Editorials

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US launches the new grab for Africa!

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PRESIDENT Obama has hailed the ‘new Africa that is emerging’, as US imperialism seeks to re-grab Africa after its destruction of the Libyan Jamahiriyah....

Struggle against Assad and Iran more important to US-UK gangsters than defeating ISIS

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UK Prime Minister Cameron said yesterday that the UK supports US airstrikes against the IS not with boots on the ground, but by other...

Tories bringing in a pro-Zionist police state. They must be brought down with a...

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HOME Secretary Priti Patel, not satisfied with wanting to send asylum seekers to Albania for processing, has announced she is seeking to declare the...

IMF warns coronavirus threatens to crash world economy

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Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued a stark warning on Sunday that the world’s ‘fragile’ economic recovery could be...

Afghan war lost – withdraw British troops now!

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THE imperialist invasion of Afghanistan is coming apart at the seams. In fact, the UK troops themselves are now rejecting it, as a legitimate operation,...

Sack the privateers and their patron Brown not NHS staff

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THE first thing about the McKinsey and Company report was that it was commissioned by the Brown government, at a great cost, and was...

Blair And Brown Crippling African Health Care!

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THE current Blair drive to have Gordon Brown and himself depicted in the media as the saviours of the African continent has hit the...

British Military Opposes Any Petraeus Surge In Afghanistan

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GENERAL Petraeus is now the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, and has declared that he intends to organise a NATO ‘surge’ in...

Biden in Kiev trying to shore up coupist regime

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US Vice-President Joe Biden told the assembled right wingers at the Ukraine parliament yesterday that the US stands with the country’s new leaders in...

Eurozone crisis creating revolution – build the Fourth International

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THE barrage of propaganda from every mouthpiece of the capitalist class that the economic crisis of capitalism is over, suffered a blow last week with...

Tory police state plans alive and well!

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PLANS for more secret court hearings, in the Justice and Security Bill, will create a ‘statutory straitjacket’ for judges, Martin Chamberlain, one of the...

Bush defends waterboarding and torture

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US President, George W Bush, last Saturday revealed the inseparable connection between imperialism and atrocities when he vetoed Congressional legislation that would have...

Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer foresees a summer of discontent organised by the far right

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ASKED yesterday whether the country faced a ‘Summer of Riots’, the Labour Party Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer responded: ‘It’s obvious to me, and...

Saudis oil war is deepening the world crisis

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SAUDI Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, has said the oil producers’ cartel, Opec, will not cut production even if the price falls to $20...

UK must follow Ireland’s lead and organise general strike action in support of Palestine!

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RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, announced on Thursday that Ireland will not take part in next year’s Eurovision song contest if Israel is a contestant,...

Spies Who Fooled the World

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ON the eve of the tenth anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq by British and US forces the BBC’s  Panorama programme last night...

Bank of England boss says outlook for British capitalism ‘worst I’ve ever seen!’

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ON Monday, the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee issued a report blaming the Bank of England (BoE) for ‘errors’ that had failed to...

UK manufacturing wiped out admits EEF while BIS warns of debt time bomb

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THE Engineering Employers Federation (EEF), the body that represents the manufacturing industry in Britain, has produced its latest forecast which spells out how the...

Video intercept proves UK troops are operating in Ukraine as NATO risks nuclear war...

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THE RELEASE last Friday of a video call between senior German military leaders has caused a massive row within the NATO countries with its...

As Zionist Mobs Launch Attacks On Palestinians Hamas Calls To Establish The Palestinian State

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YESTERDAY, Zionist mobs were attacking Palestinians all over the occupied territories seeking to seize their homes and land and drive them off it. Israeli occupation...

Novelist Sally Rooney wins massive support for boycotting Israel

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BEST-SELLING Irish novelist Sally Rooney has won massive support from fellow writers and artists for her support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS)...

UK recession ‘inevitable’ – only socialist revolution can end capitalist crisis

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THE FICTION of a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ for British capitalism is now firmly rejected by even the most loyal of...

