Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Israeli forces storm al-Aqsa Mosque while its nationals fight alongside the Ukrainian fascists!

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ISRAELI military forces stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday, attacking Palestinian worshippers with sound grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse them and...

Imperialists prepare to launch war against Russia – workers must respond with revolution!

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THE past week has witnessed the massive escalation by US imperialism and its faithful allies in the UK and Europe towards an all-out war...

Seven Labour MPs Have The Whip Suspended After Voting To Scrap Two-Child-Benefit Cap

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SEVEN Labour MPs have had the whip suspended for six months after voting against the Labour government on an amendment to scrap the two-child...

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...

Workers must bring down the Tories and bring in a workers government to break...

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THE EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, in a two minute report, has ordered the British ruling class to accept ‘all decisions’ of the EU...

Bosses Declare War On Workers With An 80% Hike In Electricity And Gas Bills...

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THE UK’s energy bills are set to jump 80 per cent to an average of £3,549 per year from October, regulator Ofgem announced on...

Johnson regime in crisis as Tory base rejects ‘red wall’ and demands that workers...

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THE TORY Party membership is currently teaching its Tory leadership a lesson in ‘class politics’ as the Amersham by-election result shows when the LibDems...

Tories insist on ‘gagging orders’ to cover up for their crimes against workers

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IT EMERGED this week that the company hired by the Tories to test for flammable cladding on government and other public buildings in the...

Defend benefits! down with ‘universal credit’!

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THE announcement yesterday that the work and pensions minister, Iain Duncan Smith, had won his battle with the treasury over bringing in a single ‘universal...

France sends in more troops to join US forces in Syria

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FRANCE, the former colonial power in Syria, has expanded its military presence in the country, supporting the United States which is organising Kurdish...

Britannia sinking beneath the waves of the capitalist crisis!

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THE bourgeois media is currently working overtime publicising the ‘bad news’ about the British capitalist economy. Everybody now knows that youth unemployment (the 16-24 age...
Brian Haw holding the photograph of an infant victim of the continuing war in Afghanistan – the baby was one of triplets

Iraq – Time For Britain To Cut And Run

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SATURDAY’S engagement in Basra was a serious one for British imperialism. One Lynx helicopter was lost, shot down by a Strella missile and five British...

The Imf Issues Warning To The UK And Europe

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecast for Britain for the third time in nine months and warned George Osborne that...

There Must Be A Real Struggle Against Ttip And Ceta Now!

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LAST week at the annual conference of the TUC the largest union in the country, Unite, issued a grovelling plea to the Tory led...

As the capitalist system rushes towards the precipice – the great gains of the...

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PANIC gripped the UK ruling class yesterday as the bond markets ‘were thrown into chaos and a crisis’ that is bringing new cost of...

US is complicit in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp massacre that killed 274 Palestinians!

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ON Friday, Israeli forces launched a murderous attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza with bombs directed at its market place, which...

Starmer’s ‘No’ to ban on arms to Israel must be met with a general...

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer, in the House of Commons on Monday, defended Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’ while lamenting ‘the region cannot endure...

Nationalise All The Banks And Abolish Mortgage Debt

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UP to 1.5 million fixed rate mortgage holders are going to have to renegotiate their mortgages in the New Year. Many of them are already...

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...

Tory government responsible for thousands of unnecessary deaths – time to kick them out!

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YESTERDAY marked the 10th anniversary of the BBC Panorama programme that exposed the shocking treatment of the patients at Winterbourne View, a private hospital...

Cameron and Osborne’s Waterloo

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AFTER the Tories’ defeat at the hands of a defector to UKIP in the recent Clacton by-election, David Cameron vowed that he would ‘throw...

Johnson using fear of revolution and civil war to drive through a deal...

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Opposition parties met yesterday in the offices of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to cobble together an agreement to replace Boris Johnson...

Lammy Wants To Undermine The Right To Trial By Jury!

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JUSTICE SECRETARY David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape,...

