Editorials

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Blair Wants Government Control Of Judges

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THE Blair government announced yesterday through its Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, that it was going to bring in legislation that will tell judges how...

Macron convenes crisis meeting after rushing back to France from EU summit!

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron convened a crisis meeting yesterday amid a wave of working class uprisings that engulfed France after a 17-year-old driver was...

End the NHS cuts! Reopen the A&Es!

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FINANCIAL pressures could get in the way of the drive to improve care following the Stafford Hospital scandal, experts said yesterday, confirming the obvious,...

Workers must support Russia and China as Biden threatens new war!

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AS THE world crisis of the capitalist system deepens, the US under President Joe Biden is preparing for a new world war. Biden is...

There must be general strikes in the UK, the EU and the USA to...

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ISRAELI military forces invaded the al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning in a continuation of the violent attacks on Palestinian worshippers gathered for dawn prayers...

Biden In London To Tell UK Government That It Must Support Use Of...

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A GROWING number of Washington’s NATO allies – including Britain, Spain, Canada and Germany – have already declared their refusal to follow the US...

Bush wants to wreck the Palestinian Mecca agreement

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AHEAD of next Monday’s summit in Jerusalem, President George Bush’s administration is setting out to wreck the agreement reached in Mecca on February 8...

Trump Threatens North Korea With ‘Fire And Fury!’

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SPEAKING in New Jersey, President Trump has delivered a final warning to North Korea. He said that, ‘North Korea best not make any more threats...

Hague Must Resign Over Libyan Debacle

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THE latest NATO war crime, the bombing of the Libyan TV station, killing three technicians, was a repeat of a similar war crime,...

Time to put an end to ‘zombie’ capitalism with socialist revolution

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STEPHEN Welton, head of the small business investors group the Business Growth Fund (BFG), warned this weekend that the UK economy is in the...

Smash imperialism to defeat terrorism

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YESTERDAY Home Secretary Reid dismissed the many appeals for a change in British Foreign Policy from a multitude of community and political leaders, who...

US slaughters Iraqis during the referendum on a constitution

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WHILE US President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair and their quislings in Baghdad were pumping out propaganda about ‘freedom and democracy’,...

End the ‘gig economy’ and all cheap labour! Kick the Tories out!

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THE DRIVE by the bosses to force every worker in Britain into the so-called ‘gig economy’ has hit the headlines again this week with...

‘The Final Demise Of The Two State Solution’ Says Ashrawi!

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THE Palestinian National Council (PNC), the Palestinian parliament in exile, said on Monday that the decision of the Israeli ruling Likud party to impose...

Tory plans for their police state! Step too far even for EU Courts

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THE Tories’ new mass surveillance laws got a setback this week when the European Court of Justice ruled that its snoopers’ charter, the Investigatory...

Cameron increases police powers for war on Welfare State

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THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government launched its White Paper Policing in the 21st century: reconnecting police and the people, on Monday. Home Secretary Theresa...

A slap on the wrist for bankers, but it’s to be war on the...

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PREMIER Brown’s speech at the Labour Party conference reeked with bourgeois morality and hypocrisy. There is to be a slap on the...

Netanyahu bans Al Jazeera operations in Israel and the occupied territories on the eve...

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THE Netanyahu government has decided to close Al Jazeera’s channel in Israel and to ban it from the occupied Palestinian territories. The Cabinet vote yesterday...

Devolution of NHS in Manchester opens door to privatisation

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FROM Friday 1 April, the Greater Manchester authorities have taken over a £6 billion health and social care budget to serve a population of...

Unions Must Take Action Now To Defend The NHS!

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FOLLOWING similar warnings by the King’s Fund and other bodies, the BBC has announced that the NHS in England faces a...

620,000 sick and disabled will lose £675 a month under Labour’s attack on benefits...

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer is prepared to defy the growing anger of workers by pushing through welfare cuts that will impoverish over 600,000...

Forward to the Zimbabwe socialist revolution!

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THE resolution of the United Nations Security Council condemning violence in Zimbabwe, carried with both China and Russia voting for the motion, ...

