Home Editorials Page 100

Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Lagarde issues world crisis warning

0
CHRISTINE Lagarde, the chief of the IMF, warned the bosses and the bankers yesterday, in a speech in Japan, that the crisis is a...

Build the WRP!

0
AT SATURDAY’S march to defend the Welfare State, workers from across the country were clear that action will have to be taken to defend...

Tories continue to tear each other apart! Time for the working class to bring...

0
THE government on Thursday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over Johnson’s unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal...

Abolish the mountains of debt with revolution!

0
THE world capitalist crisis is turning the UK into a country composed of a relative handful of the very, very rich, a middle and...

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...

Vultures Want To Pick At Argentina’s Bones

0
FOR workers in Britain, Argentina may well appear to be a far off country in South America whose sovereign default on its debts to...

Cutting wages is the key says BofE boss

0
BANK of England chairman Mervyn King’s speech in Winchester on Tuesday night was governed by a central axiom for the survival of British capitalism. He...

Benefits slashed while bankers prosper

0
Today Parliament votes on the Tory coalition bill to place a 1% cap on all benefits and tax credits for the next three years...

Orgreave and Hillsborough cover-ups! Smash the capitalist state!

0
The call by the general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, Chris Kitchen, for the investigation into the police cover-up over the Hillsborough...

As Capitalism reels Corbyn ‘suggests’ a very minimal Fabian programme

0
LAST week saw the ruling classes of the capitalist world reeling at the prospect of another huge banking crash, with its high priests, the...

Renationalise the steel industry – the only way forward for steel workers

0
ON Wednesday, it was announced that the lengthy negotiations between Tata Steel and the German steel conglomerate, Thyssen-Krupp, have been concluded and that a...

OECD predicts economic disaster as UK chief of staff predicts war with Russia!

0
WILLIAM WHITE, the head of the OECD’s review body, warned before the Davos Summit on Monday that: ‘All the market indicators right now look...

Truss Is Shattered While Johnson Is Posing As The Man To Save UK Capitalism!

0
LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...

Syrian opposition demands a no-fly zone!

0
THE announcement that the western and Saudi-Qatari backed ‘opposition’ in Syria is no longer committed to the UN Security Council-backed Annan ceasefire comes as...

Mass sackings on way in bankrupt Britain

0
IT’S ‘make or break’ time for UK manufacturing, according to the authoritative Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), an organisation not noted for...

Reject Labour’s racist points system!

0
A NEW points-based immigration system for workers who want to come to the UK from outside the EU was unveiled by Home Secretary Charles...

IMF: World faces £9.5tn Covid bill as capitalism crashes into bankruptcy

0
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned yesterday that the Covid-19 crisis could cost the global economy a staggering £9.5 trillion in the biggest hit...

Simpson refuses to fight the Coalition

0
DEREK Simpson, the Unite co-leader, was brought onto the Andrew Marr Show last Sunday to deliberately attempt to undermine the struggle in the trade...

Occupy NHS Logistics on October 1 – trade unions must take strike action!

0
WEDNESDAY’S twin votes at the Labour Party conference against NHS privatisation emphasised for all to see just how great is the isolation of the...

Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight and are begging Tories to extend...

0
FROM TODAY the Tory furlough scheme starts to unwind with businesses forced to contribute 10% of furloughed workers’ wages, rising to 20% in August...

‘Dozens Of Conspiracies’ But ‘Terror Threat Level’ Downgraded

0
HOME Secretary Reid, who has been making people’s blood run cold with his tales of dozens of conspiracies and thousands of terrorists, has reduced...

US forced to back down over North Korea and agree talks

0
IN A DRAMATIC about face, US Vice President Mike Pence stated yesterday that the Trump administration is now looking at holding diplomatic talks with...

Johnson’s Visit To Sweden And Finland Is To Expand The War Against Russia!

0
PM BORIS Johnson is visiting Sweden and Finland to expand the war in Ukraine, and specifically to urge both nations to join the NATO...

