Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

OFT have never fined a single payday lender!

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PUBLIC Accounts Committee chairwoman Margaret Hodge has revealed that the Office For Fair Trading (OFT) ‘have never fined a lender for exploiting individual clients’. In...

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

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

TGWU stops BAA strike while Virgin says get other jobs!

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THE TGWU leadership, (now sheltering under the Unite label) has once again dropped a decision by its members to take strike action to...

Unemployment and inflation rising, as British capitalism crumbles!

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THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 43,000 to 2.5 million during the three months to February, the highest figure since...

Brown, Mitchell and Obama threaten Palestinians with a dirty deal

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PALESTINIANS are once again being threatened with a dirty deal after the Netanyahu-Brown meeting in London. After a Brown declaration that Britain is Israel’s ‘true...

World crisis spurring on world revolution

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THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has forecast that there is a bumpy road ahead for both the national and the...

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

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

RBS scandal demands workers expropriate the banks

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THIS week yet another scandal has broken out concerning the practices of the banking system. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is once again in...

Workers and middle class being pauperised – unions must remove Tories and bring in...

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BRITISH Gas is to increase electricity prices by 12.5% from 15 September, Centrica has revealed, in a move that will drastically slash the living...

Stop the pensions betrayal!

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THE membership, branch leaderships and regional leaderships of the local government trade unions must stop the betrayal of their final salary pensions by union...

Tories planning post election war vote on Syria

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THE TORIES plan to call a snap vote in parliament to authorise British airstrikes against the legitimate Syrian government forces of President Assad should...

Occupy Vauxhall plants – the only way to save jobs!

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TORY business secretary Greg Clark emerged from talks in France with General Motors and PSA, the owners of Peugeot, announcing that the talks had...

Corbyn comes good for the bosses’ and bankers’ EU

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CORBYN has been transformed into his opposite as far as the ruling class and Labour’s rabid Blairite right wing is concerned. He has gone...

Corbyn On The Ballot Paper – Another Defeat For Labour Right Wing!

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THE decision of the Labour Party NEC in a secret vote, by 18-14, for Labour leader Corbyn to go forward onto the leadership ballot...

The US raises its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling as capitalism races towards the precipice!

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THE US House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, while also attaching sweeping, massive...

Full support for the Tube workers!

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THE STRIKING Tube workers brought London to a standstill yesterday, and every London worker and commuter must give them their full support against the...

Labour Must Pledge To Recognise Palestine And To Stop Arming Israel

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700 BRITISH artists have signed a pledge to boycott Israel as long as it ‘continues to deny basic Palestinian rights’. The group, Artists for Palestine...

Government overruled – Mau Mau legal action is to go forward

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THE High Court yesterday rejected the disgraceful British government attempt to strike out the claims of Kenyan victims of British Colonial torture and terror...

84,7000 Yemeni children have starved to death! UK workers must bring down the May...

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A UK-BASED charity says more than 84,700 children under the age of five have starved to death in Yemen since the Saudi regime and...

Soros backed ‘Fifth Column’ calls for second EU referendum – Workers must force the...

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THE EU Brexit chief negotiator has declared that he is not prepared to compromise with the UK government over the decision of the British...

The GMB understands the need for redundancies

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JCB has announced 400 more redundancies, blaming a ‘significant’ reduction in incoming orders. The redundancies are made up of 297 shop floor jobs and 101...

Labour’s first 100 days will see the working class using its power to drive...

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LABOUR’S shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, delivered a speech yesterday laying out the priorities for the first 100 days of a Labour government. Within 100 days...

Answer jobs massacre at Vauxhall with occupations and a general strike

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AFTER weeks of speculation it was finally confirmed yesterday that the giant but bankrupt General Motors was pulling out of Europe, selling off its...

Temporary ceasefire while US rearms Ukrainian army and militias

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AN agreement has been reached in Minsk to cease fire in Ukraine from midnight Sunday, February 15. Russian President Vladimir Putin commented yesterday that...

