Home Editorials Page 116

Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

BIS warns of new banking ‘catastrophe!’

0
CAPITALISTS are quaking in their boots at the prospect of the next worldwide banking crash. All eyes are on Italy going the same...

Carney tells banks to find £11.4 billion to save them going bust

0
DESPITE all the recent words from Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, about the underlying health of British capitalism, his actions yesterday...

Israeli War Criminals Must Now Face Arrest, Detention, And Trial By A War Crimes...

0
THE US, Israel’s major backer and armer, has condemned the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to launch a full investigation into Israeli war crimes. In...

Trump Is Organising A US Coup Not A Presidential Election Campaign!

0
IN HIS FOURTH of July speech US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claims are out to...

Nato air strikes clear way for counter-revolutionaries

0
IT is now crystal clear that the Nato airforces are in Libya to blast a way through the Libyan people, both fighters and civilians,...

US imperialism preparing war on Iran – workers must stop this war by overthrowing...

0
THIS week US imperialism ratcheted up its preparations for an all-out military war against Iran. On Monday, Donald Trump’s national security advisor and warmonger-in-chief John...

The Deputy Prime Minister resigns, but the May government is allowed to continue!

0
ON WEDNESDAY PM May was finally forced to sack her Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green following an inquiry by officials from the Cabinet Office...

Starmer and Streeting declare war on NHS – TUC must be forced to call...

0
KEIR Starmer and Labour Health Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday launched a ‘public consultation’ on their plans to transform the NHS from ‘analogue to digital’ in...

Giant investment companies dump shares as world banking crash looms

0
Testifying to MPs at the Treasury Committee yesterday, Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, issued a sharp rebuke to Labour chancellor Rachel...

US workers taking the revolutionary road

0
THE Baltimore protests over the police killing of 25-year-old African-American Freddie Gray have spread all over the USA. Gray died of a spinal cord...

British Capitalist Economy Down The Pan!

0
THE latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) GDP figures show two quarters – six months – of zero growth in the British capitalist...

The state is looking to take control

0
THE capitalist state used to be the mailed fist concealed within the velvet glove in Britain. Its real power was covered by the parliamentary...

Defend North Korea Against Imperialist Attack!

0
THE US and its South Korean puppets are set to begin their largest ever joint military exercises amid the high tensions that they have...

Brown champions more police powers and public sector pay cuts

0
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told police chiefs yesterday that he will do ‘everything to give you the resources’ and ‘we will not shirk from giving...

A desperate Bank of England pumps another £100 billion of free money into the...

0
THE BANK of England (BoE) yesterday unleashed another round of Quantitative Easing (QE), adding another £100 billion to the amount of ‘free’ money they...

Youth reject a life in debt!

0
AFTER almost 10 years of a Labour government under Prime Minister Blair, young people who get jobs after leaving university find they end up...

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...

Deutsche Bank collapse will crash the world’s banking system!

0
DEUTSCHE Bank, the largest and most important bank in Europe, sacked its British born chief executive John Cryan after just three years in the...

Workers must lobby parliament on October 19th and call general strike to leave the...

0
THE Supreme Court in Scotland yesterday delayed its decision on whether it would be necessary for the courts to intervene and force PM Johnson...

Brown and Blair – two sides of the same coin

0
WITH Blair’s political reputation destroyed by the Iraq war, and the massive resistance to his attack on the Welfare State, and with the media...

Full Support For The RMT And Tssa Strikers!

0
THE RMT began the first of its two 48-hour strikes on Tuesday night against the plan of London Mayor Boris Johnson to close all...

‘New Leader – Old Agenda’

0
IN a motion for next month’s Trades Union Congress, UNISON correctly says the use of private firms in public services is ‘harmful, wasteful, and...

War on the unemployed – bring down the coalition

0
THE news this weekend that the private companies are bidding for 40 new welfare contracts represents another stage in the Tory-LibDem coalition’s relentless drive...

Blair And Brown Crippling African Health Care!

