Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Demolition of West Bank Khan al-Ahmar village is a war crime says Amnesty!

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THE PLANNED demolition by Israeli forces of a West Bank village and the forcible transfer of its residents to make way for illegal Jewish...

Government collapsing but trade union leaders watch and wait

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PRIME Minister Blair and former Blair ultra-loyalists spent yesterday slashing away at each others throats. Blair branded Blairite ex-junior minister, Tom Watson ‘disloyal, discourteous...

Smash capitalism to end hire and fire at will and poverty pay

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WHAT kind of future capitalism has in store for the entire working class was forcibly brought home this week – a future where workers...

Pantomime In Parliament – Corbyn Refuses To Move No Confidence In May Government!

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IT IS NOW crystal clear that PM May continues to rule the UK because the Labour opposition, led by Jeremy Corbyn, refuses to put...

First the UK, now Italy – Forward to the European Socialist Revolution!

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THE RAPIDLY unfolding crash of the EU drove the ruling class to take unprecedented action on Sunday to overturn the Italian election result...

Israel is in its death agony – the US, UK and EU trade unions...

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THE ISRAELI war cabinet minister Gantz has threatened to resign and completely split the ruling Israeli group unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out...

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...

There Is No Christmas Truce For Palestinians As Israel Attacks Both Gaza And The...

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ISRAELI warplanes at dawn yesterday launched a series of airstrikes against several posts across the besieged Gaza Strip, causing extensive material damage. WAFA’s correspondent reported...

Working Class Doesn’t Want The Tories

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TO the shock and horror of the Tory Party, the latest YouGov poll shows that its lead over Labour has fallen to just two...

Working class erupts throughout the EU – Forward to the Socialist United States of...

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THE CRISIS-RIDDEN EU is exploding as workers from the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Catalonia rise up against the open dictatorship of...

Anti-Brexit coup under way – ‘Country before Party’ means bringing in military police state!

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WITH PM May seeking a miracle rescue by the EU getting rid of the backstop, in the real world a coup is being launched...

Lesson Of The Sangin Rout – Quit Afghanistan While You Are Still Able To!

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BRITISH troops in the Sangin area of Afghanistan’s Helmand province are to be replaced by US forces, the UK’s Defence Secretary Liam Fox has...

Build The Greek Section Of The Fourth International!

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TENS of thousands of students, teachers and trade unionists are expected to take to the streets of Athens and other major Greek cities on...

Scottish Labour strikes a blow at UK imperialism’s war plans

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SCOTTISH Labour yesterday struck a blow at the war plans of British imperialism when its Perth conference decided to call for the Trident nuclear...

Take the PCS civil servants up on ‘full support’ offer

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LAST THURSDAY at 2pm as the postal workers came out on their 48-hour strike, the PCS civil service union sent a special message to...

Unions Must Stop Queen Mary’s Closure!

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THE news that the Accident and Emergency and maternity units at Queen Mary’s Hospital are to be closed for the coming winter is a...

French Health Workers Win Major Victory Over Macron Government!

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THE FRENCH government has been forced by the mass actions of the health workers’ trade unions to concede pay rises worth 8bn euros (£7.2bn)...

840,000 tenants are facing eviction over rent arrears – only socialist revolution can stop...

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A REPORT by the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has warned of a ‘rent debt crisis’ as up to 840,000 people in England and...

Ireland’s ‘mother and baby’ homes report – Church and state complicit in 9,000...

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NINE thousand children died in Irish ‘mother and baby’ homes run by the Catholic Church throughout the 20th century, a long awaited report has...

Time for regime change in Labour Party – kick out Starmer!

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Up to Wednesday, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer was in a state of complete denial about the depth of the rebellion amongst his own...

As world crisis deepens the UK working class needs to take power and bring...

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THE working class of the world faces a revolutionary autumn and winter, as the major imperialist powers step up their war in the Ukraine...

Smash Labour’s right wing coup attempt – Leave the EU at once!

