Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

End the regime of forced prepayment meters – nationalise British Gas and all...

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IN THE WEEK when the giant oil and gas company Shell announced record profits of £32.2 billion, on the back of the soaring cost...

Oil giants make huge profits – nationalise oil and energy industries now!

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WHILE workers face skyrocketing energy bills forcing millions to go without heat this winter the giant oil and gas company Shell has announced annual...

Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any attack on the country

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THE commander of Iran’s armed forces Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard said on Tuesday that Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any...

Israel prison service is beating and assaulting female Palestinian detainees inside Damon prison!

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IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned Israeli forces’ brutal aggression against Palestinian women at Damon Prison in the Palestinian occupied territories. ‘Beating female Palestinian...

Demand recall of the TUC to sack current leaders replacing them with a leadership...

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Today will be the biggest day of strike action across the country in over a decade, with hundreds of thousands of workers from nearly...

Bank of England trapped by inflation crisis – socialism the only way forward

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THE BANK of England is due to meet this week to announce an increase in interest rates, with ‘experts’ predicting an increase of 0.5%...

Tories Breaking Apart Along With Their Bankrupt Economy While The Tuc Refuses To Take...

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UK capitalism is now the sick man of the capitalist world. Its economy is going broke while the Tories openly discuss knifing the NHS,...

UK Trade Unions Must Boycott Israel And Give Financial And Political Support To Palestinian...

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THE new Israeli government, which includes known fascists, is now engaging in murderous attacks on the Palestinian people as it pushes to create many...

TUC organises a day of inaction against Tory union-busting laws!

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IT was with much fanfare that the TUC announced on the 10th January that it would hold a national ‘protect the right to strike’...

The Enemy Is At Home! No British Tanks For The Ukraine – Bring Down...

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THE RUSSIAN armed forces will destroy US-made M1 Abrams tanks and other NATO military equipment if they are supplied to Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to...

TUC attempting to dump the fight against Tory anti-union laws!

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IN advance of the national ‘protect the right to strike’ day of demonstrations on Wednesday 1st February the TUC has published a statement headed...

Tory sleaze again – boot them out with a general strike!

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NADHIM Zahawi, the Tory Party Chairman and ex Chancellor of the Exchequer, has for months been avoiding questions about his tax affairs, but on...

UK And French Workers Are Taking Action Against The Bosses And The Bankers –...

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THE head of the UK’s Unite trade union has accused the government of having a ‘sinister reason’ for ‘not doing a deal’ with nurses...

Washington Hits Its Debt Limit – After A ‘Devastating Default’ The Bosses Will...

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THE US RULING CLASS has hit its debt limit, with the Treasury Department now taking measures to try to prevent a devastating default. Reaching the...

France gripped by nationwide strike against Macron government!

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FRANCE was gripped by a nationwide strike yesterday with schools closed and trains grinding to a halt as workers walked out in anger at...

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH – TUC MUST ORGANISE GENERAL STRIKE for FEBRUARY 1!

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YESTERDAY’S mass picket lines outside NHS hospitals are a direct result of the fact that the Tory government is insulting workers and will not...

Disband the police force now – forward to a workers state and socialism

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DAVID Carrick, a serving Metropolitan Police officer, admitted 49 offences in court on Monday, pleading guilty to 24 rape charges, and false imprisonments, and...

Tories want more powers for police to crush the trade unions – TUC must...

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the government will be tabling fresh amendments to the Public Order Bill, being debated in the...

BMA Junior Doctors Unite With The RMT To Demand Action Against Privatisation And Anti-Union...

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THE sight of the junior doctors of the British Medical Association and the RMT union beginning to form an alliance in order to defend...

Workers Of The World Unite To Smash Capitalism And Imperialism!

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THE MURDER of Keenan Anderson, the cousin of a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, Patrisse Cullors, after he was repeatedly tasered by police officers...

Make Feb 1st the start of a general strike to kick out the Tories!

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THE Tory ‘Strikes (Minimum Services Levels) Bill’, unveiled by business secretary Grant Shapps this week has been criticised by sections of the bourgeois press...

Tories Want To Turn Trade Unions Into Labour Fronts For The Bosses With Their...

