Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Teachers, parents and students taking action to defend education

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OVER the past week, lecturers have been on strike against sackings, parents are occupying schools to stop their closure, and students, angry at high...

Grenfell – never again! Build Councils of Action – organise a general strike! Get...

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THE HORROR felt by millions of people after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, immediately...

Doctor Reid seizes the helm!

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YESTERDAY the 24 suspects accused by the state of ‘a plot to commit murder on an unimaginable scale’ by blowing up 10 airliners with...

UK workers must bring down Trump’s Tories to leave the EU and bring in...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has named three of his Tory candidates to replace May as the prime minister of his choice. All three of Trump’s...

TORIES TRY TO BRIBE GPs TO CUT HOSPITAL REFERRALS!

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RESEARCH conducted by the medical magazine Pulse has uncovered the fact that local GP practices are being offered bribes of thousands of pounds to...

30th anniversary of Malvinas war – reject imperialist war hysteria

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Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas (Falklands) war, a war involving a tiny island with a population in 1982 of less than...

Zionist regime humiliated as Palestinians rise-up – Forward to The State of Palestine

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ISRAEL was dealt a massive humiliating blow early Monday morning when six Palestinian prisoners tunnelled their way out of the Gilbao maximum-security jail. Five of...

IRAQ – the last rites for the occupation and its stooges

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PRESIDENT George W Bush’s plan to stabilise Iraq through a military ‘surge’ is ‘a lost cause’, said the New York Times last Sunday. The New...

State Defends Its Right To Execute Innocents!

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YESTERDAY, Lord Stevens, the ex-Metropolitan Police commissioner, urged that there should be no change in the policy of the state, after a completely innocent...

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...

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...
Members of the CGT, France’s largest trade union federation, arrive at Place d’Italie at the end of Tuesday’s demonstration

Blair threatens to ‘close the book’ on the north

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THE British and Irish premiers yesterday outlined their plan to restore direct rule from Westminster, via Dublin, if the Paisleyite DUP does not agree...

‘A DIFFICULT TIME AHEAD’ WARNS B of E CHIEF, KING

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CPI inflation is expected to hit 5% later this year due to higher energy and other utility bills that will continue rising by up...

Brown, Keynes and revolution

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AFTER actively assisting in the creation of trillions of debt, and showing its contempt for the concept of value by selling almost half of...

Karzai gets worried that MI6 is negotiating his removal!

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THE NEWS that top-level British diplomatic efforts are continuing in Afghanistan to try to prevent the expulsion from the country of two senior foreign...

Strike wave through Europe poses issue of working class taking power

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THIS week a headline in one of the bourgeois papers declared ‘Europe Grinds to a Halt’ and for once the hyperbole was justified as...

McDonnell rejects socialist policies of mass nationalisation of industry in favour of a deal...

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LAST Thursday, Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell outlined Labour’s economic policy for the general election which amounted to piling even more debt on the...

No escape for capitalism as stock markets crash

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ON THE very day that Boris Johnson hailed the start of the economic bounce-back for capitalism with a return to work, the international stock...

Unite Takes Action Against Serco BA And The Bank Of England!

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YESTERDAY striking Serco workers from Bart’s NHS Trust, striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew, and striking Bank of England workers marched and picketed the...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the factory

Organise a general strike over pensions!

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ABOUT 1.5 million local council workers are to strike on March 28 to defend their local government pension scheme. It is being described as...

Organise a general strike! Bring down Brown government! Go forward to socialism

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THE leaders of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the University and College Union (UCU) and the...

Smash Universal Credit by smashing the Tories

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ON WEDNESDAY this week, the Tory government whipped its MPs to vote down a motion from the Labour Party calling for the release of...

TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION TO FORCE PM MAY TO RETURN VENEZUELA’S GOLD AT...

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LAST Wednesday US national security advisor John Bolton threatened that the US administration was putting every foreign bank ‘on notice’ if they failed to...

BA struggle coming to a head

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EXTENSIVE talks have been taking place over the last seven weeks under the Chairmanship of TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber between Unite and BA,...

Millions must march for Palestine on Saturday August 3 – They must also instruct...

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A FORMER Lebanese lawmaker Naser Kandeel said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the US featured a planned coordination...

British Government Must Recognise Hamas

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IT IS AN indisputable fact that Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist, was freed by the Hamas movement just two weeks after Hamas took control...

Lesson of De Menezes murder – break up police death squads!

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AT the moment it looks as if a fierce battle is being fought between the Labour government and the opposition parties over the fate...

Labour And Trade Union Leaders Move To The Right!

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THE Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Liam Byrne, yesterday joined hands with Cameron and Osborne with his declaration in the Guardian newspaper that Beveridge,...

Lagarde Calls For ‘Brave Action’ To Inflate Economies

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IMF Managing Director Lagarde has warned that the world economy is ‘too weak for comfort’, and that it could be heading for years of...

Defend the Royal Mail – bring down the coalition!

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The Tory-led coalition’s Business Secretary, Vince Cable, yesterday launched a demagogic attack on ‘spiv’ and ‘gambling’ bankers and their bonuses at the LibDem Conference. This...

US-UK war unleashed licenced mass murder onto the Iraqi people!

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LAST Friday night, Wikileaks published the secret US field reports and war logs from the battlefield that is Iraq, detailing recorded civilian deaths, torture...

Khaddam Calls For Syrian Uprising

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THE former Syrian Vice-President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, set himself up as a would-be Quisling for President Bush yesterday, after he called for a...

Hayes & Ward must go! Build a new leadership in the CWU!

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AS 2,000 postal workers were gearing up for a 24-hour strike on Friday against Royal Mail’s plans to close mail centres, Dave Ward, the...

Hewitt Demands An NHS £250 Million Surplus!

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HEALTH Secretary Hewitt, who not so long ago said that there would be no limits to privatisation in the NHS, yesterday revealed that she...

The Firefighters are the heroes of Grenfell! Jail the real culprits – big business...

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A LEAKED report by the chairman of the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry, Martin Moore-Bick, has found a scapegoat for the fire – they are...

Tensions rise in the Baltics and the Balkans!

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LAST WEEK the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice visited Moscow to meet with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. She insisted that although Russia...

British workers must make the TUC call a general strike to bring in the...

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THE United Nations has confirmed that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city...

Zionist troops leave bombs disguised as toys to kill children in Gaza

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THE DIRECTOR General of Health Affairs in the Gaza Strip, Munir Al-Bursh, on Sunday revealed that Israeli Occupation Forces had left behind amongst the...

WTO warns that a bigger crash than 2008 is on the way! Forward with...

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THE WORLD Trade Organisation chief Roberto Azevedo said on Wednesday that the economic collapse and job losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic would be...

Blairites and Tories form a counter-revolutionary alliance!

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BLAIR, the universally hated and reviled ex-Labour prime minister, was thrown a lifeline in his quest to resurrect his political career as an anti-Brexit...

Tory ‘crackdown’ on youth inspired by fear of young people as a revolutionary force

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak yesterday launched a ‘crackdown’ on anti-social behaviour and begging, as the centrepiece of government policies in what is a...

American revolution will replace the failed American dream

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UAW car workers President Ron Gettelfinger last Thursday lifted the lid just a little on the lives of tens of millions of US workers,...

US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis to organise a new world war –...

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PM Boris Johnson is now fighting on two fronts. At home, against the Metropolitan Police inquiry into his law-breaking, and the demand that he be...

IPCC admits Special Branch acted illegally to assist drawing up ‘blacklist’ for bosses!

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‘POLICE, including Special Branches, supplied information that appeared on the blacklist, funded by the country’s major construction firms, the Consulting Association and/or other agencies,...

Junior doctors are fighting for the NHS – demand the TUC stands with them,...

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TODAY’S strike by junior doctors must be supported by the entire trade union movement and the working class. What is at stake in this dispute...