Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

UK Workers Are Threatened By Covid-19 Mutations – Trade Unions Must Bring Down Tories...

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HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...

Teachers At War With The Government!

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THE two biggest teachers unions have begun their annual conferences, where they will challenge the government over pay, Ofsted inspections and England’s Academies and...

McCluskey denounces Labour’s right wing who worked for a Tory victory!

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THE general secretary of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, has reacted with fury over the revelations contained in the leaked internal report by the...

Crisis-ridden US capitalism driven towards war

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US capitalism really has got its back to the wall, and has somewhat lost its balance, when its Treasury Secretary, Geithner, says that he...

Brown champions more police powers and public sector pay cuts

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told police chiefs yesterday that he will do ‘everything to give you the resources’ and ‘we will not shirk from giving...

The Bank of England is set to embark on a series of interest rate...

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THE UK has ‘no alternative’ but to hike interest rates in a bid to make borrowing much more expensive to try to slow down...

Clashes In Israel While President Biden Fears That Netanyahu Will Address Congress!

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CLASHES have broken out between the Israeli police and anti-regime protesters in Tel Aviv and across the occupied territories, with demonstrators demanding new elections...

Trade unions must support Vestas occupation and fight for its nationalisation!

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THE Vestas wind turbine factory in the Isle of Wight has been occupied by workers who are determined to fight for their jobs, and...

Break The Blockade Of Gaza!

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GAZA is being reduced from a massive prison for the Palestinian people to one in which they are homeless, jobless, and beginning to go...

French General Strike As Working Class Defends Its Pension Rights Against Macron And The...

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FRANCE yesterday was paralysed by a general strike called by the trade unions in response to the attempts by the government of president Macron...

Cameron orders SAS killers onto British streets

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NEARLY 2,000 new spies are to be immediately recruited by the British state, prime minister David Cameron announced yesterday. Speaking from the G20 summit being...

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...

Victory to the Syrian army in Idlib! Forward with the Turkish workers revolution...

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THE TURKISH government has said it will not hesitate to invade Syria to prevent the Syrian army pressing ahead with its counter-terrorism offensive to...

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

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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...

The absurdity of Miliband’s ‘one nation banking’ under capitalism

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LABOUR leader Miliband has once again revealed the absolute bankruptcy of reformism. In a speech made yesterday he denied that there were laws governing...

Obama seeks bloc with Republicans against unions

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THE State of the Union speech by President Obama was all about the theme that the only thing that can save the crisis-ridden US...

TUC right wing determined to stay in the EU whatever it costs the working...

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AT this year’s annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) the right-wing of the trade union bureaucracy will attempt to commit the working...

Trade unions must act now and call general strikes to kick out Tories and...

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THERE has been no let-up in the murderous bombardment of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a tiny city on the border with Egypt...

952,000 16-24 year olds out of work!

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COMMENTING on the rise in unemployment figures, Dave Prentis, General Secretary of Unison said: ‘Being out of work at Christmas is particularly tough, especially...

Defend The NHS, The Fire Service & The Welfare State By Bringing Down The...

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THE response of the Tory-LibDem government to the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system has been to try to force the working class,...

Tories plan to replace national pay bargaining for public sector workers with performance-related pay...

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THE TORIES are determined to put an end to trade union-negotiated across the board pay increases for all public sector workers and replace national...

Foxconn to replace its Chinese workers with a million robots

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TAIWANESE electronics manufacturer Foxconn, which assembles products for Apple, plans to have a million robots, by the next three years, in operation in its...

Keep out the Tories – bring down the Blair-Brown government! Forward to socialism!

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LABOUR was routed in Thursday’s regional and council elections losing by late yesterday afternoon 454 councillors and eight councils in England, while it lost...

Tsipras organising Greek regime change!

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AFTER a request by Prime Minister Tsipras, the Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos convened, Monday afternoon 6th of July, a meeting of the Political Leaders...

