Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Bankers dump the dollar and shares and crave for gold!

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THE current heir to the Rothschild banking dynasty, Lord Jacob Rothschild, has pronounced that the game is up, the world’s central banks have shot...

Time to put an end to the institutionally corrupt and racist police force ...

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THE LONG independent report into the murder of 37-year-old private detective Daniel Morgan in south London in 1987 was finally published on Tuesday and...

Time To Throw The Rotten Coalition Out!

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IT was put to Rupert Murdoch, at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday, that Thatcher could not have done without him and that he could not...

Brown bringing private managers into NHS

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THE announcement by the Brown government that it is going to bring private managers in to run NHS hospitals is a concrete example of...

The working class must win the class war

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IN the middle of the Labour Party’s general election campaign, a section of the Labour cabinet led by Mandelson, Jowell and others is breaking...

It Is The Ruling Classes That Must Say Their Prayers!

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IN 2008 the world financial system stood on the very brink of the abyss with banks and industries facing the immediate prospect of crashing...

ECB interest rate cut is last throw of the dice. Forward with European socialist...

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ON Thursday afternoon Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced that the bank has cut its benchmark interest rate from 0.5%...

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...

No renegotiations – Merkel and Sarkozy warn Greece

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THE fact that Papandreou has had to sack the Greek Military General Staff at the same time as he has angered Sarkozy and Merkel...

AMCU rejects corporatist agreement with SA bosses

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THE decision by the South African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) not to sign the Framework Agreement for a Sustainable Mining Industry...

US–UK organising Palestinian civil war

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THERE is no doubt that the US and UK ruling classes are hard at work seeking to organise a Palestinian civil war. The object is...

Free Bradley Manning – The Exposer Of Imperialist Secret Diplomacy!

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A MILITARY judge is expected to rule shortly on a request to dismiss all charges against the US soldier Bradley Manning, accused of passing...

Dutch Workers Reject The Eu And Show The Way To British Workers

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DUTCH voters have delivered a hefty kick in the crotch to the EU Presidency currently held by Holland, also to the European Commission, the...

Celebrate Giap’s Victory

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MILLIONS of workers and youth both in Vietnam and throughout the world are mourning the death of General Giap, who led the military...

Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes

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IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...

Osborne pledges balanced austerity budgets

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CHANCELLOR Osborne used his annual address at the Mansion House on Wednesday night to announce that he will be selling off the government’s share...

Tories plan to scrap hospitals and treat people at home

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YESTERDAY, the Tories announced their latest ploy to try and convince the country that in the face of all the evidence they actually support...

Tories Use State Against Health Workers

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TRADE UNION leaders are angry that the government has organised police and army scabbing on today’s four-hour NHS strike over the refusal of the...

Bank of England increases interest rates as capitalism dives into financial crash and recession

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THE BANK of England’s Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and voted to increase interest rates by 0.25%, pushing the rate up to 4.25% –...

Tory Party tearing itself apart – Now finish it off!

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THE spectacle of the Tory party tearing itself apart over the EU referendum will most certainly gladden the hearts of workers across the country. Last...

Tories rip up workers health and safety as their bankrupt economy disintegrates!

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TORY CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak did the rounds of press interviews yesterday preparing the way for today’s reopening of non-essential shops and businesses and he...

Bankrupt Italian Capitalism Is Set To Crash And Bring The Bankrupt Eu Down With...

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ITALY’S economic crisis is reaching the point of explosion, an explosion that even bourgeois economists fear will bring down the eurozone and the entire...

Unions must take action! Occupy Bombardier! Bring down the coalition! Nationalise to...

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THE proposed sacking of 1,500 Bombardier workers in Derby is the beginning of the end for the train construction industry in the UK, and...

Miliband’s ‘fight door-to-door’ bombast has no answers for workers and youth

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ED MILIBAND kicked-off Labour’s election campaign yesterday with a speech full of bombast and empty promises, but which has at its core the main...

