Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

NHS is faced with ‘mission impossible’ because of a Tory imposed ‘unbridgeable’ financial...

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NHS services in England are now, facing head on, a ‘mission impossible’ to meet the standards required by the government, the NHS ‘Providers’ health...

Murdoch’s Poodle Hunt Gets Health Privatisation Job

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HEALTH Secretary Andrew Lansley has been demoted to the role of Leader of the House of Commons. This is after his health goose was cooked...

Greek bourgeoisie organising pogroms

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AS the economic crisis continues to tear Greece apart and drives forward a revolutionary surge amongst workers and youth, so it is driving the...

Biden’s ‘ironclad’ support for Israel as imperialism prepares for all-out war in Middle East

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AT a press conference on Wednesday evening, US president Joe Biden announced that American imperialism was prepared for an all-out war in the Middle...

The bankers are in charge as Hunt postpones fiscal statement until November 17th

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TORY Chancellor Hunt announced yesterday that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed...

The working class in its essence is Trotskyist – Now build up its ...

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WORLDWIDE the class struggle is being driven forward by the deepening world crisis of capitalism. This dictates to the bourgeoisie that its survival depends...

US forced to back down over North Korea and agree talks

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IN A DRAMATIC about face, US Vice President Mike Pence stated yesterday that the Trump administration is now looking at holding diplomatic talks with...

Britain’s housing bubble threatens capitalism’s global economy

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BRITAIN’S housing bubble is a threat to the global stability of capitalism – this is the assessment of Crispin Odey, the country’s leading hedge...

UK banks fail stress test while manufacturing collapses

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LAST Friday the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the results of its stress test on 51 of the biggest banks throughout Europe and Britain. Fearful...

10 million workers will be hit by tax increases as Labour ‘picks the side’...

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LOWEST paid workers will be hit the hardest by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves budget’s ‘stealth tax’ unveiled on Wednesday. Reeves desperate to avoid accusations of...

After The 500,000-Strong Pro-Palestine Demo Last Saturday, The TUC Must Recognise Hamas As The...

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THE Hamas Movement has confirmed that no aid has entered the Gaza Strip, accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of misleading international public opinion...

Defend state university education against the coalition barbarians!

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LORD Browne’s review of university funding is to recommend a threefold increase in tuition fees. Lord Browne (former head of BP) is proposing to raise...

Food prices surge will drive revolution!

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GLOBAL food prices rose sharply in July. The wild swings in weather conditions are responsible says the UN food and agricultural body. The July...

Tory arrogance only possible because of TUC servility

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THE past week has been dominated by the sheer arrogance of the Tory-led coalition as it prepares to implement its plans for the wholesale...

Johnson Will Use His Dictatorial Powers Against The Working Class!

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THE DEBATE on the adjournment of Parliament for a month until April 21 took place immediately after the Tory emergency legislation passed though the...

Mass Murder In Arab Jabur

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WHILE President Bush was allegedly talking peace in the Palestinian town of Ramallah on Thursday, US B1 bombers and F16 fighters were raining 40,000...

Time For The Tuc To Call General Strike

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THE Fire Brigades Union has organised a national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16 October. The FBU is under an all-out attack on the...

Forward with the French, British and German workers to bring down the EU and...

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WITH millions of workers and youth on strike or taking to the streets, where they have been joined by the masses of the Yellow...

Debt crisis threatening students, home-buyers & public services

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COMMENTING on a report from the Student Loan Company (SLC) on Monday, National Union of Students (NUS) President Gemma Tumelty said: ‘Fee loans, along...

With The Tories At Their Weakest Now Is The Time For A General Strike...

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SATURDAY’S massive turnout for the trade union sponsored mass demonstration with its lead banner declaring ‘Not One Day More – Tories out’ has spread...

Cameron takes a begging bowl to India

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PRIME Minister David Cameron and the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government have decamped from London to New Delhi this week to drum up business, such...

Notre-Dame Cathedral burnt out as Macron concentrates spending on civil war riot police and...

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron was forced to cancel his important address to the French nation on Monday night, after a massive fire erupted at...

