Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

BIS predicts deflation and depression

0
LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...

Putin’s cuts decree will drive forward political revolution!

0
THE Putin regime has been hit hard by the world capitalist crisis, especially by the fall in oil prices, and the effect that the...

May urging unions and Labour to support her Brexit deal! Down with May’s deal!...

0
TORY PM May spoke to Unite’s Len McCluskey and the GMB’s Tim Roache by phone on Thursday for the first time since taking office,...

British capitalism bankrupt, backward and stuck at the bottom!

0
UK unemployment fell by 57,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to May, leaving the unemployed rate stuck at 7.8% in the UK,...

UK carriers are ready to be deployed against the Houthis. UK workers must kick...

0
THE UK’s aircraft carriers are ready to be deployed to fight the Houthis, and to threaten war with the Iranian revolution, was the message...

Nemtsov loved by the US and UK ruling classes – hated by the...

0
YESTERDAY over 20,000 people marched in Moscow and several thousand in Leningrad to mourn the death of Boris Nemtsov. The vast majority of the Russian...

US moving to ground war in Iraq and Syria

0
THE United States is poised to step up the war in Iraq and Syria with the sending of more US ground forces. Speaking to...

Police and MI5 granted licence to kill by the Tories & Labour leaders!

0
POLICE spies and MI5 operatives have been given the green light to commit crimes with impunity after an extremely controversial law was passed on...

Grenfell Tower survivors treated with contempt by Tories – time to kick the government...

0
THE contemptuous treatment of the survivors of the fire that killed 80 people at least has been sickening. Last week it emerged that those who...

Take Action With The Postal Workers

0
THE CWU postal workers trade union has been forced to take strike action, very much against the wishes of the CWU leadership, by a...

Students and UCU to ‘take to the streets!’

0
SHOWING contempt for parliament, the watchdog for university access (Offa) yesterday gave the green light to all universities to increase tuition fees in England...

Tories plan to govern without the support of the people or of parliament

0
IN RECENT days, especially after the Tories recognised that they would not have an overall parliamentary majority, we have heard many words about the...

Tories Profiteering Out Of The NHS!

0
NHS patients from outside the EU are to be charged 150% of the cost of treatment in the NHS. This is part of a ‘crackdown’...

Osborne reveals new 10% cuts, while Duncan Smith volunteers to put welfare to the...

0
SEVEN departments of government, the Ministry of Justice, Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Energy and Climate Change, HM Treasury, the Cabinet...

Cameron Get Out – follow Harper’s lead!

0
HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...

Shut Down Young Offenders Institutions – The Only Future For Youth Is Through A...

0
THE DISGRACEFUL conditions imposed on ‘youth offenders’ have been revealed by another report from Peter Clarke the chief inspector of prisons in England and...

Tories crushed in by-elections – TUC must take action now to bring them down!

0
THE TORIES have been smashed by two huge by-election defeats, in a couple of their ‘safe’ seats, Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, where their large...

Free Kendall-Smith! Stop the war against Iraq!

0
THE Labour movement must salute the courageous action of Flight-Lieutenant Kendall-Smith who yesterday declared, after a court martial had found him guilty on five...

Sunak’s speech a declaration of war on workers to make them pay for the...

0
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his speech to the Tory Party conference yesterday pledged to ‘double down’ on his plans to resuscitate drowning British...

The Palestinians will respond to savage Israeli attacks with a massive Intifada to establish...

0
ISRAEL’S navy yesterday targeted Palestinian fishermen sailing offshore Rafah city in the southern besieged Gaza Strip and confiscated two boats, according to a WAFA...

Japan under US protection says Clinton

0
CHINA has condemned the latest comments made by the United States over the disputed Diaoyu Islands in which Hillary Clinton said that Japan is...

IRAQ – the last rites for the occupation and its stooges

0
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s plan to stabilise Iraq through a military ‘surge’ is ‘a lost cause’, said the New York Times last Sunday. The New...

Starmer’s bound to come a cropper trying to ride two horses at the same...