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THE Labour Party leadership has moved to sell out and stab the Brexit referendum result and the working class in the back. Keir Starmer, Labour’s...

RCN declares ‘national emergency’ in the NHS over ‘corridor care’!

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THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) acting general secretary, Professor Nicola Ranger, opened the union’s annual conference yesterday declaring a ‘national emergency’ in the...

No to school reopening and a forced return to work – for a general...

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WHILE the Tories were hailing the relaxation of the lockdown rules that came into effect yesterday in England as a giant step forward, senior...

Dempsey’s Five Deadly Options

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THE US chief of staff, General Dempsey, has written an Open Letter to the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, Carl Levin, about the...

Unelected Lords Lay The Basis For An Anti-Brexit Coup!

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THE House of Lords on Monday night passed amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill that provide a basis for a parliamentary coup to bin...

PFI privateers having looted the NHS and the public sector are now pushing for...

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THE EXTENT of the full-scale looting of the country’s public buildings by giant offshore private companies has been highlighted in a report by a...

Hutton provocation will result in ‘summer pensions war’

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TODAY’S publication of the Hutton Report on public sector pensions will be like a red rag to a bull as far as the membership...

Pound crashes against every currency in the world – time to put an end...

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THE pound crashed to its lowest level ever against the dollar yesterday morning threatening that it will soon reach parity with the US currency. Sterling...

Knives Out Inside The Tory Party– Time For The Working Class To Bring Them...

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AS THE Tory party implodes, and the lynch mob search mounts for the author or authors of the ‘Dirty Dossier’ that named 40MPs and...

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...

Trade union leaders should resign as well!

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IN a statement on Friday, the day after the general election disaster for reformism, the TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady showed just what a...

Jewish workers support Corbyn! Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism! Forward to the Palestinian state!

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THE JEWISH Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies on Monday night launched a demonstration outside the House of Commons accusing Labour leader Jeremy...

Salute the victorious Palestinian hunger strikers – Forward to the Palestinian state

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WE SALUTE the victory of the heroic 1,600 Palestinian hunger strikers who fought Israel to the brink of death, and remain alive having...

Blair’s not going anywhere – except over to the Tories

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PRIME Minister Blair, speaking to one of his major supporters, Murdoch’s Sun newspaper yesterday, spelt out that he was not going into early retirement...

Cameron gets his EU marching orders!

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US president Barak Obama has issued his sternest warning yet to the Tory government of the dangers of Britain leaving the European Union. In an...

Tories have driven NHS to breaking point! The trade unions must call a general...

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THE NHS is at breaking point! This is the warning from doctors, nurses and NHS staff, furious that the Tories did absolutely nothing to...

Restore the free NHS! Halt privatisation & kick out the profiteers!

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THE House of Commons Select Committee on Health published a report yesterday that set out to legitimise charging for healthcare within the National Health...

Sunak Seeks To Militarise Working Class Youth As Well As Banning All Strikes!

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TORY PM Sunak yesterday sought to win back big business by stating that after the forthcoming general election has been won on July 4th,...

Netanyahu’s ‘Pyrrhic Victory’ – He Still Faces Criminal Charges And The Palestinian Revolution

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has claimed a ‘huge win’ in a vote that challenged his leadership of the Likud party. Netanyahu secured 72.5%...

Eu Meltdown

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CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...

With capitalism in crisis, and the NHS being knifed by Starmer – UK needs...

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THE immediate ending of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance was necessary to prevent an economic collapse and a run on the banks, declared Lucy...

Unions Dither While NHS Logistics Is Sold!

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LAST Wednesday, the trade unions with the support of the majority of the Labour Party constituency parties defeated the government on the vital issue...

Russia And China Support Greek Privatisation

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THE Greek working class and the youth are suffering under the ‘Iron Heel’ of the Troika (the European Union the European Central Bank and...

Only socialist revolution can stop imperialist war

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LAST Friday’s attack by US planes on the Syrian airfield of al-Shayrat was not a one-off military exercise to teach the Syrians a lesson,...