Editorials

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Answer Johnson’s war on the right to strike with a general strike and a...

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HOURS after winning the December 12 election, Tory leader Johnson at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in central London announced that ‘We now speak...

Nationalise all Industry and Banks – not just Railways

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THE demand for the re-nationalisation of the railways and public transport is becoming unstoppable, as workers and the vast majority of the middle classes...

Workers have the right to self defence against terrorism & capitalism

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SIX hundred new armed officers are being  trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring  the...

Trump sends in National Guard to take over America’s capital city

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On Monday, US president Donald Trump declared a ‘crime emergency’ in Washington DC, the capital city of America, using this as a pretext to...

Another British Retreat From Kabul

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PM Cameron has told MPs that 3,800 British troops – almost half of the current force serving in Helmand province – are to be...

The Crisis In The Ukraine!

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THE OSCE has revealed the 12-point roadmap behind the September 5 truce signed in Minsk. The document, titled ‘Protocol on the results of consultations...

More ‘breadline poor’ after 10 years of Labour governments

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The gap between the rich and poor has widened in recent years and is greater than at any time in the past 40 years,...

Breast cancer scandal inevitable outcome of Tory privatisation of NHS – time to...

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LAST WEDNESDAY, Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised ‘wholeheartedly and unreservedly for the suffering caused’ to the hundreds of thousands of women who were...

Tory policies to defund and privatise the NHS responsible for Shrewsbury maternity disaster!

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THE INDEPENDENT Ockenden inquiry into maternity provisions at the Shrewsbury NHS Trust has revealed a horrific catalogue of failures contributing to the deaths of...

Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tory-Led Coalition

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THE TUC met yesterday afternoon to discuss pay and pensions and the planned mass demonstration and day of action on March 26 against the...

Eurozone on brink of collapse – forward to Socialist United States of Europe

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The news yesterday that the cost of borrowing for Spain has jumped to over 6% will inevitably mean that for the country to stagger...

Time to take action against the venture capitalists

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A BIDDING war between warring groups of venture capitalist locusts has broken out over who is to asset strip Boots. Yesterday morning, the...

Russia And China Support Greek Privatisation

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THE Greek working class and the youth are suffering under the ‘Iron Heel’ of the Troika (the European Union the European Central Bank and...

Brown Trying To Buy Time For Capitalism

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LAST week a Tory MP had to apologise to the House of Commons because he had said that the government should ‘let the recession...

Italian Banks on verge of crash following Renzi’s defeat

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THE defeat for the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, in Sunday’s referendum to change the Italian constitution and concentrate the political power in his...

Dollar collapse puts bankers into a spin

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THE dollar has continued to collapse against the other major capitalist currencies leaving the pound at its highest price against the dollar since Britain...

Greek bourgeoisie organising pogroms

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AS the economic crisis continues to tear Greece apart and drives forward a revolutionary surge amongst workers and youth, so it is driving the...

British capitalism is in its death agony – working class must put it out...

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TORY Prime Minister, Liz Truss, unveiled her package of measures to deal with the cost-of-living crisis yesterday. Her ‘bold’ new plan was nothing more...

Right To Strike Under Attack

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The announcement by the Tory media, culture and sport secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that cabinet ministers are actively discussing the introduction of Ronald Reagan style...

Coalition to widen student loans system!

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LAST Thursday the government announced that it was starting a consultation process on its plans to widen the student loans system in further education...

Trump and Musk tear up bourgeois democracy to wage war on workers in US 

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ELON Musk has launched a campaign of slashing jobs and closing federal departments with nothing but contempt for Congress. Musk, the world’s richest man, was...

British capitalism about ‘to fall off a cliff’ – Lobby the TUC on Monday...

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The Daily Telegraph has in recent months published a number of articles that have questioned not just the continued existence of the Tory government...

Schools being asset-stripped by academy trusts

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THE HOUSE of Commons education committee has written to the Tory academies minister, Lord Agnew, expressing MPs’ concern about a ‘lack of transparency and...

Beginning of the end for Johnson – finish Tories off with a general strike

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WHEN The Daily Telegraph carries as its banner headline ‘Beginning of the end for Boris?’ then it is certain that plots to dump him...
The front of the 50,000-strong London demonstration on March 18 demanding the withdrawal of all occupation troops from Iraq

US Falls Out With Iraqi Puppets

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PRESIDENT Bush has fallen out with the major section of his puppet regime in Iraq, that is the Dawa Party and the United Iraq...

Lammy Wants To Undermine The Right To Trial By Jury!

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JUSTICE SECRETARY David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape,...

The Eagle cannot fly so Smith is to challenge Corbyn

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NOW that the ‘Eagle’ has refused to fly as pledged, she has handed the baton, although just 25 votes behind and with votes still...

Zionists are on the march in Jerusalem. The UK trade unions must call a...

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NABIL Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that East Jerusalem, with its Islamic and Christian holy sites, will remain the...

Step Up The Struggle For Palestine

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas has pledged that he will submit a resolution to the UN Security Council to make a decision that the Israeli occupation...

World Crisis Of Capitalism Is Driving A World Revolution For Socialism

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THIS week the ‘big guns’ of the capitalist world banking system will each be holding their regular monthly meetings with only one question on...

Blair proclaims summary justice for the masses

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ON TUESDAY Prime Minister Blair began his ‘genuine intellectual debate about the nature of liberty in a modern developed society such as our own.’ ...

US Trade Unions At The Crossroads

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THE most powerful capitalist economy in the world is now living on a veritable knife edge, liable at any moment to crash spectacularly, bringing...

Russian & Chinese Stalinists support US threats against Iran

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THE Chinese and Russian representatives at a meeting of the five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and Germany on...

Mursi follows on from Mubarak as the US’ man in Cairo

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PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...

The Stalinist theory of one country with two social systems has encouraged the...

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THE EVENTS in Hong Kong over the past month have seen thousands of people storming the Hong Kong parliament and raising the Union Jack...

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...

Cameron Presiding Over A Sea Of Misery!

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NINE million people across the UK are living with serious debt problems, according to a new report by the Money Advice Service (MAS). MAS points...

Charge G4S With The Mubenga Killing!

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THE THREE G4S guards who unlawfully killed Jimmy Mubenga in 2010 – when he was just 46 years old – using restraint holds as...

Join the YS lobby of the TUC on September 11 to call a general...

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THE GRENFELL Tower disaster was a turning point for the working class where the callous and ruthless nature of the ruling class was exposed...

UK economy is crashing into bankruptcy under the impact of the world capitalist crisis!

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ONLY two weeks into 2025 and the capitalist world is reeling from an economic crisis of historic proportions – a crisis that has completely...

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...

Central Bankers Are Condemned As ‘Useful Idiots’! Bosses Propagandist Borrows Lenin’s Phrase

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PRESIDENT Trump has described the new ‘utopia’ that the UK faces once it breaks with the EU, and the UK ruling class switches its...

Corbyn, O’Grady and McCluskey are determined to prevent workers from getting rid of Cameron

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YESTERDAY, under orders from Tory leader Cameron, most of the King’s horses and most of the King’s men of the major trade trade unions...

Greek Debt Crisis Set To Explode Under The Eu!

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TALKS on a Greek debt deal, it was reported yesterday, have ‘hit a snag’. The Institute of International Finance (IIF), and their creditors group...

Obama’s War Being Stepped Up

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THE government of Pakistan yesterday summoned the US ambassador to Islamabad to protest at yet another US drone missile attack on Pakistani civilians. ...