Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Forward to a national strike and a national demonstration on July 17

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DAY one of the London CWU’s three-day strike action was a massive success, after the move by the Royal Mail and the government...

After massive London march for Palestine, the TUC must call a general strike for...

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UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell has confirmed that the Israeli army has killed over 50 children in deadly attacks in Jabalia, northern Gaza, during...

TUC And Right Wing Labour Are Supporting Driving Workers Back To Work!

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PM JOHNSON’S drive to return workers to work, despite the coronavirus epidemic, announced in Parliament on Monday at 3.00pm has met with a split...

Top US banker warns of global capitalist crisis that ‘could eclipse anything since World...

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JAMIE DIMON, boss of JP Morgan, the largest,bank in America, has issued a stark warning that the US is facing its worst crisis since...

Bourgeoisie Trembles At The Approaching Catastrophe!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, made it clear this week that the banking system faces total collapse due to ‘systemic...

Defend all GM jobs! Occupy and Nationalise UK’s Vauxhall plants!

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ON Thursday May 21, GM announced that ‘Representatives of Unite, the union, signed the UK Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and European framework agreement in...

King’s Fund warns NHS being systematically destroyed!

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A REPORT from the independent health think-tank, the King’s Fund, has revealed that the NHS is systematically being destroyed through government-imposed financial cuts. The Fund...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers receive full support from paul Brown, T&G convenor  and Jagi Vadgama, Chairman of Fulwell bus garage

Build up pensions battle against Blair government

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AFTER the disgraceful sell out of final salary pensions by union leaders of the NHS, civil service and local government trade unions, the basic...

Trade union bureaucrats put two fingers up to May Day

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TRUE to form, the voice of the trade union bureaucracy, the Stalinist Morning Star counted tens of thousands of marchers on the TUC’s May...

Fight slave labour bosses at Gate Gourmet and Irish Ferries

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THE British and Irish trade unions are under serious and heavy attack at Gate Gourmet at Heathrow airport, and at Irish Ferries. At Gate Gourmet,...

Government war on health unions

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David Cameron has convened a summit at Downing Street this afternoon to discuss the ‘implementation of NHS reforms’ with a ‘range of national healthcare...

Defend The NHS, The Fire Service & The Welfare State By Bringing Down The...

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THE response of the Tory-LibDem government to the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system has been to try to force the working class,...

As The Crisis Deepens The Time Has Come To Organise The British Socialist Revolution

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LENIN in his book Left Wing Communism an Infantile Disorder writes about the ‘fundamental law of revolution.’ He states: ‘For a revolution to take...

Defiant Assad Puts Imperialists Into A Crisis!

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PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...

Hague, Cameron are responsible for Linda Norgrove’s death

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US special forces in Afghanistan mounted an attempt to rescue Linda Norgrove after the British government in the persons of Foreign Secretary Hague and...

Labour right-wing renegades split, time to kick out the rest and demand a socialist...

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AFTER weeks of speculation, seven right-wing Labour MPs announced yesterday that they are resigning from the Labour Party, citing ‘institutional anti-Semitism’ and the ‘shameful’...

Ruling class full of fear as UK workers demand a break with the EU...

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DESPITE the Queen’s plea for ‘reasonableness’ the knives are out for tomorrow’s House of Commons debate on the EU with rival amendments tabled to...

Trade unions need their own political representation

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AMID the media frenzy surrounding the publication of former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s autobiography, A Journey, ballot papers were sent out for the Labour...

Brown Targets The Working Class For Special Measures

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BROWN’S proud boast yesterday in his pre-budget speech was that ‘In no other decade has Britain’s personal wealth – up 60 per cent –...

Demand recall of the TUC to sack current leaders replacing them with a leadership...

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Today will be the biggest day of strike action across the country in over a decade, with hundreds of thousands of workers from nearly...

Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes

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IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...

Hurry And Make Peace With Taleban Urge Mps

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THE start of an Afghan-led peace deal with the Taleban is needed to secure the future of Afghanistan after British troops leave, a group...

