Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Demand an immediate recall of the TUC to call a general strike

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THE UK’s job market, which the Tories and their supporters have long held to be evidence of the ability of British capitalism to ‘bounce...

Israel continues with its Gaza massacres

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ISRAEL has rejected the UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and is determined to carry...

Blair Gang In Disarray After Pm Fails To Vote

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YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair was insisting that he can push through his right wing capitalist ‘reform programme’ despite suffering a double defeat at the...

US Torture Flights – Questions Go Unanswered

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LIBERTY has written letters to the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and to British police chiefs about the US’ ‘extraordinary rendition’ programme and the use...

Hunt’s Autumn budget – brings in the open dictatorship of the bankers!

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YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn budget – the second budget from the government in under two months. The first was the disastrous...

Benefit cap to be lowered by £6,000 say Treasury officials

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CHANCELLOR George Osborne, the hammer of the poor, is so determined not to increase the taxes of the rich that he is about to...

All councils, student unions and trade unions must boycott Israel – Edelstein visit must...

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THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has condemned the new Tory ‘guidance’ banning councils, NHS trusts and all publicly funded organisations from boycotting goods and services...

Clinton Pleads With Taliban To Talk

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US SECRETARY of State Clinton was on a special mission to Afghanistan on Wednesday, the day after she expressed her hope in Tripoli, that...

Israel Is Targeting Protection Teams In Gaza As Part Of Its Genocidal Slaughter...

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WITH the number of Palestinian dead in Gaza rising to nearly 45,000 due to the US-backed Israeli genocide campaign, the Israeli occupation army’s appetite...

Come to ATUA Conference! Build a new leadership inside the unions

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ON Saturday 10th May, the News Line and the All Trades Union Alliance – the industrial arm of the Workers Revolutionary Party – will...

Miliband’s ‘national interest’ is an ‘imperialist interest’

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FOREIGN Secretary Miliband declared to his audience, right at the start of his Oxford College speech last Tuesday evening, that ‘we’ must not let...

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,...

Anglo-French summit plans new imperialist wars in Africa!

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YESTERDAY, PM Theresa May met with French President Macron in a UK-France Summit that was, however, no ordinary summit. Firstly, it took place at the...

US not winning in Afghanistan admits US military chief

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ADMIRAL Mullen the US chief of the general staff has stated that he is not convinced that the US is winning the war in...

Grenfell Inquiry bans survivors and relatives while safety experts didn’t even bother to read...

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GRENFELL survivors and relatives of the 72 people killed in the Grenfell Tower inferno are furious that they have been excluded from the inquiry...

Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!

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ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...

Time For The Tuc To Call General Strike

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THE Fire Brigades Union has organised a national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16 October. The FBU is under an all-out attack on the...

Shares crashing as oil nears $100 a barrel

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THE US dollar is reeling against the euro. The US sub-mortgage crisis is deepening, with housing starts down by 10 per cent in September, while...

Arrest the criminals and charge them for the murder of every man, woman and...

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‘71 DEAD. And still no arrests? How come?’ read three large billboards on trucks demanding justice following the Grenfell Tower fire. They were...

Blair Refuses To Name The Date

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TONY Blair yesterday took advantage of the refusal of his political rivals, such as his policy co-thinker Gordon Brown and the trade unions, to...

France and UK want air strikes after Assad’s victory at Al-Qusayr

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THE Hezbollah TV channel yesterday showed a fighter planting a Syrian flag on Al-Qusayr’s clock tower while the Western powers’ surrogate, the Free Syrian...

Stephen Hawking defends the NHS – and exposes the Tories – while the TUC...

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THE FAMOUS Cambridge University scientist Stephen Hawking has spoken up to defend the NHS and has publicly exposed the Tory plan to privatise it...

Chinese Stalinists fear workers political revolution!

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IN an extraordinary speech given at his annual press conference, the outgoing Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, warned that China risks a ‘historical tragedy’...

Endless propaganda barrage and historical falsification used as a cover for imperialist war...

