Editorials

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Rejected Sunak brought back as Tory leader – unions must call a general strike...

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Rishi Sunak was appointed Tory Prime Minister yesterday after his opponent Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the race at the last minute. Sunak was overwhelmingly rejected...

Ukrainian workers refuse to end occupations!

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THE agreement, styled as a ‘de-escalation roadmap’, reached at Geneva last Thursday by representatives from Russia, US, EU and the Ukraine coupist government, represents...

The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...

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MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...

US and Israel – Get out of Syria! Aid the Syrian people by ...

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SYRIAN air defences shot down one of four Israeli warplanes targeting a military site near Palmyra on Friday, the General Command of the Syrian...

Israel invades Gaza hospital after Biden gives green light for attack!

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Early yesterday Israel entered al-Shifa hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, with troops, tanks and bulldozers invading the facility where around...

State violence escalates – three dead in eight days!

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The news that yet another person has died after a confrontation with the police brings the total of deaths arising out of such incidents...

Syria refuses to give way to imperialism

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THE news that the Obama regime is demanding the complete withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters from Syria marks a decisive development in the increasingly desperate...

Police Officer Chauvin squeezed the life out of George Floyd! Murder trial puts the...

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FOR NINE minutes and twenty-nine seconds police officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck, Hennepin county courthouse in downtown Minneapolis heard...

Unite The Masses In The Gulf Against Imperialism

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SADDAM HUSSEIN went to his death bravely and heroically, executed by agents of imperialism – the leaders of a puppet government that came to...

Banks learnt nothing from the 2008 crash as world debt and UK credit card...

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RBS, still over 70% state-owned, is the worst prepared of the UK’s biggest banks to cope with the next financial crisis, a crisis which...

Trade unions must take general strike action in support of Palestinian masses!

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THE UN’s World Food Programme has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation after Israel launched a brutal aggression on Gaza last month....

Trade Union Renegade Doing Blair’s Dirty Work

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THE former CWU postal workers trade union leader, Alan Johnson, yesterday moved into action at the behest of the Prime Minister to urge that...

Nationalise the major industries to defend jobs

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GERMANY, the world’s biggest exporter of commodities, and the strong man of the EU, has begun to slump with government figures showing that its...

Answer low pay with general strike

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ON the day that up to 400,000 health workers in England came out on a second four-hour strike over the refusal of the government...

The Essence Of The Easter Rising!

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THE bourgeois media has been awash this weekend with coverage of the centenary celebrations of the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin, with reports on...

Britain wants to occupy Afghanistan for ‘decades’

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SIR SHERARD Cowper-Coles, the high-flying diplomat who is Ambassador in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio 4 yesterday that British forces would have to stay in...

UN Security Council passes resolution to put Trump in supreme control of Gaza

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ON MONDAY, the United Nations Security Council voted by 13 to 0 to pass a US-drafted resolution that effectively puts president Donald Trump in...

With capitalism in crisis, and the NHS being knifed by Starmer – UK needs...

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THE immediate ending of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance was necessary to prevent an economic collapse and a run on the banks, declared Lucy...

PM Johnson Set To Put Brexit Deal With The EU To A Vote Today...

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ANYTHING and everything is being used to try and prevent the House of Commons voting to give its support to the government’s Brexit deal...

France and UK want air strikes after Assad’s victory at Al-Qusayr

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THE Hezbollah TV channel yesterday showed a fighter planting a Syrian flag on Al-Qusayr’s clock tower while the Western powers’ surrogate, the Free Syrian...

Brown pledges 150 private NHS hospitals and self treatment by 15 million ‘expert patients’

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GORDON Brown made clear yesterday that his intention was to continue with the Blairite NHS counter-revolution. The message was that there were ‘no no-go...

The TUC supports the UK and US war plan for the Ukraine, and demands...

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THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor...

Stop the war with a general strike to bring down coalition

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ANGLO-US-FRENCH forces have killed over 100 Libyans and wounded hundreds more in their opening onslaught of cruise missiles, launched from the sea, and bombs...

HAMMOND AND McDONNELL READY FOR A MacDONALD-STYLE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT!

