Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

GPs must follow junior doctors lead and strike to defend contracts and defend...

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VERY ANGRY BMA GPs met in conference on Saturday where they carried motions to fight ‘underfunding’ and a rapidly growing workload that ‘threatened NHS...

Students & lecturers set to erupt over fees & cuts!

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THIS September, students in universities across the country are set to erupt in anger when they return after the £9,000 cap on university tuition...

Only a Socialist Revolution can force the break with the bosses’ and bankers’ EU!

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NOTHING summed up the crisis that is gripping the leadership of the trade unions like the TUC’s joint statement this week, with the bosses...

Anti-Brexit Coup Underway – Workers Must Take Action To Force UK Out Of Eu...

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ON FRIDAY PM MAY let it be known that if she did not think that her EU deal would be agreed by parliament she...

Trump’s trade war prepares the way for a real war against China! The only...

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US PRESIDENT Trump sharply escalated his trade war with China yesterday, more than doubling tariffs on $200bn (£153.7bn) worth of Chinese goods. The US is...

Millions of children face hunger under Tory austerity – TUC must act!

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A SHOCKING study carried out by the GMB union released yesterday showed that almost one in ten school staff bring in their own food...

French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda

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IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...

Tories go from class war at home to war preparations abroad!

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THE Tory class war at home means permanent austerity for the working class, with anti-union laws brought in to further chain up trade unions,...

Bolton Blaze Shows That Tackling Cladding Is A Life And Death Issue That Is...

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THE CLADDING (HPL) that encased the Bolton students’ accommodation block that was engulfed in flames last week was found, after examination by scientists, to...

Cameron’s Fracking Bribe Rejected!

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THE Tory Party is in an energy crisis. In 1993 in the person of Michael Heseltine it completely shut down the mining industry putting 100,000...

North Korea condemns Trump’s threats and issues its own warning!

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THE North Korean government has rejected claims by President Trump that a combination of threats and sanctions have brought Pyongyang to the negotiating table....

Half a million families will lose their homes if rates are put up, warns...

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IN its direst warning to date on the scale of personal debt, the Bank of England has predicted that half a million families will...

BREXIT ‘DO OR DIE’ ON OCTOBER 31st NEEDS A GENERAL STRIKE TO FORCE IT...

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PM JOHNSON urged MPs last night to back his EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill and approve a three-day timetable to consider the legislation and adopt...

Bosses and bankers agree capitalism is ‘broken’ – time to put an end...

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ANY LINGERING doubts about the morbid terror that is gripping the capitalist class were dispelled this weekend when 50 of the leading bosses from...

TUC – defend the junior doctors, call a general strike now!

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THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...

Johnson Will Use His Dictatorial Powers Against The Working Class!

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THE DEBATE on the adjournment of Parliament for a month until April 21 took place immediately after the Tory emergency legislation passed though the...

US Attacks Refugees With Its $65M Unrwa Cut!

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EXECUTIVE Committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Zakaria al-Agha, said on Wednesday that the United States freeze of $65 million in its...

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...

£490bn goes missing! Time to overthrow British capitalism, quit the EU and go forward...

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ALL THE talk by the Tories, and echoed by the Labour Party leadership, that capitalist Britain is fundamentally in good health economically, has just...

Young Workers Are Sleeping In The Streets, While The Bosses And Bankers Get Richer...

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WORKERS earning wages, employed in respected professions are sleeping in the streets and working during the day, or night is something shockingly new to...

Defend the NHS! defend the Welfare state! Bring down the Coalition!

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IN his recent budget speech Chancellor Osborne stated his objective is: ‘Building a modern reformed state we can afford.’ The truth of the matter is...

FBI warns of revolution! Now is the time to build 4th International in the...

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THE DIRECTOR of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray, told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the US ruling class has lost...

UK must completely leave EU on March 29, 2019 – with or without a...

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NEGOTIATIONS over the UK’s departure from the EU are ‘now in the endgame’, according to PM May, with both sides ‘working through the night...

