Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

No recovery for capitalism from 2008 crash – forward to socialist revolution

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A RECENT analysis by Sky News has shown that the ‘recovery’ of British capitalism since the world banking crash in 2008 is actually smaller...

Kick out trade union leaders collaborating to impose job and wage cuts

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THE ENGINEERING giant Rolls-Royce which manufactures jet engines this week confirmed that it will slash 3,000 jobs across the UK. Already Rolls-Royce has begun the...

No Increase In Military Spending – The Enemy Is At Home!

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AFTER over a decade of savage austerity measures, during which wages have been driven down and millions made dependent on food banks, the House...

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...

Bp Leads Shares Crash As Banking Crisis Grows!

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OIL giant BP’s share price has fallen nearly 17 per cent to £4.12, its lowest level since March 2009. The sharp sell-off came as it...

TUC Must Call A General Strike To Support The Palestinian Revolution!

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THE Hamas Movement has called upon the Arab and Islamic governments and the world’s free people to take all possible measures to break the...

CBI demands pay cuts in the private and public sectors

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The CBI and ‘recruitment experts’ Harvey Nash revealed yesterday that half of all employers are planning to freeze pay altogether, and that only 4%...

It’s a sick society, not a ‘sick-note culture’ – as Cameron insults the unemployed

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A ‘UNIVERSAL Credit’ is to be introduced in 2013, to replace all existing benefits. Cameron’s Welfare Bill includes sanctions for those turning down jobs...

Overthrowing capitalism only way to eradicate Covid variants

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THE NEW variant strain of Covid-19, given the name Omicron by the World Health Organisation (WHO), burst onto the world scene last week although...

Putin tells the bosses how to run capitalism

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RUSSIA’S Stalinist leader, President Putin, addressing a business forum in Leningrad on Sunday, told the assembled capitalist leaders that the IMF and the World...

US debt crisis will crash Wall Street and plunge the US and world capitalism...

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THE US economy, the largest and most powerful capitalist economy in the world, is in the grip of a crisis that will plunge America...

War exposes weakness and bankruptcy of capitalism in UK and Europe!

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CITY AM, the business and financial newspaper, published an opinion piece yesterday which included a lengthy quote from Karl Marx on the profound effects...

Huge food inflation as bosses and unions agree on wage cuts and job cuts

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WORKERS in Britain are now feeling the ‘benefits’ of the British government’s policy of printing money to rescue the banks while allowing the pound...

Time To Disband The Police As Met Gunmen Hand Back Their Weapons!

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SCOTLAND YARD’S firearms command has hit the rocks with their police gunmen refusing to do their duty and carry their firearms against ‘enemies of...

Junior doctors’ strike piles pressure on Sunak and the Tories!

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is already reeling under the pressure from day one of the historic six-day strike by junior doctors. The Tories have...

Make May apologise for 100 years of the Balfour Declaration!

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PM May has gone out of her way to insult the Palestinian people by declaring her pride in the 100th anniversary of the Balfour...

UK capitalists on their knees with the deepest recession since records began!

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OFFICIAL figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released yesterday show that gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 20.4% in the three months...

Disband The Met Police – Get Rid Of UK Capitalism – Forward With The...

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THE latest available statistics give an indication of just how diseased the Metropolitan Police is, and just how great the need is for it...

Brexit Moment Of Truth Fast Approaching! The Working Class Must Be Ready To Take...

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YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is...

Capitalism diving into recession and hyperinflation – time to put it out of its...

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YESTERDAY morning, Tory ministers had to submit to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) their plans to impose the cuts demanded by Chancellor Jeremy...

Smash anti-union bill!

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YESTERDAY thousands of trade union members attended a rally and mass lobby of parliament called by the TUC in an attempt to – in...

Tory government in massive crisis – make TUC call a general strike to kick...

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AT THE weekend, the Tory-supporting Telegraph newspaper published an article by its economics expert Jeremy Warner which carried the dire headline: ‘Few have woken...

Macron Set To Lose His Majority As French Workers Vote Socialist!

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PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron is set to lose his outright majority after a strong challenge from a coalition of left-wing parties in National Assembly elections....

