Editorials

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Middle East On The Brink As Mad Dog Israel Attacks Beirut, Baghdad & Damascus!

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LEBANON’s president, Michel Aoun, on Monday condemned an Israeli drone attack on Beirut at the weekend as a ‘declaration of war’ that justifies a...

Tory government ‘pathetic’ and ‘incapacitated’ – time to bring them down with a general...

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WEDNESDAY’S debate and vote in parliament on the issue of the roll-out of Universal Credit has been hailed as a ‘symbolic defeat’ for the...

£16.5bn for the military as Tories plan a war on public sector workers to...

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THE TORIES have exceeded all previous borrowing records, taking the British bosses’ national debt to its highest level ever since records began, reaching £2.3tn....
Palestinians on a demonstration in Athens against the war on Iraq

To deal with MRSA – end NHS privatisation!

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MRSA is now linked to nearly 1,000 deaths each year in NHS hospitals. There is no doubt that it is a product of the...

No war with Syria – answer the £20bn of cuts by kicking out the...

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PM Cameron is due to drive forward Tory war plans both at home and abroad this week. Today, he is meeting President Hollande to prepare...

Iraqi Masses To March Against Deal To Extend US Mandate

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US defence chief Robert Gates has been briefing US politicians on the proposal to extend the US mandate in Iraq. This expires this December...

The Eu Crisis Is Exploding!

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THE 61 per cent ‘no’ vote in Holland, on a 62 per cent electoral turnout, against the EU constitution was no surprise after the...

US missiles to be used against Russia as Biden escalates Imperialist war

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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden is throwing ‘oil on the fire’ and escalating the war by the imperialist nations on Russia, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman...

Capitalist State Is Preparing For Seven-Day Blackouts In UK!

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THE UK CAPITALIST STATE is currently engaged in a war on two fronts. The first is to aid the right wing Ukrainian regime with hundreds...

No Pensions sell-out! Sack Prentis and Barber! Forward to the General Strike! Build new...

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THE reformist trade union leaders are once again, on the pensions issue, showing that they are organically incapable of defending the basic gains of...

Labour strikebreakers back BA’s anti-union drive

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British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union has...

After Afghan Disaster, UK Ruling Class Is Determined That UK Workers Must Pay For...

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THE HUMILIATING hiding that the UK ruling class has taken from the Taliban in Afghanistan, where the US and the UK have squandered tens...

Step up the public sector strike to a general strike

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THE National Executive of the Public and Civil Servants Union (PCS) have called out their members in England on a one-day strike on Wednesday...

Reinstate sacked gas workers – demand union leaders call general strike to defeat fire...

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ON WEDNESDAY, up to 500 engineers were sacked by British Gas for refusing to sign a scab, wage-cutting new contract under the company’s fire...

Corbyn intends to end the rule of banking class with regulations!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn wound up this week’s Labour Party conference with a speech that he insisted outlined policies for ‘socialism in the 21st...

Defending the NHS means sacking the BMA leadership

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THE BMA leadership yesterday came out in favour of NHS rationing. It also supported the NHS having a written constitution, and being run by...

Workers must support Russia – the US-UK trade unions must stop war drive by...

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FOR SOME weeks the UK and US ruling classes have been telling the world that Russia is just waiting to invade the Ukraine, that...

Labour to hand police the power to ban demonstrations in move to establish a police state...

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KEIR STARMER’S Labour government’s plans to ‘tighten’ protest laws were confirmed by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Sunday. The new powers handed to the police...

The TUC Congress must vote for a general strike for UK to end trade...

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THE scheduled visit to the UK next Tuesday and Wednesday of Israeli president Isaac Herzog has enraged Labour MPs. The visit will take place...

US is on the run as Hamas remain undefeated! Forward to the State of...

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ON Monday, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted a US-drafted resolution endorsing a Gaza ceasefire proposal that aims to end Israel’s eight-month...

Israel invades Rafah and blocks all aid to Gaza – working class must call...

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ON MONDAY evening, the political bureau of Hamas announced that it had approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. This surprise move prompted the BBC’s International...

To disband the police force and defend the NHS from privateers the TUC...

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ON Thursday, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced new government reforms of the police disciplinary system which means that in future any police officer...

TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defend the NHS

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TODAY junior doctors launch four days of strike action throughout the NHS in England over the demand for a 35% pay increase to make...

Israel is being held responsible for the lives and safety of six recaptured...

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NEARLY 200 human rights organisations are holding Israel fully responsible for the lives and safety of six Palestinian prisoners who tunnelled their way out...

Keep Profiteers Out Of NHS And Elderly Care

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HEALTHCARE as a business is now being exposed as a malicious and very nasty fraud. First we had the Mid Staffs NHS hospital crisis with...

Occupy and demand nationalisation at Grangemouth

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THE people of Scotland will be watching tomorrow and expecting you to ‘fire up Grangemouth’ was the message from Unite to Jim Ratcliffe and...

Council election results weaken Labour in a self-inflicted wound and strengthen May!

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LABOUR’S hopes crashed to earth in the just-concluded council elections. The eve of poll predictions of the Tories losing Wandsworth, Westminster and then Kensington...

Bankers’ forecasts wrong again! New banking crash will ignite revolution!

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THE BANK of England has admitted what it calls a ‘Michael Fish’ moment over its failure to predict the 2007-8 banking crash and its...

Demand that the UK recognises the state of Palestine – Attend our centenary rally...

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IN A virtually unprecedented break with the normal language of international diplomacy, the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad Malki, has deservedly torn into British Prime...

Tories want more powers for police to crush the trade unions – TUC must...

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the government will be tabling fresh amendments to the Public Order Bill, being debated in the...

Support RMT Southern strikers, defend rail safety and jobs with them, and renationalise the...

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EVERY worker in the country, not just every commuter, must support the five-day RMT strike action on Southern. It is a fight for jobs, and...

TUC refuses to fight for Corbyn or against austerity!

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YESTERDAY, the TUC published the results of a survey of workers, taken in the immediate aftermath of last week’s vote to break with the...

Capitalism Gripped By Historic Crisis

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THE world crisis of capitalism is being hit by a convergence of the crisis to which all the central banks, economists and politicians have...

US heading for revolution!

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THE US coronavirus epidemic surpassed two million infections on Wednesday while health officials said that many new infections are likely as a result of...

Lobby the TUC on 27 April to demand they take action to support the...

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THE lobby of the TUC general council meeting tomorrow is crucial for the fight, not just in defence of the junior doctors, but to...

Truss Reveals That She Is Planning Huge Wage Cuts For Workers – Kick The...

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AT A TIME when the cost of living is rocketing Tory leadership contender Truss has been forced to publicly scrap her plan to link...

‘Eu Disintegration Inevitable’ Says George Soros

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GEORGE Soros, the multi-billionaire ‘vulture’ investor who makes his fortune betting on capitalism’s crisis and who is credited with breaking the pound in the...

Unions must take strike action to stop lifting of Covid-19 restrictions on July 19th!

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HE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) doctors’ trade union has spelt it out that pressing ahead with lifting final Covid-19 restrictions in England on July...

Call National Postal Strike! Form A Public Sector Trade Union Alliance!

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THIS WEEK hundreds of London delivery offices, and a number of mail centres and other offices and hubs have been taking strike action, after...

Right wing getting ready to split the Labour Party!

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THE hysterical witch-hunting of Jeremy Corbyn that is being carried out by the bourgeois media, marshalled by Labour’s right wing pro-Tory rebel MPs, is...

Victory to Assad! Stop bombing Libya – withdraw UK special forces!

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ON Monday the US launched air strikes on the Libyan city of Sirte against ISIL, at the request of one of the current Libyan...

Bank of America: Pound faces ‘existential crisis’ with outlook for British capitalism ‘grim’....

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THE BRITISH pound is facing an ‘existential crisis’ that is only going to get worse according to the Bank of America and the outlook...

Trump sends troops to steal Syrian oil! Kurds and Syrian army unite to drive...

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WHEN US President Donald Trump abruptly announced on October 9 that all US troops would be pulled out of northern Syria, his administration indicated...

Bring Down The Tories – Abolish Universal Credit – Forward To A Workers Government...

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IT has become crystal clear that the Universal Credit system equals universal misery for the growing masses of the working poor in the UK. As...

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...