Editorials

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Tories Splitting Over Eu Crisis!

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WHETHER British capitalism should remain within the crisis-ridden, sinking ship of the EU, or strike out on its own has immediately split the Tory...

Queen’s Speech Sees Her Government Dodging Big Issues!

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WEDNESDAY’S Queen’s Speech began with an evasion that her government would continue to seek a ‘high-wage low-welfare economy’. This was said at a time when...

French General Strike escalates in fight to bring down Macron

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THE MASS strikes and demonstrations throughout France today mark the sharp escalation of the confrontation between French workers and the ‘bankers’ government of president...

Grenfell Inquiry bans survivors and relatives while safety experts didn’t even bother to read...

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GRENFELL survivors and relatives of the 72 people killed in the Grenfell Tower inferno are furious that they have been excluded from the inquiry...

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...

UK banks fail stress test while manufacturing collapses

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LAST Friday the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the results of its stress test on 51 of the biggest banks throughout Europe and Britain. Fearful...

Trump sends troops to steal Syrian oil! Kurds and Syrian army unite to drive...

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WHEN US President Donald Trump abruptly announced on October 9 that all US troops would be pulled out of northern Syria, his administration indicated...

Austria mobilising troops and armour at the Brenner Pass against refugees from Italy!

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AUSTRIA is ready to deploy troops and armour at the Brenner Pass – the border crossing with Italy – if the influx of refugees...

Arrogant Carney Rubbishes Miliband!

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THIS week, in an attempt to cash in on the universal hatred felt by the working class and middle classes towards banks and bankers,...

British capitalism is on its knees – forward to the socialist revolution!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne made it clear in his Budget statement yesterday that he is not the master of the situation, and is completely dominated by...

Tories Are Split, Divided And Fighting Each Other – Time To Force The...

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THE TORY PARTY and its leadership are thrashing around in their death agony. The Tory crisis has reached the stage where Tory ministers have been...

Liam Fox’s ‘jihad’ against public spending

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SPEAKING on BBC radio yesterday morning the LibDem business secretary, Vince Cable, described proposals being put forward by senior Tory MP Liam Fox as...

No State Control Of The Media

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THE Leveson report into media standards has been given to Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of its official publication today. The PM and deputy PM...

Deutsche Bank collapse will crash the world’s banking system!

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DEUTSCHE Bank, the largest and most important bank in Europe, sacked its British born chief executive John Cryan after just three years in the...

Chuck out the TUC leaders who are incapable of defending jobs and wages!

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UNITE, the largest union in Britain and Ireland, reacted to the news that Sheffield University has decided to sack over 8,000 of its employees...

Coalition to widen student loans system!

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LAST Thursday the government announced that it was starting a consultation process on its plans to widen the student loans system in further education...

100,000 march as trade union leaders fiddle while Tories burn NHS!

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SATURDAY’S 100,000-strong march to defend the NHS from the accelerating Tory drive to destroy it showed once again that the masses are ready to...

China shows the way to defeat the coronavirus plague – while the British ruling...

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THE creator of the Universal Credit onslaught against the working class and the poor, Iain Duncan Smith has launched an attack on China in...

The Crisis In The Ukraine!

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THE OSCE has revealed the 12-point roadmap behind the September 5 truce signed in Minsk. The document, titled ‘Protocol on the results of consultations...

UK steel industry collapses!

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YESTERDAY the Tory business secretary, Sajid Javid, convened an emergency summit meeting in Rotherham on the dramatic collapse of the UK steel industry. From the...

Indignation is not enough – working class needs socialist policies

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IN HIS first election speech, Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, expressed his anger and indignation over the policies of austerity ruthlessly carried out by...

Labour must bring Tories down and carry through Brexit – One Ramsay Mac is enough!

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ON TUESDAY night prime minister Theresa May suffered the biggest political defeat in British parliamentary history when her Brexit deal, signed and sealed with...

