Home Editorials Page 132

Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

British Ruling Class To Send Depleted Uranium Shells To The Ukraine!

0
THE UK government is sending depleted uranium shells for use in the Challenger 2 tanks gifted to Ukraine, a move CND has condemned as...

Tuc C0Ngress Must Give Corbyn And Palestine 100% Backing!

0
YESTERDAY’S editorial of the bosses’ and bankers’ Sunday Telegraph gave its marching orders to Labour’s right wing and fake lefts, saying of Labour leader...

Government forced to revive the NHS Trusts it was bankrupting

0
IN the face of the rising anger of junior doctors, nurses, consultants, ancillary workers and patients over the Labour government’s policy of deliberately crashing...

Putin lays down law to Soviet states

0
THE Putin regime has infuriated the British bourgeoisie by its strengthening of the state owned gas and oil sectors of the Russian economy, at...

Special treatment for the servants of the Murdoch empire!

0
YESTERDAY, the convicted News of the World journalists who had carried out ‘industrial scale’ hacking on behalf of Murdoch’s News International received lenient sentences. At...

A bankrupt Tory budget for a bankrupt Britain!

0
CHANCELLOR Hammond outlined a bankrupt policy for a bankrupt Britain yesterday in the House of Commons. The paper-thin disguise for this bankruptcy was Hammond’s...

THE BANK looks to inflation to pauperise the workers and Middle Class

0
THE pound fell sharply on Wednesday against both the dollar and the euro as the money markets were shaken to the core by the...

Smash Fortress EU with the socialist revolution

0
THE head of Eurotunnel is demanding that Britain forks out £4.6 million to finance a massive wall enclosing 600 metres of track at the...

Imperialist provocations against Iran a prelude to war

0
IMPERIALIST preparations for war against Iran were ramped up even further on Tuesday with completely unsubstantiated claims that Iran was responsible for the ‘hijacking’...

Student numbers to be slashed, schools to be merged – as Labour plans cuts

0
BRITISH capitalism is desperately cutting its coat according to its cloth as far as education is concerned. Deep in debt and risking state bankruptcy, the...

Defend North Korea! Prevent nuclear war by a revolutionary disarming of imperialism!

0
IN AN OPEN declaration that it is prepared to plunge the world into a nuclear war US imperialism has threatened that it ‘is prepared...

Bank of England has no tools to prevent capitalism crashing – socialist revolution is...

0
ANDREW Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, used an interview on the BBC yesterday to once again insist that British capitalism is...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday on the picket line

Trade unions must strike to defend the NHS!

0
TOMORROW Central Surrey Health (CSH), a private company set up by nurses and therapists, will find out whether they have won the £22m contract...

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...

UN Condemns Eu Over Mass Murder In The Med!

0
THE UN refugee agency has said once again that not enough is being done to save the lives of the tens of thousands of...

French join anti-Iran war party

0
FRENCH Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Sunday that in relation to Iran: ‘We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is...

No to a return of the Tories. Bring down Brown from the left

0
BROWN has survived the resignations of Hutton, Purnell, Smith, Flint, Blears, Hoon and others, and remains Prime Minister for the moment. The next test comes...

Murdoch Shops His Own Employees In Attempt To Save His Own Neck

0
FIVE journalists at the Sun newspaper have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of corrupt payments to the police and other ‘public servants’. A Surrey...

Pro-Palestinian hunger strikers in immediate danger of dying as Lammy refuses to meet with...

0
On Saturday, two of the prisoners on hunger strike were taken to hospital, the latest of eight prisoners admitted to hospital since they began...

Israeli pogromists launch Gaza ground attack!

0
IT didn’t take long for the Israeli government to carry out its plan to invade Gaza and carry out a pogrom against the Palestinian...

French Socialist government turns on the workers

0
THE French Socialist government has said it will raise Value Added Tax and cut public spending, kicking the working class and the poor in...

Union leaders must take action to bring down the Tories – and reject working with...

0
THE WORLD Health Organisation has issued its ‘Test, Test and Test’ call as its main policy to lay the basis for dealing with the...

Trump sends troops to steal Syrian oil! Kurds and Syrian army unite to drive...

