Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Lecturers 76% ‘Yes’ for strike – 37 Universities to come out! All unions must...

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UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff across the country have voted for strike action with an overwhelming 76% ‘YES’ vote. It means 37 universities will join...

Tory-led coalition singles out young families for special treatment

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THE Tory-led coalition has got working class and middle class families with young children in its sights for savage cuts as it seeks to...

Obama issues his orders over EU Referendum to his UK puppet state!

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US President, Barak Obama, has issued his ultimatum to the British ruling class – stay in the EU or else! In a lengthy article in...

Re-nationalise the energy suppliers – the only way to end preventable deaths

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FIGURES released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a dramatic increase in the number of preventable deaths among the elderly...

EU 750 billion euros ‘Recovery Fund’ nothing more than a Trojan Horse for...

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LAST Tuesday the emergency summit of leaders of the EU 27 member states finally agreed to a 750 billion euros pandemic recovery fund after...

‘Perfidious Albion’ betrays Palestine again!

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THE British ruling class has played a special role as far as Palestine in concerned. In the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917, the United...

UK, France and Canada threats of ‘concrete action’ over starvation in Gaza driven by...

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YESTERDAY Labour prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney issued what was called a stark warning to...

Smash Royal Mail privatisation, defend the NHS, bring down the Brown government, forward to...

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WORKERS at Lindsey power station, the Royal Mail and doctors have shown their strength in rejecting and fighting attacks on their jobs, their wages...

P&O sackings expose the ‘sham’ of consultation with the unions – only a general...

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THE CHIEF executive of P&O Ferries, Peter Hebblethwaite, appeared before a joint hearing of the transport and business committee of MPs yesterday to answer...

Workers do Battle All Over Europe!

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GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...

IMF-US and Global Debt ‘unsustainable’ – socialist revolution only answer to capitalist crisis!

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THIS week the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the world organisation charged with protecting the international capitalist financial system, held its weekly annual meeting in...

Iranian diplomat was tortured after kidnap by CIA agents

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WHILE the 15 British sailors were being held in comfortable and well fed custody by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, there was another captive, just...

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...

Third World Britain beaten only by the USA

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WOMEN in the UK are more than twice as likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth as those in Poland, Austria or Belarus, according...

Bank rate rigging ‘Everyone was at it’

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The crisis resulting from the bank rate rigging scandal that has engulfed Barclays took a dramatic turn over the weekend with the revelation that...

Unions at court to fight pensions rip-off

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Yesterday six trade unions appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice to appeal against a High Court decision that the coalition government will slash...

One Year Since The Marikana Massacre

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THE MARIKANA massacre of mineworkers in South Africa one year ago, in which 34 miners were murdered by the police and hundreds injured, has...

Attack on FBU an attack on every worker – defend the right to strike...

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THE TORY move to make strikes illegal and ban trade unions stepped up yesterday with the official annual report on the fire service. The report...

UK steel industry collapses!

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YESTERDAY the Tory business secretary, Sajid Javid, convened an emergency summit meeting in Rotherham on the dramatic collapse of the UK steel industry. From the...

The battle for public opinion has been won – now take action to win...

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THE postal workers have the support of the mass of the British people, the public sector trade unions and the other trade unions making...

Labour rats flee their sinking ship

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COMMUNITIES Secretary Hazel Blears has resigned from the cabinet, on the eve of the local government and EU elections, delivering a major blow to...

Blair Launches ‘Irreversible’ NHS-Education Market!

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that he was poised to make irreversible changes to primary and secondary education by bringing in an education market...

Only Socialist Revolution can end this chaotic farce in Parliament and secure a break...

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THERESA May ‘survived’ the vote of no confidence in her leadership of the Tory Party by 200 votes to 117 on Wednesday night –...

Bp Leads Shares Crash As Banking Crisis Grows!

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OIL giant BP’s share price has fallen nearly 17 per cent to £4.12, its lowest level since March 2009. The sharp sell-off came as it...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers in high spirits welcomed Father Christmas at their mass picket yesterday

Public sector unions must take strike action over pensions

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THE Fire Brigades Union said yesterday that it will consider industrial action over government plans to ‘reform’ its members’ pensions by dramatically extending the...

Bush’s and Bernanke’s policies cannot stop the debt debacle

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IN A WEEK when billions were wiped off share prices in New York, Tokyo and London, on Friday both United States President George Bush...

UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages,...

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WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on...

Demand the TUC call a general strike for Palestine

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SINCE January, Israel has launched massive attacks on refugee camps in the West Bank killing dozens of Palestinians and forcing at least 40,000 to...

Unions must call a general strike to support Palestine! – Kick the Tories out...

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ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’ heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza...

620,000 sick and disabled will lose £675 a month under Labour’s attack on benefits...

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer is prepared to defy the growing anger of workers by pushing through welfare cuts that will impoverish over 600,000...

Backstabber Starmer Is Splitting Labour. He Wants To Be Part Of A Tory-Led...

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JEREMY Corbyn will not be a Labour candidate at the next general election, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has said. Corbyn the former...

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...

Super rich Kensington and Chelsea – thousands of empty properties and only 26...

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IN 21st century Britain, in the richest borough in London, working class children are being diagnosed with diseases and ailments that belong in the...

pass Bill or face financial panic, bank closures and ruin – Bush tells Senate...

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THE US president George Bush has been so frightened at the prospect of a 1929 collapse and a 1930s depression gripping the US that...

UK War Crimes

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LAST night’s BBC Panorama programme revealed yet more evidence of unlawful killings of Afghans by members of the Special Air Service (SAS) during the...
Two gem miners working knee deep in water with a sieve – are paid no wages and get only meals

Kick out the yellow trade union leaders

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THE GATE GOURMET bosses were cock-a-hoop yesterday, and no wonder – after the leader of the TUC, Barber, and the leaders of the...

Victory to Assad – Forward to the Palestinian state!

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MAKING use of Russian air power, the Syrian army is now pressing forward on all fronts, driving back the Islamists who are now negotiating...

Recognise Palestinian State Immediately – Smash ‘Deal Of Century’ With International Mass Action

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THE Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saeb Erekat has just condemned US President Donald Trump’s so-called ‘deal of the century’, due...

Putin defies Trump – Time to Build 4th International – Forward with World Socialist...

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THE peace talks between Russia and the Western powers represented by Donald Trump have hit the buffers with an almighty bang after Russia refused...

Trump declares trade war on world – only socialist revolution can resolve this crisis

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DONALD Trump wasted no time after his victory in Tuesday’s presidential election to declare his intention to wage a new trade war on the...

Petrol Market Working Well, Says The Oft

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WITH petrol poised to rise to £7.40 a gallon, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has intervened to rub salt into the gaping wounds...

UK needs a real general strike to bring down Tories and bring in Workers...

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THE DEEPENING crisis of British capitalism sees the UK ruling class at least 100 times more interested in provoking regime change in Russia through...

UK ports closed down by strikes – now force TUC to call a general...

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IT didn’t take long for the working class to move into action following the funeral of Elizabeth II with hundreds of dock workers at...

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...

No ‘trade-off’ for the NHS: Kick out the Tories instead!

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THE HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stevens, yesterday released the report ‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’, a report that makes...