Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Leave the EU with no deal! Forward with the socialist revolution!

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THE VOTES in Parliament on amendments to Theresa May’s Brexit deal saw the counter-revolutionary plots by MPs from all parties to smash the 2016...

Hold Criminal Governments To Account, Says Cameron

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UK Prime Minister David Cameron called for the ‘criminal’ Syrian government to be held to account, and threatened Syria’s people that there would be...

Unite Cuts Its Labour Party Funding. The Trade Unions Need A Revolutionary Party!

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IN HIS speech to the Tory party conference on Monday, chancellor Rishi Sunak pledged to ‘use the overwhelming might of the British state’ in...

Labour Puts Migrants In Chains

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YESTERDAY THE BBC repeated throughout the day film of a police and immigration officials raid on a chicken factory in Derbyshire, to which the...

Baker Reveals Iraq Get Out Plan

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A PANEL of White House advisers led by a former Secretary of State, James Baker, is reported to be recommending a major shift of...

Bank of England pledges to ride to the rescue of capitalism!

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THE BANK of England yesterday vowed that it would ride to the rescue of the world’s financial markets by joining with other central banks...

TUC Must Call A General Strike To Support The Palestinian Revolution!

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THE Hamas Movement has called upon the Arab and Islamic governments and the world’s free people to take all possible measures to break the...
Pickets were demanding yesterday that the Gate Gourmet boss Siegel should be sacked as a troublemaker

The issue is the shoot to kill policy says de Menezes campaign

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THE family of Jean Charles de Menezes, murdered by police on the Tube on July 22, have called for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir...

Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America

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THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...

Palestinians Condemn Trump – Now The UK Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action...

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PALESTINIAN factions have condemned US President Donald Trump’s statements, in which he discussed the possibility of displacing the residents of the Gaza Strip to...

Biden keeps US embassy in Jerusalem! He is continuing where Trump left off! US...

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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden will keep the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem, his nominee for Secretary of State Antony Blinken affirmed at his...

Lessons of 1926 are vital for today!

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THIS year there is great interest in the 80th anniversary of the general strike of 1926. It is not hard to work out why....

Postmasters demand justice after 20 years of persecution by the Post Office!

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YESTERDAY, former Post Office sub-postmasters and mistresses began giving evidence to the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal which has been described as...
Marchers in London on the 3rd anniversary of the war on Iraq demand no attack on Iran

EU moves to suspend all aid to Palestine

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YESTERDAY the European Union followed the example of the US and suspended its aid to the Palestine National Authority. The EU has given $400...

Reject the SNP attempt to split the working class! Forward to Socialist United States...

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THE LEADER of the Scottish Nationalist Party, Nicola Sturgeon, dropped a bombshell yesterday with her announcement that she intends to push through a vote...

Soviet Workers And Youth Want The Ussr Restored!

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THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...

Capitalism has no ‘safety net’ to save it from economic crash

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) can no longer act as the world’s ‘lender of last resort’ according to a task force of currency experts...

Defend NHS with occupations and a general strike to bring down the government

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Yesterday saw the second reading of the Tory-led coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill in Parliament, a bill designed to facilitate the wholesale closure...

Stop the UK arms sales to the Saudi and Bahraini despots!

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DESPERATE for trade after Brexit, and for access to Middle East oil, bankrupt capitalist Britain is desperately licking the boots of Arab feudalists, while...

Parliament Votes Lords Resolution Banning Any UK ‘No Deal’ Into Law!

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THE HOUSE of Commons on Monday night voted by 390 votes to 81 to turn a House of Lords resolution into legislation that bans...

Action Needed Now Over Housing Crisis!

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HOMELESSNESS among households in England has risen by 54 per cent since 2010 – rising annually every year – shows the latest report by...

Bush Desperate ‘To Aid Burma’ But Watches Palestinians Starve!

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THERE is an obvious contradiction in the fact that while the US and the UK are considering fighting their way into Burma to ‘bring...

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...