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THE TORIES are proposing to turn free and independent trade unions into ‘Labour Fronts’ run by the bosses with their new anti-trade union legislation. Under...

Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...

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THE Tories wasted no time in placing their anti-strike laws before parliament yesterday in their determination to break the trade unions and inflict the...

Netanyahu’s coalition rips away façade of Israeli ‘democracy’ – trade unions must boycott Israel

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OVER 10,000 people took to the streets of the main Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday in protest against the policies unveiled last...

The Tories are planning to smash the trade unions – To defend the right...

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THE General Council of the TUC is set to meet on Tuesday, in a meeting that has been kept a secret, lest large numbers...

The Tories new proposed anti-union laws must be smashed – Defend the right to...

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FBU general secretary Matt Wrack has hit out at the government announcement that it will introduce new anti-union laws which will include the following...

Starmer pledges Labour to super-austerity to rescue capitalism

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer delivered a speech in Stratford, east London yesterday setting out Labour’s ‘vision’ for the country under any future Labour government. His...

TUC urges Tories to ‘withdraw from the brink’. Stop pleading and call a general...

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THE TORY government is refusing to hold any serious negotiations with the rail trade unions for the simple reason that it is introducing anti-strike...

Latest IMF warning that 2023 is year of world recession – world revolution the...

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THE HEAD of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has delivered a stark New Year warning that a third of the world economy...

Tories determined to impose even bigger pay cuts on NHS workers – time...

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TORY ministers have instructed the supposedly independent NHS Pay Review Body to cap the wages of frontline health workers to just 2% in 2023-24. At...

TUC Leader Nowak Urges The Tories To Compromise With The Trade Unions Just As...

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IN THE understatement of the year, the new leader of the TUC Paul Nowak warned yesterday that further strikes could lie ahead in 2023...

Bosses Demand That Sunak Brings In Laws To Chain Up The Trade Unions!

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THE British working class is showing a real class determination and ability to defend its jobs, its wages, its basic rights and its families,...

SNP join Tories in refusing any pay negotiations with nurses

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THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Scotland has voted overwhelmingly to reject the final pay offer from the nationalist SNP government, meaning Scottish...

Workers are giving 100% support to the ambulance service strikers – now finish off...

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THE GMB has suspended its Christmas Strike date for ambulance service workers, right at the time when the Tories are reeling from their deadly...

Netanyahu fills new Israeli government with racists and fascists for a pogrom against...

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On Wednesday, the recently elected president of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, finally announced that he has assembled a ruling coalition cabinet between his Likud party...

Tories Accuse Striking Nurses Of Murder As They Move To Knife NHS With Privatisation!

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YESTERDAY Tory Health Secretary Barclay, who is refusing to negotiate with the NHS trade unions over NHS pay, accused striking nurses of putting patients’...

Tories declare class war to the finish – time for trade unions to organise...

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ON THE EVE of the unprecedented strike by nurses and ambulance workers, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak said that he will not ‘back down’...

Europe’s energy bill hit $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the start...

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THE SOARING price of energy has cost Europe $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the beginning of the biggest, deepest economic crisis...

Stop The Bosses Plan To Smash Trade Unions – Recall The Tuc To...

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PM Sunak yesterday accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of causing ‘misery for millions’ with the ‘cruelly timed’ pay rise walk-outs by rail workers. He...

NOW is the time for the TUC to call a general strike to support...

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THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...

Bankers raise interest rates to deepen the slump, and make workers pay for...

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THE Bank of England has raised UK interest rates to their highest level for 14 years as it battles to stem soaring prices, by...

Palestinian leadership condemns international community after fatal shooting of teenage girl by Zionists!

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THE Palestinian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that the fatal shooting of a teenage girl by Israeli military forces during a raid in the northern...

Chancellor Hunt promises ‘it’s going to get worse’ for the working class

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday morning admitted that the UK economy is ‘likely to get worse before it gets better’ although he went on...

ALL trade unions must strike with the nurses to bring down the Tories and...

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NURSES are to strike on Thursday 15th and Tuesday 20th December. At the same time CWU postal and RMT and ASLEF rail workers are...

Tories are bringing in savage anti-union laws to police the working class as they...

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THE GOVERNMENT has announced what it says is one of the biggest bonfires of financial regulations to allow the City of London to rule...