Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

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

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

Workers must force through the break with the EU with a socialist revolution

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THE Brexit negotiations have just begun and already it is being spelt out to the UK ruling class that the ‘divorce settlement’ that...

Britain Is Ripe For Socialist Revolution

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THE British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) quarterly report has just discovered a situation that every worker and every shopper has been acquainted with for...

Trade unions must unite to defend bursaries and stop hospital closures!

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TWO very important NHS trade union conferences are currently taking place this week, the RCN, nurses union, and the BMA doctors. Already the RCN supported...

Cbi Demands Huge Cuts To Save The Bosses

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THE employers organisation, the CBI, yesterday demanded that the Tory coalition government go even further than it has pledged, in destroying benefits and...

Nato Murders Civilians In Tripoli Air Strikes

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IN another night of terror, murder and horror NATO, allegedly making war on Libya to protect civilians from air attack, has been murdering...

It’s The Afghans Who Will Have To Retake Musa Qala

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CURRENTLY a great deal of propaganda hot air is being expended hailing the action that British forces are taking to ‘liberate’ the town of...

‘Blair and Straw have a great deal to answer for,’ says Alex Salmond

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SNP foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond spoke up for millions of British people yesterday when he highlighted the role that one-time Labour PM Blair...

At least three provinces reject the US’ Iraq constitution

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IT IS remarkable that in a ‘constitutional referendum’ organised by a puppet government, in a country under occupation by the US and the UK,...

Nationalise Bankrupt Companies – Under Workers’ Control And Management

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THE Labour government, after handing tens of billions of pounds to the Northern Rock and the other major banks, in an attempt to save...

Break with the EU now! Forward to a Workers Government and the United...

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WHEN TORY PM May went to the European Union to try and sell her Chequers plan she was met with a unanimous ‘NO’ from...

Johnson’s Visit To Sweden And Finland Is To Expand The War Against Russia!

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PM BORIS Johnson is visiting Sweden and Finland to expand the war in Ukraine, and specifically to urge both nations to join the NATO...

Revolutionary crisis shaking regimes all over Europe

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GERMAN Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy on Saturday decreed that the preservation of the euro required a 70bn euro currency reserve fund and...

Oligarchs Go Bust As World Crisis Hits Home

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Russia’s super-rich oligarchs, who made their fortunes by stealing or purchasing for a pittance chunks of the Soviet nationalised and planned economy under the...

As Johnson gets May mark-2 ready – workers must take action to take the...

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AS THE date for leaving the EU, October 31st comes closer and closer, all of the vultures are desperately gathering over the corpse of...
Gate Gourmet locked out workers in good spirits despite the bitter cold on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

Defeat the Education Bill – no to an education market

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THE government has published its Education Bill, with up to 100 Labour MPs still opposed to it. The Education and Inspection Bill allows schools in...

GMB condemns Sedgefield council house privatisation

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THE GMB Annual Congress has condemned the decision of the Labour government to privatise the council house stock in Prime Minister Blair’s own constituency,...

Stop Royal Mail being thrown to the private equity wolves!

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POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...

Bankrupt Miliband brings back Butcher Blair!

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LABOUR leader Miliband’s refusal to fight for socialist policies and answer massive austerity with a campaign to replace bankrupt capitalism with socialism has seen...

US capitalism in crisis, UK capitalism near collapse

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US interest rates have now been increased to five per cent, with last Wednesday’s 16th monthly increase in a row. In fact, the new chief...

Charles pushes confrontation with Russia

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PRINCE Charles’s comparison of President Putin with Hitler, and Putin’s actions in the Ukraine as comparable with Hitler’s treatment of the peoples of...

TUC traitors issue joint statement with the CBI bosses, the ETUC and Business...

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THE TUC leaders have just issued an unprecedented joint statement with the bosses of the CBI, the ETUC and Business Europe ahead of June’s...

British capitalism hit by unending crisis – put it out of its misery with...

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WITH the petrol stations closing, British capitalism suffered another shock yesterday when it was announced that the UK’s second biggest oil refinery is on...