Horizon scandal piles more pressure on Tories as they face accusations of demanding compensation...

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The Horizon IT scandal of the hounding of over 900 completely innocent Post Office managers by the Post Office leading to multiple prosecutions for...

CIA Using Diego Garcia As A Torture Centre

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NO WONDER both the British and US governments are absolutely determined that none of the Chagos Islanders be allowed to return to their...

Wal-Mart Asda Blinks First To Avoid Costly Five Day Strike Action

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‘GMB members win the right to collective bargaining in the UK, Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots’, is what the GMB trade union optimistically labelled the...

US Mounts Drone Assault On The Yemen

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AFTER withdrawing its embassy staff from 20 countries, the US ruling class has now launched a drone blitz on the Yemen, with three drone...

France And Germany On The Brink Of Explosion

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THE German and French ruling classes are aghast that the worldwide financial collapse and deepening slump has resulted in an eruption of the class...

Hands Off Addenbrooke’s – Stop The Savage NHS Cuts By Bringing Down The Tories!

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THE prestigious and world famous NHS Addenbrooke’s Hospital has been placed into special measures. UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis commented yesterday: ‘This is a shocking...

The Tory Party to evict pensioners and criminalise the disabled!

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THE Tory crusade has begun to resolve the capitalist crisis by heaping the cost of it onto the poor, the disabled, the elderly, the...

Turkish crisis strengthens the Syrian people and President Assad

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SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that the Turkish president Erdogan may be using the ‘coup attempt’ in Turkey to eliminate his opponents...

General Sanders Says That The UK Army Must Be Ready For A War To...

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THE new Chief of the General staff, Sir Patrick Sanders, yesterday urged that Britain must be ready to fight Putin, comparing the present situation...

Action Needed Now Over Housing Crisis!

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HOMELESSNESS among households in England has risen by 54 per cent since 2010 – rising annually every year – shows the latest report by...

US workers reject Obama’s rescue of bankers and bosses

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SCOTT Brown’s victory for the Republican Party, in the Massachusetts election for the US Senate, does not mean that US workers can’t wait to...

Arm Ukrainian workers! Red Army must chase the junta out of Kiev!

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THE UK-US-EU backed counter-revolution is now in full swing in eastern Ukraine, where no deed is too foul for their stormtroopers of the Right...

Overthrow the ‘Big Brother’ bosses & surveillance society with socialist revolution!

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THE TRADE Union Congress has conducted a survey which indicates that more than half of workers in the UK, some 56%, are being monitored...

Defend the NHS! Stop the wholly-owned subsidiaries in their tracks!

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THERE are Unite and Unison trade union protests in York and Chesterfield today against moves by two NHS trusts to set up wholly-owned subsidiaries...

US ruling class fears an uprising by workers following Wisconsin shooting

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PROTESTS in the US state of Wisconsin erupted on Sunday evening following another shooting by police of a reportedly unarmed black man. According to reports,...

US threatens Iran and Venezuela

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YESTERDAY the United States Secretary of Defence and Secretary of State, Gates and Clinton, threatened Iran with extreme sanctions if it insisted on its...

Cameron and NATO mobilise to send refugees back!

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BRITAIN is sending ‘vital military assets’ (in Cameron’s words) to be part of the NATO force that will be intercepting refugee boats seeking to...

Imperialist Vultures Gather Over Syria

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HAVING failed to overthrow President Assad of Syria by force of arms, the imperialist powers are now turning to Russia, and are seeking the...

85 Million Brits By 2081!

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IN the recent period the government, the Bank of England and the employers have been glorying in the fact that the enlargement of the...

Carney tells banks to find £11.4 billion to save them going bust

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DESPITE all the recent words from Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, about the underlying health of British capitalism, his actions yesterday...

Karzai talks with the Taleban as US policy comes unstuck

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THE situation in Afghanistan has gone from bad to worse as far as the imperialist powers and their plans for the region are concerned. Last...