrom against the Palestinian...

Brics Challenge To Almighty Dollar!

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MOSCOW believes that the US capitalists are targeting it with sanctions ‘because the events in Ukraine have not developed the way Washington scripted them,’...

Tories’ Enabling Act Brings In Open Bourgeois Dictatorship

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THE UK government in alliance with the Labour Party has over a three-day period pushed through an emergency law, the Data Retention and Investigatory...

Broken Hague Stands Down While Gove Is Terminated By Cameron!

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WILLIAM Hague has stood down as foreign secretary, but will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons till the next...

Tories Profiteering Out Of The NHS!

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NHS patients from outside the EU are to be charged 150% of the cost of treatment in the NHS. This is part of a ‘crackdown’...

Coalition Aiming To Cut The Mentally Ill!

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THE government is planning to strip mentally ill people of their state benefits if they do not agree to undergo treatment for anxiety and...

US facing complete humiliation in Afghanistan!

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has had to make an emergency trip to Afghanistan where the much vaunted democratic...

Massive strike action greeted by Tory coalition threats!

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AS millions of public sector workers, teachers, firefighters, local government workers and many other sections took strike action yesterday, Prime Minister Cameron pledged to...

40,000 Israeli reservists called up!

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel would ‘not tolerate the firing of rockets on our cities and towns’. His remarks came after...