Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

A general strike to bring down the Tories is the only programme for victory...

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MICK LYNCH, general secretary of the RMT rail workers union, has denounced Labour leader Keir Starmer for being ‘not on the side of workers’...

Working class turns on the Blair-Brown gang

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LABOUR suffered a net loss of 331 seats in local elections in England and Wales on 1 May. It also lost out to Tory...

On the eve of massive cuts – the cry goes up to ‘redefine ...

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THE number of children living in poverty in the UK remains 2.3 million, government figures show. This situation has seen thousands of families depending on...

Sunak admits ‘borrowing will have to end’ and prepares for war against the working...

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IN THE Spectator magazine this week, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks with the official Tory line that British capitalism could survive by indefinitely...

Cameron poised to send UK troops into Iraq!

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PM Cameron is poised to send British troops into Iraq. This is why he is unwilling to recall Parliament after it rejected his...

Overthrowing capitalism only way to eradicate Covid variants

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THE NEW variant strain of Covid-19, given the name Omicron by the World Health Organisation (WHO), burst onto the world scene last week although...

Unions must break with Starmer NOW and call a general strike to bring down...

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LABOUR is becoming ‘irrelevant to workers’ and it is now hard to justify handing the party millions in funding, the leader of the Unite...

High Court rejects legal challenge to Labour arming Zionist genocide – now workers and...

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ON MONDAY, the High Court in London rejected a legal challenge brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq against the decision of...

Free the Chagos Islands – Britain’s own Guantánamo Bay!

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ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands. By 116...

Arrest the criminals and charge them for the murder of every man, woman and...

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‘71 DEAD. And still no arrests? How come?’ read three large billboards on trucks demanding justice following the Grenfell Tower fire. They were...

French General Strike escalates in fight to bring down Macron

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THE MASS strikes and demonstrations throughout France today mark the sharp escalation of the confrontation between French workers and the ‘bankers’ government of president...

Afghan nightmare for British troops

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COLONEL Gordon Messenger, in charge of the future deployment of British troops in the Helmand region of Afghanistan, was putting a brave face on...

Record unemployment, record poverty and misery – socialist revolution the only answer

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THE number of young people out of work has reached a record high of almost one million, according to the latest unemployment figures. ...

TUC organises a day of inaction against Tory union-busting laws!

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IT was with much fanfare that the TUC announced on the 10th January that it would hold a national ‘protect the right to strike’...

Only way to smash anti-strike law is by forcing TUC to call a general...

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THE ILO (International Labour Organisation), the official body of the United Nations responsible for upholding workers’ rights, has slammed the Tory anti-strike laws and...

Build The Revolutionary Leadership Amongst Youth And Workers Worldwide

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THE development of the world capitalist crisis is now affecting every section of the working class and the poor in every part of the...

A First For The Labour Party – A Leader Who Was A Key Official...

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SIR KEIR Starmer, the ex-Director of Public Prosecutions, and currently the leader of the Labour Party, has just engaged in a second key mission...

Afghan election re-run collapses – US, UK completely discredited!

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AFGHANISTAN’S re-run election will be held on November 7th as scheduled, said the Afghan Electoral Commission yesterday. It is to have just one candidate,...

Revolutionary crisis in France

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The first round of voting in the French presidential election, held last Sunday, produced an unprecedented defeat for the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his...

New Labour Is Proposing 24-Hour Courts And Fast-Track Sentencing Of Workers And Youth!

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COURTS ARE now to sit for 24 hours in order to impose fast-track sentencing under New Labour Emergency Government plans to crack down on...

Special treatment for the servants of the Murdoch empire!

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YESTERDAY, the convicted News of the World journalists who had carried out ‘industrial scale’ hacking on behalf of Murdoch’s News International received lenient sentences. At...

Support RMT Southern strikers, defend rail safety and jobs with them, and renationalise the...

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EVERY worker in the country, not just every commuter, must support the five-day RMT strike action on Southern. It is a fight for jobs, and...

