Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Forward To The Victory Of The World Socialist Revolution – Smash Capitalism!

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IT really is ‘scoundrel time’ when the bosses of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) admit that Britain’s economy is increasingly vulnerable if not...

We Must Welcome All Asylum Seekers And Expropriate The UK’s Boss Class!

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IN RECENT days, the Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman had come under fire for comparing immigrants and asylum seekers to ‘invaders’. Liberal Tories tut-tutted that...

Blair Instructed Foreign Office To Break The Law

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YESTERDAY the Reprieve charity reported that: ‘Previously secret Government memos prove Prime Minister Tony Blair ordered the Foreign Office to violate its legal obligation...

Maude signals plan to ban strikes

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The Tory cabinet office minister, Francis Maude, made a fantastical offer to the TUC and leaders of the public sector unions last Friday when...

103 years of the Balfour Declaration – British workers must fight to liberate...

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ON NOVEMBER 2nd 1917, during the first great imperialist war, the UK ruling class committed one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century...

Hedge fund speculators make super-profits out of starving millions across the world

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A REPORT compiled by Unearthed, the investigative unit of the Greenpeace environmentalist organisation, and the independent journalist organisation Lighthouse Reports has thrown a light...

Victory to Syria – US and UK imperialism out of the Middle East!

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‘THE hope that the ceasefire in Syria will be reinstated is very little now,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted on Tuesday. ‘We are expressing serious...

Massive increases in US military spending as US bosses look to war to...

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US IMPERIALISM is currently stoking up a war crisis from Ukraine to the China Seas as it seeks a way out of its economic...

Support Palestinian General Strike

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TEACHERS, hospital workers and other government workers have come out on general strike in the West Bank and Gaza Strip following the non-payment of...

Police want to use water cannon and rubber bullets

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THE Metropolitan Police is considering its tactics after the failure of its containment and ‘kettling’ policies in Parliament square last Thursday, when...

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...

Inflation surge hits working class families!

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THE UK’s CPI inflation rate rose sharply in October to 2.7%, a rise of 0.5%, following increases in tuition fees and food prices, with...

ALL trade unions must strike with Junior Doctors on February 10th!

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JUNIOR doctors are to take strike action on February 10th after rejecting the government’s proposals in negotiations, where the government was represented by NHS...

The UK workers movement and the TUC must give their immediate and decisive support...

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YAHYA Sinwar, the political leader of the Hamas Movement, has written to Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, the head of the Ansar Allah Movement, conveying his profound...

Mossad’s prints all over Gaza bombing!

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YESTERDAY in the aftermath of the bombing in Gaza that killed five leading Hamas fighters, and a five-year-old girl, accusations and counter-accusations were being...

Unemployment is soaring! Defending the ‘right to work’ means getting rid of capitalism!

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UNEMPLOYMENT is set to soar to levels not seen since The Great Depression, the ‘Hungry 1930s’, when workers starved. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...

Drive Tory rabble out with a general strike to bring in a workers government...

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THE House of Commons privileges committee published its report into former prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday and it turned out to be even more...

Multinational companies who supplied cladding and insulation on Grenfell Tower making super-profits!

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Yesterday’s Observer newspaper revealed that manufacturers of the insulation installed on Grenfell Tower – cladding that led to the inferno that killed 72 people...

Fight VAT increases with mass actions to bring down coalition

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THE increase of VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent today will mean destitution for millions of unemployed and low paid workers...

The Brown Government Is The Enemy Of The People

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PREMIER BROWN told his monthly news briefing yesterday of the war that he is waging on the country’s youth and the 110,000 ‘problem families’...

‘No strategy to deal with crisis’ – ruling class

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‘WE HAVE no ability to turn the economy around. When the next recession comes it is going to be deeper and last longer than...

Labour’s cuts to disability benefits hit 700,000 families – time to kick out Starmer...

