Editorials

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Labour’s first 100 days will see the working class using its power to drive...

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LABOUR’S shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, delivered a speech yesterday laying out the priorities for the first 100 days of a Labour government. Within 100 days...

EU Warmongers Getting Ready For War – As The Capitalist Crisis Heads For A...

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RUSSIAN leader Vladimir Putin said yesterday that ‘Europe is offering proposals for a “peace plan” for Ukraine that are unacceptable to Russia.’ He added that:...

Hewitt, Hoon and Cameron fail to shift Brown

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ON Wednesday mid-day, ex-ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon sent a text to all Labour MPs asking them to support a call for a...

Stand up to the bullying bosses with a general strike

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THE ‘New Local Government Network’ was warning yesterday of a ‘tsunami of a public sector recession’ after the next general election when the just...

Russia Pledges Its Support For Serbia

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DEPUTY Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was in Belgrade yesterday for talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Medvedev is...

EU on brink of economic collapse

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THE CONTINUED economic collapse of the EU was highlighted yesterday when it was officially acknowledged that Italy, the third largest economy in Europe, has...

Workers of the world unite – provided you speak English

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband spoke yesterday on Labour’s ‘One Nation’ approach to cultural diversity and integration insisting that admission to this select body is...

Harassing youth and their parents – Labour’s ‘vote winner’

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HOME SECRETARY Smith yesterday revealed Labour’s master plan, at a ‘We’re Not Having It’ outrage conference, held to try to claw back its lost...

UK Military Chiefs Call To Bring Back Conscription As US-UK Prepare For War...

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FORMER British military chiefs have told the Starmer-led Labour government that it, as the government of the UK, ‘must’ consider conscription ‘now’ before it...

Get British troops out of Afghanistan now!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...

Iran Is Not The Villain Of The ‘Nuclear Threat’

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PRESIDENT Obama made it crystal clear in his 11.45pm Saturday night address, over the just-signed six-month interim nuclear agreement with Iran, that he is...

Israel declares UN agency UNRWA a terrorist organisation and bans it from providing any...

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The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on Monday passed a motion banning UNRWA (the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency) from operating inside Israel and occupied...

State Repression Of Youth Being Intensified

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THE CRISIS of the capitalist system has led to huge attacks on working class and middle class youth who are daily being told in...

Labour Traitors Dance To Billionaire George Soros’ Tune!

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AFTER their defeat in the House of Commons last Wednesday over the EU Withdrawal Bill, the billionaire George Soros’ ‘Best for Britain’ movement ...

Corbyn is playing the May game!

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MONDAY’s speech to the Charity Commission by the unelected Tory prime minister, Theresa May, revealed the weakness of the Tory government and its intense fear...

By-elections spell out depth of the coalition crisis

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LABOUR has won three by-elections, holding Croydon North, Middlesbrough and Rotherham, while the coalition governing parties were wiped out. The Tories came behind UKIP, their...

Coalition To Take The Axe To Council Spending And End ‘Ring-Fencing’

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COUNCILS in England face a 10% cut in funding from central government as part of the coalition’s spending plans for 2015/16. As well, there...

Johnson Pleads For Compromise – The Working Class Must Finish The Job!

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BORIS Johnson revealed his plans for a Brexit deal at the Tory Party conference yesterday before formally putting his proposals to the EU. Johnson’s deal...

Take action to halt the continuing murderous attacks on Gaza’s starving masses!

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THE Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has condemned the Israeli-American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and complicit governments, especially the US and British administrations, for the...

Unions must take industrial action to defend the NHS

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THE Labour government is continuing to pressurise NHS Trusts to become Foundation Trust businesses, and is continuing to force through the privatisation process. To...

Sunak, Hunt declare war on the UK working class and the masses of Palestine!

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THE British ruling class, for all of its threats against the working class, the youth and the masses of Palestine, is on the run! Its...

Trade unions must use their power to stop Assange’s extradition to the USA!

