Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Bring Down The Tories – Abolish Universal Credit – Forward To A Workers Government...

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IT has become crystal clear that the Universal Credit system equals universal misery for the growing masses of the working poor in the UK. As...

Bush Desperate ‘To Aid Burma’ But Watches Palestinians Starve!

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THERE is an obvious contradiction in the fact that while the US and the UK are considering fighting their way into Burma to ‘bring...

Accessories To Murder!

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THE Israeli Cabinet, after its weekly meeting on Sunday, issued a statement that it was greatly encouraged by the ‘low-key’ international response to its...

BJP defeated in regional election as India’s masses turn on Modi!

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INDIA’S prime minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing BJP party suffered a massive political defeat at the hands of voters in West Bengal on...

Unions must take industrial action to defend the NHS

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THE Labour government is continuing to pressurise NHS Trusts to become Foundation Trust businesses, and is continuing to force through the privatisation process. To...

Mursi follows on from Mubarak as the US’ man in Cairo

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PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...

Washington Hits Its Debt Limit – After A ‘Devastating Default’ The Bosses Will...

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THE US RULING CLASS has hit its debt limit, with the Treasury Department now taking measures to try to prevent a devastating default. Reaching the...

One Year Of The Egyptian Revolution!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday to mark one year since the start of the revolution...

Teachers At War With The Government!

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THE two biggest teachers unions have begun their annual conferences, where they will challenge the government over pay, Ofsted inspections and England’s Academies and...

US & UK bosses supply, train, and equip the Saudi killing machine! UK trade...

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SAUDI journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who lived for years in the US, walked into the Saudi embassy in Turkey over a week ago, and did...

Fire doors fail! Millions at risk! Kick Tories out before another fire breaks out!

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FIRE doors in the Grenfell Tower failed, providing further evidence that this horrific tragedy could have been prevented. There is not a shadow of...

Israeli blockade killing babies in Gaza as humanitarian appeals ignored

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THE MINISTRY of Health in the Gaza Strip warned yesterday that the electricity generators in hospitals will cease to work within 48 hours as...

‘Do Or Die’ Johnson Has Already Faced An Attempt To Remove Him!

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THE JUST-elected Tory leader Boris Johnson has already faced an attempt to remove him by Tory Minister of State for Europe Sir Alan Duncan,...

Brown demands police-state detention law

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AHEAD of MPs considering the Second Reading of the new Counter-Terrorism Bill in Parliament yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for extension of...

Novelist Sally Rooney wins massive support for boycotting Israel

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BEST-SELLING Irish novelist Sally Rooney has won massive support from fellow writers and artists for her support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS)...

Stalinism betrays Libya – build Fourth International to smash imperialism

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As forces loyal to the Libyan revolution and its leader Colonel Gadaffi continue to fight on against the NATO-led onslaught on Tripoli, the imperialist...

Tuc Must Defend Palestinians And Call A General Strike To Completely Boycott Israel...

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THE Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has just announced in a statement that Ahmed Badr Abdullah Abu Ali, a resident of Yatta city in the...

Corbyn must demand a general election at once!

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AS THE Tory and Labour Party crises deepen, the Bank of England yesterday announced that the outlook for UK financial stability is ‘challenging’. Bank of...

UK workers must act to help end occupation of Palestine!

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SIXTY-SEVEN years after the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, when Israel was founded by a massive Zionist terror against the Palestinian people, the Palestinian...

US Must Quit Iraq At Once! Says Ex-CIA Chief

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THE US state is beginning to split over the war in Iraq, so severe is the pounding that US troops and the US leadership...

Bank calls for public spending to be slashed to protect profits!

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THE capitalist class of Britain and Europe have been served with a warning that unless they act quickly to slash all public spending they...

Scrap the regional fire control centres!

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THE House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee report on the government’s plan, to replace 46 Fire Control centres with nine new...

Israel is preparing a massive ground attack on Gaza – the TUC must be...

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AFTER 21 days of political paralysis, the US House of Representatives finally elected Mike Johnson, a fervent Donald Trump supporter, as its Speaker. Johnson’s first...

