Editorials

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Tory conference splits as preparations for an extra-parliamentary party emerge!

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THE Tory Party annual conference opened on Monday and was immediately defined by ministers speaking to a near empty hall, as delegates couldn’t be...

Scrap the Tory Health and Care Bill – it is a ‘privateers’ charter for...

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TORY PM Johnson’s new Health and Care Bill currently going through Parliament, is a fresh attack on the NHS by a Conservative Party that...

Nato Murderers!

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IT is enshrined in International Maritime Law that any ship, whether civilian or military, is bound to answer distress calls and render assistance to...

Hague Must Resign Over Libyan Debacle

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THE latest NATO war crime, the bombing of the Libyan TV station, killing three technicians, was a repeat of a similar war crime,...

British Army Finds Afghan Solution!

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THE Afghan war saga continues. First of all it was the tour of duty that would last for three years, with Labour Defence Minister John...

Free Kendall-Smith! Stop the war against Iraq!

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THE Labour movement must salute the courageous action of Flight-Lieutenant Kendall-Smith who yesterday declared, after a court martial had found him guilty on five...

Hero Mandela dies – Forward to socialism in South Africa

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NELSON Mandela, one of the great heroes of the anti-Apartheid struggle who was jailed for 27 years on Robben Island for his opposition to...

Army is ‘sick’ from Iraq & Afghan campaigns

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ONE in every fourteen British soldiers, almost 7,000 are sick or injured at a time when every regiment of 600 faces a shortfall of...

Tories Have Just Borrowed Billions While Doctors Say That They Are Being Treated Like...

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PM JOHNSON has put the blame for the coronavirus firmly on the people, when he warned on the TV that the NHS could be...

ICJ Hearing on Israeli occupation of Palestine opens – working class must demand general...

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Yesterday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened its historic hearings into the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967. The ICJ, the United Nation’s...

All Trade Unions Must Join The Battle To Defend The NHS With A General...

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THE battle has now been joined to defend the NHS, which the Tory government is determined to destroy, to return the UK to the...

Bank calls for public spending to be slashed to protect profits!

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THE capitalist class of Britain and Europe have been served with a warning that unless they act quickly to slash all public spending they...

Unemployment Crisis Deepening

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TOTAL unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to December, down 3,000 on the figure for the previous three months. However, long-term...

Italian Workers And Youth Throw A Giant Spanner Into The Eu Works!

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THE Italian general election results have shaken the European Union after the governing ‘Centre Left’ pro-EU coalition, led by Matteo Renzi, got just 22.8%...

Hunt left in place to spearhead NHS Privatisation!

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ANYONE naive enough to believe for one second the promise made by the new Tory leader that dumping former chancellor George Osborne and replacing...

Met Police Still Taking Action Over Everard Vigil – Time To Disband The Met!

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SIX people have been charged by the Met police for allegedly breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules while attending the Sarah Everard vigil in south London. Many...

Eurozone collapsing – forward to United Socialist States of Europe

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This week sees yet another desperate round of talks between the two leaders of the eurozone, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas...

Blair looks to the ‘Axis of Evil’ for rescue

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THE killing of four British soldiers in Basra on Sunday with at least three seriously injured, and the killing of six US soldiers in...

Labour Is The Bankers Party!

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THE New Labour Brown government has come out as the true representative of the biggest banks, as befits a government that has doubled the...

US Agent Maliki Turns On Shi’Ite Masses

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IN the last days of the Bush presidency, the US military has unleashed the Iraqi puppet army, led by its Prime Minister Maliki, to...

Tories to make hundreds of thousands homeless – only socialism can solve housing crisis

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THE policy of the Tory-led coalition to slash housing benefit for the unemployed and low income families will result in hundreds of thousands being...

Pro-Palestinian hunger strikers in immediate danger of dying as Lammy refuses to meet with...

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On Saturday, two of the prisoners on hunger strike were taken to hospital, the latest of eight prisoners admitted to hospital since they began...

