Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Obama’s Amnesty For Torturers – ‘They Were Just Obeying Orders’

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CENTRAL Intelligence Agency employees who tortured people in the Guantanamo Bay and Bagram Bay US concentration camps as terrorist suspects held without charge or...

Millions of low paid US workers are on the march!

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FOLLOWING the Black Friday strike action at 1,500 WalMart stores throughout the US, fast-food workers in over 100 cities will walk off the job...

National Guard ‘armed, locked and loaded’ in New Orleans

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LOUISIANA State Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin have deployed 300 heavily-armed National Guard troops and 60 state police on the streets of...

Capitalist world order is tearing apart – forward to world socialist revolution!

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THE old world order of an all-powerful American capitalist system engaging in a rule-based and peaceful relationship with its allies in the UK and...

Coalition Plans To Smash Workers’ Rights

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THE REPORT outlining government proposals to smash up any rights workers have to secure employment and legal protection from unfair dismissal finally saw the...

Oil War Looms In The Caucasus!

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RUSSIA is recalling its ambassador to Tbilisi after Wednesday’s provocative arrests of four Russian officers on spying charges, and is beginning a partial evacuation...

The majority of Russians want the return of the USSR

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THE LATEST poll of Russian people has revealed that the number who want a return of the USSR has set a new record. The Levada-Centre...

Rail fares and inflation are let rip – as wages and benefits are frozen...

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RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are to...

Gates and Rice go calling on Putin

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin threatened on Friday in talks with top US administration officials, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates,...

Trade unions must act now to defend living standards!

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BANK of England Governor Mervyn King sent a letter to Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday because inflation has taken off. Under statutory obligations put in place...

Tsipras organising Greek regime change!

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AFTER a request by Prime Minister Tsipras, the Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos convened, Monday afternoon 6th of July, a meeting of the Political Leaders...

Halt The Israeli Onslaught On Gaza! Labour Must Recognise State Of Palestine!

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TWO MORE Palestinians were killed yesterday morning in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip, said medical officials, bringing the number of Palestinians...

Iran offers talks on the US created nuclear crisis

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THE imperialist powers are studying Iran’s offer of more talks to resolve the crisis that the US has created over Iran’s right to develop nuclear...

US-UK stand by as Israel prepares Gaza ground attack

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YESTERDAY morning Israel allowed about 450 foreign passport holders to leave the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing near Beit Hanoun, after refusing to...

‘We are going to create the largest social enterprise sector in the world’ says...

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PRIMARY CARE Trusts are to be abolished and replaced by Federations of GPs who will purchase healthcare for their patients from both the public...

‘UNCONVINCING’ Yates refuses to resign

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ASSISTANT Scotland Yard Commissioner John Yates – who reviewed a Metropolitan police investigation into phone hacking and decided not to proceed to examine at...

DECISIVE ACTION NEEDED TO DEfEND THE NHS AND WELFARE STATE

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On Tuesday, NHS North West London announced that it would close A&E departments at Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing Hospitals. Two million west...

Lonmin forced to withdraw their sack threat!

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UK-OWNED platinum mining giant Lonmin (the world’s third largest platinum producer) has been forced by the strength and defiance of the miners, supported by...

TUC leader pleads with EU president

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YESTERDAY, Tory leader David Cameron hosted a breakfast meeting with the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, as part of his campaign to...

Greek Crisis Set To Explode Under Eu!

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GREECE’S Syriza government has drawn up its plan to renegotiate with the EU. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won a confidence vote on Tuesday evening,...

FBI warns of revolution! Now is the time to build 4th International in the...

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THE DIRECTOR of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray, told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the US ruling class has lost...

IMF warns of impending capitalist crash – world revolution the only answer

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday warned that the massive surge in US inflation driving the Central Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) to push up...

Israel continues with its Gaza massacres

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ISRAEL has rejected the UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and is determined to carry...

Major tax rises are on the way. Bring down the Labour government and bring...

