Editorials

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Taleban Cease-Fire In Swat Angers US!

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THE Pakistani Taleban in the Swat valley border areas with Afghanistan have signed a permanent cease-fire with the Pakistan government and are starting to...

Working class must respond to Zionist regime’s plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza by calling general...

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WHILE US president Donald Trump was meeting with Israeli leader Benjamín Netanyahu on Monday, ostensibly to discuss a ‘peace plan’ for Gaza, the Israeli...

US, UK, Turkey Make Sure Syrian Truce Collapses

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A POWERFUL car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday, on the first day of the Syrian cease-fire, killing five people and injuring 32. Thus was...
Gate Gourmet locked out workers listen attentively to a TGWU official outlining the deal that the union has made with the company

NHS A&E departmentsto be shut in scores

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THE policy of the Labour government, as far as the NHS is concerned, is to hand over more and more of the NHS budget...

TUC corporatists must be kicked out! Come to the ATUA conference to build a...

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THE TRADE Union Congress (TUC) organised the knifing in the back of the Southern guards’ and drivers’ struggle on Thursday, brokering a ‘deal’...

Irish government disintegrates – forward to a workers and small farmers government

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AFTER the resignation of the Foreign Minister and four other members of the Irish cabinet, the Prime Minister, Cowen has resigned as the...

Tories Want To Go From Starving Children To Pauperising Pensioners!

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THIS week Tory prime minister Boris Johnson was forced to make a humiliating retreat over free school meals following a campaign led by the...

‘The world is witnessing the false calm before the Middle East Energy Storm’ says...

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‘OIL currency and equity markets are treating the all out war between Israel and the revolutionary Iranian regime almost as if it were a...

Unite Takes Action Against Serco BA And The Bank Of England!

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YESTERDAY striking Serco workers from Bart’s NHS Trust, striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew, and striking Bank of England workers marched and picketed the...

UK, US And EU Workers Must Take General Strike Action To Aid The Palestinians...

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PHILIPPE Lazzarini, Commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), reported on Saturday that over 75,000 Palestinians have been...

South African socialist revolution underway!

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THOUSANDS of mine workers have downed tools at South Africa’s Marikana Lonmin mine after an AMCU union leader, Mawethu Steven, was shot dead at...

UK must completely leave EU on March 29, 2019 – with or without a...

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NEGOTIATIONS over the UK’s departure from the EU are ‘now in the endgame’, according to PM May, with both sides ‘working through the night...

Support the junior doctors with a general strike!

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THE Cameron government is being driven forward by the intensifying crisis of the capitalist system to have it out with the working class and...

US Congress To Vote On Raising The US Debt Ceiling – Workers Of The World...

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PRESIDENT Biden and his Republican opponents have announced they have agreed in principle to raise the US debt ceiling and to try to avert...

French elections open up struggle for socialist revolution

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THE RESULT of the French Presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron, winning with 65.5% of the vote beating the...

UK, US and EU workers must organise the World Socialist Revolution!

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HIGHWAYMAN Trump has spelt it out that a 10% tariff is to be imposed on all UK goods sent to the USA from Britain...

Corbyn’s ‘reshuffle’ exposes weakness of left reformism

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LABOUR leader, Jeremy Corbyn, completed his first reshuffle of the shadow cabinet after a tortuous round of negotiations designed to keep the right-wing of...

More ‘breadline poor’ after 10 years of Labour governments

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The gap between the rich and poor has widened in recent years and is greater than at any time in the past 40 years,...

Trump fears the masses and huddles in ‘Fortress America!’

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PRESIDENT Trump’s racist comments, made while speaking privately to US lawmakers in the Oval Office on Thursday, in fact show a bourgeois leader who...

Starmer Recruiting Right Wing Tories To Run Any Labour Gov!

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THE Labour Party is defending, welcoming right wing Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the party despite anger from many backbench MPs and workers at...

Now is the time to defend the Chinese revolution!

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THE US House of Representatives has hit out at what the US ruling class considers to be its major enemy, the People’s Republic of...

Coalition Policy Is To Financially Collapse Local Authorities

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THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that ‘multiple’ local authorities are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts. The...

