Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Outsourcing companies facing ruin – socialist revolution is the only answer!

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IT IS almost exactly one year since the dramatic collapse into bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation of the giant outsourcing and construction company Carillion. At the...

The Tory recovery is a fraud! Time to bring them down!

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UK registered unemployment from April to June 2015 was at 1.85 million, up 25,000 from the previous quarter while the ONS figures showed that...

Chancellor’s Budget for starving the working class

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OSBORNE’S BUDGET speech was devoid of any attempt to analyse the world crisis that is gripping capitalism and which is deepening by the hour,...

Data bases and electronic spying won’t save the bourgeoisie

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THE inventor of the genetic technology behind the national DNA database has said that the database’s unlimited expansion to include millions of people who...

Anger over Saddam’s death silences Blair

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AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...

US credit experts warn a crash is coming

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NEWS IS quietly emerging from the top of the US banking fraternity that, despite the wild euphoria that has gripped the world financial centres...

EU slumps while UK inflation rises!

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THE eurozone economy shrank in the third quarter from April to June by 0.2%, with France having a third consecutive quarter of no growth...

Labour seeking state control of inquests

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THE parliamentary Human Rights Committee report on the government’s latest Counter-Terrorism Bill, before its second reading in the House of Commons, records just...

Chinese Stalinists fear workers political revolution!

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IN an extraordinary speech given at his annual press conference, the outgoing Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, warned that China risks a ‘historical tragedy’...

Demand the TUC call a general strike to defend NHS workers from Tory pay...

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IF THE Tories hoped that the last minute scramble to head off the anger of NHS workers by increasing the derisory and insulting 1%...

One more turn of the police state screw!

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YESTERDAY Home Secretary, Smith was having a go at presenting the introduction of biometric identity cards as a matter of personal convenience, and even...

Starving The Poor!

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AS hard evidence emerges about how the ‘local welfare assistance’ scheme is operating in practice across England, it is quite clear that deliberately starving...

Zionist regime escalates genocide in Gaza City

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SINCE the Israeli regime’s war cabinet vote last week to occupy Gaza City and force the removal of its entire Palestinian population of one...

Transport Unions Must Refuse To Transport Asylum Seekers To Rwanda!

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THE TORY government’s racist drive to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda came unstuck on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) granted...

Nationalise the PFI parasites!

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EVERY year the Labour government is handing over £40bn to the consortia of financiers, property developers and construction giants in payments for Private Finance...

Gourmet locked-out workers smash Woodley-Barber ‘compromise’ deal

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THE Gate Gourmet catering company was forced to admit on Saturday that the ‘sweetheart’ deal, which the leaders of the TGWU and the ...

Sack Gove, May and Cameron! TUC must call a general strike to bring down...

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EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove, who has carried forward the privatisation battle against the teaching trade unions, and driven forward the Free School-Academy agenda,...

Murdoch Empire Still Remains To Be Broken

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PRIME Minister Cameron used his usual tactic at prime minister’s questions yesterday, when asked why he brought a criminal into 10 Downing Street...

British capitalism is stuck in the mire of slump!

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THE UK’s public sector net borrowing hit a record high of £20.3 billion in November, official figures show. The figure was the highest for any...

Tuc Must Defend Palestinians And Call A General Strike To Completely Boycott Israel...

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THE Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has just announced in a statement that Ahmed Badr Abdullah Abu Ali, a resident of Yatta city in the...

Forward To The One State Solution – As Zionist Mobs Attack Palestinians And ...

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the unelected Zionist leader Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference in Jerusalem yesterday. Netanyahu thanked US...

Gaza Will Be Rebuilt! Israeli Occupation Has Failed! – Says Hamas!

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WHEN silence falls after the storm, the real story begins. In Gaza, the bombs have gone quiet, but the sound of the rubble is...

Students across the US rise up against genocidal war in Gaza showing the way...

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STUDENTS across America have risen up against the barbaric genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza and in support of Palestine in a...

Tesco Volunteers For The Cobra Strike- Breaking Committee

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THE fact that the Civil Contingencies Committee (COBRA) is in session over the implications of the fuel crisis, and more specifically, that the crisis...

