Editorials

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By 278 votes to 0 MPs vote for extending the Universal Credit top-up beyond...

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THE TORY government was delivered a massive blow on Monday evening when it was defeated by 278 votes to 0 when MPs voted for...

Novelist Sally Rooney wins massive support for boycotting Israel

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BEST-SELLING Irish novelist Sally Rooney has won massive support from fellow writers and artists for her support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS)...

Organise a general strike! Bring down Brown government! Go forward to socialism

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THE leaders of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the University and College Union (UCU) and the...

Obama issues his orders over EU Referendum to his UK puppet state!

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US President, Barak Obama, has issued his ultimatum to the British ruling class – stay in the EU or else! In a lengthy article in...

The Bully State and forced labour is to replace the Welfare State

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TWO hundred thousand young people aged between 16 and 18, 11 per cent of that total age group, who are unemployed with no...

Cameron’s Fracking Bribe Rejected!

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THE Tory Party is in an energy crisis. In 1993 in the person of Michael Heseltine it completely shut down the mining industry putting 100,000...

Ukrainian workers refuse to end occupations!

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THE agreement, styled as a ‘de-escalation roadmap’, reached at Geneva last Thursday by representatives from Russia, US, EU and the Ukraine coupist government, represents...

Spanish youth shake Zapatero government

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The Spanish municipal and regional elections that were held on Sunday took place under unprecedented conditions as thousands of youth and workers defied the...

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...

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’...

Wealthiest 5 richer than poorest 20%

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THE report by the charity Oxfam entitled ‘A Tale of Two Britains’ puts definite figures on the simple fact known by every worker that...

Tories crash – now boot them out with a general strike to bring in...

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THE TORIES have crashed with their twin by-elections disasters. They lost Kingswood, where Labour needed an 11-point swing and also lost Wellingborough, where an...

UN poverty expert slams Tory ‘hypocrisy’ over austerity – end poverty with socialist revolution 

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THE UNITED Nations rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston, has issued a damning attack on the Tory government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic describing...

320 children were slaughtered by Israel in Gaza War

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ISRAEL’S military onslaught on Gaza, where it not only used massive bombs and missiles but banned cluster bombs and white phosphorus weapons, killed 1,387...

Israel bombs last functioning hospital in Gaza – working class must force TUC to...

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THE ISRAELI regime intensified its relentless land and air bombardment of Gaza this weekend, including the bombing of the last functioning hospital in Gaza...

Tories are readying to impose new taxes, and engage in massive wage cutting! Remove...

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EARLIER this week, Apple was priced on the US stock market at $2.3tn (£1.7tn), more than the combined ‘value’ of the entire FTSE 100. The...

Child death toll reaches over 5,500 in Gaza as Israel extends its war on...

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YESTERDAY was World Children’s Day, the United Nations annual day for action on children’s rights which marked the adoption by the UN of the...

China must scrap the ‘one country two social systems’ policy and declare for a...

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CHINA has condemned the counter-revolutionaries who stormed and vandalised the Hong Kong parliament building on Monday and raised the flag of the former occupying...

Cameron At War At Home And Abroad

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CAMERON’S Monday ‘European Council’ statement to parliament was all about the crisis of imperialism, its wars abroad, and dictatorship at home. He managed to discuss...

Putin’s Recognition Of The Republics Of Donetsk And Lugansk Shocks US & UK Imperialism!

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THE DECISION of Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise the Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, and to order Russian troops to intervene to prevent...

Truss government is in a huge crisis. Make the TUC call a general strike...

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THE Tory Party is now in Conference and in the biggest crisis in its history, after its ‘mini budget’ caned the poor and the...

Zionists intervene to try and prevent Corbyn-led Labour government!

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WITH THE Tory government split, divided, and on the rocks after refusing to carry out the 2016 referendum instruction to ‘Leave the EU’, the...

Tories breaking triple-lock will plunge millions of pensioners into poverty!

