Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

The bosses refuse to back May! Now is the time for a general strike...

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A PLAN by the Tories to demonstrate that the bosses of Britain’s leading companies are firmly behind the chaotic Brexit negotiations blew up in...

Time To Force The Tuc Off Its Knees – Forward To The British Socialist...

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AN article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph delivered a sharp wake up call to the TUC and the trade union leaders who cling to the...

Rashid Rauf Freed – ‘Bomb Plot’ Collapses

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A PAKISTANI judge yesterday ruled that there was no evidence to try Rashid Rauf on terrorist charges, or that he was a member...

The bosses are dumping their crisis onto the backs of workers. It is time...

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YESTERDAY nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%. This is the sixth...

Capitalist State Prefers Brown Over Cameron

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LABOUR Prime Minister Brown is the choice of the capitalist state should there be a hung parliament on May 7, even if the...

200,000 Local Authority Workers Face The Axe

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AS the regime of savage cuts gets under way, in the run-up to the general election, it is no surprise that the local government...

Unemployment And Poverty Soaring!

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THE Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) confirmed what people already know, when it predicted yesterday that unemployment is set to rise, this...

Duncan Smith blames the poor and food banks for poverty

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THE Tory Works and Pension Minister, Iain Duncan Smith, is furious with the accusation that the government’s policies of cutting all benefits to the...

‘State suicide’ of Italian pensioner

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CAPITALISM’S latest scheme to save failed banks claimed the life of an Italian pensioner who lost his £72,000 life savings following the collapse of...

Bush defends waterboarding and torture

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US President, George W Bush, last Saturday revealed the inseparable connection between imperialism and atrocities when he vetoed Congressional legislation that would have...

British Military Opposes Any Petraeus Surge In Afghanistan

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GENERAL Petraeus is now the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, and has declared that he intends to organise a NATO ‘surge’ in...

HAL has made Heathrow a fire risk for passengers & staff! Call the whole...

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STRIKING Heathrow Airport workers are being treated with complete and utter contempt by Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL). Thousands of lives have been put at risk!...

Well Done – The Syrian Delegation In Geneva!

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ALL workers must support the stand of the Syrian delegation at the Geneva 2 Conference. This stand was that there had to be a full...

Abbas to meet Kerry for decisive talks

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas is to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris today to discuss the peace talks with Israeli, US and...
Gate Gourmet locke-out workers lobbying the TGWU Executive last Thursday morning demanding the union pay hardship pay to locked out workers who refuse to sign the Compromise Agreement

No hardship payments says Woodley

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TGWU leader Tony Woodley confirmed yesterday that the hardship payments to the locked out Gate Gourmet workers have been stopped. He informed a delegation of...

A Case Of Strange Bedfellows

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THE Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come back from the US convinced that the Labour government must change its position against the use...

Only A Socialist Revolution Can Resolve The Crisis Of Capitalism!

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THE DAY after official figures were released showing that the UK economy was crashing into the deepest depression for 300 years, the governor of...

Bring Down The May Government, Quit Eu And Bring In Socialism!

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GENERAL LORD Dannatt, the chief of the General Staff from 2006-2009, writing in The Daily Telegraph, has bemoaned the ‘national embarrassment of almost...

Tories and Labour get ready for more state repressions

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HOME Secretary Theresa May said yesterday that thousands of people are potentially at risk of being radicalised in the UK. ...

Time to take the Gourmet struggle forward to victory

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THE intervention at the TUC Congress last Monday by the Gate Gourmet locked out workers was an outstanding success. It let every delegate of...

CWU leaders agree surrender terms!

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AFTER calling off last winter’s national strike by their members in Royal Mail without the members’ agreement – and without their members’ demands to...

German and UK military chiefs say ‘we must rearm’ and prepare for war with...

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BRITAIN and Germany’s highest ranking military chiefs have just made an unprecedented joint appeal to the workers of Europe to accept the ‘moral case’...

General Strike from October 10th to support Palestine and go forward to a UK...

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THIS year’s British TUC Congress in Brighton from 8-11 September took key decisions to align trade unions with the pro-Palestine, pro-peace and anti-war movements,...

