Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

No recovery in the US, EU or UK – socialism the only way forward

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THE UK’S Bank of England yesterday followed the lead of the US Federal Reserve Bank whose Chairman Bernanke had on Tuesday said that...

US credit experts warn a crash is coming

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NEWS IS quietly emerging from the top of the US banking fraternity that, despite the wild euphoria that has gripped the world financial centres...

Corbyn appeases Labour’s right wing – the UK must leave the EU, as decided...

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THE UK was changed forever when the over-confident Tory leadership of Cameron and Osborne got the House of Commons to agree a resolution...

After 10 years of austerity, and a boom in billionaires and paupers, workers will...

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A REPORT this week from the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the effects of Tory austerity cuts has brought home the fact that...

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...

MPs must vote to quit the EU – forward to the Socialist United States...

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THE Brexit Secretary Davis yesterday urged MPs not to ‘tie the prime minister’s hands’ and to defeat the two House of Lords amendments to...

Rudd refuses inquiry into state attack on miners at Orgreave!

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HOME Secretary Amber Rudd told MPs on Monday in the House of Commons that a review into the police attack on pickets during the...

As Putin, Merkel, Macron And Erdogan Talk Peace In Istanbul, Israel And The...

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As Putin, Merkel, Macron and Erdogan were meeting in Istanbul on Saturday evening to discuss the future of Syria, Israeli planes were bombing Gaza...

Cameron wants to create an army of the homeless

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TORY LEADER Cameron yesterday unveiled the spectre of workers sleeping on the streets with his new diktat that council housing should no longer be...

Hammond and Carney in ‘war games’

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THE Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, and the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, were forced to sit a test...

PM Johnson wants a nuclear rearmament drive to confront China!

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WITH Britain in a major economic and political crisis the Johnson government is not only preparing for a war with the UK working class,...

FBU must fight against a Police Commissioner controlled ‘Fire Service’

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THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...

End the ‘gig economy’ and all cheap labour! Kick the Tories out!

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THE DRIVE by the bosses to force every worker in Britain into the so-called ‘gig economy’ has hit the headlines again this week with...

‘Do Or Die’ Johnson Has Already Faced An Attempt To Remove Him!

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THE JUST-elected Tory leader Boris Johnson has already faced an attempt to remove him by Tory Minister of State for Europe Sir Alan Duncan,...

Javid Warns Against Any Attempt To Return To Austerity!

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FORMER TORY Chancellor Sajid Javid has warned against a return to austerity as the bankrupt UK economy plunges into a historic disaster with its...

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...

EU on brink of economic collapse

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THE CONTINUED economic collapse of the EU was highlighted yesterday when it was officially acknowledged that Italy, the third largest economy in Europe, has...

Devolution of NHS in Manchester opens door to privatisation

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FROM Friday 1 April, the Greater Manchester authorities have taken over a £6 billion health and social care budget to serve a population of...

Tory War On Teachers

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THE Tory conference this week stepped up its vicious attack on teachers and their unions with education secretary Michael Gove treating them, as befits...

Abbas backs Hamas – no ceasefire till blockade ended

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has backed calls by Hamas for an end to the economic blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel as one...

Save the NHS by bringing down the Tories and expropriating the bosses and the...

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THE NHS is the greatest of the gains that the working class made in the period immediately after the Second World War. It was brought...

Tusk threatens ‘Hell on Earth’ for working class!

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WHEN Donald Tusk, the European Council President, speaking in Brussels came out with his comment that there is a ‘special place in hell’ for...

Tory donor to head Ofsted

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WHEN the Tory education minister, Michael Gove, dumped the Labour peer Sally Morgan from her post as Chair of Ofsted, last January, his action...

Capitalism sinking under $199 trillion of debt

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A MAJOR report by the McKinsey Global Institute exposes the historic depth of the crisis gripping the world capitalist system, a debt crisis of...

Spooks fear revolution

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THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...

Tory-led House of Commons Committee slaps down Cameron over Syria!

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THE Government has received another slap in the face for its plan to cement relations with the US by pushing a resolution through...

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...

The TUC must call general strike to bring down the Tories – the only...

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BRITAIN’S trade unions are calling on the Tories to set up a ‘national task force’ to protect UK firms and workers from the collapse...

Corbyn must start fighting for Brexit or the right wing will bin him, and...

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IN their latest manoeuvre to dump the 2016 referendum result to leave the EU, the right-wing of the Labour Party are now manoeuvring to...

Overthrow the ‘Big Brother’ bosses & surveillance society with socialist revolution!

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THE TRADE Union Congress has conducted a survey which indicates that more than half of workers in the UK, some 56%, are being monitored...

Civil Rights lawyers closed down by Tories

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THE law firm that has spent ten years representing the Iraqi victims of the brutal imperialist invasion of their country and the subsequent occupation...

No deal with Cameron to accept Anti-Union Act – Make TUC call general strike!

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UNITE leader McCluskey has made Tory PM Cameron an offer by letter to accept the thresholds necessary for legal strike action, as proposed in...

Make sure you attend the ‘Save Ealing Hospital, Save the NHS Conference!’

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THE conference called tomorrow by the West London Council of Action and the All Trades Unions Alliance has come at a critical time. This week...

NHS to pay for bank crisis – time to bury capitalism not the NHS

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IN HIS first interview since becoming the coalition Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt spelt out bluntly that capitalism could no longer afford a national health...

Refugees branded as ‘illegals’ by EU

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THIS week, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, threatened that the EU would deport the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist...

Defend North Korea Against Imperialist Attack!

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THE US and its South Korean puppets are set to begin their largest ever joint military exercises amid the high tensions that they have...

Wilbur Ross Lays Down The Law To The UK Bosses And Government

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PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s senior adviser Wilbur Ross has just addressed the CBI bosses and given that body its orders as to what it must...

The Massive Human Price Of Boeing’s Profits – The Only Solution Is Expropriation...

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THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has the responsibility for aircraft safety, did nothing to ground Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft despite their own...

‘NHS Standing On A Burning Platform’ – Time To Deal With The Arsonists!

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THE NHS is standing on a ‘burning platform’ is the stark assessment of Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of...

EU announces further below-zero rate cuts and 2.6tn euro QE as new banking collapse...

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THE EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) has announced its biggest package of rate cuts and economic stimulus in three years as EU President Mario Draghi...

UK Opts For Syria Regime Change

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WITH its recognition of the Syrian ‘opposition’ as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, the UK has joined France, Saudi Arabia and...

Nemtsov loved by the US and UK ruling classes – hated by the...

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YESTERDAY over 20,000 people marched in Moscow and several thousand in Leningrad to mourn the death of Boris Nemtsov. The vast majority of the Russian...

WORKING CLASS ACTION TO LEAVE EU ON MARCH 29 IS NEEDED TO DEFEAT MPs...

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PM MAY confirmed yesterday that she will be running off today to meet with EU president Donald Tusk to beg for an extension to...

UK workers must act to help end occupation of Palestine!

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SIXTY-SEVEN years after the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, when Israel was founded by a massive Zionist terror against the Palestinian people, the Palestinian...

Flybe collapse just the start! Coronavirus has brought the crisis of capitalism to a...

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LOW-COST British airline Flybe has collapsed with the loss of 2,000 jobs. The pilots union BALPA has put the blame squarely on the Tory...