Editorials

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Hunt stays silent over whether government was informed of plot against Khashoggi by...

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IT HAS got very hot in the warmongers’ kitchen when reputedly fire-proof US militarists like US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, and Secretary of State...

Government responsible for seriously damaging the quality of mental health care!

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CUTS to adult mental health services in England are damaging the quality of care given to patients, a report by the King’s Fund...

There must be sprinklers in schools! No more fire deaths! Kick the Tories out!

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AFTER the horror of Grenfell Tower fire, where so many men, women and children burned to death, the big issue is ‘is anyone safe...

Millions must march for Palestine on Saturday August 3 – They must also instruct...

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A FORMER Lebanese lawmaker Naser Kandeel said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the US featured a planned coordination...

Expropriate The Venture Capitalists

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WE are living in the period of the death agony of the capitalist system. It is only natural then, that out of the shadows should...

Answer capitalist crisis with a socialist revolution

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ON Wednesday the world capitalist crisis deepened after the US Federal Reserve cut its interest rate from 4.75 per cent to 4.50...

Heading For A Housing Crash!

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ON MONDAY trading on the Wall Street stock market in New Century Financial shares was halted, as the second largest US sub-prime mortgage lender...

Staffing cuts causing ‘avoidable’ maternal deaths

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AN independent inquiry into the unusually large number of maternal deaths in London over the past two years has confirmed that the government policy of...

Smash capitalism to end hire and fire at will and poverty pay

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WHAT kind of future capitalism has in store for the entire working class was forcibly brought home this week – a future where workers...

Splits in the ruling classes are opening up the way for socialist revolutions!

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MORE than 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have signed a statement warning that their own governments’ policies on the Israel-Gaza war...

Trump champions the police and launches his war against communism and socialism!

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US PRESIDENT Trump, in his desperate attempt to win the November presidential election, has stepped up his war against the working class, branding all...

Britain Is Aiding US Torture Machine

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer questions yesterday as to whether the United States government operates CIA secret prisons outside of...

US Begins Serious Peace Talks With Taliban – It Now Knows It Cannot Win...

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THE 2001 SEPTEMBER 11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York was seized on by President Bush as the green light for...

It Is Time For A Revolution Inside The Trade Unions To Defeat The Bosses’...

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THE UNITE leader Sharon Graham on Saturday in a speech in Coventry suspended all Coventry Labour councillors who are Unite members from the union...

Solidarity action over Lineker sacking causes Tories to crumble – now is time to...

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BOTH the BBC and the Tories were in a state of meltdown over the weekend following the decision of the BBC bosses, urged on...

British Military Opposes Any Petraeus Surge In Afghanistan

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GENERAL Petraeus is now the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, and has declared that he intends to organise a NATO ‘surge’ in...

‘Hostile environment’ alive & kicking! Tories deport another 13 to the Caribbean. Stop all...

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A LAST-DITCH legal attempt by two children to stop their father being forced onto a plane and deported to the Caribbean failed on Tuesday,...

It’s Trump versus the courts. Now is the time with the bosses split and...

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A HUGE political crisis hit US president Donald Trump yesterday when a US federal trade court in New York ruled that most of his...

Stop the war against Syria – smash austerity at home

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THE humiliating climb-down by David Cameron over Syria on Wednesday night exposes for all to see the weakness of British imperialism, the coalition government...

Smash anti-union bill!

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YESTERDAY thousands of trade union members attended a rally and mass lobby of parliament called by the TUC in an attempt to – in...

PM May surrenders to EU! UK needs a workers government and a socialist revolution!

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ON THURSDAY 23rd June, 2016, the EU referendum took place and the people of the United Kingdom took a revolutionary decision to leave the...

BIS Report – Global ‘Debt Trap’ set to crash world capitalism

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THE SWISS based Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank for central banks’, has issued a new warning about the global ‘debt trap’...

597 homeless deaths, 130,000 homeless children! Slum landlords and capitalism must be got rid...

