Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Tories are the party of the bankers, the bosses and the landlords! Tenants beware!

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THE south-east London borough of Newham achieved the dubious record of having the biggest rise in house prices in the whole of the UK...

Ireland heading for a general strike

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THE Croke Park II proposals to cut the public sector pay bill, as part of an additional one billion euros of state cuts, have...

Nationalise Honda, Nissan, Vauxhalls and the steel industry to defeat trade war closures!

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HONDA yesterday issued a closure statement in which Katsushi Inoue, Chief Officer for European Regional Operations, Honda Motor Co. Ltd., and President of Honda...

Zero Tolerance For Cameron Coalition

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CAMERON and the coalition are currently conducting a ruthless campaign against youth. This is ruling class justice at its most hideous, red in tooth...

Socialist revolution the only way to resolve the crisis

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THE head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Legarde, spelt out the task confronting the capitalist class of Europe last Thursday when she...

Brown Won’t Retreat From Blair Agenda

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PREMIER Blair got his well deserved come-uppance at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, while the co-author of his policies Gordon Brown was welcomed like...

The Chief Banker Condemns The Banks

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THE governor of the bank of England, Mervyn King, has launched a scathing attack on the major UK banks, accusing them of trying to...

Tories must be made to withdraw junior doctors’ contract and abandon contract imposition!

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THE proposal, made by 22 medical colleges and faculties for a five-day pause in the drive to impose new junior doctors’ contracts in England,...

Osborne to intensify Tory slave labour drive

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LONG-TERM unemployed workers and youth will have to undertake work for no pay in return for their benefits, or else starve, with the government...

Sunak admits ‘borrowing will have to end’ and prepares for war against the working...

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IN THE Spectator magazine this week, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks with the official Tory line that British capitalism could survive by indefinitely...

US-Israel steps up the war against Hamas and also against the working people of...

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ALI Damush, the vice chairman of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, said yesterday that Israel had resumed its aggression on Gaza by US decision. He...

Teachers, parents and students taking action to defend education

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OVER the past week, lecturers have been on strike against sackings, parents are occupying schools to stop their closure, and students, angry at high...

Eurozone crisis drives gold rush

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LAST week the Greek Syriza government avoided defaulting on its debt repayment to the IMF by the skin of its teeth. Just before Tuesday’s deadline...

US arms Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia for war with Iran

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THAT the US is preparing a new great war in the Middle East and the Gulf to destroy Iran and Syria is crystal clear...

Trump Denounces The ‘Marxists’ As The Crisis Of US Capitalism Reaches Explosion Point!

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IN HIS FOURTH of July speech on Saturday US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claimed were...

Developing Oil Crisis Makes It All The More Vital That The Working Class Takes...

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THE SAUDI REGIME, backed to the hilt by the US and the UK, yesterday admitted that the Houthi movement’s drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s...

Tory war on unemployed must be answered with a general strike to kick them...

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THE LATEST Tory onslaught on the unemployed was revealed by Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday when he praised the ‘Way...

Us Capitalism Is On The Rocks! The US Working Class Is Faced With...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump yesterday unveiled his three-phase plan for opening up businesses in America proclaiming, ‘We’re starting our life again. We’re starting rejuvenation...

Workers will reject Tory ‘charm offensive’ – Time to kick them out with a...

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Mark Harper, the latest Tory transport secretary, appeared on the BBC yesterday morning to claim that the government was not responsible for blocking any...

Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe

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THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...

Johnson ditches Plan B – Time for working class to kick Tories out and...

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THE TORIES have pledged to dump all existing Covid restrictions in the next few weeks in England and ‘get life completely back to normal’. On...

Trump’s ‘war on two fronts’ against ‘millions of illegal immigrants’ at home...

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THE US military is sending an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East as it builds up war tensions to try to intimidate Iran...

Capitalist state steps back from the brink!

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BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...

Tory Party Forces Cameron To Fire Miller!

