Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

The needs of profit making are a higher morality than bourgeois law

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THE High Court yesterday ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption inquiry into a £43bn Saudi arms deal....

Blair ‘comfortable’ with five shots to the head, shoot to kill policy

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ON Sunday, Police Commissioner Blair told the world that the policy of shooting to kill ‘terrorist suspects’ was national policy, not just a Metropolitan...

Dubai dashes bourgeois hopes – world revolution is the answer!

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DUBAI’S ‘debt repayment’ postponement for six months has brought renewed havoc to European, Asian and North American stock markets. They have all been reminded that...

CIA Using Diego Garcia As A Torture Centre

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NO WONDER both the British and US governments are absolutely determined that none of the Chagos Islanders be allowed to return to their...

Strike action to defend sacked BA shop stewards

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BRITISH Airways (BA) has sacked a second shop steward who had been charged with organising unofficial secondary strike action at Heathrow on August 11th-12th...

Brown To Support US Air Strikes On Iran

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YESTERDAY the bourgeois media reported that Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who came to office pledging that the UK would cease to be Bush’s...

Bankrupt Britain is heading for revolution!

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THE OECD has warned that the British capitalist economy is the sick man of the capitalist world and is currently experiencing a record fall...

Defend car jobs! Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot!

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VAUXHALL Chairman Jonathan Browning announced yesterday that the General Motors (GM) subsidiary is to cut about 900 jobs, by the end of August, at...

More ‘breadline poor’ after 10 years of Labour governments

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The gap between the rich and poor has widened in recent years and is greater than at any time in the past 40 years,...

Bank shares fall while AIG and HBOS live on borrowed time!

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SHARE price collapses continued yesterday after the bankrupting of the fourth largest US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and the ‘rescue’ of Merrill Lynch by...

The Tory Telegraph and Tebbit slam the parliamentary parties

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THE decaying and gangrenous state of bourgeois democracy and its parliamentary system has been more than revealed by the expenses scandals that are racking...
NHSTogether demonstration in November 2007 against NHS privatisation

NHS pharmacy services under threat – warn unions

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Unite is seeking an urgent meeting with Health Secretary, Andy Burnham ‘as NHS pharmacy services are threatened by a government decision’. Burnham is being asked to...

Karzai Won’t Go – US-UK Adventure On The Rocks

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PRESIDENT Karzai is refusing to agree to a re-run of the Afghan general election, meaning that Karzai and his master President Obama are at...

After China sneezes Wall Street drops like a stone

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A NINE per cent fall on the small Chinese stock market, after rumours that the Stalinist bureaucracy was about to tax shares, and slightly...

Billionaire steps in to bail out the Labour Party

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LAKSHMI Mittal, the Indian-born billionaire has donated £2m to the Labour Party, it was revealed yesterday. The fifth richest man in the world, who owns...

The US’ allies in Egypt are at each other’s throats!

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THE bloodbath in Egypt last Wednesday, which saw hundreds of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood cut down in cold blood by the Egyptian army,...

GMB condemns Sedgefield council house privatisation

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THE GMB Annual Congress has condemned the decision of the Labour government to privatise the council house stock in Prime Minister Blair’s own constituency,...

US slaughters Iraqis during the referendum on a constitution

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WHILE US President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair and their quislings in Baghdad were pumping out propaganda about ‘freedom and democracy’,...

Britain’s Criminal War Against The Kenyan Land Freedom Army

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BRITISH conscripts were sent out to Kenya in the 1950s, where they were turned into brutes and sadistic killers, in the war of British...

Oil Price Rises Driving Up Inflati0N

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RISING crude oil prices are driving up the price of petrol at the pumps. Petrol is now at around 92 pence a litre, an increase...

EU law being used to slash wages and attack unions

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THE wave of ‘wildcat strikes’ that are taking place in power stations and oil terminals throughout the UK have the full support of the...

Rice supervises raising Middle East tensions

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THE US through its secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who has been in the Middle East for a week, is working hard to raise...

Good Riddance To Atos – Now Get Rid Of The Coalition!

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THE coalition government’s favourite private benefits testing company, Atos, is desperately attempting to jump ship after pocketing a fortune for driving people off sickness...

Henley New Labour Disaster – Less Votes Than The Bnp!

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LABOUR’s fifth place at Henley, shamefully behind the fascist BNP, will go down in history as an example of a party being thrust into...
Gate Gourmet locked out workers listen attentively to a TGWU official outlining the deal that the union has made with the company

NHS A&E departmentsto be shut in scores

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THE policy of the Labour government, as far as the NHS is concerned, is to hand over more and more of the NHS budget...

France And Germany On The Brink Of Explosion

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THE German and French ruling classes are aghast that the worldwide financial collapse and deepening slump has resulted in an eruption of the class...

Slump ‘deepening at an alarming pace’

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THE British Chambers of Commerce yesterday published its Fourth Quarter Economic Survey of nearly 6,000 businesses. It highlights what it called ‘a...

Put Blair On Trial!

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THE Fern Britton interview with Tony Blair on the BBC yesterday, squashed all of the notions that are being peddled that Blair was just...

Blair listens only to the bosses

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PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...

Pompeo Reveals That Soleimani’s Murder Was Part Of A ‘Bigger Strategy Of Deterrence!’

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US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has spilled the beans about the murder of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. He has revealed that it...

Britain Heads For Revolutionary Situation

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BRITAIN is now being run by a weakened and discredited Blair government, which is however determined to speed up its right wing course and...

Irish TUC mass demo puts Barber and Woodley to shame!

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120,000 trade unionists and their supporters, including over a hundred workers who are part of the occupation of the Waterford Crystal plant, marched through...

Sinking Deeper Into The Afghan Morass

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THE talk by the commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, that ‘missions by special forces and air strikes by unmanned...

Brown’s empty words cannot hide he is the bankers’ man

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‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...

Occupy GMM Luton!

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THE German government yesterday made its move to try and secure GM Europe for Magna, the Canadian car parts manufacturer that wants to sack...

Morgan Stanley having sleepless nights over the UK

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THE Morgan Stanley bank is worried that the world crisis is going to shatter the already bankrupt UK economy, causing a flight of capital...

Blair listens only to the bosses

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PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...

Egyptian revolution in permanence!

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THE Egyptian army opened fire on thousands of workers and young people in Tahrir Square on Saturday morning, killing four and wounding 117. ...

Knives out in the Labour cabinet mask a crisis of bourgeois rule

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JUST three members of the Labour cabinet put out a statement on Saturday supporting their leader Gordon Brown. Chancellor Darling, deputy leader Harman and skills...

Blair skating on the thinnest of thin ice

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PRIME Minister Blair has been secretly questioned, for a second time, by police investigating allegations that honours were sold for cash by his government....

Bush, Blair, Obama, And Cameron Are The War Criminals!

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THAT the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants against Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, his son and his brother-in-law, on...

Youth unemployment driving world socialist revolution

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This weekend, the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos debated the issue of youth unemployment worldwide, a debate that exposed the mortal terror being...

A milestone in the failure of the US-UK war against Iraq

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THERE were no pictures beamed around the world yesterday of United States President Barack Obama at a passing out parade in Baghdad on the...

‘Indirect incitement’ to be a terror offence

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BUSH and Blair say that they are ‘fighting for democracy and freedom’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the more they step up this fight,...

SLUMP DEEPENS – only one way out – REVOLUTION!

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THE bourgeois propaganda machine was all set yesterday to spin an expected 0.04 per cent increase in GDP into a ‘the slump is over’...