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Ben Wallace, Tory defence secretary, in a speech yesterday accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of ‘hijacking history’. Wallace spoke while Russia celebrated Victory Day...

Demoralised Davos surveys the debacle of the world capitalist crisis!

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THE World Economic Forum meeting in Davos to celebrate capitalism finds the assembled chief executives, politicians and would-be prophets much more pessimistic and frightened...

US moving to ground war in Iraq and Syria

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THE United States is poised to step up the war in Iraq and Syria with the sending of more US ground forces. Speaking to...

Chaos reigns as Tory Chancellor gets instructions from IMF and advice from Strictly Come...

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has delivered a thinly veiled instruction to the Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, to scrap his autumn budget statement due...

TUC Special Congress must call a general strike to smash the Tories and support...

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IN A dramatic move the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter to urge the UN Security...

Victory To Syria – Smash Is, The Nusra Front And Their Western Backers –...

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AT THE same time as the Nusra Front and the remnants of IS were shelling Damascus, and the Turkish imperialists were killing Kurds in...

Saudi Leader Bin Salman Urges Talks Between The US And Iran!

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THE SAUDI Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose oilfields were hit recently by a devastating drone and cruise missile attack which he blamed on...

Bosses are in crisis worldwide! Now is the time to organise the British and...

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FIVE THOUSAND trade unionists marched on Saturday in Cheltenham to mark the banning of trade unions at the GCHQ spy centre 40 years ago,...

Mass Hospital Closures On The Way

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HEALTH Minister Mike O’Brien has responded to the findings of the government-established Care Quality Commission (CQC). This has just claimed that one in eight of...

Keep The Military Out Of Schools

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THE BROWN government is now beating the big drum of patriotism, a quality that has often been termed as the ‘last refuge of a...

Tory ‘power grab’ to save capitalism by bringing in a police state

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THE TORY rush towards creating a police state controlled directly by the government has even got the chief constables and Police and Crime Commissioners...

In US elections Sanders must defy Democrat campaign to stop him and stand for...

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THE RACE to become the Democratic Party candidate to face Trump in November’s presidential election has come down to a fight between the democratic...

Turkish Workers Rise Against Erdogan!

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RELATIVES of around 150 miners, missing after the deadly mine explosion at the privatised Soma mine in western Turkey, are maintaining a permanent vigil...

TUC Leader Nowak Urges The Tories To Compromise With The Trade Unions Just As...

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IN THE understatement of the year, the new leader of the TUC Paul Nowak warned yesterday that further strikes could lie ahead in 2023...

Terrified financial investors dump UK stocks – time for a general strike to dump...

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US President Donald Trump rolled into Britain on Tuesday night, his second state visit as President, to bask in the adulation of PM Keir...

Kiev, EU and US facing defeat in East Ukraine!

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UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...

Dont Talk To Israeli Leaders Say Palestinian Youth

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OVER the past two days, Palestine National Authority security forces have been using force to try to prevent peaceful demonstrations of Palestinian youth opposing...

Teachers must not fight alone – TUC must call a general strike

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The annual conferences of the two largest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, meeting at the weekend heard that the unions and the...

Ukrainian Workers Will Foil All Of The Plots To Restore Capitalism To The Ukraine!

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US President Donald Trump has said that Kiev can ‘win all of Ukraine back in its original form,’ marking a major shift in his...

EU threatens a ‘march on Rome’ to prevent collapse

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AS THE EU crisis continues to sweep through the continent, a German MEP, Markus Ferber, offered his blunt assessment of the steps that the...

15,000 troops ready for Slavyansk assault!

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THERE are now more than 15,000 Ukrainian military servicemen plus reserve forces and the Right Sector movement, with around 160 tanks, 230 infantry combat...

Hunt and Bailey will ‘do whatever is necessary’ to save bankrupt capitalism. Time to...

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ON MONDAY night, 400 leading figures from the world of high finance and corporate business gathered at the Mansion House in London to hear...