Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Labour pledges limitless billions to arm Ukraine while refusing to support workers’ pay demands

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IN A speech yesterday at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Labour’s shadow defence secretary, John Healey, pledged that any future Labour government would...

Right To Strike Under Attack

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The announcement by the Tory media, culture and sport secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that cabinet ministers are actively discussing the introduction of Ronald Reagan style...

You Can’t Reform The Capitalist State – It Must Be Overthrown!

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NEVILLE LAWRENCE, the father of Stephen Lawrence, the teenager who was murdered by a racist gang in 1993, said yesterday that he was very...

Brown champions more police powers and public sector pay cuts

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told police chiefs yesterday that he will do ‘everything to give you the resources’ and ‘we will not shirk from giving...

Call Day Of Action To Defend The NHS

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A BLOC of twelve trade unions have joined together to campaign against the Labour government’s health service ‘reforms’, that is the Brown-Blair programme for...

600,000 workers and youth march for Palestine – the TUC must call a general...

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600,000 WORKERS AND YOUTH marched from Central London to Whitehall on Saturday in a massive show of strength and solidarity with the masses of...

Scots workers reject nationalism – now for revolution

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SCOTTISH workers rejected the narrow reactionary nationalism of the SNP on Thursday because of the fact that they hate both the Scottish and English...

Lesson Of The Sangin Rout – Quit Afghanistan While You Are Still Able To!

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BRITISH troops in the Sangin area of Afghanistan’s Helmand province are to be replaced by US forces, the UK’s Defence Secretary Liam Fox has...

TUC Must Take Industrial Action To Force The Tories To Oppose Trump’s Palestine Deal!

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THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the ‘deal of the century’, which they said was a plan for ‘transfer’...

The ‘Duplicitous Traitor’ Strikes Again

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LABOUR MP Bob Marshall Andrews, recently called the Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband a ‘duplicitous traitor’, after Miliband published an article in the Guardian...

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...

Moment of truth for Greece!

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GREECE’S Syriza government delayed yesterday’s 300m euros (£216m) debt repayment to the IMF, saying that it will pay over to the Troika (the...

Bank of England splits over measures required to keep British capitalism afloat!

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ON WEDNESDAY the Adam Smith Institute admonished the Bank of England as ‘worse than useless’, and warned: ‘There is already a major crisis...

JOHN KERRY’S LAST STAND! – derided by Netanyahu!

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu damned US Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Wednesday over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict saying that it was biased...

Reinstate sacked gas workers – demand union leaders call general strike to defeat fire...

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ON WEDNESDAY, up to 500 engineers were sacked by British Gas for refusing to sign a scab, wage-cutting new contract under the company’s fire...

Trump defeats second impeachment bid and vows to continue with ‘Make America Great...

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EX-PRESIDENT Donald Trump has welcomed his impeachment acquittal on the charge of ‘inciting insurrection’, saying, his political movement ‘to Make America Great Again’ has...

Thousands Driven Out Of Their Homes!

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AFTER the initial declarations of the British and other NATO forces that they were going to Afghanistan to win ‘hearts and minds’ through engaging...

Mandelson Gives The Thumbs Down To Luton!

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BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson declared yesterday morning, before he even reached the Luton GM plant, that there would be no nationalisation of GM Luton –...

Bhutto Murdered By US Sponsored Military!

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AT 6.16pm local time yesterday evening the Pakistani military assassinated Benazir Bhutto, putting a bloody end to the notion that there can be some...

Amnesty exposes deadly US air attacks on Syria!

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AS IS well known, the Clinton-led Democratic Party has pledged that if and when she is elected as President of the USA, she will...

FBU pensions victory sets precedent for all public service workers

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THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) won a massive victory not only for their members but for all public service workers when the employment tribunal...

‘Keep The Ground Aflame With Popular Resistance’ Urges President Abbas

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THE PALESTINIAN President, Mahmoud Abbas has called for more popular resistance and warned ‘We should not underestimate it’. He has called for further visits to...

