Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Defend the NHS budget Drive out the privateers Nationalise the drug companies

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THE voice of the NHS managers spoke up yesterday. The NHS Confederation reported ‘The health service in England won’t survive unchanged’. This is doublespeak, for...

UK and US have lost the war and now they want to steal any...

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AFTER a tortuous series of talks in Geneva the Russian Foreign minister Lavrov has announced the signing of five documents which include agreements reached...

Tories plan to axe half a million hospital appointments each year in drive to...

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HEALTH Secretary Steve Barclay did the rounds of the TV studios on Sunday to declare an all-out war on doctors, nurses and patients, as...

After April 24: Defeat pay cuts with an extended general strike!

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TENS of thousands of teachers, college lecturers and civil servants are striking today against government-imposed pay cuts. As a result of the action by the...

New Curriculum abolishes childhood

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THIS week, children and young people return to school in England where they face being subjected to a new education curriculum devised by the...

Met ‘rotten from top to bottom’ – disband it now!

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THE CONVICTION and life sentence of Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard was most certainly not the case of...

British workers require socialism not circuses!

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FOR the second day running the bourgeois media have been dominated by the Olympic opening extravaganza organised brilliantly by Danny Boyle, who used and...

Time to put an end to the institutionally corrupt and racist police force ...

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THE LONG independent report into the murder of 37-year-old private detective Daniel Morgan in south London in 1987 was finally published on Tuesday and...

Labour reach new depths of treachery over NHS

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AT the weekend the new Labour shadow health secretary, Andrew Burnham, delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the NHS with the announcement...

French Socialist government turns on the workers

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

McDONNELL SPLITS LABOUR OVER SCOTTISH NATIONALISTS – HE IS GETTING READY FOR A...

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IN AN interview in Edinburgh on Tuesday Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell brazenly broke with the official Labour Party policy of opposition to a...

Capitalism is on the rocks with the USA on the brink of a historic...

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 4.5%, the twelfth consecutive increase in a row, pushing up borrowing costs to the...

Netanyahu turning the screws on Palestinians to the point of revolution!

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THE Israeli Netanyahu regime is now working hard at its programme for the ‘final solution’ to the question of Palestine and the Palestinians. The Palestinian...

Blair and Brown are responsible for Basra soldiers deaths

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THE death of ten US and UK soldiers in 24 hours in Iraq speaks for itself. The occupation is now even more unpopular than...

PFI debts are strangling NHS

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LAST Friday, the ‘independent’ health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), finally issued its report on healthcare provision at the Barts Healthcare Trust,...

Obama told – ‘This nation is sick and tired of war!’

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THE IMPERIALIST attempt to overthrow the Assad government in Syria has met a colossal resistance from the Syrian people, despite the hundreds of millions...

US death toll rockets in Iraq

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FIVE more American troops were killed and three were captured near Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, in a pre-dawn attack on Saturday. The...

Anarchists Being Used To Increase Police-State Powers

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LAST Saturday’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against the coalitions cuts policy has shaken the coalition, and given the capitalist state a lot to think about. Such...

ICC refuses to act over Israel’s Gaza war crimes

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PALESTINIAN youth and workers marched very bravely all over the occupied territories last Friday on Land Day, and they were met as usual by...

Hunt steps up war on NHS

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THE Tory drive against doctors and health workers throughout the NHS was reaffirmed last week when re-appointed health secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed that GPs...

Russian workers having overthrown capitalism must carry out a political revolution against the...

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THE degeneration of the Russian Stalinist bureaucracy has been revealed for all to see with its hiring of a mercenary army of criminals to...

‘There is no fuel shortage,’ says Shapps as the bosses shut down petrol stations...

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THERE is ‘no shortage of fuel’ and people should be ‘sensible’ and only fill up when they need to, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said...

Gove waging war on the teachers!

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THE Education Secretary Michael Gove has urged school governors and heads that teachers who work to rule are in breach of contract and should...

US And Israel Are Buying Time To Prolong The War Says Hamas Leader

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A SENIOR official of the Hamas resistance group says the US and Israel are pursuing a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in a...

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...

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

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ON Monday Tory PM Cameron warned that if the UK leaves the EU it could trigger off another great European war. What a condemnation...

Bank of England implicated in illegal Libor rigging

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THE Bank of England, the UKs central bank and guardian of the country’s banking system, along with being responsible for the running of British...

Bring Down May And The Tories! – Break With The Eu Now! – ...

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PM MAY, placed into office after the Cameron-Osborne 2016 EU referendum disaster, has continued to display the complete disorientation of the Tory Party and...

IMF warns of devastating recession worldwide – forward to world socialist revolution!

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued a grim warning of worldwide recession with global debt reaching a staggering record of £64 trillion. In...

War exposes weakness and bankruptcy of capitalism in UK and Europe!

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CITY AM, the business and financial newspaper, published an opinion piece yesterday which included a lengthy quote from Karl Marx on the profound effects...

UK Is £2 Trillion In Debt – Tories Are Ringing The Alarm Bells...

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UK GOVERNMENT debt has risen above £2 trillion and hit £2.004 trillion for July. The debt is £227.6bn more than last year. It is...

Hezbollah and Iranian forces have every right to be in Syria at the invitation...

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SYRIA’S deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, has hailed Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement’s assistance to Syria, and its struggle for survival, saying...

Bank of England splits over rate cut – time to nationalise the banks!

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THE Bank of England’s crisis came out in the open at yesterday’s meeting as the Bank’s governor Andrew Bailey was opposed by two of...

50% rise in SA farmworkers’ wages is just the start!

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THE Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) has welcomed, as a ‘short term victory’, an increase in the minimum wage for farmworkers from R69...

Prescott slams Miliband’s failure as Labour opportunists panic

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FIRST of all we had Labour ex-Health Secretary Burnham serving notice on Miliband that he had until the spring to challenge the Tory-led coalition...

Coalition forcing in education commodity market

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that the government was organising an ‘NHS-style crash’ pushing through ‘reforms’ to create an education...

GM jobs crisis hits UK-EU!

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THE week long closure of the two remaining GM owned Vauxhall plants in the UK at Luton and Ellesmere Port which started yesterday marks...

Starmer’s Labour regime must be replaced by a workers’ government

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Sir Keir Starmer is set to become the UK’s first Labour prime minister since 2010 after his party’s landslide general election victory. Labour is...

Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU

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THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...

Wage freezing, wage cutting, redundancies and revolution ahead for workers!

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THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says that if there is a capitalist government in office in 2016 it will have to find an...

PM Johnson wants a nuclear rearmament drive to confront China!

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WITH Britain in a major economic and political crisis the Johnson government is not only preparing for a war with the UK working class,...

Tgwu Leaders Seek To Sell Deal For Gate Gourmet

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‘THEY are trying to break our unity. We reject this deal.’ This is what pickets near to the Gate Gourmet plant told News Line...

Form Councils Of Action To Stop All Evictions! Take Over Empty Properties To House...

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THE UK is in the grip of a huge housing crisis with workers who have jobs and earn wages being evicted by greedy landlords...

Israel still seeking to grab the Gaza Strip and the occupied territories

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ISRAEL continues to declare that northern Gaza is out of bounds for the Palestinian people, while at the same time the Israeli army and...

Turn the imperialist war against Russia into a civil war to smash British Capitalism

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THE BRITISH ruling class has now made it crystal clear that it favours a class war on two interconnected fronts. On the home front it...