Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Revolutionary crisis in France

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The first round of voting in the French presidential election, held last Sunday, produced an unprecedented defeat for the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his...

Royal Mail steps up closure plan – CWU must act

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Postal workers were hit last week with the announcement by Royal Mail that it is stepping up its closure plan for half of the...

Stop the war with a general strike to bring down coalition

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ANGLO-US-FRENCH forces have killed over 100 Libyans and wounded hundreds more in their opening onslaught of cruise missiles, launched from the sea, and bombs...

The battle for public opinion has been won – now take action to win...

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THE postal workers have the support of the mass of the British people, the public sector trade unions and the other trade unions making...

Kiev, EU and US facing defeat in East Ukraine!

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UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...

Hague Must Resign Over Libyan Debacle

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THE latest NATO war crime, the bombing of the Libyan TV station, killing three technicians, was a repeat of a similar war crime,...

£30 billion wiped off UK stock market overnight as capitalism plunges deeper into crisis!

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ON Wednesday, the FTSE 100 had its biggest fall since August last year with almost 30 billion pounds wiped off the value of the...

Capitalism Gripped By Historic Crisis

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THE world crisis of capitalism is being hit by a convergence of the crisis to which all the central banks, economists and politicians have...

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...

Stop BA & Stop Baa Airports, To Win Cabin Crew Struggle!

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BA cabin crew yesterday rejected the latest offer from BA with a massive 67 per cent voting to throw out by 3,419 votes to...

Labour looks to bitcoin to avoid state bankruptcy

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A TRULY desperate British ruling class is capable of any dodgy manoeuvre to try and avoid the UK state bankruptcy that is inexorably approaching! The...

Tories and Labour get ready for more state repressions

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HOME Secretary Theresa May said yesterday that thousands of people are potentially at risk of being radicalised in the UK. ...

Corbyn’s ‘reshuffle’ exposes weakness of left reformism

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LABOUR leader, Jeremy Corbyn, completed his first reshuffle of the shadow cabinet after a tortuous round of negotiations designed to keep the right-wing of...

Smash Brown’s budget cuts, and wage freeze policy

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told the House of Commons last Thursday that he will reduce the Whitehall budget by up to 20 per cent in...

Defend the NHS! No privatisation! Smash the health bill!

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NEXT Tuesday the doctors’ trade union, the BMA, meets in London for an extraordinary Special Representative Meeting (SRM). 350 representatives of its 140,000 members,...

Manchester Arena bombing was the product of a British capitalist state provocation!

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THE judge-led inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing at an Ariana Grand concert in May 2017 finally published its finding yesterday after a two-and-a-half-year...

Defend the NHS by expropriating the drug companies and banks under socialism

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AUDIT Scotland, the public spending watchdog for Scotland, has issued a damning report on the NHS funding crisis, which it states is in a...

Cape Town – first major metropolitan city to run out of water!

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THE water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa’s second largest city, has become explosive as experts now estimate that ‘Day Zero’, the day when...

Inflation here to stay and global banking system faces collapse

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday produced its latest report on the state of the world capitalist financial system, in which it warned that...

Labour squeezing poor and cutting services to prop up the banks

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CHANCELLOR Darling has told his cabinet colleagues there will be no more money made available for schools, hospitals or transport. These vital services face cuts,...

Coalition putting over-65s to work!

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UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen by 65,000 in the three months to May, while the number of newly unemployed in receipt of the JobSeekers Allowance, for...

Steel workers must reject the Tata steel deal – vote ‘NO!’

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AT the end of this month, steel workers at Port Talbot are to vote on a deal struck between their unions and Tata Steel...

Macron’s response promising permanent austerity will drive revolution forward

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ON THURSDAY evening French president Emmanuel Macron finally made a public address outlining his response to the revolutionary uprising of workers, youth and the...

Imperialists Drive To Break Up Iraq

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THERE can be only one gainer from a civil war in Iraq, that will lead to the breaking up of the country into three...

