Home Editorials Page 100

Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Murdoch Empire Still Remains To Be Broken

0
PRIME Minister Cameron used his usual tactic at prime minister’s questions yesterday, when asked why he brought a criminal into 10 Downing Street...

Capitalism being torn to shreds by coronavirus – forward to world socialist revolution

0
CORONAVIRUS sent the world’s stock markets crashing when they opened yesterday morning, with £100 billion wiped off the value of London’s top listed companies. Leading...

The TUC Congress must demand that the State of Palestine is established from the...

0
THE Palestinian Centre for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared has called on the international community to take serious and effective action to compel Israel...

One Year Since The Marikana Massacre

0
THE MARIKANA massacre of mineworkers in South Africa one year ago, in which 34 miners were murdered by the police and hundreds injured, has...

Lagarde Calls For ‘Brave Action’ To Inflate Economies

0
IMF Managing Director Lagarde has warned that the world economy is ‘too weak for comfort’, and that it could be heading for years of...

May has capitulated to the EU and looks to Labour for rescue! Time for...

0
TORY PM May’s latest capitulation to the European Union over Brexit has been met with furious anger from Brexiteers and others in her own...

Celebrate the first 70 years by bringing down the Tories and ending the cuts

0
THE NHS was the product of war and revolution, namely the slaughter of soldiers and civilians fighting fascism in World War 2, and...

Chinese Revolution Has Made Huge Advances, While Capitalism Gets Ready For Its Great Crash...

0
NOT SO long ago in the late 1930s ‘European concessions’ on the Chinese mainland contained ‘European Only’ parks, some with signs declaring ‘no dogs...

Brown outlines new attack on teachers and state education!

0
‘IN the past those who had the raw material – the coal, the oil and the basic commodities, or the infrastructure – the ports...

Tories Lash Out At Poor And Migrant Workers

0
PM Cameron was yesterday pledging ‘action on welfare’ to ensure, as he put it, that ‘work is always a better option’ – not by...

UK-France Moving To Partition Libya

0
FOREIGN Secretary William Hague yesterday ordered the Libyan charge d‘affaires out of the UK along with all Libyan diplomats. Hague said: ‘We’re inviting the...

Victory To Syria – Smash Is, The Nusra Front And Their Western Backers –...

0
AT THE same time as the Nusra Front and the remnants of IS were shelling Damascus, and the Turkish imperialists were killing Kurds in...

National Guard ‘armed, locked and loaded’ in New Orleans

0
LOUISIANA State Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin have deployed 300 heavily-armed National Guard troops and 60 state police on the streets of...

Assad warns of new war danger in the Middle East

0
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad warned yesterday that the Israeli attack on the Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters, in which nine Turkish citizens...

Starmer refuses to condemn Trump as he threatens to unleash war across the globe. General...

0
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump, after his illegal attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of president Nicolas Maduro, immediately followed up with threats that US imperialism...

Racist laws must be smashed!

0
The uprising at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow has badly shaken the crisis-ridden, reactionary Blair government. It began last Tuesday night and continued into Wednesday,...

Johnson Government Cannot Defeat The Covid Virus Because It Puts The Bosses’ Profits Before...

0
THE JOHNSON government is now paying the price for refusing to follow the example of China by organising a national lockdown, with no loss...

Get out of Iraq – British troops get a last warning

0
THE raid on Iraq’s Finance Ministry compound on Tuesday, by a column of up to 50 heavily armed police officers, in pick-up vehicles, which...

Lebanon rises up after government ‘negligence’ kills 154! Socialist revolution is the...

0
THE LEBANESE bankers’ state has collapsed, undermined by the worldwide capitalist crisis which has plunged the country into a desperate situation of bankruptcy, mass...

50% rise in SA farmworkers’ wages is just the start!

0
THE Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) has welcomed, as a ‘short term victory’, an increase in the minimum wage for farmworkers from R69...

Coalition lies on NHS privatisation exposed – trade unions must act

0
THE oft repeated claim by Tory prime minister Cameron that the coalition will not privatise the National Health Service has finally been exposed for...

After one year of the Libyan slaughter – Forward to Damascus urge Cameron, Sarkozy...

0
THE Libyan people are being told that they must celebrate the first anniversary of the ‘revolution’ (in fact, counter-revolution) that has destroyed their country,...

