Home Editorials Page 108

Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Trade unions must call a general strike to stop Tories ending all Covid restrictions

0
YESTERDAY, Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the ending of all remaining Covid restrictions in England this week. The Tories’ ‘Living with Covid’ plan means...

Workers must support Russia and China as Biden threatens new war!

0
AS THE world crisis of the capitalist system deepens, the US under President Joe Biden is preparing for a new world war. Biden is...

Lords defeat Tory police state bill – trade unions must now take action to...

0
THE TORY government’s plan for a police state dictatorship over the trade unions and all public protest movements took a big hit yesterday when...

Keep The Military Out Of Schools

0
THE BROWN government is now beating the big drum of patriotism, a quality that has often been termed as the ‘last refuge of a...

Bank of England to ‘crucify the consumer’

0
NOT ONLY has the world crisis of capitalism now been accepted as the reality by even the most sceptical of the bourgeoisie, its different...

Tory budget–tax relief for bosses, tax increases for low paid!

0
THE headlines in the bourgeois press yesterday howled about Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, breaking a cast-iron Tory election manifesto pledge that there would be...

Obama asks Congress to decide on war or peace

0
IN A MAJOR abdication of Presidential power, Obama has given the US Congress the task of deciding whether there should be a strike on...

One day FBU strikes must pave the way for a general strike!

0
LAST Friday the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced that it would kick off its defence of jobs and conditions with two days of strike...

Google, Apple and Facebook facilitate international internet slave trade says UN!

0
HE INTERNET is being used to promote a modern day online slave market, where women and children are being sold into domestic servitude. This...

Corbyn has no answer for the Tory onslaught on workers and trade unions!

0
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday at the TUC conference had no answer to the Tory onslaught on the trade unions. In particular, he ignored the...

Join the lobby of the TUC to demand they call an immediate general strike...

0
OVER 100,000 Royal Mail workers are striking again today. 30,000 BT Openreach engineers, along with 10,000 BT call centre workers are also on strike,...

Blair Demands More Police State Measures

0
AT A TIME when his office is on trial over the state execution of Jean Charles de Menezes, Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair...

Obama Pledges To ‘Eliminate’ Threat Posed By Iran

0
YESTERDAY Hillary Clinton revealed that she will formally end her campaign for the White House on Saturday, and throw her full support behind her...

The CWU leaders are refusing to fight for their membership

0
THE unsolicited public display of pacifism yesterday by the CWU leadership, in the face of the most vicious daily attacks on their membership...

Labour squeezing poor and cutting services to prop up the banks

0
CHANCELLOR Darling has told his cabinet colleagues there will be no more money made available for schools, hospitals or transport. These vital services face cuts,...

P&O sackings expose the ‘sham’ of consultation with the unions – only a general...

0
THE CHIEF executive of P&O Ferries, Peter Hebblethwaite, appeared before a joint hearing of the transport and business committee of MPs yesterday to answer...

Answer Plot To Revoke Article 50 With A Socialist Revolution

0
THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected an attempt by the UK government to prevent the European Court of Justice (ECJ) judges hearing a legal...

US workers and youth won’t tolerate racist murders

0
THE eruption of a mass movement in over 100 US cities condemning the clearing of George Zimmerman for the murder of black teenager Trayvon...

A Case Of Strange Bedfellows

0
THE Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come back from the US convinced that the Labour government must change its position against the use...

Unions must call a general strike to support Gaza and put an end to...

0
THE Bureau of the UN General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People reaffirmed last Wednesday night its...

Anti-Semitic slander against Corbyn – state-orchestrated attempt to destroy Labour Party

0
WEDNESDAY night’s Panorama programme ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’ marks a new and increasingly desperate stage in the state-orchestrated witch-hunt of Jeremy Corbyn with the aim...

British capitalism is breaking apart

0
THE one clear message that emerged from Cameron’s speech yesterday was that the political representatives of the capitalist class in Britain have given up...

Anti-union laws and wage cuts will stay – Brown tells trade unions

0
Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday gave a fitting reply to all those trade union bureaucrats who were saying that he could be forced to...

