Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Defend the NHS with trade union led occupations and a general strike!

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THE creation of new nursing assistant posts should be scrapped and money invested in ‘real nurses’, experts said yesterday ahead of the rollout of...

28th anniversary of declaration of Palestinian independence!

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SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saed Erekat said yesterday that the international community has failed in its responsibility to correct the...

Syrian Army poised for victory in Aleppo

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THE news at the weekend that the Syrian army had successfully driven Jaysh al-Fateh out of the western areas around Aleppo marks another decisive...

The fight to free Palestine is inseparable from the British socialist revolution!

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IN response to a pledge by US President-elect Donald Trump to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Palestinian ambassador to the United...

TUC must call a general strike to ensure all ‘independent contractors’ have workers’...

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THE TORY plan to reduce Britain to a slave labour, hire-and-fire, zero-hours economy is now being challenged powerfully by groups of young workers. With the...

Carney plans for state robbery of bank depositors’ cash!

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ON Tuesday, amidst all the turmoil of the US presidential election, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, announced a financial bombshell...

Trump victory shatters the Democratic Party and shows the US working class is...

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THE Democrats lost the presidential election some time ago, when the party nominated Hillary Clinton for the presidency and pushed Bernie Sanders aside using...

UN condemns Tory government for its onslaught on the disabled!

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THE UK government’s welfare ‘reforms’ amount to a ‘systematic violation’ of the rights of disabled people, according to an inquiry by the United Nations...

British capitalism is bust, time to put it out of its misery

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FOR THE first time a comprehensive analysis of the economic and social impact of the war waged by the Tory government under Margaret Thatcher...

The UK ruling class is split, unable to rule, and frightened by the mass...

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YESTERDAY Tory PM May pledged that she would not allow the British people’s vote for Brexit to be sabotaged. The would-be sabatoeurs are the majority...

Sustainability & Transformation Plans mean NHS cuts and privatisation! Kick the Tories out!

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THE TORY government has launched its new offensive in the war against the NHS, and this time it is an attack by stealth. Sustainability and...

The judiciary seeks to bar the way! Open it up with a socialist revolution!

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YESTERDAY’S ruling by three High Court judges that the Tory government does not have the right to trigger Article 50 is the latest and...

With inflation set to quadruple, the working class must take action to defend...

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UK inflation will quadruple to about 4% in the second half of next year and cut disposable income, the National Institute for Economic and...

Rudd refuses inquiry into state attack on miners at Orgreave!

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HOME Secretary Amber Rudd told MPs on Monday in the House of Commons that a review into the police attack on pickets during the...

Not just European banks but world capitalism is a ‘lost cause’

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THE panic gripping the world capitalist class over the impending crash of the banking system reached another new level on Monday with the publication...

‘We’re the insurgents now,’ declares Tony Blair!

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EX-LABOUR Premier Blair has summoned the anti-Brexit camp, that is the bosses, the bankers, the majority of Tory and Labour MPs and the majority...

End imperialist war through world socialist revolution

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EIGHT hundred British troops, with tanks, armoured vehicles and drones are to be sent to Estonia in the Spring, on the border with Russia. The...

McDonnell refuses to even whisper the word ‘socialism’

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A FEW short weeks ago at the Labour Party conference, the ‘left’ shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, proudly announced that the party would no longer...

Amnesty exposes deadly US air attacks on Syria!

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AS IS well known, the Clinton-led Democratic Party has pledged that if and when she is elected as President of the USA, she will...

Economic Crisis Deepening! More Austerity And A Banking Crash On The Way!

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A LEAKED document obtained by the Labour Party has revealed that the Treasury faces a black hole of up to £16bn in its finances...

CETA collapse – now workers must end all capitalist trade agreements through a general...

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LAST Friday the much delayed CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) between the EU and Canada hit a brick wall when the Belgium region...

Bring down the May government – nationalise the banks and major industries!

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BEFORE the Brexit referendum on June 23rd the masses of British workers refused to capitulate to the vast barrage of propaganda from...

