Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Sack Commissioner Dick and disband the Met police NOW! Forward to a workers state...

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THE METROPOLITAN police officer, PC Wayne Couzens, has been sentenced to life imprisonment after it was proven in court that on March 3, 2021...

Trump hails his economic miracle – and reveals his fear of the US and...

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ON TUESDAY, president Donald Trump delivered his much-delayed annual State of the Union speech to the US Congress, held up by the longest-ever shutdown...

Israeli Police Cancel Settlers March! Trade Unions Must Take Action Now To Establish Palestinian...

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ISRAELI police yesterday cancelled tomorrow’s annual massive settlers’ march through Jerusalem. The march celebrates the occupation of the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967 and...

The fight to free Palestine is inseparable from the British socialist revolution!

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IN response to a pledge by US President-elect Donald Trump to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Palestinian ambassador to the United...

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...

Davie and Turness resign from BBC in orchestrated campaign to end all criticism of...

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Tim Davie, director general of the BBC, and Deborah Turness, chief executive of BBC News, both abruptly resigned on Sunday night following a concerted...

Students & lecturers set to erupt over fees & cuts!

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THIS September, students in universities across the country are set to erupt in anger when they return after the £9,000 cap on university tuition...

£65bn PFI Nightmare for the NHS!

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THE PFI Private Finance Initiative was brought in by the Major Tory government, and while it was opposed by Labour in opposition, it was...

Russian news broadcaster banned across EU and UK as capitalism accelerates war drive against...

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SPEAKING in the Commons yesterday, Tory culture secretary Nadine Dorries told MPs that Ofcom (the so-called independent regulator of broadcasting in the UK) was...

Smash Imperialism To Get Rid Of Nuclear Weapons!

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WORLD leaders at the Washington summit on nuclear security have heard the direst warnings yet from President Obama of the danger of nuclear...

EU banker Draghi imposed as Italian Prime Minister in desperate attempt to prevent a...

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BANKRUPT Italian capitalism moved on Tuesday night to cement the dictatorship of the bankers over the country when the president Sergio Mattarela unilaterally appointed...

Massive price increases for millions of workers yesterday while giant energy companies make billions...

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YESTERDAY was dubbed ‘Awful April’ in the press, as millions of households throughout the UK were hit by massive price increases across the board...

Tories split and turn on each other while TUC Congress refuses to take general...

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THE Tory Party is now split and divided as the world- wide capitalist crisis deepens and the weakness of the imperialist powers becomes more...

This Is A War That Has To Be Won!

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UNITE co-leader Tony Woodley stated yesterday that it was not possible to get an agreement with BA and cancel the BA cabin crew...

M&s And Taylor Wimpey Crash As Hauliers Descend On Parliament

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HUNDREDS of hauliers picketed parliament in London yesterday to demonstrate against the rising cost of fuel, and the way that it is destroying their...

Corbyn’s Balancing Act Faces Its Moment Of Truth!

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THE ABRUPT decision by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage not to contest the 317 seats held by the Tories in the general election means...
Herts FBU members lobbying the Downing Street reception on March 1 hosted by Blair to honour firefighters involved in the Buncefield oil depot fire – nine fire stations among the first to repond to the Buncefied fire are now  threatened with closure

Belarus workers vote to keep out capitalism

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RIGHT on cue the European election monitors have said that the re-election of President Lukhashenka was flawed and failed to meet international standards. An EU...

US, UK, Karzai Drive To Bribe The Taleban

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ON the eve of the Afghan conference in London this week, UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take control...

Nato Shall Not Pass Vow Soviet Workers

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THERE could not be a greater contrast between the policies of the Ukrainian governing parties to join the EU and NATO as rapidly as...

Trump Sheds ‘Crocodile Tears’ For Victims Of Thursday’s Downing Of Ukrainian Plane!

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ON FRIDAY January 3rd, the USA carried out a terrorist drone attack on Baghdad airport, murdering General Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary...

Brown prepared to impose ‘unpopular measures’

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PRIME MINISTER Brown said yesterday that he will not be diverted from taking ‘unpopular’ decisions to ensure Britain gets through the global credit crunch....