Italy on the edge of the abyss – the UK is next

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THE European Union is being broken on the rocks of the deepening crisis of the world capitalist order. The leaders of France and Germany are...

The whole world rages at the persecution of the Palestinians yet the TUC still...

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PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...

All Out Strike To Defend NHS! Nurses Must Get 15%!

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NURSES, midwives and NHS workers around the country take to the streets again today to demand a 15% pay rise and they are extremely...

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...

Turkey And Libya Prepare For Med Oil War Against Greece, And Egypt!

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AN EXPLOSIVE situation that threatens all-out war between the NATO powers is fast developing in the Mediterranean region in a struggle to seize the...

Forward With The World Socialist Revolution!

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ON every front – the economic, the political and the ideological – the capitalist ruling classes and their system are reeling and in desperate...

The bosses are dumping their crisis onto the backs of workers. It is time...

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YESTERDAY nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%. This is the sixth...

A UK G-Bay & more armed police as Tories seek big majority to force...

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NEW Guantanamo Bay-style jails-within-jails are being opened for the first time in the UK to incarcerate ‘extremists of all kinds’, while police are being...

Ukraine – Under The Iron Heel Of The Imf!

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THE coupist regime in Kiev has reached a preliminary deal with the International Monetary Fund to try to unlock $27 billion of ‘international support’...

Localism Act 2011 Being Used To Build Up An Army Of Homeless People!

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UNDER the Localism Act 2011, councils were granted greater powers to restrict access to social housing. Vulnerable people are now unable to access social...

Long live the Iraqi, Lebanese and Palestinian revolutions! Drive the imperialists out of the...

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IRAQI government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi told the official Iraqi News Agency on Saturday that the authorities are going to issue arrest warrants for a...

Tories want to gag the trade unions as well as chain them!

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STRIKING unions are to be gagged as well as chained, the TUC’s general secretary Frances O’Grady has said, referring to a consultation document linked...

IMF warns coronavirus threatens to crash world economy

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Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued a stark warning on Sunday that the world’s ‘fragile’ economic recovery could be...

With The Tories At Their Weakest Now Is The Time For A General Strike...

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SATURDAY’S massive turnout for the trade union sponsored mass demonstration with its lead banner declaring ‘Not One Day More – Tories out’ has spread...

Call indefinite general strike! Overthrow the 5th Republic! Forward to a Socialist France!

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THE ‘YELLOW Vests’ who have been out on the streets of France every Saturday for over a year have joined forces with the mighty...

Home Office is ‘institutionally racist’! The way to end the ‘hostile environment’ is to...

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THE HOME Office is ‘institutionally racist’. This is the verdict of the first draft of the ‘lessons learned’ review by Wendy Williams, HM Inspector...

British capitalism hits the rocks!

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IN THE early hours of last Friday, a seismic crash in the value of the pound against the dollar caused panic amongst the world’s...

Labour Now A Fifth Column For The Eu! Socialist Revolution Needed To Carry Out...

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WEDNESDAY’S humiliating defeat of the Tory government over the EU Withdrawal Bill signalled the emergence of a bloc between the Labour Party, now firmly...

MPs’ Committee fears new mortgage bubble!

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A VERY nervous House of Commons Treasury Select Committee has just asked the Bank of England to clarify its role in ensuring that the...

You Can’t Reform The Capitalist State – It Must Be Overthrown!

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NEVILLE LAWRENCE, the father of Stephen Lawrence, the teenager who was murdered by a racist gang in 1993, said yesterday that he was very...

Obama Ready To Step Up Intervention Into Syria

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THE just re-elected US President, Barack Obama, yesterday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to use chemical weapons against the NATO-supported opposition forces, saying...

Tories Use State Against Health Workers

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TRADE UNION leaders are angry that the government has organised police and army scabbing on today’s four-hour NHS strike over the refusal of the...

Deal Aimed At Strangling Cwu Branches

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THE CWU trade union has agreed a ‘landmark’ agreement with Royal Mail. CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward said: ‘The agreement breaks new ground in...