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MILLIONS of pensioners will be plunged into poverty as the Tories press ahead with ending the triple-lock on state pensions. The triple-lock guarantees the basic...

Putin And Lavrov Come To Obama’s Rescue!

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OBAMA had been facing massive opposition in every State of the Union, with opinion polls saying that he faced defeat in any Congressional vote...

US Military Chief Undermines The President Over US Troops In Iraq

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THE US’ top military commander General Dempsey has broken ranks with President Obama by telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that US...

Answer Tory plans to use military as strike breakers with a general strike...

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With nurses and thousands of NHS workers planning to take national strike action next month over their demands for pay increases to protect them...

Raising the white flag over Basra airfield

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THE rotting reality behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spin concerning the ‘reconfiguration’ of British troops in southern Iraq is the complete demoralisation of the...

Trade unions must take action to boycott Israel, and halt all arms supplies!

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ISRAELI warplanes struck multiple targets across the Gaza Strip on Friday after a 72-hour ceasefire agreement ended at 8am, killing a child and injuring...

Labour slashing 100,000 NHS jobs as recession drives war to make working class pay...

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YESTERDAY, the Guardian newspaper revealed that 100,000 jobs in the NHS could be wiped out because of the brutal cost-cutting regime imposed by Labour...

Abolish the monarchy – forward to a workers’ republic and socialism!

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DETAILS of the settlement between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre to end her claim that she was forced to have sex with the Duke...

Close the Israeli embassy and boycott all Israeli goods

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ISRAEL, on Saturday evening, committed over 200 tanks and 20,000 troops to an invasion of Gaza, covered by artillery fire and fire from warships...

Household Debt Now At £1.47 Trillion!

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HOUSEHOLD debt has grown for the 26th consecutive month, reaching £1.47 trillion according to the Radical Centre for Social Justice (RCSJ). Household debt has soared...

‘WE ARE AT WAR’ says Greek PM as workers prepare to storm parliament

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THE Greek Socialist Party Prime Minister, Yiorghos Papandreou, told his party’s parliamentary deputies last Saturday that ‘no one likes emergency procedures but we are...

US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary

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AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...

Labour conference must reject Corbyn’s betrayal and vote to break with EU

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YESTERDAY Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn came out publicly to proclaim that he is prepared to go to any lengths to appease the right wing...

The Crisis Of Capitalism Is Making It Clear That The Working Class Must Take...

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BRITAIN is in the grip of the deepest recession since records began putting the country on course for the biggest economic collapse since 1709...

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...

Unions must call a general strike to support Gaza and put an end to...

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THE Bureau of the UN General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People reaffirmed last Wednesday night its...

US bosses handed $1.5 trillion by Trump – Forward to the US socialist revolution!

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THE US Senate has approved by 51 votes to 48 a measure slashing the taxes of the rich and the major banks and companies...

All councils, student unions and trade unions must boycott Israel – Edelstein visit must...

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THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has condemned the new Tory ‘guidance’ banning councils, NHS trusts and all publicly funded organisations from boycotting goods and services...

Sharon’s deception at the United Nations

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ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to cut a figure as the liberator of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip at the United...

UNITE denounces TTIP but supports Cameron in EU referendum!

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THE Unite trade union leadership specialises in doubletalk. One example is the way that it is verbally 100% opposed to the anti-trade union legislation that...

Workers Must Support Corbyn Against The Tory And Labour Witch-Hunters!

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THE BOURGEOIS media and Labour’s right wing pro-Zionists have no shame, as their attempts to label Labour leader Corbyn an anti-Semite show – otherwise...

May’s university review ‘Dead on arrival’! Students, lecturers & staff must unite and strike...

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‘DEAD on arrival,’ is how Vanessa Wilson, chief executive of the University Alliance Group described outgoing PM May’s new report on university education. The Augar...

Tuc Must Act Over Cameron’s War!

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ON MONDAY the bourgeois press proclaimed the rag-bag of mercenaries and brigands who make up the so-called ‘rebels’ had crushed the forces loyal to...