Editorials

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NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT PLAN AWAKENS MEMORIES OF THE 1960s and ’70s COUP PLOTS TO...

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THERE IS VERY great resistance to the proposal of Labour leader Corbyn that he should put down a motion of no confidence in PM...

Thousands of jobs threatened at Bridgend, Luton and Ellesmere Port!

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YESTERDAY Unite leader McCluskey was at the Bridgend plant in south Wales to address the three shifts of workers at separate meetings on the...

Strikebreaker Hunt demands ‘call off NHS strike!’

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‘BRITAIN needs a pay rise!’ These were the cynical words of PM Cameron last Friday in Washington, after five years of remorseless wage-cutting in...
The head of the London march in Whitehall shortly after setting off from Parliament Square

A British ‘barbaric act of aggression’ in Basra

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THE Labour Government’s Defence Secretary, John Reid, declared yesterday that sending six Warrior tanks to demolish the wall of a prison compound in Basra,...

World capitalism is in its death agony – forward with the world socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY’S ‘solution’ to the economic crisis of Cyprus is simply the decision of the EU bankers and the IMF to completely bankrupt the country...

Police provocateurs at large

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GREEN party MP Caroline Lucas has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the case of an undercover police officer and his possible involvement in...

Labour must pledge to nationalise Bombardier to defend 14,000 jobs!

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PM May is said to be ‘bitterly disappointed’ that the US Department of Commerce and her friend President Trump have opted to impose a...

FOOD BANKS becoming the rule in poverty-stricken UK

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THERE are currently 270 food banks across the UK where poverty-stricken workers and youth are directed to get subsistence amounts of food. As the capitalist...

Italian banks are bust, as is the Italian government – the working class must...

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A COLLISION between Italy and the European Union over a bailout of Italy’s collapsed banking system is getting closer by the day. It is...

US Class Struggle Sharpens

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THE TWU Local 100, the New York transit union, is on strike and has picked up the gauntlet flung down by Mayor Bloomberg, the...

Palestinians Are Being Murdered And Starved – Time For The Major Trade Unions To...

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THE Palestinian Centre for Human Rights stated yesterday that the Israeli occupation army’s targeting of the World Central Kitchen team in southern Gaza is...

Capitalism facing ‘impending global disaster’ – time to put it out of its misery!

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THE Tory Party annual conference ended on Wednesday with Sunak announcing he was cancelling the Northern leg of HS2 rail network – something that...

Housing costs soar!

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SINCE Labour took office in 1997, house prices have gone up four times more quickly than workers’ pay, according to figures published by the...

West condemned to ‘irreversible decline’ – put it out of its misery with world...

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THE DECISIVE defeat of world imperialism at the hands of the Afghan people has caused a complete breakdown amongst the most ardent defenders of...

Defend the Fire Service, the Ambulance Service and the Welfare State! Sack all of...

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THE general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), Matt Wrack, has warned that proposals from Home Secretary Theresa May, to bring fire and...

Don’t let them drive the trade unions out of politics

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IT IS now becoming obvious that the furore over parliamentary expenses and their alleged misuse, involving at least one leading Tory MP, was just...

Hodge, Blears and Blair say foreigners to the back of the queue

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LABOUR Industry Minister Margaret Hodge has won the support of Hazel Blears (Chairman of the Labour Party and a candidate for the deputy leadership...

Israel Seeking To Drive The Palestinians Out Of Their Country – It Is Time...

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THE Gaza Strip-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the West Bank-headquartered Palestinian Authority have vehemently condemned the escalation of the Israeli regime’s deadly aggression...

To defend the NHS, bring down the Brown government and bring in a workers...

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TODAY’S Senior Consultants BMA conference is due to hear a warning from Doctor Jonathan Fielden to Premier-elect Gordon Brown that he...

Britain hardest hit by world capitalist crisis

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YESTERDAY’S reports on the state of the economy reveal more about the catastrophe gripping British capitalism, part of the world crisis. • The Bank of...

TUC must take action to stop the extradition of Julian Assange and to release...

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JULIAN ASSANGE, who has lost his latest legal appeal, is ‘dangerously close’ to being extradited to the US, his family and observers of his...

