Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Corbyn is playing the May game!

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MONDAY’s speech to the Charity Commission by the unelected Tory prime minister, Theresa May, revealed the weakness of the Tory government and its intense fear...

May reveals Tories fear of revolution

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YESTERDAY’S speech to the Charity Commission by Tory prime minister, Theresa May, attracted much comment on her proposals on raising the profile of mental health...

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,...

Bankers’ forecasts wrong again! New banking crash will ignite revolution!

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THE BANK of England has admitted what it calls a ‘Michael Fish’ moment over its failure to predict the 2007-8 banking crash and its...

Call strike action to defeat Tory plans to destroy university system

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

Only Socialist Revolution can end inequality

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NOTHING demonstrates more graphically the increasing polarisation between the working class and the capitalist class than the gigantic and ever-increasing differentials between the obscene...

OECD warns of a global property prices crash

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THE Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has sent out a New Year warning that global property prices have increased so dramatically that...

Rail Companies ‘milking the system’ – Renationalise the Railways now

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RAIL passengers are being hit by rail fare hikes that are ‘truly staggering’, according to the Labour Party transport spokesman Andy McDonald. The increases, which...

Trump To Invite Netanyahu To His Inauguration!

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PRESIDENT-ELECT Trump’s advisers are planning to invite Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the president-elect’s inauguration ceremony, so as to publicly stress just...

JOHN KERRY’S LAST STAND! – derided by Netanyahu!

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu damned US Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Wednesday over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict saying that it was biased...

Obama regime collapses in chaos – as Syria peace battles to emerge!

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ON December 8, the White House said that the outgoing US President Barack Obama had relaxed the so-called Arms Export Control Act for the...

Forward to the Palestinian state!

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ISRAEL’S Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered the termination of all non-security related coordination with the Palestinian Authority (PA), in response to the UN...

Lecturers & students must strike to end all university fees and restore grants!

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THE LATEST increase in university tuition fees in England to £9,250 by the Tory government has been launched without any announcement from the Department...

Tory plans for their police state! Step too far even for EU Courts

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THE Tories’ new mass surveillance laws got a setback this week when the European Court of Justice ruled that its snoopers’ charter, the Investigatory...

PLO chief warns Trump don’t move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem!

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AS WE approach the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration in which British imperialism pledged to hand over somebody else’s country to conquest and...

Anti-Russian campaign of the US and UK ruling classes leads to the assassination of...

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THE assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, on Monday by an ex-policeman Mevlut Altintas – who was sacked after the failure...

UK cluster bombs used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen war crimes

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THE NEWS yesterday that analysis by UK government officials that British-made cluster bombs are being used by the Saudi-led coalition in its war against...

Tories tell May she must bring in strike ban law!

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SUNDAY saw the Tory Telegraph accuse PM May of ‘refusing to curb the power of striking trade unions despite a growing backlash from...

Trade Unions must occupy hospitals threatened with closures! Come to the ATUA conference!

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THE NHS is the battleground within which the class struggle in this country is being fought out to the finish. The Tory government plans...

SOVIET WORKERS AND YOUTH WANT THE USSR RESTORED!

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THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...

Soviet Workers And Youth Want The Ussr Restored!

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THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...

Imperialists and their puppets defeated in Aleppo – Now forward to the Palestinian state!

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ON Tuesday evening there was dancing in the streets of Aleppo as residents celebrated the defeat of the Islamist factions that had been armed,...

Make May apologise for 100 years of the Balfour Declaration!

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PM May has gone out of her way to insult the Palestinian people by declaring her pride in the 100th anniversary of the Balfour...

Only re-nationalisation of energy industry under socialism can prevent fuel poverty

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BRITISH capitalism in the 21st century cannot guarantee even the most basic pre-requisites for life if you are not wealthy. This is the stark message...

Italian banks are bust, as is the Italian government – the working class must...

