Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Defending US ‘strategic interests’ leads directly to imperialist war

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IT WAS CLAUSEWITZ who said that war is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means. In unveiling a large number of...

Unite The Masses In The Gulf Against Imperialism

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SADDAM HUSSEIN went to his death bravely and heroically, executed by agents of imperialism – the leaders of a puppet government that came to...

Starmer’s Labour declares war on refugees!

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ON Wednesday, Labour prime minister, and former human rights lawyer, Keir Starmer declared that the Labour government is preparing for a war on asylum...

French Health Workers Win Major Victory Over Macron Government!

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THE FRENCH government has been forced by the mass actions of the health workers’ trade unions to concede pay rises worth 8bn euros (£7.2bn)...

Britain’s Trade Crashing To Disaster

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2006 saw Britain’s trade in goods dive to a massive deficit of £84.3 billion.This was £15.5 billion more than the £68.8 billion deficit figure...

TUC Must Support Next Saturday’s Mass Rally, Recognise The Palestinian State And Demand That...

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SATURDAY saw the concrete proof of just how much support the brave Palestinian people have won in their battle to undo the dirty work...

American dream turns to nightmare!

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HUNDREDS of US cities are going bust, either destroyed by the banking and property collapse or by the crisis of the major US industries. The...

Basic Rights To Be Dumped In The Bin!

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IN the wake of the French terror attacks PM Cameron has promised a ‘comprehensive piece of legislation’ to close the ‘safe spaces’ used by...

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...

Boris Johnson being dumped – time for a general strike to dump the entire...

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BORIS JOHNSON is being dumped as prime minister, as Tory MPs held a vote of no-confidence in his leadership last night. Yesterday morning, the chairman...

Blair skating on the thinnest of thin ice

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PRIME Minister Blair has been secretly questioned, for a second time, by police investigating allegations that honours were sold for cash by his government....

As Imperialism Hits The Rocks – Forward To The Victory Of The World Socialist...

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US AND UK-backed Islamists are on the run from their last stronghold in Idlib province in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported...

TUC must take the lead in the establishment of the state of Palestine by...

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MASSIVE Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah ‘are not the end of the story’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared – after Israeli jets bombed...

Massive increases in US military spending as US bosses look to war to...

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US IMPERIALISM is currently stoking up a war crisis from Ukraine to the China Seas as it seeks a way out of its economic...

Smash Brown’s budget cuts, and wage freeze policy

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told the House of Commons last Thursday that he will reduce the Whitehall budget by up to 20 per cent in...

Labour to let multi-nationals take over NHS Primary Care Trusts

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THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health insurance...

Mursi follows on from Mubarak as the US’ man in Cairo

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PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...

Israeli pogromists launch Gaza ground attack!

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IT didn’t take long for the Israeli government to carry out its plan to invade Gaza and carry out a pogrom against the Palestinian...

RBS scandal demands workers expropriate the banks

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THIS week yet another scandal has broken out concerning the practices of the banking system. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is once again in...

Cable grovels – a prisoner of the Tories

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CABLE, the man who was threatening the ‘nuclear option’ of walking out of the Tory-led coalition, has meanwhile grovelled to his Tory betters. This was...

Only Gold Is Money, The Rest Is Paper Masquerading As Money

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WEDNESDAY’S announcement by the German central bank (Bundesbank) that it was going to physically repatriate its vast gold holdings from New York and Paris...

Forward to the Palestinian state!

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ISRAEL’S Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered the termination of all non-security related coordination with the Palestinian Authority (PA), in response to the UN...

Boeing ‘putting passengers’ lives at risk to maximise profit’ warn pilots

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THE GIANT US aircraft manufacturer Boeing is once again at the centre of a storm over the safety of its planes, this time concerning...

Hamas warns that Israel is stepping up its massacres in order to isolate the...

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THE Hamas Movement has described what is happening in northern Gaza and Jabalia as a ‘full-fledged genocide’, expressing its belief that the Israeli ‘Generals’...

Human Rights Watch Denounces Israeli Apartheid Crimes!

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AN international leading human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Israeli authorities in a 213-page report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed:...

Miliband appeals to Tory and UKIP voters!

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FOR many years the Labour Party projected itself as the champion of the working class, hence its very close ties with the trade unions,...

Labour says ‘full speed ahead’ with police state measures – The unions must call...

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GOVERNMENT plans to expand the use of ‘Orwellian’ live-facial recognition camera surveillance to every town and city in England and Wales will allow dangerous...

£16.5bn for the military as Tories plan a war on public sector workers to...

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THE TORIES have exceeded all previous borrowing records, taking the British bosses’ national debt to its highest level ever since records began, reaching £2.3tn....

Free social care and care homes for the elderly

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THE just-published ‘State of Social Care’ report from the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) was greeted as ‘a damning indictment of a...

Barclays gambles on the Brown safety net while Northern Rock’s losses rise

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SPECULATIVE casino banking, without risk for the bankers, thanks to the Brown government’s pledge to never let a big bank fail, is the way...

‘There is no fuel shortage,’ says Shapps as the bosses shut down petrol stations...

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THERE is ‘no shortage of fuel’ and people should be ‘sensible’ and only fill up when they need to, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said...

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...

Bank of England & US Fed continue to pump out free money to attempt...

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England announced that it will be keeping interest rates on hold at the historical low of 0.1%. This was the unanimous...

Answer NHS crisis with general strike and occupations

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THIS week saw the crisis in the NHS reach breaking point with at least 17 hospitals in England declaring they faced a ‘major incident’...

Austria, Italy and Germany discussing new ‘axis’ against refugees!

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ANOTHER boat carrying refugees has sunk attempting the journey across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Europe, 63 asylum seekers are missing. A Libyan coastguard...

Northern Rock sold at a loss as dictatorships rule in EU!

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NORTHERN Rock (NR) plc is being sold to Virgin Money by the coalition government for £747m. After Northern Rock was nationalised in 2008 it...

The working class must win the class war

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IN the middle of the Labour Party’s general election campaign, a section of the Labour cabinet led by Mandelson, Jowell and others is breaking...

TUC must call general strike in support of the junior doctors!

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‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!

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THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...

Davis Calls On The Cabinet To Revolt – Now Is The Time To Bring...

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NOW that the ex-Brexit negotiator Davis has called for the Cabinet to rise up against the May government’s permanent Customs Union, and her plan...

Wealthiest 5 richer than poorest 20%

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THE report by the charity Oxfam entitled ‘A Tale of Two Britains’ puts definite figures on the simple fact known by every worker that...

Postal Workers lose money in share crash – Renationalise Royal Mail

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AT LAST month’s Labour Party conference, shadow chancellor John McDonnell floated the policy of a future Labour government introducing an ‘inclusive ownership Fund’ under...

Osborne to make £11.5bn spending review cuts!

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ON a day during which it was announced by German bankers that Cyprus’ banks may never open again, and by the ONS that UK...

Unemployment is soaring! Defending the ‘right to work’ means getting rid of capitalism!

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UNEMPLOYMENT is set to soar to levels not seen since The Great Depression, the ‘Hungry 1930s’, when workers starved. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...

Labour plans to use the state’s OBR to hold down workers’ wages and benefits!

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LABOUR has promised to hand more powers to Britain’s capitalist state, and to the OBR, the Office for Budget Responsibility, to hold down wages...