Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

US seizure of Press TV a declaration of war against Iran!

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THE WEBSITE of Press TV, the official Iranian English language news site, was seized by the US government on Tuesday, in what amounts to...

No more cuts! Defend the public services!

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THE Newquay disaster proves what most people knew to be the case – that cuts in the fire service inevitably cost lives. Newquay is...

Corbyn must drive out Labour’s Remain right wing – Time to build the WRP

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WEDNESDAY’S meeting of the Labour Party’s shadow cabinet saw the deep split in the Labour leadership widen into a chasm as former loyal Corbyn...

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...

Defend NHS hospital care with occupations and a general strike!

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A REPORT  issued by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) this week exposes the appalling state of hospitals in England as the NHS is...

NHS to be butchered to pay the bankers’ debts

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LARGE-scale hospital cuts and closures are now being organised for immediately after the next general election. These cuts have been dictated by the current enormously...

Defend the Royal Mail – bring down the coalition!

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The Tory-led coalition’s Business Secretary, Vince Cable, yesterday launched a demagogic attack on ‘spiv’ and ‘gambling’ bankers and their bonuses at the LibDem Conference. This...

Teachers must not fight alone – TUC must call a general strike

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The annual conferences of the two largest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, meeting at the weekend heard that the unions and the...

Capitalist recovery fraud is stoking working class fury

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WORKERS and young people will be forgiven if they believe that they are living in some parallel universe that has absolutely no connection with...

Massive doctors vote for strike action over pensions!

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THE BMA LEADERSHIP has now called a 24-hour day of action on Thursday 21 June, during which only emergency or urgent care will be...

Toxic Tories lash out at immigrants and the poor

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PEOPLE who do not speak fluent English will be barred from public sector jobs which involve working directly with the public, the government has...

War Fever Against Russia

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THE US and the EU are set to stiffen and widen their sanctions against Russia. Their intention is to target its finances, energy...

Tories guarantee working class will pay for the profits of the rail privateers

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YESTERDAY the Tory government announced its plans to save the profits of the private rail companies by bankrolling them for another 18 months. In March,...

World’s Stock Markets Set For Financial Crash!

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IT was reported yesterday that a survey of the top professional ‘money managers’ revealed that these investment experts believe that the world’s leading stock...

Labour plans ruthless cuts and mass privatisation of public sector to ‘save’ British capitalism

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The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public...

US-UK Being Driven Out Of Afghanistan!

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CURRENTLY, the ‘Friends of Syria’ conference in Tunis is considering the best way for the imperialist powers to intervene in Syria to overthrow president...

Care for the Elderly crisis – capitalist barbarism at work

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WHEN workers pass the age at which their labour can be exploited for profit they become a useless burden on society as far as...

NATO backs Turkish attack on Syria and the Kurds

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NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels yesterday to support Turkey’s military campaign, nominally against the IS, but in fact against the Kurds and...

GMB, Unison and Unite refuse to call action to bring down coalition

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‘WORKING people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life.’ This is the...

Tory ‘Orwellian’ attempts to cover Grenfell Tower atrocities in secrecy

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THE CAMPAIGN group ‘openDemocracy’ has revealed evidence of a concerted campaign by a secretive government Freedom of Information (FOI) screening unit to interfere with...

Defend every job! Bring down coalition! Expropriate the bosses!

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UK unemployment rose by 49,000 to almost 2.5 million in the three months to the end of November, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

Worldwide strikes against Amazon’s brutal exploitation of workers – socialist revolution only answer

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WORKERS at the online retail giant Amazon warehouse in Minnesota were out on a six hours-long strike yesterday called to coincide with the company’s...

Make It ‘Doomsday’ For The Coalition Not For Council Housing

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THE ‘social housing’ budget in England is to be slashed by more than 50 per cent. Up to 90 per cent of the market rent...

