Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

To defend the NHS, bring down the Brown government and bring in a workers...

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TODAY’S Senior Consultants BMA conference is due to hear a warning from Doctor Jonathan Fielden to Premier-elect Gordon Brown that he...

Permanent recession for Europe as sanctions on Russia backfire on capitalism. Forward with European...

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THE economies of every EU country face permanent recession according to Barclay’s Bank chief economist for the EU, Sylvia Ardagna, under the impact of...

Hands Off Rt! Defend Democratic Rights! Russia Is Not The Enemy! Our...

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THE decision by the UK state-owned NatWest Bank to cancel RT’s (Russia Today) UK bank accounts is a crude attempt by...

Student nurses join GPs and junior doctors in demanding action to defend the NHS

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THE determined drive by the Tory government to cut the pay and conditions of every NHS worker, as a prelude to the ultimate aim...

Forward to a public sector general strike to smash Brown’s wage cutting policies

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GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...

Palestinians rising up against Israeli drive to ethnically cleanse them from Jerusalem

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ISRAELI forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning, firing rubber-coated bullets, tear gas and sound bombs at Palestinian worshippers, wounding hundreds in a...

Straw’s cover up for illegal MI6 actions in Greece exposed

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Greek newspaper Proto Thema has named the MI6 chief at the British embassy in Athens, after he was accused of organising British and Greek...

Sajid Javid, the bankers’ man, put in to wage war on NHS and reopen...

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FORMER Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has been installed as Health Secretary to replace the disgraced Matt Hancock, with a remit to...

US rules Egyptian Military are Democrats

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THE US ruling class has finally worked out its line on the military coup that was carried out in Egypt to overthrow the elected...

Windrush just ‘tip of the iceberg’ – time to kick out the Tories and...

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IN A MONUMENTAL act of cynicism, the Tory government on Monday announced that this Friday will be designated ‘Windrush Day’ and that henceforth 22nd...

World Trembles At Prospect Of US Rate Rise!

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JAMES Bullard, the head of the St Louis Fed, told a recent City Week Forum in London that investors are far too complacent and...

Sunak’s Spring Statement reinforces Tory war to make workers pay for crisis

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TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak opened his Spring budget statement with a naked appeal for the nation to ‘pull together’ and that the nation should...

Tories mired in scandal over Cameron and Greensill as financial collapse the ‘canary in...

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THE MOST recent development in the collapse of Greensill Capital has been the revelations of all the lobbying for government bail-outs by ex-Tory prime...

PLO chief warns Trump don’t move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem!

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AS WE approach the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration in which British imperialism pledged to hand over somebody else’s country to conquest and...

Labour Slashes Welfare Benefits To Make The Poorest Pay For The Capitalist Crisis!

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LABOUR CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves made further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement yesterday. The government announced big welfare spending reductions...

25 years since the Malvinas war

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THE 1982 Malvinas (Falklands War) was a decisive event not just for Britain’s Foreign Policy but for its home policy. The islands off the Argentinian...

Stop NHS cuts and privatisation – a general strike to defend the NHS

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THE CRISIS in the NHS has reached a breaking point with NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation issuing an unprecedented joint report calling for...

Israel To Invade Gaza After Bombing And Starving Its Population! The TUC Must...

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THE WHO (World Health Organisation) has joined the United Nations in urging Israel to immediately halt its invasion of Gaza which has already been...

Trump threatens to destroy North Korea and warns Iran, Cuba and Venezuela!

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PRESIDENT TRUMP began his speech at the UN by immediately patting himself on the back, stating that ‘Fortunately, the United States has done...

Iraq’s 50,000 ‘Ghost Soldiers’

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THE new Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has announced that an investigation has uncovered that the Iraqi state was paying the wages of 50,000...

Now is the time to build the world Trotskyist movement!

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ON Wednesday, the general secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady, penned another begging letter to the Tory government, this time to the Secretary of...

Bernanke’s plan for controlled bankruptcies

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THE heads of the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury have been forced to try to calm fears that the nation’s two largest mortgage...

Elderly Care Is Disintegrating – The Only Remedy Is To Get The Tories...

