Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

TUC calls on Sunak for a ‘workers’ budget’! Trade Union & Labour leaders need...

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THE LEADERSHIP of the Trade Union Congress, a body which includes 6.4 million workers and has the power to shut the entire country down...

End the torture of Julian Assange and stop his extradition to the US!

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange appeared in person at Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday in yet another routine administrative hearing to prolong his imprisonment up to...

US-UK imperialism has come to grief in Iraq

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IRAQ’S election commission has barred almost 500 candidates and many parties from running in the ‘national’ elections on 7 March. A parliamentary committee says that...

Arab League, Israel and the US conspire against Iran and Palestine!

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WHILE Israeli settlers, police and troops are running riot in occupied Palestine burning down the homes of Palestinian families and injuring and killing their...

Defend every job, occupy to stop closures, and nationalise the major industries

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics produced figures showing the record breaking numbers of unemployed and the record breaking growth of unemployment. UK unemployment...

NHS being bankrupted, to keep crisis-ridden capitalism going!

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THE message from the government over the proposed dissolving of the South London Healthcare Trust and the closure of its major hospitals is...

Stock markets crash as US supremacy in AI technology shattered by small Chinese company

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ON MONDAY, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading tech companies in a share crash caused by the tiny Chinese company DeepSeek. DeepSeek...
A coachload of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers came to the TGWU’s London headquarters to speak with TGWU National Secretary Brendan Gold about his betrayal of the locked out workers

US workers need revolutionary leadership

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A CRISIS, with the most revolutionary implications for the working class, is erupting in the US, with GM, the world’s biggest motorcar producer announcing...

Charge Harry Stanley’s Killers!

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THE uncovering of ‘new’ forensic evidence by the Surrey constabulary has led to the arrest of the two police officers who shot dead Harry...

Targeted assassination of journalists as Zionist regime plans military occupation and massacre of Palestinians...

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LATE on Sunday, a deliberate Israeli drone attack hit a tent for journalists located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, killing...

Tories’ Enabling Act Brings In Open Bourgeois Dictatorship

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THE UK government in alliance with the Labour Party has over a three-day period pushed through an emergency law, the Data Retention and Investigatory...

Middle Class Faces Mass Unemployment. It Must Unite With The The Working Class To...

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THE CRISIS engulfing British capitalism has drawn the organised working class, along with youth and entire sections of the middle class, into the struggle...

EU on brink of economic collapse

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THE CONTINUED economic collapse of the EU was highlighted yesterday when it was officially acknowledged that Italy, the third largest economy in Europe, has...

Smash anti-strike bill by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick the...

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THE TUC yesterday published an analysis that showed that 5.5 million workers in England, Scotland and Wales would have their right to strike threatened...

CWU leaders capitulate to Royal Mail bosses – Time to build a new leadership...

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LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...

The BBC supports starving the people of Gaza

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THE BBC is part of the British capitalist state whose job it is to look after the interests of the ruling class. It has...

Claimant count rises as UK economy carries on sinking!

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UK unemployment fell by 36,000 in the three months to the end of March, to 2.46 million. However, the number of people receiving...

No recovery for capitalism from 2008 crash – forward to socialist revolution

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A RECENT analysis by Sky News has shown that the ‘recovery’ of British capitalism since the world banking crash in 2008 is actually smaller...

Quit the EU now – defend jobs, forward to socialism!

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A PROPOSED law giving PM Johnson’s government the power to reject parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU passed its first reading in...

Israel extends Wall to grab Jerusalem

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THE Israeli Cabinet decided last Sunday to extend the route of the Zionists’ illegal ‘Security Wall’ to grab a large chunk of Palestinian East...

UK, US And EU Workers Must Take General Strike Action To Aid The Palestinians...

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PHILIPPE Lazzarini, Commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), reported on Saturday that over 75,000 Palestinians have been...

Rapidly rising inflation threatens wages, jobs, and homes

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THE UK inflation rate has leapt to an 11-year high of three per cent according to the government’s Consumer Prices Index (CPI) which grossly...