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THIS week, The Guardian newspaper, using the Freedom of Information Act, published the Labour government’s own internal assessment of the impact of the planned...

Chancellor’s ‘Spring Statement’ to continue austerity – It’s time to bring Tories down!

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CHANCELLOR Hammond has rejected calls by Labour and some Conservatives to announce the end of austerity in his ‘Spring Statement’ on Tuesday. Despite unveiling...

Tory Leadership Crisis Deepens, While Labour’s Right Wing Lashes Out At Corbyn!

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THE CRISIS-ridden Tory leadership has launched its campaign to elect a new leader to replace the shattered May, who betrayed Brexit and then piloted...

The Not So Great Recovery!

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THE UK economy grew by 0.8% in the second quarter of 2014, official figures are said to show. The figures, from the Office for National...

Employment Minister Boles Threatens The Trade Unions!

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EMPLOYMENT Minister Nick Boles announced on Wednesday evening that the new anti-union legislation will govern industrial action in the fire, health, education, transport,...

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,...

The Way Forward – Starve The Working Class Says King!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, in his Tuesday night speech detailed the source of the gigantic inflationary rise in living costs that...

Nationalise The Banks To Resolve The Capitalist Crisis

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MORE than $170 billion (£87 billion) has been wiped off the balance sheets of companies worldwide as a result of the collapse of the...

The Fire Brigade Is Not To Blame For The Grenfell Inferno!

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‘THE whole thing was hell, it was like a war zone,’ fire crew manager Charlie Batterbee, part of the first crew who entered Grenfell...

Capitalism is on the rocks with the USA on the brink of a historic...

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 4.5%, the twelfth consecutive increase in a row, pushing up borrowing costs to the...

High Court rules Tory laws on use of agency workers to break strikes is...

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THE Tories suffered a setback yesterday in their drive to legalise strike breaking when the High Court ruled that its agency worker regulations are...

Parliament Votes Lords Resolution Banning Any UK ‘No Deal’ Into Law!

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THE HOUSE of Commons on Monday night voted by 390 votes to 81 to turn a House of Lords resolution into legislation that bans...

Answer NHS crisis with general strike and occupations

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THIS week saw the crisis in the NHS reach breaking point with at least 17 hospitals in England declaring they faced a ‘major incident’...

Bosses planning to incite youth against pensioners!

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A £10,000 PAYMENT should be given to the young, while pensioners are taxed more, a new report by the Resolution Foundation into inter-generational fairness...

All The Trade Unions Must Come Out With The Junior Doctors!

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PM Sunak has said he is yet to make a ‘final decision’ on whether to accept the recommended pay rises for public sector workers. Official...

SOVIET WORKERS AND YOUTH WANT THE USSR RESTORED!

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THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...

Form Councils Of Action To Stop Savage Council Cuts And Bring Down The Tories!

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THE LEADERS of England’s councils have predicted the inevitability of ‘unpalatable cutbacks’ in vital council services next year as a result of the Tories...

As world crisis deepens the UK working class needs to take power and bring...

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THE working class of the world faces a revolutionary autumn and winter, as the major imperialist powers step up their war in the Ukraine...

The Palestinian Revolution Is On The Verge Of A Great Victory!

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THE head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, said yesterday that the Palestinian revolution is on the ‘verge of a...

Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’

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TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...

Miliband’s ‘national interest’ is an ‘imperialist interest’

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FOREIGN Secretary Miliband declared to his audience, right at the start of his Oxford College speech last Tuesday evening, that ‘we’ must not let...

Forward To Jerusalem!

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THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...

Forward to the Greek Socialist Revolution!

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AFTER the failure of the major Greek political parties to form a government, Greece’s top Supreme Court judge, Vassiliki Thanou, has been appointed caretaker...

Eurozone crisis reaches crunch

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MONDAY’S’ summit meeting of the European Union leaders took place under siege conditions in Brussels as the city was paralysed by a general strike...