Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Government plans to smash up health and safety laws

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THE Tory-led coalition is pushing full steam ahead with its plans to completely smash up the health and safety legislation and leave hundreds of...

Arm The Palestinian Masses Now!

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ISRAEL has set Palestine ablaze yet again with the death in an Israeli prison of Maysarah Abu Hamdiyeh, a 64-year-old prisoner, who had been...

Toxic Tories lash out at immigrants and the poor

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PEOPLE who do not speak fluent English will be barred from public sector jobs which involve working directly with the public, the government has...

Queen’s Speech Sees Her Government Dodging Big Issues!

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WEDNESDAY’S Queen’s Speech began with an evasion that her government would continue to seek a ‘high-wage low-welfare economy’. This was said at a time when...

Greek Workers And Youth Are On The Road To Revolution!

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MASSES of workers and youth clashed with the state forces in the Greek capital Athens yesterday, on the first day of a 48-hour general...

Tories get ready for war with Syria

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PM Cameron is facing a direct legal challenge over a new version of the ministerial code which has been produced and which omits a...

Tory enforcers paid £1,500 a day to push through savage Northants cuts! TUC must...

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TWENTY-one libraries closing, rubbish collections and road maintenance stripped to the bone, hundreds of council workers sacked, children’s services axed – these were...

Greek debt is on an ‘explosive path’ says the IMF

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THE International Monetary Fund has warned that Greece’s debts are on an ‘explosive path’ in its first annual review of the country’s economy since...

Cameron Launches Campaign For UK To Remain In The Eu

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CAMERON yesterday launched his campaign for a ‘Yes’ vote in an EU referendum – which has been pencilled in for June 2016 – telling...

US warns Pakistan over gas pipeline link with Iran

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THE Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Monday officially inaugurated the final construction phase of the Iran-Pakistan gas...

Capitalism Is Set To Destroy Small Business And Then Turn The UK Into The...

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A FIFTH of all UK small and medium sized businesses are set to close permanently over the next four weeks as they run out...

No War! Greek And Turkish Workers Must Unite – Their Enemy Is At Home!...

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WHILE President Trump is celebrating the Israel-UAE alliance against Iran and Palestine, and planning to extend it throughout the region, his NATO allies are...

Labour and Tory splitters unite to stab Brexit in the back! Now is the...

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THREE Tory MPs – amongst the most ardent opponents of Brexit – Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen, announced yesterday they were deserting...

230,000 tenants face eviction as ban ends this weekend – Only socialist revolution can...

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ON SATURDAY the ban on evicting tenants in England and Wales, introduced by the Tories at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, is due...

Now is the time to defend the Chinese revolution!

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THE US House of Representatives has hit out at what the US ruling class considers to be its major enemy, the People’s Republic of...

Worst NHS winter crisis ever! NHS unions must join health strike in the north...

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A&Es axed, children’s hospitals closed, nurses driven out because of overwork and under-pay, junior doctors at the point of exhaustion, GP surgeries shut down,...

Junior doctors must call new strike and the BMA and TUC must stop with...

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THE BMA warned yesterday that ‘Politically driven mismanagement is undermining patient care in England. It was responding to a report from the King’s Fund...

Trump threatens to destroy North Korea and warns Iran, Cuba and Venezuela!

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PRESIDENT TRUMP began his speech at the UN by immediately patting himself on the back, stating that ‘Fortunately, the United States has done...

Steel workers must reject the Tata steel deal – vote ‘NO!’

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AT the end of this month, steel workers at Port Talbot are to vote on a deal struck between their unions and Tata Steel...

UK manufacturing wiped out admits EEF while BIS warns of debt time bomb

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THE Engineering Employers Federation (EEF), the body that represents the manufacturing industry in Britain, has produced its latest forecast which spells out how the...

PM Johnson In ‘Intensive Care’ And Labour Is Ready For A National Government

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PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is now in intensive care at St Thomas’ hospital, laid low by the coronovirus, perfectly reflecting the state of British...

Tories to opt out of human rights

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AT THE Tory Party conference yesterday, Theresa May and her defence secretary Michael Fallon jointly announced that in any future war British troops would...