Enough Is Enough Say Wythenshawe Electors

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NONE of the three main parties have very much to shout about over the outcome of the Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election. Labour’s Michael Kane...

Bank of England – people will just have to accept poverty as the price...

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HUW PILL, the chief economist at the Bank of England, has made the official position of the bankers crystal clear when he insisted that...

Massive doctors vote for strike action over pensions!

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THE BMA LEADERSHIP has now called a 24-hour day of action on Thursday 21 June, during which only emergency or urgent care will be...

Hands Off Syria – To ‘End The Cruelty And Carnage’

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THE heads of five major UN agencies have issued a joint appeal to the international community, a code phrase for the imperialist...

US and UK end aid funding to Palestinians in support of Zionist starvation of...

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THE United States, along with other Western countries, has pitched in to accelerate Israel’s war on Palestinians through a campaign of deliberate starvation to...

Tory Leadership Crisis Deepens, While Labour’s Right Wing Lashes Out At Corbyn!

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THE CRISIS-ridden Tory leadership has launched its campaign to elect a new leader to replace the shattered May, who betrayed Brexit and then piloted...

Massive Food Price Rises Driving Forward World Revolution

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FOOD riots and major strike actions are erupting all over the capitalist world, driven forward by a doubling of food prices in many countries,...

The return of Duncan Smith, Cameron’s Workhouse Master

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THE announcement that Iain Duncan Smith has been re-appointed as Work and Pensions Secretary and charged by Cameron to step up the Tory onslaught...

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...
TGWU full-time officer OLIVER RICHARDSON addressing the Gate Gourmet mass picket yesterday morning

Public sector pensions battle set to erupt

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THE working class continues to pay a massive price for its reformist trade union leadership. This is completely committed to supporting the capitalist...

Iran condemns the mass bombing of Iranian cities

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IRAN has fiercely condemned the massive Israeli aerial bombing of several cities and the targeted assassinations of military leaders and nuclear scientists on Thursday...

UK stuck in ‘debt doom loop’ – Socialist Revolution the only way to break...

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a dire warning to Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves that she must take ‘unpopular’ decisions to halt British...

Tories plan to scrap hospitals and treat people at home

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YESTERDAY, the Tories announced their latest ploy to try and convince the country that in the face of all the evidence they actually support...

Britain to be one big prison!

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THE coalition government has published its plans to turn Britain into one big prison with its own version of the US’ two strikes and...

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...

Whither the NHS is still to be decided!

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THE fury of the Blairite Milburn over the changes to the Health Bill that have been forced on the Tory-led coalition by the massive...

Miliband supports Tory NHS plans – forward to the general strike

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ON Monday, the Tory Health Minister, Andrew Lansley, was forced to declare a ‘pause’ in the coalition government’s drive to privatise and smash up...

‘WE ARE AT WAR’ says Greek PM as workers prepare to storm parliament

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THE Greek Socialist Party Prime Minister, Yiorghos Papandreou, told his party’s parliamentary deputies last Saturday that ‘no one likes emergency procedures but we are...

Macron demands dictatorship throughout the EU – UK must leave EU on March 29th!

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron, currently fighting a civil war with millions of French workers, has proposed a series of ‘reforms’ that he says will...

TUC must be made to call a general strike to put an end to...

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THE International Monetary Fund has openly condemned the UK government over its tax cuts that handed billions to the rich, warning that the measures...

Car Factories Could Be Closed In A Matter Of Weeks Says Unite! Occupy Them...

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FOR THE first time since coronavirus erupted in China shutting down Chinese manufacturing, cutting off the supply of vital components and commodities to the...

Draghi proposes Central Bank dictatorship – while the German bankers warn of hyper-inflation

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SPANISH 10-year bond yields fell yesterday to 5.77%, below 6% for the first time since May, while yields on the equivalent Italian bonds fell...

The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...

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MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...