Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

67 Labour peers begin their coup attempt to drive Corbyn out of the Labour...

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FOLLOWING hard on the heels of last week’s hatchet job carried out by the BBC Panorama programme, the Labour Party right wing have launched...

Saab goes bust as GM’s Opel-Vauxhall crisis deepens

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GM’S crisis has deepened with the collapse of its deal to sell Saab, and as the EU states do battle over whose plants are...

The Treasury and the Banks are in a panic over the Metro crash!

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UK Treasury officials are locked in talks with the Bank of England after Metro Bank’s shares plunged by more than 31%. The bank is now...

The Oxford Blood Money Must Be Returned To Sender At Once!

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IN ITS LATEST ATROCITY, the University of Oxford has grabbed with both hands more than £12m in dirty money from the Alexander Mosley Trust. This...

UN Security Council is to vote today on the State of Palestine’s admission...

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THE UN Security Council is to vote on Palestine’s UN membership application draft today, prepared by Algeria, recommending the state of Palestine’s admission as...

Developing Oil Crisis Makes It All The More Vital That The Working Class Takes...

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THE SAUDI REGIME, backed to the hilt by the US and the UK, yesterday admitted that the Houthi movement’s drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s...

Smash Universal Credit by kicking out the Tories

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SINCE Universal Credit was devised over seven years ago, the Tories have gone to great lengths to keep from the public exactly how it...

US Attention Focuses On China

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AT THIS moment all eyes are turned to China. The US government, and worried US trade union leaders are currently talking to the Chinese...

Revolution At Home And Abroad – Victory To Hamas And To The UK Workers...

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THE appointment of Yahya Sinwar as the new political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, after the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, has...

Leaving university £70,000 in debt!

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MEDICAL students will be left almost £70,000 in debt under Government plans to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees, the...

Imperialist mad dogs bomb Pakistan ‘ally’ and step up Syrian intervention!

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THE desperate crisis of world capitalism is driving forward world revolution, as the continuing revolutionary eruptions in Greece and the eurozone states, and the...

Reformists Miliband and Balls sink to new depths of treachery – build the revolutionary...

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YESTERDAY Labour leader Ed Miliband delivered his keynote speech to the party conference in which he firmly aligned himself with every reactionary anti-working class...

‘Those who support Israeli aggression are partners in their crimes’ – Iranian Foreign Ministry

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Iranian armed forces have launched the tenth phase of Operation True Promise III by firing a barrage of missiles and drones toward the occupied...

Tory government imploding – time for unions to call a general strike to kick...

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THE ECONOMIC crisis engulfing British capitalism is causing a seismic split in the Tory government, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a rebellion from...

President Trump Refuses To Meet The Family Of Jacob Blake!

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THE FATHER of Jacob Blake, the black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, refused to ‘play politics’ with his son’s life’ when President...

Johnson fighting a war on two fronts against Russia and against the working class...

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PM JOHNSON in his Thursday speech in Blackpool unveiled his war on two fronts against the Russian workers abroad, and at home against the...

Lobbying Bill A Conscious Attack On The Working Class

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THE Tory-led coalition’s proposed new Lobbying Bill is sending shock waves throughout the leadership of the TUC, as its full import becomes known. This bill,...

Arm The Palestinian Masses Now!

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ISRAEL has set Palestine ablaze yet again with the death in an Israeli prison of Maysarah Abu Hamdiyeh, a 64-year-old prisoner, who had been...

Victory To Syria – Smash Is, The Nusra Front And Their Western Backers –...

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AT THE same time as the Nusra Front and the remnants of IS were shelling Damascus, and the Turkish imperialists were killing Kurds in...

Blair using EU to attack workers’ wages and conditions

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THE Blair government has only one real use for the EU, and that is as a tool for cutting the wages and increasing the...

NHS 2007: Pull your own teeth out!

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EVERY day Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Health Secretary Alan Johnson churn out propaganda about ‘improving’ the National Health Service (NHS) and people’s...

Health unions in head-on collision with the government over pay! Entire working...

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UNIONS representing NHS workers have written directly to the Tory government over their pay. The fourteen unions represent over a million NHS workers. The...

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...

Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!

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THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...

US death toll rockets in Iraq

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FIVE more American troops were killed and three were captured near Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, in a pre-dawn attack on Saturday. The...

Cutting deposit rates below zero is a gigantic gamble!

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AN ‘historic gamble’, a giant ‘leap into the unknown’ – these were just two of the headlines that greeted the news that last Thursday...

STPs are an agency of international capitalism, a Trojan Horse for the privatisation...

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THE TORY Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) have been shrouded in secrecy right from the start as the Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, did...

Army demanding reinforcements for Afghanistan

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JUST a few months ago, the then Defence Minister John Reid was telling the media – while trying to douse public concern...

TUC Postpones Its Congress. It Is Time For A New And Revolutionary Leadership

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THE RMT announced yesterday that the ‘RMT joins the whole nation in paying its respects to Queen Elizabeth' and that ‘the planned railway strike...

After the students national march . . .

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ALMOST 25,000 students marched through London on Sunday demanding free education, despite the lack-lustre campaign by the leadership of the National Union of Students...

The US Falters, Shares Crash And Revolution Stalks Europe!

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THE US, EU and Asian stockmarkets have taken yet another hit as the decline and fall of the US capitalist economy continues. On Thursday, the...

TUC must be made to call mass demonstrations and a general strike to bring...

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PM Johnson yesterday fled the country to go to the Ukraine, where he will be able to adopt what he hopes will be a...

Miliband wants to break with unions so Labour can form a national government...

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STANDING with the ‘One Nation’ Tory slogan behind him, Labour leader Miliband yesterday outlined his intention to wrest the Labour Party completely away from...

Economic collapse driving US capitalism towards war with China

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AT THE end of January, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading high-tech companies – the so called ‘Magnificent Seven’ –...

Economic Crisis Set To Wreak Havoc To Jobs And Homes

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THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday warned that thousands of manufacturing jobs are about to be slashed by employers seeking to reduce their costs,...

Supreme Court rules against Brexit!

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BY A UNANIMOUS decision eleven judges in the Supreme Court declared that the five-week suspension, or prorogation, of Parliament is ‘unlawful, void and of...

French government collapses – forward to the European socialist revolution!

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FRENCH bourgeois rule was plunged into a massive crisis on Wednesday when MPs voted to kick out prime minister Michel Barnier’s administration after just...

Hayman gets a CBE while Met chief Blair puts his holidays first

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THE ‘shoot to kill’ section of the Metropolitan Police force is proceeding full speed ahead, knowing that it has the complete support of the...

Imperialist Crisis Deepens

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JUST days after the mid-term elections dealt a decisive blow to his administration, Bush with the support of the Democrats has seen to it...

Labour is rushing to Johnson’s defence. Make the TUC call a general strike...

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THE TORIES have launched the most vicious attack on the working class since they came to power in 2010. After ten years of austerity,...

Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!

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INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...

Anti-Russian campaign of the US and UK ruling classes leads to the assassination of...

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THE assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, on Monday by an ex-policeman Mevlut Altintas – who was sacked after the failure...

Met chief demands police be beyond the law

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IT emerged yesterday that the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, has been lobbying the Tory home secretary for changes in the...

Leaving the European Union will require a workers socialist revolution!

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PM MAY last Monday afternoon, in her first statement to MPs in parliament since her Florence speech last month and her debacle at the...

Smash Royal Mail privatisation!

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THE arrogant Tories have announced that the sell-off of Royal Mail is to begin in just weeks. The announcement comes days after the ending of...