Fighting Words Must Be Matched By Fighting Deeds!

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LAST Wednesday, Dave Prentis, general secretary of the country’s second largest union, Unison, made a speech urging a ‘popular uprising in defence of the...

Grenfell – never again! Build Councils of Action – organise a general strike! Get...

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THE HORROR felt by millions of people after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, immediately...

Landlords ban DSS tenants! End the housing crisis through putting an end to...

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AT LEAST one in 10 landlords are ‘unlawfully’ advertising their flat for rent by saying that they do not accept tenants on housing benefit,...

Balls and Miliband argue for a permanent cuts regime

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LABOUR leader Miliband’s speech of yesterday was a pre-election attempt to bolster up support from workers by arguing that Labour will be...

Osborne decrees huge wage and benefit cuts for the public sector and the poor

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CHANCELLOR George Osborne in his Autumn statement was forced to admit failure, that his policies were not working and that he had been forced...

End the legal thievery of the super-rich with expropriation and a socialist revolution!

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THE SECRET hidden world of the mega rich, giant corporations, hedge funds, politicians, heads of State and the Queen has had the spotlight thrown...

TUC must call action now against the BoE and Tory theft of $1bn of...

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ONE BILLION dollars (£800m) worth of Venezuelan gold in the vaults of the Bank of England has been successfully seized, in an act of...

Bosses Want The NHS To Bail Out The Energy Companies!!!

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THE Tory drive to impose capitalist ‘business models’ on the NHS with the constant demand for cuts and financial stability at the cost of...

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...

20 years since 9/11 and imperialism has been driven out of Afghanistan! Shut down...

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TODAY is exactly two decades after the terror attacks on the United States on 11 September, 2001. That morning, Al-Qaeda-affiliated hijackers flew two Boeing...

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...

Victory to the Palestinians; forward to the Palestinian state; drive imperialism out of the...

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FIERCE clashes are continuing between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth organised in Popular Committees across all of the West Bank districts. The Palestinian Red Crescent...

Lagarde Calls For ‘Brave Action’ To Inflate Economies

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IMF Managing Director Lagarde has warned that the world economy is ‘too weak for comfort’, and that it could be heading for years of...

London’s Met police to be split with directly recruited detectives!

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THE news yesterday that, for the first time, London’s Metropolitan police will be directly recruiting plainclothed detectives with no previous experience of policing is...

Gripped with crisis UK, US & French leaders abandon World Economic Forum

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THE ANNUAL get-together of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos has been hit by a number of notable absences...

Parliament Is Being Broken Apart By Brexit Crisis!

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PM MAY is facing a revolt from at least 15 Tory MPs who are threatening to vote with the majority of Labour MPs...

‘Bleak Houses’ and desperate living conditions for workers and youth in the UK –...

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THE REPORT by Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, ‘Bleak houses: Tackling the crisis of family homelessness in England’, reveals the ‘terrible reality’...

Israeli government forced to remove metal detectors from Al Aqsa Mosque!

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THE ISRAELI security cabinet decided on Monday night, after massive Palestinian demonstrations and international protests, to remove the metal detectors which had been installed...

Johnson Treats ‘Doormat’ Starmer With Complete Contempt

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ON MONDAY night, prime minister Boris Johnson decreed that England’s third national lockdown would legally come into force on Tuesday night with parliament called...

Trump Can’t Get Rid Of Obamacare – But US Workers Can Get Rid...

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PRESIDENT Trump’s efforts to smash ex-President Obama’s healthcare system, which provides cheaper health insurance for the low paid and the poor (Obamacare), have...

Arrogant Israel changes Arafat street name as Palestinian masses get ready for the Third...

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AN Arab town council in Jatt, in Israel (occupied Palestine), has been forced to change a street name called after the former Palestinian leader...

Open The Doors To The Refugees, And Smash Capitalism And Imperialism!

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A VERY young toddler was washed up on a Turkish beach on Wednesday, while his mother was also among those drowned at sea trying...