Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Protest against ID cards outside the House of Commons _ one of the police state measures that Clarke was pushing through

Blair axes cabinet, but policies are the same!

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IT WAS all change yesterday in the Blair cabinet and no change at all at the same time, as leading cabinet members were sacked...

Osborne launches permanent austerity war against workers

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CHANCELLOR OSBORNE underlined the precarious nature of his ‘recovery’ when he told the House of Commons yesterday ‘the job is not done…we don’t squander...

Met chief’s agenda – police ‘justice’ and troops on the streets!

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, presented his ‘wish list’ of latest demands to the Labour government, when speaking to the Police Superintendents’ Conference...

The ‘Duplicitous Traitor’ Strikes Again

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LABOUR MP Bob Marshall Andrews, recently called the Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband a ‘duplicitous traitor’, after Miliband published an article in the Guardian...

Israeli blockade killing babies in Gaza as humanitarian appeals ignored

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THE MINISTRY of Health in the Gaza Strip warned yesterday that the electricity generators in hospitals will cease to work within 48 hours as...

Clarke Tells Blair It’s Time To Go

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TONY BLAIR may not be able to recover his authority and leadership after recent damaging events, former Blair Home Secretary, Clarke has said. Charles...

Billionaire steps in to bail out the Labour Party

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LAKSHMI Mittal, the Indian-born billionaire has donated £2m to the Labour Party, it was revealed yesterday. The fifth richest man in the world, who owns...

New right-wing party to replace Tories being organised as spectre of revolution haunts British...

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AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the...

An entire nation becomes the ‘enemy within!’

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AT ONE TIME the ‘enemy within’ was well defined as being the working class, especially its militant trade unionists and Trotskyists. Now capitalism is in...

Trump Faces Impeachment – US Capitalism Faces Ruin – Forward To The US Socialist...

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LAST WEDNESDAY President Trump sent a 100,000-plus howling mob on a mission to break into the Capitol building to stop the certification of election-winner...

Israeli terror is being stepped up – It is time for the workers of...

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THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank, amid...

‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street

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YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...

Labour seeking state control of inquests

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THE parliamentary Human Rights Committee report on the government’s latest Counter-Terrorism Bill, before its second reading in the House of Commons, records just...

Putin tells the bosses how to run capitalism

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RUSSIA’S Stalinist leader, President Putin, addressing a business forum in Leningrad on Sunday, told the assembled capitalist leaders that the IMF and the World...

Household debt £300bn! Council evictions soar! Bring capitalism down!

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HOUSEHOLD debt in UK is worse than at any time on record a new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. Credit cards,...

Starmer Declares For Thatcher And Confirms He Is An Out And Out Enemy Of...

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LABOUR leader Starmer has yet again stabbed the working class in the back, with his praise for Margaret Thatcher, the Tory leader who sought...

Imperialist powers are preparing Middle East war – disarm them with socialist revolutions!

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AT a time when US President Trump and France’s Macron are plotting a permanent US presence in northern Syria, to be supported no...

Trade unions must take general strike action in support of Palestinian masses!

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THE UN’s World Food Programme has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation after Israel launched a brutal aggression on Gaza last month....

Tories to make hundreds of thousands homeless – only socialism can solve housing crisis

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THE policy of the Tory-led coalition to slash housing benefit for the unemployed and low income families will result in hundreds of thousands being...

Workers’ rights can only be secured by revolution

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YESTERDAY the former ‘hammer’ of the teachers trade unions, Michael Gove, the new Justice Secretary who wants to abolish the Human Rights Act, was...

Rate Rise Shock – Condemned As Panic By Tuc

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BIG BUSINESS, the stockmarkets and the TUC were shaken yesterday midday when the Bank of England raised its interest rates by a quarter of...

Jobs For Youth – Smash The Cheap Labour Economy

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Youth unemployment is now higher than it was in 1997, with 702,000 young people aged 16-24 jobless, according to official figures released just before...

Duncan Smith blames the poor and food banks for poverty

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THE Tory Works and Pension Minister, Iain Duncan Smith, is furious with the accusation that the government’s policies of cutting all benefits to the...

