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Daily editorials from the newspaper

BIS warns new ‘Lehman Brothers’ crash under way

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THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued yet another warning that the world’s banking system is heading for a monumental crash. The BIS,...

Cameron’s Fracking Bribe Rejected!

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THE Tory Party is in an energy crisis. In 1993 in the person of Michael Heseltine it completely shut down the mining industry putting 100,000...

Nemtsov loved by the US and UK ruling classes – hated by the...

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YESTERDAY over 20,000 people marched in Moscow and several thousand in Leningrad to mourn the death of Boris Nemtsov. The vast majority of the Russian...

Smash the STPs! Trade unions must occupy hospitals threatened with savage cuts and closures!

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THERE is no doubt that the 44 STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) that were prepared in secret are in fact part of one Tory...

US, UK And Eu Workers Must Act To Support Venezuelan Revolution!

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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that he will not betray his country by yielding to Washington’s plan for regime change in Caracas, adding...

Labour must call to free Palestinian hunger strikers and recognise State of Palestine!

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THE Head of the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee Issa Qaraqe said on Friday afternoon, the 26th day of the prisoners’ hunger strike, that negotiations could...

Tories Have Just Borrowed Billions While Doctors Say That They Are Being Treated Like...

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PM JOHNSON has put the blame for the coronavirus firmly on the people, when he warned on the TV that the NHS could be...

London Bus Workers To Strike – Fighting Against Massive Wage Cuts And Zero Hours...

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LONDON bus passengers should give their full support to London bus workers as they prepare for massive strike actions in the capital called by...

Chaos reigns as Tory Chancellor gets instructions from IMF and advice from Strictly Come...

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has delivered a thinly veiled instruction to the Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, to scrap his autumn budget statement due...

Bank of England splits over measures required to keep British capitalism afloat!

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ON WEDNESDAY the Adam Smith Institute admonished the Bank of England as ‘worse than useless’, and warned: ‘There is already a major crisis...

56 Refugees forced to sleep in a single office! Boot the Tories and their...

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REFUGEES are being held in office space in Kent, with as many as 56 women and children crammed into a single room, sleeping together...

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...

Leave The EU Now! Call A General Strike To Defend Jobs! Stop Pleading...

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THE UK’s negotiator with the EU, Lord Frost, has said that there is still time for the UK and the EU to agree a...

Kensington & Chelsea Council, Rydon, TMO & Tories must stand trial for Grenfell

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THE INQUIRY into the Grenfell Tower inferno was told this week by senior London Fire Brigade officer Andrew O’Loughlin that ‘The building was so...

Labour must condemn any secret talks with the Tories and mobilise to bring them...

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‘I GOT us into this mess, and I will get us out of it’ PM May told the massed ranks of Tory backbenchers at...

Lebanon and Iraq erupt as masses demand political overthrow of their governments

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LEBANON erupted over the weekend with renewed clashes between thousands of demonstrators and security forces on Sunday following violent clashes in Beirut on Saturday...

Forward To Workers Power In Egypt

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EGYPTIAN voters have approved a new constitution by 98.1 per cent, in a turn out of 36.8 per cent of those eligible to vote....

Erdogan urges Israel to end occupation while the UK celebrates Balfour Declaration!

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THE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Israel must stop its occupation of the Palestinian territories, which he says undermines any two-state...

US bosses handed $1.5 trillion by Trump – Forward to the US socialist revolution!

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THE US Senate has approved by 51 votes to 48 a measure slashing the taxes of the rich and the major banks and companies...

Alleged stonethrowers charged with attempted murder or targeted by snipers!

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‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...

Only A Socialist Revolution Can Resolve The Crisis Of Capitalism!

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THE DAY after official figures were released showing that the UK economy was crashing into the deepest depression for 300 years, the governor of...

Landlords ban DSS tenants! End the housing crisis through putting an end to...

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AT LEAST one in 10 landlords are ‘unlawfully’ advertising their flat for rent by saying that they do not accept tenants on housing benefit,...

Labour leaks its Fabian draft programme for keeping capitalism and the EU!

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THE leaked draft of Labour’s election manifesto yesterday brought out the predictable headlines in the press warning of the dangerous ‘socialist’ Jeremy Corbyn. But a...

Parliament Is Being Broken Apart By Brexit Crisis!

