Editorials

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‘Green Shoots’ – A Mirage Of Desperate Capitalists

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THE European Central Bank is having nightmares about the state of the 25 banks that underpin the financial system of the Eurozone within the...

British economy skating on thin ice

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BA is currently approaching a number of private equity companies about forming a consortium to bid for Iberia airlines. Iberia said last month...

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...

Bank of England appoint Bernanke, the architect of QE, to rescue British capitalism from...

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At the weekend, bosses at the Bank of England announced that they had drafted in the ex-chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank (Fed),...

Afghan war aid to be quadrupled as education and jobs are slashed!

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BRITISH troops are to to leave Afghanistan by 2014, and a phased withdrawal is due to begin before the end of 2010. This is...

Adam Smith rubbishes the Bank of England and its fake stress testing!

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THE Adam Smith Institute has just ‘lampooned’ the Bank of England stress tests – which sought to show that the UK’s banking system is...

‘Strongman’ Sunak tells unions there will be no talks and that they must accept...

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THE British capitalist class and their government are now up to their necks in a massive crisis, that no attempts at fake bravado, or...

With the US economy smashed Trump is aiming to return to office through a...

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WHAT began as a Black Lives Matter movement sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has developed into a nationwide movement...

Crisis of German Capitalism nears breaking point – the Banks must be nationalised under...

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Amid a major slump in the German economy, the profits of the giant Deutsche Bank, the country’s largest, crashed a huge 92 per cent...

Victory to Hamas! Defeat Zionism and imperialism!

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THE murderous, cowardly missile attack by Israel on Gaza, which killed Ahmed al-Jaabari along with 10 other Palestinians including two children, was a long-planned attack...

Occupy And Nationalise Ellesmere Port And Luton Stellantis Car Plants

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ONE of the world’s biggest carmakers, Stellantis, has called on the Tory government to renegotiate part of the Brexit deal or risk losing parts...

Palestinians reaction to Israel’s onslaught has been to increase their support for revolutionary...

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A NEW opinion poll shows that public support for the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and armed confrontation, as the best means to end Israeli...

Tories Will Have The Power ‘To Censor The Internet’ To Silence Opposition To Imperialist...

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THE TORY government is attempting to assume the absolute power to censor the internet as part of its new Online Safety Bill – a...

UK-France defeated by the Libyan masses!

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AFTER months of bombing and killing civilians, the Libyan imperialist adventure is nearing its end after both the UK and French governments have...

End homelessness by putting an end to the system that deliberately creates it –...

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A HOMELESS man has been found dead in a tent after sleeping rough in the snow in freezing temperatures. The man, named locally as...

Disband the Met Police – forward to a workers state and socialism

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WHEN Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel is forced to say that she is ‘appalled and sickened’ by the behaviour of Metropolitan Police officers, then...

Abuse of elderly inevitable outcome of privatisation

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A major study by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the quality of home care for the elderly in England has thrown the...

Tories and Labour right-wing call for war with Russia

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WAR hysteria dominated the Parliamentary debate on Tuesday, with both Tory and Labour MPs pushing for a full-scale war against Russia over unproven accusations...

Please help us – Hague appeals to Russia & China!

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SPEAKING at the Royal United Services Institute on Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Hague reported that: ‘On January 16th, a terrorist group linked to Al...

Tories are readying to impose new taxes, and engage in massive wage cutting! Remove...

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EARLIER this week, Apple was priced on the US stock market at $2.3tn (£1.7tn), more than the combined ‘value’ of the entire FTSE 100. The...

Defend the NHS by expropriating the drug companies and banks under socialism

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AUDIT Scotland, the public spending watchdog for Scotland, has issued a damning report on the NHS funding crisis, which it states is in a...

Workers Must Take Action To Put An End To Capitalism

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THE TIME is here when workers must respond to the growing chorus from the professional servants of the bourgeoisie for savage, and even more...

