Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Pre-empt savage cuts with a general strike!

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LIB DEM leader Nick Clegg has reiterated his original claim there will need to be ‘savage’ spending cuts. Clegg put forward the same...

Students and universities under savage coalition attack

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IN ORDER that the universities can have their budgets slashed and be privatised or closed, students are to be charged up to £9,000 a...

Lobby the TUC on 27 April to demand they take action to support the...

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THE lobby of the TUC general council meeting tomorrow is crucial for the fight, not just in defence of the junior doctors, but to...

News International bought policemen and state officials, and dictated to political parties

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THE Leveson Inquiry has exposed the diseased nature of British capitalism, its ruling class and its state apparatus. The state, during the period of...

Putin’s withdrawal from Syria sends message to Assad and Obama!

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THE decision of President Putin to begin withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria, after giving President Assad just a few hours notice, constitutes a...

Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan to end terrorism

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NEWS LINE sends its condolences to the families of those who were killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks on London, and its best wishes for...

Low Paid UK By Permission Of The Tuc!

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THE coalition government has named 70 companies that won’t pay workers the minimum wage. Even the government says that the 100 cases in the care...

UK and US have lost the war and now they want to steal any...

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AFTER a tortuous series of talks in Geneva the Russian Foreign minister Lavrov has announced the signing of five documents which include agreements reached...

Deutsche Bank warning capitalism ‘sitting on a time bomb’ – socialist revolution only answer...

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ECONOMISTS at the German Deutsche Bank have issued a report about the inevitable consequence of the US Federal Reserve policy of printing worthless paper...

Renationalise the rail privateers

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THE private railway system has, so far, seen many tens of billions of public money thrown at it to make sure that the private...

Desperate UK Tories seeking to curry favour with President Biden by imposing sanctions on...

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CHINA has imposed sanctions on nine UK citizens – including five MPs for spreading ‘lies and disinformation’ about the country. This is China’s very minor...

UK-France Moving To Partition Libya

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FOREIGN Secretary William Hague yesterday ordered the Libyan charge d‘affaires out of the UK along with all Libyan diplomats. Hague said: ‘We’re inviting the...

Sinn Féin Dumps Socialism

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IRISH capitalism, its banks and industries have been entirely bankrupted, and what national sovereignty the country had has also been destroyed, after the...

Chilcot won’t rule on Iraq war legality

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CHILCOT opened his report of his inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war yesterday by stating that it was not the job of his very...

Capitalism offering only poverty and war to working class and middle class

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FALLING incomes will mean the biggest drop in living standards for middle-income families since the 1970s, when the Yom Kippur war resulted in the...

Tories prepare for civil war against the working class

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IN HIS closing speech to the Tory conference, Cameron pledged that a future Tory government would scrap the Human Rights Act, a position that was...

Academy head earns £500,000 while over half of multi-academy chains are going bust

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THE TORY policy of forcing every school in England to become academies and turn the entire education system into a profit-making business has created...

Imperialists Drive To Break Up Iraq

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THERE can be only one gainer from a civil war in Iraq, that will lead to the breaking up of the country into three...

Blair, Thatcher lavish praise on fellow Tory Heath

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IN THESE days, when capitalist Britain is being rocked by the world economic crisis and the disaster of its imperialist policies in Iraq and...

Unions must mount massive campaign to nationalise Vestas now!

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THE Vestas occupation clearly shocked the employer and weakened the Labour government to the point where a mass struggle has to be launched by...

Zionist regime bans 37 aid agencies from Gaza and West Bank as it intensifies...

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YESTERDAY, Israeli authorities announced that the Zionist regime had banned 37 international aid agencies operating in Gaza and the West Bank, with Hamas saying it...

3,000+ refugees have been on hunger strike in detention centres since 2015! Shut them...

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THE HOME Office itself has produced figures showing that more than 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers have been on hunger strike in the last...

Brown lambasts Tube strikers and public sector workers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown mounted an outspoken attack on members of the RMT railworkers’ union on strike at the London Underground bankrupt maintenance company...

Occupy NHS Logistics on October 1 – trade unions must take strike action!

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WEDNESDAY’S twin votes at the Labour Party conference against NHS privatisation emphasised for all to see just how great is the isolation of the...

After one year of the Libyan slaughter – Forward to Damascus urge Cameron, Sarkozy...

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THE Libyan people are being told that they must celebrate the first anniversary of the ‘revolution’ (in fact, counter-revolution) that has destroyed their country,...

Anti-union laws and wage cuts will stay – Brown tells trade unions

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday gave a fitting reply to all those trade union bureaucrats who were saying that he could be forced to...

Workers and youth vote for left parties in West Bank elections

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PALESTINIAN voters in the West Bank have delivered a blow to the Fatah movement in local elections which saw Fatah winning two-fifths of...

Smash the zero-hours, agency worker ‘gig economy’ with a general strike to kick the...

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ZERO-hours contracts, zero rights, zero future: this is the vision the Tories have for a ‘modern’ hire and fire workforce, where the Uber model...

US and UK workers must bring down Trump and the Tories and go forward...

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DONALD TRUMP has arrived in the UK to try his hand at regime change. He is treating the UK ruling class with supreme contempt, as...

Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!

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ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...

Russia wins Round One in the struggle for Central Asia

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THE Russian government and armed forces have turned the tables on the imperialist powers and their surrogates who launched the vicious surprise attack on...

After Brexit, Forward To The European Socialist Revolution!

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PRIME Minister May in her letter to EU President Tusk has described the invoking of Article 50 to begin the UK’s withdrawal from the...

Trade unions must bring down crisis-ridden Tories, break with the EU and bring in...

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THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...

Disarm Imperialism To Stop New Korean War!

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A REPORT issued yesterday by the highly respected and influential Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has bluntly warned that the drive to war by...

PLO rejects Israeli attempts to forcibly displace the Palestinian people and demands a Palestinian...

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THE Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, stressed on Tuesday night in a meeting held at the...

Putin wants to collaborate with imperialism, not overthrow it

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THE New York Times has just printed a letter from the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, which he described as a direct address to the...

After Bradford – No Change In Labour Policies

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband said on Thursday that both national and local factors were to blame for the party’s massive defeat at the hands...

Time for US workers to break with the Democratic Party

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A NEW Gallup poll survey shows that 14% of American households describe poverty wages and the cost of healthcare as their most important financial...

Tory plans for their police state! Step too far even for EU Courts

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THE Tories’ new mass surveillance laws got a setback this week when the European Court of Justice ruled that its snoopers’ charter, the Investigatory...

Making the country fit for the gangmasters

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AT the just concluded TUC Congress, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, openly condemned the description of ‘globalisation’ as ‘a race to the...

Carney and May fall out on the high wire with a huge gale...

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BANK of England Governor Carney has fallen out with PM May telling her that he will not take orders from politicians on what the...

Charge Harry Stanley’s Killers!

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THE uncovering of ‘new’ forensic evidence by the Surrey constabulary has led to the arrest of the two police officers who shot dead Harry...

Take Strike Action To Halt Closure Of Automated Mail Centres

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ROYAL MAIL, acting on its brief from the government has announced the closure of major automated sorting centres which will affect Liverpool. Oldham, Bolton,...

Labour offers NHS bosses £30,000 bonuses as it reorganises the NHS as a model...

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LABOUR health secretary Wes Streeting has proposed NHS bosses pocketing £30,000 bonuses under a new plan he has devised which he claims will incentivise...

TUC Proposes A Labour Front With The Tories

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WITH great fanfare the Tories have announced that they are following in the footsteps of President Roosevelt who, in 1933, launched the ‘New Deal’...