Stop the Saudi–imperialist war on Yemen! Defend the Iranian and Palestinian revolutions!

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HUMAN Rights Watch has indicted a so-called investigatory body, overseen by Saudi Arabia, which has for more than two years been covering up war...
Teachers marching in Athens last month

Irish Trade Unions Put The Tuc To Shame

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LAST Friday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a 100,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin, with demonstrations in many other Irish cities and...

Palestinian Premier Condemns Israel’s Killing Of Four Young Palestinians!

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has condemned the Israeli army killing of four young Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and...

Palestinians Set To March On Gaza! The UK And US Trade Unions Must Take...

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ON the day the Palestinian death toll in the Gaza genocide reached 40,000, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas defiantly announced he will visit Gaza, the...

Only socialist revolutions can defeat missile threat

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ROMANIAN President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that Romania will host US interceptor missiles along its border with the Russian Federation. This latest missile plan...

‘We’re the insurgents now,’ declares Tony Blair!

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EX-LABOUR Premier Blair has summoned the anti-Brexit camp, that is the bosses, the bankers, the majority of Tory and Labour MPs and the majority...

Special treatment for the servants of the Murdoch empire!

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YESTERDAY, the convicted News of the World journalists who had carried out ‘industrial scale’ hacking on behalf of Murdoch’s News International received lenient sentences. At...

Reid is talking liberty but is planning repression

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HOME Secretary Reid yesterday spoke about the importance of liberty – a new subject for a Home Secretary who preaches the ‘war against terror’,...

UK Workers Are Threatened By Covid-19 Mutations – Trade Unions Must Bring Down Tories...

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HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...

British army – out of control and out of its depth

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AFTER the disgraceful episode, where not one soldier or officer was found guilty of the murder of Baha Mousa, the attempt to sanitise the...

Sunak extends furlough as Bank of England prints another £50 billion to try and...

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March next year, with the government continuing...

Sunak not ‘daunted’ by job of driving through super austerity to rescue British capitalism!

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Rishi Sunak delivered his first address to the nation as prime minister yesterday morning. He started by praising Liz Truss and Boris Johnson in a...

Tories retreat over junior doctors – now finish them off

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THE eleventh hour climbdown by Tory health minister Jeremy Hunt over imposing new contracts on junior doctors has wounded him and exposed the weakness...

Blair’s call for an ‘alliance’ to attack Iran

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair told businessmen from Britain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dubai yesterday: ‘We must mobilise our alliance of moderation...

Time For Action To Defend The NHS!

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YESTERDAY both the RCN nurses and the Royal College of Physicians made it perfectly clear that the time has arrived when action to defend...

Stand with Gaza Day of Action – force TUC to call a general strike...

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TOMORRROW'S, (Wednesday 7th February), ‘Stand With Gaza – Workplace Day of Action’ is being supported by a wide range of trade unions representing hundreds...

The Capitalist Crisis Is Driving Forward Economic Collapse, Wars And Revolutions At Record...

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FOOD prices in the UK continued to surge at the fastest rate in nearly 45 years in April, as inflation fell at a slower...

Italian Banks on verge of crash following Renzi’s defeat

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THE defeat for the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, in Sunday’s referendum to change the Italian constitution and concentrate the political power in his...

Starmer pledges billions for military while doctors and nurses are hired to work in...

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Washington yesterday for a first meeting with President Trump since his inauguration last month. The situation in Ukraine...

Force Blair out now! Forward to a workers’ government!

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YESTERDAY was a letter writing day for Labour MPs. There were at least three different letters circulating among Labour MPs, including one signed by the...

US Longshoremen show the way with strike action on May Day to stop the...

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DOCKWORKERS of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to stop work for eight hours in all US West Coast ports on May...

Capitalism plunging into catastrophic banking crash – time to put it out of its...

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LAST Friday the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed and its assets seized by the American Federal Reserve in the biggest banking crash...

Stop The Police Chiefs Taking Over The Fire Service!

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JUST a few weeks ago the Grenfell Tower inferno burnt men, women and children to death, because the fire was able to take...