Imperialist drive to war with Russia takes leap forward

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THE war preparations by the imperialist nations against Russia took a giant leap forward this week with NATO and non-NATO troops massed in north-western...
Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC Congress in Brighton on September 12 insisting on their reinstatement

Delphi Battle Looms For US Trade Unions

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THE battle lines are being drawn up in the United States between the vanguard of the working class in the auto industry and the...

Army brought in as police demand complete legal immunity from prosecution

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FOLLOWING a mass walkout by armed police over the decision to charge an unnamed armed police officer with murder over the shooting of 24-year-old...

4.5m on the housing waiting list!

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THE National Housing Federation (NHF) complains that the government has missed its home-building target for the last seven years and that the housing crisis...

Tories in crisis over Sunak tax revelations! Get them out with a general strike!

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THE Tory government is in a state of crisis and near collapse as revelations pile up daily about the financial activities of Tory ministers...

Brown To Nationalise Northern Rock Losses

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BROWN and the Treasury have announced that they prefer a private sector ‘solution’ to the Northern Rock bank crisis, while Brown’s spin doctors have...

Fight for jobs, and against evictions and benefit cuts!

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THOUSANDS more working-class families are going to their local Citizen Advice Bureau because of the effects of unemployment, debts, threatened loss of homes and...

Victory for Uber workers – now end the gig economy for good with socialist...

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THE LARGE taxi app company Uber announced yesterday it would start treating over 70,000 of its drivers in the UK as employed workers entitled...

Crisis hit US tries WMD deception again!

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THE depth of the capitalist world crisis has set the US juggernaut lurching forward once again. This time it is threatening Syria, and by...

The only way to solve the housing crisis!

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WRITING in the ‘Housing Question’ in 1872, Frederick Engels declared that the bourgeoisie was incapable of solving the housing question. He wrote: ‘As long as...

Starmer forced to condemn the racist police force – Disband it now!

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FRESH from the Labour Party conference on Thursday, the Prime Minister Kier Starmer was forced to condemn the ‘shocking’ racism and misogyny in the...

UK steel industry collapses!

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YESTERDAY the Tory business secretary, Sajid Javid, convened an emergency summit meeting in Rotherham on the dramatic collapse of the UK steel industry. From the...

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...

Nationalise the Pharmaceutical Industry

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AT last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, 100 pharmaceutical companies and private health care companies issued a statement demanding that governments around the...

Labour guilty of surrender and betrayal of Brexit – build new leadership in the...

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THE HOUSE of Commons erupted in an unprecedented exhibition of rage and fury by Labour MPs over Boris Johnson’s refusal to apologise for having...

Egypt bombs Derna and pledges Libyan intervention

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EGYPT’S Air Force, on Monday morning bombed Islamic State positions in Derna, Libya, after IS beheaded 21 Coptic Christian Egyptians. The city was also bombed...

The Not So Great Recovery!

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THE UK economy grew by 0.8% in the second quarter of 2014, official figures are said to show. The figures, from the Office for National...

Working class must demand the TUC act and not sit back while Gaza is...

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Yesterday Israel announced a ‘total’ blockade of Gaza, including a ban on food, electricity, water, and fuel. Announcing this move to strangle Gaza, Israeli defence...

Student nurses join GPs and junior doctors in demanding action to defend the NHS

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THE determined drive by the Tory government to cut the pay and conditions of every NHS worker, as a prelude to the ultimate aim...

Brown champions more police powers and public sector pay cuts

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told police chiefs yesterday that he will do ‘everything to give you the resources’ and ‘we will not shirk from giving...

Slum landlords flourish under the Tory attack on council housing

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A ‘ROGUE’ landlord has been threatened by a judge with nine years in jail if he doesn’t pay a record-breaking £1.5 million fine for...

Fatah calls for a general strike and ‘Day of Rage’ – UK workers must...

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AT LEAST 40 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison of ‘Megiddo’ have joined the prisoners’ open-ended mass hunger strike, said the strikers Media Committee...