Editorials

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President Obama is heading for a fall

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SPEAKING before the NATO summit President Obama made clear that his business in Europe was to raise a war party for Afghanistan, when...

Kensington & Chelsea Council, Rydon, TMO & Tories must stand trial for Grenfell

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THE INQUIRY into the Grenfell Tower inferno was told this week by senior London Fire Brigade officer Andrew O’Loughlin that ‘The building was so...

A US Debt Default Is Behind Growing Demands To End Ukraine War!

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THE White House National Security Council spokesman has sounded the alarm about the looming US debt default and the way that it is putting...

Tories Seeking To End The Lockdown To Save Capitalism – While Covid-19 Rages!

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ACCORDING to the Johns Hopkins University count, the coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 3,402,400 people worldwide and has claimed the lives of at...

Tory government imploding – time for unions to call a general strike to kick...

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THE ECONOMIC crisis engulfing British capitalism is causing a seismic split in the Tory government, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a rebellion from...

Homelessness is growing like a plague – Nationalise the banks and the building industry...

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THE homelessness rate across England is at its highest since 2018, after Tory government policies have forced a record number of families to live...

Clinton, Netanyahu make a bloc on settlements

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PALESTINE Authority President Mahmud Abbas has been completely undermined by the latest declaration of US Secretary of State Clinton. In it she supported the Israeli...

May wants to rip up the basic rights of the working class! Put her...

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IN the seven short weeks since Tory Prime Minister Theresa May announced out of the blue that she was calling a snap general election,...

Trump victory shatters the Democratic Party and shows the US working class is...

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THE Democrats lost the presidential election some time ago, when the party nominated Hillary Clinton for the presidency and pushed Bernie Sanders aside using...

UK carriers are ready to be deployed against the Houthis. UK workers must kick...

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THE UK’s aircraft carriers are ready to be deployed to fight the Houthis, and to threaten war with the Iranian revolution, was the message...

Rail fares and inflation are let rip – as wages and benefits are frozen...

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RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are to...

UK has not offered to take in a single Syrian refugee!

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THE fact that the UK ruling coalition is involved up to its neck in organising the war in Syria, and is also keeping it...

Bedroom Tax – a savage assault on the poor and vulnerable

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Nothing typifies the vicious war against the poorest and most vulnerable sections of the working class more than the introduction next month of...

Trump gambles on his inflationary boom lasting till presidential election day!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump delivered his formal State of the Union address on Tuesday night with the usual boast that under the three years...

Trump sends 15,000 troops to Mexican border – threatening to open fire on migrants!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump spat on the Statue of Liberty this week and the revolutionary history of the United States, especially its call from...

World crisis of capitalism places socialist revolution on immediate agenda

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ON FRIDAY the global stock markets reached a record increase with shares values shooting up by over £5 billion in what is being hailed...

Osborne demands smash Welfare States throughout the EU

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THE crisis of British capitalism deepened yesterday with Chancellor Osborne warning the EU ‘We can’t go on like this’, while the Ford motor company...

Capitalism facing the biggest crash in its history – Time to bring down the...

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CABINET ministers are urging fellow Conservatives to get behind Prime Minister Liz Truss, after a week of open disagreement and back-stabbing within the Tory...

TUC must heed the call from Palestinian trade unions and call a general strike...

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THE UN agency for Palestinian refugees yesterday issued the latest dire warning that time is running out for any chance of averting a catastrophic...

Capitalist State Tooling Up F0R Civil War

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A SCOTLAND YARD review into the 2010 summer riots ‘Four Days in August’ shows very clearly that the capitalist state in the UK...
A lively delegation of Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside the TGWU offices in Hillingdon yesterday morning

Heathrow Battlefield

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TONY Woodley, the TGWU general secretary, commenting on the sacking of one of the leading members of the TGWU by BA yesterday, and the...

Law cannot be allowed to get in the way of profiteering

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THE Attorney General – the same official who ruled after much equivocation that the war with Iraq was legal – on Thursday told the...

