Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

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...

Parliament Is Up To Its Neck In Sleaze – It Must Be Closed Down...

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EX-TORY MP Owen Paterson has been a paid consultant for clinical diagnostics company Randox since 2015, and for meat distributor Lynn’s Country Foods since...

Labour is moving to sack a quarter of its staff! A GMB & Unite...

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THE LABOUR Party is facing strike action by staff who work at the party offices who are members of the GMB and Unite trade...

THE TORIES ARE PILING HUGE PRESSURES ONTO GPs AND THE NHS!

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HUGE PRESSURES are being put onto GPs in England and Wales. They are so great that doctors are beginning to feel that they are...

New Israeli Regime ‘Will Work Against Peace’ Says Erekat

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THE new right-wing Israeli coalition government, just formed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, will be belligerent and work against peace, a senior Palestinian official...

Labour conference must reject Corbyn’s betrayal and vote to break with EU

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YESTERDAY Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn came out publicly to proclaim that he is prepared to go to any lengths to appease the right wing...

UK cluster bombs used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen war crimes

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THE NEWS yesterday that analysis by UK government officials that British-made cluster bombs are being used by the Saudi-led coalition in its war against...

Cameron declares war on public sector – unions must answer with general strike

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Tory prime minister, David Cameron, has finally come clean about the coalition plans for destroying the welfare state and the entire public sector. Yesterday, he...

Labour Paying Price For Its Betrayal! Time To Join And Build The WRP!

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REBECCA Long-Bailey is the latest candidate to join the squad of failures seeking to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, after the party’s rout...

Vultures Want To Pick At Argentina’s Bones

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FOR workers in Britain, Argentina may well appear to be a far off country in South America whose sovereign default on its debts to...

Hamas Demands A Complete End To The Israeli Aggression Against The Gaza Strip!

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SENIOR Hamas official Dr. Basem Naim stated Tuesday that Hamas cannot accept any agreement that does not clearly commit to halting the Israeli aggression...

Starmer’s speech – an application to join a national coalition with the Tories!

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s first speech to a Labour Party conference yesterday was acclaimed by his supporters as heralding a ‘new dawn’ for the...

Israel-US considering attack on Syria and Iran

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LATE last week, a leading Israeli minister said that the only people left in southern Lebanon were connected to Hezbollah, giving the Israeli military...

The BoE and Brown gamble with workers wages jobs, homes and pensions

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THE Bank of England yesterday launched its government-backed scheme to allow the major banks to swap their dodgy mortgages for UK Treasury Bonds, in...
A lively delegation of Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside the TGWU offices in Hillingdon yesterday morning

Heathrow Battlefield

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TONY Woodley, the TGWU general secretary, commenting on the sacking of one of the leading members of the TGWU by BA yesterday, and the...

Hospitals and schools are being hit by uncapped energy bills

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THE SKYROCKETING increase in energy bills is driving the health and education services to the wall, with leaders in both these vital services warning...

Dictatorship in Greece – socialist revolution the only way forward

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THE unelected and EU-imposed Greek ‘interim’ PM, Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank who played a major part in getting Greece...

Mass Murder In Arab Jabur

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WHILE President Bush was allegedly talking peace in the Palestinian town of Ramallah on Thursday, US B1 bombers and F16 fighters were raining 40,000...

The NHS must be free and available to all at the point of need!

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RECENTLY there have been a few years of increased government spending on the NHS, after many years of chronic underspending. Most of the new...

Flammable insulation & cladding, tower blocks built to collapse & fire services stripped to...

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LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan says Londoners have been let down after the Tory government rejected his request for new firefighting equipment.  Tory Home Secretary Amber...

TORIES TRY TO BRIBE GPs TO CUT HOSPITAL REFERRALS!

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RESEARCH conducted by the medical magazine Pulse has uncovered the fact that local GP practices are being offered bribes of thousands of pounds to...

War Fever Against Russia

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THE US and the EU are set to stiffen and widen their sanctions against Russia. Their intention is to target its finances, energy...

