Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

TUC must support doctors strike and NHS by calling a general strike to kick...

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Resident doctors began five days of strike action yesterday following the overwhelming rejection, 83% to 17%, of Labour health secretary Wes Streeting’s latest pathetic...

Rising Fuel Bills Mean Many More Unnecessary Winter Deaths!

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THOUSANDS of people die each year from illnesses linked to fuel poverty. Last year was a very cold winter, and this year’s winter is already...

Trade Union Renegade Doing Blair’s Dirty Work

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THE former CWU postal workers trade union leader, Alan Johnson, yesterday moved into action at the behest of the Prime Minister to urge that...

Palestinian leadership condemns international community after fatal shooting of teenage girl by Zionists!

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THE Palestinian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that the fatal shooting of a teenage girl by Israeli military forces during a raid in the northern...

Socialist Revolution To Put Bankrupt Bankers Out Of Their Misery

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IN its latest annual report, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank of central banks’, has warned that capitalism is ‘defenceless’ against...

Royal Mail getting ready for New Year war!

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BRENDAN Barber has won another battle honour from the employers. His first was at Gate Gourmet, which publicly congratulated him on its website for the...

5Th May Elections Will Deepen The Tory-Labour Crisis

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TODAY’S local elections will see Tory and Labour leaders trying to convince the electorate that everything is basically ok, and that the voters can...

Mosul Falls – Imperialist Policy Collapses In Middle East

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LARGE numbers of people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants from the ISIS pro-Al Qaeda group effectively...

Obama about-turn on war crimes!

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PRESIDENT Obama said one thing before his election, and now he is saying something else altogether. During his campaign he stood up against the torture...

Britain’s Trade Crashing To Disaster

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2006 saw Britain’s trade in goods dive to a massive deficit of £84.3 billion.This was £15.5 billion more than the £68.8 billion deficit figure...

270,000 civil servants to strike!

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UP to 270,000 civil and public servants from across the UK are set to launch a month of industrial action, with a 48 hour...

Tory party split over huge NI tax rise – It is time for the...

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THE TORY government is being ripped apart from top to bottom, with every day bringing new reports of ministers fighting amongst themselves in a...

Demoralised Tories face an economic crash – put them out of their misery with...

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THE COMPLETE demoralisation of the Tories has dominated the front pages of the bourgeois press, with reports that PM Boris Johnson is facing a...

Crisis Deepening Rapidly – Socialism The Only Answer

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IN ‘going-broke Britain’ the number of people becoming insolvent in England and Wales in 2009 was 134,142, according to official data from the Insolvency...

General Council must be made to resign for refusing to fight anti-union Bill!

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YESTERDAY morning, the TUC commented on the vote in the House of Commons on the third reading of the Trade Union Bill, which is...

Mass Hospital Closures On The Way

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HEALTH Minister Mike O’Brien has responded to the findings of the government-established Care Quality Commission (CQC). This has just claimed that one in eight of...

Care for the Elderly crisis – capitalist barbarism at work

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WHEN workers pass the age at which their labour can be exploited for profit they become a useless burden on society as far as...

Break The Blockade Of Gaza!

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GAZA is being reduced from a massive prison for the Palestinian people to one in which they are homeless, jobless, and beginning to go...

Lobby TUC April 24 – make them call a general strike

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THE News Line calls for a massive lobby of the next meeting of the TUC General Council on Wednesday 24th April, to demand the...

UK arming Israel and supplying it with drones, sniper rifles and other murderous equipment!

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DURING almost a month of Friday demonstrations in Gaza, called the ‘Great March of Return’, the Israeli army has used snipers to shoot dead...

Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action With The Nurses To Bring Down...

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NURSING STAFF have voted to strike in the majority of NHS hospitals across the UK, and the nurses union, the RCN, has called on...

Johnson refuses to resign – organise a general strike to kick him and the...

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BORIS Johnson opened prime minister’s question time yesterday by apologising for giving the impression that lockdown rules, imposed by his Tory government, had not...

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...

Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring down Tories

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TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been told in a letter from NHS bosses that the NHS is ‘no longer able to meet the...

Murdoch admirer Gove loves liberty and freedom

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IT HAS emerged that Leveson, whose current inquiry was brought into being by Prime Minister Cameron, complained to the UK’s top civil servant after...

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...

Darling can’t look the capitalist crisis in the face

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CHANCELLOR Darling began his budget speech yesterday on a note of contrived optimism saying that ‘today’s budget will take Britain through the most serious...

Tory attack on migrants is an attack on the working class!

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MIGRANT workers who work illegally in England and Wales are to face up to six months in prison under especially vindictive anti-migrant proposals to...

Bank rate rigging ‘Everyone was at it’

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The crisis resulting from the bank rate rigging scandal that has engulfed Barclays took a dramatic turn over the weekend with the revelation that...

Tory war on unemployed must be answered with a general strike to kick them...

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THE LATEST Tory onslaught on the unemployed was revealed by Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday when he praised the ‘Way...

Smash The Zionist Entity! Forward To The State Of Palestine!

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THE decision of an Israeli court to reject that the Israeli army and state were in any way responsible for the 2003 Israeli...

Brown, Keynes and revolution

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AFTER actively assisting in the creation of trillions of debt, and showing its contempt for the concept of value by selling almost half of...

Bring Down The Tories! UK Must Not Support Trump’s War On Syria!

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RUSSIA will take all political, diplomatic and military retaliatory measures if necessary should the United States deliver a strike on Syria, Russian State Duma...

British Government Must Recognise Hamas

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IT IS AN indisputable fact that Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist, was freed by the Hamas movement just two weeks after Hamas took control...

Quit the EU now – defend jobs, forward to socialism!

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A PROPOSED law giving PM Johnson’s government the power to reject parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU passed its first reading in...

Corbyn comes good for the bosses’ and bankers’ EU

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CORBYN has been transformed into his opposite as far as the ruling class and Labour’s rabid Blairite right wing is concerned. He has gone...

Labour is going to bring a co-payment system into the NHS

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AS the economic crisis deepens, the drive to privatise the NHS is being stepped up on a number of fronts. One is the growing...

Mandelson Gives The Thumbs Down To Luton!

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BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson declared yesterday morning, before he even reached the Luton GM plant, that there would be no nationalisation of GM Luton –...

Tories split over reopening – time to bring them down

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THE SPLIT within the Tory Party over ending the coronavirus lockdown broke out in the open at the weekend when Tory Foreign Secretary Dominic...

Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum seekers on to...

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THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...

US and Israel step up the war against the Palestinian masses!

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PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi, on Monday, condemned the decision of the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation to strip the High Court of...

Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring the Tories down and bring...

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EVERY day brings a new savage attack by this Tory government on the NHS. At the beginning of the week the shock announcement broke that...

Workers are giving 100% support to the ambulance service strikers – now finish off...

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THE GMB has suspended its Christmas Strike date for ambulance service workers, right at the time when the Tories are reeling from their deadly...

Free Assange and Manning! The imperialists must be put on trial for ‘war crimes’!

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BRITISH police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in central London on Thursday, which is technically Ecuadorian territory, arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian who...

After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!

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PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...