Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

End misery of bankrupt capitalism with socialist revolution

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LAST Friday the European Banking Authority released the findings of this year’s Stress Test for European banks. These stress tests, introduced one year ago, are...

Expropriate the landlords, build millions of council homes

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WHEN the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, starts accusing his coalition government of ‘Kosovo-style social cleansing’ in the capital over the plans to...

Obama revamps US imperialism’s war cabinet

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BARACK OBAMA, United States President-elect, announced the latest appointments to his White House cabinet on Monday. He made Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, confirmed that...

Bilge From The Bishop!

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THE Bishop of Rochester, Dr Nazir-Ali, yesterday sounded like he borrowed a script from the British National Party when he warned that Islamic extremism...

It Is Time For A Revolution Inside The Trade Unions To Defeat The Bosses’...

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THE UNITE leader Sharon Graham on Saturday in a speech in Coventry suspended all Coventry Labour councillors who are Unite members from the union...

UK-US Gives Israel Mandate For Mass Bombing Of Lebanon

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A SHOCKED Zionist government was yesterday seeking to regroup after the military reverses that it has suffered on the ground at the hands of...

UK planning for war right across the Mediterranean!

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THE imperialist powers are now working overtime to explode the Mediterranean region, from Libya to Turkey, into one huge raging fire. The UN Security Council...

Hamas election win – a victory for resistance

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HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) won a resounding victory in Wednesday’s general election securing 76 seats in the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), on the...

Head of Oxfam GB damns UK as ‘morally incoherent’ over arming the Israeli genocide!

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THE head of Oxfam GB, Halima Begum, has damned the UK government for supplying arms to Israel while simultaneously providing humanitarian aid to Gaza...

War against Taleban spreads into Pakistan

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THE centre of Mingora as well as large parts of the provincial capital of Swat have been destroyed and are rubble after five weeks...

Putin Alarm At US War Drive

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THE fact that the deepening capitalist crisis is turning the whole planet into a US war zone has begun to seriously alarm the Russian...

Bush’s Wall Street Bail-Out Defeated

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PRESIDENT George Bush’s Bill for a $700bn package of measures to bail out the Wall Street banks and large financial institutions in the United...

Jamaican High Commissioner demands halt deportations! End May’s hostile environment by kicking the Tories...

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‘WE MAY very well be deporting people who are entitled to be here,’ the Jamaican High Commissioner said, calling on the UK government to...

Unions Must Stop Queen Mary’s Closure!

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THE news that the Accident and Emergency and maternity units at Queen Mary’s Hospital are to be closed for the coming winter is a...

All Trade Unions Must Support The Junior Doctors!

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THE decision by the Junior Doctors Committee (JDC) of the BMA to ballot for industrial action is a courageous stand against the government’s imposition...

US Trade Unions Ready To Take Action To Bring Down Trump!

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IN AN unprecedented move, the American trade union AFL-CIO federation (the US equivalent of the TUC) issued a statement last Friday warning that the...

Don’t raise rates Chambers of Commerce warns B of E

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ON the eve of the Bank of England’s monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting over the Bank’s interest rate, the British Chambers of Commerce has...

Economic tsunami to hit Japan

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‘We have been humbled by nature’ the Japanese ambassador to Britain said of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that has devastated northern Japan with...

Down with all zero-hours contracts!

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‘JOBSEEKERS’ will lose their benefits, or their Universal Credit when it is introduced, if they turn down zero-hours contracts, the government has said. This new...

MPs want a secret inquiry into the Afghan debacle and defeat!

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THE UK government should set up an inquiry into ‘lessons learned’ after troops withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of this year, the MPs...

UK gov is bullying councils to keep schools open – while TUC issues mass...

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THE Johnson government’s Covid-19 crisis intensified as it ordered London and most of Essex and Hertfordshire to join Tier 3 at 00:01 GMT yesterday. This...

Boeing ‘putting passengers’ lives at risk to maximise profit’ warn pilots

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THE GIANT US aircraft manufacturer Boeing is once again at the centre of a storm over the safety of its planes, this time concerning...