The Tories new proposed anti-union laws must be smashed – Defend the right to...

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FBU general secretary Matt Wrack has hit out at the government announcement that it will introduce new anti-union laws which will include the following...

South Africa crashes into economic depression – socialist revolution is the only way forward

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ON WEDNESDAY South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the death at the age of 91 of George Bizos, the renowned human rights lawyer who...

Answer The ‘Shock And Awe’ Budget With A General Strike

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THE Tory-Lib Dem shock and awe budget is due next Tuesday. Already workers, pensioners and youth are calling for action against this savage attack that...

Corbyn Called A ‘Stalinist’ As Labour Right Wing Plots For A Second Referendum

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LABOUR leader Corbyn has been accused of organising a ‘Stalinist purge’ after he sacked ex-leadership contender and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Smith on...

UK Foreign Secretary Cleverly is egging on the Ukrainian regime to continue its attacks...

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THE UK government has defended the ‘right’ of the Ukrainian regime to attack Russia and to target the Russian capital Moscow, after a drone...

US crisis pauses before another leap forward!

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THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...

Fed policy of ‘draining liquidity’ will trigger new crash! End bankrupt capitalism with socialist...

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WORLD capitalism is on the verge of an even bigger, catastrophic economic collapse and there is absolutely nothing the central banks or governments can...

Bourgeois Lunacy At Rbs

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YESTERDAY the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history of £24.1bn, made up of a £7.9bn trading...

War from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa

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THE whole of the area from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa is now one great killing zone where US-UK imperialism either kills at...

SALUTE ABDUL HAROUN – The man that the tunnel could not stop!

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ABDUL Rahman Haroun is a hero. The Sudanese national walked the full length of the Channel Tunnel (31 miles), dicing with death all of...

Law lords rule for US imperialism to keep the Chagossians in exile

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THE House of Lords appeal court yesterday reversed the three decisions taken by seven senior judges, in previous court hearings, that the Chagos Islanders...

Hunt Plans To Force The Disabled To Work – Time To Bring Down The...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Budget speech yesterday in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up to a...

Obama hosts Afghanistan and Pakistan war summit

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ON THE eve of a meeting between US President Barack Obama, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari in...

Bush moves towards intervention with ‘free hostages’ call

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PRESIDENT BUSH has laid the basis for military intervention against Iran with his condemnation of Iran’s ‘inexcusable behaviour’ in arresting the 15 British sailors...

UK Must Not Appoint New EU Commissioner – Time To Quit The EU Without...

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THE EU HAS begun its legal action against the UK to attempt to force it to either appoint a new UK EU Commissioner, or...

Support North Korea Against US Aggression!

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WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening and the US economy showing not the slightest signs of recovery, it is only natural that the US...

Defend Welfare, Defend The NHS, Defend All Benefits, Bring Down Coalition

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TORY leader Cameron has backed Chancellor George Osborne after he suggested a link between the Mick Philpott case and the Welfare State. The prime...

Brown’s gold sales lost the Bank of England £3.8bn

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A DECADE ago, on May 7, 1999, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced plans to sell off a large part of Britain’s gold reserves. This was...

First the 2016 referendum defeat for the ruling class, now May is being ...

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THE LAST week has seen the Tory drive to have PM May crowned as Empress, via a runaway election victory and a huge majority,...

The Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes To Bring Down Capitalism!

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SEVERAL human rights organisations have condemned the UK Supreme Court’s decision that a lawsuit against the government, challenging its continued arms sales to Israel,...

Banks learnt nothing from the 2008 crash as world debt and UK credit card...

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RBS, still over 70% state-owned, is the worst prepared of the UK’s biggest banks to cope with the next financial crisis, a crisis which...

Sudanese Military Attacking General Strike! UK Unions And Labour Must Aid Sudanese...

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THE SUDANESE military regime has once again shown its contempt for any real peace talks in the country, and its confidence that since it...

End low pay through a general strike to kick out the government

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ON the day that NHS workers took strike action for the first time in 30 years, and in the case of midwives the first...