Home Editorials

Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Bank In A Crisis Over Further Rate Cuts

0
THE Bank of England is acting like a rabbit frozen in the headlights of a powerful car. It knows that, this Thursday, it wants...

Mandelson’s Secret Business Interests!

0
PETER Mandelson is one of five Labour government cabinet ministers who insists on his business interests being a secret and for that purpose has...

Manchester Arena bombing was the product of a British capitalist state provocation!

0
THE judge-led inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing at an Ariana Grand concert in May 2017 finally published its finding yesterday after a two-and-a-half-year...

Bosses are taking the axe to the Welfare State, pensions and the NHS! Forward...

0
IN MONDAY’S Daily Telegraph, Roger Bootle spells out the ‘fallacy’ in its business section that economic growth is the key to Britain’s survival as...

Spectre of revolution haunting TUC leaders!

0
THE real essence of the capitalist crisis penetrated into the heart of the Trades Union Congress yesterday, as delegates assembled for their annual conference...

US Ruling Class Split At Home And Abroad

0
PRESIDENT Obama attacked the Republicans on Monday over an incendiary letter, sent by them to Iran’s leaders, seeking to sabotage his foreign policy...

Tories join with Labour to dump Johnson and prepare way for a national government

0
YESTERDAY, MPs debated the motion from Labour that would refer the behaviour of prime minister Boris Johnson to the Commons standards committee to investigate...

Labour believes that the elderly must be made to pay

0
IT has emerged that it is a question of principle for the Labour government that elderly people who are now living in nursing and...

Israel-US considering attack on Syria and Iran

0
LATE last week, a leading Israeli minister said that the only people left in southern Lebanon were connected to Hezbollah, giving the Israeli military...

No to a Barber sell-out – It’s trade union action that’s required!

0
THE TUC announced on Saturday that ‘Royal Mail and the CWU have in recent days been in contact with the TUC over the current...

Labour right wing propping up the Tories!

0
ACTING Labour Party leader Harriet Harman yesterday betrayed working people when she led over 100 Labour MPs in abstaining over the Welfare Bill which...

Working class must break with Labour now, the only prop of the Tory government...

0
100 TORY MPs voted against Boris Johnson’s ‘Plan B’ Covid restriction on Tuesday night, defying predictions earlier that Johnson had ‘won over’ a large...

Labour right-wing renegades split, time to kick out the rest and demand a socialist...

0
AFTER weeks of speculation, seven right-wing Labour MPs announced yesterday that they are resigning from the Labour Party, citing ‘institutional anti-Semitism’ and the ‘shameful’...

Disband the Met and the entire police force that serves only the interests of...

0
WHILE the TUC and trade union leaders frantically cancelled strikes and conferences as a ‘mark of respect’ over the death of 96-year-old Elizabeth II,...

Message to marchers – bring down coalition to give workers and youth a future!

0
TODAY’S march called by the TUC is a massive demonstration of the anger and hatred felt by the working class, whole sections of the...

Police Chief Tapes Talks With Ministers

0
THE Metropolitan Police chief Blair was yesterday forgiven by the Attorney General for secretly tapping at least one of their conversations ‘for future reference’. It...

Increased sanctions on Russia drive the bosses’ war against the working class at home!

0
THE MOVE by the US, the UK and EU ruling classes to cut off all oil and gas supplies from Russia is now ‘unstoppable’...

UK capitalism is being torn apart politically and economically

0
THE CRISIS restrictions on Greater Manchester by the Tories reveal that the collapse of British capitalism has reached such a point that the unity...

The Eagle cannot fly so Smith is to challenge Corbyn

0
NOW that the ‘Eagle’ has refused to fly as pledged, she has handed the baton, although just 25 votes behind and with votes still...

Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe

0
THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...

Sunak wants to abolish university degrees that don’t churn out ‘high earners’

0
YESTERDAY, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak announced the latest attack on higher education with proposals to ‘limit the access’ to university degrees in England...

Build The Wrp In 2008!

0
THE TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, in his New Year’s message said that his two fears for 2008 were the dangers of a banking...

