Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Police chiefs demand ‘summary powers’

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THE Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is demanding that their forces be given powers to dispense ‘instant police justice’. This is revealed in...

Labour policy is pauperising graduates

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FIFTY EIGHT per cent of graduates find they are still relying on their parents for financial support three years after graduation, a survey commissioned...

The CWU leaders are refusing to fight for their membership

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THE unsolicited public display of pacifism yesterday by the CWU leadership, in the face of the most vicious daily attacks on their membership...

Now sack the union leaders to bring down the Tories and bring in a...

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THE ‘Leave’ victory in the just-held referendum constitutes a huge revolutionary victory for the working class and the poor of the UK who voted...

Truss Is Shattered While Johnson Is Posing As The Man To Save UK Capitalism!

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LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...

The TUC Must Take Action T0 Defeat Johnson’s Savage Cuts And To Disband The...

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PM BORIS Johnson has refused to rule out raising taxes again, on the first day of the Tory Party conference and just three weeks...

Ex Bank of England boss demands let ‘zombie’ companies crash to save capitalism

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FORMER Bank of England governor Mervyn King this week called for heavily indebted ‘zombie’ companies to be allowed to ‘disappear’ taking with them, although...

Reid goes into opposition to a Brown government

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IT MUST be a grave crisis indeed when Reid the Home Secretary – who only a week ago was posing as carrying the entire...

Defend the NHS! No privatisation! Smash the health bill!

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NEXT Tuesday the doctors’ trade union, the BMA, meets in London for an extraordinary Special Representative Meeting (SRM). 350 representatives of its 140,000 members,...

Forward To The British Socialist Revolution!

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THE DAILY Telegraph has been speculating on: ‘What would a 21st century British coup look like?’ in an opinion piece written by Paul...

‘Extraordinary Rendition’ – Blair and Straw hear and see no evil

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“WE conclude that the government has a duty to enquire into the allegations of extraordinary rendition and black sites under the Convention against Torture,...

After one year of the Libyan slaughter – Forward to Damascus urge Cameron, Sarkozy...

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THE Libyan people are being told that they must celebrate the first anniversary of the ‘revolution’ (in fact, counter-revolution) that has destroyed their country,...

Labour plans ruthless cuts and mass privatisation of public sector to ‘save’ British capitalism

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The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public...

US abandons Kurds in northern Syria and gives green light to Turkish invasion

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TURKEY has been given the green light to invade northern Syria by the US following the abrupt decision by the Trump administration on Sunday...

Bourgeois Lunacy At Rbs

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YESTERDAY the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history of £24.1bn, made up of a £7.9bn trading...

Labour Now A Fifth Column For The Eu! Socialist Revolution Needed To Carry Out...

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WEDNESDAY’S humiliating defeat of the Tory government over the EU Withdrawal Bill signalled the emergence of a bloc between the Labour Party, now firmly...

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...

Tories abandon Leeds leg of HS2! All unions must strike to kick Tories out...

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THE TORY government announced the scrapping of the Leeds leg of the HS2 (High Speed Two) rail on Thursday and in doing so has...

Israeli Police Cancel Settlers March! Trade Unions Must Take Action Now To Establish Palestinian...

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ISRAELI police yesterday cancelled tomorrow’s annual massive settlers’ march through Jerusalem. The march celebrates the occupation of the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967 and...

Labour to let multi-nationals take over NHS Primary Care Trusts

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THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health insurance...

Spies Who Fooled the World

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ON the eve of the tenth anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq by British and US forces the BBC’s  Panorama programme last night...

Tories Are Afraid Of The Power Of The Trade Unions! This Power Must Now...

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THE Tories are now in the grip of a hysteria which has being displayed by newspapers like the Telegraph on a daily basis. It prints...

University Fees £9,500 and rising! Socialist revolution will end all fees!

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NOT one, but two tuition fee hikes have been announced by the Tory government in the last two weeks: first to £9,250 and then...

Britain’s economy broken says Archbishop – as he worries about the British revolution!

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THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has blurted out the truth that has been more than obvious for a number of years to millions...

Birmingham bin workers deliver blow to Labour government wage-cutting – time to build a...

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The overwhelming vote by 400 Birmingham bin workers on Monday to reject a pay cutting offer from their employer was a decisive blow against...

Counter-revolution in the classroom

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A report issued yesterday outlining proposals to establish in Manchester an army-run ‘free school’, has given yet another sinister twist to the campaign by...

The judiciary seeks to bar the way! Open it up with a socialist revolution!

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YESTERDAY’S ruling by three High Court judges that the Tory government does not have the right to trigger Article 50 is the latest and...

Public Sector Disaster F0R British Capitalism

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THE UK’s public sector net deficit for October reached £11.4bn and is the highest monthly deficit since records began. The national debt at...

US National March for Palestine takes place today in Washington – US workers &...

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MASSIVE demonstrations are sweeping the United States in support of Palestine. There have been big marches and rallies in New York, Chicago, Texas, San...

May wants to put the UK into chains

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WE already know that new legislation to be put forward by the government has as one of its features ‘internal relocation’ for British passport...

Workers and elderly to be hammered for the benefit of privateers

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CURRENTLY all over the country A&E’s are being closed, in some areas entire hospitals are to be demolished, while the number of private patients...

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...

Rail fares and inflation are let rip – as wages and benefits are frozen...

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RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are to...

Don’t be foolhardy – Bush urges Chinese Stalinists

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PRESIDENT George W Bush on Wednesday said China would be ‘foolhardy’ to push down the dollar in retaliation for the massive US pressure...

Halt The Israeli Onslaught On Gaza! Labour Must Recognise State Of Palestine!

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TWO MORE Palestinians were killed yesterday morning in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip, said medical officials, bringing the number of Palestinians...

Cameron and Osborne on the way out as Tory Party tears apart – now...

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LAST Wednesday Chancellor Osborne, with all the arrogance of a Tory millionaire born to rule, stood up in parliament and announced that he was...

Political Revolution In Kyrgyzstan

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THE Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, spoke by phone Thursday with the new interim leader in Kyrgyzstan whose ‘peoples government’ has been placed in...

Cotton Goes, But Savage Fire Cuts Continue – Workers Councils Of Action Must Impose...

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YESTERDAY, the London Fire Brigade’s (LFB) commissioner, Dany Cotton, announced that she was resigning from her post four months early. Cotton came under sustained criticism...

Cameron orders SAS killers onto British streets

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NEARLY 2,000 new spies are to be immediately recruited by the British state, prime minister David Cameron announced yesterday. Speaking from the G20 summit being...

Victory To The Palestinian Revolution!

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THE LATEST statistics produced by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics show clearly that Israeli domination of the occupied Palestinian territories has lead to...

More British Troops For Iraq!

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WITHOUT any vote in the House of Commons hundreds of British troops are to be sent to Iraq, which is already being bombed by...

Lobby the TUC on 27 April to demand they take action to support the...

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THE lobby of the TUC general council meeting tomorrow is crucial for the fight, not just in defence of the junior doctors, but to...

Bush’s and Bernanke’s policies cannot stop the debt debacle

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IN A WEEK when billions were wiped off share prices in New York, Tokyo and London, on Friday both United States President George Bush...

Free Bradley Manning – The Exposer Of Imperialist Secret Diplomacy!

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A MILITARY judge is expected to rule shortly on a request to dismiss all charges against the US soldier Bradley Manning, accused of passing...

US economy shrinks by 32.9% as Trump tries to call off election! US trade...

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THE US GROSS domestic product (GDP) in the biggest economy in the capitalist world, has plunged by a titanic 32.9% in the second quarter,...