Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

One Day General Strike On April 24Th!

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OVER 100,000 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), will be on strike at the same time as the NUT teachers and...

Occupy And Nationalise Vauxhall Plants

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THREE companies have bid to take over GM Europe from the crisis-stricken US giant. They are Italian carmaker Fiat, Canadian parts maker Magna and...

Tories seek to inspire fear as they tell unemployed ‘get on your bike’

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EX-ARMY officer Iain Duncan Smith, the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, was yesterday planning just how to force unemployed workers to give up their...

Passchendaele – where imperialism murdered hundreds of thousands of British & German workers

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THE BATTLE of Passchendaele saw 275,000 British soldiers, workers in uniform, killed or wounded alongside 220,000 German workers in uniform. This was a great imperialist...

Justice – Just Another Bourgeois Commodity For Sale

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THE Coalition’s ‘Justice Secretary’ Chris Grayling plans to make further savage cuts in the £2bn legal aid bill in England and Wales, to...

‘We’re the insurgents now,’ declares Tony Blair!

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EX-LABOUR Premier Blair has summoned the anti-Brexit camp, that is the bosses, the bankers, the majority of Tory and Labour MPs and the majority...

Consultants in revolt against Blair’s ‘health reforms’

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Hospital consultants in the West Midlands are boycotting the new ‘reformed’ system for selecting junior doctors for specialist training. The consultants said they would...

French General Strike As Working Class Defends Its Pension Rights Against Macron And The...

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FRANCE yesterday was paralysed by a general strike called by the trade unions in response to the attempts by the government of president Macron...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers were yesterday leafleting at Heathrow Airport

Labour NEC says it will take back control over funds

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PRIME MINISTER Blair yesterday suffered a setback when the Labour Party’s NEC decided that it was going to take back control over the party’s...

Osborne pledges balanced austerity budgets

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CHANCELLOR Osborne used his annual address at the Mansion House on Wednesday night to announce that he will be selling off the government’s share...

Unions must strike for a 10% wage rise!

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The results of a consultative ballot of 600,000 local government and school members of the Unison union recorded a massive 70% rejection of the...

Disband the Met and the entire police force that serves only the interests of...

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WHILE the TUC and trade union leaders frantically cancelled strikes and conferences as a ‘mark of respect’ over the death of 96-year-old Elizabeth II,...

Iraq and Afghanistan – imperialists coming under the hammer

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US CASUALTIES are now mounting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, while at home the anti-war and anti-Bush movement is growing by leaps and bounds,...

Iran offers talks on the US created nuclear crisis

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THE imperialist powers are studying Iran’s offer of more talks to resolve the crisis that the US has created over Iran’s right to develop nuclear...

Trump Will Live To Regret His Empty Davos Boasting! US Debt Mountain Will Lead...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s address to the annual get together of politicians, billionaires, bankers and other assorted ‘running dogs’ of capitalism at the World...

May defends capitalism, Corbyn wants it ‘restructured’. It must be overthrown through the socialist...

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‘THE FREE market economy,’ in other words capitalism, ‘is unquestionably the best, and indeed the only sustainable, means of increasing the living standards of...

Shut Kensington council down! Form a Council of Action to run the Borough!

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'THE COUNCIL needs to be shut down … Workers should take over and workers' unions should defend them,' Zoe Bernard from Ladbroke Grove, said...

TUC leaders back Remainers to keep the working class tied to the EU bosses...

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WITH THE annual conference of the TUC opening on Monday the leadership of the trade unions have produced a report detailing the catastrophic effects...

Hands Off Syria – To ‘End The Cruelty And Carnage’

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THE heads of five major UN agencies have issued a joint appeal to the international community, a code phrase for the imperialist...

This is how NATO is defending civilians in Libya

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ON Saturday, the Red Cross visited Sirte, which has been under intense bombardment and shelling from NATO planes and ships, and by NATO’s ground...

NHS Executives back away from imposition – Unions must take strike action

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s contract imposition has already begun to hit the rocks with 10 of the 20 NHS executives who signed the Dalton letter...

