Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Nationalise BAA – forward to a national transport system

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THE call has gone up in the Competition Commission report that three of BAA’s seven airports – two of its three in London, out...

Sharon’s deception at the United Nations

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ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to cut a figure as the liberator of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip at the United...

Israel has brought record unemployment and mass starvation to the Gaza Strip – Revolution...

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MAHMOUD Radwan sits among the ruins of his destroyed home, contemplating an uncertain future amidst a labour crisis unlike any he has seen before,...

Full Support For The Ukrainian Workers!

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GUNFIRE erupted Sunday morning at a checkpoint, established by workers on the outskirts of the city of Slavyansk in Eastern Ukraine. In the skirmishing, one...

Disband The Met Police – Get Rid Of UK Capitalism – Forward With The...

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THE latest available statistics give an indication of just how diseased the Metropolitan Police is, and just how great the need is for it...

Greek bourgeoisie organising pogroms

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AS the economic crisis continues to tear Greece apart and drives forward a revolutionary surge amongst workers and youth, so it is driving the...

World debt is leading to hyper-inflation and a socialist revolution!

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AN ARTICLE in Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph by its chief economics commentator, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, highlighted the inevitable consequences following the massive amount of borrowing carried...

Starmer calls for ‘coalition of the willing’ as world capitalism tears itself apart 

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer addressed Parliament yesterday reporting on the emergency defence summit of European leaders he’d convened in London at the weekend. This...

North Korea Does Not Want To Go The Way Of Libya!

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NORTH Korea has said it may pull out of a summit with US President Donald Trump that was due to take place on June...

Palestine suspends recognition of the state of Israel!

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THE PALESTINIAN Central Council met in Ramallah on Sunday and Monday and, after deliberations on important matters for the Palestinian people, it made a...

Defeat paramilitary policing in UK with socialist revolution

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THOUSANDS of workers and young people in cities throughout the country, peacefully protesting against the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, were met...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers were yesterday leafleting at Heathrow Airport

Labour NEC says it will take back control over funds

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PRIME MINISTER Blair yesterday suffered a setback when the Labour Party’s NEC decided that it was going to take back control over the party’s...

Nationalise the PFI parasites!

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EVERY year the Labour government is handing over £40bn to the consortia of financiers, property developers and construction giants in payments for Private Finance...

Tory government acted illegally! It has no right to rule and must be...

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THE Supreme Court yesterday dealt a death blow to the Tory strategy to make it financially impossible for workers to take their employers...

Forward to a Workers Government in both the UK and Palestine!

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HAMAS has commented on the statements of the Zionist War Minister Katz that blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza ‘is a pressure method’. The Hamas...

Homeless deaths are rapidly increasing! Capitalism is rotten! Only socialism can take society...

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THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has produced a new report which says that the true number of people sleeping on the streets ‘far exceeds’...

Restore Grants, End Fees, Defend Free State Educaton!

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TUITION fees must rise by 100 per cent to £6,000 a year if universities are to cover their teaching costs, is the main...

Union leaders are fiddling while the NHS burns! General Strike now to win...

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THE BURNING issue of NHS workers’ pay is so explosive that the Tories left it to the very last day that Parliament sits before...

Coalition plans to punish and freeze the elderly

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IT was the German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller, who said: ‘In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up...

Turkish Masses Serve Notice On Erdogan

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THE uprising of the Turkish masses, which began over the future of a park in European Turkey and rapidly spread across the country, including...

Barbaric anti-homeless spikes scandal

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THE picture showing one-inch-long metal spikes driven into the pavement in the doorway of a block of luxury flats in central London in order...

Smash Labour’s right wing coup attempt – Leave the EU at once!

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THE Labour Party leadership has moved to sell out and stab the Brexit referendum result and the working class in the back. Keir Starmer, Labour’s...

One Day General Strike On January 31

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THE government’s policy of mass sackings of civil servants, of driving down their wages, and of outsourcing and privatisation has driven civil servants to...

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...

Putin’s withdrawal from Syria sends message to Assad and Obama!

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THE decision of President Putin to begin withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria, after giving President Assad just a few hours notice, constitutes a...

Hunt is going to speed up NHS ‘industry’

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YESTERDAY Health Secretary Hunt insulted the NHS, and NHS workers, and the intelligence of the working class as a whole, when he labelled the...

Major warns Johnson of the fate of Charles I as fear of revolution grips...

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IN AN interview yesterday morning ex-Tory prime minister John Major stated that he would personally take Boris Johnson to court if he attempts to...

Trump is set to impose the death agony of the US capitalist system onto...

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THREATS, demands and bullying aimed at the whole world from US President Donald Trump, dominated the Davos Economic Forum in a video call on...

Afghan crisis – more combat troops to be sent

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THE British government’s Defence Secretary, Des Browne, said yesterday that he would be making a statement to the House of Commons as soon as...

Hague hands £5m to the Syrian counter-revolution

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THE British government has responded to the success of the Syrian government in driving the Al Qaeda-supported Free Syrian Army out of Damascus, and...

Pna And Fatah Want To Disarm Fighters

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ONE can now see why the Zionists and the US government were so keen to get rid of Yasser Arafat. He not only refused to...

German crisis – the beginning of the end for the EU!

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A MONTH of intensive talks designed to cobble together a new coalition government in Germany ended late Sunday night when the pro-business Free Democratic...

The UK banks were rescued – Now the Tories are throwing the steel industry...

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LABOUR PM Gordon Brown, after the financial collapse in 2008 and with the full support of the Tories, rescued the UK banks from their...

Unite’s ‘line in the sand’ must be enforced with strike action and occupations

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ONE of the leaders of Unite, the country’s largest union, yesterday stated that: ‘A line in the sand over further privatisation of the NHS...

Labour Pushes For Pensions War

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MORE than half a million civil servants are to be told that they will have to pay a lot more towards their pensions. This is...

This Is A War That Has To Be Won!

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UNITE co-leader Tony Woodley stated yesterday that it was not possible to get an agreement with BA and cancel the BA cabin crew...

Tories Open Up The Battle Against Socialism

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THE content of the ‘devolution campaign’, which has now developed into the ‘Home Rule for England campaign’ was revealed yesterday when Tory Justice Secretary...

600,000 workers and youth march for Palestine – the TUC must call a general...

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600,000 WORKERS AND YOUTH marched from Central London to Whitehall on Saturday in a massive show of strength and solidarity with the masses of...

Barclays Vice Chair On NHS Commissioning Board

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YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Health told the House of Commons that the government will be taking a step back from the...

Iran Is Not The Villain Of The ‘Nuclear Threat’

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PRESIDENT Obama made it crystal clear in his 11.45pm Saturday night address, over the just-signed six-month interim nuclear agreement with Iran, that he is...

Brown’s National Economic Council ‘war cabinet’ will be making war on the workers

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‘WE have agreed to make a solemn engagement as heads of state and government to support banking and financial institutions faced with the crisis,’...

Students and universities under savage coalition attack

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IN ORDER that the universities can have their budgets slashed and be privatised or closed, students are to be charged up to £9,000 a...

Blair the leader of the Party of Order

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PRIME Minister Blair held a meeting of his Cabinet yesterday morning and, true to form, the Cabinet, filled with his lackeys, found that he...

New Axis Of Evil Threatens War With Syria!

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THE new axis of evil, the leaders of the US, France and the UK, have come together to threaten Syria with war, with US...

Workers and youth vote for left parties in West Bank elections

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PALESTINIAN voters in the West Bank have delivered a blow to the Fatah movement in local elections which saw Fatah winning two-fifths of...