Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Defend right to asylum – defend right to strike – general strike now!

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YESTERDAY the Tories unveiled their ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ along with the admission that the bill itself is illegal under international law, not that this...

House nuisance neighbours in containers says Field

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LABOUR’S war against the working class and the poor continues, with Birkenhead MP Frank Field advocating that nuisance neighbours should be evicted and ‘housed’...

Blair listens only to the bosses

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PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...

Send ex-Goldman Sachs Carney packing

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YESTERDAY the new head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, officially took up the reins from the outgoing Sir Mervyn King. Carney, formerly head...

Examine practicalities of a general strike by organising it now!

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THE TUC Congress was dominated by the growing mass anger of the working class at the Tory-led coalition policy of wage freezing and massive...

Cornwall Marches To Save Fire Service

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TWO hundred firefighters and control room staff were joined by thousands of angry local residents in a 13-mile march from Camborne to Falmouth on...

Unite votes for speed-up and savage cuts at GM Vauxhall

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THE Vauxhall-Opel GM bosses statement put out yesterday claimed as its subject: ‘Vauxhall and Opel employees dive into their pockets to support the company...

Welsh government plans to implement Tory drive to close hospitals and destroy the NHS

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THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Welsh government yesterday that it was embarking on a strategy to ensure patients only go to hospital when it is...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing over the weekend are determined to be reinstated

Trade unions and the Labour government

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AT the Labour Party conference, the trade unions and a large minority of Labour constituency parties defeated the Labour government on at least five...

Innocent Until Proven Guilty To Be Binned!

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DRACONIAN repressive measures are now being proposed, off the cuff, thick and fast, as the Blair government races to put an end to the...

South Africa crashes into economic depression – socialist revolution is the only way forward

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ON WEDNESDAY South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the death at the age of 91 of George Bizos, the renowned human rights lawyer who...

Tories Vote To Keep Blair In Office!

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IN Tuesday night’s vote in the House of Commons on the Blair government’s Education Bill, 67 Labour MPs voted against, wiping out the government’s...

Don’t Let Them Close Down Our Hospitals!

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THE PLAN to strip Chase Farm Hospital, in Enfield, of its accident and emergency and maternity services is now being implemented with health chiefs...

Defend jobs, pay & services: Lobby the TUC! Build councils of action!

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THE Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee decided yesterday to make no change in its base interest rate and to leave it at...

Bigot Straw Stirs Up Division Amongst Workers

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LABOUR MP Straw has been a Blackburn MP for 27 years and has long been aware that numbers of Muslim women in Blackburn wear...

Drive to bring local performance-related pay into the NHS must be defeated

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THE chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) Chris Hopson, representing more than 200 NHS trusts across England, has called for the ripping...

Notre-Dame Cathedral burnt out as Macron concentrates spending on civil war riot police and...

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron was forced to cancel his important address to the French nation on Monday night, after a massive fire erupted at...

Banking crash spreads like wildfire through capitalist financial world

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LAST Friday, the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was forced to close down and had its assets seized by the US Federal Reserve following...

Zionist genocide and land seizures have killed the fantasy of a two-state solution 

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ON Wednesday, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres slammed Israel for ‘driving a stake through the heart’ of a two-state solution between Palestinians...

BBC reveals how police abuse body cameras – time to disband the police and...

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IN 2005, the Metropolitan Police introduced a trial of body-worn cameras for police officers, a move that was quickly rolled out by forces throughout...

Time To Disband The Police As Met Gunmen Hand Back Their Weapons!

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SCOTLAND YARD’S firearms command has hit the rocks with their police gunmen refusing to do their duty and carry their firearms against ‘enemies of...

TUC Proposes A Labour Front With The Tories

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WITH great fanfare the Tories have announced that they are following in the footsteps of President Roosevelt who, in 1933, launched the ‘New Deal’...

Blair stands by 90 days internment as Clarke negotiates its defeat

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PRIME Minister Blair stands convinced that 90-days internment without charge is not just desirable but is absolutely indispensable for satisfying the Metropolitan Police’s minimum...

US-Israel Sign Joint Security Declaration, As US Stabs Palestinians In The Back Again!

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THE United States and Israel have signed a joint strategic declaration, repeating accusations against Iran and promising to confront that country’s nuclear programme, a...

US imperialism is on collision course with the rest of the world in the...

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IMMEDIATELY following the US illegal attack and kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro last Friday, the Trump administration has placed US imperialism on a...

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...

NATO warmongers meet in Brussels

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NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...

Cameron’s ‘One Nation’ excludes the working class, youth and poor!

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THE Queen yesterday outlined that her government ‘will legislate in the interests of everyone in our country. It will adopt a one nation approach’. This...

Israel imitates the Nazis with its murderous attacks on Palestinians!

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ISRAELI forces on Thursday evening sealed off the main entrance to Duma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to...

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...

As Zionist Mobs Launch Attacks On Palestinians Hamas Calls To Establish The Palestinian State

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YESTERDAY, Zionist mobs were attacking Palestinians all over the occupied territories seeking to seize their homes and land and drive them off it. Israeli occupation...

Three party leaders make a ‘Vow’ that they cannot carry out!

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YESTERDAY saw a LibDem, Tory and Labour Party coalition scrambling to promise anything and everything in a desperate effort to save the UK...

Demented capitalism is producing mass murderers

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NORWAY is commemorating one year since 77 mainly young people who were members of the Young Socialists, and engaged in a summer school, were...

Labour leadership contenders back Tory cuts

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ALL four of the declared candidates for Labour Party leader, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Mary Creagh, have been busy over...

Trump revels in charges of treason as US is gripped by a death agony...

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YESTERDAY evening, former US president Donald Trump, accompanied by a US Secret Service Motorcade, swept up to Fulton county jail and handed himself in...

Labour Party leaders move to stab Brexit in the back! Forward to a political...

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AS IS to be expected the Labour leadership has been unable to hold fast to the Corbyn line that the party will support Brexit....

Aviation is going into the abyss! Nationalise the entire industry through a socialist revolution!

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RYANAIR is to cut 3,000 jobs representing 15% of its workforce, it was announced yesterday. British Airways is to cut up to 12,000 jobs and...

Tory Government Is Going For A Showdown With The Rail Unions!

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THE cost of living is now rocketing thanks to PM Johnson’s and Foreign Secretary Truss’ determination to inflame the war in the Ukraine and...

Hunt vows to slash benefits to drive sick back to work and pledges UK...

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THIS week, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt jetted off to Washington to attend the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the stated...

Make May Day the start of a general strike to smash the capitalist state...

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YESTERDAY, the High Court in London ruled that the strike action by nurses on May 2nd was unlawful under existing Tory anti-union laws. Pat Cullen,...

Tories pushing health insurance to smash NHS! Organise general strike NOW!

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THE SPECTRE of health insurance to ‘top-up’ the NHS has raised its ugly head. It is part of the arsenal of weapons turned on...

Tories plan to replace national pay bargaining for public sector workers with performance-related pay...

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THE TORIES are determined to put an end to trade union-negotiated across the board pay increases for all public sector workers and replace national...

Carney Says Time Is Not Right For Interest Rate Rise!

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THE TIME is not right for an interest rate rise, Bank of England governor Mark Carney said at the Mansion House. In his speech, Carney...

Tories plan Boot Camps for Youth

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THE Tory attacks on youth have reached a fever pitch over the past week with the announcement of more measures to be taken by...

TUC Must Support Next Saturday’s Mass Rally, Recognise The Palestinian State And Demand That...

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SATURDAY saw the concrete proof of just how much support the brave Palestinian people have won in their battle to undo the dirty work...