Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Ealing A&E saved! Now Maternity & Children’s wards must be re-opened!

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THE PLANS to close Ealing and Charing Cross A&Es have been scrapped after a mass campaign by the West London Council of Action secured...

Coalition in crisis, bring it down

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The disarray, confusion and splits within the Tory/LibDem coalition government were brought out sharply over Monday’s announcement by Tory chancellor, George Osborne, that he...

London Midland drivers fight wage cut

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LONDON MIDLAND drivers have refused to work voluntary overtime on Sundays after the company cut their pay for the day to single time. The rail...

Blair’s ‘summary power’ for war on the working class

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched the Labour government’s new ‘Respect Action Plan’ yesterday, declaring that he was setting out to overthrow basic democratic rights...

Arrogant Trump Assumes His Bonaparte Pose While Threatening The Lives Of Hundreds Of...

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THE ARROGANT would-be dictator Trump has issued the workers of the world with his ultimatum that they must either stand and deliver to him...

Youth are being hit the hardest by bankrupt capitalism!

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SKY-ROCKETING youth unemployment figures just released reveal that nearly one million young people in the UK are not in employment, up from 500,000 in...

US launches its anti-Iran naval coalition in Gulf! Workers of US & UK rise...

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THE US has launched its naval coalition of anti-Iranian forces seeking to police the Persian Gulf. The anti-Iran coalition includes Australia, Bahrain, the UK,...

NHS to be butchered to pay the bankers’ debts

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LARGE-scale hospital cuts and closures are now being organised for immediately after the next general election. These cuts have been dictated by the current enormously...

Youth in Europe erupt against more austerity

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ON Sunday a mass movement of workers led by young people took to the streets of cities across Europe in a powerful demonstration of...

Bush plans coming unstuck in Pakistan

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PRESIDENT Musharraf swore in a new caretaker puppet government yesterday to lead crisis-hit Pakistan towards rigged elections in January, when demonstrations and all rallies...

46,000 auto workers close down GM as the class struggle erupts in US

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ON SUNDAY night 46,000 members of the United Automobile Workers (UAW), employed by General Motors in America, walked out on indefinite strike in a...

Ed Balls ending Universal Benefit

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YESTERDAY the Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, announced that the Labour Party has officially abandoned the principle of universal benefits in the interests of...

Jobs For Youth – Smash The Cheap Labour Economy

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Youth unemployment is now higher than it was in 1997, with 702,000 young people aged 16-24 jobless, according to official figures released just before...

Only Socialist Revolution will end capitalist inequality

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The US is on the verge of slipping below bankrupt Greece on a world index of wealth inequality – this is the stark conclusion...

Johnson fighting a war on two fronts against Russia and against the working class...

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PM JOHNSON in his Thursday speech in Blackpool unveiled his war on two fronts against the Russian workers abroad, and at home against the...

Heading For A Housing Crash!

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ON MONDAY trading on the Wall Street stock market in New Century Financial shares was halted, as the second largest US sub-prime mortgage lender...

Forward With The European Socialist Revolution!

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ON MONDAY in the House of Commons, ex-Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw rounded on the government stating: ‘Instead of sheltering behind complacent language and...

Syria Is Right To Press On To Retake Eastern Ghouta From The Terrorists!

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A SYRIAN army statement confirmed yesterday that Syrian government forces will lift the siege on the terrorist-held sections of the Damascus suburb of...

Defend jobs, wages and basic rights – forward to a workers government

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JOBS are now going in a huge avalanche. The Lloyds Banking Group, where the government has the major stake, is set to begin a...

Oust Sunak and bring back the call-up says the Tory Telegraph beating the...

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THE TORY Daily Telegraph yesterday sounded the alarm bells, in the face of the ever deepening crisis of British capitalism. It was a double-barrelled message,...

Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!

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AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...

Call Strike Action Across Public Sector Against Brown’s Wage Cutting Policy

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ON Tuesday the GMB annual conference decided that a sub-inflation cap on pay negotiations is completely unacceptable to GMB public service members. The...

