Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

BBC reveals how police abuse body cameras – time to disband the police and...

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IN 2005, the Metropolitan Police introduced a trial of body-worn cameras for police officers, a move that was quickly rolled out by forces throughout...

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...

All Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action To Support The Occupation Of...

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HARLAND AND WOLFF shipyard has been occupied by the workforce to prevent its closure. However on Monday, the unions involved revealed that staff had already...

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,...

British capitalism about ‘to fall off a cliff’ – Lobby the TUC on Monday...

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The Daily Telegraph has in recent months published a number of articles that have questioned not just the continued existence of the Tory government...

Blair Conversion Seals His Counter-Revolutionary Role

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TONY BLAIR, his hands still dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and with financial scandals swirling all round...

Hamas Pledges That Assassinations Will Not Succeed In Breaking Its Will!

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THE Hamas Movement has affirmed that the assassinations carried out by Israel against resistance leaders ‘will not succeed in breaking its will or extinguishing...

Palestinian Consensus Government meets – Forward to the sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as...

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THE Palestinian National Consensus Government held its first meeting in three years in Gaza yesterday, a day after arriving in the besieged Gaza Strip...

Drive Out Zero-Hours Contracts

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FIGURES released last Wednesday purport to show the UK unemployment rate for the three months to September fell to 7.4% from 7.6% – a...

Palestine Faces Starvation! Now Is The Time For The Workers Of The World To...

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ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued their assault on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp for the 97th consecutive day on Sunday, carrying...

TUC must support doctors strike and NHS by calling a general strike to kick...

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Resident doctors began five days of strike action yesterday following the overwhelming rejection, 83% to 17%, of Labour health secretary Wes Streeting’s latest pathetic...

Reject the SNP attempt to split the working class! Forward to Socialist United States...

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THE LEADER of the Scottish Nationalist Party, Nicola Sturgeon, dropped a bombshell yesterday with her announcement that she intends to push through a vote...

US, UK and EU trade unions must take general strike action to defeat Israel’s...

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THE Israeli regime started its threatened ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah with an intense bombardment of the city on Sunday...

Arrogant Carney Rubbishes Miliband!

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THIS week, in an attempt to cash in on the universal hatred felt by the working class and middle classes towards banks and bankers,...

Outsourcing companies facing ruin – socialist revolution is the only answer!

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IT IS almost exactly one year since the dramatic collapse into bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation of the giant outsourcing and construction company Carillion. At the...

Trump’s Terrorist Regime Kills Iranian Leaders As It Drives Forward To A New Middle...

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IRAN’S most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been murdered by a US air strike in Iraq. The...

Osborne seeking showdown with unions

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ON Thursday the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, made an emergency statement to parliament on the international economic crisis that is engulfing British capitalism to...

Capitalism can’t afford common retirement age or decent pensions

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CAPITALIST Britain is being driven backwards, not forwards by the deepening crisis of capitalism and the policies of the Blair-Brown Labour government, dedicated to...

Free the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ volunteers! Organise an armada to break the Gaza blockade!Forward to...

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NINETEEN members of the six ship ‘Freedom Flotilla’ were yesterday murdered by Israeli special forces in a major war crime, and a larger...

Tory conference splits as preparations for an extra-parliamentary party emerge!

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THE Tory Party annual conference opened on Monday and was immediately defined by ministers speaking to a near empty hall, as delegates couldn’t be...

TUC must call general strike to bring down Starmer government!

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LABOUR MPs are now warning that Keir Starmer’s days as Prime Minister are well and truly numbered. On Wednesday, a clearly shaken Starmer faced demands...

UK workers must support the Hamas call for action against genocide!

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in a statement on Wednesday, called on the ‘free people of the world to escalate popular protest’ against the...

By Recognising The Golan Heights As Part Of Israel, Trump Is Opting For A...

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ON MONDAY, US President Donald Trump signed a declaration that recognised Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over Syria’s Golan Heights. The strategically important Golan Heights are recognised in...

Blair’s Guildhall speech proclaims ‘globalisation’ & war

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LABOUR premier Tony Blair spoke about the fight against ‘global terrorism’ and called for free-trade ‘globalisation’ in his foreign policy speech at the City...

UK recession ‘inevitable’ – only socialist revolution can end capitalist crisis

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THE FICTION of a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ for British capitalism is now firmly rejected by even the most loyal of...

Force trade union leaders to call a general strike – this is the only...

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YESTERDAY saw major unions taking national strike action across the country in one of the biggest walkouts of workers on the same day. Three main...

Lord Turner gives up on capitalism – forward to the socialist revolution!

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CAPITALISM is not delivering on its promise to raise living standards, Lord Adair Turner, a former head of the business lobby the CBI, has...

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...

Rats Starting To Quit Sinking Ship!

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PRIME MINISTER Brown was yesterday under full scale attack from the bourgeois media. He faced the humiliation of appearing on the Andrew Marr...

Step up the public sector strike to a general strike

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THE National Executive of the Public and Civil Servants Union (PCS) have called out their members in England on a one-day strike on Wednesday...

Corbyn must stand fast, remain LP leader and demand a general election NOW!

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ON June 23, the masses of the working class rose up and crushed the Cameron leadership of the Tory party by voting to leave...

Johnson Government Cannot Defeat The Covid Virus Because It Puts The Bosses’ Profits Before...

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THE JOHNSON government is now paying the price for refusing to follow the example of China by organising a national lockdown, with no loss...

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...

Scrap the US-EU free trade TTIP treaty!

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EU-US talks aimed at clinching a comprehensive free trade deal, that will allow the US to economically and politically dominate Europe and defy EU...

The meeting where the ‘N’ word could not be mentioned!

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THERE were no questions allowed at the Unite TUC fringe meeting in Liverpool on Tuesday evening evening, so determined was the Woodley-Simpson leadership that...

Massive support for Tube workers’ strike – Now forward to a general strike

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London Underground is closed down today as Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) members staged another 24-hour strike over jobs, pensions and in defence of...

Sinn Féin Dumps Socialism

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IRISH capitalism, its banks and industries have been entirely bankrupted, and what national sovereignty the country had has also been destroyed, after the...

World capitalism is in its death agony – forward with the world socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY’S ‘solution’ to the economic crisis of Cyprus is simply the decision of the EU bankers and the IMF to completely bankrupt the country...

Stop The Council Cuts – Bring Down The Coalition!

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COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...

Charge G4S With The Mubenga Killing!

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THE THREE G4S guards who unlawfully killed Jimmy Mubenga in 2010 – when he was just 46 years old – using restraint holds as...

SACK Police Commissioner Dick! Disband the Met Police force and bring in a...

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WITH its dispersal of the vigil at Clapham Common Bandstand on Saturday, where thousands of people were peacefully paying their last respects to the...

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...

Starmer’s latest U-turn as Labour government reels from another crisis – time to bring...

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Labour prime minister Keir Starmer performed yet another abrupt U-turn yesterday when he was forced to abandon plans to cancel 30 local government elections in...

Corbyn must dump ‘Remain’ and insist on socialist policies to win December 12th election!

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TUESDAY night’s vote in parliament calling a general election on December 12 revealed that the Labour Party is split from top to bottom. In the...

US warns Pakistan over gas pipeline link with Iran

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THE Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Monday officially inaugurated the final construction phase of the Iran-Pakistan gas...