Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Kick out the Tories, abolish academies and free schools to defend free state education

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TEACHING unions yesterday published a report detailing the effects of the Tory policy of slashing public spending on schools – increased class sizes across...

Japan withdraws troops from Iraq. A blow to Bush & Blair!

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PRIME Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced yesterday the withdrawal of the 600 Japanese troops from Iraq by the end of next month. These ‘non combatant’...

US multi-billionaires tax revelations will fuel demand for the overthrow of bankrupt capitalism

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TAX RETURNS of America’s richest people have been leaked to the investigative website ProRepublica and prove that the mega wealthy have been paying little...

No to paying the EU £50 billion – Kick out the Tories and forward...

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THE TORY government has caved in to EU demands and agreed to pay a whopping ‘divorce’ bill that is estimated to be £50 billion. EU...

IMF predicts ‘worst economic fallout since the Great Depression’ – Only way out of...

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INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund’s (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday: ‘We anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.’ ‘Just three months ago, we...

Chinese and Russian Stalinists are getting burnt by the crisis

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THE Chinese Stalinists are now paying an enormous price for linking their fate with that of US capitalism. First of all they declared parts of...

Death rate rising rapidly – savage Tory cuts to blame!

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MASSIVE Tory cuts are undermining the NHS and threatening the lives of many thousands. There is already an investigation taking place after  whistleblower Sarah Hayes, a...

TUC Must Smash The ‘Minimum Service Levels’ Anti-Union Laws!

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The TUC has responded to the Tory government's 'Minimum Service Levels:  issuing work notices’ document outlining how a trade union should operate as a...

UK workers must act to help end occupation of Palestine!

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SIXTY-SEVEN years after the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, when Israel was founded by a massive Zionist terror against the Palestinian people, the Palestinian...

Biden insists on Israel’s right to commit genocide in Gaza while Tories insist arrest...

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US president Joe Biden has defended American imperialism’s Israeli ally and denounced the decision of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, to...

Tories crushed in by-elections – TUC must take action now to bring them down!

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THE TORIES have been smashed by two huge by-election defeats, in a couple of their ‘safe’ seats, Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, where their large...

Biden keeps US embassy in Jerusalem! He is continuing where Trump left off! US...

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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden will keep the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem, his nominee for Secretary of State Antony Blinken affirmed at his...

Foxconn to replace its Chinese workers with a million robots

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TAIWANESE electronics manufacturer Foxconn, which assembles products for Apple, plans to have a million robots, by the next three years, in operation in its...

Irish enforced bail-out will bring EU to breaking point!

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IRISH Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and the Irish government, are being forced onto their knees by the EU and the European Central Bank...

Christoulas makes his call for REVOLUTION!

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A 77-YEAR-old Greek pensioner penned his political testament on Wednesday, before he blew his brains out in front of the Greek parliament, a parliament...

Obama Heading For The Fiscal Cliff – US Workers Beware!

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OBAMA’S re-election is a product of the refusal of US workers to allow an all-out robber baron of capitalism, Romney, to have control over...

Israel Accepts Gaza Ceasefire Out Of Fear Of The Arab Revolution

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THE Egyptian military have brokered a truce between the militant Palestinian factions in Gaza and the Israeli military, which had been bombing Gaza for...

Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!

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THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...

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...

French elections open up struggle for socialist revolution

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THE RESULT of the French Presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron, winning with 65.5% of the vote beating the...

Workers rise up – Stop the closure of Ealing Maternity Unit!

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ON MAY 7 Labour won the Ealing Central and Acton seat from the Tories, with Rupa Huq getting 22,002 votes, a massive 13%...

Carney plans for state robbery of bank depositors’ cash!

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ON Tuesday, amidst all the turmoil of the US presidential election, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, announced a financial bombshell...

Lloyd’s pulls the plug on Europe

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NOT just Greece but the Eurozone and, by extension, the whole of Europe is a financial basket case that is heading inexorably towards a...