Remainer MPs attempt to block no deal! Workers must take strike action to drive...

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Commons on Thursday to try to ensure that Parliament is able to block any attempt by the expected Johnson-led Tory government to shut Parliament...

Defend Welfare, Defend The NHS, Defend All Benefits, Bring Down Coalition

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TORY leader Cameron has backed Chancellor George Osborne after he suggested a link between the Mick Philpott case and the Welfare State. The prime...

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...

ECB takes desperate measures to try and stop EU economic collapse

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LAST Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB) abandoned its previously proclaimed policy of ending free money handouts to the banks through quantitative easing (QE)...

Cameron’s Worthless Pledges!

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CAMERON’S warning that the NHS must ‘Reform or die’ and his statement that the ‘NHS is in danger’, were clear admissions that there is...

UK must completely leave EU on March 29, 2019 – with or without a...

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NEGOTIATIONS over the UK’s departure from the EU are ‘now in the endgame’, according to PM May, with both sides ‘working through the night...

Bank of England warns that the AI stock market bubble is on verge of...

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THE Bank of England on Wednesday warned of a growing risk of a ‘sudden correction’ in the world stock markets. The massive Artificial Intelligence...

New head of IMF warns $19 trillion debt time bomb will crash world economy

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THE NEWLY-appointed head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued the starkest warning yet that world capitalism is on the point of...

The debt of the British capitalist class is equal to the country’s economic output...

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OFFICIAL data shows that the UK state debt is equal to the country’s economic output for the first time since the 1960s, amid the...

US Imperialism Has Feet Of Clay – Forward To Victory Of World Socialist Revolution!

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THE self-proclaimed image of US invulnerability has registered a huge shock at the latest information that shows that China would defeat the US military...

Bankrupt capitalism aims to balance the books through foreign aid cuts and vicious austerity...

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ON TUESDAY, Tory PM Boris Johnson narrowly avoided defeat on a motion to cut UK foreign aid after a rebellion by Tory MPs. In the...

Germany’s two largest banks in merger talks, creating Europe’s biggest ‘zombie bank’

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LAST weekend the two largest German banks, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, entered merger talks in a last desperate measure to delay a banking collapse...

Tories seek to inspire fear as they tell unemployed ‘get on your bike’

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EX-ARMY officer Iain Duncan Smith, the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, was yesterday planning just how to force unemployed workers to give up their...

Lebanese and Palestinian masses stand fast

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THE bravery and determination of the Palestinian and Lebanese people in standing fast against the Israeli military murder machine has thrown not just the...

Forward To Workers Power In Egypt

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EGYPTIAN voters have approved a new constitution by 98.1 per cent, in a turn out of 36.8 per cent of those eligible to vote....

Jobs And War Crisis Piles Up For Obama

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YESTERDAY afternoon Barack Obama was in discussion with his economic advisers and with his allies as the crisis of US imperialism intensified on the...

US-Israel steps up the war against Hamas and also against the working people of...

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ALI Damush, the vice chairman of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, said yesterday that Israel had resumed its aggression on Gaza by US decision. He...

Desperate US and UK warmongers play the lying WMD card

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IN March 2003, the US-UK axis led by warmongers Bush and Blair – after claiming that there was irrefutable evidence that Iraq possessed weapons...

Tory Class War Budget!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday moved his ‘emergency budget’. He outlined the gravity of the situation by saying that ‘Questions that were asked about...

Lesson from by-elections: Labour Party’s finished! Build the revolutionary party!

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JEREMY Corbyn MP, leader of the Labour Party, said yesterday on the Stoke-on-Trent Central and Copeland by-elections results that ‘Labour’s victory in Stoke is...

Stop Royal Mail Privatisation!

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NEXT week the postal workers union, CWU, is holding its delegate conference under conditions where the coalition government is planning the wholesale privatisation of...

Bush arrives in Middle East for war talks

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US President George W Bush said he saw a new opportunity for peace in the Holy Land as he arrived in Israel on Wednesday...

The currency crash and the socialist revolution

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THE decision by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to abandon its three-year cap on the franc last Thursday has had an immediate and catastrophic...