Pompeo Seeks To Build Alliance Against The Palestinian And Iranian Revolutions!

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US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo is currently in the Middle East organising an Israeli-Arab coalition to fight Iran and prevent a Palestinian state. Pompeo...

Rates On Hold As Economy Folds!

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UK interest rates were kept on hold at 0.5% yesterday, the 26th month in a row that the Bank of England has left interest...

Workers of the world unite – provided you speak English

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband spoke yesterday on Labour’s ‘One Nation’ approach to cultural diversity and integration insisting that admission to this select body is...

Coaliton Policies Put The Elderly On The Breadline

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RISING costs and rampant price inflation are leaving half of older people living on the breadline. According to the AGE UK charity nearly half are...

The TUC supports the UK and US war plan for the Ukraine, and demands...

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THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor...

World Socialist Revolution is only way to end imperialist slaughter

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THE TORIES have damned the Starmer government for a foreign policy ‘shambles’ as political parties throughout the western imperialist nations grapple with coming to...

‘New Leader – Old Agenda’

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IN a motion for next month’s Trades Union Congress, UNISON correctly says the use of private firms in public services is ‘harmful, wasteful, and...

Coalition launches Royal Mail ‘Blitzkrieg’ – Recall CWU conference!

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A ‘blitzkrieg strategy’ was how the bourgeois press dubbed last Monday’s announcement by business minister, Michael Fallon, that he was starting the process of...

Putin And Lavrov Come To Obama’s Rescue!

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OBAMA had been facing massive opposition in every State of the Union, with opinion polls saying that he faced defeat in any Congressional vote...

Coronavirus sparks biggest crash since 2007/8 threatening to derail Trump and sink the Johnson...

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CORONAVIRUS is spreading around the world, sparking a global economic collapse. For seven days in a row financial markets have fallen. The crisis has...

Crown won’t prosecute police killers

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AT a briefing on their investigation into the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station on July 22, the Independent Police...

NATO States To Deliver War Planes To Kiev As US And UK Plan...

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THREE NATO countries will deliver more than 70 warplanes for the use of Ukraine, military representatives in Kiev announced yesterday morning. According to a statement...

Hamas Insists On The Right Of Self Defence Against Israeli Zionist Gangsters!

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has categorically rejected UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who labelled and condemned the revolutionary resistance of the Palestinian people against...

BA CRISIS – no to sackings and wage cuts – Renationalise!

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BRITISH Airways has decided to cut 1,700 jobs and introduce a two-year pay freeze for cabin crew. It also intends to discuss wage cuts...

Zionist state disintegrating over failure to defeat Palestinian resistance 

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THE disintegration of the Zionist regime is becoming more and more public as reports emerge that over 100,000 Israelis have stopped showing up for...

Deepening crisis means revolution in the UK and Ireland

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THE amount of new public sector borrowing in the UK hit a record of £15.9bn for August. This is £1.8 billion higher than in...

Right Sector Leader Advising The Military

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THIS week all pretence that the illegal regime, that took power in an imperialist-inspired and financed coup last year, rests on ‘popular democratic’ support,...

Puppet master Obama gives puppet Cameron’s strings a tweak

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THE White House on Thursday issued a ‘Readout of the President’s Call with Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom’. The record of the phone...

Vultures Want To Pick At Argentina’s Bones

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FOR workers in Britain, Argentina may well appear to be a far off country in South America whose sovereign default on its debts to...

Full support for the Gate Gourmet sacked workers demonstration

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THIS Sunday December 4th the Gate Gourmet sacked workers will be marching through Southall to demand that every one of the 700 locked out...

Berezovskiy calls for the violent overthrow of Putin

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FOR some time the Blair government has been bringing in draconian anti-terrorist legislation, such as the Terrorism Act 2000. It has been boldly ‘identifying’ terrorism...

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...

Workers shake Labour to its foundations with their vote for Brexit!

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THE EU elections have shattered both the Labour and the Tory parties. With a national turnout of 37%, Labour got 13.6 of the vote, the...