Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Corbyn sets out to unrig and transform the ‘rigged’ capitalist system

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LABOUR Leader Corbyn opened the Labour Party general election campaign yesterday by stating: ‘We have four weeks. Four weeks to take our message to...

Time For The Tuc To Call General Strike

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THE Fire Brigades Union has organised a national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16 October. The FBU is under an all-out attack on the...

Police want to use water cannon and rubber bullets

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THE Metropolitan Police is considering its tactics after the failure of its containment and ‘kettling’ policies in Parliament square last Thursday, when...

G20 bankrupts meet protected by 10,000 riot police batons

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LEADERS of the major capitalist states, and the leaders of Russia and China, who have linked their fate to the future of the crisis...

Trade unions must form a Council of Action in Kensington to requisition the 1,652...

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THE HORROR felt by millions of workers after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of many men, women and children...

Labour’s six months of work is no solution to the jobs crisis!

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LABOUR has pledged a ‘jobs guarantee’ scheme for young unemployed people, that will last for the whole of next parliament, if it wins the...

Obama hosts Afghanistan and Pakistan war summit

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ON THE eve of a meeting between US President Barack Obama, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari in...
The Israeli Apartheid Wall at Abu Dis on the outskirts of Jerusalem – the Israelis have begun to build the ‘third phase’  of the wall to encircle Bethlehem and Hebron

January 1– police to get blanket arrest and covert op powers

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POLICE are to have blanket arrest and covert operations powers of a type that will make tinpot dictatorships throughout the world green with envy,...

Extend lecturers strike into a general strike to defend pensions and education

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TALKS began yesterday between the University and College Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK), the body representing all universities, at the conciliation service ACAS...

Horsemeat Scandal

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What started off last month as news, that traces of horsemeat DNA had been discovered by the Irish Food Standards agency in some supermarket beefburgers,...

Tory ‘crackdown’ on youth inspired by fear of young people as a revolutionary force

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak yesterday launched a ‘crackdown’ on anti-social behaviour and begging, as the centrepiece of government policies in what is a...

French Stalinists step in to help Sarkozy

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OVER a million French civil servants went on strike yesterday, joining the hundreds of thousands of railworkers, busworkers and gas and electricity workers who...

Belfast City Council Gives A Lead To The Workers Of Ireland And The UK!

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BELFAST City Council has given a big lead to the workers of Ireland and the UK by voting to urge the UK and Republic...

Unions must take strike action to stop lifting of Covid-19 restrictions on July 19th!

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HE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) doctors’ trade union has spelt it out that pressing ahead with lifting final Covid-19 restrictions in England on July...

Hurrah! The brave Syrian people are taking back Aleppo and defeating imperialist powers!

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REJOICE, rejoice at the great victories that the brave Syrian people are having in their struggle to prevent the Western imperialist powers and their...

Met ‘rotten from top to bottom’ – disband it now!

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THE CONVICTION and life sentence of Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard was most certainly not the case of...

May Day uprising: in France and across Europe workers rise up against capitalist crisis

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THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets throughout France on Sunday sending a clear ‘message’ that workers are preparing a massive...

Starmer gets pat on the head from Trump for Labour ramping up class war...

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THE cringing prostration of Labour prime minster Keir Starmer to US president Donald Trump finally paid off at the weekend when Trump condescended to...

TUC must call a general strike in support of the RMT and to bring...

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch joined the picket line at London’s Euston Station yesterday morning after pay talks with the Tories collapsed on Monday. Earlier,...

Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!

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ON TUESDAY over three million French workers took to the streets with massive demonstrations in Paris and Marseilles to make sure that Sarkozy got...

Abolish PFI and contract cleaners to stop NHS bugs deaths

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THE number of deaths linked to the hospital bug Clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA. Deaths involving Clostridium difficile rose by 69 per...

Deepening capitalist crisis is driving the US-UK axis to war with Russia!

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US DEFENCE Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the US fleet of warships to remain in the Mediterranean Sea, driving up the tensions between the...

