Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Labour blindfolds itself so as not to see the developing capitalist crisis!

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THE Labour Party manifesto launched on Tuesday contained a number of slight but significant changes from the draft leaked to the press last week. On...

Forward to the State of Palestine – from the river to the sea –...

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IN a telephone conversation yesterday, President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the latest developments in Palestine, especially in light of...

State terror at home and abroad!

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THE UK capitalist state has always used terrorist attacks, such as the latest attack in Tunisia, to strengthen its continuing preparation of special armed...

Bring Down Crisis-Ridden Tories – Quit The Eu Now!

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THE PATHETIC political collapse of PM May is the result of the massive hostility of the UK working class to her ripping up the...

While the homeless sleep on the streets and workers battle to survive the rich...

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UK WORKERS have suffered privation and poverty ever since the 2008 financial crash, when the banks were bailed out by a Labour government at...

Netanyahu turning the screws on Palestinians to the point of revolution!

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THE Israeli Netanyahu regime is now working hard at its programme for the ‘final solution’ to the question of Palestine and the Palestinians. The Palestinian...

Take Action To Win The Winter War

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ON FRIDAY, the Health Secretary Hewitt announced that the NHS is heading for a £623 million deficit by the end of March. This deficit is...

IPCC admits Special Branch acted illegally to assist drawing up ‘blacklist’ for bosses!

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‘POLICE, including Special Branches, supplied information that appeared on the blacklist, funded by the country’s major construction firms, the Consulting Association and/or other agencies,...

‘A positive response’ says Bush on Iran

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US President George W Bush has welcomed Iran’s initial reaction to a proposal from the EU states designed to achieve a deal with...

Capitalism Is On Its Knees – Time To Organise World Socialist Revolution!

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THE UK’s Oxfam said yesterday that Israel has already destroyed more than 80% of the water and sewerage networks in the Gaza Strip, leading...

North Korea successfully tests H-Bomb to be loaded onto an ICBM!

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NORTH Korea has successfully tested an H-bomb, a nuclear weapon that it will now be able to load onto an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile...

Britain Boarded The Grace 1 Off Gibraltar To Protect US And UK Oil Thieves...

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ON JULY 4th, 30 Royal Marines boarded the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 off Gibraltar, allegedly on orders from the USA, because of suspicions...

Crocodile Tears At The Security Council Over Syria!

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THE UN Security Council has condemned the truck bomb attacks that killed at least 55 people and wounded almost 400 in the Syrian capital,...

Hancock’s claim that ‘no NHS workers died from lack of PPE’ must be met...

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TORY Health Secretary Matt Hancock was grilled for four hours by two Parliamentary Committees on Thursday, in which he insisted that ‘There was never...

Bring down the Tories – the only way to defend and develop the NHS!

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THE BMA’s just-published Survey of Doctors reveals the depth of the crisis that the Tory government has plunged the NHS into, as a result...

Millions of low paid US workers are on the march!

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FOLLOWING the Black Friday strike action at 1,500 WalMart stores throughout the US, fast-food workers in over 100 cities will walk off the job...

Smash Royal Mail privatisation!

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THE arrogant Tories have announced that the sell-off of Royal Mail is to begin in just weeks. The announcement comes days after the ending of...

Civil war declared as Tories are torn apart by the capitalist crisis – Kick...

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CIVIL WAR in the Tory Party has erupted as Boris Johnson and his allies launch a coordinated attack on PM Rishi Sunak, with the...

UNITE leader offers to assist Tory productivity drive

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THE immediate response of the leaders of the trade unions representing public sector workers to the wage-cutting programme outlined by Osborne in this week’s...

US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis and NATO to organise a war with...

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PM Boris Johnson said yesterday that Ukrainians are ‘fighting heroically’ and with ‘great success’ in some places against Russian troops who have intervened to...

McCluskey and TUC determined to rescue Cameron from EU crisis

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WITH the Tory party split and divided, the ruling class in the UK – Cameron, big business and the bankers – are relying on...

Zionist regime humiliated as Palestinians rise-up – Forward to The State of Palestine

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ISRAEL was dealt a massive humiliating blow early Monday morning when six Palestinian prisoners tunnelled their way out of the Gilbao maximum-security jail. Five of...