Britain’s Criminal War Against The Kenyan Land Freedom Army

0
BRITISH conscripts were sent out to Kenya in the 1950s, where they were turned into brutes and sadistic killers, in the war of British...

GM jobs crisis hits UK-EU!

0
THE week long closure of the two remaining GM owned Vauxhall plants in the UK at Luton and Ellesmere Port which started yesterday marks...

Tory plans to put troops on the streets

0
IT EMERGED in the bourgeois press at the weekend that the army has been drawing up plans for troops to be sent onto the...

As Imperialism Hits The Rocks – Forward To The Victory Of The World Socialist...

0
US AND UK-backed Islamists are on the run from their last stronghold in Idlib province in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported...

Bank of England – people will just have to accept poverty as the price...

0
HUW PILL, the chief economist at the Bank of England, has made the official position of the bankers crystal clear when he insisted that...

State Death Squads In The UK

0
Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan’s investigation began more than three years ago when Belfast welder Raymond McCord claimed that his son, also called Raymond, had...

Wall Street heading for a crash

0
THE US Wall Street is fast heading for a crash according to the Bank of America (BoA) as the huge speculative bubble on the...

Brexit Is Blowing Up The Two-Party System Of Rule – The Working Class Must...

0
PM MAY yesterday made an appeal for MPs to ‘stand together as democrats and patriots’, to support her withdrawal deal. This is after her resolution...

Socialist revolution is the only answer to unemployment of ‘biblical proportions’

0
AS THE END of the Tory furlough scheme looms, the reality of millions of workers being thrown on the scrapheap in the coming months...

Forward To The General Strike – Bring Down The Coalition, Stop All The Cuts...

0
500,000 workers, youth and pensioners marched through London on Saturday. Unlike the Labour leaders they were in total opposition to all of the savage cuts...

Brexit Moment Of Truth Fast Approaching! The Working Class Must Be Ready To Take...

0
YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is...

US Trade Unions At The Crossroads

0
THE most powerful capitalist economy in the world is now living on a veritable knife edge, liable at any moment to crash spectacularly, bringing...

Labour Is The Bankers Party!

0
THE New Labour Brown government has come out as the true representative of the biggest banks, as befits a government that has doubled the...

French workers are battling a Macron dictatorship while workers are now taking strike action...

0
THOUSANDS of French workers have blocked a key highway around Paris and have stepped up strike action at oil refineries in a new massive...

Spanish Opel workers vote for strike action!

0
WORKERS at Opel’s factory in Zaragossa, Spain, have announced four days of strikes starting next week, after failing to reach an agreement with Magna...

Holbrooke, Blair, Thaci, mafia wars and organ theft

0
THE Council of Europe has named the Kosovo Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, as a mafia leader who organised the sale of drugs and weapons...

US at centre of world capitalist collapses

0
‘THERE is a real sense in markets today of the economy falling off a cliff.’ That was the verdict of Michael Saunders, the chief...

British capitalism crashing into bankruptcy – Unions must organise a general strike to...

0
THE UK’s largest car maker, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), yesterday announced a massive pre-tax loss of £354 million for the six months to September...

Ukraine faces more savage austerity and cuts to qualify for IMF ‘aid’!

0
UKRAINE’S central bank has sharply raised interest rates from 19.5% to 30% in an effort to curb inflation and prop up its beleaguered currency...

End funding ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ US Democrat Senators demand!

0
YESTERDAY, 93 Democrat members of the US House of Representatives issued an official letter calling on the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to open...

Cameron supervised the destruction of Guardian hard drives

0
THE picture painted by Home Secretary May of the police doing their duty in the Snowden affair, as they saw it, without any government...

Labour government forced to borrow £18 billion last month as UK capitalism crashes into...

0
SPIRALLING public spending and interest payments on government debt have forced Chancellor Rachel Reeves to borrow £18 billion last month, the highest August figure...