Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Workers must use their power to smash capitalism and put an end to the...

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SINCE the onset of Israel’s brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli military’s use of live ammunition to kill and wound Palestinian...

Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions

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A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...

Keep Tories Out – Forward To Socialism!

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THE UK capitalist economy is staggering along the bottom with a three month ‘growth’ to show, from January to March, of 0.2 per cent. The...

IRA gives up armed struggle to join the democrats

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‘All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. ‘All Volunteers have been instructed to assist the development of purely political and democratic programmes...

British capitalism crashing into bankruptcy – Unions must organise a general strike to...

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THE UK’s largest car maker, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), yesterday announced a massive pre-tax loss of £354 million for the six months to September...

EU torn apart by Covid pandemic – forward to Socialist United States of...

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THE DEADLY third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is ripping the EU apart over vaccinations and lockdowns. In Germany, with 9,549 new cases and 180...

Time to take the Gourmet struggle forward to victory

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THE intervention at the TUC Congress last Monday by the Gate Gourmet locked out workers was an outstanding success. It let every delegate of...

MPs defend council housing – report condemns government plans

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The House of Commons Council Housing Group of MPs from all parties yesterday launched its report Support for the Fourth Option for Council Housing. This...

Corbyn must call on workers to bring down Tories, and support Palestinians!

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LAST Friday the UK and US governments combined at a meeting of the UN Security Council to veto a draft statement calling for an...

Starmer splits Labour Party from unions to prove he is ready for a national...

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THE sacking by Keir Starmer of Labour MP Sam Tarry from his post as shadow transport minister has sent shock waves throughout the Labour...

Resistance has Obama on the run in the Middle East

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UNITED States President Barack Obama made his first trip to Afghanistan on Sunday since he took office 14 months ago. The visit was aimed...

As Capitalism reels Corbyn ‘suggests’ a very minimal Fabian programme

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LAST week saw the ruling classes of the capitalist world reeling at the prospect of another huge banking crash, with its high priests, the...

Forward to Palestine

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HAMAS on Sunday, along with the other Palestinian factions in Gaza, agreed to another 24-hour truce. Hamas’ statement read: ‘In response to the UN’s...

Spanish workers on the road to revolution

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SPANISH PM Mariano Rajoy has just announced a 3% VAT rise from 18%-21%, and a series of austerity measures that will cut the Spanish...

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...

UK capitalism running out of time as Cameron demands strong government

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AS THE failure of the Tory attempt to become the government emerged on Thursday night and in the early hours of Friday, it combined...

Tories plan poverty and austerity for workers to bail out bankrupt capitalism!

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LAST week, the outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, bluntly warned that the rapid increase in inflation would make the...

Form Public Sector Alliance to defeat the Brown government

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THE Brown government is showing clearly and conclusively that it stands with the bosses, the bankers, and the employers against the workers and their...

Obama selects his bourgeois team to save US capitalism

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BARACK OBAMA has just been elected by an explosion of popular support and anger that has united the working class and brought the majority...

Keogh creating a two-tier inferior NHS and proud of it

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THE BIG push is on to destroy the national network of A&Es that millions of people depend on, and to convert at least 100...

We Must Welcome All Asylum Seekers And Expropriate The UK’s Boss Class!

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IN RECENT days, the Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman had come under fire for comparing immigrants and asylum seekers to ‘invaders’. Liberal Tories tut-tutted that...

The Desperate Housing Crisis!

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IT WAS Frederick Engels who said that the housing problem and capitalism were inseparable, and that to get rid of the former you would...

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...

Labour-Tory Race To The Right!

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TEACHERS will have to be re-licensed every few years or face the sack under a future Labour government. This is the just unveilled position of...

The Telegraph urges that ‘destroying Hamas’ is very much in this country’s interests &...

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THE United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution calling for a halt to all arms sales to Israel, and for the regime...

Israel receives a warning from Hezbollah!

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PALESTINIAN children in Israeli jails are being subjected to torture, and physical and psychological abuse by Israeli officials, says the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’...

Homeless deaths are rapidly increasing! Capitalism is rotten! Only socialism can take society...

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THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has produced a new report which says that the true number of people sleeping on the streets ‘far exceeds’...

NHSTogether must organise strike action to defend GPs!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown’s government is targeting General Practitioners (GPs) in its rush to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). Two key barriers to a...

Obama woos the Iranian bourgeoisie

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IRAN’S supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has welcomed President Obama’s change of rhetoric in relation to Iran but has however stated that what...

Myanmar – working class intervene with national strikes to bring down military dictatorship

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WORKERS across Myanmar (formally Burma) came out on a nationwide general strike yesterday demanding the overthrow of the military dictatorship which was imposed last...

Davis Calls On The Cabinet To Revolt – Now Is The Time To Bring...

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NOW that the ex-Brexit negotiator Davis has called for the Cabinet to rise up against the May government’s permanent Customs Union, and her plan...

US ruling class split with Biden calling Trump an insurrectionist while Trump declares he...

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THE United States of America, the most powerful capitalist country in the world and the leading imperialist nation across the globe, is gripped by...

Housing crisis: socialism the only solution

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THE proposal to blow up five blocks of flats in Glasgow’s Red Road, as part of the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games, has...

Scrapping of Public Health England part of Tory plan to force through privatisation...

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The lead story in last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper announced: ‘Hancock axes failing public health body,’ adding ‘PHE (Public Health England) to be scrapped...

Grenfell disaster was caused by private companies and government – the FBU tells Inquiry!

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FIRE BRIGADES Union lawyer Martin Seaward has told the Grenfell Inquiry that the disaster was caused by individual private companies and the government! He insisted:...

Israel bombs ‘safe’ Rafah camp with Palestinians ‘burnt alive’ in melting tents

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ON SUNDAY night, Israeli planes launched a devastating attack on a tent camp in the Tel Al Sultan neighbourhood in western Rafah which is...

‘We are the masters now’ say Tories and employers

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THE TORY-led coalition is poised to give all power to the employing class through neutering employment tribunals and giving the employers their own ‘charter’...

Workers must stop the war against the Iranian, Palestinian and Syrian peoples!

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TRUMP’S decision to withdraw the United States from Iran’s nuclear deal with the imperialist powers (JCPOA) and re-impose sanctions against the Islamic Republic of...

Economic and political collapse of British capitalism – socialist revolution the only answer

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THE KNIVES are out for Tory prime minister Boris Johnson after his disastrous performance over sleaze, U-turns over social care and now his bizarre...

Counter-revolution in the classroom

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A report issued yesterday outlining proposals to establish in Manchester an army-run ‘free school’, has given yet another sinister twist to the campaign by...

Tory government imploding – time for unions to call a general strike to kick...

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THE ECONOMIC crisis engulfing British capitalism is causing a seismic split in the Tory government, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a rebellion from...

Israel still seeking to grab the Gaza Strip and the occupied territories

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ISRAEL continues to declare that northern Gaza is out of bounds for the Palestinian people, while at the same time the Israeli army and...

Pompeo admits US-organised uprising in Venezuela has ‘no popular support’

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US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo had a secret meeting last month with prominent American Jewish leaders in which he spilled the beans on...

GPs under the heel of Labour’s NHS ‘reforms’

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THE Brown government has bullied NHS GPs in the most brutal and cowardly fashion, and has given them an offer that they could not...

To End The Covid-19 Crisis The Trade Unions Must Bring Down The Tories And...

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TORY HEALTH SECRETARY Hancock yesterday said of the Covid-19 crisis that Britain was facing a ‘tipping point’ and ‘we have a choice’. It turns...