0
WHEN US President Donald Trump abruptly announced on October 9 that all US troops would be pulled out of northern Syria, his administration indicated...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow yesterday morning – want their jobs back on their original terms and conditions

Unions must act NOW to reinstate Gate Gourmet workers!

0
TODAY scores of T&G members will be picketing the Gate Gourmet plant at Heathrow Airport, as they have every day since they were locked...

Pensions are now a revolutionary question

0
TUC leader, Brendan Barber, said yesterday in his gloom and doom-ridden New Year’s message that the Lord Adair Turner pensions report created ‘tough decisions’,...

Revealed – plan for US imperialism to take complete control of Gaza after Palestinians...

0
ON Sunday, the Washington Post paper reported details of a 38-page ‘prospectus’ that is circulating ‘within the Trump administration’ laying out plans to ‘take...

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...

Anti-Russian war alliance begins to crumble as head of German navy quits!

0
GERMANY’S navy chief has resigned from his post after drawing criticism from the German government and Ukraine over his remarks in support of Russian...

To defend jobs and pensions bring down the coalition!

0
UNIVERSITY STAFF and students are under massive attacks from the Tory-led coalition. Coalition ministers are pressing ahead with 25% funding cuts, and the UCU trade...

It’s still austerity, more austerity and yet more austerity from Osborne and the Tories

0
The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2014, compared to 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the...

Brown targets European workers’ rights and benefits

0
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown published a pamphlet Global Europe-Full Employment and penned a special article in the Financial Times yesterday, lecturing the leaders of European...

Imperialism plotting bigger war! The TUC must call a general strike and kick out...

0
US president Joe Biden on his whistlestop visit to Israel on Wednesday, gave the green light to plans for a full-scale ground invasion of...

A desperate ruling class forced to wheel out Gordon Brown to ‘save the day’...

0
WITH THE Tory government of Theresa May staggering from one crisis to another this week over the issue of Brexit, the desperation of the...

Ireland – hurtling towards a socialist revolution

0
THE right-wing Fine Gael party is set to form a coalition with its traditional partner, the right-wing Labour party, after a ‘political revolution’ which...

Reject Eu Diktat Attempt – Leave The Eu At Once !

0
THE GIGANTIC farce of the Brexit negotiations hit a brick wall this week with EU officials accusing the British of failing to reveal its...

EU and the US ruling classes are the enemy of the world’s poor and...

0
A CHARITY rescue vessel, the Alex, on Saturday brought 41 shipwrecked migrants into port in Lampedusa. This is the second boat to defy Italy’s...

Clinton declares war on Putin and on Russia

0
THE Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US Secretary of State, Clinton, of giving the Russian right wing – many of them...

Renationalise Energy Companies And Abolish Tuition Fees!

0
AT A time of a desperate economic crisis of capitalism, when millions of families fear that they will not be able to pay their...

Bankrupt British Bosses Declaring War On Workers, Students And Youth!

0
THE UK government borrowed £35.9bn in August, which was £30.5bn more than it borrowed in August last year. Borrowing between April and August totalled...

Labour plans to keep one million patients out of hospital

0
LABOUR’S policy of privatising the NHS by diverting huge chunks of the NHS budget to the private sector is preparing the bankruptcy of many...

US vetoes Middle East ceasefire as Israel prepares to expel Palestinians from their land...

0
‘SPEAKING on Saturday, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, accused the United States of being complicit in war crimes, after it vetoed a UN Security...

Take action to stop NHS cuts and closures

0
IT is now obvious that the Labour government is setting out, at breakneck speed, to privatise the NHS. It has set up private treatment centres...

Cameron washes his hands of steel industry – steelworkers must occupy and organise...

0
CAMERON yesterday gave the ‘V’ sign to the appeals by the Unite and TUC leadership that there must be a temporary nationalisation of Tata...

FBU anger mounting – strike action on the way!

0
FIREFIGHTERS risk their lives every time they are called out. They never know what they are going to have to tackle, and often do...

May assumes dictatorial powers over Parliament – time to bring her down with a...

0
TORY Prime Minister Theresa May was determined on Monday to avoid a substantive vote in Parliament on ‘her right’ to go to war and...