Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Organise general strike to defend CWU

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ROYAL Mail, backed by Brown and Mandelson, are making no secret of the fact that they intend to stamp on the CWU, in order...

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...

National strike action to defend the Royal Mail and its workforce

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday warned that Royal Mail were planning sacking between eight and twenty per cent of the workforce, with London...

Labour sells out on state education

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THE Labour shadow education minister, Stephen Twigg, made a speech yesterday that was billed as ‘wresting’ the initiative on education from the Tories –...

Miliband launches attack on unions and the Labour Party

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LABOUR leader Miliband is planning to allow non-Labour Party members to be registered as supporters, and to vote in leadership elections, in the affiliated...

Decisive Action Needed To Defend Welfare State!

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THE working class is rising up to defend the Welfare State. On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of workers and members of the public took...

UK capitalism is heading for a crash. Socialist revolution is the only solution!

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PANIC has erupted in the UK government after economic data released on Thursday revealed that UK production crashed to just 0.1 per cent of...

Stop Royal Mail being thrown to the private equity wolves!

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POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...

EU crisis deepens in London and Athens

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THE great EU referendum crisis in the UK has sharpened after PM Cameron denied his earlier remarks that after he had negotiated a deal...

The US is being humiliated in Iraq – not Saddam

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IT IS the United States of America that is being humiliated in Iraq and not Saddam Hussein. The idea that putting pictures – provided by...

The ‘Peace Process’ is a Fraud!

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THE long-serving Palestinian prisoners whom Israel has pledged to release, and whose pledge prepared the way for the Palestinian leader Abbas to reopen the...

Take action to defeat Labour’s plan to smash the NHS

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THE leaking of Department of Health (DoH) documents, including ‘Pay and Workforce Strategy for 2008-11’, reveals the Labour government’s plan to slash NHS...

Attack on FBU an attack on every worker – defend the right to strike...

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THE TORY move to make strikes illegal and ban trade unions stepped up yesterday with the official annual report on the fire service. The report...

Israel-US considering attack on Syria and Iran

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LATE last week, a leading Israeli minister said that the only people left in southern Lebanon were connected to Hezbollah, giving the Israeli military...

Rich 1% ‘Hoovering up’ all the wealth!

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IN advance of the Tory budget on Wednesday, where chancellor Osborne is due to announce even more savage austerity cuts, the charity Oxfam has...

Nuclear India A Key Bush Ally

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PRESIDENT Bush yesterday spent five hours in Afghanistan, most of it at the very heavily defended Bagram airport. He could not venture any further...

‘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...

The ‘bank of central bankers’ warns new banking collapse imminent

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THE Swiss based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has just issued its starkest warning yet that the entire debt fuelled international banking system is...

The eurozone is a pack of cards ready to collapse, says the economist who...

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THE man who is credited as the principle architect of the single European currency 14 years ago has just warned that his ‘project’ is...

Stop All Arms Supplies To Israel – Impose Worldwide Trade Boycott

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HAMAS has accused Israel of violating the temporary ceasefire on Tuesday. It’s spokesman Moussa Abu Marzouq said on Wednesday that Israel ‘ended the truce...

Make the TUC call a general strike now to boot out the Tories and...

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RAIL, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) members will be joined by many other trade unionists today at 7.00am and on Saturday 26th March at...

Brown boasts that he has assured the future of the banks

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THE Prime Minister revealed once again on BBC Radio 2 just what his priorities are and just what he is working night, noon and...

Stop the war against Syria – smash austerity at home

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THE humiliating climb-down by David Cameron over Syria on Wednesday night exposes for all to see the weakness of British imperialism, the coalition government...

US capitalism in crisis – war at home and abroad is its only way...

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US CAPITALISM, the most powerful in the world, is teetering on the brink of collapse under a tidal wave of debt. This dire warning was...

Children starve in Britain while bankers reap billions

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IN the same week that the capitalist banking system was exposed as a centre of criminal venality, lying and cheating in order to secure...

Capitalist world order torn apart by Trump’s trade war – forward to world socialist...

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STOCK MARKETS across the world crashed following US president Donald Trump finally revealing the details of his trade war against the world. The speculators and...

Workers must apply ‘French tactics’ against a parliament that is trying to steal Brexit!

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BRITISH parliamentary democracy was exposed as nothing more than a chaotic and rapidly collapsing sham on Tuesday when, for the first time in history,...

Rate cuts and printing pound notes – Brown’s recipe for disaster

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THE Bank of England yesterday cut interest rates to 1.5 per cent, the lowest level in its 315-year history, since the start of the...

No ‘bounce back’ as UK economy shrinks by further 1.5% in three months

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IT SPEAKS volumes for the disastrous state of British capitalism that news that the UK economy has collapsed by a further 1.5% in the...

Tenants face mass evictions

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TENANTS receiving housing benefit have been issued with eviction notices by the largest ‘buy-to-let’ private landlord in the country. Fergus Wilson, who owns 1,000 properties...

Obama Pledges To ‘Eliminate’ Threat Posed By Iran

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YESTERDAY Hillary Clinton revealed that she will formally end her campaign for the White House on Saturday, and throw her full support behind her...

Rice Visit Is To Stir Up Wars And Civil Wars

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US Secretary of State Rice’s visit to the Middle East is to organise the conditions for US attacks on both Iran and...

US imperialism is on collision course with the rest of the world in the...

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IMMEDIATELY following the US illegal attack and kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro last Friday, the Trump administration has placed US imperialism on a...

BA Cabin Crew strikers need a strategy to win – demand Unite bring out...

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TODAY BA mixed fleet cabin crew start another round of four days of strike action against poverty level wages that has meant them relying...

Coalition ready for Mumbai-style heavy weapons battles in cities

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UK security chiefs have ordered an acceleration in police heavy weapons training so that they can hold the line against Mumbai-style attacks in UK...

Millions denied NHS dental care under Labour

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IT IS estimated that 7.4 million people in England and Wales have not been to a National Health Service dentist since April 2006, because...

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...

Lansley calls to ‘break down the system’

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TORY coalition Health Secretary Andrew Lansley addressed the BMA doctors union conference in Brighton yesterday, telling delegates: ‘Every step we take we must take...

China is not the enemy – the enemy is at home – forward to...

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THE CHINESE People’s REPUBLIC is now the number one enemy for US imperialism and its UK ‘running dog’. The war is on all fronts,...

Billions for the bankers – wage cuts and sackings for the workers

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THE Royal Bank of Scotland was rescued with billions of taxpayers’ money after it made the biggest losses in the history of British banking,...

Tuc Must Act Over Cameron’s War!

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ON MONDAY the bourgeois press proclaimed the rag-bag of mercenaries and brigands who make up the so-called ‘rebels’ had crushed the forces loyal to...

Starmer splits Labour Party from unions to prove he is ready for a national...

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THE sacking by Keir Starmer of Labour MP Sam Tarry from his post as shadow transport minister has sent shock waves throughout the Labour...

Tories In Biggest Ever Crisis! Force TUC To Call General Strike To Boot Them...

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THE TORY Party is now in its biggest ever crisis, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Health Secretary both resigned on Tuesday...

Cameron’s beat, beat, and beat again ruling class morality!

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THE Tory-led coalition's savage attack on welfare claimants and the inevitable poverty and destitution they have caused for millions of working class families ...

Time to expropriate the banks and jail the bankers

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THIS week has seen the essence of the banking fraternity emerge after HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, which was rescued by the UK taxpayers in...