Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

‘New Leader – Old Agenda’

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IN a motion for next month’s Trades Union Congress, UNISON correctly says the use of private firms in public services is ‘harmful, wasteful, and...

Oil giants make huge profits off backs of workers – nationalise the oil and...

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AS MILLIONS of families face massive increases in their energy bills when the Tories raise the cap on prices by 54% in April, the...

Labour and Tory splitters unite to stab Brexit in the back! Now is the...

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THREE Tory MPs – amongst the most ardent opponents of Brexit – Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen, announced yesterday they were deserting...

Homelessness in rural England rises by a third in a year! Socialist revolution to...

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HOMELESSNESS in rural England has soared by as much as a third between 2012 and 2018, new figures released yesterday have shown. As rich...

Welcome all Refugees! Bankrupt EU spreads racist poison!

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THE Danish parliament has just voted to rob asylum seekers of their valuables – so that they pay for their upkeep. This policy immediately brings...

North Korea successfully tests H-Bomb to be loaded onto an ICBM!

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NORTH Korea has successfully tested an H-bomb, a nuclear weapon that it will now be able to load onto an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile...

Bank of England is damned by House of Lords committee for not bringing down...

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WHEN Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Chancellor Jeremy Hunt boasted last week that they were responsible for bringing down the official inflation...

Pope Benedict Pours Fuel On The Fire Then Says Sorry

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EX SS soldier Pope Benedict XVI yesterday apologised in person for causing offence to Muslims in a speech in Bavaria last week. In his...

Grenfell survivors want jail sentences for those responsible for the fire!

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LAWYERS for victims of the Grenfell fire have indicted the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea council, which owned the Grenfell tower block, and...

Tories Are Down – Now They Must Be Put Out!

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THE Tories are down but they are not out! The trade unions must mobilise for action at once to deliver a knock-out blow to...

Hunt vows to slash benefits to drive sick back to work and pledges UK...

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THIS week, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt jetted off to Washington to attend the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the stated...

TUC must call indefinite general strike to bring down coalition now!

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TODAY’S meeting of the TUC general council must get off the fence and call for an immediate all-out, indefinite general strike to bring down...

War on Iran expands threatening to crash stock markets and drive inflation 

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THE US and the Israeli regime ramped up their war against Iran and the people of the Middle East yesterday with an increased bombardment...

Free Julian Assange! Imperialists are the real war criminals!

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JULIAN Assange’s extradition hearing resumed in London yesterday with the US government once again throwing in new charges at the last moment. According to reports,...

Youth Are Showing The Way! Now The Trade Unions Must Call A General Strike...

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THE Israeli occupation army is continuing its aggression against the city of Jenin in Occupied Palestine for the second day in a row, leaving...

Luxury liners are going in – but the aid is nowhere to be seen...

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THE fact that Luxury cruise liners are still docking in Haitian ports, not very far from the epicentre of the earthquake, which has killed...

As world crisis deepens the UK working class needs to take power and bring...

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THE working class of the world faces a revolutionary autumn and winter, as the major imperialist powers step up their war in the Ukraine...

Euro crisis hits youth hardest – forward with European socialist revolution

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THERE is no more pathetic sight than that of European bourgeois politicians and economists manically trying to convince both themselves and the world at...

Britain ‘drifting’ towards a police state–Manchester Chief Constable

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SIR Peter Fahy, Greater Manchester Chief Constable and vice-chair of the National Counter-Terrorism Committee, has warned that the fight against ‘extremism’ is leading to...

Labour demands students foot the bill to bail out bankrupt universities

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ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means...

Break With Eu Now! Bring Down The Tories! Forward To Socialism!

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THE EU leadership last Friday morning at 6am rescued PM May from the debacle of her Northern Ireland crisis, and saved her government by...

Trade unions must act now to defend living standards!

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BANK of England Governor Mervyn King sent a letter to Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday because inflation has taken off. Under statutory obligations put in place...

French election results directly pose the issue of working class taking power

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THE SECOND and final round of voting for the French Parliament ended on Sunday night with the fascist National Rally (RN) party suffering a...

Tories tell May she must bring in strike ban law!

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SUNDAY saw the Tory Telegraph accuse PM May of ‘refusing to curb the power of striking trade unions despite a growing backlash from...

King’s Fund Warning Must Be Acted On!

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THE Quarterly Monitoring Report of the King’s Fund does not pull any punches about the future that the Tory-led coalition has planned out for...

Business Secretary Reynolds can’t keep blast furnaces going!

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THE British Labour government’s business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep...

Capitalism offering only poverty and war to working class and middle class

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FALLING incomes will mean the biggest drop in living standards for middle-income families since the 1970s, when the Yom Kippur war resulted in the...

US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary

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AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...

Russia Pledges Its Support For Serbia

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DEPUTY Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was in Belgrade yesterday for talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Medvedev is...

Workers of the world unite in the struggle for socialism!

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THE UK authorities issued National Insurance numbers to 713,000 overseas workers in the year to April 2007. The WRP and the News Line are pleased...

Tensions rise in the Baltics and the Balkans!

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LAST WEEK the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice visited Moscow to meet with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. She insisted that although Russia...

NHS Executives back away from imposition – Unions must take strike action

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s contract imposition has already begun to hit the rocks with 10 of the 20 NHS executives who signed the Dalton letter...

Blair stays at number 10 to try help Israel out of the Lebanese mire

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PRIME minister Blair, at the last minute, postponed his holiday to try to assist the UN Security Council efforts, headed by France, to fashion...

UK capitalism is being torn apart politically and economically

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THE CRISIS restrictions on Greater Manchester by the Tories reveal that the collapse of British capitalism has reached such a point that the unity...

Syriza Begins T0 Swing To The Right!

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GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said he is confident that agreement can be reached with creditors over the repayment of ‘Greece’s debts’,...

New Sri Lankan President Is As Hated As Rajapaksa And Will Have...

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SRI LANKAN MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country’s new president, despite his extreme unpopularity with Sri Lankan workers and youth...

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...

The TUC Must Make Its Stand! Now Is The Time To Call A General...

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THE annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) that starts this Sunday in Brighton is taking place as British capitalism is crumbling under...

McDonnell refuses to even whisper the word ‘socialism’

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A FEW short weeks ago at the Labour Party conference, the ‘left’ shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, proudly announced that the party would no longer...

Socialist revolution is the answer to capitalist austerity and poverty wages

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OVER a million public sector workers across Britain are paid poverty level wages according to a report issued yesterday by the Living Wage Foundation. 1.2...

US and world economic crisis deepens as PM Johnson decides to give up ...

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THE CORONAVIRUS crisis is smashing up the US and world capitalist economy at a tremendous rate. The latest casualty is the electric car firm Tesla...

Labour rats flee their sinking ship

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COMMUNITIES Secretary Hazel Blears has resigned from the cabinet, on the eve of the local government and EU elections, delivering a major blow to...

UK War Crimes

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LAST night’s BBC Panorama programme revealed yet more evidence of unlawful killings of Afghans by members of the Special Air Service (SAS) during the...

The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...

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THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...

Tory split looms as King warns on new housing disaster

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LORD Howe, who is credited with bringing Thatcher down, now seems to be about to perform the same service for PM David Cameron, with...