Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Junior Doctors Are Determined To Defeat The Tories

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TENS of thousands of junior doctors struck yesterday and made it very clear that they are not a protest movement, and that their first...

Savage cut in ESA to claw back £1.4bn from the disabled!

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THE peers of the House of Lords on Monday night capitulated to the Tory government over cuts to disabled people’s benefits to ‘encourage them...

Cameron and NATO mobilise to send refugees back!

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BRITAIN is sending ‘vital military assets’ (in Cameron’s words) to be part of the NATO force that will be intercepting refugee boats seeking to...

Defend North Korea Against Imperialist Attack!

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THE US and its South Korean puppets are set to begin their largest ever joint military exercises amid the high tensions that they have...

Refugees branded as ‘illegals’ by EU

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THIS week, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, threatened that the EU would deport the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist...

Bosses threaten car workers jobs if they vote to leave EU

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THE giant German car maker, BMW, has written to every one of its 8,000 employees in Britain making the thinly veiled threat that in...

Tory Party tearing itself apart – Now finish it off!

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THE spectacle of the Tory party tearing itself apart over the EU referendum will most certainly gladden the hearts of workers across the country. Last...

‘Snooper’s charter’ must be smashed through socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY the Tory home secretary, Theresa May, unveiled in parliament her latest ‘revised’ snooper’s charter that she intends to rush into law by the...

Capitalism’s ‘storm clouds’ herald revolution

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AT THE end of last week the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announced that all his stated austerity plans in last autumn’s budget statement were...

Ex-Bank of England boss believes world financial crash is ‘certain’ and ‘sooner rather than...

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MERVYN KING, the head of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, has added his name to the number of the capitalist world’s...

30% rise in the numbers ‘sleeping rough’!

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THE number of people forced to live and sleep on the streets has more than doubled since 2010, the year the Tory-led coalition came...

Cameron to sack Gove as IMF warns economy heading for adverse shocks

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THE knives are out for one-time Tory Party hero Michael Gove, the self-styled ‘hammer of the teaching trade unions’, who has had the temerity...

UNITE denounces TTIP but supports Cameron in EU referendum!

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THE Unite trade union leadership specialises in doubletalk. One example is the way that it is verbally 100% opposed to the anti-trade union legislation that...

Labour support group props up Cameron

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THE Cameron-led debate in the House of Commons on Monday disclosed a Tory Party split down the middle, with Boris Johnson leading a revolt...

Low Paid prevented from having a Family Life

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A CASE brought before the Supreme Court yesterday spotlights the extent to which British capitalism inflicts not just indignity but the denial of the...

Bell Tolls For UK Capitalism On June 23 Referendum Day!

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THE Tory government is now split over its EU referendum, with six cabinet ministers, and over 100 MPs advocating a vote to leave the...

Smash Fortress EU with the socialist revolution

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THE head of Eurotunnel is demanding that Britain forks out £4.6 million to finance a massive wall enclosing 600 metres of track at the...

All councils, student unions and trade unions must boycott Israel – Edelstein visit must...

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THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has condemned the new Tory ‘guidance’ banning councils, NHS trusts and all publicly funded organisations from boycotting goods and services...

Junior doctors must call new strike and the BMA and TUC must stop with...

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THE BMA warned yesterday that ‘Politically driven mismanagement is undermining patient care in England. It was responding to a report from the King’s Fund...

Death rate rising rapidly – savage Tory cuts to blame!

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MASSIVE Tory cuts are undermining the NHS and threatening the lives of many thousands. There is already an investigation taking place after  whistleblower Sarah Hayes, a...

Free Mohammed al-Qiq

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The Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq is close to death according to independent doctors who have visited him in the hospital where he is being...

Defiant Assad Puts Imperialists Into A Crisis!

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PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...

NHS Executives back away from imposition – Unions must take strike action

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s contract imposition has already begun to hit the rocks with 10 of the 20 NHS executives who signed the Dalton letter...

TUC must call general strike in support of the junior doctors!

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‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

World banks on verge of collapse – forward with world socialist revolution

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WHEN one of the biggest banks in the world is forced to publish an open letter to staff, investors and depositors that, contrary to...

Junior doctors are fighting for the NHS – demand the TUC stands with them,...

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TODAY’S strike by junior doctors must be supported by the entire trade union movement and the working class. What is at stake in this dispute...

Defend the NHS – Kick the Tories Out!

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BARTS Health NHS Trust, the biggest hospital trust in the country, will go £134.9 million in the red by the end of March according...

60,000 families face eviction under Tory Housing Bill

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60,000 HOUSEHOLDS in England face being thrown out of their council houses next year as a result of the Tories ‘pay to stay’ policy. Under...

Free Assange – Jail the imperialists, the real war criminals

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YESTERDAY, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has been unlawfully detained by...

Donors cough up to keep Syrian refugees out of EU while their Islamists sabotage...

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WESTERN leaders and their allies have opened a donor conference in London with an urgent plea for billions of pounds in aid for refugees...

THE TORIES ARE PILING HUGE PRESSURES ONTO GPs AND THE NHS!

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HUGE PRESSURES are being put onto GPs in England and Wales. They are so great that doctors are beginning to feel that they are...

ALL trade unions must strike with Junior Doctors on February 10th!

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JUNIOR doctors are to take strike action on February 10th after rejecting the government’s proposals in negotiations, where the government was represented by NHS...

Capitalist state uses ‘guilt by association’ to attack youth

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A REPORT by Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre For Crime and Justice Studies published last week focuses on the way police and prosecutors collude to...

GPs must follow junior doctors lead and strike to defend contracts and defend...

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VERY ANGRY BMA GPs met in conference on Saturday where they carried motions to fight ‘underfunding’ and a rapidly growing workload that ‘threatened NHS...

Alleged stonethrowers charged with attempted murder or targeted by snipers!

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‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...

Stop The Dirty War In The Yemen!

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AT PM’s Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Corbyn raised the issue of the UK’s sale of...

Welcome all Refugees! Bankrupt EU spreads racist poison!

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THE Danish parliament has just voted to rob asylum seekers of their valuables – so that they pay for their upkeep. This policy immediately brings...

Stalinist Putin condemns Lenin, but has kept his party card!

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LENIN wrote ‘The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self Determination’ in July 1916, just months after the Easter Rising in Dublin...

Nationalise the Pharmaceutical Industry

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AT last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, 100 pharmaceutical companies and private health care companies issued a statement demanding that governments around the...

Occupy The Steel Industry – Organise General Strike To Defend Jobs

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THE world capitalist crisis as well as shattering the energy industries – oil, coal and gas – is also decimating world steel production and...

Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!

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THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...

Employment Minister Boles Threatens The Trade Unions!

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EMPLOYMENT Minister Nick Boles announced on Wednesday evening that the new anti-union legislation will govern industrial action in the fire, health, education, transport,...

Demoralised Davos surveys the debacle of the world capitalist crisis!

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THE World Economic Forum meeting in Davos to celebrate capitalism finds the assembled chief executives, politicians and would-be prophets much more pessimistic and frightened...

BMA leaders run away after Cameron waves big stick

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THE BMA and its Junior Doctors Committee yesterday ‘made the decision to suspend the 48-hour industrial action planned for 26-28 January. We are announcing...

UK steel industry collapse – occupy to defend jobs, nationalise the steel industry

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THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...