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FIVE hundred and ninety-seven homeless people died on the streets of Britain last year, up from 482 the year before – in fact homeless...

IMF fears world revolution as the world economic crisis deepens

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another dire warning about the economic crisis raging throughout the world yesterday with its head, Kristalina Georgieva, saying...

Flammable insulation & cladding, tower blocks built to collapse & fire services stripped to...

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LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan says Londoners have been let down after the Tory government rejected his request for new firefighting equipment.  Tory Home Secretary Amber...

Put an end to bankrupt capitalism! Forward to the victory of the world socialist...

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THE CRISIS of capitalism is now acute. It has reached the point of explosion, with its very life blood – gas and electricity now...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers PARMJIT BAINS (right) and PARMJEET SIDHU with Hounslow UNISON member MARIE ROWLANDS

Restore the NHS! Bring down Blair

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair made clear yesterday that the government is determined to force through the cuts and closures, privatisation and destruction of...

TUC leaders collaborate with bosses to try and keep the working class from kicking...

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YESTERDAY, the TUC joined forces with the leaders of top business groups to beg Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the furlough scheme for...

Police cover-up over military-style operation against City protests

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IAN TOMLINSON, a 47-year-old news vendor in the City of London, collapsed at 7.25pm on April 1 on his way home from work during...

Cameron Get Out – follow Harper’s lead!

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HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...

Revolution is the only way forwards!

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THE working class of Europe is rising up to fight the savage spending cuts now being imposed by governments across the Continent. When the UK...

Good Riddance To Atos – Now Get Rid Of The Coalition!

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THE coalition government’s favourite private benefits testing company, Atos, is desperately attempting to jump ship after pocketing a fortune for driving people off sickness...

Worldwide Capitalist Crisis Requires The Victory Of The World Socialist Revolution!

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YESTERDAY saw a massive escalation in the world trade war when the US was given the green light by the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...

Mossad’s prints all over Gaza bombing!

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YESTERDAY in the aftermath of the bombing in Gaza that killed five leading Hamas fighters, and a five-year-old girl, accusations and counter-accusations were being...

Britain’s Trade Crashing To Disaster

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2006 saw Britain’s trade in goods dive to a massive deficit of £84.3 billion.This was £15.5 billion more than the £68.8 billion deficit figure...

Behind The Crisis Talks In Minsk On Wednesday!

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THE ‘peace talk’ that suggests Merkel and Hollande are seeking to organise a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis, acceptable to all, the imperialist...

NATO’s arms being exported from Libya to terrorists everywhere

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THE NATO armed intervention that supported the Islamist revolt in Libya succeeded in murdering Colonel Gadaffi and smashed up the most advanced and prosperous...

End The Dirty War In Afghanistan!

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THE deaths of two more British soldiers, blown up by IEDs in Afghanistan, has brought the total number of British troops killed in...

Trade Union Renegade Doing Blair’s Dirty Work

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THE former CWU postal workers trade union leader, Alan Johnson, yesterday moved into action at the behest of the Prime Minister to urge that...

Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads

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ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...

Obama, Biden look to Putin!

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VICE-PRESIDENT BIDEN took the stage at the 45th Munich Security Conference on Saturday to spell out that the US understood that it now needed...

Don’t let them drive the trade unions out of politics

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IT IS now becoming obvious that the furore over parliamentary expenses and their alleged misuse, involving at least one leading Tory MP, was just...

Balls promises more cuts under Labour

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THE shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, made his keynote speech to the annual conference of the Labour Party yesterday setting out the economic policy of...

King admits no recovery in sight

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THE Bank of England governor, Mervyn King got ready for a somersault in economic policy yesterday, when he told the Treasury Select Committee that...

Stop the UK arms sales to the Saudi and Bahraini despots!

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DESPERATE for trade after Brexit, and for access to Middle East oil, bankrupt capitalist Britain is desperately licking the boots of Arab feudalists, while...