Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

EU economy at the end of the road

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THE economy of the Eurozone countries is sinking even deeper into crisis making a mockery of all the talk about an economic ‘recovery’. This was...

US facing complete humiliation in Afghanistan!

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has had to make an emergency trip to Afghanistan where the much vaunted democratic...

One thousand anti-ICE protests across US!

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OVER 1,000 protests erupted across the US at the weekend over the extra-judicial murder of Renee Nicole Good by an agent of Immigration and...

UN Forces Quit Mitrovica

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THE divided town of Mitrovica was in turmoil yesterday morning, after UNMIK police and KFOR troops, in a major provocation, stormed a local court...

De Menezes murder not a crime says state

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THE current farce that is being played out, of trying a police death squad under the health and safety laws, is not only a...

Cox joins the war criminals with her plan to attack Syria!

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ON Monday evening in the House of Commons Labour MP Jo Cox came to the rescue of Cameron and the Tories when she...

Youth jailed for protesting against Israeli atrocities

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IN DECEMBER 2008, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth marched to the Israeli embassy, in a number of demonstrations, denouncing the Israeli onslaught...

Cameron’s Fracking Bribe Rejected!

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THE Tory Party is in an energy crisis. In 1993 in the person of Michael Heseltine it completely shut down the mining industry putting 100,000...

To defend jobs and pensions bring down the coalition!

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UNIVERSITY STAFF and students are under massive attacks from the Tory-led coalition. Coalition ministers are pressing ahead with 25% funding cuts, and the UCU trade...

Hunt Plans To Force The Disabled To Work – Time To Bring Down The...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Budget speech yesterday in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up to a...

Defend Public Services through a general strike

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ON THE day that MPs were voting on going to war once again in the Middle East, a very senior civil servant made it...

Tories engineer NHS ‘humanitarian crisis!’

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OVER the weekend the British Red Cross made a call on the May government to allocate the necessary funds for health and social care,...

Brown to rescue banks by slashing wages and jobs!

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CHANCELLOR Darling has followed up his appearance before the bankers at the Mansion House on Wednesday night, where he pledged that wage rises would...

Complete the mass uprising in Ecuador with a socialist revolution to establish workers power!

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EIGHT police officers have been taken hostage in Ecuador during an escalating revolutionary uprising that has forced the government to flee from the capital,...

Police chief rejects Orwellian Britain

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THE deputy chief constable of Hampshire Ian Readhead said yesterday that Britain could become a surveillance society with cameras on every street corner. As...

Thirty Day Countdown To Attack 0N Iran

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DOWNING STREET denials that there is a meeting today of top military, state and government officials to discuss the implications of a US attack...

Trump and Fallon slam May’s deal while ‘Remainer’ Corbyn prepares to debate with ‘Remainer’...

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THE BREXIT war sharpened yesterday when both President Trump and ex-Tory Minister Michael Fallon rounded on May’s capitulation to the EU through her recognition...

Call national strike action to defeat Royal Mail and Brown

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AFTER weeks of secret talks, which were extended by a further week and were conducted behind the backs of the CWU membership, the Royal...

Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ is a national government

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GORDON Brown yesterday launched his campaign to take over the job of Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. He spoke about his ‘new ideas and...

British Imperialism Hits The Rocks! Time For Workers To Despatch It To The Dustbin...

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CRISIS-RIDDEN British imperialism, split over whether to serve the European Union or the United States, is now like a ship without a rudder, and...

Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!

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INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...

Lid lifted on US torture regime while the UK’s role is redacted!

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THE REPORT by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) very belatedly exposes the CIA torture regime that was imposed after the 2001...

Tories have blood on their hands over Channel drownings

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TWENTY-SEVEN people, including a pregnant woman and three children, were drowned attempting to cross the Channel in an inflatable boat on Wednesday – the...

Capitalism kills – UK death rate increased by Tory austerity war on workers

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ON MONDAY, the BMJ health journal published the results of its research into the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and the austerity policies ruthlessly...

New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity

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FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...

US National March for Palestine takes place today in Washington – US workers &...

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MASSIVE demonstrations are sweeping the United States in support of Palestine. There have been big marches and rallies in New York, Chicago, Texas, San...

US not winning in Afghanistan admits US military chief

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ADMIRAL Mullen the US chief of the general staff has stated that he is not convinced that the US is winning the war in...

A police-Fire Service merger is a Tory plan to destroy FBU and reorganise state...

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THE news that has emerged that the Tory police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire, Adam Simmonds, has been in secret talks for twelve weeks...

With Labour government in crisis bankers and bosses step up calls for a National...

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THE DEMAND for a National Government to rescue the British economy from bankruptcy is rapidly emerging in the bourgeois press, as the only way...

IMF out to bankrupt Greece, leak reveals

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THE Wikileaks organisation dropped a bombshell on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last Saturday when it published the transcript of a private conversation between...

Hamas salutes the victory of the Syrian people which points the way forward for...

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THE head of Hamas’ foreign political bureau Khaled Mishaal, said yesterday that the victory of the Syrian people heralds the victory for the Islamic...

The EU Remains In Charge As All Parties Await Its Decision On Extending Eu...

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THE EU is definitely still in charge of Brexit and the ‘Brexit debate’. MPs await its decision today after Tory leader Johnson dumped the ‘no...

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...

Businesses threaten to relocate before Brexit! Nationalise them and put them under workers’ management!

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RESEARCH for the Institute of Directors showed yesterday that a third of UK businesses are considering moving abroad after Brexit. The IoD said that...

The Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down Johnson And ...

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BORIS Johnson’s reaction to the Tory Party’s massive by-election defeats at Tiverton and Honiton and at Wakefield has been to reject the advice and...

Trade unions need their own political representation

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AMID the media frenzy surrounding the publication of former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s autobiography, A Journey, ballot papers were sent out for the Labour...

Johnson and Sunak are criminals – kick them out along with the rest of...

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PM JOHNSON made it clear on Tuesday night that he has no intention of resigning despite the fact that he has become the first...

Take strike action to defend wages and jobs

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RAPIDLY rising food, gas, electricity and petrol prices pushed up the cost of living in January, even according to the government’s rigged inflation rate...

Palestinian PM calls on UN to act against Israeli apartheid, while Hamas insists that...

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on United Nations bodies, particularly the Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to follow up on the recent Human Rights...

Support the Shell-HOYER tanker workers!

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IN the last few weeks we have seen the road hauliers take to the streets against the massive increases in petrol and diesel prices...

US and Saudi Arabia are slaughtering Yemenis while Israel is assassinating Palestinian journalists!

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A LEADING member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi yesterday indicted US imperialism saying that it is killing thousands of Yemeni civilians...

Hunt tells workers to let their families freeze to support the war on Russia!

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has issued the call for workers to go without heating this winter to support the imperialist war on Russia. Appearing before...

World Bank chief fears youth and world revolution!

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When the President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, concluded a summit of the bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the statement...

As The Economic And Political Crisis Of Capitalism Deepens The US And UK...

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WORKERS throughout the world have experienced, through massive job losses and huge wage cuts, just how the world crisis of the capitalist system is...

Manchester students tear down the fences. UK workers and youth are building up for...

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STUDENTS have torn down prison-like fencing erected around their campus on the first day of the new nationwide lockdown. As the Tories allowed the second...