Editorials

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Starmer splits Labour Party from unions to prove he is ready for a national...

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THE sacking by Keir Starmer of Labour MP Sam Tarry from his post as shadow transport minister has sent shock waves throughout the Labour...

Labour Defence Secretary sends a message to Moscow

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THE defence review will send a ‘message to Moscow’ about Britain’s ‘readiness to fight if required’, Defence Secretary John Healey has told the BBC. Ripping...

Blair Fears Facing War Crimes Tribunal

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YESTERDAY it was alleged that ex-Prime Minister Blair made representations to the Prime Minister concerning the ‘independent inquiry’ into the war in Iraq, which...

Imperialist mad dogs bomb Pakistan ‘ally’ and step up Syrian intervention!

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THE desperate crisis of world capitalism is driving forward world revolution, as the continuing revolutionary eruptions in Greece and the eurozone states, and the...

Make It ‘Doomsday’ For The Coalition Not For Council Housing

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THE ‘social housing’ budget in England is to be slashed by more than 50 per cent. Up to 90 per cent of the market rent...

Japan Rearming To Back US Aggression Against China

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THE Japanese government, ignoring yet again its own constitution, which bans Japan having aggressive military forces, has approved a new national security strategy, and...

Osborne tax credits retreat but savage assault on Welfare State is stepped up!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne was forced to make a humiliating retreat over working tax credits in the House of Commons yesterday after facing massive resistance to...

Workers and youth forward to the Socialist revolution!

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LAST Sunday the president of the National Union of Students (NUS), Aaron Porter, made a surprise visit to a meeting of students occupying University...

Brexit Is Blowing Up The Two-Party System Of Rule – The Working Class Must...

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PM MAY yesterday made an appeal for MPs to ‘stand together as democrats and patriots’, to support her withdrawal deal. This is after her resolution...

Defend Welfare, Defend The NHS, Defend All Benefits, Bring Down Coalition

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TORY leader Cameron has backed Chancellor George Osborne after he suggested a link between the Mick Philpott case and the Welfare State. The prime...

Hague recognises Syrian opposition while Qatar and Saudis supply the guns and cash!

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The ‘Friends of Syria Conference’ in Tunis has seen the representatives of the United States and the UK, Clinton and Hague, laying into Russia...

Time For The Tuc To Call General Strike

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THE Fire Brigades Union has organised a national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16 October. The FBU is under an all-out attack on the...

Deutsche Bank on verge of catastrophic crash that will bring down world banks

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THE GIANT German Deutsche Bank announced yesterday that it was slashing more than 7,000 jobs from its global investment arm as part of a...

German Ruling Class Gets Ready For Another War With Russia!

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‘WE are witnessing a turning point … the world is not the same anymore,’ said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech last Sunday,...

Imperialist Crisis Deepens In The Middle East!

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PALESTINIANS are demanding that the US-sponsored ‘peace talks’ with Israel are called off after Israeli troops murdered three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,...

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...

TUC Must Take Industrial Action To Force The Tories To Oppose Trump’s Palestine Deal!

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THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the ‘deal of the century’, which they said was a plan for ‘transfer’...

Tories Plan To Bring In Legal Strikebreakers To Force Workers To Accept Wage Cuts!

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DEPUTY Prime Minister Dominic Raab says the UK government cannot allow unions to win a battle for higher pay as it would supposedly fuel...

The crisis savages the workers while the rich double their wealth

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THE total wealth of the richest 1,000 individuals and families in Britain has more than doubled in the last 10 years to £547bn, the...

Defend the right to strike with a general strike to bring down the Tory...

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YESTERDAY the RMT rail workers trade union warned that an all-out assault on workers’ rights was taking place as BA used the Network Rail...

Tories to wield privatisation axe!

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AFTER years of promising that the NHS is ‘safe in our hands’ accompanied by pledges that budgets would be protected with a ring fence...

‘Prime Minister’ Brown shows the City he is their man

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Gushing Gordon Brown began his speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet on Wednesday night, by exhibiting his fawning subservience to the audience of bankers....

UK capitalism is in its death agony – It is time to organise the...

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THE Bank of England yesterday raised interest rates by the most in 33 years from 2.25% to 3%, and accompanied its action with a...

