Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Miliband appeals to Tory and UKIP voters!

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FOR many years the Labour Party projected itself as the champion of the working class, hence its very close ties with the trade unions,...

Students and universities under savage coalition attack

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IN ORDER that the universities can have their budgets slashed and be privatised or closed, students are to be charged up to £9,000 a...

Johnson pledges to send British troops to fight Russia in Nordic countries!

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PRIME Minister Boris Johnson fancies himself as the ‘great dictator’. On Wednesday, he pledged to send British troops to defend Sweden and Finland from...

Nationalise the motor car industry to defend wages and jobs

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THE international banking system has collapsed, the steel industries of the planet are in slump, and the US and Japanese motor car giants...

Labour says ‘full speed ahead’ with police state measures – The unions must call...

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GOVERNMENT plans to expand the use of ‘Orwellian’ live-facial recognition camera surveillance to every town and city in England and Wales will allow dangerous...

A Case Of Strange Bedfellows

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THE Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come back from the US convinced that the Labour government must change its position against the use...

Dubai dashes bourgeois hopes – world revolution is the answer!

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DUBAI’S ‘debt repayment’ postponement for six months has brought renewed havoc to European, Asian and North American stock markets. They have all been reminded that...

Gold hits over $2,000 an ounce as the capitalist robbers seek value!

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ON TUESDAY the price of gold hit a record high of $2,000 (£1,530) an ounce, an increase of more than 30% this year. According to...

Answer Brown’s attacks with a general strike

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THE rapidly deepening debt crisis of the capitalist system is leading to a financial collapse and a slump of historic proportions as the bankers’...

Kensington & Chelsea Council, Rydon, TMO & Tories must stand trial for Grenfell

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THE INQUIRY into the Grenfell Tower inferno was told this week by senior London Fire Brigade officer Andrew O’Loughlin that ‘The building was so...

Lift the ban on the Tigers – Stop the massacres of Tamils

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SUPPORTED by the US, the UK and India the Sri Lankan army is bombing and shelling Northern Sri Lanka in a frantic, ruthless and...

Nationalise LDV and GM Vauxhall – no Royal Mail privatisation!

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WITH even more right-wing forces seeking to bring down the Brown government from the right, trade unions now have an opportunity to show their...

Palestinians defiant as Gulf State rulers forge war alliance with Israel

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YESTERDAY Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett met with the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayad al-Nahyan, in the first official state...

Thousands Driven Out Of Their Homes!

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AFTER the initial declarations of the British and other NATO forces that they were going to Afghanistan to win ‘hearts and minds’ through engaging...

Poodle Brown can’t say no to Bush

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PRIME MINISTER Brown showed yesterday, at his joint press conference with President Bush, that such is the historic decline and collapse of the power...

CORBYN, McDONNELL SET TO BETRAY AS BREXIT ‘DAY OF DECISION’ APPROACHES!

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SENIOR Labour Party leaders are at war with each other over the best way to betray the 2016 referendum result, when PM Boris Johnson...

The Capitalist System Deserves To Perish

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THE run on shares last Friday, particularly bank shares, devastated capitalists and capitalism. The Royal Bank of Scotland saw its shares crash by 25 per...

Tories seek to smash NHS up into 42 pieces! Entire working class must strike...

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TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new government White Paper in Parliament on Thursday pushing a complete reorganisation of the...

Labour to hand police the power to ban demonstrations in move to establish a police state...

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KEIR STARMER’S Labour government’s plans to ‘tighten’ protest laws were confirmed by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Sunday. The new powers handed to the police...

UK workers must act to help end occupation of Palestine!

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SIXTY-SEVEN years after the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, when Israel was founded by a massive Zionist terror against the Palestinian people, the Palestinian...

Britain Apologises To Chagossians – Now Hand Them Back Their Islands!

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BRITAIN has apologised to the Chagos Islanders for the ‘shameful’ way it evicted them from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The apology came...

