Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

End CWU paralysis – reinstate strike actions!

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KARL MARX wrote in his masterpiece ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur,...
Striking Hammersmith postal workers on the picket line during their London Weighting dispute

The lessons of Katrina and Buncefield

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A VIDEO showing President George W Bush being warned on the eve of Hurricane Katrina that the storm could breach New Orleans’ flood defences...

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...

This is how NATO is defending civilians in Libya

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ON Saturday, the Red Cross visited Sirte, which has been under intense bombardment and shelling from NATO planes and ships, and by NATO’s ground...

Tories retreat over junior doctors – now finish them off

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THE eleventh hour climbdown by Tory health minister Jeremy Hunt over imposing new contracts on junior doctors has wounded him and exposed the weakness...

Working class will refuse to pay the bill for the huge historic crisis of...

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CHANCELLOR Hunt, and Prime Minister Sunak are set to dump the whole historic crisis of out-of-date and senile British capitalism onto the backs of...

Savage Israeli occupation lashes out at Palestinians!

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THE Fatah movement in southern Hebron declared a day of mourning on Wednesday after a 17-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces who had...

Worst NHS winter crisis ever! NHS unions must join health strike in the north...

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A&Es axed, children’s hospitals closed, nurses driven out because of overwork and under-pay, junior doctors at the point of exhaustion, GP surgeries shut down,...

Time for regime change in Labour Party – kick out Starmer!

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Up to Wednesday, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer was in a state of complete denial about the depth of the rebellion amongst his own...

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...

Kick out privatising hospital managers – place NHS under the management of medics and...

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THE aftermath of the sentencing on Monday of Lucy Letby for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at...

Youth will rise up against savage Tory attacks!

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IT is definitely no fun being young under the Tories! As is well known, the Tories are absolutely desperate to be the party that hammers...

Unions Must Be Made To Take Action To Defend Steel Industry Jobs And Pensions!

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THE TORY government is on the brink of a savage attack on Tata Steel workers’ pensions, and after four weeks of consultation will be...

Bush Threatens North Korea With War

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YESTERDAY North Korea shook the imperialist powers who had assumed that the workers state would not dare to proceed to test a nuclear weapon. North...

UK and US complicit in Saudi Arabian war crimes

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LAST Saturday saw what was one of the worst atrocities committed in the Yemen since Saudi Arabia, along with its Gulf allies, launched an...

Hewitt And Hoon Stab Labour In The Back

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HEWITT and Hoon, are two of the Labour Party’s leading Blairites. Hoon was heavily involved in Blair’s criminal Iraq war, and in the...

Revolution and counter- revolution in the Middle East

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EGYPTIAN workers and youth have reoccupied Tahrir Square in Cairo, and are keeping the military and the police at bay, following Saturday’s deadly clashes...

Spanish Opel workers vote for strike action!

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WORKERS at Opel’s factory in Zaragossa, Spain, have announced four days of strikes starting next week, after failing to reach an agreement with Magna...

Bankers warn of global debt time bomb. Socialist revolution is the only answer

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THIS WEEK, the global banking body, the Institute of International Finance (IIF), revealed that global debt had shot up to an eye-watering $281 trillion...

Labour crisis deepens in face of collapsing economy!

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PM Keir Starmer’s Labour government, still reeling from its major retreats over the welfare cuts to incapacity PIP benefits and the winter fuel payments,...

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...

Defend the NHS – Stop the job cuts – Bring down Blair and Brown

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ON Tuesday, at the Prime Minister’s monthly press conference, the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson confessed that he did not know how many jobs...

Cancel Pfi Contracts To Defend The NHS

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THAT NHS hospitals cannot pay back the huge multi-million Private Finance Initiative (PFI) ‘debt’ to the banks is well known. The coalition government and its...

Kerry threatens Assad with ‘total destruction of the ceasefire – and then back to...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that seeking military gains will not end the ‘civil war’. He added there...

£30 billion wiped off UK stock market overnight as capitalism plunges deeper into crisis!

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ON Wednesday, the FTSE 100 had its biggest fall since August last year with almost 30 billion pounds wiped off the value of the...

Starmer’s Labour Would Not Spend Any More Money On Public Services –...

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THE LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer appeared on the Laura Keunssberg Show on the BBC yesterday where he refused to say whether a Labour...

May has capitulated to the EU and looks to Labour for rescue! Time for...

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TORY PM May’s latest capitulation to the European Union over Brexit has been met with furious anger from Brexiteers and others in her own...

FBI warns of revolution! Now is the time to build 4th International in the...

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THE DIRECTOR of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray, told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the US ruling class has lost...

Russia Condemns The Use Of Cluster Bombs In Ukraine While Scott Ritter Predicts A...

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RUSSIA has blamed the US after an attack conducted by the UK and US armed Ukrainian military forces using Washington-supplied cluster munitions killed Russian...

Union leaders must call action now over NHS pay or resign!

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THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour government has declared all-out war on all NHS staff with its decision to impose a...

The army and police – a law unto themselves

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The Surrey Police re-investigation into the deaths of four teenage recruits at the Deepcut army barracks has been called a ‘farce’ by Geoff Gray,...

Police are preparing to mass arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators at next Saturday’s mass march! It...

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On Monday, the Metropolitan Police issued a warning that it is prepared to make mass arrests at next Saturday’s demonstration in London, which is demanding...

Labour votes against Manzoor motion to scrap tax credits bill!

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THE government has been dealt a blow in the House of Lords after the Lords voted to delay tax credit cuts, until an independent...

Carney’s Last Stand!

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BANK of England Governor and chairman of the Financial Stability Board Mark Carney understands both that another major banking crash is on the way...

Amnesty exposes deadly US air attacks on Syria!

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AS IS well known, the Clinton-led Democratic Party has pledged that if and when she is elected as President of the USA, she will...

Youth and workers in global strike against climate change – Time to end the...

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TODAY, a week of action across the world starts with a Global Climate Strike in at least 137 countries. This follows mass action in every...

TUC stands idly by watching the Tories bringing in anti-union laws and forming a...

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PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak met Benjamin Netanyahu at Downing Street yesterday, just as the Israeli leader faces a huge crisis at home after he...

Eu To Throw Irish Workers To The Wolves

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PRESSURE is being piled onto the Irish government to accept a further EU bail-out of between 60bn to 80bn euros, which will mean handing...

Police ‘Yobs’ Bait Home Secretary

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THE very well paid police force – loaded up with housing and other benefits, on Wednesday bit the hand that has been feeding...

Iran Is Not The Villain Of The ‘Nuclear Threat’

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PRESIDENT Obama made it crystal clear in his 11.45pm Saturday night address, over the just-signed six-month interim nuclear agreement with Iran, that he is...

Lloyd’s pulls the plug on Europe

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NOT just Greece but the Eurozone and, by extension, the whole of Europe is a financial basket case that is heading inexorably towards a...

Russia must intervene to drive Kiev junta out!

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FOLLOWING the illegal Ukrainian presidential election – called to try and legitimise the imperialist-inspired coup – the billionaire, Petro Poroshenko, wasted no time in...

Stop US-UK terrorism – No war on Syria – Bring down the Tories –...

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THE last few days has seen an acceleration in terrorist activity of all types. The first terrorist attack was last Thursday when the US...

Blair – Bush’s Servant To The Bitter End

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THE knives were out for disgraced Deputy Prime Minister Prescott yesterday. He is the man who was important to the Prime Minister because he...

Class struggle sharpens – Organise general strike!

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900 construction workers were sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, north Lincolnshire yesterday in what the GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny called ‘a case...