Editorials

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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,...

Brown must stop supporting the Rajapaksa government that murders Tamils

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THE Brown government rails on about ‘breaches of human rights’ allegedly taking place in Zimbabwe and Burma, and makes all kinds of allegations...

Karzai gets worried that MI6 is negotiating his removal!

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THE NEWS that top-level British diplomatic efforts are continuing in Afghanistan to try to prevent the expulsion from the country of two senior foreign...

World Crisis Blowing US Trade Union Leaders Apart

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THE American workers are facing major problems, caused by the deepening crisis of the world capitalist system. Among these problems are the export of millions...

UN Security Council is to vote today on the State of Palestine’s admission...

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THE UN Security Council is to vote on Palestine’s UN membership application draft today, prepared by Algeria, recommending the state of Palestine’s admission as...

TUC Gen Sec Nowak wants workers to march in support of Ukrainian fascists!

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IN THE case of the UK trade union leadership, it is very much a case of what Lenin termed as ‘One Step Forward and...

Hunt urges NHS to ‘Sign up for Safety’ while he cuts the service to...

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt is urging the NHS in England to reduce the number of serious mistakes being made and save 6,000 lives over the...

World Crisis Of Capitalism Requires World Revolution

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CAPITALISM is a worldwide system dominating the whole planet, in which there is no national solution to the problems brought about by the latest...

The British ruling class embraces a corpse

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MARGARET Thatcher was ignored by the bourgeoisie for 23 years after she was put out of office by the Tory leadership in 1990. This...

Tory-Lib Dem Butchers Outline The Task Ahead

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TORY CHANCELLOR Osborne provided an outline of his £6.2bn of spending cuts for 2010-11 yesterday, with Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laws...

Israel bombs ‘safe’ Rafah camp with Palestinians ‘burnt alive’ in melting tents

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ON SUNDAY night, Israeli planes launched a devastating attack on a tent camp in the Tel Al Sultan neighbourhood in western Rafah which is...

Children subjected to horrific pain and torture techniques. End UK state brutality with a...

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CHILDREN locked up in the UK are subjected to horrific pain, inhuman and degrading treatment, cruel restraining techniques and solitary confinement, a damning report...

Manchester Arena bombing was the product of a British capitalist state provocation!

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THE judge-led inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing at an Ariana Grand concert in May 2017 finally published its finding yesterday after a two-and-a-half-year...

Brown justifies anti-union action and pay cuts

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown insisted yesterday that meagre pay rises, that are phased in and amount to a pay cut, will be imposed by...

Starmer wants British boots on ground in Ukraine and to force workers to pay...

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IN ADVANCE of yesterday’s panic meeting of EU and UK leaders in Paris, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer announced that he is prepared to...

‘Vote Leave’ on June 23 to get rid of Cameron and the Tory...

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ON Monday Tory PM Cameron warned that if the UK leaves the EU it could trigger off another great European war. What a condemnation...

Open up the NHS demands Bush and the US drug companies

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NOT content with wrecking Iraq, the US administration is moving in to wreck the British NHS on behalf of the US drug companies. ...

One more turn of the police state screw!

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YESTERDAY Home Secretary, Smith was having a go at presenting the introduction of biometric identity cards as a matter of personal convenience, and even...

Smash The Anti-Union Laws!

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THE RMT has called off its Network Rail strike action of signal workers after the judiciary declared it to be illegal, using the ruling...

Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe

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THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...

Cameron grovels before Chinese president

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TODAY sees the start of a three-day visit to Britain by the Chinese president Xi Jinping, a visit that has seen the British ruling...

The Tory Party to evict pensioners and criminalise the disabled!

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THE Tory crusade has begun to resolve the capitalist crisis by heaping the cost of it onto the poor, the disabled, the elderly, the...

Deal Aimed At Strangling Cwu Branches

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THE CWU trade union has agreed a ‘landmark’ agreement with Royal Mail. CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward said: ‘The agreement breaks new ground in...