Capitalism being torn to shreds by coronavirus – forward to world socialist revolution

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CORONAVIRUS sent the world’s stock markets crashing when they opened yesterday morning, with £100 billion wiped off the value of London’s top listed companies. Leading...

Record Breaking Slump Will Lead To Socialist Revolution In The UK!

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BRITISH capitalism is officially in recession as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday. In just three months, the UK economy shrank at a...

Only Socialist Revolution can resolve the political and economic crisis and force a break...

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YESTERDAY, Scottish appeal court judges ruled that the decision by the Tory government to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the...

University applications are plummeting! Call General Strike to scrap all uni fees, restore grants...

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SOARING university tuition fees, rents in student halls being hiked up, the complete removal of the student grant and the spiralling cost of living...

‘There is no fuel shortage,’ says Shapps as the bosses shut down petrol stations...

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THERE is ‘no shortage of fuel’ and people should be ‘sensible’ and only fill up when they need to, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said...

Hamas & Fatah agree to Palestinian elections to form government to defeat Zionism and...

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A NEW unity between all Palestinian factions against the common enemy – Israel and the US – is rapidly developing. The leadership of the...

Lagarde says Greek euro exit will ‘probably’ not mean end of euro

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THE head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, admitted on Thursday that she could not ‘preclude’ Greece being forced out of the eurozone. This...

UK Ruling Class On Its Knees Before Brussels – Time For The UK Socialist...

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EUROPEAN Union leaders have said the Brexit withdrawal agreement with the UK is ‘not open for renegotiation’, after appeals from PM Theresa May. She...

UK needs a real general strike to bring down Tories and bring in Workers...

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THE DEEPENING crisis of British capitalism sees the UK ruling class at least 100 times more interested in provoking regime change in Russia through...

BA CRISIS – no to sackings and wage cuts – Renationalise!

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BRITISH Airways has decided to cut 1,700 jobs and introduce a two-year pay freeze for cabin crew. It also intends to discuss wage cuts...

Imperialism Playing With Syrian Fire

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SYRIA’S Ba’athist leader Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western action against his country will cause an ‘earthquake’ that will ‘burn the whole region’, and...

China responds to Obama!

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CHINA’S state media have responded to Barak Obama’s Pentagon announcement that the US is turning its back on the North Atlantic, and therefore...

‘Indirect incitement’ to be a terror offence

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BUSH and Blair say that they are ‘fighting for democracy and freedom’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the more they step up this fight,...

US-UK Forces Must Quit Afghanistan Now!

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THE position of the imperialist powers in Afghanistan has become completely untenable. Their forces are not wanted either by the Taleban or the mass...
‘Down with the Compromise Agreement’ shouted locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on yesterday’s picket line in the freezing cold yesterday

NATO expands Afghan war – Britain to take the lead

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NATO foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels, have endorsed a plan to expand the alliance’s role in Afghanistan with Britain taking the lead. It will...

Put capitalism out of its misery with the socialist revolution

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THE one thing guaranteed by the world economic crisis of the capitalist system, is that all the weakness, greed and corruption of the ruling...

No to a return of the Tories. Bring down Brown from the left

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BROWN has survived the resignations of Hutton, Purnell, Smith, Flint, Blears, Hoon and others, and remains Prime Minister for the moment. The next test comes...

EU leaders installing a Greek puppet government

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A SUMMIT of all European Union members planned yesterday was cancelled to allow the Eurozone Finance Ministers to resume their talks held to ...

Tory police state plans alive and well!

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PLANS for more secret court hearings, in the Justice and Security Bill, will create a ‘statutory straitjacket’ for judges, Martin Chamberlain, one of the...

Saddam Murder Within Days

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THE decision to hang the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, and also the Iraqi Vice-President, Taha Yasin Ramadan – whose sentence was increased from life...

Trump’s Economic Miracle Is A Bankrupt Mirage – US Workers Need Alternative To Trump...

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THE US Federal Reserve Bank yesterday launched an unlimited money printing programme to try to halt the collapse of the US ‘economic miracle’, and...

Banks teeter on edge of collapse – Official

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THE European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of its latest stress tests carried out on 123 European banks on Sunday, results which showed...