At least three provinces reject the US’ Iraq constitution

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IT IS remarkable that in a ‘constitutional referendum’ organised by a puppet government, in a country under occupation by the US and the UK,...

Occupy Tata Steel NOW! Kick the Tories out! Tata must be nationalised...

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THE decision by the bosses to sell off Tata Steel is one that will lead not just to poverty for 19,000 workers and...

Imperialist ‘surge’ in Iraq and Afghanistan = mass slaughter

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SIX Iraqi primary schoolchildren have been slaughtered by a US helicopter spraying al-Nedawat village with machine gun fire and hitting a primary school, in...

Defend every job, bring down the Brown government, forward to socialism

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LLOYDS stated yesterday that its takeover of HBOS would save it at least £1.5bn a year, more than it had been expecting, which all...

Unite the public sector TUC must call indefinite general strike

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TODAY'S four-hour national strike by firefighters is just the tip of a gigantic iceberg of working class hatred steadily bearing down on the leaky...

UK troops are on the Polish border – while US and UK forces are...

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BRITISH TROOPS are now on the Belarus-Polish border answering a request by the Polish government to give it military support against thousands of Middle...

UN Admits Al-Qaeda Bombing Damascus!

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THE UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has admitted that Al-Qaeda is behind two deadly suicide car bomb attacks in Syria last week. Fifty-five people were...

American revolution will replace the failed American dream

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UAW car workers President Ron Gettelfinger last Thursday lifted the lid just a little on the lives of tens of millions of US workers,...

Trump champions the police and launches his war against communism and socialism!

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US PRESIDENT Trump, in his desperate attempt to win the November presidential election, has stepped up his war against the working class, branding all...

Lagarde says Greek euro exit will ‘probably’ not mean end of euro

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THE head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, admitted on Thursday that she could not ‘preclude’ Greece being forced out of the eurozone. This...

After China sneezes Wall Street drops like a stone

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A NINE per cent fall on the small Chinese stock market, after rumours that the Stalinist bureaucracy was about to tax shares, and slightly...

Brown insists on wage cuts for workers & billions for bankers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown justified pay cuts for workers in the public services and the billions handed over by the Treasury to the bankrupt...

ICJ Hearing on Israeli occupation of Palestine opens – working class must demand general...

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Yesterday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened its historic hearings into the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967. The ICJ, the United Nation’s...

Johnson Now Speaking Out Of Both Sides Of His Mouth At The Same Time!

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LAST FRIDAY, evidence from Boris Johnson assured a Scottish court, in his own name, that he would send a letter to the EU, as...

US is complicit in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp massacre that killed 274 Palestinians!

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ON Friday, Israeli forces launched a murderous attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza with bombs directed at its market place, which...

Starmer clears out Corbynite Long-Bailey to clear the way for a national government with...

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LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has unceremoniously sacked shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. This is the MP who was the main contender standing against...

Tories ‘sidelining NHS’ is the cause of testing crisis – time to bring them...

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WITH coronavirus cases continuing to rapidly increase day on day as a result of the Tories’ campaign to drive the reopening of workplaces, schools...

Cameron & Obama threaten Russia and support Israel’s attack on Gaza

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CAMERON was in threatening mode on Monday in his statement to the House of Commons. He said that President Putin must use his influence to...

EU ripped apart by crisis – time to bring it down and advance to...

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WITH the Labour right-wing openly organising at the party conference in Brighton this week to bind the party firmly to a campaign to remain in...

One Day General Strike On January 31

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THE government’s policy of mass sackings of civil servants, of driving down their wages, and of outsourcing and privatisation has driven civil servants to...

Johnson-Sunak Are Preparing A Winter War Against The British Working Class!

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THE UK working class is heading into the greatest ever winter struggle in its history, much greater than any of the ‘winters of discontent’...

Chilcott Inquiry Findings Must Be Published At Once!

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THIS week the chairman of the influential Public Administration Committee urged ministers to ‘sort out’ the delay in publishing the official inquiry into the...

Bring down the Irish government to smash the Water Tax!

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OVER 150,000 people took part in nationwide protests last Saturday against the introduction of savage water charges throughout the Republic of Ireland. Up to 100...