Universities are for students, not big business!

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ALMOST a third of young people (31 per cent) starting at university this autumn are being forced to live with their parents, because they...

Answer Tory plans to use military as strike breakers with a general strike...

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With nurses and thousands of NHS workers planning to take national strike action next month over their demands for pay increases to protect them...

Renationalise Now!

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A SURVEY conducted this week by BBC Radio 5 Live has revealed that more than one third of people in Britain live in fear...

May wants to rip up the basic rights of the working class! Put her...

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IN the seven short weeks since Tory Prime Minister Theresa May announced out of the blue that she was calling a snap general election,...

Labour’s first 100 days will see the working class using its power to drive...

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LABOUR’S shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, delivered a speech yesterday laying out the priorities for the first 100 days of a Labour government. Within 100 days...

May appeals to Labour Right-Wing to save her

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THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained...

Ferguson Masses Begin To Disband The Police!

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AFTER the announcement of the resignation of the chief of police in Ferguson, St Louis, an evening and midnight demonstration and celebration outside the...

Corbyn is just another Remainer – Build the new leadership in the Labour movement...

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IN HIS address last week at the TUC annual congress, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn informed delegates that Labour’s priority was to stop a No-Deal...

Clinton threatens ‘catastrophic assault’ on the Syrian state!

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THE ‘Friends of Syria’ meeting in Paris on Friday saw the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, frantically beating the war drums against Syria,...

North Korea Has The Right To Self Defence

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YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...

Brexit crisis coming to a head – Quit the EU Now – Forward to...

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TOMORROW will see the moment of truth for both the Tory and Labour Parties when May’s programme for a Brexit that will leave the...

International Criminal Court Has Jurisdiction Over Israeli War Crimes In Palestine!

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THE International Criminal Court ruled on Friday that it has jurisdiction over war crimes and atrocities committed in the Palestinian territories and can thus...

Labour government splits over ‘class war plan’ to raise income tax rates

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MAJOR splits have emerged in the Labour government Cabinet over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s class-war plans to raise income tax rates...

Teachers, parents and students taking action to defend education

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OVER the past week, lecturers have been on strike against sackings, parents are occupying schools to stop their closure, and students, angry at high...

US-UK set to leave Afghanistan in shame

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THE US is set to leave Afghanistan with its tail between its legs like a beaten dog, after Afghan officials said yesterday that the...

Hamas Urges Palestinian Youth To Escalate The Conflict With Israeli Forces!

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THE Hamas Movement has urged the young people of the West Bank and all the Palestinian masses to join forces with each other and...

BA is intent on union-busting and wage-cutting! Balpa must stand fast and demand it...

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THE HIGH Court on Tuesday dismissed an attempt by British Airways to secure an interim judgement that would make planned strike action by pilots...

Form public sector alliance to defend the NHS – Forward to a workers government!

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THE just published survey of the NHS, carried out for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) trade union, found that 90 per cent of...

Egypt warns Israel while Palestinians urge global Intifada!

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EGYPT has warned it’s ready to respond militarily after Israeli troops seized a sensitive corridor of land along its border with the Gaza Strip. According...

TUC Must Take General Strike Action To Stop The Mass Murder Of Palestinians

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WEDNESDAY’S Guardian newspaper admitted that Israel faced intensifying international condemnation for its killing of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza’ quoting UN Secretary General Antonio...

TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION TO FORCE PM MAY TO RETURN VENEZUELA’S GOLD AT...

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LAST Wednesday US national security advisor John Bolton threatened that the US administration was putting every foreign bank ‘on notice’ if they failed to...

Restore Grants, End Fees, Defend Free State Educaton!

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TUITION fees must rise by 100 per cent to £6,000 a year if universities are to cover their teaching costs, is the main...

New Orleans war zone – 20,000 National Guards, and US army helicopter fired on

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THE United States ruling class, running the world’s number one super-power and presiding over the richest nation on Earth, was yesterday shown to be...