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‘TAX rises are inevitable’ warned economists yesterday, barely 12 months after Labour’s election pledge of ‘No tax rises’. This is after PM Keir Starmer’s...

Lecturers 76% ‘Yes’ for strike – 37 Universities to come out! All unions must...

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UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff across the country have voted for strike action with an overwhelming 76% ‘YES’ vote. It means 37 universities will join...

Defend Libyan revolution! Stop and bring down the oil thieves! Victory to Gadaffi!

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THE French ruling class yesterday officially recognised the Libyan counter-revolutionary rebels of the Transitional National Council as the country's legitimate government, and is due...

Capitalism cannot be reformed – it must be overthrown with Socialist Revolution.

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IN HIS speech on Saturday to the Labour Party Policy Forum Jeremy Corbyn proved that left reformism has absolutely no answers to the crisis...

Crisis Deepening – Revolution Not Recovery Is On The Agenda

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THE CBI bosses organisation yesterday foresaw a ‘recovery’ from the capitalist crisis, but was forced by circumstances beyond its control to admit that, at...

TUC traitors issue joint statement with the CBI bosses, the ETUC and Business...

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THE TUC leaders have just issued an unprecedented joint statement with the bosses of the CBI, the ETUC and Business Europe ahead of June’s...

The Palestinian people have been robbed of $50bn by Israel since 2020 – TUC...

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THE PALESTINIAN people paid a heavy cumulative cost, estimated at $50 billion, between 2000 and 2020 due to the additional restrictions imposed by Israel...

Straw’s cover up for illegal MI6 actions in Greece exposed

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Greek newspaper Proto Thema has named the MI6 chief at the British embassy in Athens, after he was accused of organising British and Greek...

Britain Has Been, Is, And Will Continue Talking With The Taleban

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PRIME Minister Brown told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that British forces are ‘winning the battle against the insurgency’ in Afghanistan. Using...

US Imperialism organised botched plot to overthrow Venezuela’s President!

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ON WEDNESDAY, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emphatically denied to reporters that the US had any involvement in the failed attempt by...

‘Vile police’ and Tory grandees battle it out!

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A PETTY incident – the refusal of Downing Street police officers to allow the Tory chief whip to ride his bicycle through the gates...

British imperialism filmed at work

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A COURT martial in Wiltshire yesterday heard that Corporal Donald Payne was filmed as he abused and swore at hooded Iraqi detainees, in September...

Greek Workers Have No Alternative To Revolution!

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A LEAKED email sent to the Greek Ministries of Finance and Labour from the Troika mafia in Brussels says Greek private sector workers must...

Labour plans to criminalise the entire working class

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THE government is planning ‘behaviour orders’ for people considered to be at risk of committing a violent crime. Class prejudice, ie racial and working...

US workers bracing themselves for ‘fiscal cliff’

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THE US labour movement is now bracing itself for a last minute ‘deal’ on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ with the Republican Party, in which the...

End funding ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ US Democrat Senators demand!

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YESTERDAY, 93 Democrat members of the US House of Representatives issued an official letter calling on the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to open...

Fatah Must Change Its Leadership

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THE victory of the Hamas movement in the fighting in the Gaza Strip is a huge setback for the imperialist diplomacy of the US...

Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!

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ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...

UK steel industry collapse – occupy to defend jobs, nationalise the steel industry

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THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...

Tories abandon Leeds leg of HS2! All unions must strike to kick Tories out...

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THE TORY government announced the scrapping of the Leeds leg of the HS2 (High Speed Two) rail on Thursday and in doing so has...

TUC must call action now against the BoE and Tory theft of $1bn of...

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ONE BILLION dollars (£800m) worth of Venezuelan gold in the vaults of the Bank of England has been successfully seized, in an act of...

US workers reject Obama’s rescue of bankers and bosses

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SCOTT Brown’s victory for the Republican Party, in the Massachusetts election for the US Senate, does not mean that US workers can’t wait to...