Justice – Just Another Bourgeois Commodity For Sale

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THE Coalition’s ‘Justice Secretary’ Chris Grayling plans to make further savage cuts in the £2bn legal aid bill in England and Wales, to...

Brown to rescue banks by slashing wages and jobs!

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CHANCELLOR Darling has followed up his appearance before the bankers at the Mansion House on Wednesday night, where he pledged that wage rises would...

Only socialist revolutions can defeat missile threat

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ROMANIAN President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that Romania will host US interceptor missiles along its border with the Russian Federation. This latest missile plan...

Councils to be given more police state powers!

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HOME SECRETARY Alan Johnson is introducing new police state powers for councils next week. These will not be discussed in the House of Commons...

The UK ruling class is split, unable to rule, and frightened by the mass...

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YESTERDAY Tory PM May pledged that she would not allow the British people’s vote for Brexit to be sabotaged. The would-be sabatoeurs are the majority...
Teachers marching in Athens last month

Irish Trade Unions Put The Tuc To Shame

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LAST Friday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a 100,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin, with demonstrations in many other Irish cities and...

Obama’s War Being Stepped Up

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THE government of Pakistan yesterday summoned the US ambassador to Islamabad to protest at yet another US drone missile attack on Pakistani civilians. ...

Brown pledges all to the CBI

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‘Let me start by thanking you – directors, executives, managers representing companies from all over the UK – for the contribution you are making...

TUC Must Support Next Saturday’s Mass Rally, Recognise The Palestinian State And Demand That...

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SATURDAY saw the concrete proof of just how much support the brave Palestinian people have won in their battle to undo the dirty work...

Prentis appeals to Brown in vain

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‘OUR time and patience is running out. The country is in a mess and we look to the Government to come up with serious...

After the Peace Prize – let battle commence!

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AT the same moment as France and Germany were being given a Nobel prize for keeping the peace in Europe, ie not going to...

Jail the Bankers – Nationalise the Banks

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WHEN it comes to fraud and stealing vast amounts of money the banks make your average burglar or spiv look like the rank amateurs...

100 women on hunger strike! Shut down Yarl’s Wood and ALL detention centres!

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‘WE ARE not animals!’ women incarcerated in the notorious Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre have scrawled across their T-shirts. More than 120 women have...

Public sector must strike alongside the firefighters!

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‘You want a war pal, you’ve picked on the wrong union and we’re going to take you on and you will not win,’ GMB...

Forward With The European Socialist Revolution!

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ON MONDAY in the House of Commons, ex-Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw rounded on the government stating: ‘Instead of sheltering behind complacent language and...

Under Brown They Don’t Pay Any Any Taxes

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GORDON Brown in his budget got rid of the lowest rate of tax, 10p in the pound, thereby setting out to further punish the...

Massive support for Tube workers’ strike – Now forward to a general strike

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London Underground is closed down today as Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) members staged another 24-hour strike over jobs, pensions and in defence of...

Free Assange and Manning! The imperialists must be put on trial for ‘war crimes’!

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BRITISH police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in central London on Thursday, which is technically Ecuadorian territory, arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian who...

Prevent new ‘Catastrophe’ for Negev Bedouins!

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THOUSANDS of protesters participated in large demonstrations in Haifa, Jerusalem and in the Negev on Saturday against the Israeli Prawer Plan to drive the...

Build millions of council houses to solve housing crisis

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PUBLIC sector workers such as firefighters, teachers, and nurses, cannot afford to buy homes in seven out of 10 UK towns, because of the...

Starmer embraces ‘harsh light of fiscal reality’ as he demands working class pays for...

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to ‘embrace the harsh light of fiscal reality’ in a speech delivered in Birmingham yesterday, in what was...

Tories Breaking Apart Along With Their Bankrupt Economy While The Tuc Refuses To Take...

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UK capitalism is now the sick man of the capitalist world. Its economy is going broke while the Tories openly discuss knifing the NHS,...