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DURING Tuesday’s questions and answers on Treasury matters in the Commons, the Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond informed MPs that he would block any attempt...

NHS privateers off-shore tax haven bonanza exposed

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WHILE the NHS is being brought to its knees financially through austerity cuts, with hospitals and entire health authorities facing bankruptcy, NHS privateers are...

Tata Steel UK’S claim of losing £1.5 million a day to justify jobs massacre...

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Last Friday, Tata Steel UK confirmed its devastating plans to axe 2,800 jobs with the closure of two blast furnaces at its Port Talbot...

The Working Class Must Intervene To Resolve The Brexit ‘Debate’!

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LAST Tuesday afternoon, in the House of Commons, the knives were out for the Brexit referendum result, and for the millions of workers who...

TUC must support doctors strike and NHS by calling a general strike to kick...

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Resident doctors began five days of strike action yesterday following the overwhelming rejection, 83% to 17%, of Labour health secretary Wes Streeting’s latest pathetic...

Hezbollah unites the Arab masses against Zionism and imperialism

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THERE is not the slightest doubt about it – Hezbollah’s military action in the Shabaa Farms area of the disputed border with Israel, showed...

Make the TUC call a general strike now to boot out the Tories and...

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RAIL, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) members will be joined by many other trade unionists today at 7.00am and on Saturday 26th March at...

Starmer’s speech – an application to join a national coalition with the Tories!

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s first speech to a Labour Party conference yesterday was acclaimed by his supporters as heralding a ‘new dawn’ for the...

CBI demands pay cuts in the private and public sectors

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The CBI and ‘recruitment experts’ Harvey Nash revealed yesterday that half of all employers are planning to freeze pay altogether, and that only 4%...

French Workers Have Macron On The Run – They Have The Support Of The...

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THE FRENCH Revolution of millions of workers and youth is hotting up with the news that the hated French riot police are now deploying...

Scrap the US-EU free trade TTIP treaty!

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EU-US talks aimed at clinching a comprehensive free trade deal, that will allow the US to economically and politically dominate Europe and defy EU...

Trump Threatens To De-Fund New York, Seattle And Portland!

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THE TRUMP administration has stepped up its war on ‘Marxists and radicals’ naming three major cities that it has targeted to strip of their...

Soaring oil prices and the banking collapse mean class conflict on the airports!

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ON SATURDAY more than 1,000 British Airways pilots marched on BA’s Heathrow headquarters over plans by BA to use non-BA pilots, in its new...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers determined at their mass picket on Sunday

The crisis is forcing the working class forward – Now build the WRP

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Last week’s collapses on Wall Street and on the Japanese stock market emphasised to the whole world that the capitalist crisis is deepening. The...

Labour Pushes For Pensions War

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MORE than half a million civil servants are to be told that they will have to pay a lot more towards their pensions. This is...

60,000 families face eviction under Tory Housing Bill

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60,000 HOUSEHOLDS in England face being thrown out of their council houses next year as a result of the Tories ‘pay to stay’ policy. Under...

Saudis Execute Shia Leader In Major US–UK Backed Provocation!

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THE Saudi autocrats, the major ally of the US and the UK in the Middle East, alongside Israel, have just thrown barrels of petrol...

Labour Pledges More Austerity!

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POLITICAL ‘role reversal’ is the phrase being bandied about by bourgeois political commentators as they scratch their heads trying to make comparisons between the...

Bank of England to ‘crucify the consumer’

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NOT ONLY has the world crisis of capitalism now been accepted as the reality by even the most sceptical of the bourgeoisie, its different...

Scrap the market in the NHS!

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IPSWICH Hospital, in Suffolk, has been deprived of £2.5m because it provided much-needed care for its patients too quickly. This was discovered by accountants...

Baker Reveals Iraq Get Out Plan

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A PANEL of White House advisers led by a former Secretary of State, James Baker, is reported to be recommending a major shift of...

10 million workers will be hit by tax increases as Labour ‘picks the side’...

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LOWEST paid workers will be hit the hardest by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves budget’s ‘stealth tax’ unveiled on Wednesday. Reeves desperate to avoid accusations of...