Editorials

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To End The Covid-19 Crisis The Trade Unions Must Bring Down The Tories And...

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TORY HEALTH SECRETARY Hancock yesterday said of the Covid-19 crisis that Britain was facing a ‘tipping point’ and ‘we have a choice’. It turns...

Darling can’t look the capitalist crisis in the face

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CHANCELLOR Darling began his budget speech yesterday on a note of contrived optimism saying that ‘today’s budget will take Britain through the most serious...

War on the unemployed – bring down the coalition

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THE news this weekend that the private companies are bidding for 40 new welfare contracts represents another stage in the Tory-LibDem coalition’s relentless drive...

Tuc Must Call General Strike To Kick Out Starmer’s Government

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THE continuing collapse of the Starmer-led Labour government was on public display on Wednesday when in a pathetic attempt to reassert his absolute control,...

Stock markets are crashing – workers must take action to get rid of bankrupt...

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STOCK markets in Europe fell in early trading yesterday morning, following on from an overnight collapse in Asian markets just ahead of the Trump...

Occupy to stop car plant closures – nationalise the motor industry to defend...

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YESTERDAY, US carmaker Ford announced it will close the car engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, throwing all 1,700 workers out of a job...

Sudanese workers force PM Hamdok to quit – now the working class and the...

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THE NEWS Line Editorial Board sent its revolutionary New Year greetings on January 1st to the workers and youth in Sudan who are continuing...

Socialist revolution the only way to resolve the crisis

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THE head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Legarde, spelt out the task confronting the capitalist class of Europe last Thursday when she...

FBU Warns Tory PM And London’s Labour Mayor ‘Not To Impose Unthinkable Cuts!’

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has vowed to fight ‘unthinkable’ proposals to cut the budget for the London Fire Brigade by £25m over two...

Free Kendall-Smith! Stop the war against Iraq!

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THE Labour movement must salute the courageous action of Flight-Lieutenant Kendall-Smith who yesterday declared, after a court martial had found him guilty on five...

The Fire Brigade Is Not To Blame For The Grenfell Inferno!

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‘THE whole thing was hell, it was like a war zone,’ fire crew manager Charlie Batterbee, part of the first crew who entered Grenfell...

UK manufacturing wiped out admits EEF while BIS warns of debt time bomb

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THE Engineering Employers Federation (EEF), the body that represents the manufacturing industry in Britain, has produced its latest forecast which spells out how the...

US unions being driven to historic break with Democrats

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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last Friday that US workers want an ‘independent’ labour movement designed to help the working class, not a specific...

Majority of world banks ‘not economically viable’ according to report

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THE INTERNATIONAL management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company has published a global banking review which found that the majority of banks worldwide ‘may not...

British War Crimes In Iraq Will Just Not Go Away – Even The UK...

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AS IS WELL KNOWN the moment that US President Bush heard about the criminal terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in NewYork on Tuesday...

Labour squeezing poor and cutting services to prop up the banks

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CHANCELLOR Darling has told his cabinet colleagues there will be no more money made available for schools, hospitals or transport. These vital services face cuts,...

Queen’s speech intensifies coalition attacks on jobs pensions and basic rights!

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THE Queen’s speech spelt out that her Tory-LibDem government is to step up its war against public sector pensions, continue to place the...

Afghan war not worth fighting, say British workers

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SIR Jock Stirrup, the British army commander, has admitted that the great majority of the British people are opposed to the imperialist war in...

Cameron Get Out – follow Harper’s lead!

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HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...

Hamas condemns ‘horrific massacres!’ Now is the time for worldwide strike action to establish...

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THE Hamas Movement has accused Israeli occupation forces (IOF) of committing a ‘horrific massacre’ that killed more than 15 Palestinians attempting to access food...

Cameron and Miliband united in defending EU bosses and bankers

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THE Tory-led coalition was rocked on Monday night when over 80 Tory backbench MPs, leftovers from the days of empire, voted for a...

T&G & TUC must call strike action to reinstate Gate Gourmet workers!

