Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Brown’s Working Together means everybody paying the bill for the bankers

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GORDON BROWN’S speech yesterday, at the TUC, was a very poor effort from a politician and a party that have no intention of defending...

Victory to Syria – forward to liberation of Palestine!

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THE Israeli terror against the people of Occupied Palestine is being stepped up remorselessly. The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Riyad Mansour says...

Defeat Tory-Lib Dem attacks on public sector pensions!

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TORY Prime Minister David Cameron and his Deputy Nick Clegg have declared war on six million workers in the public sector and their pensions. Clegg...

Trade Unions Must Take Action Alongside The Junior Doctors!

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TODAY’S strike by junior doctors has the support of 100% of workers across the country. They are not fooled by all the Tory propaganda that...

Forward To The Victory Of The World Socialist Revolution – Smash Capitalism!

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IT really is ‘scoundrel time’ when the bosses of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) admit that Britain’s economy is increasingly vulnerable if not...

There was no fire safety report before refurbishing Grenfell – Build Council of Action...

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GRENFELL Tower was safe until the refurbishment took place, when it was wrapped in highly flammable insulation and cladding, described by fire safety experts...

Traitor Tsipras is handing over power to the right wing!

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WITH his resignation as Greek prime minister on Thursday night, the leader of the ‘left’ Syriza government, Alexis Tsipras, has signalled that he and...

As Zionist Mobs Launch Attacks On Palestinians Hamas Calls To Establish The Palestinian State

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YESTERDAY, Zionist mobs were attacking Palestinians all over the occupied territories seeking to seize their homes and land and drive them off it. Israeli occupation...

Occupy GMM Luton!

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THE German government yesterday made its move to try and secure GM Europe for Magna, the Canadian car parts manufacturer that wants to sack...

Workers must organise unions to take the UK out of the EU on October...

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THE EU’s Brexit negotiator Barnier has set the scene for this week’s ‘Brexit showdown’ in the House of Commons by rejecting out-of-hand PM Johnson’s...

Taleban Cease-Fire In Swat Angers US!

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THE Pakistani Taleban in the Swat valley border areas with Afghanistan have signed a permanent cease-fire with the Pakistan government and are starting to...

‘Keep The Ground Aflame With Popular Resistance’ Urges President Abbas

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THE PALESTINIAN President, Mahmoud Abbas has called for more popular resistance and warned ‘We should not underestimate it’. He has called for further visits to...

Respond to the death agony of imperialism by organising the victory of the worldwide...

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ON FRIDAY, June 21, The Republic of Armenia officially recognised the State of Palestine, raising the number of countries that recognise Palestinian statehood to...

Maude-Miliband Unite To Condemn Pension Strikers

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YESTERDAY’S stoppage in defence of pensions saw 90 per cent of PCS members stopping work, the biggest turn-out for strike action in the union’s...

Put capitalism out of its misery with the socialist revolution

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THE one thing guaranteed by the world economic crisis of the capitalist system, is that all the weakness, greed and corruption of the ruling...

Taliban cuts the US-UK imperialist powers down to size – now the US and...

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THE US AND UK imperialist powers have just suffered a historic defeat in Afghanistan. Last week, even as they scuttled out of the country,...

The Spark That Started A Revolution!

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OVER a million Greeks stopped work yesterday in a general strike while tens of thousands of Greek workers, unemployed and youth rallied in front...

Defend every job! Bring down coalition! Expropriate the bosses!

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UK unemployment rose by 49,000 to almost 2.5 million in the three months to the end of November, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

As The Economic And Political Crisis Of Capitalism Deepens The US And UK...

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WORKERS throughout the world have experienced, through massive job losses and huge wage cuts, just how the world crisis of the capitalist system is...

Lilliputian Smith, the would-be great dictator!

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LABOUR right winger Owen Smith, in his desire to satisfy the big bosses and the bankers, is going even further than the Tories after...

Stagnant Eu Heading For A Crash!