French youth rise up over death of 24 year-old after police attack music festival

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THE GOVERNMENT of French president Emmanuel Macron went into a full blown crisis this week with riots in Nantes on Saturday where thousands of...

ALL trade unions must strike with the nurses to bring down the Tories and...

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NURSES are to strike on Thursday 15th and Tuesday 20th December. At the same time CWU postal and RMT and ASLEF rail workers are...

‘Demilitarisation’ in the north and Shoot to Kill in Britain!

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JUST minutes after the IRA issued a statement that it was giving up its historic armed struggle, the British army began demolishing a watch...

Coalition Will Not Be Shifted Away From NHS Privatisation

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THE Coalition’s ‘blueprint’ for the privatisation of the NHS has suffered a set-back when it became clear last week that even supporters of privatisation...

Manchester Arena bombing Inquiry condemns MI5, police & private security but lets the Tories...

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POLICE and private security failed to apprehend the Manchester bomber, the damning report published by the public inquiry has concluded. Inquiry chairman Sir John...

Elderly Care Is Disintegrating – The Only Remedy Is To Get The Tories...

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A LETTER to Chancellor Osborne and Health Secretary Hunt signed by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, the Care Provider Alliance, which...

Now Smash The Bill And Bring Down The Coalition!

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) yesterday carried a 97% vote of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley, with 478 for six against and...

General Sanders Says That The UK Army Must Be Ready For A War To...

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THE new Chief of the General staff, Sir Patrick Sanders, yesterday urged that Britain must be ready to fight Putin, comparing the present situation...

Get Ready For War says NATO, as capitalist crisis reaches its explosion point!

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‘CIVILIANS IN THE WEST must prepare for all-out war with Russia within the next 20 years’, a NATO Admiral, Rob Bauer warned in the...

No evidence behind police terror raid

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IN the early hours of Friday morning a police raiding party of up to 250 officers broke into a home in Lansdown Road, Forest...

Sunak, Hunt declare war on the UK working class and the masses of Palestine!

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THE British ruling class, for all of its threats against the working class, the youth and the masses of Palestine, is on the run! Its...

Army publicly breaks with the Blair government

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YESTERDAY’S statement by the army commander in chief, Dannatt, represented a major intervention into politics by a bourgeois officer corps that is supposed to...

Care for the Elderly crisis – capitalist barbarism at work

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WHEN workers pass the age at which their labour can be exploited for profit they become a useless burden on society as far as...

Arab bourgeoisie – an agency of imperialism

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THE Viva Palestina convoy has found out that, when it comes to preventing aid reaching the much-battered and besieged Gaza Strip, the Mubarak...

Nato Shall Not Pass Vow Soviet Workers

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THERE could not be a greater contrast between the policies of the Ukrainian governing parties to join the EU and NATO as rapidly as...

Keogh creating a two-tier inferior NHS and proud of it

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THE BIG push is on to destroy the national network of A&Es that millions of people depend on, and to convert at least 100...

Scottish Labour Call For A Gaza Ceasefire Must Be Supported By All Trade Unions...

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FORMER Mossad official, Rami Igra, has said all Palestinians in Gaza over the age of 4 deserve to face Israel’s collective punishment policy of...

Palestinian Prisoners Are Staging A Mass Hunger Strike – Now Is The Time ...

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PALESTINIAN prisoners are staging a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest against crackdowns and mistreatment by the prison officials. They say their strike,...

Business Secretary Reynolds can’t keep blast furnaces going!

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THE British Labour government’s business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep...

BA sacks 12,000 workers while Unite and the GMB register their ‘shock’ and nothing...

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THE GIANT Unite and GMB trade unions have greeted the news that British Airways is to make 12,000 workers redundant with shock, dismay and...

Act To Stop The Privatisation Of Royal Mail!

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ROYAL MAIL bosses, Chairman Allan Leighton and Chief Executive Adam Crozier, are calling on the Labour government to give the go-ahead for them to...

Support the Shell-HOYER tanker workers!

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IN the last few weeks we have seen the road hauliers take to the streets against the massive increases in petrol and diesel prices...

One day FBU strikes must pave the way for a general strike!

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LAST Friday the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced that it would kick off its defence of jobs and conditions with two days of strike...