Millions denied NHS dental care under Labour

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IT IS estimated that 7.4 million people in England and Wales have not been to a National Health Service dentist since April 2006, because...

Grenfell survivors want jail sentences for those responsible for the fire!

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LAWYERS for victims of the Grenfell fire have indicted the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea council, which owned the Grenfell tower block, and...

Britain’s Criminal War Against The Kenyan Land Freedom Army

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BRITISH conscripts were sent out to Kenya in the 1950s, where they were turned into brutes and sadistic killers, in the war of British...

Overthrowing capitalism only way to eradicate Covid variants

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THE NEW variant strain of Covid-19, given the name Omicron by the World Health Organisation (WHO), burst onto the world scene last week although...

Nurses determined to fight the Tories – all trade unions must strike with them...

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The annual conference of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Brighton this week is taking place at a time when the entire NHS...

The ‘bank of central bankers’ warns new banking collapse imminent

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THE Swiss based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has just issued its starkest warning yet that the entire debt fuelled international banking system is...

Stop the A&E closure programme by booting out the Tory coalition

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JUST days after Health Secretary Hunt was found to be acting unlawfully with his plan to close the A&E and other facilities at Lewisham...

World Socialist Revolution is only way to end imperialist slaughter

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THE TORIES have damned the Starmer government for a foreign policy ‘shambles’ as political parties throughout the western imperialist nations grapple with coming to...

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...

Trade unions must take general strike action in support of Palestinian masses!

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THE UN’s World Food Programme has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation after Israel launched a brutal aggression on Gaza last month....

TUC traitors issue joint statement with the CBI bosses, the ETUC and Business...

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THE TUC leaders have just issued an unprecedented joint statement with the bosses of the CBI, the ETUC and Business Europe ahead of June’s...

Egypt Joins The Siege Of Gaza!

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AT the same time as Mahmud Abbas is declaring that he will stop the eruption of a Third Intifada, the Egyptian government has actively...

Johnson speech a bombastic cover-up of Tory class war preparations

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PM BORIS Johnson delivered a speech to the Tory faithful yesterday that was immediately dismissed by Matthew Lesh, head of the research at the...

Starmer out! General strike from Oct 7th to defend winter fuel payments!

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FRESH from his defeat at the Labour Party Conference by the successful vote against his policy to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners,...

Having removed Mursi, the Egyptian masses will march forward to socialism

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THE move by the Egyptian military leadership to overthrow the Muslim Brotherhood government of President Mursi represents a decisive development in the Egyptian revolution...

Kerry Calls In Stalinist Bureaucracy To ‘Resolve’ Syrian Crisis

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IN its hour of need – with Syria resisting massively the attempt at ‘regime change’ organised by the US-UK-Turkey axis, and carried out by...

Kick The Profiteers Out Of The NHS!

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THE report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire gives official and damming evidence of the plundering...

Capitalist state gives support to Walsh’s diktat!

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THE decision by a Judge in chambers to rule the BA strike action illegal is a major blow at the legal right to strike. It...

Defending US ‘strategic interests’ leads directly to imperialist war

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IT WAS CLAUSEWITZ who said that war is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means. In unveiling a large number of...

Workers across the UK erupt against cuts to wages, pensions and conditions – demand...

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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at 58 universities across the UK have come out on a three day strike, starting today,...

Basic Rights To Be Dumped In The Bin!

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IN the wake of the French terror attacks PM Cameron has promised a ‘comprehensive piece of legislation’ to close the ‘safe spaces’ used by...

Socialist revolution only solution to capitalist crisis

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer returned from holiday at the weekend to announce his new ‘robust’ plan to freeze the cap on electricity and gas...

Record numbers miss out on first choice secondary schools – Bring all schools back...

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NATIONAL Offer Day was yesterday, with record numbers of children missing out on their first choice of secondary school. More than half a million...