Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

The Crisis Of Capitalism Is Making It Clear That The Working Class Must Take...

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BRITAIN is in the grip of the deepest recession since records began putting the country on course for the biggest economic collapse since 1709...

Three months to save the NHS! Trade unions must call industrial action now!

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YESTERDAY, the Labour Party leader Miliband wrote in the Observer that ‘Everyone who loves the NHS must fight to defeat this health bill. This...

UK political crisis emerges over demands for ceasefire in Gaza!

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THE House of Commons dived headlong into a political crisis as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support for...

Unite betrays Ealing strikers – Time to build a revolutionary leadership in the unions

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THE ANGER expressed by Ealing Parking Service workers at the way in which the Unite leadership has sold their strike down the river reflects...

Security Council Votes To Ban The Bomb – But Not Yet!

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THE UN Security Council yesterday voted unanimously to oppose the spread of nuclear weapons, and that the nuclear powers on the Security Council must...

Britain’s household debt time-bomb

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DESPITE all the propaganda pumped out by Osborne in his budget speech last week, about UK capitalism ‘walking tall’ and well on the way...

Anti-Semitic slander against Corbyn – state-orchestrated attempt to destroy Labour Party

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WEDNESDAY night’s Panorama programme ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’ marks a new and increasingly desperate stage in the state-orchestrated witch-hunt of Jeremy Corbyn with the aim...

Sa Police Massacre Platinum Miners

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SOUTH AFRICAN workers have been shocked by the ANC government’s police force shooting dead over 30 miners at the Lonmin UK-owned platinum mine. Fifty...

The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...

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MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...

Trump’s declaration that American imperialism will ‘take over Gaza’ must be answered with World...

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US president Donald Trump, at a joint press conference with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, announced that America would ‘take over Gaza’...

With the US economy smashed Trump is aiming to return to office through a...

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WHAT began as a Black Lives Matter movement sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has developed into a nationwide movement...

Rebellion erupts against Osborne’s budget attack on disabled!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s just-declared Budget has touched off such anger that he is already being counselled to abandon his masterplan to make savage cuts on...

Out With Prescott And Blair – Forward To A Workers’ Government

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LAST month, Prime Minister Blair announced that John Prescott would not be resigning as Deputy Prime Minister, and that, in fact, he would go...

Terrified British Ruling Class Spies On The Workers

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THE ruling class’s national DNA data base has on it a sample of the DNA of every person in the UK who is arrested,...

Restore Grants, End Fees, Defend Free State Educaton!

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TUITION fees must rise by 100 per cent to £6,000 a year if universities are to cover their teaching costs, is the main...

Millions of Palestinians facing death by starvation – unions must call general strikes in...

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UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, has accused Israel of ‘starving civilians’ including a million children in Gaza by deliberately blocking food...

Miliband Holds Out His Hand To The Hated Libdems!

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SO the farce continues. The LibDems, having received a drubbing at the hands of the electorate for their treachery, are now pledging, through their...

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...

Israel withdraws its 98th Commando division from Gaza as Cairo talks are due...

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SIX months into Israel’s criminal war on Gaza, Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters have been engaged in intense combat around the city of Khan...

Rich getting richer while the poor are getting poorer under Starmer’s capitalist Labour government

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DESPITE all of the promises and the pledges made by Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer that he would improve living standards, the exact opposite is...

Labour racists seek state dictatorship over immigrants

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JUST imagine the furore there would be if British migrants to India were told that they would have to be conversant in Hindi, be...

First the UK, now Italy – Forward to the European Socialist Revolution!

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THE RAPIDLY unfolding crash of the EU drove the ruling class to take unprecedented action on Sunday to overturn the Italian election result...

Stop The Council Cuts – Bring Down The Coalition!

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COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...

BofE house price warning!

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SIR Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, is a very worried man – with good reason. What is keeping him awake...

Bush Visit To Form Alliance With ‘Axis Of Evil’

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THERE has been a spate of hectic diplomatic activity in the Middle East, since the Israeli defeat in the Lebanon and the Congressional mid-term...

The IMF sees the writing on the wall with second warning in 24 hours...

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THE International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report has given its second warning in 24 hours about a new financial catastrophe that it sees coming...

Workers have the right to self defence against terrorism & capitalism

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SIX hundred new armed officers are being  trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring  the...

Struggle against Assad and Iran more important to US-UK gangsters than defeating ISIS

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UK Prime Minister Cameron said yesterday that the UK supports US airstrikes against the IS not with boots on the ground, but by other...

Defend Libyan revolution! Stop and bring down the oil thieves! Victory to Gadaffi!

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THE French ruling class yesterday officially recognised the Libyan counter-revolutionary rebels of the Transitional National Council as the country's legitimate government, and is due...

Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU

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THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...

The CWU leaders are refusing to fight for their membership

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THE unsolicited public display of pacifism yesterday by the CWU leadership, in the face of the most vicious daily attacks on their membership...

Unions Must Answer Truss Threats By Calling A General Strike To Bring Down The...

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THE Margaret Thatcher look-alike, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, is seeking to sound like, look like and act like Margaret Thatcher, as she vows to...

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...

Balls and the ‘Little Englanders’ adopt racism as their policy

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‘WE were wrong to allow so many eastern Europeans into Britain,’ says Ed Balls, referring to the large number of migrants from Poland and...

Lammy, Labour’s Foreign Secretary, Is Whipping Up War Fever Against Russia!

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THE UK’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy, and Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State have both been very busy whipping up a ‘war fever’...

Seven Labour MPs Have The Whip Suspended After Voting To Scrap Two-Child-Benefit Cap

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SEVEN Labour MPs have had the whip suspended for six months after voting against the Labour government on an amendment to scrap the two-child...

National action to defend JDE workers – force TUC to call a ...

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LAST Wednesday the international coffee giant JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) issued dismissal notices to nearly 300 of its workers at the Banbury plant who...

Northern Rock crisis coming to a head

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THE collapse of the US sub-prime market has produced a major banking crisis in the UK, which has seen the Northern Rock bank being...

May has capitulated to the EU and looks to Labour for rescue! Time for...

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TORY PM May’s latest capitulation to the European Union over Brexit has been met with furious anger from Brexiteers and others in her own...

Eurozone on top of revolutionary volcano

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JUST when the eurozone bankers and capitalist class were congratulating themselves on beating the  reformist Syriza government of Greece into submission, an even bigger...

Unite plays ‘vital’ role for bosses in selling out fight for jobs!

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UNITE yesterday launched a ‘learning hub, to improve employability’ for its members at Heathrow airport. Announcing the launching of this ‘learning hub@heathrow’, Unite stated that...

Starmer urges send British jets to the Ukraine to combat Russia!

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Dispatching British fighter jets to Ukraine ‘to police the skies against Russia above the Ukraine’, emerged as a planning proposal at Sir Keir Starmer’s...

Miliband wants a US style Democratic Party not a Labour Party

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THE kind of party that Labour Party leader Miliband wants will be no different from the US Democratic Party, if he is allowed to...

End war crimes by destroying capitalism with socialist revolution

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THE TORY defence secretary Ben Wallace has been ordered by a judge to come up with an explanation as to why the British government...

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...