Tuc Must Call General Strike To Kick Out Starmer’s Government

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THE continuing collapse of the Starmer-led Labour government was on public display on Wednesday when in a pathetic attempt to reassert his absolute control,...

UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages,...

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WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on...

1 million forced onto Universal Credit while another 2 million get nothing – Tories...

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THE NUMBER of people forced to claim Universal Credit soared by nearly a million in the past two weeks. According to the Department for Work...

Ukrainian Workers Reject Putin Plea To Accept Kiev Coup Regime

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PRESIDENT Putin on Wednesday urged Ukrainian workers to postpone their referenda on self-determination. He said: ‘We are calling on representatives of regions in southeastern...

Imperialist ‘surge’ in Iraq and Afghanistan = mass slaughter

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SIX Iraqi primary schoolchildren have been slaughtered by a US helicopter spraying al-Nedawat village with machine gun fire and hitting a primary school, in...

Imperialist Crisis Deepens

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JUST days after the mid-term elections dealt a decisive blow to his administration, Bush with the support of the Democrats has seen to it...

Close Down The US Base On Diego Garcia!

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FOREIGN Secretary Miliband yesterday admitted in the House of Commons that previous government denials that the island of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands...

Abbas calls for a Government of the State of Palestine!

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday that, ‘We are here today for all of us...

Brown planned troops on the streets after Lehman collapse

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IN 2008, the then-Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, actively considered ordering armed troops onto the streets of Britain as his response to the collapse...

Abolish student loans and debt, and restore grants!

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LAST Monday the coalition government’s drive to privatise every single public service and completely smash up the welfare state took yet another grotesque turn...

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...

UK heading for ‘no deal crisis’ – Only answer is a socialist revolution!

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THE MAY government on Tuesday defeated an attempt by 12 pro-EU Conservative MPs, supported by Labour EU Remainers, to destroy its revised post-Brexit trade...

Defeat imperialist coup attempt in Ukraine

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THE refusal at the last minute by the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovich, to sign up to a ‘partnership’ deal with the EU has led...

Trump and Pompeo encourage Zionist Israel, while Biden prepares to accept land seizures!

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ISRAEL is in a race against time to create a fait accompli in Palestine before US President Donald Trump leaves office, Palestinian Prime Minister...

US assembling coalition to launch war on Iran! Workers of UK & US must...

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IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned that ‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ He was responding to threats from US...

Trade unions face fresh attacks

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AN OPINION piece in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph pointed to yet further attacks on the trade unions’ rights to organise and represent their members. According to...

Blears Speaks With Forked Tongue

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HOME Office minister Blears has had a strenuous week. On the one hand she has been working to support British Transport Police Chief Johnston....

TUC must back railworkers, and postal workers and call a general strike to bring...

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THE EMERGENCY anti-union regulations, passed in the House of Commons by 289 votes to 202 on Monday night, are set to be used to...

With Hamas’ victory over Israel UK police stage crackdown on support for Palestine!

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APPROXIMATELY 77 arrests were made by the police in a concerted attack by the British state and the Labour government on the 100,000-strong rally...

Lift the siege on the Palestinians!

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PRIME Minister Ismail Haniya’s Palestinian Authority (PA) national unity government, sworn in on Saturday, is being recognised and supported by more and more...

No sackings, or wage ‘holidays’ for bankrupt banks and councils

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YESTERDAY the Brown government was emphasising that it had no interest in running the three banks that it was ‘part-nationalising’ (rescuing) with £37bn of...

Oil giants make huge profits off backs of workers – nationalise the oil and...

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AS MILLIONS of families face massive increases in their energy bills when the Tories raise the cap on prices by 54% in April, the...

March this Saturday to free Palestine, and to end Israeli imposed apartheid. 11AM at...

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WHILE the British government remains as silent as the grave over the continuing slaughter of Palestinians by the racist Israeli government, and while the...