Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Starving The Poor!

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AS hard evidence emerges about how the ‘local welfare assistance’ scheme is operating in practice across England, it is quite clear that deliberately starving...

Labour is sharpening the knife to cut the throat of the NHS – what...

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LABOUR’S HEALTH SECRETARY Wes Streeting has made public his vow to scrap more than a million ‘pointless’ NHS hospital appointments. The Health Secretary whined that...

Labour government rotting from within – time for a general strike to bring it...

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THE SHOCK resignation of MP Rosie Duffield from the Labour Party has revealed the bankruptcy of the Keir Starmer regime that is literally rotting...

Low Interest Rates And Quantitative Easing Forever Pledges Carney

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THE new Bank of England governor Carney yesterday in his ‘Inflation Report’ gave big business a sample of his ‘forward guidance’. This amounted to inflation,...

Fitch strips UK of triple-A rating

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LAST Friday, Fitch ratings agency became the second of the world’s three big credit agencies to strip Britain of its top notch triple-A credit...

Miliband quits and Balls is beaten as bankrupt reformism crumbles!

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THE general election saw the Labour Party completely routed in Scotland and humiliated in parts of England – a result that spells the complete...

Privatisation destroys infrastructure

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BRITAIN’S infrastructure was reduced to complete meltdown over Christmas through a combination of high winds and heavy rainfall. Not because of blinding snow storms, hurricane...

Inflation Out Of Control – Only Solution Is Get Rid Of Capitalism!

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BRITISH capitalism has plunged even deeper into debt! It was revealed yesterday that interest payments on the massive £2.4 trillion national debt have more...

EUROPE IN CRISIS! Build the 4th International!

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IT was no accident that last Thursday’s storming of the Greek state broadcasting (ERT) building by riot police and the brutal eviction of the...

Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring the Tories down and bring...

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EVERY day brings a new savage attack by this Tory government on the NHS. At the beginning of the week the shock announcement broke that...

Johnson’s new attack to break up the NHS

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LABOUR’S Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans yesterday to allow well-off patients to make so-called ‘co-payments’ for drugs and extra treatments, while still receiving...

Democrats revolt against Obama!

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PRESIDENT Obama’s attempt to establish a cheaper insurance market that would provide full cover for up to 40 million poor Americans is under all-out...

Smash imperialism to defeat terrorism

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YESTERDAY Home Secretary Reid dismissed the many appeals for a change in British Foreign Policy from a multitude of community and political leaders, who...

Outsourcing companies facing ruin – socialist revolution is the only answer!

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IT IS almost exactly one year since the dramatic collapse into bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation of the giant outsourcing and construction company Carillion. At the...

THE TUC leaders who have deserted junior doctors and the NHS must be kicked...

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YESTERDAY the Tory offensive against not just junior doctors but the entire foundation of the National Health Service reached a ‘watershed moment for the...

Disarm Imperialism To Stop New Korean War!

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A REPORT issued yesterday by the highly respected and influential Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has bluntly warned that the drive to war by...

Unions Must Be Made To Take Action To Defend Steel Industry Jobs And Pensions!

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THE TORY government is on the brink of a savage attack on Tata Steel workers’ pensions, and after four weeks of consultation will be...

Tories in chaos as Paterson resigns amidst sleaze accusations – time to kick...

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THE TORY government was in chaos yesterday following Tuesday’s vote to disband the existing Standards Committee replacing it with a Tory dominated committee to...

Capitalist leaders have lost confidence in the system and are preparing for the worst!

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THESE are fearful times for the leaders of EU capitalism. The fear factor is not just present in Brussels. Admiral Alan West, who...

UNITE leader offers to assist Tory productivity drive

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THE immediate response of the leaders of the trade unions representing public sector workers to the wage-cutting programme outlined by Osborne in this week’s...

Balls Is The Bankers Man!

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BEFORE the 1997 election, the Blair-Brown gang proved to big business that they were the right men to run capitalism by conducting a war...

Bosses predict massive shocks after UK general election!

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TO say that the international banking system and the world stock markets are in a state described as ‘nervous’ is to do great injustice...

98 deaths in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan

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ON the brink of the third anniversary of the Anglo-US invasion of Iraq, the US based Human Rights First organisation has released a report...

Sudanese Workers Launch Two-Day General Strike!

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THE Sudanese Alliance for Freedom and Change has launched a two-day revolutionary nationwide strike to force the still ruling military council to transfer power...

Tories Lash Out At Poor And Migrant Workers

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PM Cameron was yesterday pledging ‘action on welfare’ to ensure, as he put it, that ‘work is always a better option’ – not by...

Iran condemns the mass bombing of Iranian cities

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IRAN has fiercely condemned the massive Israeli aerial bombing of several cities and the targeted assassinations of military leaders and nuclear scientists on Thursday...

The trade unions must defend Lineker and take action to sack the Tories and...

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AN unrepentant Gary Lineker insisted yesterday that he stood fully with his tweets condemning the Tory ‘Illegal Migrants Bill’ and that he has no...

Defend the Royal Mail – Form a public sector alliance – Bring down the...

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FOLLOWING the publication of the coalition’s Postal Services Bill, Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, said: ‘The government has wasted no time in flogging...

it’s your money for your life says NICE

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IF NICE and the ‘NHS health reformers’ have their way, free health care at the point of need is destined for the dustbin of...

Hamas Denounces Netanyahu-Pompeo Saudi Mission!

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PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s secret flight to Saudi Arabia, where he reportedly met with Saudi Crown Prince...

Socialist Revolution To Put Bankrupt Bankers Out Of Their Misery

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IN its latest annual report, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank of central banks’, has warned that capitalism is ‘defenceless’ against...

US workers taking the revolutionary road

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THE Baltimore protests over the police killing of 25-year-old African-American Freddie Gray have spread all over the USA. Gray died of a spinal cord...

The government refuses to release the Shrewsbury 24 trial secret papers

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THE ruling class state machinations that secured the jailing of a number of Shrewsbury pickets after the first national building workers strike in...

Labour conference exposes bankruptcy of Starmer’s government – now is the time to bring...

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THE speech by Labour’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves to the party’s annual conference on Monday was nothing more than an appeal to the international financial services...

After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!

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PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...

Tory sleaze again – boot them out with a general strike!

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NADHIM Zahawi, the Tory Party Chairman and ex Chancellor of the Exchequer, has for months been avoiding questions about his tax affairs, but on...

Police Officer Chauvin squeezed the life out of George Floyd! Murder trial puts the...

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FOR NINE minutes and twenty-nine seconds police officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck, Hennepin county courthouse in downtown Minneapolis heard...

Brown Going Further Than Blair & Reid On ‘Security’

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PREMIER to be, Brown, yesterday told the world, five days before the outgoing Home Secretary Reid is to introduce his counter terrorism measures...

Imperialism In Crisis In Egypt, Syria And The Yemen

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THE US State Department has told its citizens and all non-emergency government staff to leave the Yemen ‘immediately’ due to increased threats to their...

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...

Trade unions must call a general strike to stop Tories ending all Covid restrictions

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YESTERDAY, Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the ending of all remaining Covid restrictions in England this week. The Tories’ ‘Living with Covid’ plan means...

Renationalise the rail privateers

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THE private railway system has, so far, seen many tens of billions of public money thrown at it to make sure that the private...

Send Blair to the War Crimes Tribunal!

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EX-PM Blair could be made to stand trial for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq, Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn has said. Corbyn correctly...

Take Action To Win The Winter War

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ON FRIDAY, the Health Secretary Hewitt announced that the NHS is heading for a £623 million deficit by the end of March. This deficit is...

King urinates on the green shoots of recovery

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‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...