Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Trump’s tax cuts for corporations will lead to the ‘mother of all crashes’

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LAST Wednesday US president Donald Trump unveiled what he called the ‘biggest tax cuts in history’ – tax cuts only for the giant corporations...

Macron demands dictatorship throughout the EU – UK must leave EU on March 29th!

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron, currently fighting a civil war with millions of French workers, has proposed a series of ‘reforms’ that he says will...

Moment of truth for Greece!

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GREECE’S Syriza government delayed yesterday’s 300m euros (£216m) debt repayment to the IMF, saying that it will pay over to the Troika (the...

Israel Poised For Gaza Attack!

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ISRAEL is gearing up for another major attack on the Gaza Strip to try and drive back the revolutionary forces in the area. At the...

Osborne launches permanent austerity war against workers

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CHANCELLOR OSBORNE underlined the precarious nature of his ‘recovery’ when he told the House of Commons yesterday ‘the job is not done…we don’t squander...

Break With The Eu Now! Forward To A Socialist United States Of Europe!

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THE TORY Party is now on the brink of a split as pro-Remainers plan to unite with Labour, Liberal Democrat, Scottish and Welsh Nationalist...

Only socialist revolution can stop imperialist war

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LAST Friday’s attack by US planes on the Syrian airfield of al-Shayrat was not a one-off military exercise to teach the Syrians a lesson,...

US Working Class At The Crossroads – Break With The Democrats Now!

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EVERYWHERE, from the motor car industry to the mines of Appalacia, the US working class is struggling for its jobs and its trade union...

Middle East at boiling point as US threatens Palestinians and Syria!

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THE US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, speaking on Tuesday at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, said that the Palestinians’...

Johnson goes down with coronavirus – plunging his anti-working class regime into crisis! Time...

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THE TRADE union leaders and the Labour Party are currently cementing their role as the most enthusiastic would-be partners of the Tory government and...

Israel Is Blocking Gaza Gas And Selling It To Egypt

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ISRAEL IS currently preventing gas from entering the Gaza Strip and is selling it to Egypt – while Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip are...

Crisis-ridden US imperialism to stay in Afghanistan and send troops to Cameroon!

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama has admitted defeat in Afghanistan and has decided to keep 5,500 US troops there when he leaves office in 2017, according...

Bring Down The May Government, Quit Eu And Bring In Socialism!

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GENERAL LORD Dannatt, the chief of the General Staff from 2006-2009, writing in The Daily Telegraph, has bemoaned the ‘national embarrassment of almost...

Johnson Getting Ready To Follow Trump, End The Lockdown And Bring In Millions Of...

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THE MASSIVE ‘Black Lives Matter’ marches this weekend saw millions of workers internationally and tens of thousands of youth and workers in the UK...

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...

Youth in Europe erupt against more austerity

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ON Sunday a mass movement of workers led by young people took to the streets of cities across Europe in a powerful demonstration of...

Forward To The Palestinian State With Jerusalem As Its Capital!

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THOUSANDS of Palestinians took to the streets across the West Bank and Gaza yesterday in protest at the United States’ impending announcement of the...

US-UK rescues ISIS fighters from Raqqa – no doubt they will now be sent...

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PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...

British capitalism is bust, time to put it out of its misery

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FOR THE first time a comprehensive analysis of the economic and social impact of the war waged by the Tory government under Margaret Thatcher...

BMA demands STPs be ‘abandoned’! Now all trade unions must follow their lead and...

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ON MONDAY, the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting took a giant step forward when, after a struggle over the issue of STPs, it passed a...

Stagnant Eu Heading For A Crash!

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EUROZONE inflation has fallen to its lowest level since the height of the 2008 financial collapse, sliding further into what the European Central Bank...

Trump sends 15,000 troops to Mexican border – threatening to open fire on migrants!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump spat on the Statue of Liberty this week and the revolutionary history of the United States, especially its call from...

