Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Time to put imperialism out of its death agony with victory of world socialist...

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LAST FRIDAY, Labour’s armed forces minister, Al Carns, was ramping up the increasingly strident calls for the whole country to step up and prepare...

‘One Last Big Push’ To Disaster

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PRESIDENT BUSH and his military advisors were yesterday poised to announce ‘one last big push’ for victory in Iraq, and that 20,000 more US...

Tories are being whipped into line by the international banks!

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‘A SPEECH to calm the party and the country’ was how the Tory-supporting Daily Mail greeted the speech by newly installed prime minister Rishi...

The Chagos Islanders Must Be Returned To Their Homes

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YESTERDAY the Court of Appeal ruled that the Blair government had carried out an Abuse of Power when it overruled the assurance given by...

Tuc Must Call General Strike In Support Of Palestine And To Crush The Anti-Union...

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LAST Saturday, a massive demonstration of over 300,000 workers and youth marched to Whitehall, close to 10 Downing Street, calling for the trade union...

The lesson from the tower block fire disaster is stop the fire service cuts!

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SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after...

UK Trade Unions Must Take Action To Support The Sudanese Workers And Youth Revolution!

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SUDAN has been in the midst of an enormous economic and political crisis since the masses of workers and youth overthrew the UK- and...

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...

Miliband’s ‘fight door-to-door’ bombast has no answers for workers and youth

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ED MILIBAND kicked-off Labour’s election campaign yesterday with a speech full of bombast and empty promises, but which has at its core the main...

Build Councils of Action – Forward to the General Strike!

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500 WORKERS and youth, men, women and children marched yesterday through Southall to Ealing to defend Ealing hospital whose closure has begun with...

Brown prepared to impose ‘unpopular measures’

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PRIME MINISTER Brown said yesterday that he will not be diverted from taking ‘unpopular’ decisions to ensure Britain gets through the global credit crunch....

Tories split and turn on each other while TUC Congress refuses to take general...

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THE Tory Party is now split and divided as the world- wide capitalist crisis deepens and the weakness of the imperialist powers becomes more...

Tories call for May to go while Labour considers a pro-EU deal to save...

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ON SUNDAY Prime Minister May in a panic-stricken move, after the Tory Party’s defeat in the council elections, urged Labour leader Corbyn to ‘put...

Tusk threatens ‘Hell on Earth’ for working class!

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WHEN Donald Tusk, the European Council President, speaking in Brussels came out with his comment that there is a ‘special place in hell’ for...

NOW is the time for the TUC to call a general strike to support...

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THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...

May Loses Support Of Both The Remainers And Leavers – Looks To Labour To...

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THAT BANKRUPT British capitalism and imperialism is unable to stand on its own two feet anymore is obvious. It faces the prospect of the...

Oligarchs Go Bust As World Crisis Hits Home

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Russia’s super-rich oligarchs, who made their fortunes by stealing or purchasing for a pittance chunks of the Soviet nationalised and planned economy under the...

TUC leaders must bin Johnson’s empty pledges and call a general strike to bring...

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PM JOHNSON’S Tory conference speech was completely empty bombast that sought to cover over the economic catastrophe that is developing throughout the capitalist system...

Victory to Libya Bring down the coalition!

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AFTER initial hesitation, and no doubt after a talking to by President Obama, and after President Sarkozy jumped the gun with his announcement, the...

Israel’s finance minister orders preparations for the Israeli annexation of occupied West Bank

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ISRAEL’S extreme right wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, on Monday ordered preparations for the Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of Donald...

Crown won’t prosecute police killers

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AT a briefing on their investigation into the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station on July 22, the Independent Police...

Half a million children of public servants condemned to poverty by wage and benefit...

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550,000 CHILDREN (1 in 7) with a parent working in the public sector will be forced to live in poverty by the end of...

Deutsche Bank warning capitalism ‘sitting on a time bomb’ – socialist revolution only answer...

