Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

The biggest fall in living standards since 1931!

0
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that living costs have risen 25% in the past five years and placed an ‘unprecedented’ financial burden on...

Osborne’s capitulation to banks

0
Yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, introduced legislation on banking reforms – reforms which he is desperately trying to insist will prevent the continuing...

Unions must strike for a 10% wage rise!

0
The results of a consultative ballot of 600,000 local government and school members of the Unison union recorded a massive 70% rejection of the...

The Brown Government Is The Enemy Of The People

0
PREMIER BROWN told his monthly news briefing yesterday of the war that he is waging on the country’s youth and the 110,000 ‘problem families’...

‘State suicide’ of Italian pensioner

0
CAPITALISM’S latest scheme to save failed banks claimed the life of an Italian pensioner who lost his £72,000 life savings following the collapse of...

Support Catalonia! Forward With The Spanish Socialist Revolution!

0
CATALONIA will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region said yesterday following the referendum, which savage...

Unions must take action to defend jobs, wages and pensions from rampant inflation

0
THE rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation in the UK in September, rose to 5.2% from 4.5% the month before. A huge leap in...

OCCUPY to stop NHS closures – demand unions call a general strike!

0
THE West London Council of Action spoke out and acted for many workers yesterday when it launched the occupation of the Maternity...

Unions Must Put The Labour Party House In Order

0
THE main trade union leaders are determined that the crisis of the Labour government should be kept out of the TUC Congress in Brighton. They...

Holder warns of Ferguson powder keg throughout USA

0
US ATTORNEY General Eric Holder says leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, must take ‘immediate, wholesale action’ after a report of widespread racial bias in its...

Miliband will do everything that is necessary to defend capitalism

0
YESTERDAY the main trade union leaders were full of praise for Miliband’s conference speech. This was no doubt an expression of relief that he...

Tory Party Breaking Apart Over Eu Referendum

0
LEAVING the EU could lead to the break up of the UK, said former Tory leader and former Foreign Secretary, William Hague yesterday. Since the...

Netanyahu marches against terrorism in Paris!

0
WHEN the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine lampooned the prophet, it knew that it was trampling over the religious susceptibilities of millions of Muslims, and...

Tories aim to drive NHS back to 1930s – bring the coalition down with...

0
Dr Mark Porter, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) Hospital Consultants Committee, in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, has spelt out clearly...

Obama champions murdering Americans abroad!

0
OBAMA, in his speech on Thursday at Fort McNair, presented himself as a president eager to end the foreign wars of the USA, and...

Chinese Stalinists Feeling The Anger Of The Masses

0
THIS week, as part of the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party, the party general secretary and China’s president, Ho...

Bury The Health And Social Care Bill Now!

0
ON March 15 at the historic Special Representative Meeting (SRM) of the BMA, which its Council was forced to call to decide on the...

Dictatorship in Greece – socialist revolution the only way forward

0
THE unelected and EU-imposed Greek ‘interim’ PM, Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank who played a major part in getting Greece...

Take action to smash the ‘rigged’ capitalist system!

0
ON Saturday the Daily Telegraph disclosed to the world – ‘that moderate Labour MPs are plotting to undermine Mr Corbyn by staging resignations...

Brics Challenge To Almighty Dollar!

0
MOSCOW believes that the US capitalists are targeting it with sanctions ‘because the events in Ukraine have not developed the way Washington scripted them,’...

Palestinian civil war aids Israel

0
THE Palestinian masses and their organisations must unite to fight their enemy which is the Zionist state of Israel, backed up and supported by...

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

0
‘71 DEAD. And still no arrests? How come?’ read three large billboards on trucks demanding justice following the Grenfell Tower fire. They were...

Since bankrupt capitalism offers workers a ‘bleak old age’– get rid of it!

0
LORD McFall, who has been examining private sector pension schemes, has concluded in his Workplace Retirement Income Commission review, that workers on private pensions...

Defeat imperialist intervention into Syria – NO to war with Iran! Bring down...

0
THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that, ‘Britain has rebuffed US pleas to use military bases in the UK to support the build-up of forces...

US workers and youth won’t tolerate racist murders

0
THE eruption of a mass movement in over 100 US cities condemning the clearing of George Zimmerman for the murder of black teenager Trayvon...

Iranian diplomat was tortured after kidnap by CIA agents

0
WHILE the 15 British sailors were being held in comfortable and well fed custody by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, there was another captive, just...

Trump Is Organising A US Coup Not A Presidential Election Campaign!

0
IN HIS FOURTH of July speech US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claims are out to...

Defend jobs, wages and rights – bring down Brown government

0
PRIME Minister Brown’s alliance with the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party has paid off with the passage by nine votes of his amendment to the...

Obama and Cameron’s heart eating allies

0
EVEN the Human Rights Watch group – veterans of the struggle to remove and liquidate the Gadaffi regime in Libya, and now immersed in...

Ban all secret trials! Smash the capitalist state!

0
AN unprecedented attempt by the government to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the UK has been blocked by the Court...

Three months to save the NHS! Trade unions must call industrial action now!

0
YESTERDAY, the Labour Party leader Miliband wrote in the Observer that ‘Everyone who loves the NHS must fight to defeat this health bill. This...

Time for the trade unions to take action to remove broken coalition

0
The Sunday Mirror/ComRes survey of 2,002 voters has rattled the cages of the major political parties. It shows that Labour is leading with the support...

World Trembles At Prospect Of US Rate Rise!

0
JAMES Bullard, the head of the St Louis Fed, told a recent City Week Forum in London that investors are far too complacent and...

French elections ‘shaken’ by surge in working class support for socialist policies

0
THIS WEEK has seen a dramatic upsurge of support amongst workers and youth in France for the outsider left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the...

Forward with the Egyptian revolution

0
HUNDREDS of people are reported to have been killed in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities throughout Egypt, and thousands injured after the army leaders...

THE BANK looks to inflation to pauperise the workers and Middle Class

0
THE pound fell sharply on Wednesday against both the dollar and the euro as the money markets were shaken to the core by the...

Nationalise the Banks!

0
As the scandal engulfing the banks accelerates daily, so the attempts by both Labour and coalition party leaders to pretend they can stop future crises...

Obama selects his bourgeois team to save US capitalism

0
BARACK OBAMA has just been elected by an explosion of popular support and anger that has united the working class and brought the majority...

Corbyn’s Programme Without The Working Class Taking Power Is A Reformist Fairytale

0
JEREMY Corbyn launched the Labour Party’s Manifesto for the upcoming general election yesterday claiming it is ‘a manifesto for hope that will bring real...

TUC Must Take Industrial Action To Force The Tories To Oppose Trump’s Palestine Deal!

0
THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the ‘deal of the century’, which they said was a plan for ‘transfer’...

Call a General Strike!

0
THE Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have submitted a motion to next week’s TUC congress calling for the TUC to organise a co-ordinated...

USA supplies Syrian gangs with latest anti-tank weapons

0
THE US, UK and Saudi-backed and organised ‘rebels’ who have failed to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, who has the support...

Cameron and Osborne’s Waterloo

0
AFTER the Tories’ defeat at the hands of a defector to UKIP in the recent Clacton by-election, David Cameron vowed that he would ‘throw...

Yates Demands A Heavily Armed Paramilitary Police Force!

0
BRITAIN’S top counter-terrorism officer, Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner Yates, has demanded that paramilitary police forces be established in the UK, and insists that they...

Trump declares he will create 10 million new jobs by a trade war...

0
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is stepping up his trade war onslaught on China as his November presidential election date approaches, and the US continues...