Cameron prepared to use Navy against refugee boats!

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DAVID Cameron dramatically escalated the British government’s war against refugees fleeing imperialist war in the Middle East and North Africa when he announced...

Scrapping of Public Health England part of Tory plan to force through privatisation...

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The lead story in last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper announced: ‘Hancock axes failing public health body,’ adding ‘PHE (Public Health England) to be scrapped...
NHSTogether demonstration in November 2007 against NHS privatisation

NHS pharmacy services under threat – warn unions

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Unite is seeking an urgent meeting with Health Secretary, Andy Burnham ‘as NHS pharmacy services are threatened by a government decision’. Burnham is being asked to...

US Transferring The War Into Pakistan

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THE Chief of the Taleban movement in Pakistan Hakimullah Mehsud yesterday blamed the US firm Blackwater, that had an army of mercenaries operating in...

Demands ramped up for Labour to slash pensions, benefits and NHS spending to rescue...

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THE DEMANDS for the Labour government to slash all government spending on welfare is reaching a crescendo in the run-up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’...

President Trump Refuses To Meet The Family Of Jacob Blake!

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THE FATHER of Jacob Blake, the black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, refused to ‘play politics’ with his son’s life’ when President...

The world must act to defend Palestinians

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YESTERDAY morning Israel announced that all the crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel were closed. Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak...

Two State Solution Was A Trap For Palestinians

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ISRAEL’S tactic in the ongoing ‘peace talks’ with the Palestine National Authority has been to carry on stalling, for the last ten years, agreeing...

NATO massacres Libyan civilians to loot the country’s oil

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THE bloody massacre of 85 Libyan men, women and children by NATO in the town of Zlitan exposes once and for all that when...

Passchendaele – where imperialism murdered hundreds of thousands of British & German workers

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THE BATTLE of Passchendaele saw 275,000 British soldiers, workers in uniform, killed or wounded alongside 220,000 German workers in uniform. This was a great imperialist...

Tories plan to axe half a million hospital appointments each year in drive to...

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HEALTH Secretary Steve Barclay did the rounds of the TV studios on Sunday to declare an all-out war on doctors, nurses and patients, as...

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...

‘Hostile environment’ alive & kicking! Tories deport another 13 to the Caribbean. Stop all...

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A LAST-DITCH legal attempt by two children to stop their father being forced onto a plane and deported to the Caribbean failed on Tuesday,...

Workers Must Occupy Gm Luton And Ellesmere Port And Demand Their Nationalisation

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NEXT MONDAY June 1 GM will seek Section 11 Bankruptcy, cutting off GM Europe with less cash than is required to see the week...

TUC stands idly by watching the Tories bringing in anti-union laws and forming a...

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PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak met Benjamin Netanyahu at Downing Street yesterday, just as the Israeli leader faces a huge crisis at home after he...

Taliban cuts the US-UK imperialist powers down to size – now the US and...

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THE US AND UK imperialist powers have just suffered a historic defeat in Afghanistan. Last week, even as they scuttled out of the country,...

The TUC Must Make Its Stand! Now Is The Time To Call A General...

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THE annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) that starts this Sunday in Brighton is taking place as British capitalism is crumbling under...

Forward to the State of Palestine! Down with Zionism and Imperialist conspiracies to...

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ARREST warrants for genocide for Israeli PM Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant were finally issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) this...

TUC urges Tories to ‘withdraw from the brink’. Stop pleading and call a general...

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THE TORY government is refusing to hold any serious negotiations with the rail trade unions for the simple reason that it is introducing anti-strike...

‘Refugees are not Terrorists’ – the real terrorists are the bosses and bankers

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LAST Saturday thousands of refugees and their supporters marched through the streets of the Italian capital, Rome, venting their anger over the police attack...

Brown Threatens Royal Mail Funding!

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AT THE CWU rally at Central Hall yesterday afternoon, CWU leader Billy Hayes presented a successful outcome of the postal workers struggle as relying...