Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Time for a general strike to stop the war!

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‘THIS is a tremendous demonstration of the anger of the British people against what Blair has done in Iraq and is threatening to do...

End funding ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ US Democrat Senators demand!

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YESTERDAY, 93 Democrat members of the US House of Representatives issued an official letter calling on the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to open...

Sinn Fein Ready To Embrace The Psni

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THE decision by Sinn Fein to accept the north of Ireland law courts and the police service wholeheartedly (including the special branch) completes the...

Hezbollah unites the Arab masses against Zionism and imperialism

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THERE is not the slightest doubt about it – Hezbollah’s military action in the Shabaa Farms area of the disputed border with Israel, showed...

Bma Must Throw Out Tory Health Plans!

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GPs have already expressed their opposition to the Coalition plan to privatise the NHS being pushed into law by Health Secretary Lansley. They have...

Snap General Election Farce!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Brown, a cautious and bumbling, conservative politician, is due to decide this weekend whether to take a big gamble and call...

Record Breaking Inflation!

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RECORD BREAKING UK inflation rate statistics were reported by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) yesterday. Inflation rose at its fastest annual pace for nine...

Unions must call general strikes to support Gaza and end imperialist war drive

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ON MONDAY, Israeli warplanes bombed the Iranian consulate, which is situated next to the embassy building in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing seven Iranian...

Trade union action to beat ‘stagflation’

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TODAY 800,000 local council workers, members of the UNISON and UNITE trade unions, begin a two-day strike against a government-imposed wage cut, an offer...

US, UK and EU trade unions must take general strike action to defeat Israel’s...

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THE Israeli regime started its threatened ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah with an intense bombardment of the city on Sunday...

US And UK Ruling Classes Have Been Undermined By Defeat In Afghanistan!

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THE RULING US Democratic Party, led by President Biden, was yesterday being pressed by its NATO allies to delay the US rapid retreat (rout)...
London firefighters demonstrating against cuts earlier this year

The PM’s wife can speak out on rights – but the TUC cannot!

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THE scale of the crisis that has hit capitalist Britain is now so great that it has forced the Prime Minister’s wife, Cherie...

Balls reveals intense ruling class fear

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ED BALLS, the Schools Minister, and the former economics advisor to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, over the weekend dropped his political master right...

GM’s Reilly insists no decision made on which plants are to close

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GENERAL Motors’ head of operations in Europe, Nick Reilly, has a history – he was in charge of the operation that shut down Vauxhall...

Stop Royal Mail privatisation – No to mass sackings!

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THE CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes yesterday warned that the Brown government and the Royal Mail top management are planning to sack...

Occupy And Nationalise Vauxhall Plants

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THREE companies have bid to take over GM Europe from the crisis-stricken US giant. They are Italian carmaker Fiat, Canadian parts maker Magna and...

Huge food inflation as bosses and unions agree on wage cuts and job cuts

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WORKERS in Britain are now feeling the ‘benefits’ of the British government’s policy of printing money to rescue the banks while allowing the pound...

Junior doctors revolution forces BMA leader to resign

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THE BMA chairman, James Johnson has quit, forced out of office by the uprising of the junior doctors, who were not prepared to see...

Inflation rips through Europe as working class rises up over wages

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EMPLOYEES at the European Central Bank (ECB) are the latest to join workers across Europe in demanding wage increases to meet the spiralling inflation...

Labour must call to free Palestinian hunger strikers and recognise State of Palestine!

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THE Head of the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee Issa Qaraqe said on Friday afternoon, the 26th day of the prisoners’ hunger strike, that negotiations could...

World Socialist Revolution only answer to capitalist war at home and abroad!

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The political crisis of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia, that emerged dramatically on Friday with the march on Moscow by the mercenary Wagner group,...

News International, Parliament and the state

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THE revelation yesterday that the News of the World (NoW) newspaper had quietly suspended its assistant editor (news), Ian Edmondson, just before Christmas, has...

The bosses refuse to back May! Now is the time for a general strike...

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A PLAN by the Tories to demonstrate that the bosses of Britain’s leading companies are firmly behind the chaotic Brexit negotiations blew up in...

