Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Brown Threatens Royal Mail Funding!

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AT THE CWU rally at Central Hall yesterday afternoon, CWU leader Billy Hayes presented a successful outcome of the postal workers struggle as relying...

Answer Tories’ ‘war to finish’ on trade unions by demanding the TUC immediately call...

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YESTERDAY, NHS consultants began a 48-hour strike that has propelled a head-on confrontation between doctors and their union, the BMA, and a Tory government...

Tories pushing health insurance to smash NHS! Organise general strike NOW!

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THE SPECTRE of health insurance to ‘top-up’ the NHS has raised its ugly head. It is part of the arsenal of weapons turned on...

No end to austerity under the Tories – workers must act to kick them...

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TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered not so much a Spring Statement to parliament yesterday as a half hour of self-congratulation and boasting about how...

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...

Netanyahu under siege as he imposes sanctions on Palestine!

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THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...
Herts firefighters lobbying Downing Street  during a boycott of a Number 10 reception for ‘Buncefied heroes’

Brown Warns Against Labour ‘Extremists’

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday did his best to hand back the political initiative to his politically battered and discredited Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...

Tamil And Sinhalese Workers Must Unite To End Rajapakse Dictatorship

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THE Rajapakse dictatorship in Sri Lanka, which is backed with British finance and arms, and British big business investment, is continuing with its dictatorship...

STOP the war say MPs and bring the Taleban into government

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MPs on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee ran up the white flag yesterday when they declared in their report that peace talks...

Homelessness is growing like a plague – Nationalise the banks and the building industry...

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THE homelessness rate across England is at its highest since 2018, after Tory government policies have forced a record number of families to live...

Greek Crisis To Explode All Over Europe!

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AS 100,000 workers marched through Athens on May Day, and tens of thousands marched through large numbers of Greek towns and villages, it...

Desperate UK Tories seeking to curry favour with President Biden by imposing sanctions on...

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CHINA has imposed sanctions on nine UK citizens – including five MPs for spreading ‘lies and disinformation’ about the country. This is China’s very minor...

Putin Frantically Looking For Imperialist Partners

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AT the St Petersburg Economic Forum, President Putin has revealed the basis for both his domestic and foreign policies. It is to seek to...

15,000 troops ready for Slavyansk assault!

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THERE are now more than 15,000 Ukrainian military servicemen plus reserve forces and the Right Sector movement, with around 160 tanks, 230 infantry combat...

Google, Apple and Facebook facilitate international internet slave trade says UN!

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HE INTERNET is being used to promote a modern day online slave market, where women and children are being sold into domestic servitude. This...

Inflation up as Blair-Brown move to cut wages!

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INFLATION in the UK is accelerating out of control. According to the latest Labour government figures which grossly underestimate the process the Consumer...

Hands off nurses! Government to blame for cuts

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) started its annual conference this week in the midst of a brutal attack on the nursing profession spearheaded...

A general strike to bring down the Tories is the only programme for victory...

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MICK LYNCH, general secretary of the RMT rail workers union, has denounced Labour leader Keir Starmer for being ‘not on the side of workers’...

Disband the EU – forward to a Socialist United States of Europe

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THE latest attempt to advance, by sleight of hand, to a united capitalist state of the European Union for the benefit of the...

Only Socialist Revolution can achieve Brexit

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TORY prime minister Theresa May is this week teetering on the brink of political annihilation as it emerged that her Brexit secretary, David Davis,...

‘Left’ Tsipras government humiliated as workers abstain in general election

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SYRIZA (the coalition of the left) party crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party in the...

Miliband to support Tory cuts and Royal Mail privatisation!

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ED MILIBAND, the new Labour Party leader, has made it perfectly clear that his victory does not mean that he is going to oppose...

Labour splits apart as Starmer fights for survival

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THE civil war that has been simmering within the Labour Party erupted this weekend following the decision by Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC)...