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HOME SECRETARY Patel has not been humbled in the slightest by the decision of the European Human Rights Court to consider that her attempt...

Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’

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TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...

320 children were slaughtered by Israel in Gaza War

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ISRAEL’S military onslaught on Gaza, where it not only used massive bombs and missiles but banned cluster bombs and white phosphorus weapons, killed 1,387...

Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ comes a huge cropper!

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BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...

Barrett appointed to US Supreme Court in drive to declare a Trump defeat a...

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WITH JUST eight days to go before the US presidential election the right wing judge Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the American Supreme...

Bank of England is clueless as financial crisis drives socialist revolution

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IN what must be the most blinding statement of the obvious, senior members of the Bank of England admitted yesterday that they did not...

Motor industry crisis deepens – nationalisation the only way

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THE US administration has let it be known that it intends to force GM, formerly the world’s number one motor car manufacturer, into bankruptcy...

After Johnson Refused To Sack Hancock, The Capitalist State Did The Job For Him!

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BRITISH capitalism is in a desperate economic and political crisis that calls for truly desperate measures by the ruling class. The use of the capitalist...

US Armed Forces Chief Opts For Dialogue With Iran

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THE scale of the military and economic beating that the US-UK imperialists have taken, as a result of their disastrous military adventures in Iraq...

Putin Defies The Imperialists Diktat And Visits Mariupol Promising To Rapidly Rebuild The City!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has visited Mariupol and vowed that new comfortable residential quarters for the people will continue being constructed in Mariupol in...

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...

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...

US Ruling Class Forced To Nationalise Bankrupt Mortgage Giants

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THE nationalisation of the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac mortgage finance companies by the ultra right wing Bush administration is a forced admission of...

Police are preparing to mass arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators at next Saturday’s mass march! It...

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On Monday, the Metropolitan Police issued a warning that it is prepared to make mass arrests at next Saturday’s demonstration in London, which is demanding...

Johnson Government Must Be Brought Down – TUC Must Call General Strike!

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THE capitalist system is now poised to go into its greatest ever crisis and crash because of its mountains of debt. Workers face massive...

Sack the Hayes-Ward CWU leadership!

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LAST Wednesday postal workers delivered a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend their jobs, terms and conditions, and for a pay...

British capitalism ‘heading for disaster’ as Labour government fails to impose capitalist crisis on...

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THE HUMILIATION heaped on prime minister Keir Starmer and his chancellor Rachel Reeves by the rebellion of backbench Labour MPs over their plans to ‘save’...

Union leaders offer to save capitalism

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BORIS JOHNSON’S address to the nation on Sunday night about ‘relaxing’ the lockdown rules has been widely criticised by the leaders of the Labour...

Lobbying Bill A Conscious Attack On The Working Class

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THE Tory-led coalition’s proposed new Lobbying Bill is sending shock waves throughout the leadership of the TUC, as its full import becomes known. This bill,...

Defend living standards! Nationalise the oil and gas companies!

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JUST a few months ago the UNISON leadership accepted the government’s below inflation wage cutting deal over three years. Now the union has had...

Starmer promises the working class ‘pain’ – workers will respond with a socialist revolution!

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PM STARMER told an invited audience yesterday morning in the Downing Street Rose Garden: ‘I promised this government would serve people like you.’ He told...
A section of yesterday’s lobby of parliament against the ID Card Bill

It’s much later than Brown or Blair think

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THE working class electors in the safe Labour seat of Dunfermline and Fyfe ignored the crisis at the top of the Liberal Democrats, so...

Greek Workers Have No Alternative To Revolution!

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A LEAKED email sent to the Greek Ministries of Finance and Labour from the Troika mafia in Brussels says Greek private sector workers must...

Nationalise The Banking System To Put An End To Capitalism

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THE credit ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded 15 global banks and financial institutions. The UK banks downgraded were Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, HSBC and...