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PM MAY is facing a revolt from at least 15 Tory MPs who are threatening to vote with the majority of Labour MPs...

Expropriate the bosses and bankers!

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YESTERDAY in Warwick, Labour leader Miliband mustered a battery of very ‘moral’ arguments about ‘fairness’, and the colonial origins of non-dom status, as if...

No single market! No Customs Union! TUC call a general strike to...

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THE DIVISIONS within the Tory Party are rapidly sharpening, with an ever widening gulf between those who want to remain in the EU and...

Bring down the Tories to stop the destruction of the NHS!

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ON FRIDAY the GMB trade union declared that ‘Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt must resign,’ and warned that that the ‘NHS is tailspinning into...

Industry collapses in UK under impact of capitalist crisis

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THE UK economy stagnated with no growth in the last quarter of 2019, according to official figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics). Gross...

Don’t Let Them Close Down Our Hospitals!

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THE PLAN to strip Chase Farm Hospital, in Enfield, of its accident and emergency and maternity services is now being implemented with health chiefs...

Tories secret plan for fire sale of NHS land and a mass closure of...

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DETAILS of the secret Tory plan for a ‘fire sale’ of NHS land and buildings emerged yesterday following an analysis carried out for the...

Workers forced into debt and facing jail to keep the banks from crashing

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T EMERGED yesterday that the number of debt repayment orders issued by the courts last year reached a record level of 1.15 million. These official...

INDICATIVE VOTES ARE REJECTED FOR A SECOND TIME – UK MUST LEAVE EU ON...

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THE PLAN for a parliamentary coup against the 2016 Referendum result, that instructed the government  to leave the EU, by forcing through the House...

A Capitalist Nightmare Confronts The Bosses As Economic Collapse And Revolution Nears!

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THIS week the Daily Telegraph has published a supplement ‘The Investors’ Handbook 2020’ subtitled: ‘Rising protectionism, negative interest rates, equity bubbles, debt mountains, trade...

Reject Eu Diktat Attempt – Leave The Eu At Once !

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THE GIGANTIC farce of the Brexit negotiations hit a brick wall this week with EU officials accusing the British of failing to reveal its...

North Korea successfully tests H-Bomb to be loaded onto an ICBM!

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NORTH Korea has successfully tested an H-bomb, a nuclear weapon that it will now be able to load onto an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile...

Workers must defend the right of postal workers to strike in December!

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THE MASSIVE vote by postal workers for strike action in December over Royal Mail tearing up the previous agreements on pay and conditions has...

Corbyn For Pm – Bring Down The Tories And Forward To Palestine!

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THESE are truly desperate times for the Tories. Their government is selling out Brexit. Their party is split and divided, with Boris Johnson challenging...

No Future In Slump-Hit Austerity-Blighted Eu!

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UK MANUFACTURING output in October fell at its fastest rate since June, just-released official figures show. Output fell by 1.3%, the Office for National Statistics...

The Firefighters are the heroes of Grenfell! Jail the real culprits – big business...

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A LEAKED report by the chairman of the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry, Martin Moore-Bick, has found a scapegoat for the fire – they are...

End war crimes by destroying capitalism with socialist revolution

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THE TORY defence secretary Ben Wallace has been ordered by a judge to come up with an explanation as to why the British government...

Fortress Israel, armed by the USA, brings in new anti-Palestinian laws and cuts West...

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THE US and Israel have been engaged in intense negotiations for many months to outline America’s military aid to Israel for the next decade. Washington...

Turning A New Page In The NHS!

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THE leaders of 10 NHS organisations have called in an open letter for a ‘new page to be turned’ in 2014. Powerful organisations including...

£490bn goes missing! Time to overthrow British capitalism, quit the EU and go forward...

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ALL THE talk by the Tories, and echoed by the Labour Party leadership, that capitalist Britain is fundamentally in good health economically, has just...

Young Workers Are Sleeping In The Streets, While The Bosses And Bankers Get Richer...

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WORKERS earning wages, employed in respected professions are sleeping in the streets and working during the day, or night is something shockingly new to...

French workers and youth out to bring down Macron through a general strike!

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YESTERDAY, French workers and youth took to the streets in a massive confrontation with the government of Emmanuel Macron and his plans to privatise...