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A LETTER to Chancellor Osborne and Health Secretary Hunt signed by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, the Care Provider Alliance, which...

Army Leaks Anti-Iraq War Propaganda

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THE leaking of a Ministry of Defence poll commissioned by senior British army officers has acted as an antidote to the fatuous pro-war propaganda...

UK workers must support the struggle for Palestinian state!

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EARLY on Wednesday morning Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinian youth, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old, and injured at least two others...

Workers will reject Tory ‘charm offensive’ – Time to kick them out with a...

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Mark Harper, the latest Tory transport secretary, appeared on the BBC yesterday morning to claim that the government was not responsible for blocking any...

Soros backed ‘Fifth Column’ calls for second EU referendum – Workers must force the...

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THE EU Brexit chief negotiator has declared that he is not prepared to compromise with the UK government over the decision of the British...

Smash Universal Credit by smashing the Tories

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ON WEDNESDAY this week, the Tory government whipped its MPs to vote down a motion from the Labour Party calling for the release of...

The needs of profit making are a higher morality than bourgeois law

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THE High Court yesterday ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption inquiry into a £43bn Saudi arms deal....

Tories attacking youth again – answer them with socialist revolution

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THE Tory-led coalition have launched an unprecedented attack on youth after endorsing a Transport Research paper that proposes that young drivers under the age...

Prescott slams Miliband’s failure as Labour opportunists panic

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FIRST of all we had Labour ex-Health Secretary Burnham serving notice on Miliband that he had until the spring to challenge the Tory-led coalition...

NHS England threatened hospital with legal action to force privatisation through

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IT EMERGED this week that NHS England in August last year took the unprecedented step of threatening legal action against a hospital in order...

Bank of England implicated in illegal Libor rigging

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THE Bank of England, the UKs central bank and guardian of the country’s banking system, along with being responsible for the running of British...

Capitalism On The Rocks – Forward To Socialism

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THE number out of work in the UK rose by 137,000 to 1.86 million in the three months to October – the highest level...

Syrian Army Advances Are Dealing A Massive Blow At Trump’s Deal Of The Century!

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THE ISRAELI DAILY newspaper Hayom has reported that the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is to lead the joint committee that the US...

600,000 workers and youth march for Palestine – the TUC must call a general...

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600,000 WORKERS AND YOUTH marched from Central London to Whitehall on Saturday in a massive show of strength and solidarity with the masses of...

SLUMP SET TO DEEPEN WARNS BofE GOVERNOR

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The Bank of England governor Mervyn King yesterday admitted that the UK entered a recession in the middle of 2008. Stunned by the...

Axing free TV licences: the spark to unite pensioners, youth and workers to kick...

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THE Tory government has now launched war on the elderly, the youth and the working class simultaneously! There is a war on the youth, with...

Workers Must Occupy Gm Luton And Ellesmere Port And Demand Their Nationalisation

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NEXT MONDAY June 1 GM will seek Section 11 Bankruptcy, cutting off GM Europe with less cash than is required to see the week...

Portuguese bailout accelerates EU disintegration

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THURSDAY’S announcement that Portugal had finally been forced into asking for a massive 90 billion euro (£79 bn) bailout from the European Central Bank...

Tories split over massive debt crisis! Make the bosses pay for their crisis through...

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THE TORY Party split over how to pay off the massive debt run up bailing out the bosses during the coronavirus pandemic is now...

Interest rates held at 4.75% as inflation increases!

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THE Bank of England yesterday held UK interest rates at 4.75% until at least next February. This follows two cuts to the interest rates this...

The EU crisis is threatening catastrophe

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THE UN’S International Labour Organisation has issued a dire warning of the disaster that will follow on from Greece being evicted from the EU...

Grenfell Tower Inquiry Ends This Week

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THE FIVE years-long inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the lives of 72 people entered its final stage this week with closing...

TUC must call general strike to smash the anti-union laws and support the State...

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HUNDREDS of Palestinians are being brutally murdered and others injured as a result of the ongoing Israeli airstrikes and artillery bombardments across the Gaza...