Speak English Or Else – Minister Tells The Poor!

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UNEMPLOYED people who cannot speak English will have to show they are learning the language or lose benefits, the government has announced. This is...

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...

Trade unions must take general strike action in support of Palestinian masses!

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THE UN’s World Food Programme has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation after Israel launched a brutal aggression on Gaza last month....

Stock markets crash under impact of Trump’s trade war – World Socialist Revolution is...

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ON Thursday night, the giant TV screen that looks down on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange spelt out the message ‘Trump...

597 homeless deaths, 130,000 homeless children! Slum landlords and capitalism must be got rid...

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FIVE hundred and ninety-seven homeless people died on the streets of Britain last year, up from 482 the year before – in fact homeless...

Crisis Ridden Capitalism Is Trying To Make The Working Class Pay The Full Bill...

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UK CAPITALISM is in crisis. After the falls in sterling, and the rampant oil, gas and food inflation, the ruling class is desperate and...

Cameron At War At Home And Abroad

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CAMERON’S Monday ‘European Council’ statement to parliament was all about the crisis of imperialism, its wars abroad, and dictatorship at home. He managed to discuss...

Privatising the Law

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The disclosure over the weekend that two police authorities, West Midlands and Surrey, have started the process of privatising the police service in their...

OBR official demands cuts to benefits and war on migrant workers to ‘save’ British...

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WHEN the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss launched her notorious mini-budget in September 2022 that came close to crashing the UK economy, one...

Hutton provocation will result in ‘summer pensions war’

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TODAY’S publication of the Hutton Report on public sector pensions will be like a red rag to a bull as far as the membership...

Imperialists step up war preparations against Iran

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A report from the director of US national intelligence, James Clapper, issued last Tuesday signalled that imperialism’s war preparations against Iran have reached the...

UK political crisis explodes as Parliament refuses to support immediate ceasefire!

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THE House of Commons tied itself up into knots on Wednesday as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support...

Fire doors fail! Millions at risk! Kick Tories out before another fire breaks out!

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FIRE doors in the Grenfell Tower failed, providing further evidence that this horrific tragedy could have been prevented. There is not a shadow of...

Illegal and deadly restraints still in use, smash the racist capitalist state

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Just 16 months after a man died whilst being restrained by private security guards on board an aircraft, the House of Commons home office...

Unions Must Take Strike Action To Stop ‘Son Of Star Wars’

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THE real content of the ‘war against terror’ (a tool for promoting imperialist interests and for grabbing the world’s resources) has been proven with...

NAO report exposes the scandal of the Southern GTR Rail franchise

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TRAIN staff and angry commuters have been protesting up and down the country at the 3.4% hikes in rail fares. Many commuters have seen...

Trump Leaps Into War With Syria – Where He Leads, The UK Ruling Class...

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PRESIDENT Trump in his televised statement on Thursday night insisted that launching a 59-strong cruise missile attack on Syria was ‘in the national security...

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...

Bankrupt McCluskey won’t take action to bring down the Tories!

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IN A statement passed overwhelmingly by Unite’s policy conference in Brighton, the union stressed that its priority is to push for a general election...

Chile – workers and youth vote to smash Pinochet-era constitution

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TENS of thousands of Chilean workers and youth flooded the main square of the capital Santiago on Sunday celebrating the result of the referendum...

NHS England boss openly calls for the privateers to wind up the NHS!

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AN analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) on the funding crisis that is driving the NHS to the brink of collapse revealed...

Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown

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TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...

Working class erupts throughout the EU – Forward to the Socialist United States of...

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THE CRISIS-RIDDEN EU is exploding as workers from the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Catalonia rise up against the open dictatorship of...

EU gives Italy three weeks to re-write its budget or face fines!

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ITALY is now on a collision course with the EU. The European Commission has issued an ultimatum insisting that the country’s budget plan does...