Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Fatah calls for a general strike and ‘Day of Rage’ – UK workers must...

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AT LEAST 40 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison of ‘Megiddo’ have joined the prisoners’ open-ended mass hunger strike, said the strikers Media Committee...

The lesson from the tower block fire disaster is stop the fire service cuts!

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SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after...

Stop The Council Cuts – Bring Down The Coalition!

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COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...

BA Cabin Crew strikers need a strategy to win – demand Unite bring out...

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TODAY BA mixed fleet cabin crew start another round of four days of strike action against poverty level wages that has meant them relying...

Postal workers preparing to ballot for national strike action

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POSTAL workers are preparing for a second ballot for national strike action between 3rd and 17th March over management moves to steamroller through plans...

US Crisis Explodes On The Streets As Trump Threatens War With North Korea And...

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US PRESIDENT Trump, dedicated to ‘making America great again’, to further enrich the bosses and the bankers at the expense of the US workers...

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...

World Crisis Can Only Be Resolved By World Revolution!

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THE DEEPENING of the world crisis of capitalism is driving forward massive job cuts for workers across the world, as manufacturing industry globally faces...

UK loses AAA credit rating

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Late last Friday, Moody’s Investors Service, one of the world’s three main credit rating agencies, downgraded the sovereign credit rating of the UK and...

Union leaders are refusing to defend jobs in the face of the most vicious...

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LAST week it was announced by BAE systems, the private defence company, that the shipbuilding industry was to be closed down in Portsmouth and...

Capitalism’s Greatest Crisis Driving World Revolution!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, finally admitted publicly that British and world capitalism faced their ‘worst crisis ever’, a crisis...

The working class is being turned into the working homeless! Capitalism is rotting!...

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NURSES, firefighters, and teachers are so badly paid that many are doing second jobs in order to survive! A vast majority rely on in-work...

200,000 Local Authority Workers Face The Axe

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AS the regime of savage cuts gets under way, in the run-up to the general election, it is no surprise that the local government...

Russia must recognise the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ‘On recognition in the Russian Federation of the documents and licence plates of vehicles issued to...

TUC on its knees – time for a revolutionary leadership!

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THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...

The working class is the hero of the hour – it smashed the Tory...

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IT says something about the scale of the defeat that the Tories and the bosses have suffered over the Mayoral election in London...

Obama Heading For The Fiscal Cliff – US Workers Beware!

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OBAMA’S re-election is a product of the refusal of US workers to allow an all-out robber baron of capitalism, Romney, to have control over...

Unions at court to fight pensions rip-off

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Yesterday six trade unions appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice to appeal against a High Court decision that the coalition government will slash...

No Increase In Military Spending – The Enemy Is At Home!

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AFTER over a decade of savage austerity measures, during which wages have been driven down and millions made dependent on food banks, the House...

France and UK want air strikes after Assad’s victory at Al-Qusayr

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THE Hezbollah TV channel yesterday showed a fighter planting a Syrian flag on Al-Qusayr’s clock tower while the Western powers’ surrogate, the Free Syrian...

While FIFA looks the other way Palestinian children are being tortured

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IT is a monstrous betrayal of the Palestinian people that the FIFA Congress immersed itself in the corrupt affairs of billionaire, big business soccer,...

Britain Is Ripe For Socialist Revolution

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THE British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) quarterly report has just discovered a situation that every worker and every shopper has been acquainted with for...

Time for the US trade unions to break with Obama and form a...

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address attempted to present an image of a presidency that was capable of achieving something for the...

Justice – Just Another Bourgeois Commodity For Sale

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THE Coalition’s ‘Justice Secretary’ Chris Grayling plans to make further savage cuts in the £2bn legal aid bill in England and Wales, to...

Imperialist War Equals Massacre And Dehumanisation

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A US SOLDIER in Afghanistan has killed at least 16 civilians and wounded five men, women and children. Nato said it was investigating...

US government shuts down as ruling class split widens

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THE US government has begun to shut itself down after the two houses of Congress failed to agree a budget by midnight Monday. The Republican-led...

California’s budget ‘meltdown’

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CALIFORNIA’S Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal state of emergency yesterday in a move to put pressure on members of California State Legislature...

Rescue us from Syrian quagmire! US–UK call out to Putin!

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THE US and UK are stuck deep into the Syrian quagmire – a quagmire of their own making. They have achieved a situation where millions...

Brown Speeding Up The Privatisation Programme

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THE reaction of the Brown government to the eruption of the capitalist crisis has been to champion the interests of the banks, pledging to...

A&E closures cost lives! Build Councils of Action – Occupy!

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INTERNAL documents secured by the Mail on Sunday under the Freedom of Information Act, along with a report due to be issued later this...

Imperialists keep out of Zimbabwe! Forward to a workers and small farmers government

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THE MUGABE regime has been beaten in the polls by the trade union backed Movement for Democratic Change and is now considering its options...

It’s still austerity, more austerity and yet more austerity from Osborne and the Tories

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The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2014, compared to 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the...

Workers Of The World Unite – Is Still The Slogan Of The Hour!

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NET migration to the UK is at an all-time high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March 2015, that is 94,000 more than in...

French youth rise up over death of 24 year-old after police attack music festival

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THE GOVERNMENT of French president Emmanuel Macron went into a full blown crisis this week with riots in Nantes on Saturday where thousands of...

Lloyd’s pulls the plug on Europe

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NOT just Greece but the Eurozone and, by extension, the whole of Europe is a financial basket case that is heading inexorably towards a...

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...

SALUTE ABDUL HAROUN – The man that the tunnel could not stop!

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ABDUL Rahman Haroun is a hero. The Sudanese national walked the full length of the Channel Tunnel (31 miles), dicing with death all of...

Bankrupt Britain Faces Huge Welfare Cuts!

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IN HIS Autumn Statement on the economy, Chancellor Osborne outlined many more years of severe austerity with billions more in welfare cuts to be...

Privatisation and health care are opposites!

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YESTERDAY Southern Cross announced 3,000 redundancies. Its crash is underway with the lives of thousands of elderly residents at stake as well as the...

Israel Accepts Gaza Ceasefire Out Of Fear Of The Arab Revolution

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THE Egyptian military have brokered a truce between the militant Palestinian factions in Gaza and the Israeli military, which had been bombing Gaza for...

US moving to ground war in Iraq and Syria

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THE United States is poised to step up the war in Iraq and Syria with the sending of more US ground forces. Speaking to...

Trump And Allies Plan To Attack And Loot Afghanistan!

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PRESIDENT Trump has told the US people he has changed his mind about Afghanistan being a futile conflict, and that now the US, and...

Lecturers & students must strike to end all university fees and restore grants!

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THE LATEST increase in university tuition fees in England to £9,250 by the Tory government has been launched without any announcement from the Department...

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...

EU using rubber bullets and stun grenades against refugees!

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AT the Idomeni crossing from Greece into Macedonia refugees are clashing with Macedonian soldiers and police, as they try to reopen the border near...