Labour Must Bring Back Corbyn And Dump Starmer Now – After He Refused To...

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ONLY 15 Labour MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn, were prepared last Tuesday to vote against the Tories to bring the Johnson government down! The vote on...

TUC – Time To Stop Talking! Call General Strike Now To Kick Out The...

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THE TUC last Friday ‘reaffirmed’ its calls on the government to take over the running of P&O Ferries passenger and freight services ‘as a...

Bank of England & US Fed continue to pump out free money to attempt...

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England announced that it will be keeping interest rates on hold at the historical low of 0.1%. This was the unanimous...

Seattle Police Chief Quits As Working Class Gears Up To Deal With Trump!

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SEATTLE’S chief of police has thrown in the towel and quit on the same day that the city council voted to reduce the police...

Tories face ‘historic defeat’ in elections – forward to kicking them out and bringing...

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THE TORIES face a ‘historic defeat’ in Thursday’s local elections, with a top Tory polling expert predicting they are on course to lose over...

Hurry And Make Peace With Taleban Urge Mps

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THE start of an Afghan-led peace deal with the Taleban is needed to secure the future of Afghanistan after British troops leave, a group...

Obama Prepared To Bomb Syria!

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US President Barack Obama outlined his long-awaited ‘strategy’ on Wednesday night to ‘degrade and ultimately destroy’ the Islamist group ISIL that has established an...

No sackings, or wage ‘holidays’ for bankrupt banks and councils

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YESTERDAY the Brown government was emphasising that it had no interest in running the three banks that it was ‘part-nationalising’ (rescuing) with £37bn of...

Build millions of council homes to solve housing crisis

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CRISIS, the national charity for single homeless people, correctly fears that a massive surge in homelessness is ahead, as it opens its nine Crisis...

King wanted to print even more paper money!

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WHEN the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided two weeks ago to print £50 billion more for its stimulus programme binge, the City, which was...

Workers Of The World Unite To Smash Capitalism And Imperialism!

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THE MURDER of Keenan Anderson, the cousin of a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, Patrisse Cullors, after he was repeatedly tasered by police officers...

Student uprising spreads from US to UK and Europe – It is the spark...

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THE explosive eruption of students in America against the genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza, with the full support of the capitalist...

Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions

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A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...

Withdraw All US Forces From Korea – Hands Off North Korea

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THE hysterical propaganda that North Korea is run by a young madman, who is about to press a button to attack the US mainland...

OCCUPY to stop NHS closures – demand unions call a general strike!

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THE West London Council of Action spoke out and acted for many workers yesterday when it launched the occupation of the Maternity...

Revolution At Home And Abroad – Victory To Hamas And To The UK Workers...

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THE appointment of Yahya Sinwar as the new political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, after the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, has...

Palestinians Set To March On Gaza! The UK And US Trade Unions Must Take...

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ON the day the Palestinian death toll in the Gaza genocide reached 40,000, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas defiantly announced he will visit Gaza, the...

Patients assessed, treated & sent home on same day! The Tories ‘Long Term ...

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THE TORY government, using their NHS Long Term Plan have stepped up their war against the health service, attempting to drive through measures that...
Doctors from the Indian sub-continent have helped to build-up and sustain the NHS  – the new law will have disastrous consequences

Labour turns on Asian NHS doctors

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ANOTHER shameful page of British imperialist history has been turned. This time tens of thousands of Asian and African doctors, recruited to come to...

Tory Party in meltdown – force TUC to call a general strike to kick...

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TO DESCRIBE the forced decision by Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to abandon his plans to end the 45% top rate of income tax to...

Privatisation of roads and Royal Mail

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The leadership of the postal workers union (CWU) delivered a treacherous blow to their members when they hailed the announcement that the government is...

Anti-Russian Pogrom At The G20!

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PRESIDENT PUTIN has left the G20 summit in Australia early after a relentless attack on Russia was mounted by the USA-UK axis and its...

Drive Privateers Out Of The NHS!

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THERE are more and more tragedies which prove that private companies, whose purpose is solely to make profits, have no place in the NHS. We...