UK – At The Mercy Of The World Crisis Of Capitalism

0
BANK OF ENGLAND Governor King looked into his teacup yesterday morning at his press conference and all he could see was leaves, leaving him...

GM BOMBSHELL – Magna out & GM Europe heads for ‘restructuring in earnest’

0
GM, now owned by the US government, has dropped a bombshell by turning down its deal with Magna and the Russian state-owned Sberbank, at...

Working class erupts throughout the EU – Forward to the Socialist United States of...

0
THE CRISIS-RIDDEN EU is exploding as workers from the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Catalonia rise up against the open dictatorship of...

Workers must welcome all refugees and fight alongside them to get rid of capitalism!

0
THE FRENCH government is to raze the Calais refugee camp to the ground ‘within days’, forcibly removing every man, woman and child. After six months...

Half of adults in UK face being crushed by debt – Socialist Revolution the...

0
THE GIGANTIC scale of personal debt in Britain has been revealed in the publication yesterday of the biggest ever survey of households conducted by...

Tesco & Next Make Bryant Run

0
THE shadow minister for immigration, Bryant, yesterday ran away from confronting Tesco and Next over employing migrant workers at reduced wages in place of...

BHS workers’ jobs and pensions destroyed as firm is looted!

0
THE decision on Thursday by the administrators to close all 163 BHS stores and throw 11,000 workers out of a job with immediate effect...

UK Ruling Class On Its Knees Before Brussels – Time For The UK Socialist...

0
EUROPEAN Union leaders have said the Brexit withdrawal agreement with the UK is ‘not open for renegotiation’, after appeals from PM Theresa May. She...

Labour strikebreakers back BA’s anti-union drive

0
British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union has...

Union leaders are fiddling while the NHS burns! General Strike now to win...

0
THE BURNING issue of NHS workers’ pay is so explosive that the Tories left it to the very last day that Parliament sits before...

A planned famine grips Gaza – the working class must intervene and support Palestinians

0
THE Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval of a plan to occupy Gaza, following the Palestinian factions’ acceptance...

Abandon The ‘Fantasy Of The Right To Return’ Demands Netanyahu

0
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu put the final nails into the coffin of the two state solution when he urged, on Monday, that...

No evidence for ‘street cleaners’ plot’ against Pope

0
TO ADD to the drama surrounding the visit of the Pope – who set the scene with his, and his associates’ attacks on...

US Must Quit Iraq At Once! Says Ex-CIA Chief

0
THE US state is beginning to split over the war in Iraq, so severe is the pounding that US troops and the US leadership...

US Longshoremen show the way with strike action on May Day to stop the...

0
DOCKWORKERS of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to stop work for eight hours in all US West Coast ports on May...

Inflation up as Blair-Brown move to cut wages!

0
INFLATION in the UK is accelerating out of control. According to the latest Labour government figures which grossly underestimate the process the Consumer...

Chilcott Inquiry Findings Must Be Published At Once!

0
THIS week the chairman of the influential Public Administration Committee urged ministers to ‘sort out’ the delay in publishing the official inquiry into the...

Bush and Blair’s war against democratic rights

0
IN the United States it has just been revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has been secretly collecting the internal documents of...

Bush talks peace as Israeli tanks kill eleven in Gaza

0
THE content of the Bush ‘peace offensive’ was yesterday revealed for the whole world to see when Israeli tanks, supported by artillery fire ...

Hunt trying to assassinate the NHS!

0
JEREMY HUNT, who did a stint as a very pro-Murdoch Culture Secretary, was reshuffled out of that job and became Health Secretary as a...

Obama Brings In New Iran Oil Sanctions!

0
US President Barack Obama has just signed into law a major defence bill which includes tough new sanctions against Iran, as well as allowing...

Blair seeking legislation to overrule the courts

0
THE Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has had his plans for a government veto over the law courts made public after a leak of his...

Britain’s economy broken says Archbishop – as he worries about the British revolution!

0
THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has blurted out the truth that has been more than obvious for a number of years to millions...