Biden In London To Tell UK Government That It Must Support Use Of...

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A GROWING number of Washington’s NATO allies – including Britain, Spain, Canada and Germany – have already declared their refusal to follow the US...

US Military Chief Undermines The President Over US Troops In Iraq

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THE US’ top military commander General Dempsey has broken ranks with President Obama by telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that US...

Hundreds Of Thousands Being Referred To Foodbanks

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HUNDREDS of thousands of welfare claimants are being denied support by the social services, and are being referred to foodbanks by Job Centre staff...

Truss demands war across Europe to crush Russia!

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IN A KEYNOTE foreign policy speech at London’s Mansion House last night, Tory foreign secretary Liz Truss dispensed with the fiction of the imperialist...

Brown’s gold sales lost the Bank of England £3.8bn

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A DECADE ago, on May 7, 1999, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced plans to sell off a large part of Britain’s gold reserves. This was...

Gaza Residents Are Hit By Aid Strike!

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THERE has been a very bitter winter in Palestine especially in the war ravaged Gaza Strip where tens of thousands of Gazans’ homes were...

Rumsfeld Raves About Nuclear ‘Bunker Bombs’

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THE US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended, at an Asia-Pacific conference of regional defence ministers and military chiefs, the US drive to develop...

Vote ‘Leave’ on June 23 to get rid of Cameron and the Tory government!...

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IT is rapidly becoming crystal clear how important it is to vote ‘Leave’ in the June 23rd referendum on the EU. A ‘Leave’ vote will...

Cameron and NATO mobilise to send refugees back!

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BRITAIN is sending ‘vital military assets’ (in Cameron’s words) to be part of the NATO force that will be intercepting refugee boats seeking to...

Brown warns ‘bumps in the road ahead’

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has presided over a capitalist state rescue of the bankrupt banking system, which has seen the deployment of up...

Labour victimises the unemployed!

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INCAPACITY Benefit will be abolished under the Welfare Green Paper just published by Works and Pensions Minister, James Purnell. The 2.7 million people receiving Incapacity...

Children subjected to horrific pain and torture techniques. End UK state brutality with a...

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CHILDREN locked up in the UK are subjected to horrific pain, inhuman and degrading treatment, cruel restraining techniques and solitary confinement, a damning report...

TUC must call a general strike to defend national agreements and stop NHS...

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THE NHS trade unions have split with Unison and the RCN voting at the national NHS Staff Council on Tuesday, to support changes that...

Massive support for Tube workers’ strike – Now forward to a general strike

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London Underground is closed down today as Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) members staged another 24-hour strike over jobs, pensions and in defence of...

Mossad’s prints all over Gaza bombing!

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YESTERDAY in the aftermath of the bombing in Gaza that killed five leading Hamas fighters, and a five-year-old girl, accusations and counter-accusations were being...

Putin draws a line and issues a warning over imperialist war preparations

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RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin slammed the Western powers in his annual end-of-year press conference yesterday, telling the assembled journalists that Russia was cheated by...

IPCC admits Special Branch acted illegally to assist drawing up ‘blacklist’ for bosses!

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‘POLICE, including Special Branches, supplied information that appeared on the blacklist, funded by the country’s major construction firms, the Consulting Association and/or other agencies,...

Brown hints about withdrawal from Basra

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

Gate Gourmet Locked Out Workers Refused Entry To Tuc Congress

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YESTERDAY the leadership of the TGWU refused entry, as visitors, to the TUC Congress to some 20 locked out Gate Gourmet workers who have...

Parents Queue At 3Am To Get Their Children Into Breakfast Clubs!

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MORE than 130 parents queued outside a school in Cardiff, Wales from 3am Thursday morning to try and get their child a space at...

Asbestos: capitalism’s silent killer still killing workers and children!

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WHILE the tragic death of 72 people in the Grenfell inferno threw an immediate spotlight on the criminal disregard of capitalism for human life,...