Forward to the Zimbabwe socialist revolution!

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THE resolution of the United Nations Security Council condemning violence in Zimbabwe, carried with both China and Russia voting for the motion, ...

Syrian Army poised for victory in Aleppo

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THE news at the weekend that the Syrian army had successfully driven Jaysh al-Fateh out of the western areas around Aleppo marks another decisive...

The BBC supports starving the people of Gaza

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THE BBC is part of the British capitalist state whose job it is to look after the interests of the ruling class. It has...

Tory plans to put troops on the streets

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IT EMERGED in the bourgeois press at the weekend that the army has been drawing up plans for troops to be sent onto the...

Support the Junior Doctors with a general strike!

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20,000 junior doctors, medical students, health workers and supporters marched in central London yesterday. As well there were well attended marches in Belfast and...

Moroccan leaders stab Palestine in the back with another ‘normalisation’ deal with Israel!

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ISRAEL and Morocco announced they are to ‘normalise ties’ in another US-brokered deal. On Thursday, Morocco became the fourth Arab country since August to strike...

UK and US trade unions must support the Palestinian socialist revolution!

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WHILE the US and UK backed Israeli murder machine, both civil and military is at work on a daily basis killing Palestinian men women...

US Fails In Drone Attempt On Life Of Taleban Leader

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A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan’s tribal region killed at least 12 persons on Thursday. Drone aircraft fired two missiles on a religious seminary...

Turning A New Page In The NHS!

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THE leaders of 10 NHS organisations have called in an open letter for a ‘new page to be turned’ in 2014. Powerful organisations including...

IRAQ – the last rites for the occupation and its stooges

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PRESIDENT George W Bush’s plan to stabilise Iraq through a military ‘surge’ is ‘a lost cause’, said the New York Times last Sunday. The New...

Defend car jobs! Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot!

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VAUXHALL Chairman Jonathan Browning announced yesterday that the General Motors (GM) subsidiary is to cut about 900 jobs, by the end of August, at...

US-Israel Organising Cyber Warfare

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THE New York Times has revealed that the United States and Israel were behind the Stuxnet virus cyber-warfare attack on Iran and its nuclear...

World Bank Report – capitalism  stands on brink of financial crash

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THE WORLD stands on the brink of a financial crash according to the latest biannual Global Economic Prospects report from the World Bank. This warns...

‘Dozens Of Conspiracies’ But ‘Terror Threat Level’ Downgraded

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HOME Secretary Reid, who has been making people’s blood run cold with his tales of dozens of conspiracies and thousands of terrorists, has reduced...

Former BoE Governor calls on China to abandon ‘zero-Covid’ strategy to save global capitalism!

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THE FORMER Bank of England Governor Mark Carney yesterday warned that China’s ‘zero-Covid’ strategy is ‘at risk of derailing the global economy and driving...

Workers must call general strikes to break the Israeli siege of Palestine

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THE Hamas Ministry of Health said on Wednesday that 102 Palestinian citizens were martyred and 287 others injured in 5 Israeli massacres in Gaza...

Smash all fees – build a new leadership in the NUS!

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TODAY will see the second wave of student anger against the Tory government’s decision to treble tuition fees from around £3,000 to £9,000 a...

End low pay through a general strike to kick out the government

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ON the day that NHS workers took strike action for the first time in 30 years, and in the case of midwives the first...

Stand up to the bullying bosses with a general strike

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THE ‘New Local Government Network’ was warning yesterday of a ‘tsunami of a public sector recession’ after the next general election when the just...

UK flees Afghanistan – and sacks 4,500 troops

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NATO has handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan to the Afghan puppet government for the first time since the Taliban were ousted...

Tories considering a national government – they must be overthrown! Forward to a workers...

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THE COLLAPSE of the US economy with 10 million US workers losing their jobs in the last two weeks, allied to the already collapsed...

Occupy to stop car plant closures – nationalise the motor industry to defend...

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YESTERDAY, US carmaker Ford announced it will close the car engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, throwing all 1,700 workers out of a job...