Osborne announces more austerity and refuses to guarantee the NHS

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CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday outlined ‘a Britain that is growing, creating jobs and paying its way’. He added more Walter Mitty observations such as: ‘The latest...

Ludicrous Cameron claims Tories are the workers’ party

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CAMERON began his election manifesto speech yesterday morning by insulting the intelligence of the listeners by stating ‘We are the party of working people,...

CWU leaders embrace privatisation!

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A BALLOT of CWU members announced this week showed a vote of 94% in favour of a ‘legally binding contract’ between the leadership of...

Trump And Netanyahu Meet Today!

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PRESIDENT Trump and the Israeli leader Netanyahu are set to meet in Washington today just as hundreds of US rabbis have signed an open...

Establish the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in 2017!

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THE Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saeb Erekat has denounced the ongoing escalation by the Israeli government against its Palestinian citizens as...

Workers must force through the break with the EU with a socialist revolution

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THE Brexit negotiations have just begun and already it is being spelt out to the UK ruling class that the ‘divorce settlement’ that...

After The Care Homes Massacre – Kick The Tories Out Now!

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THE damning report released yesterday by the Public Accounts Committee on the effect of Tory policies towards the elderly in care homes came as...

Obama brings in tough sanctions against Iran as he prepares to meet Netanyahu

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PRESIDENT Barack Obama has signed into law the toughest ever US sanctions on Iran. The measures, on top of new UN Security Council and...

Tories insist on ‘gagging orders’ to cover up for their crimes against workers

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IT EMERGED this week that the company hired by the Tories to test for flammable cladding on government and other public buildings in the...

Trump’s economic miracle is in fact a mountain of debt that US workers will...

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IN HIS State of the Union address last week, US president Donald Trump boasted that under his leadership the American economy had undergone a...

Now Is The Time To Go Forward To The State Of Palestine!

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THE war for the recovery of the land of Palestine is building up rapidly as the heroic Palestinian nation, men women and children battle...

Renationalise the steel industry – the only way forward for steel workers

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ON Wednesday, it was announced that the lengthy negotiations between Tata Steel and the German steel conglomerate, Thyssen-Krupp, have been concluded and that a...

Deal Aimed At Strangling Cwu Branches

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THE CWU trade union has agreed a ‘landmark’ agreement with Royal Mail. CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward said: ‘The agreement breaks new ground in...

Car Factories Could Be Closed In A Matter Of Weeks Says Unite! Occupy Them...

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FOR THE first time since coronavirus erupted in China shutting down Chinese manufacturing, cutting off the supply of vital components and commodities to the...

Grenfell Inquiry bans survivors and relatives while safety experts didn’t even bother to read...

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GRENFELL survivors and relatives of the 72 people killed in the Grenfell Tower inferno are furious that they have been excluded from the inquiry...

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...

Corbyn has no answer for the Tory onslaught on workers and trade unions!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday at the TUC conference had no answer to the Tory onslaught on the trade unions. In particular, he ignored the...

Universal Credit can’t be fixed: Abolish it along with the Tories!

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THE TORY government suffered a defeat in the courts this week when the court of appeal dismissed a challenge by the Department for Work...

May reveals Tories fear of revolution

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YESTERDAY’S speech to the Charity Commission by Tory prime minister, Theresa May, attracted much comment on her proposals on raising the profile of mental health...

Salafist Provocateurs Playing Israel’s Game!

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A SALAFIST group yesterday claimed responsibility for a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip towards the Israeli town of Ashkelon on Saturday night, as...

Government Plans Secret Courts!

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A REPORT issued yesterday by the civil rights group Amnesty describes the proposed Justice and Security Bill as being straight out of a Franz...

Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU

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THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...

Right wing Labour puts Corbyn and McDonnell on a very short Leash!

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SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary speaking at a Chatham House conference, has said that Labour will not support any Brexit deal negotiated...