Trade unions must take action to defend state pension!

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ON WEDNESDAY the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, David Gauke, cynically used the fact that parliament was closing down for the holidays to announce...

Savage cuts have just begun in debt-ridden capitalist Britain

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SPENDING on Welfare over this Parliamentary term has fallen by just £2.5bn despite the Tory-led coalition aiming to slash spending by £19bn. The Institute for...

BoE chief: British capitalism ‘turning clock back’ to 18th century!

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THE SPLIT in the leading bodies of the Bank of England over whether or not to raise interest rates has emerged just shortly after...

Capitalism is on the rocks with the USA on the brink of a historic...

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 4.5%, the twelfth consecutive increase in a row, pushing up borrowing costs to the...

Obama asks Congress to decide on war or peace

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IN A MAJOR abdication of Presidential power, Obama has given the US Congress the task of deciding whether there should be a strike on...

‘Treason’ law threat is to the whole working class

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SCOTLAND YARD and the Crown Prosecution Service are meeting to discuss bringing charges against three men under the Treason Act, for which the death...

The struggle to seize Libya’s oil wealth intensifies with the US, Saudis, Egypt and...

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AFTER over a month of fighting to take Libya’s capital, Tripoli, General Khalifa Haftar – who broke with Colonel Gadaffi to flee to the...

May Day uprising: in France and across Europe workers rise up against capitalist crisis

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THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets throughout France on Sunday sending a clear ‘message’ that workers are preparing a massive...

Coalition Government announces plan to end council housing

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Earlier this week the Coalition government’s Housing Minister, Grant Shapps, unveiled the government’s plans to destroy the last vestige of affordable social housing. In what...

Labour To Slash The Benefits Of The Sick And The ‘Suspect’

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The Labour government is absolutely determined to impress its big business backers and show them that it is ready to take action against ‘slackers’...

Occupy to stop car plant closures – nationalise the motor industry to defend...

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YESTERDAY, US carmaker Ford announced it will close the car engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, throwing all 1,700 workers out of a job...

Deeper Into The Afghan Quagmire

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BRITAIN’S top general in Afghanistan has backed the call of his US commander for 40,000 more troops to be sent into the Afghan quagmire,...

Bosses fear ‘worst financial crisis since the Second World War’

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A JOINT report from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) yesterday revealed the fears in business circles that the ‘credit...

Carry out our timetable or else, US tells Iraqi puppets

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IN his press conference yesterday, the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad revealed, with the US commander, General Casey standing next to him, that...

Britain Has Been, Is, And Will Continue Talking With The Taleban

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PRIME Minister Brown told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that British forces are ‘winning the battle against the insurgency’ in Afghanistan. Using...

We are not re-running the 1970s – In the 2020s the working class will...

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ONE Liam Halligan in The Sunday Telegraph has just announced: ‘Get ready for 1970s-style mass strikes.’ He writes: ‘So don’t be surprised if workers increasingly...

Workers Must Take Action To Permanently Prorogue Parliament And Bring In Socialism!

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NEXT Tuesday the Supreme Court is to hear the government’s appeal against last Tuesday’s verdict of Scotland’s highest civil court that PM Johnson’s proroguing...

No to a return of the Tories. Bring down Brown from the left

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BROWN has survived the resignations of Hutton, Purnell, Smith, Flint, Blears, Hoon and others, and remains Prime Minister for the moment. The next test comes...

THE HOUSING CRISIS: Nationalise construction companies and banks!

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AVERAGE house prices in Britain are now 10.5 per cent lower than they were a year ago, according to figures published yesterday by Nationwide,...

TUC must call a general strike in support of the RMT and to bring...

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch joined the picket line at London’s Euston Station yesterday morning after pay talks with the Tories collapsed on Monday. Earlier,...

Poroshenko’s anti-Russian provocations are a sign that his end is near and that ...

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ALL RUSSIAN men aged between 16-60 have been banned from entering the Ukraine in a further ratcheting up of tensions by the Poroshenko dictatorship,...

‘You must recognise the Palestinian state’ says the Palestinian Ambassador Zomlot

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RECOGNISING the Palestinian state is the prerequisite for peace, not a by-product of peace,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said in an...