0
PRIME Minister Keir Starmer’s attempt to ride two horses at the same time, by forming trading relations or ‘partnerships’ with both the EU and...

Tories plan a ‘British Guantanamo Bay’ in Rwanda for refugees fleeing imperialist wars

0
YESTERDAY, Tory Prime Minister, and convicted criminal, Boris Johnson, announced the plan to give refugees and asylum seekers seeking shelter from imperialist war a...

Kwarteng Sacked – Truss On Borrowed Time – Working Class Must Kick Tories Out!

0
KWASI Kwarteng was sacked yesterday afternoon as Tory Chancellor, just weeks after he announced huge unfunded tax cuts that triggered a financial crisis by...

The Desperate Housing Crisis!

0
IT WAS Frederick Engels who said that the housing problem and capitalism were inseparable, and that to get rid of the former you would...

Britain Is Aiding US Torture Machine

0
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer questions yesterday as to whether the United States government operates CIA secret prisons outside of...

NOVEMBER 30TH STRIKE ACTION THE BEGINNING OF A CLASS SHOWDOWN in UK!

0
ON the very day that the public sector union Unison announced a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend pensions, the leadership...

UK rulers return to war East of Suez will create conditions for their overthrow!

0
PM MAY has just visited Jordan and is visiting Saudi Arabia to emphasise that the UK is, once again, trying to restore past...

After Corbyn’s victory TUC delegates must call a general strike

0
THE left wing backbench MP, Jeremy Corbyn, won a stunning victory in the Labour Party leadership contest on Saturday, as the working class gave...

New Palestinian Intifada emerging at a time when Israel is split and divided with...

0
THE Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has issued a warning that the Israeli military raids and Israeli...

Truss government is in a huge crisis. Make the TUC call a general strike...

0
THE Tory Party is now in Conference and in the biggest crisis in its history, after its ‘mini budget’ caned the poor and the...

Call strike action to defeat Tory plans to destroy university system

0
YESTERDAY, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published a detailed report into the effects of the Tory higher education bill due to return to...

Johnson Declares War On Youth With ‘Chain Gang’ Threat

0
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has declared war on youth in the UK with his ‘Beating Crime Plan’ which labels youth as ‘criminal’ and targets...

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

0
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...

UK capitalists on their knees with the deepest recession since records began!

0
OFFICIAL figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released yesterday show that gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 20.4% in the three months...

Crisis-ridden US capitalism driven towards war

0
US capitalism really has got its back to the wall, and has somewhat lost its balance, when its Treasury Secretary, Geithner, says that he...

Pogromist Johnson Speaks Up For The Security Services

0
BORIS JOHNSON writes in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, in the wake of the Rigby trial, ‘the most important question now is how we prevent other...

Three Defeats For Tory Welfare Bill

0
THE Tory/LibDem coalition suffered three defeats on Wednesday; in the House of Lords over their plans to slash £1.6 billion from the benefits of...

Tories savage poor but grovel to Clinton and US

0
THE bankers coalition has set the scene for next Wednesday’s cuts announcements in true Bullingham Club style, by declaring that ‘welfare cheats’ equal muggers,...

Benefits slashed while bankers prosper

0
Today Parliament votes on the Tory coalition bill to place a 1% cap on all benefits and tax credits for the next three years...

‘It’s A Social Revolution’ Says Archbishop Of Dublin

0
IRISH Congress of Trade Unions General Secretary Patricia King has warmly welcomed the overwhelming ‘yes’ vote in the marriage equality (gay marriage) referendum saying...

US Worldwide Torture Network

0
THE Council of Europe has announced it is investigating 31 reports of unmarked executive aircraft being used by the CIA to transport ‘suspected terrorists’...

With inflation set to run riot workers must organise socialist revolution!

0
IN a ‘blunt message’ to the BBC the Bank of England governor yesterday warned that interest rates may have to rise even higher, saying...

Brown Trying To Buy Time For Capitalism

0
LAST week a Tory MP had to apologise to the House of Commons because he had said that the government should ‘let the recession...