UK Must Stop Arming Saudi Arabia And Must Rush Food Aid To The Yemen

0
THE TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that all those behind the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi should be brought to justice,...

UK economy speeds into bankruptcy – demand TUC call a general strike to kick...

0
THE SPEED of the UK economy crashing into complete bankruptcy is breathtaking, as it leaves the Tory government along with the Bank of England...

Riga humiliation for Bush and NATO

0
WHILE President George Bush was condemning EU leaders for not sending more forces to Afghanistan to fight the Taleban, officials of the main central...

Defend the Royal Mail – bring down the coalition!

0
The Tory-led coalition’s Business Secretary, Vince Cable, yesterday launched a demagogic attack on ‘spiv’ and ‘gambling’ bankers and their bonuses at the LibDem Conference. This...

Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ is a national government

0
GORDON Brown yesterday launched his campaign to take over the job of Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. He spoke about his ‘new ideas and...

Working class erupts as inflation rips through Europe – build sections of the 4th...

0
EUROPE has erupted in strikes as workers rise up against raging inflation which is driving down living standards to poverty levels across the EU. Germany,...

Brown hints about withdrawal from Basra

0
PRIME Minister Brown was yesterday midway to giving up his ‘there is no timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq’ line – imposed on him...

Fight for jobs, and against evictions and benefit cuts!

0
THOUSANDS more working-class families are going to their local Citizen Advice Bureau because of the effects of unemployment, debts, threatened loss of homes and...

Bush fails to get Iraqi puppets to agree ‘constitution’

0
OVER the weekend, President Bush made personal phone calls to both the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in...

Israel’s murderous attacks on Palestinian children

0
LAST Friday saw the opening moves by the Palestinian Authority to bring the state of Israel before the international courts to answer for its...

Syria wins the war! Foreign Sec Hunt admits Assad is here to stay! Workers...

0
TORY Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has admitted for the first time that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will remain in office. Hunt made the remark...

Live8 won’t comment on ‘don’t attack Bush’ line

0
YESTERDAY the PR company representing Live8, LD Publicity, refused to deny media allegations that Bob Geldof, the Live8 movement’s leader, had a soft spot...

Police provocateurs at large

0
GREEN party MP Caroline Lucas has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the case of an undercover police officer and his possible involvement in...

Tories refuse to negotiate – opt for a fight to the finish. Junior doctors...

0
YESTERDAY the BMA junior doctors’ leader Dr Johann Malawana said, referring to the forthcoming strike actions: ‘No junior doctor wants to take this action,...

Time To Put The Tory Libdem Coalition Out!

0
WHEN the leaders of the Coalition are forced to pledge publicly that it will go the distance and will not split apart, the...

‘Big Society’ – wholesale destruction of the Welfare State

0
TORY prime minister, David Cameron, launched a desperate attempt yesterday to try and convince an incredulous public that his ‘Big Society’ policy is something...

Saudi Leader Bin Salman Urges Talks Between The US And Iran!

0
THE SAUDI Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose oilfields were hit recently by a devastating drone and cruise missile attack which he blamed on...

‘We’re the insurgents now,’ declares Tony Blair!

0
EX-LABOUR Premier Blair has summoned the anti-Brexit camp, that is the bosses, the bankers, the majority of Tory and Labour MPs and the majority...

No ‘trade-off’ for the NHS: Kick out the Tories instead!

0
THE HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stevens, yesterday released the report ‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’, a report that makes...

NAO report exposes the scandal of the Southern GTR Rail franchise

0
TRAIN staff and angry commuters have been protesting up and down the country at the 3.4% hikes in rail fares. Many commuters have seen...

Occupy Grangemouth to defend the union, jobs, wages and pensions

0
UNITE has urged Grangemouth workers not to give in to Ineos’ ‘menacing’ tactics to sign away their rights, saying it was looking to take...

The crisis savages the workers while the rich double their wealth

0
THE total wealth of the richest 1,000 individuals and families in Britain has more than doubled in the last 10 years to £547bn, the...