Lead story
Egypt’s game of thrones
by our Arab Affairs correspondent
The Egyptian armed forces have called for calm following last week’s coup which ousted President Mohammed Morsi after millions of people had taken to the streets to demand his resignation. Morsi and most of the top leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood have been arrested on suspicion of incitement to violence.
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Right-wing Labour feels the pressure from below
THE GROWING swell of rank and file trade union anger at the failure of Labour leader Ed Miliband to speak out against even the cruellest of the Con-Dem Coalition cuts — the withdrawal of disability benefits, the bedroom tax and the piecemeal destruction of the NHS — is starting to have an effect.
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Main Feature story
The necessity of revolution
by Eric Trevett
The capitalist system is bankrupt, corrupt and viciously opposed to the trade unions and the whole working class movement. The current austerity policies reduce living standards and this exacerbates the deepening crisis by undermining any possibility of creating an expanding economy.
It is the historic role of the working class, united and led by the revolutionary party to replace capitalism. There is no future for the working class in seeking a crisis-free capitalism. The working class now has the freedom of necessity to ensure a social revolution takes place. The alternative would be an increasingly authoritarian, brutalised and ruthless capitalist class keeping the working class down.
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