Home Editorials Page 128

Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Workers will demand Unite’s national action against fire and rehire be stepped up to...

0
YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...

Capitalism has no ‘safety net’ to save it from economic crash

0
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) can no longer act as the world’s ‘lender of last resort’ according to a task force of currency experts...

Kick The Israeli Troops Out Of Gaza!

0
YESTERDAY the US barred the way in the United Nations Security Council to a resolution condemning the Israeli assault on Gaza, calling for all...

Yates Demands A Heavily Armed Paramilitary Police Force!

0
BRITAIN’S top counter-terrorism officer, Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner Yates, has demanded that paramilitary police forces be established in the UK, and insists that they...

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...

Work till you drop! – Capitalism’s programme for the elderly

0
CAPITALISM is truly on the rocks! Unemployment is already heading for three million, of which the majority of the unemployed will be aged between 16...

Nurses determined to fight the Tories – all trade unions must strike with them...

0
The annual conference of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Brighton this week is taking place at a time when the entire NHS...

Putin Moves To Reassure Western ‘Partners!’

0
WITH the shelling and bombing of eastern Ukraine still taking place, and with tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in southern Russia, President Vladimir...

Palestine Faces Starvation! Now Is The Time For The Workers Of The World To...

0
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued their assault on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp for the 97th consecutive day on Sunday, carrying...

Smash the Gate Gourmet ‘Gangster Capitalists’

0
THIS Sunday locked out Gate Gourmet workers will be marching through Southall determined to win their jobs back after a bosses’ coup last...

Israel receives a warning from Hezbollah!

0
PALESTINIAN children in Israeli jails are being subjected to torture, and physical and psychological abuse by Israeli officials, says the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’...

Reid is talking liberty but is planning repression

0
HOME Secretary Reid yesterday spoke about the importance of liberty – a new subject for a Home Secretary who preaches the ‘war against terror’,...

US and world economic crisis deepens as PM Johnson decides to give up ...

0
THE CORONAVIRUS crisis is smashing up the US and world capitalist economy at a tremendous rate. The latest casualty is the electric car firm Tesla...

Tory MPs rebel while cringing Labour saves Cameron and Osborne

0
AFTER all the fake sound and fury of parliamentary question time, with party leaders locked in apparent combat without quarter given or asked for,...

Nationalise BAA – forward to a national transport system

0
THE call has gone up in the Competition Commission report that three of BAA’s seven airports – two of its three in London, out...

Millions face fuel poverty – Nationalise the energy industry

0
Yesterday’s report by the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group (FPAG) that 300,000 households will be plunged into fuel poverty by Christmas is not just a scandal...

The working class faces the threat of state terrorism!

0
TWO videos, one by the FBI and one by the British police, have just been issued giving advice to people about actions they should...

Labour can only offer youth police state repression

0
THE Labour government is bringing in additional legislation under which children as young as 14 years old will be banned from wearing hoods or...

Starmer is making the poor pay for the crisis. The TUC must strike to...

0
FOLLOWING the failure of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ panic visit to beg, or borrow, £600 million from China, the Labour government of Keir Starmer is...

Hamas condemns ‘horrific massacres!’ Now is the time for worldwide strike action to establish...

0
THE Hamas Movement has accused Israeli occupation forces (IOF) of committing a ‘horrific massacre’ that killed more than 15 Palestinians attempting to access food...

‘Treason’ law threat is to the whole working class

0
SCOTLAND YARD and the Crown Prosecution Service are meeting to discuss bringing charges against three men under the Treason Act, for which the death...

NHS is running out of surgeons, nurses and midwives!

0
ON Thursday midwives handed in a petition to 10 Downing Street condemning the government on the grounds that it was putting the lives of...

The Treasury and the Banks are in a panic over the Metro crash!

0
UK Treasury officials are locked in talks with the Bank of England after Metro Bank’s shares plunged by more than 31%. The bank is now...

Kick out the TUC leaders who collaborate with the Tories – build a revolutionary...

0
IN HIS INTERVIEW with the Spectator magazine Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak made it quite clear that in the New Year there will have to...

All Out Strike To Defend NHS! Nurses Must Get 15%!

0
NURSES, midwives and NHS workers around the country take to the streets again today to demand a 15% pay rise and they are extremely...

UK Military Chiefs Call To Bring Back Conscription As US-UK Prepare For War...

0
FORMER British military chiefs have told the Starmer-led Labour government that it, as the government of the UK, ‘must’ consider conscription ‘now’ before it...

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...

End free movement in EU urges May as Tory crisis deepens!

0
THE deepening worldwide capitalist crisis is driving forward revolution with seven-league boots. The crisis is threatening a new banking and industrial crash at any moment...

Taleban Offensive Actions On The Rise

0
THERE is no need for major changes in current Afghan strategy, US president Barack Obama told Congress according to a letter released by the...

Unions must take action! Occupy Bombardier! Bring down the coalition! Nationalise to...

0
THE proposed sacking of 1,500 Bombardier workers in Derby is the beginning of the end for the train construction industry in the UK, and...

US slaughters Iraqis during the referendum on a constitution

0
WHILE US President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair and their quislings in Baghdad were pumping out propaganda about ‘freedom and democracy’,...

Greek students erupt against state controlling universities with riot police

0
GREEK students fought a pitched battle with riot police in Athens on Wednesday as the Greek parliament debated new laws to station security personnel...

Any attempt to ban Rail and Post strikes must be met with a general...

0
THE DECEMBER 12 general election will take place in the middle of an unprecedented wave of strikes as workers show their revolutionary determination to...

Victory to Syria! Defeat imperialist war drive with world socialist revolution!

0
THE DEATHS of dozens of civilians including young children in Syrian town Khan Sheikhoun has been seized on by imperialism as a weapon to...

McDonnell wants a corporatist deal with the capitalists!

0
SHADOW Chancellor McDonnel’s speech to the Labour Party conference was remarkable for its lack of treatment of the crisis of capitalism. He focused...

British workers must make the TUC call a general strike to bring in the...

0
THE United Nations has confirmed that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city...

Pensions conflict sharpening UK class struggle to explosion point

0
WITH its threat to bring in new anti-union laws, that will prevent all legal strike action by all trade unions in the UK, if...

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...

Defend the NHS – kick the government out

0
THE final report into the crisis at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Hospital Trust is due to be published in January after a considerable delay. In fact, the...

General strike now to stop destruction of the NHS!

0
NHS HOSPITALS are facing an immediate cut of £1.6 billion, with the government ordering NHS Trusts to ‘balance their books’ by making cutbacks and...

Labour must move to stop war, and force the May government to resign!

0
WHILE Trump and US Defence Secretary, General ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis were blowing hot and cold over whether they were going to attack Syria or...

TUC must call a general strike in support of junior doctors and the NHS

0
TODAY Emergency Motion E5 is to be heard and voted on at the TUC Congress in Brighton. Despite being called ‘Support for the BMA and...

brown proposes to rob the workers to rescue the bankers

0
YESTERDAY saw the big international push get under way to try to rescue the bankers of the world from the crisis of their capitalist...

Junior doctors must call new strike and the BMA and TUC must stop with...

0
THE BMA warned yesterday that ‘Politically driven mismanagement is undermining patient care in England. It was responding to a report from the King’s Fund...

Johnson Getting Ready To Follow Trump, End The Lockdown And Bring In Millions Of...

0
THE MASSIVE ‘Black Lives Matter’ marches this weekend saw millions of workers internationally and tens of thousands of youth and workers in the UK...