Blairites for Cameron – Milburn joins Hutton and Field – with more collaborators ...

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THE leading Blairite and Labour party member, Alan Milburn, who was forced to resign as Labour’s Health Secretary for his over-enthusiasm for complete NHS...

Privatising the Law

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The disclosure over the weekend that two police authorities, West Midlands and Surrey, have started the process of privatising the police service in their...

French General Strike escalates in fight to bring down Macron

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THE MASS strikes and demonstrations throughout France today mark the sharp escalation of the confrontation between French workers and the ‘bankers’ government of president...

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...

As Israel steps up its genocidal war the TUC must be forced to call...

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THOUSANDS rallied outside Parliament on Monday night in a powerful demonstration of solidarity with Palestine that directly reflects the support of the overwhelming mass...

Western-Backed Syrian Opposition Committing War Crimes!

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THE US, UK, French, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari-backed ‘Syrian rebels’, who have been armed, equipped, financed and recognised as the representatives of the Syrian...

South African socialist revolution underway!

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THOUSANDS of mine workers have downed tools at South Africa’s Marikana Lonmin mine after an AMCU union leader, Mawethu Steven, was shot dead at...

Free Assange – Jail the imperialists, the real war criminals

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YESTERDAY, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has been unlawfully detained by...

MP’s ‘Can’t live on £60,000 a year’!

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MP’s ‘Can’t live on £60,000 a year’. This was the defence put forward by Tory MP and former foreign secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, to the...

Families told to ‘Look after your parents as well as your children!’

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WITH home care for the elderly in a huge crisis as private companies go broke and councils declare that they cannot afford to meet...

No recovery for capitalism from 2008 crash – forward to socialist revolution

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A RECENT analysis by Sky News has shown that the ‘recovery’ of British capitalism since the world banking crash in 2008 is actually smaller...

Food prices surge will drive revolution!

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GLOBAL food prices rose sharply in July. The wild swings in weather conditions are responsible says the UN food and agricultural body. The July...

Sustainability & Transformation Plans mean NHS cuts and privatisation! Kick the Tories out!

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THE TORY government has launched its new offensive in the war against the NHS, and this time it is an attack by stealth. Sustainability and...

Syrian Army poised for victory in Aleppo

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THE news at the weekend that the Syrian army had successfully driven Jaysh al-Fateh out of the western areas around Aleppo marks another decisive...

US-UK rescues ISIS fighters from Raqqa – no doubt they will now be sent...

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PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...

US rules Egyptian Military are Democrats

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THE US ruling class has finally worked out its line on the military coup that was carried out in Egypt to overthrow the elected...

Full speed ahead for a slave labour UK economy

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COALITION leader Cameron is considering calls to freeze the minimum wage, with the British Chambers of Commerce advising that ‘Britain cannot afford to price...

Tories and LibDems routed – now bring down the coalition

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THE result of the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election points to one thing, that the working class and large sections of the middle class...

Zionist genocide and land seizures have killed the fantasy of a two-state solution 

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ON Wednesday, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres slammed Israel for ‘driving a stake through the heart’ of a two-state solution between Palestinians...

US Imperialism Has Feet Of Clay – Forward To Victory Of World Socialist Revolution!

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THE self-proclaimed image of US invulnerability has registered a huge shock at the latest information that shows that China would defeat the US military...

Macron demands dictatorship throughout the EU – UK must leave EU on March 29th!

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron, currently fighting a civil war with millions of French workers, has proposed a series of ‘reforms’ that he says will...

US at centre of world capitalist collapses

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‘THERE is a real sense in markets today of the economy falling off a cliff.’ That was the verdict of Michael Saunders, the chief...

TUC leaders can’t get enough of the EU’s corrupt corporatism and its anti-working class...

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TUC GENERAL secretary Frances O’Grady this week re-hashed all the arguments used by the TUC before the 2016 referendum that only by remaining captive...

Syria has won the war – Now forward to the State of Palestine and...

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WITH the victory of the Syrian people, led by President Assad over the reactionary Islamists and their US-UK and French backers, the Arab revolution...