Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

THE TUC must take general strike action to support Palestine and bring in a...

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‘THE report issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhry, on the Israeli-induced starvation in the Gaza Strip...

Trump lauds huge tax cuts, slams migrants, keeps G Bay open and plans war...

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PRESIDENT Trump began his ‘State of the Union’ speech on Tuesday night by repeatedly congratulating himself, saying, ‘Less than one year has passed since...

Carillion pension fund looted to pay billions to shareholders and bosses

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THE collapse of the construction company Carillion has again thrown a spotlight on the systematic theft and looting of billions of pounds from workers’...

270,000 civil servants to strike!

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UP to 270,000 civil and public servants from across the UK are set to launch a month of industrial action, with a 48 hour...

Permanent wage-cutting and zero-hour contracts are all that capitalism has to offer

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THE Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.4%, down from 6.5% in May, with the number of people unemployed...

Grenfell tenants were treated as ‘sub-citizens’. All those responsible for the fire must...

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TENANTS of the Grenfell Tower warned time and again about the dangerous building they were living in, but their cries for action fell on...

Palestine at boiling point – take action now to establish the Palestinian state!

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THE victory of the people of Gaza in the 51 day war, imposed on them by Israel’s attempt to completely destroy Gaza has changed...

1.72 million jobless! End of furloughing on April 21 will see millions more...

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1.72 MILLION are now jobless! The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said yesterday it is the highest level in five years. Workers aged between 25...

Build the WRP!

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AT SATURDAY’S march to defend the Welfare State, workers from across the country were clear that action will have to be taken to defend...

Trump gambles on his inflationary boom lasting till presidential election day!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump delivered his formal State of the Union address on Tuesday night with the usual boast that under the three years...

Doctors strike to defend the NHS and to defend patient care!

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ALMOST 50,000 resident (junior) hospital doctors started their 5-day strike yesterday against the government’s refusal to fund their claim for a pay increase of...

Build millions of council homes to solve housing crisis

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CRISIS, the national charity for single homeless people, correctly fears that a massive surge in homelessness is ahead, as it opens its nine Crisis...

Brown Loves Bankers But Attacks Single Parents

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AT the same time as the Brown government continues to spend hundreds of billions to ‘preserve’ the bankers and the capitalist system, his government...

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...

Eurozone crisis drives gold rush

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LAST week the Greek Syriza government avoided defaulting on its debt repayment to the IMF by the skin of its teeth. Just before Tuesday’s deadline...

Labour strikebreakers back BA’s anti-union drive

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British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union has...

Israel Is Blocking Gaza Gas And Selling It To Egypt

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ISRAEL IS currently preventing gas from entering the Gaza Strip and is selling it to Egypt – while Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip are...

Support Catalan independence! Down with the Spanish and EU ruling classes! Forward to a...

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CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont has called for a ‘democratic opposition’ to the imposition of direct rule from Madrid after the Spanish government terminated his...

General strike to defend the NHS

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NHS trade unions have slammed the ‘poverty’ 3.3 per cent NHS pay ‘deal’ which was imposed on NHS workers by the government on Thursday,...

Israeli pogromists launch Gaza ground attack!

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IT didn’t take long for the Israeli government to carry out its plan to invade Gaza and carry out a pogrom against the Palestinian...

Students defy Starmer and give full support to the Palestinian Revolution!

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TUESDAY’S demonstration saw more than 10,000 students march through central London on the 2nd anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation which broke the siege...

Abbas-Obama Talks Fail To Reach Agreement!

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JUST BEFORE his talks with President Abbas on Monday, President Obama said: ‘I think everybody understands the outlines of what a peace deal would...

Obama hosts Afghanistan and Pakistan war summit

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ON THE eve of a meeting between US President Barack Obama, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari in...

US Fails In Drone Attempt On Life Of Taleban Leader

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A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan’s tribal region killed at least 12 persons on Thursday. Drone aircraft fired two missiles on a religious seminary...

Government determined to destroy District General Hospitals

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THE HSJ (Health Service Journal) has done a service to the NHS, and its tens of millions of users. It has revealed just how...

Desperate UK Tories seeking to curry favour with President Biden by imposing sanctions on...

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CHINA has imposed sanctions on nine UK citizens – including five MPs for spreading ‘lies and disinformation’ about the country. This is China’s very minor...

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...

Britain urges: ‘Prepare for war with Russia’ – workers however must remove the Labour...

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ECHOING the strident and alarmist calls to prepare for war against Russia from UK military chiefs, Al Carns, Labour’s UK Armed Forces Minister, warned...

Scavenger Hague Leaps Into Ukraine Conflict

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THE British Foreign Secretary Hague tweeted his support for the ‘new Ukrainian government’ on Saturday midday along with his German opposite number. However, there...

Kick out union leaders who collaborate with Tories – build the revolutionary leadership in...

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THIS WEEK Unison, the largest public sector union in the country, issued a statement declaring that it ‘stands ready’ to work with the Tory...

Trade union leaders should resign as well!

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IN a statement on Friday, the day after the general election disaster for reformism, the TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady showed just what a...

Automation will destroy nearly 15 million jobs & drive forward socialist revolution!

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MILLIONS of workers in Britain face the prospect of seeing their jobs replaced by machines in the next ten years, according to a report...

Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’

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TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...

Defend the NHS – bring down the government!

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Yesterday the NHS was officially opened up by the coalition government to the vultures of the private healthcare industry, whose only aim is to...

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...

UK bans Chinese ambassador to step foot in Parliament! The enemy is at home...

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THE UK government stepped up its war with China this week when it took the decision to ban the Chinese ambassador to the UK...

Furious Hague threatens to recognise the Syrian opposition as the government!

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RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad. He was cheered by tens of thousands of pro-Assad...

Venezuela must not support the Rajapakse regime!

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THE Sri Lankan working class, both Tamil and Sinhalese, is suffering under the ‘iron heel’ of the Rajapakse dictatorship. This has killed tens of thousands...

Defeat Cameron’s Savage Cuts With A General Strike

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PRIME Minister David Cameron promised yesterday that there are ‘painful cuts ahead’ that will last for years, and that he would be carrying out...

Step up the public sector strike to a general strike

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THE National Executive of the Public and Civil Servants Union (PCS) have called out their members in England on a one-day strike on Wednesday...

New York Times Urges Biden To Quit At Once As US ‘Democracy’ Crashes

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THE New York Times is just the first US newspaper to urge the incumbent Democratic Party president Joe Biden to quit the 2024 presidential...

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...

Only by abolishing capitalism can poverty be abolished!

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THE WEALTH gap in Britain has widened dramatically during the pandemic with the richest 10% of the population gaining an extra £50,000 each on...

Tory leader Badenoch wants to deport 150,000 workers a year using a Trump-style terrorist...

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TORY Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged that she will deport 150,000 workers a year using Trump-style immigration squads in raids on working class...

Break with the EU NOW! Forward to a Workers Government and forward to the...

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FOLLOWING 17m plus workers voting to ‘Leave’ in the 2016 EU Referendum, the UK is leaving the EU on March 29th 2019, two years...