Workers must welcome all refugees and fight alongside them to get rid of capitalism!

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THE FRENCH government is to raze the Calais refugee camp to the ground ‘within days’, forcibly removing every man, woman and child. After six months...

Carney steps up his anti-May war!

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THE war between the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, and Tory prime minister Theresa May was stepped up on Wednesday when...

Ecuador pulls the plug on Assange to help out Clinton!

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ECUADOR has admitted that it ‘partly restricted’ the internet access for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is taking refuge at its London embassy...

Hands Off Rt! Defend Democratic Rights! Russia Is Not The Enemy! Our...

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THE decision by the UK state-owned NatWest Bank to cancel RT’s (Russia Today) UK bank accounts is a crude attempt by...

The eurozone is a pack of cards ready to collapse, says the economist who...

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THE man who is credited as the principle architect of the single European currency 14 years ago has just warned that his ‘project’ is...

Carney and May fall out on the high wire with a huge gale...

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BANK of England Governor Carney has fallen out with PM May telling her that he will not take orders from politicians on what the...

Tories pushing health insurance to smash NHS! Organise general strike NOW!

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THE SPECTRE of health insurance to ‘top-up’ the NHS has raised its ugly head. It is part of the arsenal of weapons turned on...

Brexit crisis deepens reflecting the death agony of British capitalism!

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THE British ruling class, far from recovering from the Brexit mutiny, when its chosen policy for saving British capitalism – that of ceding...

Tories and Labour right-wing call for war with Russia

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WAR hysteria dominated the Parliamentary debate on Tuesday, with both Tory and Labour MPs pushing for a full-scale war against Russia over unproven accusations...

UK and US complicit in Saudi Arabian war crimes

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LAST Saturday saw what was one of the worst atrocities committed in the Yemen since Saudi Arabia, along with its Gulf allies, launched an...

Hammond and Carney in ‘war games’

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THE Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, and the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, were forced to sit a test...

British capitalism hits the rocks!

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IN THE early hours of last Friday, a seismic crash in the value of the pound against the dollar caused panic amongst the world’s...

If one guard is sacked the TUC must call the whole working class out!

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THE STRIKE of the Southern guards, which begins on Tuesday, is a pivotal struggle for the entire working class. What is under threat is...

May’s speech exposes the weakness at the heart of the Tory Party

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THERESA May’s speech closing the Tory conference on Wednesday revealed all the weakness of the Tory Party – a party reeling from the mass...

THE TUC leaders who have deserted junior doctors and the NHS must be kicked...

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YESTERDAY the Tory offensive against not just junior doctors but the entire foundation of the National Health Service reached a ‘watershed moment for the...

Tories to opt out of human rights

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AT THE Tory Party conference yesterday, Theresa May and her defence secretary Michael Fallon jointly announced that in any future war British troops would...

Kiss of death for Deutsche Bank and the world banking system

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THE writing is most definitely on the wall for Europe’s largest bank, with the kiss of death being delivered over the weekend when German...

PM May woos Labour’s right wing!

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ON THE eve of the Tory Party Conference, with the party split from stem to stern over Brexit, Tory leaders have announced that they...

University Fees £9,500 and rising! Socialist revolution will end all fees!

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NOT one, but two tuition fee hikes have been announced by the Tory government in the last two weeks: first to £9,250 and then...

Corbyn intends to end the rule of banking class with regulations!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn wound up this week’s Labour Party conference with a speech that he insisted outlined policies for ‘socialism in the 21st...

Pentagon rails against the ‘Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act!’

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US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has issued a warning that legislation allowing families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia...

McDonnell wants a corporatist deal with the capitalists!

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SHADOW Chancellor McDonnel’s speech to the Labour Party conference was remarkable for its lack of treatment of the crisis of capitalism. He focused...

Imperialist lies over Aleppo – a cover for their own war crimes

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SUNDAY’S emergency meeting of the UN Security Council witnessed the orchestrated attack on the Syrian people and Russia by the imperialist powers. The meeting was...