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MARIA MILLER has been forced to resign. After publicly displaying her arrogant determination to defy all the calls for her to go – a...

Fight Tory class war programme – bring down the Coalition!

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OSBORNE began his spending review speech yesterday by saying that: ‘Today’s the day when Britain steps back from the brink’. In fact, his speech represented...

BIS warning of global financial crash!

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GLOBAL financial markets are dangerously stretched and may unwind with shock force as liquidity dries up, the Bank of International Settlements has warned. BIS boss...

Refugees from imperialist wars are welcome – the enemy of the working class is...

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ON WEDNESDAY it was revealed that the Tory government is considering building an ‘asylum processing centre’ in the South Atlantic on Ascension Island. The Foreign...

Chelsea Tories just could not wait to start evicting

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JUST hours after Tory leader Cameron announced that council houses were no longer going to be ‘homes for life’ – but were to be...

Miliband adopts Osborne’s programme to smash Welfare State!

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband’s speech on the party’s economic strategy showed conclusively that the Labour Party leaders are prepared to completely destroy the Welfare...

Reject Gate Gourmet mass sackings deal!

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A MASS meeting of the 710 TGWU trade union members, sacked and locked-out at Gate Gourmet, will take place at the Monsoon Club in...

With the US economy smashed Trump is aiming to return to office through a...

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WHAT began as a Black Lives Matter movement sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has developed into a nationwide movement...

White House interns demand Biden calls a permanent ceasefire in Gaza!

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AS ISRAEL ramps up its war efforts to slaughter even more Palestinians in southern Gaza, in the US a group of White House interns...

US Federal Reserve is too scared to raise interest rates!

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ON Thursday evening, the US Federal Reserve policy committee decided yet again that it did not dare to raise interest rates by a fraction...

Deepening crisis means revolution in the UK and Ireland

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THE amount of new public sector borrowing in the UK hit a record of £15.9bn for August. This is £1.8 billion higher than in...

Myanmar workers and youth on the path to armed revolution to overthrow military junta

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THE MYANMAR embassy in London was taken over by representatives of the country’s military junta on Wednesday with the previous Ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn...

UK ‘pirates’ are doing the USA’s dirty work policing the Med to keep out...

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IRAN has summoned the UK ambassador after UK marines illegally seized an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar. British Royal Marines swooped in...

Johnson demands pensioners and workers must suffer poverty to keep inflation down

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TORY prime minister Boris Johnson was interviewed yesterday on ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme and announced that there will be no attempt to increase...

The ruling class are above the law – decides Law Lords

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THE House of Lords Court of Appeal has ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted lawfully when it rolled over in front of...

Afghan crisis – the Dutch won’t go so the Brits must take the strain!

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YESTERDAY the Dutch parliament delayed its decision to send more than 1,000 Dutch troops to Afghanistan, as part of a NATO force, under British...

Sustainability & Transformation Plans mean NHS cuts and privatisation! Kick the Tories out!

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THE TORY government has launched its new offensive in the war against the NHS, and this time it is an attack by stealth. Sustainability and...

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...

Seattle Police Chief Quits As Working Class Gears Up To Deal With Trump!

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SEATTLE’S chief of police has thrown in the towel and quit on the same day that the city council voted to reduce the police...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters held out placards and shouted slogans during their successful picket at Heathrow yesterday

Blair puts ‘the country’ before the Labour Party

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BLAIR came clean on at least one issue at his monthly press conference and that was where his loyalties lie. They definitely do not lie...

70 children blown to pieces by terror gangs in Syria and not a word...

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IN SYRIA a massive car bomb deliberately targeting people awaiting evacuation from Syrian towns being besieged by the so-called ‘rebel’ forces, in reality a...

US Ruling Class Forced To Nationalise Bankrupt Mortgage Giants

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THE nationalisation of the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac mortgage finance companies by the ultra right wing Bush administration is a forced admission of...