Editorials

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Revolutionary crisis shaking regimes all over Europe

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GERMAN Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy on Saturday decreed that the preservation of the euro required a 70bn euro currency reserve fund and...

Blair Targets Disabled For Massive Cuts

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LABOUR was yesterday mounting a new onslaught on the disabled. The target is the 2.7 million people currently on Incapacity Benefit. The aim is...

With the NHS ‘close to collapse’ and wages being slashed by inflation make the...

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WITHOUT enough staff, the NHS is increasingly close to collapse,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive,...

Defend university education! Forward to the British socialist revolution!

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‘LET THEM FAIL!’ declared yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in response to repeated calls for emergency government funding to rescue endangered English universities as the economic...

Bourgeoisie Trembles At The Approaching Catastrophe!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, made it clear this week that the banking system faces total collapse due to ‘systemic...

Working class erupts as inflation rips through Europe – build sections of the 4th...

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EUROPE has erupted in strikes as workers rise up against raging inflation which is driving down living standards to poverty levels across the EU. Germany,...

Boycott All Israeli Goods – Forward To The Palestinian State!

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THE TUC CONGRESS yesterday managed to avoid an open split over the issue of Palestine, by allowing two motions to be debated, voted on,...

UK Police State Must Be Smashed!

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THE detention of a Guardian employee at Heathrow airport for nine hours was unwarranted and unlawful said Amnesty international yesterday. David Michael Miranda – the...

Imperialism Playing With Syrian Fire

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SYRIA’S Ba’athist leader Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western action against his country will cause an ‘earthquake’ that will ‘burn the whole region’, and...

‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ created by US and Israel as a tool to drive Palestinians...

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LAST Wednesday, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated the Zionist regime’s intention to completely occupy Gaza and announced that a new US-backed aid distribution...

Workers strikes hit the Sarkozy regime

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FIRST of all the French electorate gave the right wing Sarkozy regime a bloody nose, and now yesterday’s general strike by the public sector...

End funding ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ US Democrat Senators demand!

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YESTERDAY, 93 Democrat members of the US House of Representatives issued an official letter calling on the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to open...

Israel continues with its Gaza massacres

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ISRAEL has rejected the UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and is determined to carry...

Cameron lays out mass privatisation programme

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IN A speech yesterday, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, promised to privatise every public service in the country, to ‘open up’ public services...

Labour Party leaders knife Corbyn to prepare way for National Government with...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party over his remarks on Thursday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn’s...

NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT PLAN AWAKENS MEMORIES OF THE 1960s and ’70s COUP PLOTS TO...

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THERE IS VERY great resistance to the proposal of Labour leader Corbyn that he should put down a motion of no confidence in PM...

Socialist revolution only solution to capitalist crisis

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer returned from holiday at the weekend to announce his new ‘robust’ plan to freeze the cap on electricity and gas...

Capitalism in deflationary crisis

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THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...

Take Decisive Action To Win Postal Struggle

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AFTER almost two days of discussions, the CWU leadership has rejected the call of the membership of the union for indefinite strike action, and...

Tory war on two fronts against Russia and working class at home

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THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...

Police chiefs demand ‘summary powers’

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THE Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is demanding that their forces be given powers to dispense ‘instant police justice’. This is revealed in...

When The Victim Becomes The Criminal

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STUDENT Alfie Meadows, who underwent an emergency brain operation after his head was broken by a police truncheon, when he was kettled during a...

TUC Special Congress must call a general strike to smash the Tories and support...

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IN A dramatic move the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter to urge the UN Security...

Workers across the world support call for a ‘Strike for Gaza’

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HOSPITALS in the Gaza Strip are ‘stretched to breaking point’ and infections are ‘exploding’ the UN reported yesterday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination...

Workers begin to occupy their plants and demand nationalisation!

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BRITISH capitalism is on the rocks and has started to break apart! This is the significance of the total outstanding government debt of the...

UAW refusal to accept immediate wage cuts scuppers bail-out

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THE $14bn (£9.4bn) bail-out deal for the Big Three US car giants has failed to get the support of the US Senate. Its refusal came...

Nagasaki anti-militarism!

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LAST week saw the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest war crimes in human history, the dropping of the two Atomic bombs onto...

BoE Governor Bailey blames elderly, sick and disabled for inflationary spiral driving the world...

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ON MONDAY night Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, blamed a wave of early retirements for forcing the Bank to make its...

Abolish the mountains of debt with revolution!

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THE world capitalist crisis is turning the UK into a country composed of a relative handful of the very, very rich, a middle and...

Tories and Labour unite to bar Bulgars and Romanians

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THE Tory Party yesterday called for restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania when these countries shortly join the EU. The Tory Party immigration...

Capitalism Is On Its Knees – Time To Organise World Socialist Revolution!

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SPEAKING at a poorly attended Scottish Labour Party conference yesterday Sir Keir Starmer said the United States ‘is right’ about the UK and Europe...

Kick The Profiteers Out Of The NHS!

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THE report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire gives official and damming evidence of the plundering...

Bloody Sunday – Put the British State in the dock for murder along with...

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YESTERDAY the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced that there was enough evidence to prosecute one soldier, soldier F, for the murder of two people,...

Strikes hit hospitals and airports as workers rise up against wage cutting!

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WHILE the Tories tear themselves apart awaiting the heavily redacted report by Sue Gray into Boris Johnson and all the parties at Downing Street...

Brown prepared to impose ‘unpopular measures’

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PRIME MINISTER Brown said yesterday that he will not be diverted from taking ‘unpopular’ decisions to ensure Britain gets through the global credit crunch....

Motor industry crisis deepens – nationalisation the only way

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THE US administration has let it be known that it intends to force GM, formerly the world’s number one motor car manufacturer, into bankruptcy...

Stop The Afghan War – The Enemy Is At Home

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DEMOCRATIC presidents and prime ministers such as Obama and Brown have rushed into the Afghan breach to rubber-stamp their stooge Karzai as the president...

Pope Arrives To Organise Counter-Revolutionaries

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THE visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI has only one aim, to make a pact with the British ruling class, to help strengthen...

One country two social systems breeding counter-revolution in China

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THE Hong Kong pro-democracy protests have now moved into their second week. The Hong Kong Federation of Students withdrew from planned negotiations on Friday, accusing...

Tory Davies wants to lock up anti-imperialists

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TORY MP David Davies has called on ‘abusive protests’ against serving military personnel to be outlawed and intends to amend a parliamentary bill to...

Forward With The European Socialist Revolution!

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ON MONDAY in the House of Commons, ex-Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw rounded on the government stating: ‘Instead of sheltering behind complacent language and...

May is broken, as is the Tory party and the capitalist system – It...

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WHEN the Tory Daily Telegraph runs on its front page a headline that Theresa May is ‘limping into oblivion’ it couldn’t be a clearer...

Hezbollah and Iranian forces have every right to be in Syria at the invitation...

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SYRIA’S deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, has hailed Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement’s assistance to Syria, and its struggle for survival, saying...

EU is breaking up! Euro & banks are set to crash. Smash the EU...

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TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond, speaking about the Brexit crisis from the World Economic Forum in Davos, said yesterday: ‘It is absolutely clear that if...

Capitalism on the brink of destroying humanity – World Socialist Revolution is the only...

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CAPITALISM has dived into the abyss of a world crisis that threatens not simply trade wars but world wars on a scale never seen...