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A COLLISION between Italy and the European Union over a bailout of Italy’s collapsed banking system is getting closer by the day. It is...

Stop the UK arms sales to the Saudi and Bahraini despots!

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DESPERATE for trade after Brexit, and for access to Middle East oil, bankrupt capitalist Britain is desperately licking the boots of Arab feudalists, while...

Renationalise Tata Steel to defend workers’ jobs and pensions

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THE announcement that Tata Steel has reached an agreement with the steel trade union leaders that will ‘save’ the industry has been greeted as...

Smash the STPs! Trade unions must occupy hospitals threatened with savage cuts and closures!

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THERE is no doubt that the 44 STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) that were prepared in secret are in fact part of one Tory...

Quit The Eu Now! Forward To Socialism!

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KEIR Starmer, Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Leaving the EU, will, today in the House of Commons, open a debate for Labour on...

Italian Banks on verge of crash following Renzi’s defeat

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THE defeat for the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, in Sunday’s referendum to change the Italian constitution and concentrate the political power in his...

EU is going up in flames! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!

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THE European Union is like a huge powder magazine that started to smoulder even before the Brexit vote in the UK on June 23rd,...

Homelessness, fuel poverty & debt! Time to assign capitalism to the dustbin of history!

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AS TEMPERATURES plummet and the cold weather sets in, homeless charity Shelter calculated that over a quarter of a million people will wake up...

Blairites and Tories form a counter-revolutionary alliance!

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BLAIR, the universally hated and reviled ex-Labour prime minister, was thrown a lifeline in his quest to resurrect his political career as an anti-Brexit...

Banks learnt nothing from the 2008 crash as world debt and UK credit card...

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RBS, still over 70% state-owned, is the worst prepared of the UK’s biggest banks to cope with the next financial crisis, a crisis which...

Hurrah! The brave Syrian people are taking back Aleppo and defeating imperialist powers!

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REJOICE, rejoice at the great victories that the brave Syrian people are having in their struggle to prevent the Western imperialist powers and their...

European banks are ‘screwed’ as ‘uncertainty’ rules

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‘UNCERTAINTY’ is the word on the lips of every banker and bourgeois politician today as they grapple with a capitalist system that is unravelling...

Forward With The Cuban Revolution!

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THE death of Fidel Castro, the leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution sees millions of Cubans mourning their leader who secured the independence of...

It is the tyranny of the minority that must be ended through socialist...

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THE ‘tyranny of the majority’ should not dictate exit from the EU, former Tory PM John Major said yesterday, in remarks that have sparked...

Make Hammond’s Budget his last by a general strike to kick the Tories out...

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THE Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, closed his autumn budget statement on Wednesday with the announcement that this would be his ‘first and last’. Faithfully obeying...

Hammond on the rocks of bankrupt British capitalism!

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CHANCELLOR Hammond began his Autumn statement yesterday by saying, ‘Our task now is to prepare our economy to be resilient as we exit the...

Rail strike ‘solid and determined’ as passengers join union in demanding re-nationalisation

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YESTERDAY’S strike by RMT guards working for the privateer Southern rail network was ‘rock solid’, with RMT general secretary Mick Cash saying: ‘The resilience...

TUC shocked that Tories break their promises!

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THE TUC leadership reacted with shock when Theresa May made it quite clear that she had absolutely no intention of fulfilling her pledge to...

Capitalism cannot be reformed – it must be overthrown with Socialist Revolution.

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IN HIS speech on Saturday to the Labour Party Policy Forum Jeremy Corbyn proved that left reformism has absolutely no answers to the crisis...

UCU & NUS stop pleading with the Tories & call an all-out strike...

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TODAY tens of thousands of lecturers and students will march through central London to demand free education for all. The Tory government has pushed plans...

Chaos reigns as Tory Chancellor gets instructions from IMF and advice from Strictly Come...

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has delivered a thinly veiled instruction to the Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, to scrap his autumn budget statement due...