Israeli government forced to remove metal detectors from Al Aqsa Mosque!

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THE ISRAELI security cabinet decided on Monday night, after massive Palestinian demonstrations and international protests, to remove the metal detectors which had been installed...

NHS Care Cancelled Until Further Notice! Time To Get The Tories Out!

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DR RICHARD Fawcett, a Royal Stoke Hospital consultant, has apologised for ‘third world’ conditions in the hospital’s A&E, saying that he was ‘heartbroken’ to...

Tories declare war on the teachers! The TUC must join with the BMA to...

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THE HEADLINE of The Sunday Telegraph’s editorial yesterday is very much to the point. It insists: ‘The teaching unions must be defeated,’ and continues,...

Johnson Calls A National Lockdown ‘The Nuclear Option’ As Far As Capitalism Is...

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PM BORIS JOHNSON in an interview in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph stated that the Tories were determined that there would be no further national lockdown...

Barclays Vice Chair On NHS Commissioning Board

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YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Health told the House of Commons that the government will be taking a step back from the...

In the drive to privatise, the Tories are abolishing the NHS!

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THE NHS is, in practice, being steadily and consciously abolished by the Tories as they drive relentlessly to the goal of a fully privatised...

EU using rubber bullets and stun grenades against refugees!

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AT the Idomeni crossing from Greece into Macedonia refugees are clashing with Macedonian soldiers and police, as they try to reopen the border near...

Cameron Threatens Eu With Bringing Forward Referendum

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THE German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned EU leaders that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg’s ex-PM Jean-Claude...

Tory contempt for working class as Sunak offers ‘work coaches’ to solve mass unemployment

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YESTERDAY Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his new Job Entry Targeted Scheme (JETS) that he claimed will ‘provide fresh opportunities to those that have...

Sudanese Workers Launch Two-Day General Strike!

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THE Sudanese Alliance for Freedom and Change has launched a two-day revolutionary nationwide strike to force the still ruling military council to transfer power...

The ‘gig economy’ is spreading throughout bankrupt British capitalism – time to advance to...

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4.7 MILLION workers are now employed in the gig economy, twice as many as in 2016 with nearly one in 10 working age adults...

Crunch Time For The British Banks

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BOTH the HSBC and Barclays banks along with the Royal Bank of Scotland have suffered major share losses in the past week, as investors...

Doctors, NHS staff & nurses are gearing up for pay strike action! All trade...

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MONDAY is the anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service (July 5th 1948) and Johnson’s Tories have marked the event by refusing...

Karzai calls for rethink, as Taleban attacks mount

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THE Afghan ‘government’ has called for a rethink of the US-led fight against the Taleban, after heavy casualties to civilians caused by US air...

Kenyan explosion rooted in land theft and the capitalist crisis

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KENYA has been convulsed for nearly a week by an uprising of the poor and the landless who have been absolutely pauperised by the...

Fight for jobs, and against evictions and benefit cuts!

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THOUSANDS more working-class families are going to their local Citizen Advice Bureau because of the effects of unemployment, debts, threatened loss of homes and...

UK workers must support the struggle for Palestinian state!

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EARLY on Wednesday morning Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinian youth, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old, and injured at least two others...

Forward to an indefinite general strike to bring down the coalition

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OVER two million public sector workers walked out yesterday. The message was that the coalition’s savage cuts programme, that was intensified in Osborne’s Autumn...

Bankrupt airlines need to be nationalised!

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YESTERDAY BALPA, the pilots’ union, sounded the alarm at the crisis of the major airlines. This has been immeasurably sharpened by the eruption and continuing...

Lagarde Calls For ‘Brave Action’ To Inflate Economies

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IMF Managing Director Lagarde has warned that the world economy is ‘too weak for comfort’, and that it could be heading for years of...

Forward to the August 20th Gate Gourmet workers march

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TUC General Council members gave a good welcome to lobbying locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday morning. A number promised to attend the anniversary...

Cameron’s ‘One Nation’ excludes the working class, youth and poor!

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THE Queen yesterday outlined that her government ‘will legislate in the interests of everyone in our country. It will adopt a one nation approach’. This...