France And Germany On The Brink Of Explosion

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THE German and French ruling classes are aghast that the worldwide financial collapse and deepening slump has resulted in an eruption of the class...

Call indefinite general strike! Overthrow the 5th Republic! Forward to a Socialist France!

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THE ‘YELLOW Vests’ who have been out on the streets of France every Saturday for over a year have joined forces with the mighty...

Democrats revolt against Obama!

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PRESIDENT Obama’s attempt to establish a cheaper insurance market that would provide full cover for up to 40 million poor Americans is under all-out...

World Crisis Can Only Be Resolved By World Revolution!

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THE DEEPENING of the world crisis of capitalism is driving forward massive job cuts for workers across the world, as manufacturing industry globally faces...

Police call for more repression

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METROPOLITAN Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur has submitted a document to the Labour government’s Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, calling for new laws that would...

Defend your homes with a socialist revolution!

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THE Thatcherite dream of creating a nation of home owners is already a nightmare for millions struggling to make their mortgage repayments. It is...

Defend the right to strike with a general strike to bring down the Tory...

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YESTERDAY the RMT rail workers trade union warned that an all-out assault on workers’ rights was taking place as BA used the Network Rail...

Romney condemned by Solidarity and the Palestinians!

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REPUBLICAN presidential nominee Romney won endorsement from former Polish president and former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, only to see the Solidarity...

Tories Want To Turn Trade Unions Into Labour Fronts For The Bosses With Their...

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THE TORIES are proposing to turn free and independent trade unions into ‘Labour Fronts’ run by the bosses with their new anti-trade union legislation. Under...

‘This is 1914 all over again’

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THE architects of the Common Market, the forerunner of the European Union, freely admitted that they were seeking to carry out peacefully what Adolf...

Post Office scandal piles pressure on all main political parties

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On Monday, the House of Commons was treated to the sight of MPs from all the political parties united in an orchestrated show of...

Labour right-wing plot with Tories to close down Parliament to prevent Brexit

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IT EMERGED at the weekend that the latest stage in a coup to overturn the Brexit referendum result by an alliance of right-wing Labour...

Workers pay with their lives for the bosses’ profits – socialist revolution the only...

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its report breaking down the number of deaths from Covid-19 in 2020 by occupation. The key conclusion...

Labour – Dancing To A Tory Tune – Is Attacking The Trade Unions

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THE Unite union, which in recent years has prevented the Labour Party from going bust and has financed its election campaigns with donations of...

Britain must recognise the state of Palestine and the TUC must take general...

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THE co-ordinated action by the governments of Ireland, Norway and Spain to announce that next week they would formally recognise the state of Palestine...

Tories attacking youth again – answer them with socialist revolution

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THE Tory-led coalition have launched an unprecedented attack on youth after endorsing a Transport Research paper that proposes that young drivers under the age...

TUC remains silent on Truss’s class war preparations – Join the lobby of the...

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TORY prime minister Liz Truss didn’t waste time. She fled the country immediately after the meltdown of her government at the Tory Party conference. Yesterday...

Knives out in the Labour cabinet mask a crisis of bourgeois rule

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JUST three members of the Labour cabinet put out a statement on Saturday supporting their leader Gordon Brown. Chancellor Darling, deputy leader Harman and skills...

No socialist programme for Corbyn!

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LABOUR leader Corbyn was full of confidence as he opened his campaign to be re-elected as leader of the Labour Party yesterday. He said:...

Blair on holiday – Commissioner Blair is in charge

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HOME Secretary Clarke is currently on holiday, after the Prime Minister insisted that he should not bow to public pressure and cancel it, as...

Final report into Boeing crash shows bosses ignored warnings! Nationalise Boeing – the US...

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THE FINAL report into the Boeing 737 Max air crash in October last year, in which 189 people lost their lives, was published yesterday...

Zero Tolerance For Cameron Coalition

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CAMERON and the coalition are currently conducting a ruthless campaign against youth. This is ruling class justice at its most hideous, red in tooth...

Stop The Council Cuts – Bring Down The Coalition!

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COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...