Blair Wants To Split The Labour Party And Join With Remain Tories And Lib-Dems!

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THE DEPTH of the crisis of the UK ruling class can be gauged by the fact that they have been forced to bring the...

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...

World crisis spurring on world revolution

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THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has forecast that there is a bumpy road ahead for both the national and the...

NHS leaders in Scotland come out in the open with plans to destroy the...

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THE BBC yesterday revealed that NHS leaders in Scotland have been discussing setting up a ‘two-tier’ health service. These discussions were recorded in draft minutes...

British Ruling Class Preparing For A Nuclear War To Defend Capitalism

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THE bankrupt British ruling class is preparing to expand its ‘nuclear deterrent’ by buying a squadron of American jet fighters that have the capacity...

After the US-UK defeat in Afghanistan, al-Houthi calls on the US and Saudis to...

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AT A press conference held on the Kabul airport tarmac, on Monday afternoon, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the US had been defeated and...

Sudanese workers must form a workers’ government to rule Sudan!

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SUDAN’S military leaders have scrapped all existing agreements with the main opposition coalition, and have cynically declared they will hold elections within nine months. The...

Peace Prize for the ‘Fourth Reich’

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The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe’, according to Thorbjoern Jagland...

Cameron crushed and out – now kick out the rest!

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THE working class has delivered a crushing blow not just to Tory leaders Cameron and his chancellor Osborne but to the bankers and capitalists...

One Year Since The Marikana Massacre

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THE MARIKANA massacre of mineworkers in South Africa one year ago, in which 34 miners were murdered by the police and hundreds injured, has...

Biden releases heavily redacted documents to ‘prove’ no Saudi involvement in 9/11 attack

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ON THE 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the twin towers in New York the FBI released a newly declassified 16-page document detailing...

France on the brink as government imposes anti-union laws!

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THE French Socialist government’s cabinet has opted for a dictatorship over the working class by agreeing to force through its anti-trade union legislation, invoking...

Trump And Netanyahu Meet Today!

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PRESIDENT Trump and the Israeli leader Netanyahu are set to meet in Washington today just as hundreds of US rabbis have signed an open...

There Must Be A Real Struggle Against Ttip And Ceta Now!

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LAST week at the annual conference of the TUC the largest union in the country, Unite, issued a grovelling plea to the Tory led...

Osborne’s Budget For The Bosses!

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OSBORNE began his budget address yesterday by admitting the calamitous state of British capitalism saying that recovery would be ‘challenging’ since ‘we’ve had the...

French revolution – spreading throughout Europe

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FRANCE has been shaken for the past six months by an eruption of anger by the education trade unions and by student and school...

Money No Object For Privatising Schools

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A REPORT published yesterday by the public spending watchdog the National Audit Office reveals the massive amount of money the Tory-led coalition is prepared...

The future of bankrupt British capitalism is tied to a collapsing US economy –...

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THE INAUGURATION of Joe Biden as president of the United States on Wednesday was enthusiastically greeted by prime minister Boris Johnson saying: ‘When you...

General Council must be made to resign for refusing to fight anti-union Bill!

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YESTERDAY morning, the TUC commented on the vote in the House of Commons on the third reading of the Trade Union Bill, which is...

Labour Party Conference Opens With ‘God Save The King’ Instead Of A Minute’s Silence...

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THE opening of the Labour Party conference took a new turn yesterday when the Labour Party leader Starmer, who has played a key part...

King’s Fund Warning Must Be Acted On!

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THE Quarterly Monitoring Report of the King’s Fund does not pull any punches about the future that the Tory-led coalition has planned out for...

Defeat May’s rotten deal! Forward to a ‘No Deal’ on March 29 and a...

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PM May has now created a massive political crisis in the UK by revealing her real position on Brexit. For over a year...

California’s budget ‘meltdown’

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CALIFORNIA’S Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal state of emergency yesterday in a move to put pressure on members of California State Legislature...

NO reconstruction, only destruction in Afghanistan

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THE top NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Jones, has just apologised for the death of up to 80 Afghan civilians in a series...