Government determined to destroy District General Hospitals

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THE HSJ (Health Service Journal) has done a service to the NHS, and its tens of millions of users. It has revealed just how...

Universal Credit = war on benefits

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YESTERDAY the Tory-led coalition launched its ‘pathfinder’ trial of the new Universal Credit System at a job centre in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester. From here the government...

Hague hands £5m to the Syrian counter-revolution

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THE British government has responded to the success of the Syrian government in driving the Al Qaeda-supported Free Syrian Army out of Damascus, and...

Miliband Lashes Out At The Unions

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ON Wednesday night the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, launched a scathing attack on the leader of the largest trade union, Unite, denouncing him for...

Labour will let bankers’ bonuses soar and make the working class pay for capitalist...

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LABOUR’S shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday pledged any future Labour government to be the bankers’ best friend, ready and willing to facilitate awarding massive...

Throw Out The Tories – Forward To A Workers Government

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TODAY the working class and the majority of the middle class must put the Cameron government out of office and return the Labour Party...

Defend the NHS – make the TUC call a general strike

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WITH 23,000 beds being cut from hospital wards over the last four years alone, the entire trade union movement must immediately move into action...

Localism Act 2011 Being Used To Build Up An Army Of Homeless People!

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UNDER the Localism Act 2011, councils were granted greater powers to restrict access to social housing. Vulnerable people are now unable to access social...

French government collapses

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ON Monday the French government effectively collapsed as a direct result of a massive split in the leading ranks of the ruling Socialist Party...

Labour adopts coalition cuts

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THE three-day meeting of Labour’s ‘policy forum’ ended on Sunday with a massive vote to commit the Labour Party to carrying on with the...

NHS 2007: Pull your own teeth out!

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EVERY day Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Health Secretary Alan Johnson churn out propaganda about ‘improving’ the National Health Service (NHS) and people’s...

Sterling disaster – it crashes against the $ and the €

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BANK of England governor King’s report, on the immediate prospects for British capitalism has produced a run on the pound – so precarious is...

Crisis-ridden US capitalism driven towards war

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US capitalism really has got its back to the wall, and has somewhat lost its balance, when its Treasury Secretary, Geithner, says that he...

Unions fight EU’s privatisation & cheap-labour Directive

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THOUSANDS of workers marched to the European Parliament in opposition to the infamous Bolkestein Directive, to lobby a four-day debate of MEPs, in Strasbourg...

Struggle against Assad and Iran more important to US-UK gangsters than defeating ISIS

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UK Prime Minister Cameron said yesterday that the UK supports US airstrikes against the IS not with boots on the ground, but by other...

Saudis hit again! Victory to the Houthis! End war on Yemen!

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THE SAUDI regime has been hit again! The Yemeni Army yesterday released footage of a large-scale military offensive in which three Saudi brigades were...

Gove’s new ‘extremism definition’ prepares way for crackdown on all opposition to Israeli genocide

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COMMUNITIES secretary Michael Gove in Parliament yesterday made a short statement introducing the Tories new definition of extremism which now encompasses ‘non-violent extremism’. Almost all...

Brown, Mitchell and Obama threaten Palestinians with a dirty deal

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PALESTINIANS are once again being threatened with a dirty deal after the Netanyahu-Brown meeting in London. After a Brown declaration that Britain is Israel’s ‘true...

Labour Puts Migrants In Chains

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YESTERDAY THE BBC repeated throughout the day film of a police and immigration officials raid on a chicken factory in Derbyshire, to which the...

Close the Israeli embassy and boycott all Israeli goods

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ISRAEL, on Saturday evening, committed over 200 tanks and 20,000 troops to an invasion of Gaza, covered by artillery fire and fire from warships...

The TUC supports the UK and US war plan for the Ukraine, and demands...

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THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor...
Pickets were demanding yesterday that the Gate Gourmet boss Siegel should be sacked as a troublemaker

The issue is the shoot to kill policy says de Menezes campaign

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THE family of Jean Charles de Menezes, murdered by police on the Tube on July 22, have called for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir...