Editorials

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Balls and the ‘Little Englanders’ adopt racism as their policy

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‘WE were wrong to allow so many eastern Europeans into Britain,’ says Ed Balls, referring to the large number of migrants from Poland and...

A US Debt Default Is Behind Growing Demands To End Ukraine War!

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THE White House National Security Council spokesman has sounded the alarm about the looming US debt default and the way that it is putting...

Call national strike action! Form a public sector alliance!

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OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...

Defend the PCS and all trade unions with a general strike

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THE PCS TRADE UNION last Saturday issued a statement to its members announcing that it was the victim of a government plot to destroy...

Christoulas makes his call for REVOLUTION!

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A 77-YEAR-old Greek pensioner penned his political testament on Wednesday, before he blew his brains out in front of the Greek parliament, a parliament...

Extend lecturers strike into a general strike to defend pensions and education

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TALKS began yesterday between the University and College Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK), the body representing all universities, at the conciliation service ACAS...

Build revolutionary leadership in South African strike struggle!

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THE South African 300,000-strong National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has called a one-day solidarity strike with the 1.3m public sector trade unionists who have...

US attacks Iran, Russia and China

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IRAN has responded with a heroic defiance to the new economic sanctions imposed by the US ruling class that target its military defence, the...

Pupils subjected to physical and mental cruelty in school isolation units – unions...

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School children in England are being put in ‘physically and mentally cruel’ isolation units for up to 7 hours a day at academy trust...

McDonnell: Those who died in Grenfell were ‘murdered by political decisions!’

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LABOUR shadow chancellor John McDonnell has come out and said openly what the vast majority of people in the country believe – that those...

Transport Unions Must Refuse To Transport Asylum Seekers To Rwanda!

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THE TORY government’s racist drive to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda came unstuck on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) granted...

Blair is speeding up the privatisation drive

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ON all fronts the Blair government is speeding up its privatisation offensive, so that his governments can leave as their legacy for big...

NHS being bankrupted, to keep crisis-ridden capitalism going!

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THE message from the government over the proposed dissolving of the South London Healthcare Trust and the closure of its major hospitals is...

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...

Chelsea Tories just could not wait to start evicting

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JUST hours after Tory leader Cameron announced that council houses were no longer going to be ‘homes for life’ – but were to be...

Blair the man who helped create IS warns of the dangers of a ...

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IT would be a ‘very dangerous experiment’ for the UK to give Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn power, Tony Blair has told the BBC’s This...

French revolutionary tactics show British workers the way

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THE two general strikes and the massive mobilisations of trade unionists, students, lycee students, and unemployed and working class youth which brought millions onto...

Israel given green light by Biden to expand genocide into Rafah

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THE GENOCIDAL onslaught against the 1.4 million Palestinian men, women and children forced into the tiny city of Rafah on the border with Egypt...

Cameron Presiding Over A Sea Of Misery!

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NINE million people across the UK are living with serious debt problems, according to a new report by the Money Advice Service (MAS). MAS points...

TUC must call general strike in support of the junior doctors!

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‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

Make Capitalism History! The Way To End Poverty

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TODAY’S Edinburgh march to ‘Make Poverty History’ will be led by Bishops, Cardinals and boss class politicians, in other words, by the religious and...

TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and nationalise Thames...

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FACED with an £18 billion debt mountain, the privatised Thames Water company yesterday set out its survival plans that involve increasing bills to £627...

US Ruling Class Split At Home And Abroad

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PRESIDENT Obama attacked the Republicans on Monday over an incendiary letter, sent by them to Iran’s leaders, seeking to sabotage his foreign policy...

Police are preparing to mass arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators at next Saturday’s mass march! It...

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On Monday, the Metropolitan Police issued a warning that it is prepared to make mass arrests at next Saturday’s demonstration in London, which is demanding...

Renationalise the electricity and gas monopolies!

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POWERGEN, the energy monopoly, is putting up the prices of its gas and electricity services by 18.4 per cent and 9.7 per cent, next...

Don’t Let Them Close Down Our Hospitals!

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THE PLAN to strip Chase Farm Hospital, in Enfield, of its accident and emergency and maternity services is now being implemented with health chiefs...

British imperialism being cut down to size by the crisis

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BRITISH imperialism, at the height of its power and even up to the 1930s, had at its heart the dictum of sea power, that...

Brown bringing private managers into NHS

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THE announcement by the Brown government that it is going to bring private managers in to run NHS hospitals is a concrete example of...

Russian oligarchs gave millions in donations to the Tory Party!

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THE FINAL release by the House of Commons intelligence and security committee of the report into allegations of Russian interference in British politics is...

Latest revised official figures show British capitalism diving into recession – socialist revolution is...

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revised down its estimates of the UK’s economic growth as measured by the country’s Gross Domestic Product...

Coalition building a landlords’ paradise – bring back Council Housing! Now!

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THE Coalition government is busily building a paradise for the landlords, the latest Shelter Rent Report shows. In this paradise, private tenants, who can no...

Imf Gives Its Full Support To The Tories

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AT its Spring Meeting in Washington this week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) made a direct intervention in the general election with an undisguised...

Unlimited Bonuses For The Bankers As Workers Face Runaway Inflation And Poverty!

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THE new Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is reported to be preparing to scrap the cap on the multi-million pound bonuses bankers award themselves. Originally the...

TORIES FACE WIPE OUT – WHILE LABOUR MPs PLAN EU ELECTIONS COUP!

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WITH THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS fast approaching, the bourgeois democratic system through which the capitalist ruling class has ruled over the working class in the...

Lesson of the Shrewsbury Appeal victory and Mittings inquiry – capitalist state must...

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ON WEDNESDAY the leaders of 12 of the largest and most prominent trade unions issued a letter demanding immediate action to ensure transparency in...

State Repression Of Youth Being Intensified

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THE CRISIS of the capitalist system has led to huge attacks on working class and middle class youth who are daily being told in...

After the BA battle ‘pirate Walsh’ seeks to shut down Iberia, sacking 3,800!

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IAG chairman Walsh plans to axe 3,800 jobs – a fifth of the Spanish Iberia airline’s workforce – in a country where unemployment is...

UNIONS must purge Labour Party of Brown and the Blairites

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AFTER the Labour party defeat at Glasgow East, one of the safest Labour seats in the country, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stated...

Forward with the French, British and German workers to bring down the EU and...

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WITH millions of workers and youth on strike or taking to the streets, where they have been joined by the masses of the Yellow...

Unions must take strike action to stop lifting of Covid-19 restrictions on July 19th!

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HE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) doctors’ trade union has spelt it out that pressing ahead with lifting final Covid-19 restrictions in England on July...

Stock markets around the world crash as the US plunges into recession

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STOCK markets in Europe and Asia crashed yesterday morning as the international financial world suddenly woke up to the grim reality that US capitalism...

Vultures Want To Pick At Argentina’s Bones

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FOR workers in Britain, Argentina may well appear to be a far off country in South America whose sovereign default on its debts to...

Labour’s knives are out for use against the UK’s working class and its youth...

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THE future of the youth minimum wage is now under review by the former Health Secretary Alan Milburn. The alleged ‘social mobility’ expert has told...

Coalition Plans To Smash Workers’ Rights

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THE REPORT outlining government proposals to smash up any rights workers have to secure employment and legal protection from unfair dismissal finally saw the...

Kick out union leaders who collaborate with Tories – build the revolutionary leadership in...

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THIS WEEK Unison, the largest public sector union in the country, issued a statement declaring that it ‘stands ready’ to work with the Tory...