Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

TUC Must Support Next Saturday’s Mass Rally, Recognise The Palestinian State And Demand That...

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SATURDAY saw the concrete proof of just how much support the brave Palestinian people have won in their battle to undo the dirty work...

Blair Conversion Seals His Counter-Revolutionary Role

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TONY BLAIR, his hands still dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and with financial scandals swirling all round...

The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general strike to kick...

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Liz Truss was only installed as Prime Minister little more than 4 weeks ago but yesterday a senior Tory minister, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly,...

Hunt stays silent over whether government was informed of plot against Khashoggi by...

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IT HAS got very hot in the warmongers’ kitchen when reputedly fire-proof US militarists like US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, and Secretary of State...

Duncan Smith’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Peddles Lies!

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THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...

Tamil And Sinhalese Workers Must Unite To End Rajapakse Dictatorship

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THE Rajapakse dictatorship in Sri Lanka, which is backed with British finance and arms, and British big business investment, is continuing with its dictatorship...

Trump moves to make a deal with the Stalinist bureaucracy – workers must move...

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UKRAINE has agreed the terms of a major minerals deal with the US, a senior official in Kiev has told the BBC. US President...

UK planning for war right across the Mediterranean!

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THE imperialist powers are now working overtime to explode the Mediterranean region, from Libya to Turkey, into one huge raging fire. The UN Security Council...

The Tory ‘NHS Road to Recovery’ is their plan to privatise the NHS!

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ON TUESDAY, Tory health secretary Savid Javid outlined his ‘new vision for NHS reform’ which turned out to be just a repetition of the...

Answer NHS crisis with general strike and occupations

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THIS week saw the crisis in the NHS reach breaking point with at least 17 hospitals in England declaring they faced a ‘major incident’...

Lilliputian Smith, the would-be great dictator!

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LABOUR right winger Owen Smith, in his desire to satisfy the big bosses and the bankers, is going even further than the Tories after...

US in political crisis as Biden faces growing calls to quit!

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A ‘PERVASIVE sense of fear and uncertainty’ hangs over the US Democratic party as 81-year-old president Joe Biden faces increasingly strident calls for him...

UK stuck in ‘debt doom loop’ – Socialist Revolution the only way to break...

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a dire warning to Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves that she must take ‘unpopular’ decisions to halt British...

Carter condemns Gaza blockade and urges talks with Hamas

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EX-US president Jimmy Carter, who negotiated the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, yesterday called the Israeli blockade of Gaza ‘a crime’...

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...

Smash the surveillance society – smash the capitalist state!

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HARD on the heels of the revelations last June from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden that American and British spy agencies can access all...

Sack Gove not teachers, stop privatisation of schools

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TEACHERS in England returned to work this week facing an all-out assault on their jobs, their pay and the very existence of free state...

Brown Wants To Introduce Youth Conscription

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PRIME Minister Brown on Sunday promised that bringing in a compulsory community service programme for youth will be a part of his next general...

Greek Crisis To Explode All Over Europe!

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AS 100,000 workers marched through Athens on May Day, and tens of thousands marched through large numbers of Greek towns and villages, it...

Unite The Masses In The Gulf Against Imperialism

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SADDAM HUSSEIN went to his death bravely and heroically, executed by agents of imperialism – the leaders of a puppet government that came to...

Reformists Miliband and Balls sink to new depths of treachery – build the revolutionary...

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YESTERDAY Labour leader Ed Miliband delivered his keynote speech to the party conference in which he firmly aligned himself with every reactionary anti-working class...

Business Secretary Reynolds can’t keep blast furnaces going!

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THE British Labour government’s business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep...

Working Class Is On The March – Tuc Must Call A General Strike To...

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DRIVEN forward by the shock of capitalism’s energy catastrophe the working class is now on the march. Unite Wales union NHS members have voted to...

Hunt and Bailey will ‘do whatever is necessary’ to save bankrupt capitalism. Time to...

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ON MONDAY night, 400 leading figures from the world of high finance and corporate business gathered at the Mansion House in London to hear...

Mv Rachel Corrie Nears Gaza!

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NOT content with destroying its ‘alliance’ with Turkey by murdering nine of its citizens and wounding many more, the Israeli government has let it...

More British Troops For Iraq!

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WITHOUT any vote in the House of Commons hundreds of British troops are to be sent to Iraq, which is already being bombed by...

End Of The Road For The UK-US Afghan War

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THE news that the death toll of British soldiers in Afghanistan passed the 400 mark this week has been greeted with outpourings of grief...

US Fed’s third emergency programme in 2 days fails to stop capitalist crash

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THE US Federal Reserve announced late on Wednesday the third emergency programme in two days in an increasingly desperate and futile attempt to avoid...

Pound crashes against every currency in the world – time to put an end...

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THE pound crashed to its lowest level ever against the dollar yesterday morning threatening that it will soon reach parity with the US currency. Sterling...

Hamas condemns the ‘massacre of the century’ in Palestine by Israel and its allies!

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HAMAS has said that the Israeli regime is engaged in committing a ‘massacre of the century’ in the Gaza Strip, with Tel Aviv carrying...

Starmer Pledges A ‘Blairite On Steroids Government’ To Smash The Unions For...

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FORMER State Prosecutor Starmer, who has worked tirelessly to keep whistleblower Julian Assange in jail, has given advance warning of just what he intends...

World Bank Report – capitalism  stands on brink of financial crash

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THE WORLD stands on the brink of a financial crash according to the latest biannual Global Economic Prospects report from the World Bank. This warns...

Starmer Recruiting Right Wing Tories To Run Any Labour Gov!

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THE Labour Party is defending, welcoming right wing Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the party despite anger from many backbench MPs and workers at...

Dempsey’s Five Deadly Options

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THE US chief of staff, General Dempsey, has written an Open Letter to the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, Carl Levin, about the...

Don’t let P&O get away with murder – Make the TUC and labour leaders...

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YESTERDAY, Chancellor Sunak pledged to help the masses ‘where we can make a difference’, as households face soaring living costs, to the extent that...

Police officer who attacked Tomlinson will not even be charged with assault!

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HARRY STANLEY was shot dead by armed police in Hackney in September 1999. They said that they thought that he was carrying a shotgun...

Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any attack on the country

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THE commander of Iran’s armed forces Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard said on Tuesday that Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any...

General Strike to defend the NHS!

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On the eve of its annual conference the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has produced damning evidence that explodes the lies that the savage...

US facing complete humiliation in Afghanistan!

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has had to make an emergency trip to Afghanistan where the much vaunted democratic...

US slaughters Iraqis during the referendum on a constitution

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WHILE US President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair and their quislings in Baghdad were pumping out propaganda about ‘freedom and democracy’,...

Tories declare war on the teachers! The TUC must join with the BMA to...

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THE HEADLINE of The Sunday Telegraph’s editorial yesterday is very much to the point. It insists: ‘The teaching unions must be defeated,’ and continues,...

Desperate UK and French imperialism begins new ‘Grab for Africa’

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EARLIER this week French aircraft bombed the positions of the anti-imperialist forces in the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) led by Laurent Gbagbo, while French...

Kick The Israeli Troops Out Of Gaza!

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YESTERDAY the US barred the way in the United Nations Security Council to a resolution condemning the Israeli assault on Gaza, calling for all...

‘Thousands upon thousands of people are living in dangerous homes’ says FBU leader Wrack!

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ON JUNE 14th 2017, almost three years ago, fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block in North Kensington. It caused the deaths...

Extend lecturers strike into a general strike to defend pensions and education

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TALKS began yesterday between the University and College Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK), the body representing all universities, at the conciliation service ACAS...