Revolution Only Way Forward For Greece And UK

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WORKERS and youth in Greece have spent the last two days outside the Vouli being bombarded and attacked by riot policemen, some on motorbikes...

MPs must vote to quit the EU – forward to the Socialist United States...

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THE Brexit Secretary Davis yesterday urged MPs not to ‘tie the prime minister’s hands’ and to defeat the two House of Lords amendments to...

NHSTogether must organise strike action to defend GPs!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown’s government is targeting General Practitioners (GPs) in its rush to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). Two key barriers to a...

As workers boil with anger Obama and Republicans vow ‘no deal’

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THE USA is set to hit its debt ceiling by 17 October, if the Houses of Congress are unable to agree a massive cuts...

Organising Socialist Revolution Is The Only Way Out Of The Capitalists Crisis!

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THE decision by the Bank of England to keep interest rates at 5.25%, the highest level for 16 years, came as no surprise despite...

Tory GP funding formula robs the poor and gives to the rich

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A STUDY published this week in the British Journal of General Practice shines a searchlight on one of the main causes of ‘health inequality’...

Answer 30% savage cuts with a general strike!

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YESTERDAY the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, proudly announced that four government departments have agreed to make cuts in their budgets of 8% a year...

General Strike to answer Tory strike ban

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ON Friday the Tories finally produced their plans to ban strikes throughout the public sector should they win the next general election. Draconian new legislation...

Labour heading for a major collision with the working class and its trade unions

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to tell workers that major unavoidable tax rises are on the way since she has inherited a £20bn...

To The Hague With The Israeli Leadership

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AN inquiry ordered by the UN Human Rights Council said on Wednesday that Israel violated human rights law and international humanitarian law when its...

Time for regime change in Labour Party – kick out Starmer!

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Up to Wednesday, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer was in a state of complete denial about the depth of the rebellion amongst his own...

Build the Fourth International! Victory to the World Socialist Revolution!

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YESTERDAY, millions of Egyptian workers and youth, from Alexandria to Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the city of Luxor and Ports Said and Suez, marched...

Break With The Eu Now! Forward To A Socialist United States Of Europe!

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THE TORY Party is now on the brink of a split as pro-Remainers plan to unite with Labour, Liberal Democrat, Scottish and Welsh Nationalist...

Unemployment Crisis Deepening

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TOTAL unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to December, down 3,000 on the figure for the previous three months. However, long-term...

Nationalise BAA – forward to a national transport system

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THE call has gone up in the Competition Commission report that three of BAA’s seven airports – two of its three in London, out...

EU announces further below-zero rate cuts and 2.6tn euro QE as new banking collapse...

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THE EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) has announced its biggest package of rate cuts and economic stimulus in three years as EU President Mario Draghi...

Labour is moving to sack a quarter of its staff! A GMB & Unite...

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THE LABOUR Party is facing strike action by staff who work at the party offices who are members of the GMB and Unite trade...

Unite Helps Bosses Cut Workers’ Wages

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THE UNITE trade union leaders yesterday were in full flight praising Toyota workers for taking their advice and assisting the bosses by accepting a...

Examine practicalities of a general strike by organising it now!

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THE TUC Congress was dominated by the growing mass anger of the working class at the Tory-led coalition policy of wage freezing and massive...

British Army To Brown – ‘Stand And Deliver’

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THE armed forces chiefs have entered politics and are to present the government with a shopping list of purchases that it must make, or...

Blair Instructed Foreign Office To Break The Law

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YESTERDAY the Reprieve charity reported that: ‘Previously secret Government memos prove Prime Minister Tony Blair ordered the Foreign Office to violate its legal obligation...

Sunak extends furlough as Bank of England prints another £50 billion to try and...

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March next year, with the government continuing...

Permanent recession for Europe as sanctions on Russia backfire on capitalism. Forward with European...

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THE economies of every EU country face permanent recession according to Barclay’s Bank chief economist for the EU, Sylvia Ardagna, under the impact of...