Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Organise a general strike for the nationalisation of plants facing closure!

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ECONOMIC activity declined by 0.8 per cent over the three months to the end of June, a fall of 5.6 per cent in Gross...

US Worldwide Torture Network

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THE Council of Europe has announced it is investigating 31 reports of unmarked executive aircraft being used by the CIA to transport ‘suspected terrorists’...
Palestinian flats in Rafah full of shell and bullet holes because of Israeli army shelling

Emergency Action needed to win Gate Gourmet dispute

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THE Gate Gourmet strikers are fighting in the most determined fashion to win back their jobs in the face of a hostile union busting...

Shooting at the UK’s Afghan Sandhurst!

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THE ‘row’ that left an Afghan officer cadet dead and three NATO troops injured at the UK-established ‘Sandhurst in the Sand’ in Helmand province...

Overthrow the rule of the bankers – forward to socialism

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THE horrific future under capitalism for workers and youth is being revealed on a daily basis, as the price of the government’s £1.3 trillion...

Bush’s and Bernanke’s policies cannot stop the debt debacle

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IN A WEEK when billions were wiped off share prices in New York, Tokyo and London, on Friday both United States President George Bush...

Defend NHS health care – stop the NHS becoming a business

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‘ONE million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report,’ screamed the capitalist press...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday in the freezing cold

Bring Down Blair Over Pensions

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THE big pensions clash between the trade unions and the government is underway after nine unions representing 1.5 million council workers agreed to ballot...

Support North Korea Against US Aggression!

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WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening and the US economy showing not the slightest signs of recovery, it is only natural that the US...
Mass demonstration by locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow earlier in their struggle

TERRORISM BILL: Defeat Blair’s police-state measures!

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THE Labour government’s new Terrorism Bill, published yesterday, will be debated by MPs in the House of Commons today. For the past few days, Prime...

South African masses taking action against the ANC government

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THE ANC government of South Africa has said that it intends to crack down on the township riots and strikes that are sweeping...

US combat troops quit – Iraqi masses will now deal with the puppets they...

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THE last US army combat brigade pulled out of Iraq on Thursday morning, allegedly bringing to an end all US combat operations. These...

The laws of the capitalist crisis dominate

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AT the centre of the current media drive to find out, identify, and persecute the individuals, whether bankers and/or politicians who are held to...

Blair the man who helped create IS warns of the dangers of a ...

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IT would be a ‘very dangerous experiment’ for the UK to give Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn power, Tony Blair has told the BBC’s This...

Israel calls for Iran to be expelled from the United Nations

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THE Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. He also said that ‘a world without the...

Nationalise the motor car industry to defend wages and jobs

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THE international banking system has collapsed, the steel industries of the planet are in slump, and the US and Japanese motor car giants...

T&G & TUC must call strike action to reinstate Gate Gourmet workers!

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THE 670 Gate Gourmet workers, members of the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G), sacked over a month ago for taking strike action, know...

Bush Kicks Blair In The Crutch

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IT has long been Prime Minister Blair’s contention that the strategic interests of the British ruling class demand 100 per cent support for the...

Middle East gripped by revolutionary crisis

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THE crisis in Palestine and the crisis in the Middle East is deepening rapidly to the point where its contradictions are sharpening to the...

Britain’s Third Afghan War Heads For Disaster

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NINE UK soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in nine days, making 178 UK troops killed since 2001. The official propaganda line is that...

Robertson’s call to murder Chavez is US policy

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EX-US presidential candidate Pat Robertson, an ultra religious leader of the US’ ‘moral majority’ has just called for the US state to murder...

Human rights groups quit UK’s fake torture inquiry!

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TEN leading human rights organisations, along with victims of torture and their lawyers, have withdrawn from the British government’s Detainee Inquiry because they believe...

State violence escalates – three dead in eight days!