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ECONOMISTS at the German Deutsche Bank have issued a report about the inevitable consequence of the US Federal Reserve policy of printing worthless paper...

Hamas defiant after Israel’s ‘unilateral ceasefire’

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PALESTINIAN resistance movements and their fighters remained defiant after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared on Saturday that the Israeli War Cabinet had decided to...

‘It’s the concern, the fear, the sheer uncertainty’ says BoE’s King

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THE chief of the Federal Reserve Bank, Bernanke, has hinted heavily that the developing slow down of the US economy will be met with...

Truss Is Shattered While Johnson Is Posing As The Man To Save UK Capitalism!

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LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...

TUC attempting to dump the fight against Tory anti-union laws!

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IN advance of the national ‘protect the right to strike’ day of demonstrations on Wednesday 1st February the TUC has published a statement headed...

Tory Party trying to blame China to cover up their own culpability in the...

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THE TORY Party has launched a massive campaign to blame China to cover up their own culpability in the rapid spread of the coronavirus,...

Tories are planning a state of emergency so as to ban all strikes!

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AT prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Rishi Sunak told MPs that he was planning ‘tough’ legislation to outlaw strikes completely. However, the right wing press...

UK Ruling Class To Proscribe Wagner Group And Harass Supporters Of The Ukrainian...

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THE Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner Group, which was being cheered to the rafters when its members were said to be marching on...

Clarke Tells Blair It’s Time To Go

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TONY BLAIR may not be able to recover his authority and leadership after recent damaging events, former Blair Home Secretary, Clarke has said. Charles...

UK death squads in the north – a warning for today

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LAST night’s Panorama programme, entitled ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Force’, threw yet more light on the murderous activities of the British state in its war...

Sunak admits ‘borrowing will have to end’ and prepares for war against the working...

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IN THE Spectator magazine this week, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks with the official Tory line that British capitalism could survive by indefinitely...

Tories seek to smash NHS up into 42 pieces! Entire working class must strike...

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TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new government White Paper in Parliament on Thursday pushing a complete reorganisation of the...

Tories driving workers out of London

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TWO sets of statistics were issued last Thursday, statistics that prove conclusively what every worker in London and the big cities in England and...

EU is going up in flames! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!

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THE European Union is like a huge powder magazine that started to smoulder even before the Brexit vote in the UK on June 23rd,...

Blair Defies Labour Over Education Privatisation

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LABOUR Prime Minister Blair has ruled out changes to his education reform (privatisation) plans despite a challenge by more than 50 Labour MPs,...

No safe zones in Gaza as Israel steps up war in the south

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SINCE the start of the Israeli genocidal war in Gaza, the Israeli regime has ordered the forced evacuation of Palestinians from the north of...

The working class faces the threat of state terrorism!

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TWO videos, one by the FBI and one by the British police, have just been issued giving advice to people about actions they should...

Weak British imperialism heading for a major fall

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THE chickens are coming home to roost for British imperialism, as the mounting casualty figures in both Afghanistan and Iraq show. It is a long...

The Fire Brigade Is Not To Blame For The Grenfell Inferno!

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‘THE whole thing was hell, it was like a war zone,’ fire crew manager Charlie Batterbee, part of the first crew who entered Grenfell...

European Union’s jobless crisis leading to revolution

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FRENCH trade unions and student unions have mounted huge general strikes and protest actions in recent months against the massive rise in unemployment. France’s...

Steel workers must reject the Tata steel deal – vote ‘NO!’

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AT the end of this month, steel workers at Port Talbot are to vote on a deal struck between their unions and Tata Steel...

Tory And Labour Leaders Reveal Their Feet Of Clay In Their First General Election...

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THE TORY and Labour Party leaders, Johnson and Corbyn, revealed their feet of clay during their first general election debate on Tuesday night, when...

Tories-Lib Dems declare war on the working class

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The unemployment rate for the three months to March 2010 was 8.0 per cent, up 0.2 per cent on the quarter, the Office for...