Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

A Capitalist Nightmare Confronts The Bosses As Economic Collapse And Revolution Nears!

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THIS week the Daily Telegraph has published a supplement ‘The Investors’ Handbook 2020’ subtitled: ‘Rising protectionism, negative interest rates, equity bubbles, debt mountains, trade...

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...

NHS bed & staffing crisis is a ‘Grenfell Tower waiting to happen’ – Call...

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THE NUMBER of NHS beds has halved in the last 30 years and proposals to slash bed numbers even further will make the ‘NHS a...

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...

Trade Unions Must Not Stand By And Watch NHS Being Closed!

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ON Thursday evening hundreds of Enfield residents were led by the North East London Council of Action into Chase Farm hospital to protest at...

May urging unions and Labour to support her Brexit deal! Down with May’s deal!...

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TORY PM May spoke to Unite’s Len McCluskey and the GMB’s Tim Roache by phone on Thursday for the first time since taking office,...

Build Councils of Action – Forward to the General Strike!

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500 WORKERS and youth, men, women and children marched yesterday through Southall to Ealing to defend Ealing hospital whose closure has begun with...

US pilots confronted Boeing over safety before Ethiopia crash and were ignored!

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SECRET recordings have revealed that the American pilots union confronted US aircraft manufacturer Boeing about the safety of their bestselling 737 Max 8 plane...

Macron’s response promising permanent austerity will drive revolution forward

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ON THURSDAY evening French president Emmanuel Macron finally made a public address outlining his response to the revolutionary uprising of workers, youth and the...

Defend the NHS – make the TUC call a general strike

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WITH 23,000 beds being cut from hospital wards over the last four years alone, the entire trade union movement must immediately move into action...

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...

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...

Lobby TUC Sept 9 to demand break from EU now and for a general...

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THE REMAINER MPs have been dealt a minor blow by the Scottish courts. A Scottish judge has refused to order an immediate halt to...

Brexit crisis coming to a head – Quit the EU Now – Forward to...

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TOMORROW will see the moment of truth for both the Tory and Labour Parties when May’s programme for a Brexit that will leave the...

Corbyn sets out to unrig and transform the ‘rigged’ capitalist system

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LABOUR Leader Corbyn opened the Labour Party general election campaign yesterday by stating: ‘We have four weeks. Four weeks to take our message to...

Now Is The Time To Bring Down The Tories! Forward To A Workers Government!

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TORY Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, resigned his cabinet post on Wednesday, admitting that his behaviour had ‘fallen below the high standards required’ of a...

Tories prepare for civil war against the working class

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IN HIS closing speech to the Tory conference, Cameron pledged that a future Tory government would scrap the Human Rights Act, a position that was...

Coalition Aiming To Cut The Mentally Ill!

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THE government is planning to strip mentally ill people of their state benefits if they do not agree to undergo treatment for anxiety and...

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...

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...

INDICATIVE VOTES ARE REJECTED FOR A SECOND TIME – UK MUST LEAVE EU ON...

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THE PLAN for a parliamentary coup against the 2016 Referendum result, that instructed the government  to leave the EU, by forcing through the House...

Industry collapses in UK under impact of capitalist crisis

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THE UK economy stagnated with no growth in the last quarter of 2019, according to official figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics). Gross...

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 re-nationalisation of energy industry under socialism can prevent fuel poverty

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BRITISH capitalism in the 21st century cannot guarantee even the most basic pre-requisites for life if you are not wealthy. This is the stark message...

Euro crisis hits youth hardest – forward with European socialist revolution

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THERE is no more pathetic sight than that of European bourgeois politicians and economists manically trying to convince both themselves and the world at...

42,000 BA Workers Are Being Threatened With New Contracts Today!

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THE LEADER of the Unite trade union, Len McCluskey, said on Monday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to...

Trump and Pence threaten Venezuela with military intervention!

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PRESIDENT Trump, in his latest speech on restarting the Afghan war, made it clear he is not just interested in ‘killing terrorists’. He insisted: ‘We...

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,...

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...

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...

Majority of world banks ‘not economically viable’ according to report

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THE INTERNATIONAL management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company has published a global banking review which found that the majority of banks worldwide ‘may not...

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,...

Tory coronavirus inquiry is an attempt to put off reckoning with working class

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ON WEDNESDAY, Tory prime minister Boris Johnson announced that there would be ‘a full and independent inquiry’ into the government handling of the coronavirus...

Smash the STPs! Trade unions must occupy hospitals threatened with savage cuts and closures!

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THERE is no doubt that the 44 STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) that were prepared in secret are in fact part of one Tory...

Workers march in London! Time to call general strike!

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YESTERDAY, steelworkers were marching for their jobs to parliament, defending an industry that is being deliberately destroyed, while university lecturers were taking the first...

Trade unions must take action to boycott Israel, and halt all arms supplies!

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ISRAELI warplanes struck multiple targets across the Gaza Strip on Friday after a 72-hour ceasefire agreement ended at 8am, killing a child and injuring...

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...

North Korea successfully tests H-Bomb to be loaded onto an ICBM!

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NORTH Korea has successfully tested an H-bomb, a nuclear weapon that it will now be able to load onto an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile...

Only A Socialist Revolution Can Resolve The Crisis Of Capitalism!

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THE DAY after official figures were released showing that the UK economy was crashing into the deepest depression for 300 years, the governor of...

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...

Irish workers reject the Catholic Church’s State and demand abortion rights!

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THE Catholic Church-dominated state of the Irish Republic was rocked to its foundations on Saturday when the results came through after the referendum on...

Break with the EU Now! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!

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THE publication of the EU’s draft separation treaty with the UK has intensified the conflict between the UK and the EU ruling classes and...

EU gives Italy three weeks to re-write its budget or face fines!

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ITALY is now on a collision course with the EU. The European Commission has issued an ultimatum insisting that the country’s budget plan does...

Public services face privatisation catastrophe! Renationalise the lot under workers’ control!

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THE COLLAPSES of Carillion, of East Coast Rail, of academy chain after academy chain, and now with the NAO report that private outsourcing giant...

Assad is ready for a national referendum for Syrians to decide on their...

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CURRENTLY parallel with the peace talks in Astana, uninvited Turkish and US forces are operating in Syria in a move to attempt...