Editorials

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Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any attack on the country

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THE commander of Iran’s armed forces Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard said on Tuesday that Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any...

Canada’s Armed Forces Are Preparing To Resist A US Invasion After Trump Says...

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ACCORDING to the Canadian newspaper, ‘The Globe and Mail’, Canada’s armed forces have already created a model for a hypothetical US invasion of Canada...

Greek students defeat privatisation attack

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THE Greek right-wing government has been forced to withdraw its plans to push through the Greek parliament, an Education Bill, and a revision of...

Iran warns the imperialist powers!

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IRAN on Tuesday fired a shot across the bows of the imperialist powers when it threatened to halt the vital oil transport route from...

Tory policy is to drive the sick back to work to ‘rescue’ a collapsing...

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THE drive by the Tories and their media supporters to demonise workers and the sick, as the root cause of the crisis that is...

Junior Doct0Rs’ Struggle Is Not Over – Reject Barber’s ‘New Contract’

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JOHAN Malawana, the Chair of the Junior Doctors Committee, addressing the BMA annual conference in Belfast, told delegates that: ‘This was the year when...

Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis

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THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...

Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!

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INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...

Free Julian Assange – Jail The Imperialist Butchers

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was arrested in London yesterday and is now in jail, awaiting hearings to extradite him to Sweden where he will...

The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Stop Israel’s Mass Murder!

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AN international human rights organisation says Israel is pressing ahead with a ‘systematic policy of targeting civilians’ in the Gaza Strip, including bombardment of...

Johnson ditches Plan B – Time for working class to kick Tories out and...

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THE TORIES have pledged to dump all existing Covid restrictions in the next few weeks in England and ‘get life completely back to normal’. On...

Tory Chairman Quits While Johnson Skulks In Rwanda Hoping That Something Will Turn Up

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THE TORY wipe-out in the two by-elections has left the great leader skulking in Rwanda, while his Tory Party chairman Dowden has resigned, writing...

Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Coalition!

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TRANSPORT UNION RMT has called on its members and the entire trade union movement to get out on the streets in full support of...

Turkey And Libya Prepare For Med Oil War Against Greece, And Egypt!

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AN EXPLOSIVE situation that threatens all-out war between the NATO powers is fast developing in the Mediterranean region in a struggle to seize the...

Eurozone crisis reaches crunch

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MONDAY’S’ summit meeting of the European Union leaders took place under siege conditions in Brussels as the city was paralysed by a general strike...

Defend state university education against the coalition barbarians!

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LORD Browne’s review of university funding is to recommend a threefold increase in tuition fees. Lord Browne (former head of BP) is proposing to raise...

Unison Leaders Vote For Another Blairite Government

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FOR the whole period that Labour Left MP John McDonnell was seeking to get the backing of the 40 plus MPs that would have...

Oil companies fight to carve up Libya

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IT HAS not taken long for the hyenas of the giant oil companies to descend on Libya’s oil and gas resources intent on both...

Dont Talk To Israeli Leaders Say Palestinian Youth

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OVER the past two days, Palestine National Authority security forces have been using force to try to prevent peaceful demonstrations of Palestinian youth opposing...

US workers bracing themselves for ‘fiscal cliff’

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THE US labour movement is now bracing itself for a last minute ‘deal’ on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ with the Republican Party, in which the...

Tories In Biggest Ever Crisis! Force TUC To Call General Strike To Boot Them...

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THE TORY Party is now in its biggest ever crisis, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Health Secretary both resigned on Tuesday...

Israel continues with building settlements and preparations to invade Gaza once again

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Israeli authorities on Wednesday approved 130 new settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem. Jerusalem municipality gave the go-ahead to build three 12-storey tower blocks in...

Murdoch Shops His Own Employees In Attempt To Save His Own Neck

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FIVE journalists at the Sun newspaper have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of corrupt payments to the police and other ‘public servants’. A Surrey...

Free first class medical care and accommodation for the sick and elderly

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ONCE again PM Gordon Brown and the Labour Party have revealed that while they rushed to handing over £150 billion to the bankers, they...

Johnson speech a bombastic cover-up of Tory class war preparations

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PM BORIS Johnson delivered a speech to the Tory faithful yesterday that was immediately dismissed by Matthew Lesh, head of the research at the...

‘Stand and Deliver’ – EU highwaymen demand 100bn euros!

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THE attempt of the political representatives of the EU to make the UK working class stand and deliver up to, or even over, 100bn...

Britain is set to rearm with the working class paying the full bill with...

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THE Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he is willing to give up his war with Russia in the Ukraine, and is also...

Clinton Pleads With Taliban To Talk

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US SECRETARY of State Clinton was on a special mission to Afghanistan on Wednesday, the day after she expressed her hope in Tripoli, that...

British capitalism hits the rocks!

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IN THE early hours of last Friday, a seismic crash in the value of the pound against the dollar caused panic amongst the world’s...

Israel war cabinet agrees plan for indefinite military occupation of Gaza

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ON SUNDAY Israel’s army chief, Eyal Zamir, announced that tens of thousands of Israeli reservists will be called up in a planned military occupation...

IMF-US and Global Debt ‘unsustainable’ – socialist revolution only answer to capitalist crisis!

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THIS week the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the world organisation charged with protecting the international capitalist financial system, held its weekly annual meeting in...

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...

US imperialism prepares for a bloodbath to overthrow legitimate government in Venezuela

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DURING an anti-government demonstration in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, on Wednesday the head of the country’s National Assembly Juan Guaido launched a right-wing coup against...

Britain Scuttling Out Of Iraq

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DEFENCE Secretary Browne has just visited Baghdad where he declared that the pace of the British rout in Iraq is to be accelerated, with...

Ukrainian Workers Will Foil All Of The Plots To Restore Capitalism To The Ukraine!

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US President Donald Trump has said that Kiev can ‘win all of Ukraine back in its original form,’ marking a major shift in his...

‘We want the world to recognise the state of Palestine’ – PM Shtayyeh

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THE PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has issued orders to his cabinet members to immediately start work on implementing the decision of the Palestinian...

Clinton declares war on Putin and on Russia

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THE Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US Secretary of State, Clinton, of giving the Russian right wing – many of them...

National Guard ‘armed, locked and loaded’ in New Orleans

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LOUISIANA State Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin have deployed 300 heavily-armed National Guard troops and 60 state police on the streets of...

British Capitalist Economy Down The Pan!

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THE latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) GDP figures show two quarters – six months – of zero growth in the British capitalist...

Capitalist Debt Crisis Demands A Socialist Revolution!

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THE deepening world capitalist crisis is poised to see entire nation states defaulting, plunging their banks into an even more desperate crisis, deepening the...

War declared against the working class as 800 P&O seafarers are sacked and replaced...

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POWERFUL protests erupted in Liverpool, Hull and Dover yesterday after 800 P&O Ferries’ seafarers were sacked by decree and replaced by cheap labour. The RMT...

Workers must lobby parliament on October 19th and call general strike to leave the...

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THE Supreme Court in Scotland yesterday delayed its decision on whether it would be necessary for the courts to intervene and force PM Johnson...

Zionists’ murderous onslaught on Palestinians – UK unions must act now!

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A ONE-day strike was called yesterday by Palestinians in the city of Jenin following the murder of two Palestinians by Israeli troops in a...

UK Economy Gripped By Slump And Inflation

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UK economic growth ground to a halt between April and June, according to the latest official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

Nurses demand emergency conference to remove union leaders guilty of pay betrayal

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NURSES reacted with fury last week when they received their July pay packets and realised that the 3% pay increase their union, the RCN,...