Hamas denounces the Israeli Military hijacking of the Handala aid ship

0
THE Hamas movement has strongly denounced the Israeli military hijacking of the Handala aid ship in international waters and the abduction of its passengers,...

International Criminal Court Has Jurisdiction Over Israeli War Crimes In Palestine!

0
THE International Criminal Court ruled on Friday that it has jurisdiction over war crimes and atrocities committed in the Palestinian territories and can thus...

Italy on the edge of the abyss – the UK is next

0
THE European Union is being broken on the rocks of the deepening crisis of the world capitalist order. The leaders of France and Germany are...

Tories Reeling From Crisis To Crisis While Lapdog Starmer Complains Johnson Not Listening To...

0
AS THE Tories reel from one crisis to another over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic that has so far led to over 380,000...

McCluskey denounces Labour’s right wing who worked for a Tory victory!

0
THE general secretary of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, has reacted with fury over the revelations contained in the leaked internal report by the...

Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America

0
THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...

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

0
IAG chairman Walsh plans to axe 3,800 jobs – a fifth of the Spanish Iberia airline’s workforce – in a country where unemployment is...

New Sri Lankan President Is As Hated As Rajapaksa And Will Have...

0
SRI LANKAN MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country’s new president, despite his extreme unpopularity with Sri Lankan workers and youth...

Simpson-Woodley and Lord Digby Jones are marching for a government subsidised two day week

0
WHILE workers today are marching in Birmingham to defend their jobs, their leaders are marching along with Lord Digby Jones, the Tory ex-CBI chief...

‘Eu Disintegration Inevitable’ Says George Soros

0
GEORGE Soros, the multi-billionaire ‘vulture’ investor who makes his fortune betting on capitalism’s crisis and who is credited with breaking the pound in the...

Tory donor scandal reveals not just the racism but the massive profits leeched from...

0
When The Guardian newspaper on Monday reported the racist comments made by Frank Hester, the owner and sole shareholder of the Pheonix Partnership (TPP),...

UK loses AAA credit rating

0
Late last Friday, Moody’s Investors Service, one of the world’s three main credit rating agencies, downgraded the sovereign credit rating of the UK and...

Cameron Favours New Anti-Union Laws

0
LAST Saturday, the Tory leader, Cameron, told the Daily Telegraph that if he should win the General Election he is ready to toughen the...

US Seeking Long-Term Bases In Iraq

0
THE United States and its puppet Iraqi government are seeking to renew the UN mandate for Iraq for just one year, meaning that the...

Johnson wants Labour to junk the unions!

0
LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor has declared that it is time for the Labour Party to completely dump the union bloc vote in future leadership elections. Johnson,...

TUC and all trade unions must take action alongside the Junior Doctors!

0
THE junior doctors have responded magnificently to the Tory threat to dictate their contracts and to impose them from next August with a landslide...

US-Led Coalition Conducted 34,573 Air Strikes In Iraq And Syria Between August 2014 And...

0
THE US-UK-led military coalition reported on September 26 that it had conducted a total of 34,573 airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria between August...

Rashid Rauf Freed – ‘Bomb Plot’ Collapses

0
A PAKISTANI judge yesterday ruled that there was no evidence to try Rashid Rauf on terrorist charges, or that he was a member...

Rates On Hold As Economy Folds!

0
UK interest rates were kept on hold at 0.5% yesterday, the 26th month in a row that the Bank of England has left interest...

To End The Covid-19 Crisis The Trade Unions Must Bring Down The Tories And...

0
TORY HEALTH SECRETARY Hancock yesterday said of the Covid-19 crisis that Britain was facing a ‘tipping point’ and ‘we have a choice’. It turns...

Tories Are Split, Divided And Fighting Each Other – Time To Force The...

0
THE TORY PARTY and its leadership are thrashing around in their death agony. The Tory crisis has reached the stage where Tory ministers have been...

The Eurozone Commits Collective Suicide!

0
THE Eurozone committed ‘collective suicide’ last week when EU finance ministers met and agreed a deal that they heralded as a historic breakthrough in...

The only way to really defend Venezuela is for the working class to smash...

0
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech last Tuesday night that a coup attempt by a small group of the military had...