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EUROZONE inflation has fallen to its lowest level since the height of the 2008 financial collapse, sliding further into what the European Central Bank...

Staffing cuts causing ‘avoidable’ maternal deaths

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AN independent inquiry into the unusually large number of maternal deaths in London over the past two years has confirmed that the government policy of...

Kick the Tories out! Get rid of capitalism to prevent a health catastrophe of...

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NHS WAITING lists in England could more than double in the coming months, from the current figure of 5.3 million people to around 13...

Palestinians force Israel to agree ceasefire in Gaza

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LAST Friday Israel launched a murderous bombardment on the Gaza Strip killing at least 27 Palestinians, including two pregnant women and at least two infants,...

Hamas Calls For The Working People Of The World To Take Part In Massive...

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THE Hamas Movement has called on the world’s free people and the Arab and Islamic nations to actively participate in massive and angry rallies...

Tories-Lib Dems want more than £20bn of NHS cuts by 2014

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THE new Tory Secretary of State for Health Lansley was appointed on Wednesday and has immediately put on record that he will...

Take action to stop NHS cuts and closures

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IT is now obvious that the Labour government is setting out, at breakneck speed, to privatise the NHS. It has set up private treatment centres...

US, UK Ambassadors Are Run Out Of Libya By Their Former Agents!

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HMS Enterprise has arrived near to Tripoli to evacuate any remaining British people who want to leave Libya, after the British embassy was shut...

Smash the capitalist state – the only way to get justice for Blair Peach!

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THE Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) today released the report of Commander Cass into the events surrounding the death of Blair Peach in Southall, west...

FBI warns of revolution! Now is the time to build 4th International in the...

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THE DIRECTOR of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray, told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the US ruling class has lost...

Palestinian civil war aids Israel

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THE Palestinian masses and their organisations must unite to fight their enemy which is the Zionist state of Israel, backed up and supported by...

Cameron washes his hands of steel industry – steelworkers must occupy and organise...

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CAMERON yesterday gave the ‘V’ sign to the appeals by the Unite and TUC leadership that there must be a temporary nationalisation of Tata...

World crisis hits eurozone

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THE announcement by the unelected Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, that he is quitting the job  sent the Italian economy into a massive crisis...

Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership

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THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...

New Syria War Planned Using Old ‘Wmd’ Lies!

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THE war drums are beating with increasing intensity for armed intervention by imperialism into Syria to  effect the smashing up of the Assad regime, the...

Junior Doctors Are Determined To Defeat The Tories

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TENS of thousands of junior doctors struck yesterday and made it very clear that they are not a protest movement, and that their first...

Workers Must Take Action To Put An End To Capitalism

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THE TIME is here when workers must respond to the growing chorus from the professional servants of the bourgeoisie for savage, and even more...

Expropriate out of control banks!

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THE giant international bank HSBC is ‘cast-iron certain’ to break the regulatory rules, the laws which are supposed to govern banking practices, again. These were...

Palestinian leadership condemns international community after fatal shooting of teenage girl by Zionists!

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THE Palestinian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that the fatal shooting of a teenage girl by Israeli military forces during a raid in the northern...

Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ comes a huge cropper!

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BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...

Putin wants to collaborate with imperialism, not overthrow it

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THE New York Times has just printed a letter from the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, which he described as a direct address to the...

Answer NHS crisis with general strike and occupations

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THIS week saw the crisis in the NHS reach breaking point with at least 17 hospitals in England declaring they faced a ‘major incident’...

100 years since the Balfour Declaration, Palestinians are still paying for it with...

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ISRAEL has detained one million Palestinians since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the West Bank,...

Bp Hitting Russian Rocks

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MANY senior foreign executives at oil giant BP’s Russian partnership TNK-BP are to be forced to leave Russia after their requests for work permits...

30% rise in the numbers ‘sleeping rough’!

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THE number of people forced to live and sleep on the streets has more than doubled since 2010, the year the Tory-led coalition came...