Blair An Agent Of US Imperialism

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PRIME minister Blair is frequently accused of replacing the established form of bourgeois rule in Britain, through an elected parliament, a government and a...

Murdoch’s Man, Hunt Savages The NHS With A View To Privatise

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Local AFL-CIO leaders and trade unionists from across the United States were in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday to ask members of Congress to...

Unions Must Bring Down Tories To End Parliamentary Farce!

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THE TORY government suffered two defeats in Parliament on Wednesday after the £1 billion bribe paid out by Theresa May to the Democratic Unionist...

Millions of workers and youth face a freezing and hungry winter while the bosses...

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OVER half of UK households, that is millions of workers and their children, are experiencing food and fuel poverty, i.e. facing starvation and freezing...

The working class must force its leaders to call a general strike to bring...

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PM Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation will make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the world to go on strike, a...

New Israeli Regime ‘Will Work Against Peace’ Says Erekat

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THE new right-wing Israeli coalition government, just formed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, will be belligerent and work against peace, a senior Palestinian official...

Kiss of death for Deutsche Bank and the world banking system

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THE writing is most definitely on the wall for Europe’s largest bank, with the kiss of death being delivered over the weekend when German...

Kick the Tories out! Get rid of capitalism to prevent a health catastrophe of...

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NHS WAITING lists in England could more than double in the coming months, from the current figure of 5.3 million people to around 13...

Starmer Warns Of The Risk Of A New World War!

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PM Keir Starmer has warned of a ‘risk of escalation’ beyond the Middle East to the rest of the world i.e. a new World...

Blair’s generation of imperialist war

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After President Bush has informed the world that 20,000 more US troops are to be sent to Iraq, and his Secretary of State, Rice...

Join the lobby of the TUC to demand they call an immediate general strike...

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OVER 100,000 Royal Mail workers are striking again today. 30,000 BT Openreach engineers, along with 10,000 BT call centre workers are also on strike,...

Desperate Tories frantically witchhunt Corbyn – put them out on June 8th!

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WITH just ten days to go before voting takes place in Theresa May’s snap general election the Tories are in a state of acute...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TGWU executive committee on Tuesday morning demanding the ‘Compromise Agreement’ with the company be scrapped

Brown wants to form a Blairite government

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has confirmed to the BBC that he will run a Blairite administration if he becomes prime minister. He said that...
Police forcing the  Gate Gourmet locked-out workers to dismantle their tent and quit picketing Beacon Hill, Heathrow Airport after Gate Gourmet and the TGWU told the police that the dispute was over

Thirteen insurgents hung – Rumsfeld looks forward to a civil war

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THE Iraqi puppet authorities have hung 13 people accused of taking part in the insurgency, the first execution of militant nationalists since the US-led...

Labour’Shuts Out Black And Asian Masses

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THE ‘biggest shake-up of the immigration system in 45 years’ got underway yesterday, according to the Brown government. The ‘shake-up’ is that the British ruling...

NHS crisis can only be resolved by kicking out the Tories and going forward...

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THE Commons Health and Social Care Committee of MPs yesterday published a report calling on the Tory government to come up with a ‘long...

RBS bankers joked about destroying the US housing market

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THIS week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a load of emails and transcripts of phone conversations between senior executives of RBS, the...

Hamas Insists On The Right Of Self Defence Against Israeli Zionist Gangsters!

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has categorically rejected UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who labelled and condemned the revolutionary resistance of the Palestinian people against...

Sinn Fein Wins The Election But Drops All References To United Ireland!

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AS SOON as the Northern Ireland Assembly election results were announced on Saturday confirming that Sinn Fein was now the biggest party, the US,...

Sack the RBS bankers! Workers management of the nationalised banks!

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CITY Minister Lord Myners yesterday said shareholders should take action to stop million pound bonuses after Royal Bank of Scotland directors threatened to resign...

Workers Must Tell Tuc And Starmer ‘Don’t Prop Up Johnson Bring Him Down!’

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IN HIS speech outside Downing Street on Monday PM Johnson made it crystal clear that the Tory Party, presiding over the greatest ever crisis...