‘Relentless’ rise in public debt unsustainable world bankers warn as capitalism dives into the...

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THE head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issued the gravest warning yet to the governments and central banks of the capitalist world...

White House interns demand Biden calls a permanent ceasefire in Gaza!

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AS ISRAEL ramps up its war efforts to slaughter even more Palestinians in southern Gaza, in the US a group of White House interns...

Israel Murders Ismail Haniyeh On Behalf Of The US And UK Ruling Classes!

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IRAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that the Islamic Republic and the Resistance Front will avenge the murder of Ismail Haniyeh, head...

Close down Campsfield and repeal all racist immigration laws

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POLICE are looking for 14 asylum seekers who escaped from the Campsfield Detention Centre, run by the US Company GEO and secured by Group...

UK banks will have to refinance £800bn of debt

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JUST days after the Tory-led coalition’s ‘emergency budget’ declared war on the working class, the poor, the middle class, children and pensioners – with...

Stock markets crash under impact of Trump’s trade war – World Socialist Revolution is...

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ON Thursday night, the giant TV screen that looks down on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange spelt out the message ‘Trump...

Police Officer Chauvin squeezed the life out of George Floyd! Murder trial puts the...

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FOR NINE minutes and twenty-nine seconds police officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck, Hennepin county courthouse in downtown Minneapolis heard...

Britain’s Criminal War Against The Kenyan Land Freedom Army

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BRITISH conscripts were sent out to Kenya in the 1950s, where they were turned into brutes and sadistic killers, in the war of British...

China is not the enemy – the enemy is at home – forward to...

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THE CHINESE People’s REPUBLIC is now the number one enemy for US imperialism and its UK ‘running dog’. The war is on all fronts,...

Tories Splitting Over Eu Crisis!

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WHETHER British capitalism should remain within the crisis-ridden, sinking ship of the EU, or strike out on its own has immediately split the Tory...

More redundancies required at Vauxhall UK plants

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UNDER the cover of a Voluntary Separation Programme GM is seeking to push through more redundancies at GM Vauxhall including a number at Ellesmere...

Forward to the Greek Socialist Revolution!

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AFTER the failure of the major Greek political parties to form a government, Greece’s top Supreme Court judge, Vassiliki Thanou, has been appointed caretaker...

Workers of the world unite in the struggle for socialism

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OVER 600,000 workers have come to work in the UK from the eight nations which joined the European Union in 2004, said Home Office...

It Is The Ruling Classes That Must Say Their Prayers!

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IN 2008 the world financial system stood on the very brink of the abyss with banks and industries facing the immediate prospect of crashing...

2024 was the deadliest year for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails!

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PALESTINIAN prisoners’ institutions have declared that 2024 has been the deadliest year in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement. In a press conference held...

The Chagos Islanders Must Be Returned To Their Homes

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YESTERDAY the Court of Appeal ruled that the Blair government had carried out an Abuse of Power when it overruled the assurance given by...

Inflation Out Of Control – Only Solution Is Get Rid Of Capitalism!

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BRITISH capitalism has plunged even deeper into debt! It was revealed yesterday that interest payments on the massive £2.4 trillion national debt have more...

Israel slaughters Gaza Strip Palestinians

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AT the same time as the Fatah leader, President Abbas is meeting the Israeli Premier Olmert for the continuing ‘peace talks’, that were launched...

State Department rubbishes ‘ignorant’ Blair

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A POLITICALLY ‘sick’ Prime Minister Blair was yesterday delivered another major blow, this time at the hands of the US State Department, when...

Arm The Palestinian Masses Now!

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ISRAEL has set Palestine ablaze yet again with the death in an Israeli prison of Maysarah Abu Hamdiyeh, a 64-year-old prisoner, who had been...

Hunt vows to slash benefits to drive sick back to work and pledges UK...

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THIS week, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt jetted off to Washington to attend the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the stated...

MPs’ Committee blames councils over homeless and dodges government!

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THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...