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THE 670 Gate Gourmet workers, members of the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G), sacked over a month ago for taking strike action, know...

Iraqi masses to march today to end the US-UK occupation

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ON THE eve of today’s expected one million strong march in Baghdad, called by Moqtada al-Sadr, against the US-UK occupation of Iraq, US tanks...

Judiciary Now Leading The Charge Against 2016 Referendum!

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WE ARE now reaching the moment of truth in the struggle to carry out the result of the 2016 referendum which instructed Parliament that...

Down With US Plan For Middle East Nato – Forward With Struggle For...

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JORDAN’S King Abdullah II told CNBC television news network last week that he supports the formation of a NATO-style military alliance in the Middle...

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...

Trump fears spectre of socialist revolution

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ON TUESDAY, US President Donald Trump delivered his second address to the UN General Council but instead of the normal Trump arm-waving threats to...

Windrush and Grenfell Tower prove one thing – this Tory government must...

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PRESS reports this week revealed that vulnerable members of the Windrush generation are still being forced to live in conditions of complete destitution, forced...

Labour Must Pledge To Recognise Palestine And To Stop Arming Israel

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700 BRITISH artists have signed a pledge to boycott Israel as long as it ‘continues to deny basic Palestinian rights’. The group, Artists for Palestine...

Northern Gaza subjected to ‘heinous massacres’ for 20 days

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YESTERDAY, the Palestinian news agency WAFA detailed that Northern Gaza is being subjected to ‘the most heinous massacres’ by Israeli forces for 20 days...

‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher’ the Daily Telegraph advises Tory...

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SATURDAY’S Daily Telegraph gave the Tory leadership candidates some advice. This was: ‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher – and the...

US crisis pauses before another leap forward!

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THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...

Time for regime change in Labour Party – kick out Starmer!

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Up to Wednesday, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer was in a state of complete denial about the depth of the rebellion amongst his own...

NHS 2007: Pull your own teeth out!

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EVERY day Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Health Secretary Alan Johnson churn out propaganda about ‘improving’ the National Health Service (NHS) and people’s...

Right wing getting ready to split the Labour Party!

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THE hysterical witch-hunting of Jeremy Corbyn that is being carried out by the bourgeois media, marshalled by Labour’s right wing pro-Tory rebel MPs, is...

Murdoch Shops His Own Employees In Attempt To Save His Own Neck

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FIVE journalists at the Sun newspaper have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of corrupt payments to the police and other ‘public servants’. A Surrey...

Egyptian Revolution Drives Zionism Into Massive Crisis!

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PALESTINIANS are poised to march in their millions on 15th September both inside and outside the occupied territories, and throughout the world, including...

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...

CWU leaders organise a consultative ballot !over pensions

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TRUE to form the CWU leadership is declining to give any kind of leadership to its massive membership on the vital issue of the...

Forward to the Greek Socialist Revolution!

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AFTER the failure of the major Greek political parties to form a government, Greece’s top Supreme Court judge, Vassiliki Thanou, has been appointed caretaker...

Syrian opposition demands a no-fly zone!

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THE announcement that the western and Saudi-Qatari backed ‘opposition’ in Syria is no longer committed to the UN Security Council-backed Annan ceasefire comes as...

The Deputy Prime Minister resigns, but the May government is allowed to continue!

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ON WEDNESDAY PM May was finally forced to sack her Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green following an inquiry by officials from the Cabinet Office...

Barbaric anti-homeless spikes scandal

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THE picture showing one-inch-long metal spikes driven into the pavement in the doorway of a block of luxury flats in central London in order...

Blair Refuses To Name The Date

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TONY Blair yesterday took advantage of the refusal of his political rivals, such as his policy co-thinker Gordon Brown and the trade unions, to...

Netanyahu turning the screws on Palestinians to the point of revolution!

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THE Israeli Netanyahu regime is now working hard at its programme for the ‘final solution’ to the question of Palestine and the Palestinians. The Palestinian...