Military in Myanmar dump Aung San Suu Kyi for civil war against Burma’s ...

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N THE early hours of Monday the military in Myanmar (formerly called Burma) seized power in a coup that saw the country’s leader Aung...

The US Falters, Shares Crash And Revolution Stalks Europe!

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THE US, EU and Asian stockmarkets have taken yet another hit as the decline and fall of the US capitalist economy continues. On Thursday, the...

Thieves, drug users, arsonists and spies – recruited by the Metropolitan police

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BACK in 2014 the police announced that they were ‘relaxing’ their rules on recruitment to allow convicted criminals to join. In fact, this just legitimised...

Murdoch – the police – the government and the state

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THE admission by Met police chief Sir Paul Stephenson, that Murdoch’s News International was paying serving police officers, comes as no shock to those...

One day FBU strikes must pave the way for a general strike!

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LAST Friday the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced that it would kick off its defence of jobs and conditions with two days of strike...

Turn TUC demonstration on 18th June into a general strike to bring down...

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THE national demonstration and march on Parliament called by the TUC on Saturday June 18th has met with a massive response throughout the working...

Eurasian Economic Union, and the China-Russia gas plan, a double blow against imperialism!

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RUSSIA, Belarus and Kazakhstan have just signed the historic Eurasian Economic Union. It comes into effect in January 2015, and will get rid of...

Putin draws a line and issues a warning over imperialist war preparations

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RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin slammed the Western powers in his annual end-of-year press conference yesterday, telling the assembled journalists that Russia was cheated by...

Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring the Tories down and bring...

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EVERY day brings a new savage attack by this Tory government on the NHS. At the beginning of the week the shock announcement broke that...

Sinn Fein Wins The Election But Drops All References To United Ireland!

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AS SOON as the Northern Ireland Assembly election results were announced on Saturday confirming that Sinn Fein was now the biggest party, the US,...

President Trump Panics – And Pledges To Send In The Nuclear Submarines!

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TRUMP’S declaration that he is sending two nuclear submarines into ‘appropriate regions’ to threaten Russia, has made public that he is preparing for the...

Bosses Declare War On Workers With An 80% Hike In Electricity And Gas Bills...

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THE UK’s energy bills are set to jump 80 per cent to an average of £3,549 per year from October, regulator Ofgem announced on...

House nuisance neighbours in containers says Field

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LABOUR’S war against the working class and the poor continues, with Birkenhead MP Frank Field advocating that nuisance neighbours should be evicted and ‘housed’...

War on homeless must be answered with a revolution against the ruling class!

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A WAR on homeless people has begun, with moves to make begging illegal, effectively criminalising poverty, while using the police to drive homeless people...

US-Israel steps up the war against Hamas and also against the working people of...

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ALI Damush, the vice chairman of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, said yesterday that Israel had resumed its aggression on Gaza by US decision. He...

Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America

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THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...

Bankrupt British Bosses Declaring War On Workers, Students And Youth!

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THE UK government borrowed £35.9bn in August, which was £30.5bn more than it borrowed in August last year. Borrowing between April and August totalled...

Defend the NHS budget Drive out the privateers Nationalise the drug companies

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THE voice of the NHS managers spoke up yesterday. The NHS Confederation reported ‘The health service in England won’t survive unchanged’. This is doublespeak, for...

Russian strike on foreign mercenary centre in Ukraine a massive blow against imperialist war...

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ON SUNDAY morning around 30 cruise missiles fired by the Russian military hit the mis-named International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in western Ukraine, which...

Open up the NHS demands Bush and the US drug companies

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NOT content with wrecking Iraq, the US administration is moving in to wreck the British NHS on behalf of the US drug companies. ...

Blair, Brown Step Up War On The Public Sector

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BLAIR and Brown stepped up the new Labour assault on the public sector yesterday. Brown even had the cheek to blame service sector workers’...