PM Sunak Ditches HS2 And Launches Savage Cuts To Smash The Trade Unions!

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THE GMB trade union yesterday slammed the scrapping of the HS2 Northern route, the biggest cut in the rail network since the days of...

Occupy The Steel Industry – Organise General Strike To Defend Jobs

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THE world capitalist crisis as well as shattering the energy industries – oil, coal and gas – is also decimating world steel production and...

Capitalism has reached the end of the road – it’s time for a...

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THE economic and political crisis gripping capitalism is causing despair and despondency amongst the bourgeoisie and its media representatives at the highest levels. This week,...

Expropriate the landlords, build millions of council homes

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WHEN the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, starts accusing his coalition government of ‘Kosovo-style social cleansing’ in the capital over the plans to...

1,002,296 have died from Covid-19 – Capitalism cannot deal with this crisis!

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THE number of people worldwide who have died from Covid-19 has passed one million, reaching 1,002,296 with 33,378,462 infected, the Johns Hopkins University reported...

Desperate UK Tories seeking to curry favour with President Biden by imposing sanctions on...

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CHINA has imposed sanctions on nine UK citizens – including five MPs for spreading ‘lies and disinformation’ about the country. This is China’s very minor...

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...

A planned famine grips Gaza – the working class must intervene and support Palestinians

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THE Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval of a plan to occupy Gaza, following the Palestinian factions’ acceptance...

Unlimited Bonuses For The Bankers As Workers Face Runaway Inflation And Poverty!

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THE new Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is reported to be preparing to scrap the cap on the multi-million pound bonuses bankers award themselves. Originally the...

Tory war on two fronts against Russia and working class at home

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THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...

Lagarde says Greek euro exit will ‘probably’ not mean end of euro

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THE head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, admitted on Thursday that she could not ‘preclude’ Greece being forced out of the eurozone. This...

Troika poised to show Greece the door

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GREEK PM Antonis Samaras is meeting the organisation of Greece’s international creditors, the Troika (IMF, EU, ECB), to try to persuade it to give...

Workers of the world unite to fight for the victory of Palestine!

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ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’, heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza,...

Zionist parliament approves draft ‘death penalty’ bill targeting Palestinians

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ON MONDAY, the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, approved the first reading of a bill that allows the Zionist regime to legally pass the death...

Darling Robs The Poor To Prop Up The Bankers

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CHANCELLOR Darling yesterday admitted that the Labour government, cold-bloodedly, in the last budget, abolished the 10p tax rate for the lower paid, knowing that...

By 278 votes to 0 MPs vote for extending the Universal Credit top-up beyond...

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THE TORY government was delivered a massive blow on Monday evening when it was defeated by 278 votes to 0 when MPs voted for...
A delegation of Gate Gourmet locked-out workers are welcomed at the Hounslow UNISON AGM

The continuing collapse of leadership in the FBU

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THE leadership of the FBU ignominiously collapsed at yesterday’s FBU recall conference, held to decide on industrial action to defend the final salary pensions...

The Stalinist theory of one country with two social systems has encouraged the...

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THE EVENTS in Hong Kong over the past month have seen thousands of people storming the Hong Kong parliament and raising the Union Jack...

Unions Must Put The Labour Party House In Order

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THE main trade union leaders are determined that the crisis of the Labour government should be kept out of the TUC Congress in Brighton. They...

Argentina Warns UK Against Militarising The South Atlantic

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ARGENTINA is to raise the UK militarisation of the Malvinas Islands (Falklands) at the United Nations. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner...

Postal workers want indefinite strike action NOW!

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CWU members have voted, in a 67 per cent turnout, a much bigger turnout than in a British general election, for strike action, with...

Obama Looking For ‘Partners’

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PRESIDENT OBAMA’S annual State of the Union speech was dominated by the internal situation of US capitalism, and his search for Republican partners...