Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

One year since the first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020!

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ON 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson outlined measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, with a series of stop-go lockdowns. Since then, of the major...

Motor City Goes Bankrupt – Unions Denounce Orr Power Grab!

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DETROIT, once the motor car capital of the USA where hundreds of thousands of workers used to flock looking for good jobs in the...

Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves declares war on workers to rescue British capitalism from bankruptcy

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ON MONDAY, the new Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her shock and horror that no one had told her about a £22 billion ‘black...

Austerity Forever Pledges Cameron

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IN an interview given to the Daily Telegraph, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, declared that ‘austerity’ will be forever as far as he...

Restore the free NHS! Halt privatisation & kick out the profiteers!

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THE House of Commons Select Committee on Health published a report yesterday that set out to legitimise charging for healthcare within the National Health...

American dream turns to nightmare!

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HUNDREDS of US cities are going bust, either destroyed by the banking and property collapse or by the crisis of the major US industries. The...

Euro crisis hits youth hardest – forward with European socialist revolution

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THERE is no more pathetic sight than that of European bourgeois politicians and economists manically trying to convince both themselves and the world at...

Strike wave intensifies this week – now is the time to call a general...

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Today, over 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies are continuing national strike action called by the RMT union over pay,...

End all collaboration between TUC and Tories – build a new leadership to call...

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TRADES Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Frances O’Grady’s speech to its annual conference contained no call for action from the unions to fight Tory...

All out on November 4th – UK must apologise for Balfour Declaration – UK...

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PALESTINIAN Foreign Minister Riyad Malki said yesterday that Palestine is still waiting for the US Administration to submit its ideas and plan for achieving...

Tories moving to bring in Martial Law and a licence to kill for spies

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PM JOHNSON announced the latest draconian lockdown rules in the House of Commons last Tuesday, with the threat that, if not obeyed to the...

US economy shrinks by 32.9% as Trump tries to call off election! US trade...

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THE US GROSS domestic product (GDP) in the biggest economy in the capitalist world, has plunged by a titanic 32.9% in the second quarter,...

World crisis lays waste Putin’s oligarchs!

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HISTORY has played a huge joke on the Stalinist bureaucracy. Under the rule of Gorbachev and Yeltsin it thought that it would be able to...

Discontented generals enter into politics

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THE formation of the United Kingdom National Defence Association (UKNDA) led by ex-chiefs of the general staff and politicians such as David Owen is...

The TUC must now call mass general strike action in support of Palestine and...

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THE Hamas movement said on Saturday that the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the northern Gaza Strip and the Israeli occupation army’s attacks on...

Blair listens only to the bosses

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PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...

Labour pauperises the pensioners – bring it down now!

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FOOD RETAILERS complain that they have been hit by a major increase in shoplifting as workers struggle to put food on the table for...

Stock markets crash in US and across the world – socialist revolution is only...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s tariff increases imposed on China, Mexico and Canada come into effect today but already this has set off a massive...

Labour conference must reject Corbyn’s betrayal and vote to break with EU

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YESTERDAY Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn came out publicly to proclaim that he is prepared to go to any lengths to appease the right wing...

NATO warmongers meet in Brussels

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NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...

Two State Solution Was A Trap For Palestinians

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ISRAEL’S tactic in the ongoing ‘peace talks’ with the Palestine National Authority has been to carry on stalling, for the last ten years, agreeing...

Cameron’s goose is well and truly cooked!

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THE Liberal Democrats have won the Eastleigh by-election, with the UK Independence Party pushing the Conservatives into third place, with Labour as also-rans. Mike Thornton...

Action needed to defeat Royal Mail privatisation

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NOTHING demonstrates the complete bankruptcy and downright treachery of the reformist trade union leadership more clearly than the gyrations being performed by the leadership...

Stagnant Eu Heading For A Crash!

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EUROZONE inflation has fallen to its lowest level since the height of the 2008 financial collapse, sliding further into what the European Central Bank...

British forces in a crisis in Afghanistan

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THE British army went into Helmand province in Afghanistan like lions, with their officers explaining that they were going to take on the Taleban,...

The great Labour democrats launch a purge so that they can support the Tories

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THE leader of one of the UK’s biggest trade unions has had his vote in the Labour leadership election rejected. His voting paper has...

UNISON ‘ready to strike’ while Brown is bringing bosses into his cabinet

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‘I SEND this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...

Putin Defies The Imperialists Diktat And Visits Mariupol Promising To Rapidly Rebuild The City!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has visited Mariupol and vowed that new comfortable residential quarters for the people will continue being constructed in Mariupol in...

UNISON condemns Blair for breaking NHS promise

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UNISON Head of Health, Karen Jennings, has condemned Labour government plans to allow private treatment centres to poach NHS staff, breaking a Labour government...

Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!

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THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...

Tories to opt out of human rights

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AT THE Tory Party conference yesterday, Theresa May and her defence secretary Michael Fallon jointly announced that in any future war British troops would...

Recall the TUC Congress to organise a general strike for Palestine!

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ON Thursday, the TUC’s non-existent Day of Action to support Palestine, 63 people were annihilated by Israel in northern Gaza and 22 in Central...

Johnson suspends Parliament. Leave the EU on 31 October & forward to a workers...

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YESTERDAY, the Tory government asked the Queen to suspend Parliament from 10 September, just days after MPs return, for 23 working days until 14...

The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down Tories!

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THE UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says the Israeli military has ‘intentionally killed’ the aid...

Gaza Residents Are Hit By Aid Strike!

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THERE has been a very bitter winter in Palestine especially in the war ravaged Gaza Strip where tens of thousands of Gazans’ homes were...

Greek workers on the march to socialist revolution

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THE Greek working class, Greek youth and the majority of the middle class and the small farmers have battled the EU imposed austerity programmes...

NATO backs Turkish attack on Syria and the Kurds

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NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels yesterday to support Turkey’s military campaign, nominally against the IS, but in fact against the Kurds and...

Brown cuts workers’ pay to underwrite the bankers

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YESTERDAY was an historic day, with Prime Minister Brown pledging to bail out the banks. At the TUC Congress, Labour Party leader Brown told...

Reject Gate Gourmet mass sackings deal!

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A MASS meeting of the 710 TGWU trade union members, sacked and locked-out at Gate Gourmet, will take place at the Monsoon Club in...

Slum landlords flourish under the Tory attack on council housing

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A ‘ROGUE’ landlord has been threatened by a judge with nine years in jail if he doesn’t pay a record-breaking £1.5 million fine for...

Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum seekers on to...

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THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...

Civil war declared as Tories are torn apart by the capitalist crisis – Kick...

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CIVIL WAR in the Tory Party has erupted as Boris Johnson and his allies launch a coordinated attack on PM Rishi Sunak, with the...

Rate Rises Will Lead To Banking Collapse

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ON Thursday night, the captains of British capitalism assembled for a sumptuous banquet at London’s Mansion House to listen to the latest economic plans...

Sunak’s Spring Statement reinforces Tory war to make workers pay for crisis

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TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak opened his Spring budget statement with a naked appeal for the nation to ‘pull together’ and that the nation should...

Arab bourgeoisie – an agency of imperialism

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THE Viva Palestina convoy has found out that, when it comes to preventing aid reaching the much-battered and besieged Gaza Strip, the Mubarak...