Union leaders must take action to bring down the Tories – and reject working with...

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THE WORLD Health Organisation has issued its ‘Test, Test and Test’ call as its main policy to lay the basis for dealing with the...

Britain ‘drifting’ towards a police state–Manchester Chief Constable

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SIR Peter Fahy, Greater Manchester Chief Constable and vice-chair of the National Counter-Terrorism Committee, has warned that the fight against ‘extremism’ is leading to...

For A Nuclear Bomb Free Middle East

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IRAN took a calculated risk yesterday when it reached an agreement with the US and its allies that it would allow extensive and exhaustive...

Unions Must Stop Pleading With Bosses And The Tories And Use Their Strength To...

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BORIS JOHNSON’S policy of do-nothing to combat or turn back the coronavirus has now been dumped after 229 scientists wrote to the government saying...

EU split and breaking up – Forward to the United Socialist States of Europe

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LAST THURSDAY, the 27 heads of the European Union held a video conference call to decide the EU’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic. The...

Children subjected to horrific pain and torture techniques. End UK state brutality with a...

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CHILDREN locked up in the UK are subjected to horrific pain, inhuman and degrading treatment, cruel restraining techniques and solitary confinement, a damning report...

There must be sprinklers in schools! No more fire deaths! Kick the Tories out!

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AFTER the horror of Grenfell Tower fire, where so many men, women and children burned to death, the big issue is ‘is anyone safe...

Turkey And Libya Prepare For Med Oil War Against Greece, And Egypt!

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AN EXPLOSIVE situation that threatens all-out war between the NATO powers is fast developing in the Mediterranean region in a struggle to seize the...

By Recognising The Golan Heights As Part Of Israel, Trump Is Opting For A...

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ON MONDAY, US President Donald Trump signed a declaration that recognised Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over Syria’s Golan Heights. The strategically important Golan Heights are recognised in...

Free the Chagos Islands – Britain’s own Guantánamo Bay!

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ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands. By 116...

TUC must call a general strike in support of junior doctors and the NHS

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TODAY Emergency Motion E5 is to be heard and voted on at the TUC Congress in Brighton. Despite being called ‘Support for the BMA and...

Unions Must Take Action Now To Defend The NHS!

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FOLLOWING similar warnings by the King’s Fund and other bodies, the BBC has announced that the NHS in England faces a...

Soviet Workers And Youth Want The Ussr Restored!

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THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...

WITH THE TORIES COLLAPSING, THE BANKERS HOLD TALKS WITH SHADOW CHANCELLOR McDONNELL!

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AN ARTICLE in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph revealed that a series of behind-the-scenes meetings has been taking place between members of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet...

Build a revolutionary leadership in the unions

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THE CRISIS that has erupted this week over the question of the Tory government’s determination to keep schools open in the face of the...

US and Saudi Arabia are slaughtering Yemenis while Israel is assassinating Palestinian journalists!

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A LEADING member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi yesterday indicted US imperialism saying that it is killing thousands of Yemeni civilians...

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,...

Assad the main enemy, not IS say the US, France and the UK!

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ON Tuesday morning in New York President Putin said that determining the fate of Syria should be in the hands of the Syrians,...

Tories Reeling From Crisis To Crisis While Lapdog Starmer Complains Johnson Not Listening To...

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AS THE Tories reel from one crisis to another over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic that has so far led to over 380,000...

Capitalism is dead in the water!

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ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...

TUC must call indefinite general strike to bring down coalition now!

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TODAY’S meeting of the TUC general council must get off the fence and call for an immediate all-out, indefinite general strike to bring down...

‘Snooper’s charter’ must be smashed through socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY the Tory home secretary, Theresa May, unveiled in parliament her latest ‘revised’ snooper’s charter that she intends to rush into law by the...

Occupy UK Car Plants! Call General Strike To Bring In Workers Government To Nationalise...

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THE UNITE union, representing car workers, said yesterday that its members will fight ‘tooth and nail’ to safeguard Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant, and urged...