Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Tories crash – now boot them out with a general strike to bring in...

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THE TORIES have crashed with their twin by-elections disasters. They lost Kingswood, where Labour needed an 11-point swing and also lost Wellingborough, where an...

Hayman gets a CBE while Met chief Blair puts his holidays first

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THE ‘shoot to kill’ section of the Metropolitan Police force is proceeding full speed ahead, knowing that it has the complete support of the...

The TUC supports the UK and US war plan for the Ukraine, and demands...

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THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor...

US Threatens North Korea With War

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‘WE are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea, we are not going to accept it,’ US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher...

Johnson goes down with coronavirus – plunging his anti-working class regime into crisis! Time...

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THE TRADE union leaders and the Labour Party are currently cementing their role as the most enthusiastic would-be partners of the Tory government and...

Coulson, Cameron tools of the Murdoch empire

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THE resignation of Coulson yesterday as Prime Minister David Cameron’s Director of Communications, follows on, almost immediately, from the police being forced to re-open...

Withdraw All US Forces From Korea – Hands Off North Korea

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THE hysterical propaganda that North Korea is run by a young madman, who is about to press a button to attack the US mainland...

Billions Being Laundered Through The City Of London – Nationalise The Banks!

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HOME SECRETARY Amber Rudd has warned that billions of pounds have been laundered through the City of London. She has plans for a new...

Cowardly Corbyn desperately walks the tightrope over the EU and the single market!

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LABOUR’S right wing were furious on Friday after the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party conference blocked a vote on single market membership. Instead,...

Celebrate the first 70 years by bringing down the Tories and ending the cuts

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THE NHS was the product of war and revolution, namely the slaughter of soldiers and civilians fighting fascism in World War 2, and...

TUC goes from lobbying the Tories to open support for the right-wing Ukrainian regime!

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ON TUESDAY, the TUC abruptly announced that it was cancelling a planned cost of living demonstration and march due to take place in Blackpool...

Bankrupt Italian Capitalism Is Set To Crash And Bring The Bankrupt Eu Down With...

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ITALY’S economic crisis is reaching the point of explosion, an explosion that even bourgeois economists fear will bring down the eurozone and the entire...

Reconstitute The Ussr!

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UKRAINE’S decision to suspend a deal on closer EU ties and sign a Russian aid agreement instead has helped avoid bankruptcy, Prime Minister Mykola...

TUC – defend the junior doctors, call a general strike now!

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THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...

Brown Going Further Than Blair & Reid On ‘Security’

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PREMIER to be, Brown, yesterday told the world, five days before the outgoing Home Secretary Reid is to introduce his counter terrorism measures...

Social Revolution Is The Issue Not Terrorism!

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THE Continuity IRA and the Real IRA have opened fire and killed and wounded soldiers and policemen in the north of Ireland, breaking open...

Lessons from the 1984-85 miners strike

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THE government papers released under the 30-year rule concerning the 1984-85 miners strike confirm that Thatcher and the Tories, despite their considerable preparations over...

Governor King fears crash – time to go forward to socialism

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Last Friday, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, issued a dire warning that Britain risks another financial crisis unless the government introduces...

King urinates on the green shoots of recovery

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‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...

Tory legislation to save capitalism through bringing in a police state

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THE TORIES set out their plans to get the collapsing British capitalist economy ‘back on track’ in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech marking the opening of...

The lesson from the tower block fire disaster is stop the fire service cuts!

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SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after...

King Abdullah Of Jordan Calls For Immediate End To Israeli Aggression!

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KING Abdullah II of Jordan warned yesterday against the catastrophic repercussions of the ongoing Israeli destruction of Gaza, emphasising the urgent need to address...

US sanctions on Iran are, in fact, a declaration of war on the Iranian...

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PRESIDENT Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton has stated that the United States is exerting ‘unprecedented pressure on the government of Iran to change...

The only way to ‘fix’ the care system crisis is to ‘fix’ capitalism with...

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TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday unveiled his strategy for ‘fixing’ the country’s ‘broken social care system’. Central to his plan is to increase National Insurance...

Tahrir Square demonstrators stand fast against army command and secret police attacks

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AFTER the dictator Mubarak’s insistence, on Tuesday night, that he will remain president of Egypt until next September, the ‘managed change’ for Egypt, favoured...

French workers are battling a Macron dictatorship while workers are now taking strike action...

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THOUSANDS of French workers have blocked a key highway around Paris and have stepped up strike action at oil refineries in a new massive...

Bankers promote permanent austerity! Nationalise the banks through a socialist revolution – the only...

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RICHARD SHARP, a member of the Bank of England’s Financial Stability Committee has warned that the UK is heading for a Venezuelan-style economic crash...

Clinton, Hague beat war drums over Syria

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YESTERDAY US and UK diplomats were foaming at the mouth over an alleged massacre by the Syrian armed forces of men women and...

Reject Hunt’s hit squads – act to defend the NHS

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TODAY Tory health minister, Jeremy Hunt, is unveiling his plan to send ‘hit squads’ into ten NHS hospital trusts to carry out a witch-hunt...

Defend NHS hospital care with occupations and a general strike!

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A REPORT  issued by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) this week exposes the appalling state of hospitals in England as the NHS is...

Ending the capitalist crisis needs more than reformist policies

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JOHN McDONNELL the newly appointed Labour shadow chancellor, made his first speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday outlining the ‘new economics’ that he...

Stop Royal Mail being thrown to the private equity wolves!

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POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...

German workers join European strike wave

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MORE than 20,000 German doctors are taking strike action all this week demanding a cut in working hours and a 30-per-cent pay rise. The...

Join WRP to build the revolutionary leadership!

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THE leadership scuffling that is taking place in the Labour Party is underlining one major fact – its crisis is terminal. This is a party...

World Crisis driving world revolution – Build the Fourth International!

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LAST week it was the turn of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to issue its latest warning that world capitalism is on the point...

FBU pensions victory sets precedent for all public service workers

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THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) won a massive victory not only for their members but for all public service workers when the employment tribunal...

Global debt crisis threatens to bring down governments, the Bank for International Settlements warns....

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THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week issued a warning that governments across the world are at risk of imploding unless they deal...

Nationalise BA – Get Rid Of Work-For-Nothing Capitalism

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THE Willie Walsh plan for rescuing BA from the capitalist crisis is quite straightforward. He has gone beyond wage cuts, he wants ‘his’ 40,000...

Israel is preparing a massive ground attack on Gaza – the TUC must be...

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AFTER 21 days of political paralysis, the US House of Representatives finally elected Mike Johnson, a fervent Donald Trump supporter, as its Speaker. Johnson’s first...

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...

Postal workers want indefinite strike action NOW!

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CWU members have voted, in a 67 per cent turnout, a much bigger turnout than in a British general election, for strike action, with...

Palestinian Prisoners Are Staging A Mass Hunger Strike – Now Is The Time ...

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PALESTINIAN prisoners are staging a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest against crackdowns and mistreatment by the prison officials. They say their strike,...

Tories Profiteering Out Of The NHS!

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NHS patients from outside the EU are to be charged 150% of the cost of treatment in the NHS. This is part of a ‘crackdown’...

Defend the NHS – make the TUC call a general strike

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WITH 23,000 beds being cut from hospital wards over the last four years alone, the entire trade union movement must immediately move into action...

Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tory-Led Coalition

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THE TUC met yesterday afternoon to discuss pay and pensions and the planned mass demonstration and day of action on March 26 against the...