Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Labour offers NHS bosses £30,000 bonuses as it reorganises the NHS as a model...

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LABOUR health secretary Wes Streeting has proposed NHS bosses pocketing £30,000 bonuses under a new plan he has devised which he claims will incentivise...

May defends capitalism, Corbyn wants it ‘restructured’. It must be overthrown through the socialist...

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‘THE FREE market economy,’ in other words capitalism, ‘is unquestionably the best, and indeed the only sustainable, means of increasing the living standards of...

Chase Farm Closure Kills!

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THE death of 2-year-old Muhammad Hashir Maveed last Wednesday is a tragic warning of the cost to human life that must inevitably result from...

Imperialist aggression is the roots of terrorism

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that there is to be more new repressive legislation, on top of the huge powers that the government and...

Zionist regime humiliated as Palestinians rise-up – Forward to The State of Palestine

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ISRAEL was dealt a massive humiliating blow early Monday morning when six Palestinian prisoners tunnelled their way out of the Gilbao maximum-security jail. Five of...

The Eurozone Commits Collective Suicide!

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THE Eurozone committed ‘collective suicide’ last week when EU finance ministers met and agreed a deal that they heralded as a historic breakthrough in...

Hunt Planning New Blitz On NHS And NHS Workers!

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BOTH the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) trade unions yesterday warned that Health Secretary Hunt is planning...

Bush talks peace as Israeli tanks kill eleven in Gaza

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THE content of the Bush ‘peace offensive’ was yesterday revealed for the whole world to see when Israeli tanks, supported by artillery fire ...

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...

House of Commons recognises Palestine!

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‘THAT this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel, as a contribution to securing a...

Stop the pensions betrayal!

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THE membership, branch leaderships and regional leaderships of the local government trade unions must stop the betrayal of their final salary pensions by union...

UK cannot fight the IS movement that it helped to create!

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THE UK’s role in fighting the Islamic State is ‘strikingly modest’ and should be stepped up, the House of Commons Defence Select Committee has...

Unelected Prince Charles sees cabinet papers before elected ministers!

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ON 30 January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall as a man of blood, and an enemy of...

Blair proclaims summary justice for the masses

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ON TUESDAY Prime Minister Blair began his ‘genuine intellectual debate about the nature of liberty in a modern developed society such as our own.’ ...

Defend all GM jobs! Occupy and Nationalise UK’s Vauxhall plants!

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ON Thursday May 21, GM announced that ‘Representatives of Unite, the union, signed the UK Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and European framework agreement in...

Refugees From Imperialist Wars Are Welcome – Our Enemy Is At Home!

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YESTERDAY the Tory government started to make good its pledge to mobilise the full might of its state armed forces against a handful of...

Tories & Labour are punished in council elections for refusing to carry out Brexit!

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BOTH the Tories and Labour suffered huge defeats in the council elections yesterday for their cowardly refusal to implement the 2016 EU referendum result. Polls...

There can be no return to Bretton Woods – world socialist revolution is the...

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AN ARTICLE in the Business section of the Daily Telegraph yesterday laid bare the historic depth of the crisis of world capitalism today. The article,...

Occupy Corus! No Sackings! Renationalise Now!

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THERE were oceans of tears yesterday for the 1,700 workers who are to be sacked when Corus mothballs the greater part of its plant...

Corbyn must reject May’s plea to keep her in power – kick the Tories...

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THIS pathetic minority Tory ‘government’ is so weak that Theresa May is forced today to make a speech begging for the Labour Party and...

Workers Worldwide Must Take General Strike Action To See That Palestine Wins!

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THE ARROGANT Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has outlined his proposals for the future Israeli governance of Gaza ‘once the war between Israel and...

Workers and youth vote for left parties in West Bank elections

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PALESTINIAN voters in the West Bank have delivered a blow to the Fatah movement in local elections which saw Fatah winning two-fifths of...

No Unity with the Tories – build the WRP to lead the socialist revolution

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THERESA May’s virtual declaration of war against Russia last Wednesday received its most enthusiastic support from right-wing Labour MPs who rushed forward to...