After the students national march . . .

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ALMOST 25,000 students marched through London on Sunday demanding free education, despite the lack-lustre campaign by the leadership of the National Union of Students...

The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general strike to kick...

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Liz Truss was only installed as Prime Minister little more than 4 weeks ago but yesterday a senior Tory minister, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly,...

No Future In Slump-Hit Austerity-Blighted Eu!

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UK MANUFACTURING output in October fell at its fastest rate since June, just-released official figures show. Output fell by 1.3%, the Office for National Statistics...

Bush’s ‘Defining Hour’ Or When The Bell Tolls For Imperialism

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BUSH opened his 2007 State of the Union speech with an open admission that his regime is facing defeat both at home and abroad....

UK-France Moving To Partition Libya

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FOREIGN Secretary William Hague yesterday ordered the Libyan charge d‘affaires out of the UK along with all Libyan diplomats. Hague said: ‘We’re inviting the...

BA getting ready for mass sackings

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THE capitalist press yesterday was full of revelations that the new BA boss, Willie Walsh, recruited after making savage cuts at Aer Lingus, is...

Cameron to sack Gove as IMF warns economy heading for adverse shocks

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THE knives are out for one-time Tory Party hero Michael Gove, the self-styled ‘hammer of the teaching trade unions’, who has had the temerity...

Cameron Touches Off Tory Leadership Dog Fight!

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CAMERON is now going into the May 7th general election with a declaration that he does not intend to serve a third term, that...

New Leadership Needed In Cwu

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YESTERDAY the number two CWU leader Dave Ward was boasting that the super-flexibility deal that the leadership put to the membership and which over...

Workers have the right to self defence against terrorism & capitalism

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SIX hundred new armed officers are being  trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring  the...

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

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LAST week, the Tories’ strike-breaking agency worker regulations were thrown out after the High Court ruled they were unlawful. This judgement quashed an appeal by...

Mubarak regime offers 15 per cent rise in pay and pensions!

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WORKERS and youth in Cairo held mass demonstrations yesterday following the release of the detained Google executive and facebook radical Wael Ghonim. The demonstrators in...

Israel sacrifices Russian IL-20 and 15 lives to protect its raid on Syria!

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THE ISRAELI regime has repaid Russia and President Putin for their attempts to reach some agreement over a withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria,...

Netanyahu rages against genocidal Israeli state being ‘isolated’ and threatened by the mass movement...

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YESTERDAY, the Israeli state deliberately shut down all communication services in Gaza, cutting off approximately 800,000 Palestinians in the Strip from the outside world. This...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers PARMJIT BAINS (right) and PARMJEET SIDHU with Hounslow UNISON member MARIE ROWLANDS

Restore the NHS! Bring down Blair

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair made clear yesterday that the government is determined to force through the cuts and closures, privatisation and destruction of...

Bank of England has no tools to prevent capitalism crashing – socialist revolution is...

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ANDREW Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, used an interview on the BBC yesterday to once again insist that British capitalism is...

Free first class medical care and accommodation for the sick and elderly

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ONCE again PM Gordon Brown and the Labour Party have revealed that while they rushed to handing over £150 billion to the bankers, they...

Billions for the bankers – wage cuts and sackings for the workers

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THE Royal Bank of Scotland was rescued with billions of taxpayers’ money after it made the biggest losses in the history of British banking,...

NATO’s arms being exported from Libya to terrorists everywhere

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THE NATO armed intervention that supported the Islamist revolt in Libya succeeded in murdering Colonel Gadaffi and smashed up the most advanced and prosperous...

Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’

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TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...

EU rights court sends UK citizens to US ‘supermax’ prisons!

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THE European Court of Human Rights has backed the extradition of five men from the UK to the US which intends to put them...

Imperialists Drive To Break Up Iraq

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THERE can be only one gainer from a civil war in Iraq, that will lead to the breaking up of the country into three...