Tories to make hundreds of thousands homeless – only socialism can solve housing crisis

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THE policy of the Tory-led coalition to slash housing benefit for the unemployed and low income families will result in hundreds of thousands being...

Workers must force through the break with the EU with a socialist revolution

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THE Brexit negotiations have just begun and already it is being spelt out to the UK ruling class that the ‘divorce settlement’ that...

International inquiry finds no basis for Israeli claims against UNRWA that gave US and...

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IN JANUARY, the Israeli regime unleashed a propaganda campaign against UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East,...

Trade unions must call a general strike to stop Tories ending all Covid restrictions

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YESTERDAY, Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the ending of all remaining Covid restrictions in England this week. The Tories’ ‘Living with Covid’ plan means...

The Jubilee turns sour as capitalism crashes

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THE Jubilee ‘celebrations’ have turned out to be a petty, momentary diversion for sections of the middle class, away from the real drama...

What Should Be Done About Gordon Brown

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DAVID Miliband yesterday urged the Labour Party to rally behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is facing mounting opposition in the working class because...

Crisis-Ridden Bosses And Tories Fear The Election

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THE Tory Party, its media wing and the boss class as a whole are getting very worried about the election, and what is to...

Corbyn comes out on top as May is jeered, laughed at and heckled!

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THE separate questioning by SKY’s Faisal Islam, Jeremy Paxman and a small audience, of Labour leader Corbyn and PM May showed just how disorientated...

Tories hand billions to private rail companies while demanding workers keep TfL from...

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THE TORIES unveiled this week proposals for funding Transport for London (TfL) that will force the working and middle class to bear the huge...

Nationalise Lonmin – forward with South African socialist revolution

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The massacre of 34 striking miners at the hands of the ANC government’s police last Thursday marked a decisive point in the development of...

Defend benefits! down with ‘universal credit’!

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THE announcement yesterday that the work and pensions minister, Iain Duncan Smith, had won his battle with the treasury over bringing in a single ‘universal...

Unions Must Fight And Defeat Local Pay Plans

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THE Tory LibDem coalition, despite all its problems and weaknesses, waged a war to bring its Health and Social Care privatising bill into law. They...

US budget deal threatens working class

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ON Tuesday night, the chairs of the US House and Senate budget committee, Paul Ryan (Republican) and Patty Murray (Democrat), held a joint press...

Cameron and May want to squash basic rights and freedom of speech!

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TORY PM CAMERON has just reprimanded the people of the UK for being ‘over tolerant’ of extremism, signalling that his regime is so unstable...

Ex-Tory minister reveals police spies reported directly to Tory government!

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ON TUESDAY, Norman Tebbit, former Tory minister in the government of Margaret Thatcher, proudly announced that while he was employment secretary from 1981-83 he...

With stockmarkets crashing it is time to smash capitalism and go forward to world...

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AMID world stock markets crashing, and the head of the IMF revealing she has ‘sleepless nights’ over the dangerous risks of collapses in the...

Return The Malvinas To Argentina!

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PERU has cancelled a visit by a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Montrose, that had been due this week. Peruvian Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo said: ‘This...

Palestinian masses break the blockade and start tearing down the walls

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THE Palestinian revolution has shown the way forward by blowing a massive hole in the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, so that hundreds of...

RMT victory in ScotRail dispute shows the way forward for working class

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ON WEDNESDAY, the RMT transport union members won a massive victory in their fight against the ‘pitiful’ pay offer from ScotRail. RMT members at ScotRail,...

Drive the fascists off the streets – forward to workers power and socialism!

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LAST Friday night, a racist gang attacked and seriously injured a teenage asylum seeker in Croydon. The Kurdish Iranian boy, age 17, was waiting with...

Israeli unions are striking for a Gaza ceasefire! The UK TUC must call a...

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A NATIONWIDE strike swept across Israel yesterday, intensifying the mass pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree an immediate cease-fire and a prisoner...

Defend All A&E’s – Stop The NHS Cuts And Closures!

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THE message from Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England about the NHS crisis, is ‘what crisis?’ There are just too many...

Join lobby of TUC to demand it calls strike action to end the Zionist...

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted with fury yesterday following the announcement on Monday that the Labour government was suspending some arms sales to...