Throw Out The Tories – Forward To A Workers Government

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TODAY the working class and the majority of the middle class must put the Cameron government out of office and return the Labour Party...

End the farce in Parliament with socialist revolution!

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AMIDST all the chaos and downright farce in Parliament on Wednesday only one indisputable fact remains – on the 23rd June 2016 in a...

Arrogant Crisis-Ridden Imperialists Threaten Russia!

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THE President of the crisis-ridden EU Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso yesterday told the BBC that the inclusion of Russia in any future...

An NHS For The Rich!

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THE BMA and the main TUC trade unions are completely opposed to the Health and Social Care Bill and have given up all efforts...

Disabled to be impoverished by Welfare Bill

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As the Welfare Reform Bill progresses through the committee stage of the House of Lords so more evidence is emerging about the catastrophic effect it...

Pupils subjected to physical and mental cruelty in school isolation units – unions...

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School children in England are being put in ‘physically and mentally cruel’ isolation units for up to 7 hours a day at academy trust...

Break With Eu Now! Bring Down The Tories! Forward To Socialism!

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THE EU leadership last Friday morning at 6am rescued PM May from the debacle of her Northern Ireland crisis, and saved her government by...

Poroshenko crushed in elections – forward to Ukrainian workers taking back power and returning...

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THE WORKERS and small farmers of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the right-wing oligarchs and to the EU and US imperialism when they...

Renationalise the railways permanently by bringing down the Tories and going forward to...

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YESTERDAY, the Tories introduced emergency measures to save the private rail companies from complete collapse. The Department for Transport announced it is suspending all the...

‘No strategy to deal with crisis’ – ruling class

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‘WE HAVE no ability to turn the economy around. When the next recession comes it is going to be deeper and last longer than...

Trump is set to impose the death agony of the US capitalist system onto...

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THREATS, demands and bullying aimed at the whole world from US President Donald Trump, dominated the Davos Economic Forum in a video call on...

Ukrainian coup under way!

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UKRAINE’S President Viktor Yanukovych announced early yesterday the terms of the agreement that he had made with the Ukrainian pro-EU, pro-US opposition during talks...

No renegotiations – Merkel and Sarkozy warn Greece

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THE fact that Papandreou has had to sack the Greek Military General Staff at the same time as he has angered Sarkozy and Merkel...

Barclays gambles on the Brown safety net while Northern Rock’s losses rise

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SPECULATIVE casino banking, without risk for the bankers, thanks to the Brown government’s pledge to never let a big bank fail, is the way...

Gove’s new ‘extremism definition’ prepares way for crackdown on all opposition to Israeli genocide

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COMMUNITIES secretary Michael Gove in Parliament yesterday made a short statement introducing the Tories new definition of extremism which now encompasses ‘non-violent extremism’. Almost all...

Hamas Demands A Complete End To The Israeli Aggression Against The Gaza Strip!

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SENIOR Hamas official Dr. Basem Naim stated Tuesday that Hamas cannot accept any agreement that does not clearly commit to halting the Israeli aggression...

Windrush and Grenfell Tower prove one thing – this Tory government must...

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PRESS reports this week revealed that vulnerable members of the Windrush generation are still being forced to live in conditions of complete destitution, forced...

US capitalism in crisis, UK capitalism near collapse

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US interest rates have now been increased to five per cent, with last Wednesday’s 16th monthly increase in a row. In fact, the new chief...

Bedroom Taxes Leading To Mass Evictions!

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THE full effects of the coalition’s bedroom tax, which was introduced last April, have been highlighted in two reports published on Wednesday and revealed...

ICJ Hearing on Israeli occupation of Palestine opens – working class must demand general...

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Yesterday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened its historic hearings into the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967. The ICJ, the United Nation’s...

Tories Plan Huge Increase In Military Spend While The Masses Go Hungry!

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PROFESSOR Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute, has authored an analysis of the plans necessary for a major war...
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...