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The news that yet another person has died after a confrontation with the police brings the total of deaths arising out of such incidents...
Kentish Town FBU chairman Ben Sprung (centre) was among the many trade unionists who joined the Gate Gourmet  locked-out workers six months anniversary picket last Friday

Overthrow British capitalism to end imperialist atrocities

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THE brutalising, maiming, beating and even killing of the ‘subject peoples’ by imperialist troops is part and parcel of the imperialist system and tradition,...

Boycott Israel To Demand A Palestinian State

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THE Israeli armed forces, under orders from the Israeli government, are continuing to attack defenceless Palestinian women, children and men in the Gaza Strip,...

‘Clear-cut robbery in Cyprus’ – the penalty for the crime is revolution!

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THE Cypriot parliament yesterday postponed an emergency session on the 7-10% banking tax imposed by the EU on every depositor in the country’s...

Blair’s police state demonising Muslims

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ABU Bakr, the 27 year old English teacher, and one of the nine Muslim men arrested by the police, and put under the media...

Police don’t serve the public–they oppress it

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ON the eve of yesterday’s 15,000 strong Police Federation demonstration through London, against the staging of their 2.6 per cent pay award, reducing it...

Occupy GM plants to defend jobs! Nationalise the car industry!

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GENERAL MOTORS European operations, which include Opel plants in Germany, the Ellesmere Port Vauxhall car plant and Luton’s IBC van plant in Britain, have...

Banking Crisis Heading For The Precipice!

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THE INABILITY of the US economy to recover from its jobs slump, alongside the colossal indebtedness of the EU banks – German, Italian, French...

Bush Bail Out Plan Attacked By The Working Class And By The Republican Right

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REPUBLICAN representatives walked out of the crisis talks with President Bush on Thursday night, denouncing him as a socialist for launching his $700 bn...

Time to take the Gourmet struggle forward to victory

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THE intervention at the TUC Congress last Monday by the Gate Gourmet locked out workers was an outstanding success. It let every delegate of...

The British Government An Accomplice Of The ‘Enemy Of Mankind’

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THE BOURGEOIS law courts damned the Brown government yesterday for its role as an accessory to the US and its torturers. The government was told...

US on brink of bankruptcy – forward to socialist revolution

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The once mighty US economy is set to take another irrevocable step to bankruptcy tomorrow with the news that the ‘super’ congressional committee charged...
A section of yesterday’s lobby of parliament against the ID Card Bill

It’s much later than Brown or Blair think

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THE working class electors in the safe Labour seat of Dunfermline and Fyfe ignored the crisis at the top of the Liberal Democrats, so...

National strike action for jobs and union agreements!

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LEADERS of the Unite and GMB trade unions are recommending a new jobs offer to a mass meeting at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, Lincolnshire,...

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...

Cameron supervised the destruction of Guardian hard drives

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THE picture painted by Home Secretary May of the police doing their duty in the Snowden affair, as they saw it, without any government...

Russian oligarchs gave millions in donations to the Tory Party!

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THE FINAL release by the House of Commons intelligence and security committee of the report into allegations of Russian interference in British politics is...

25 years since the Malvinas war

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THE 1982 Malvinas (Falklands War) was a decisive event not just for Britain’s Foreign Policy but for its home policy. The islands off the Argentinian...

Reject BA Sell-Out!

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THERE can be only one response by BA cabin crew to the latest attempt by the national leadership of Unite to impose a ‘settlement’...

Poverty under capitalism is ‘killing people on a grand scale’

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‘SOCIAL injustice is killing people on a grand scale.’ This is the conclusion of the World Health Organisation’s Commission on Social Determinants of...

Forward with the European socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...

Pakistan resisting US demands for new offensives

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PAKISTAN’S army has just announced that it will launch no new offensives on its territory in 2010. At the same time the US Defence...

Unions Must Fight And Defeat Local Pay Plans

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THE Tory LibDem coalition, despite all its problems and weaknesses, waged a war to bring its Health and Social Care privatising bill into law. They...