Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Netanyahu rages against genocidal Israeli state being ‘isolated’ and threatened by the mass movement...

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YESTERDAY, the Israeli state deliberately shut down all communication services in Gaza, cutting off approximately 800,000 Palestinians in the Strip from the outside world. This...

Cameron preparing more police state measures

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ON Wednesday, a cabinet level task force set up by Cameron last June to consider proposals for new laws aimed at combating ‘extremism’ published...

Take action to defeat Labour’s plan to smash the NHS

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THE leaking of Department of Health (DoH) documents, including ‘Pay and Workforce Strategy for 2008-11’, reveals the Labour government’s plan to slash NHS...

The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down Tories!

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THE UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says the Israeli military has ‘intentionally killed’ the aid...

Three months to save the NHS! Trade unions must call industrial action now!

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YESTERDAY, the Labour Party leader Miliband wrote in the Observer that ‘Everyone who loves the NHS must fight to defeat this health bill. This...

Meet Tories’ brutal attacks on workers with a general strike

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THE Tory party conference greeted with rapturous applause the pledge by George Osborne that any future Tory government would drive the working class into...

Tories insist on ‘gagging orders’ to cover up for their crimes against workers

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IT EMERGED this week that the company hired by the Tories to test for flammable cladding on government and other public buildings in the...

Gmb Cuts Cash To Labour While Unite To Discuss A Boycott

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THE GMB Central Executive Council (CEC) has voted to reduce its current levels of affiliation to the Labour Party from 420,000 to 50,000 from...

Royal Mail’s Privatisation Bill includes the end of the daily delivery

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THE Coalition’s Business Secretary, Cable, told MPs last week in the House of Commons that the Bill to privatise the Royal Mail ‘will maintain...

Saudis oil war is deepening the world crisis

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SAUDI Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, has said the oil producers’ cartel, Opec, will not cut production even if the price falls to $20...

Cruddas scandal – ruling class split over Cameron leadership

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The resignation by the chief Tory fundraiser and party co-treasurer, Peter Cruddas, late on Saturday gave one more glimpse into the corruption that lies...

Gate Gourmet workers defend the right to picket – now TGWU must make strike...

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YESTERDAY, the determination and militancy of the 670 Gate Gourmet locked-out workers forced the High Court judiciary to acknowledge that they did indeed have...

Starmer’s speech – an application to join a national coalition with the Tories!

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s first speech to a Labour Party conference yesterday was acclaimed by his supporters as heralding a ‘new dawn’ for the...

Rescue US – The Eu Bosses Plead With Chinese Stalinists

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AS details emerge of the desperate measures hammered out in Europe on Wednesday night in an attempt to save the eurozone from collapse and...

Lords defeat Tory police state bill – trade unions must now take action to...

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THE TORY government’s plan for a police state dictatorship over the trade unions and all public protest movements took a big hit yesterday when...

UK at the back of the queue for at least 10 years threatens...

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THE UK could take up to 10 years to negotiate trade deals with the US if it leaves the EU, Barack Obama has said. In...
Gate Gourmet locke-out workers lobbying the TGWU Executive last Thursday morning demanding the union pay hardship pay to locked out workers who refuse to sign the Compromise Agreement

No hardship payments says Woodley

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TGWU leader Tony Woodley confirmed yesterday that the hardship payments to the locked out Gate Gourmet workers have been stopped. He informed a delegation of...

Unite must stop Heathrow to win the BA struggle!

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Striking British Airways cabin crew began another five days of strike action last night. On the eve of the action BA cabin crew told...

Forward to the socialist revolution – not the two-day week

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IT IS now accepted that the capitalist system is in its greatest crisis ever, bigger than the crisis created by the First World War,...

‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street

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YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers are continuing their picket until they win

More cuts planned – despite Buncefield fire!

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RESIDENTS whose lives were put at risk, and even the management of devastated businesses near the Buncefield oil storage depot in Hertfordshire have been...

Build The Wrp And The Ys – Forward To The British Socialist Revolution

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NOW is the time to build the WRP and the Young Socialists into the leadership of the working class and the student youth...

Support Palestinian General Strike

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TEACHERS, hospital workers and other government workers have come out on general strike in the West Bank and Gaza Strip following the non-payment of...

Satellite to celebrate 30th anniversary of Iranian Revolution

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IRAN launched its first satellite into space powered by its own rocket system, Safir-2, on Monday night. The research and telecommunication satellite was put...

US combat troops quit – Iraqi masses will now deal with the puppets they...

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THE last US army combat brigade pulled out of Iraq on Thursday morning, allegedly bringing to an end all US combat operations. These...

Slum landlords flourish under the Tory attack on council housing

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A ‘ROGUE’ landlord has been threatened by a judge with nine years in jail if he doesn’t pay a record-breaking £1.5 million fine for...

Howard condemns ