Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

US debt ceiling deal – a declaration of war on working class

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On Saturday, president Joe Biden rushed to sign off the deal reached with the Republican Party to suspend the $31.4 trillion US debt ceiling...

General Strike from October 10th to support Palestine and go forward to a UK...

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THIS year’s British TUC Congress in Brighton from 8-11 September took key decisions to align trade unions with the pro-Palestine, pro-peace and anti-war movements,...

Tories torn apart by crisis – build the WRP to lead struggle for power!

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NEARLY one year ago the Tories under Boris Johnson won a resounding victory in the general election winning a massive 80-seat majority in the...

Wall Street Crashes And With It Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy!

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JUST TEN YEARS after the 2008 great banking disaster began – with the working class still paying the price for it with massively...

Socialist Revolution is the only real answer to the capitalist crisis!

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NEARLY one million people in Britain are just £10 away from falling into poverty according to the new analysis from the leading poverty charity,...

Capitalism’s ‘storm clouds’ herald revolution

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AT THE end of last week the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announced that all his stated austerity plans in last autumn’s budget statement were...

Coup Against Corbyn Underway As Head Rabbi Announces He Is ‘Not Fit For High...

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WITH just over two weeks to go before the general election, the campaign by the Tories and their right-wing supporters in the Labour Party...

After the Peace Prize – let battle commence!

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AT the same moment as France and Germany were being given a Nobel prize for keeping the peace in Europe, ie not going to...

Brown Speaks To His Cbi Constituency

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YESTERDAY Gordon Brown attempted to revive his political credibility, severely damaged after the Northern Rock and Child Benefit details crises by delivering a speech...

Labour squeezing poor and cutting services to prop up the banks

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CHANCELLOR Darling has told his cabinet colleagues there will be no more money made available for schools, hospitals or transport. These vital services face cuts,...

Israel declares UN agency UNRWA a terrorist organisation and bans it from providing any...

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The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on Monday passed a motion banning UNRWA (the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency) from operating inside Israel and occupied...

Demand TUC call a General Strike!

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The leaders of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have refused to condemn Labour right-winger Alan Milburn for accepting a position with the Tory-led coalition...

Form public sector alliance to defend the NHS – Forward to a workers government!

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THE just published survey of the NHS, carried out for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) trade union, found that 90 per cent of...

Socialist Revolution Is The Only Alternative Now

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UNITE leader Len McCluskey has pointed out correctly some of the immediate implications of the Miliband-Balls line that Labour will honour and continue with...

Merkel defeated in Thuringia

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LEFT parties in Germany have agreed a historic coalition deal which will see the first left state government in Thuringia, East Germany, since the...

Running Scared Of Youth And Revolution!

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THE German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned a Paris conference of French, German and Italian leaders on Tuesday that youth unemployment of almost 25%...

Russia Considering ‘Partnership’ With The US

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US DEFENCE Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday insisted that the US change of mind over basing tracking radar and anti-missile missiles in Poland and...

Victory to Hamas! Defeat Zionism and imperialism!

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THE murderous, cowardly missile attack by Israel on Gaza, which killed Ahmed al-Jaabari along with 10 other Palestinians including two children, was a long-planned attack...

Amazon Rugeley One Of The Most Dangerous Workplaces In Britain!

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WORKING in an Amazon warehouse, a woman in the last months of pregnancy was forced to stand for ten hours a day, while another...

Belfast City Council Gives A Lead To The Workers Of Ireland And The UK!

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BELFAST City Council has given a big lead to the workers of Ireland and the UK by voting to urge the UK and Republic...

Trades unions must take action to end NHS privatisation

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‘END this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare in England.’ This was the call from Dr Hamish Meldrum, the Chairman of...

Call national strike action! Form a public sector alliance!

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OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...

BIS warning of global financial crash!

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GLOBAL financial markets are dangerously stretched and may unwind with shock force as liquidity dries up, the Bank of International Settlements has warned. BIS boss...

Nationalise The Banking System To Put An End To Capitalism

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THE credit ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded 15 global banks and financial institutions. The UK banks downgraded were Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, HSBC and...

Unite must hit back and defend its members, with full TUC support

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THE petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth complex in central Scotland is to close with the loss of over 800 jobs, owner Ineos announced...

Geneva Report Issues Dire Warning!

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JUST six years after the beginning of the 2008 financial collapse – at a time when Cameron and Co. are talking about a recovery,...

No sackings, or wage ‘holidays’ for bankrupt banks and councils

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YESTERDAY the Brown government was emphasising that it had no interest in running the three banks that it was ‘part-nationalising’ (rescuing) with £37bn of...

Bring Down The May Government – Forward To A Socialist UK And A...

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ONE HUNDRED years after the Balfour Declaration, the PLO and the Palestinian masses are demanding that the UK government apologise for it and its...

Inflation rips through Europe as working class rises up over wages

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EMPLOYEES at the European Central Bank (ECB) are the latest to join workers across Europe in demanding wage increases to meet the spiralling inflation...

Afghan crisis – the Dutch won’t go so the Brits must take the strain!

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YESTERDAY the Dutch parliament delayed its decision to send more than 1,000 Dutch troops to Afghanistan, as part of a NATO force, under British...

Blair hits out at ‘black crime’ – calls to ‘take out’ black youth

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BLAIR in his Callaghan Memorial lecture in Cardiff came out as an admirer of the right wing Labour premier, who he says ‘had neither...

The US and UK bosses are planning major attacks on Russia and China! ...

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AT A summit last Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned his American counterpart Joe Biden that US support for Taiwanese independence is ‘playing with...

A Royal Commission to privatise the NHS!

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THE right-wing think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), which promotes free-market capitalism, has just produced a report entitled ‘An NHS Royal...

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...

Zionist parliament approves draft ‘death penalty’ bill targeting Palestinians

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ON MONDAY, the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, approved the first reading of a bill that allows the Zionist regime to legally pass the death...
UAW Delphi Protesters assemble outside the Detroit Motor show

Blair’s plans remain a ‘Trojan Horse’ for an education market

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A political storm of the highest order has broken out in Greece over mass phone-tapping. This follows revelations, at a special press-conference last Thursday in...

Brown–Miliband Crocodile Tears For Gaza

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ISRAELI air raids are pounding the Gaza Strip for a fourth day. At the same time Gaza is being shelled from the sea by...

Bosses threaten car workers jobs if they vote to leave EU

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THE giant German car maker, BMW, has written to every one of its 8,000 employees in Britain making the thinly veiled threat that in...

No evidence for ‘street cleaners’ plot’ against Pope

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TO ADD to the drama surrounding the visit of the Pope – who set the scene with his, and his associates’ attacks on...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TGWU executive committee on Tuesday morning demanding the ‘Compromise Agreement’ with the company be scrapped

Brown wants to form a Blairite government

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has confirmed to the BBC that he will run a Blairite administration if he becomes prime minister. He said that...

Oust Sunak and bring back the call-up says the Tory Telegraph beating the...

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THE TORY Daily Telegraph yesterday sounded the alarm bells, in the face of the ever deepening crisis of British capitalism. It was a double-barrelled message,...

Labour’s Banker Kicks The Disabled!

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INVESTMENT banker David Freud is the adviser behind Prime Minister Brown’s plans to slash the benefits of the sick and the disabled. This is at...

Time For Action To Smash The Health Bill!

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DOCTOR Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), has admitted that despite every attempt to co-operate with the coalition government,...

British capitalism can afford wars but not benefits!

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BOTH Prime Minister Blair and Chancellor Brown insisted yesterday, in support of Works and Pensions minister Hutton, that single parents must look for work...

Get British troops out of Afghanistan now!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...