Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Queen Dumps Cameron And Ready To do The Same For The UK

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BRITISH CAPITALISM is on the rocks economically and politically, there is not the slightest doubt about that. The leaders of the three major parties have...

Knives out in the Labour cabinet mask a crisis of bourgeois rule

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JUST three members of the Labour cabinet put out a statement on Saturday supporting their leader Gordon Brown. Chancellor Darling, deputy leader Harman and skills...

‘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...

Britain Leading The Way To Slump Says The Imf

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LAST October the IMF predicted world output would increase by 2.2 per cent in 2009. Yesterday it changed its tune saying that world output...

US ruling class fears an uprising by workers following Wisconsin shooting

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PROTESTS in the US state of Wisconsin erupted on Sunday evening following another shooting by police of a reportedly unarmed black man. According to reports,...

New Axis Of Evil Threatens War With Syria!

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THE new axis of evil, the leaders of the US, France and the UK, have come together to threaten Syria with war, with US...

US government will shut down tomorrow as the political and economic crisis in America...

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THE FEDERAL government will shut down tomorrow as Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress are in a bitter dispute over budget cuts to...

Class struggle sharpens – Organise general strike!

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900 construction workers were sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, north Lincolnshire yesterday in what the GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny called ‘a case...

No renegotiations – Merkel and Sarkozy warn Greece

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THE fact that Papandreou has had to sack the Greek Military General Staff at the same time as he has angered Sarkozy and Merkel...

Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!

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AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...

Bank of England increases interest rates as capitalism dives into financial crash and recession

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THE BANK of England’s Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and voted to increase interest rates by 0.25%, pushing the rate up to 4.25% –...

Cameron equating journalism with terrorism

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THE UK government is hell-bent on using the just-agreed Royal Charter for the regulation of the media to impose a system of state control...

Defend Libyan revolution! Stop and bring down the oil thieves! Victory to Gadaffi!

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THE French ruling class yesterday officially recognised the Libyan counter-revolutionary rebels of the Transitional National Council as the country's legitimate government, and is due...

EU tears apart as Italy accuses France of provoking civil war in Libyan ‘power...

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THOUSANDS of Libyans have been forced out of their homes as fighting rages in the capital Tripoli between the forces of the UN-recognised ‘Government...

brown proposes to rob the workers to rescue the bankers

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YESTERDAY saw the big international push get under way to try to rescue the bankers of the world from the crisis of their capitalist...

Labour’s Stirrup to be sacked early, as Tory MP appeals to Mullah Omar!

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THE Tory Defence Secretary Fox yesterday revealed that Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, chief of the defence staff, is to be sacked early,...

Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill – sky high food prices here...

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DURING a public on-line question and answer session on Monday, the Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill warned that higher food prices ‘may...

Only socialist revolutions can bring the ruling classes of the world to trial for...

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THE International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must halt its military offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza. This ruling came after South Africa...

Backward British capitalism lets hundreds of homes flood

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HUNDREDS of houses have been flooded across the country over these last months, and angry residents are demanding to know why nothing has been...

Minimum 3-month wait for operations! NHS must be defended with a general strike!

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PATIENTS suffering from serious conditions, requiring hip or knee replacements, hernias repaired and cataracts removed, all considered ‘non-urgent surgery’, have been told that they...

Hamas’ statement on the ceasefire. Millions of British workers support Hamas – so must...

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HAMAS and Israel have expressed in statements their readiness to resume hostilities after they agreed to a Qatar-mediated pause in fighting. The deal includes the...

‘We are the masters now’ say Tories and employers

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THE TORY-led coalition is poised to give all power to the employing class through neutering employment tribunals and giving the employers their own ‘charter’...

Bankrupt capitalism deserves to perish

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THE major British banks want to be able to use a ‘wider range’ of collateral, meaning their very dodgy mortgage portfolios, for the billions...

‘Fools Gold’ Sends Stock Markets Rocketing Upwards

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BOTH Wall Street and the London stock markets made record advances yesterday. The FTSE 100 index rocketed upwards on Friday morning adding £80billion to share...

ICC prosecutor ‘equates the victim with the executioner’ in proposing arrest warrants for Israeli...

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YESTERDAY, Karim Khan KC, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), issued a statement proposing that arrest warrants be issued for Israeli...

Eu Meltdown

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CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...

Capitalist state steps back from the brink!

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BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...

Tory-Led Coalition Breaking Apart – Bring It Down!

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WHILE the Prime Minister is being hailed by the anti-EU section of the Tory Party as standing up for the UK like a...

New York Times Urges Biden To Quit At Once As US ‘Democracy’ Crashes

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THE New York Times is just the first US newspaper to urge the incumbent Democratic Party president Joe Biden to quit the 2024 presidential...

Greek students defeat privatisation attack

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THE Greek right-wing government has been forced to withdraw its plans to push through the Greek parliament, an Education Bill, and a revision of...

Libya disintegrates while the NATO vandals admire their work

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A SHRINE in the Libyan capital Tripoli venerating a Sufi Muslim saint has been destroyed – the latest in a series of outrages by...

Obama recognises the limits of US power

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PRESIDENT Obama yesterday gave the go-ahead for a massive attack on the Afghan people in which tens of thousands of men, women and children...

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...

Starmer out! General strike from Oct 7th to defend winter fuel payments!

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FRESH from his defeat at the Labour Party Conference by the successful vote against his policy to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners,...

BA struggle coming to a head

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EXTENSIVE talks have been taking place over the last seven weeks under the Chairmanship of TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber between Unite and BA,...

‘Hostile environment’ alive & kicking! Tories deport another 13 to the Caribbean. Stop all...

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A LAST-DITCH legal attempt by two children to stop their father being forced onto a plane and deported to the Caribbean failed on Tuesday,...

PM Johnson Set To Put Brexit Deal With The EU To A Vote Today...

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ANYTHING and everything is being used to try and prevent the House of Commons voting to give its support to the government’s Brexit deal...

NHS privateers off-shore tax haven bonanza exposed

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WHILE the NHS is being brought to its knees financially through austerity cuts, with hospitals and entire health authorities facing bankruptcy, NHS privateers are...

PM May woos Labour’s right wing!

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ON THE eve of the Tory Party Conference, with the party split from stem to stern over Brexit, Tory leaders have announced that they...

TUC must call a general strike in support of Junior Doctors and steel workers

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A 45 strong delegation of Tata steel workers from Port Talbot were at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton yesterday. They had come...

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...

Tories call junior doctors pay demands unaffordable while bosses gouge huge profits from workers...

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THE CLAIM that last week 196,000 hospital appointments were cancelled has been used by the Tories and their supporters in the media to put...

It Is Time For A Revolution Inside The Trade Unions To Defeat The Bosses’...

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THE UNITE leader Sharon Graham on Saturday in a speech in Coventry suspended all Coventry Labour councillors who are Unite members from the union...

EU in crisis – forward with the European socialist revolution

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The crisis of European capitalism is so severe that it has driven the bourgeoisie to tear at each other’s throats in a frenzy of...

Support Catalonia! Forward With The Spanish Socialist Revolution!

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CATALONIA will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region said yesterday following the referendum, which savage...