Editorials

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Tories and Labour right-wing call for war with Russia

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WAR hysteria dominated the Parliamentary debate on Tuesday, with both Tory and Labour MPs pushing for a full-scale war against Russia over unproven accusations...

Notre-Dame Cathedral burnt out as Macron concentrates spending on civil war riot police and...

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron was forced to cancel his important address to the French nation on Monday night, after a massive fire erupted at...

Occupy Tata Steel NOW! Kick the Tories out! Tata must be nationalised...

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THE decision by the bosses to sell off Tata Steel is one that will lead not just to poverty for 19,000 workers and...

Workers in UK and US must dismantle the imperialist war machine with a general...

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AFTER Tuesday’s talks with the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, President Putin spoke about the situation after the US’s 59 cruise missile...

Banks teeter on edge of collapse – Official

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THE European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of its latest stress tests carried out on 123 European banks on Sunday, results which showed...

TIME TO FIGHT FOR THE NHS – the Junior Doctors have shown the way!

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THE official figures for NHS trusts in England for the first three months of the financial year (April to June) have just been released...

EU threatens a ‘march on Rome’ to prevent collapse

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AS THE EU crisis continues to sweep through the continent, a German MEP, Markus Ferber, offered his blunt assessment of the steps that the...

May begs EU for further delay! Workers must rise for a ‘no deal’ break...

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TORY PM Theresa May has written to the President of the European Council Donald Tusk begging for yet another delay to Brexit, this time...

Behind The Crisis Talks In Minsk On Wednesday!

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THE ‘peace talk’ that suggests Merkel and Hollande are seeking to organise a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis, acceptable to all, the imperialist...

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...

Bankers dump the dollar and shares and crave for gold!

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THE current heir to the Rothschild banking dynasty, Lord Jacob Rothschild, has pronounced that the game is up, the world’s central banks have shot...

Reject the SNP attempt to split the working class! Forward to Socialist United States...

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THE LEADER of the Scottish Nationalist Party, Nicola Sturgeon, dropped a bombshell yesterday with her announcement that she intends to push through a vote...

End TUC collaboration with Tories

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The news this week that Unison, the largest public sector union, has launched a legal challenge to the coalition government’s white paper on the...

America Getting Ready For Revolution!

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AMERICA has erupted this week as the working class and youth have responded to the continued and unending violence meted out to them on...

End imperialist war through world socialist revolution

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EIGHT hundred British troops, with tanks, armoured vehicles and drones are to be sent to Estonia in the Spring, on the border with Russia. The...

Bank In A Crisis Over Further Rate Cuts

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THE Bank of England is acting like a rabbit frozen in the headlights of a powerful car. It knows that, this Thursday, it wants...

Pogromist Johnson Speaks Up For The Security Services

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BORIS JOHNSON writes in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, in the wake of the Rigby trial, ‘the most important question now is how we prevent other...

Cameron grovels before Chinese president

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TODAY sees the start of a three-day visit to Britain by the Chinese president Xi Jinping, a visit that has seen the British ruling...

A&E closures cost lives! Build Councils of Action – Occupy!

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INTERNAL documents secured by the Mail on Sunday under the Freedom of Information Act, along with a report due to be issued later this...

SALUTE ABDUL HAROUN – The man that the tunnel could not stop!

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ABDUL Rahman Haroun is a hero. The Sudanese national walked the full length of the Channel Tunnel (31 miles), dicing with death all of...

British troops in Afghanistan were ‘out of control’ and ‘feral’

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THE CASE of Alexander Blackman (the former marine sergeant sentenced to life imprisonment in 2013 for the murder of a wounded Afghan fighter) has...

Build the Fourth International all over the EU – Forward with the European Socialist...

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THE Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) has announced that unemployment reached 27% last February, while youth unemployment (15-24 years old) reached 64.2%, from 54.1% in...

Hezbollah and Iranian forces have every right to be in Syria at the invitation...

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SYRIA’S deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, has hailed Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement’s assistance to Syria, and its struggle for survival, saying...

War criminals meet in Brussels

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THE imperialist criminal states – who supported the war on Iraq in 2003, the Security Council-backed NATO onslaught on Libya in 2011, and then...

Answer jobs massacre at Vauxhall with occupations and a general strike

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AFTER weeks of speculation it was finally confirmed yesterday that the giant but bankrupt General Motors was pulling out of Europe, selling off its...

Full Support For The Ukrainian Workers!

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GUNFIRE erupted Sunday morning at a checkpoint, established by workers on the outskirts of the city of Slavyansk in Eastern Ukraine. In the skirmishing, one...

Step up the public sector strike to a general strike

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THE National Executive of the Public and Civil Servants Union (PCS) have called out their members in England on a one-day strike on Wednesday...

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’...

Occupy The Steel Industry – Organise General Strike To Defend Jobs

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THE world capitalist crisis as well as shattering the energy industries – oil, coal and gas – is also decimating world steel production and...

Inflation carries on cutting wages, pensions and benefits

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THE Office of National Statistics has given the figures on inflation rates for last month which confirm that British capitalism faces total economic collapse,...

Amnesty Calls Assad War Criminal For Bombing Isis!

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has accused the Syrian government of war crimes after it bombed the city of Raqqa, in northern Syria, which ISIS is seeking...

Met chief demands police be beyond the law

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IT emerged yesterday that the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, has been lobbying the Tory home secretary for changes in the...

Occupy the steel works! Force TUC to call a general strike to bring down...

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BRITISH capitalism is bankrupt. The ruling class, abetted by the trade union leaders, are letting the historic steel industry go to the wall. Five months...

Shut Down Young Offenders Institutions – The Only Future For Youth Is Through A...

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THE DISGRACEFUL conditions imposed on ‘youth offenders’ have been revealed by another report from Peter Clarke the chief inspector of prisons in England and...

Labour Right Wing Moves To Split Lp On Behalf Of The Tories!

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WITH his tale that Unite leader McCluskey (currently up for re-election) intends to pay the union’s political cash over to the pro-Corbyn grass roots...

Swiss National Bank puts the skids under the euro

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DEFLATION ran amok yesterday as Tullow Oil wrote off $2.2bn (£1.45bn), a direct result of the oil price collapse after the World Bank warned...

Disabled to be impoverished by Welfare Bill

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As the Welfare Reform Bill progresses through the committee stage of the House of Lords so more evidence is emerging about the catastrophic effect it...

Israel Accepts Gaza Ceasefire Out Of Fear Of The Arab Revolution

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THE Egyptian military have brokered a truce between the militant Palestinian factions in Gaza and the Israeli military, which had been bombing Gaza for...

We Are Approachng A Moment Of Truth Says Osborne

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KARL MARX was able to show that one of the fundamental contradictions of the capitalist system was the conflict between the need of the...

Times Rich List shows that austerity UK has become a paradise for the...

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THE just-published Sunday Times rich list shows that in austerity-hit UK – where millions of workers have not had a rise in the ten...

Refugees Must Be Welcomed – The Bosses Must Be Sent Packing!

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FOLLOWING the successes of the Syrian army’s drive into Idlib province, President Erdogan of Turkey has begun to carry out his revenge policy. Since the...

House of Commons recognises Palestine!

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‘THAT this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel, as a contribution to securing a...

Workers Arise – May, Johnson And The Entire Tory Regime Must Go Now!

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ON Tuesday evening, Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, announced, concerning the materials used to...

With a 42% turnout French workers humiliate Macron!

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République en Marche, has won a parliamentary majority, just weeks after his presidential victory. With nearly all the...

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...