Labour And Trade Union Leaders Move To The Right!

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THE Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Liam Byrne, yesterday joined hands with Cameron and Osborne with his declaration in the Guardian newspaper that Beveridge,...

Bank of England – people will just have to accept poverty as the price...

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HUW PILL, the chief economist at the Bank of England, has made the official position of the bankers crystal clear when he insisted that...

Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any attack on the country

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THE commander of Iran’s armed forces Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard said on Tuesday that Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any...

Sack CWU collaborators!

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THE drive by the leadership of the postal workers union (CWU) to transform it from an independent union fighting for the interests of its...

Hamas Urges Free Nations To Intervene To Stop Israel Weaponising Food! Act To Break...

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza has confirmed that the Israeli occupation has utterly failed in its attempt to distribute aid within ‘racial...

May appeals to Labour Right-Wing to save her

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THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained...

May government is Thatcherite says the Resolution Foundation

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THE just-published Resolution Foundation’s annual audit of living standards shows that the May government, far from seeking to lighten the load of the poor,...

Labour reach new depths of treachery over NHS

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AT the weekend the new Labour shadow health secretary, Andrew Burnham, delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the NHS with the announcement...

Chancellor’s Budget for starving the working class

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OSBORNE’S BUDGET speech was devoid of any attempt to analyse the world crisis that is gripping capitalism and which is deepening by the hour,...

Recall the TUC Congress now to sack the TUC leaders for their refusal to...

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LAST month, the TUC unanimously passed an emergency motion headed: ‘Stop the escalation of war in the Middle East’ and committed the TUC ‘to...

Worldwide Capitalist Crisis Requires The Victory Of The World Socialist Revolution!

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YESTERDAY saw a massive escalation in the world trade war when the US was given the green light by the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...

No To Imperialist War In West Africa!

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SUFFERING a decisive and humiliating defeat at the hands of the Afghan people has in no way diminished British imperialism’s appetite for military adventures...

Capitalist crisis deepens – socialist revolution the answer

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JUSTICE Secretary, Jack Straw, yesterday dismissed Tory claims that Labour is facing its own Black Wednesday, over Northern Rock and the missing data discs...

Teachers Vote For General Strike

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AT THEIR annual conference last Saturday the NUT (National Union of Teachers) passed a resolution committing the union to a strike ballot over attacks...

Greek Austerity Measures Will Drive Socialist Revolution

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THE Greek ‘socialist’ Prime Minister George Papandreou has announced austerity measures to attack the country’s working class, youth, urban middle class and small farmers,...

Adam Smith rubbishes the Bank of England and its fake stress testing!

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THE Adam Smith Institute has just ‘lampooned’ the Bank of England stress tests – which sought to show that the UK’s banking system is...

Hezbollah and Iranian forces have every right to be in Syria at the invitation...

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SYRIA’S deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, has hailed Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement’s assistance to Syria, and its struggle for survival, saying...

EU preparing Greek ‘regime change’!

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THE debt talks between Greece and its international creditors collapsed on Thursday night with German Chancellor Merkel telling the Greek PM Tsipras to shut...

Tories want more powers for police to crush the trade unions – TUC must...

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the government will be tabling fresh amendments to the Public Order Bill, being debated in the...

Hutton to starve the unemployed into cheap labour jobs

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Hutton asked a question at the start of his verbal onslaught on the unemployed yesterday morning. It was: ‘People want...

US Longshoremen show the way with strike action on May Day to stop the...

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DOCKWORKERS of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to stop work for eight hours in all US West Coast ports on May...

Crisis of German Capitalism nears breaking point – the Banks must be nationalised under...

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Amid a major slump in the German economy, the profits of the giant Deutsche Bank, the country’s largest, crashed a huge 92 per cent...

Hunt throws down the gauntlet – the trade unions must pick it up!

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THE Department of Health, headed by Health Secretary Hunt, has said that a proposed 1% increase in NHS staff pay was unaffordable, and is...

UK at the back of the queue for at least 10 years threatens...

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THE UK could take up to 10 years to negotiate trade deals with the US if it leaves the EU, Barack Obama has said. In...