Massive strike wave as wages fall and prices soar – time for a general...

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On the eve of Tory chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn budget tomorrow, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published figures revealing that the number of...

Starmer’s Labour government in the ‘pocket of millionaires’ – time to bring it down

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ON THE EVE of this week’s Labour Party conference, left-wing Labour MP Diane Abbott attacked the Labour leadership saying that under Keir Starmer the...

30th anniversary of Malvinas war – reject imperialist war hysteria

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Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas (Falklands) war, a war involving a tiny island with a population in 1982 of less than...

Occupy To Stop Hospital Closures

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THE Chief Executive of the NHS, Sir David Nicholson, had a stark message for hospitals when he told the BBC yesterday that they would...

UK and US imperialism’s drive to war must be answered through the victory of...

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IN his ‘Letter to American Workers’, published in Pravda on August 22 1918, after the victorious Russian revolution, Lenin wrote, ‘We are now, as...

Whither the NHS is still to be decided!

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THE fury of the Blairite Milburn over the changes to the Health Bill that have been forced on the Tory-led coalition by the massive...

Kick out the Tories to end Universal Credit attacks on benefits!

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ON SUNDAY the Guardian newspaper published a letter signed by 30 Labour MPs and the one Green Party MP expressing their concern about the...

Bush’s ‘Defining Hour’ Or When The Bell Tolls For Imperialism

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BUSH opened his 2007 State of the Union speech with an open admission that his regime is facing defeat both at home and abroad....

Defend Welfare, Defend The NHS, Defend All Benefits, Bring Down Coalition

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TORY leader Cameron has backed Chancellor George Osborne after he suggested a link between the Mick Philpott case and the Welfare State. The prime...

Tesco & Next Make Bryant Run

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THE shadow minister for immigration, Bryant, yesterday ran away from confronting Tesco and Next over employing migrant workers at reduced wages in place of...

The working class must force its leaders to call a general strike to bring...

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PM Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation will make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the world to go on strike, a...

Workers forced Brexit through! Now bring down Johnson to bring in a workers government...

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AT ELEVEN pm last night, Britain officially left the European Union. After a long, hard and determined struggle Brexit has actually happened and the...

Brown’s gold sales lost the Bank of England £3.8bn

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A DECADE ago, on May 7, 1999, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced plans to sell off a large part of Britain’s gold reserves. This was...

Blair Went To War Based On The ‘Perception Of Risk’

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EX-PRIME Minister Blair yesterday, at the Chilcot Inquiry, revealed the imperialistic logic behind the war on Iraq. He said that after the attack on the...

Make the TUC call a general strike to bring down Labour and to bring...

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DESPITE Labour’s election manifesto pledges and repeated promise of ‘No tax increases’ on income, National Insurance or VAT, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning a...

Putin Alarm At US War Drive

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THE fact that the deepening capitalist crisis is turning the whole planet into a US war zone has begun to seriously alarm the Russian...

Call general strike to stop the Trade Union Bill becoming law

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DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton yesterday unanimously voted for motion 18 to defend the right to strike and political protest, and...

Trump’s ‘deal’ strengthens Israel’s occupation of Palestine and restores colonial control over Gaza

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PRESIDENT Trump, backed by ex-UK Premier Tony Blair, has given Hamas three or four days to respond to his so-called ‘peace plan’. He has...

Bring down Blair; bring in a workers’ government

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THE crisis of the Blair government has intensified to the point where the government is now more deeply split and divided than ever, while...

Support Catalonia! Forward With The Spanish Socialist Revolution!

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CATALONIA will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region said yesterday following the referendum, which savage...

British government inquiry into ‘complicity in torture’ is a fraud

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ON Wednesday the government published the Evidence Protocol for the ‘inquiry’ into allegations of British complicity in torture – a year after the inquiry...

Hain resigns after police are called in!

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PETER HAIN – the former Young Liberal radical, and then leader, in the 1970s of the Anti-Apartheid campaign and then the Anti-Nazi League –...

Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis

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THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...