Cut in interest rates by the Fed will accelerate capitalism’s world crash

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THE US CENTRAL Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday performed an abrupt U-turn on its policy of attempting to hold back the vast amount of...

US explodes as workers and youth take to the streets to oppose Trump’s attacks...

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LOS ANGELES, the second largest city in the US, exploded over the weekend following a massive raid on Friday by federal agents from Immigration...

Bank of England warns over £1 trillion of domestic debt

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WITH Coral Eurobet the bookmakers now the most successful British company, with a turnover of £5.4 billion, and with manufacturing industry being slaughtered, no...
Brian Haw holding the photograph of an infant victim of the continuing war in Afghanistan – the baby was one of triplets

Iraq – Time For Britain To Cut And Run

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SATURDAY’S engagement in Basra was a serious one for British imperialism. One Lynx helicopter was lost, shot down by a Strella missile and five British...

Housing bubble set to burst!

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LAST week saw a concerted effort by the Tory-led coalition, aided by their friends in the bourgeois press, to deny that a catastrophic housing...

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...

Shut Down Young Offenders Institutions – The Only Future For Youth Is Through A...

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THE DISGRACEFUL conditions imposed on ‘youth offenders’ have been revealed by another report from Peter Clarke the chief inspector of prisons in England and...

UK troops to Russia’s borders while Tories threaten more bombings of Yemen

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ON the day that Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak addressed parliament – to justify bombing Yemen last Friday without bothering to consult MPs –...

Make Hammond’s Budget his last by a general strike to kick the Tories out...

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THE Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, closed his autumn budget statement on Wednesday with the announcement that this would be his ‘first and last’. Faithfully obeying...

Occupy Grangemouth to defend the union, jobs, wages and pensions

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UNITE has urged Grangemouth workers not to give in to Ineos’ ‘menacing’ tactics to sign away their rights, saying it was looking to take...

Now is the time to build the Workers Revolutionary Party

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THE deeper the crisis of the capitalist system gets, the more desperate the measures that it takes to sustain the bosses and bankers’ system,...

Millions must march for Palestine on Saturday August 3 – They must also instruct...

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A FORMER Lebanese lawmaker Naser Kandeel said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the US featured a planned coordination...

British capitalism is on its knees – forward to the socialist revolution!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne made it clear in his Budget statement yesterday that he is not the master of the situation, and is completely dominated by...

Renationalise the electricity and gas monopolies!

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POWERGEN, the energy monopoly, is putting up the prices of its gas and electricity services by 18.4 per cent and 9.7 per cent, next...

Tories getting ready for class war! Time for the trade unions to put them...

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EVERYBODY knows that the Tory government was completely unprepared for the Covid-19 crisis that erupted in the UK in December 2020. The Operation Cygnus exercise...

Recall CWU conference to sack the leaders and call strike action!

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IN an act of downright treachery, the leadership of the postal workers union, CWU, announced last Friday that their ‘opposition’ to privatisation had collapsed...

Worldwide Capitalist Crisis Requires The Victory Of The World Socialist Revolution!

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YESTERDAY saw a massive escalation in the world trade war when the US was given the green light by the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...

BoE Governor Bailey blames elderly, sick and disabled for inflationary spiral driving the world...

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ON MONDAY night Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, blamed a wave of early retirements for forcing the Bank to make its...

Giant investment companies dump shares as world banking crash looms

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Testifying to MPs at the Treasury Committee yesterday, Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, issued a sharp rebuke to Labour chancellor Rachel...

Don’t stop at the House of Lords! Abolish Parliament and go forward to a...

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ON Wednesday night, a spokesman for the Tory government delivered a blunt message to the House of Lords that they either accepted Brexit or...

Israel Shaken By Syrian Missile Defences Success!

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THE ISRAELI ruling class has been shocked by Syrian missile defences being able to, and Syria having the audacity to, shoot down a US-supplied...

Hunt warned by bankers that tax cuts must be funded through savage austerity cuts...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is preparing to deliver a Spring budget on Wednesday 6th March which he has signalled will concentrate on tax cuts...