Routine NHS operations to be privatised!

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Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director, has said that private companies will be asked to carry out routine operations to relieve pressure on...

Recall TUC to demand an indefinite general strike to kick out the Tories

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At its annual conference yesterday, the leaders of the National Education Union (NEU) reported that the latest Tory pay offer was rejected by an...

Israeli Fury At Palestinian Unity!

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PALESTINIAN president, Mahmud Abbas, and Hamas leader, Khaled Mishaal, yesterday signed the Palestinian Unity Agreement in Cairo, putting an end to the split in...

Straw’s cover up for illegal MI6 actions in Greece exposed

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Greek newspaper Proto Thema has named the MI6 chief at the British embassy in Athens, after he was accused of organising British and Greek...

Labour can only offer youth police state repression

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THE Labour government is bringing in additional legislation under which children as young as 14 years old will be banned from wearing hoods or...

£490bn goes missing! Time to overthrow British capitalism, quit the EU and go forward...

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ALL THE talk by the Tories, and echoed by the Labour Party leadership, that capitalist Britain is fundamentally in good health economically, has just...

US Ruling Class Split At Home And Abroad

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PRESIDENT Obama attacked the Republicans on Monday over an incendiary letter, sent by them to Iran’s leaders, seeking to sabotage his foreign policy...

Amnesty Calls Assad War Criminal For Bombing Isis!

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has accused the Syrian government of war crimes after it bombed the city of Raqqa, in northern Syria, which ISIS is seeking...

All out behind the firefighters

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Today, the London FBU are staging the first of two eight hour strikes against the plans to sack the entire workforce of over 5,000...

No economic solution to capitalist crisis as BIS warns financial markets at risk

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THE BANK for International Settlements (BIS) – dubbed the bank for central banks – issued a dire warning in its latest quarterly review that...

The debt of the British capitalist class is equal to the country’s economic output...

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OFFICIAL data shows that the UK state debt is equal to the country’s economic output for the first time since the 1960s, amid the...

Health privateer takes NHS to court over right to profit from health – time...

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PRIVATEER Circle Health is once again taking legal action to overturn the decision to cancel its contract to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre. Rushcliffe...

The Tories are split to the hilt! The trade unions must bring them down...

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THE SPLIT in the Tory Party over the planned hike in National Insurance (NI) has got wider and deeper! Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s proposed 1.25...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TGWU executive committee on Tuesday morning demanding the ‘Compromise Agreement’ with the company be scrapped

Brown wants to form a Blairite government

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has confirmed to the BBC that he will run a Blairite administration if he becomes prime minister. He said that...

French Stalinists step in to help Sarkozy

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OVER a million French civil servants went on strike yesterday, joining the hundreds of thousands of railworkers, busworkers and gas and electricity workers who...

Forward To Jerusalem!

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THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...

Lilliputian Smith, the would-be great dictator!

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LABOUR right winger Owen Smith, in his desire to satisfy the big bosses and the bankers, is going even further than the Tories after...

Grenfell Inferno – The Government And Council Ignored Warnings!

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THE fire that spread like an inferno through the Grenfell Tower block early Wednesday morning has claimed the lives of at least 17 people...

Capitalism has reached the end of the road – it’s time for a...

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THE economic and political crisis gripping capitalism is causing despair and despondency amongst the bourgeoisie and its media representatives at the highest levels. This week,...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobbying the TUC Congress on September 12

Hands off Iran – Forward to the state of Palestine

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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has voiced his ‘dismay’ over remarks by Iran’s president calling for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. Annan...

Trade unions must take action to support the Tamil people

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THOUSANDS of Tamils demonstrated on Westminster Bridge on Monday evening against the failure of the Brown government to lift a finger to save the...

Blair’s great pensions robbery

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LABOUR’S ‘pensions revolution’ is a major attack on the working class, the elderly and the youth. The origin of the ‘revolution’ is not that the...

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...