PM Johnson In ‘Intensive Care’ And Labour Is Ready For A National Government

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PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is now in intensive care at St Thomas’ hospital, laid low by the coronovirus, perfectly reflecting the state of British...

Lift the siege on the Palestinians!

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PRIME Minister Ismail Haniya’s Palestinian Authority (PA) national unity government, sworn in on Saturday, is being recognised and supported by more and more...

US trade unions must evict Trump and break with Democrats to found a Labour...

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PRESIDENT TRUMP has stated that he has no intention of leaving the White House and the presidency voluntarily. He said on Saturday: ‘We all know...

Labour Taking Action To Make The Workers And The Poor Pay For The Crisis...

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THERE is no doubt that Labour’s proposed benefit cuts are a ‘violation of workers rights’ which will harm ill, disabled and poorer workers in...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the the thousand-strong march through Southall on December 4th last year

Blair gang runs out of spin

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THE Blair government has finally run out of spin. It is now being destroyed by its own inner contradictions, the chief one being its determination,...

Cameron and NATO mobilise to send refugees back!

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BRITAIN is sending ‘vital military assets’ (in Cameron’s words) to be part of the NATO force that will be intercepting refugee boats seeking to...

Greek crisis sharpens – the working class must take the power!

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AHEAD of today’s summit of the European Union the Greek transport minister issued an open threat that unless striking transport workers returned to work...

Obama Dumps Two-State Solution!

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PROPONENTS of the two-state solution to Palestine, that is the creation of two separate states, Israel and Palestine through peaceful negotiations, with East Jerusalem...

Tories Are Returning To Their ‘Starve The Workers’ Tactic!

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WITH the capitalist system in its greatest ever crisis, the British Tories are beginning to debate about what is the best way out of...

Corbyn comes good for the bosses’ and bankers’ EU

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CORBYN has been transformed into his opposite as far as the ruling class and Labour’s rabid Blairite right wing is concerned. He has gone...

Prison torture allegations – abolish G4S!

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THE news that allegations that forced injections and electric shocks were used on prisoners at a South African prison run by the UK-owned G4S,...

Uneasy Israel threatens Iran, as Egypt and Jordan erupt with food riots

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THE Zionist leadership has begun to beat the war drums against Iran, louder than ever, in reaction to the continuing crisis that the US...

Afghan crisis – more combat troops to be sent

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THE British government’s Defence Secretary, Des Browne, said yesterday that he would be making a statement to the House of Commons as soon as...

Youth slave labour plan by Osborne and Co

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THE Tory Prime Minister Cameron and his LibDem Deputy Clegg visited the Olympic site in Stratford yesterday to spell out that the only future...

Coalition plan to beat the poorest to aid the richest

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SO FAR trillions of pounds have been spent by the state, using taxpayers’ money, to rescue, prop up and save bankrupt banks and...

Obama brings in tough sanctions against Iran as he prepares to meet Netanyahu

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama has signed into law the toughest ever US sanctions on Iran. The measures, on top of new UN Security Council and...

Imperialist Butcher Blair Wants To Slaughter More Arabs!

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TONY BLAIR, who is understandably opposed to the full transcripts of all of his talks with President Bush being published in the Chilcot Inquiry...

THE TORIES ARE PILING HUGE PRESSURES ONTO GPs AND THE NHS!

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HUGE PRESSURES are being put onto GPs in England and Wales. They are so great that doctors are beginning to feel that they are...

British capitalism about ‘to fall off a cliff’ – Lobby the TUC on Monday...

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The Daily Telegraph has in recent months published a number of articles that have questioned not just the continued existence of the Tory government...

US policy of attacking independent media outlets is proven

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THERE have been quite a large number of journalists killed by US forces in Iraq, among them employees of Reuters and other European news...

Workers begin to occupy their plants and demand nationalisation!

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BRITISH capitalism is on the rocks and has started to break apart! This is the significance of the total outstanding government debt of the...

No economic solution to capitalist crisis as BIS warns financial markets at risk

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THE BANK for International Settlements (BIS) – dubbed the bank for central banks – issued a dire warning in its latest quarterly review that...