0
THE current Blair drive to have Gordon Brown and himself depicted in the media as the saviours of the African continent has hit the...

Anti-union laws to launch open Tory dictatorship over workers!

0
JUST days after Chancellor Osborne unveiled his second budget plans to put the whole burden of the capitalist crisis onto the backs of the...

Coalition forcing in education commodity market

0
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that the government was organising an ‘NHS-style crash’ pushing through ‘reforms’ to create an education...

British Imperialism Hits The Rocks! Time For Workers To Despatch It To The Dustbin...

0
CRISIS-RIDDEN British imperialism, split over whether to serve the European Union or the United States, is now like a ship without a rudder, and...

Japan Rearming To Back US Aggression Against China

0
THE Japanese government, ignoring yet again its own constitution, which bans Japan having aggressive military forces, has approved a new national security strategy, and...

Truss government is in a huge crisis. Make the TUC call a general strike...

0
THE Tory Party is now in Conference and in the biggest crisis in its history, after its ‘mini budget’ caned the poor and the...

Smash Royal Mail privatisation, defend the NHS, bring down the Brown government, forward to...

0
WORKERS at Lindsey power station, the Royal Mail and doctors have shown their strength in rejecting and fighting attacks on their jobs, their wages...

Palestinian Premier Condemns Israel’s Killing Of Four Young Palestinians!

0
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has condemned the Israeli army killing of four young Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and...

The EU Remains In Charge As All Parties Await Its Decision On Extending Eu...

0
THE EU is definitely still in charge of Brexit and the ‘Brexit debate’. MPs await its decision today after Tory leader Johnson dumped the ‘no...

Tories Plan To Bomb Syria And Send Troops To Libya

0
NEWS LINE congratulates the German workers who have given a big welcome to the Syrian and other refugees who have shown such an indomitable...

The ‘bank of central bankers’ warns new banking collapse imminent

0
THE Swiss based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has just issued its starkest warning yet that the entire debt fuelled international banking system is...

The strike wave sweeping Britain demands a new leadership in trade unions, come to...

0
THE STRIKE wave sweeping across Britain has a revolutionary content. Since the capitalist crisis first burst into the open with the banking collapse of 2008...

Eurozone on top of revolutionary volcano

0
JUST when the eurozone bankers and capitalist class were congratulating themselves on beating the  reformist Syriza government of Greece into submission, an even bigger...

Durham Miners’ Gala must demand a General Strike!

0
TENS OF thousands of workers and youth are taking part in today’s historic Durham Miners’ Gala at a time when the capitalist system is...

Heading For A Housing Crash!

0
ON MONDAY trading on the Wall Street stock market in New Century Financial shares was halted, as the second largest US sub-prime mortgage lender...

No war with Russia – Bring capitalism down with socialist revolutions!

0
ON TUESDAY Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced sanctions against Russia over the decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise the Republics of Lugansk...

Rice Visit Is To Stir Up Wars And Civil Wars

0
US Secretary of State Rice’s visit to the Middle East is to organise the conditions for US attacks on both Iran and...

Labour seeking state control of inquests

0
THE parliamentary Human Rights Committee report on the government’s latest Counter-Terrorism Bill, before its second reading in the House of Commons, records just...
A lively delegation of Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside the TGWU offices in Hillingdon yesterday morning

Heathrow Battlefield

0
TONY Woodley, the TGWU general secretary, commenting on the sacking of one of the leading members of the TGWU by BA yesterday, and the...

Hewitt Demands An NHS £250 Million Surplus!

0
HEALTH Secretary Hewitt, who not so long ago said that there would be no limits to privatisation in the NHS, yesterday revealed that she...

Withdraw British troops now! Bring down the Blair government!

0
MORE than 100,000 people are expected to take part in the anti-war demonstration in London today, according to its organisers, the Stop the War...

Joint Russian & UK Salisbury investigation: The only way to uncover the truth!

0
RUSSIA says the UK shows no interest in conducting a joint investigation into the alleged assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia,...