French government collapses

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ON Monday the French government effectively collapsed as a direct result of a massive split in the leading ranks of the ruling Socialist Party...

Trump revels in charges of treason as US is gripped by a death agony...

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YESTERDAY evening, former US president Donald Trump, accompanied by a US Secret Service Motorcade, swept up to Fulton county jail and handed himself in...

‘Big Society’ – wholesale destruction of the Welfare State

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TORY prime minister, David Cameron, launched a desperate attempt yesterday to try and convince an incredulous public that his ‘Big Society’ policy is something...

TUC leaders condemn Autumn Statement but refuse to take any action!

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THE TUC leaders are unanimous in their condemnation of the latest Tory autumn statement, but yet again refuse to call any action to bring...

Right wing getting ready to split the Labour Party!

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THE hysterical witch-hunting of Jeremy Corbyn that is being carried out by the bourgeois media, marshalled by Labour’s right wing pro-Tory rebel MPs, is...

Hezbollah And Hamas Stand Fast As Israel Seeks To Provoke New War To Try...

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THE secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has met with a delegation of senior Hamas officials in Beirut, as tensions explode across the...

Hunt blames the working class for capitalist crisis as Tories prepare a class war...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been in Washington this week attending the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, the main economic...

Imperialists prepare to launch war against Russia – workers must respond with revolution!

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THE past week has witnessed the massive escalation by US imperialism and its faithful allies in the UK and Europe towards an all-out war...

Sunak Gets Labour Cheers As He Mounts Perilous Rescue Operation For Capitalism!

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CHANCELLOR Sunak received Labour cheers for his statement in parliament on Thursday, as the Tories fought to regain some popularity after the continuing exposure...

TUC must call general strike to bring down the Tories, and nationalise the banks...

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WITH the Tories set to decide whether they want Boris Johnson or Sunak to continue with the job of completely destroying all of the...

Lagarde admits crisis as deep as five years ago!

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IMF CHIEF Christine Lagarde opened her speech of last Monday in Washington with a dose of false optimism. She said: ‘Let me begin by saying...

Bp Hitting Russian Rocks

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MANY senior foreign executives at oil giant BP’s Russian partnership TNK-BP are to be forced to leave Russia after their requests for work permits...

Workers must force through the break with the EU with a socialist revolution

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THE Brexit negotiations have just begun and already it is being spelt out to the UK ruling class that the ‘divorce settlement’ that...

Yellen signs up to Gordon Brown’s ‘no more boom or bust’ on the brink...

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IN A SPEECH in London last Tuesday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, announced to a disbelieving world that the...

Turkish Masses Serve Notice On Erdogan

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THE uprising of the Turkish masses, which began over the future of a park in European Turkey and rapidly spread across the country, including...

Putin’s Recognition Of The Republics Of Donetsk And Lugansk Shocks US & UK Imperialism!

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THE DECISION of Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise the Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, and to order Russian troops to intervene to prevent...

Shut Down Young Offenders Institutions – The Only Future For Youth Is Through A...

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THE DISGRACEFUL conditions imposed on ‘youth offenders’ have been revealed by another report from Peter Clarke the chief inspector of prisons in England and...

Gaza Residents Are Hit By Aid Strike!

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THERE has been a very bitter winter in Palestine especially in the war ravaged Gaza Strip where tens of thousands of Gazans’ homes were...

Tory-Lib Dem Budget hitting the poor hardest – IFS report

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WORKING class families and pensioners are being hit hardest by Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget. This is the key finding from a study by the...

Workers and elderly to be hammered for the benefit of privateers

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CURRENTLY all over the country A&E’s are being closed, in some areas entire hospitals are to be demolished, while the number of private patients...

Almost 100,000 youth flee Ukraine as the imperialist powers seek to provoke an imperialist...

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NEARLY 100,000 men of fighting age have fled Ukraine in the last two months, as the fascist-supported regime of Volodymyr Zelensky desperately scrambles to...

UNITE denounces TTIP but supports Cameron in EU referendum!

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THE Unite trade union leadership specialises in doubletalk. One example is the way that it is verbally 100% opposed to the anti-trade union legislation that...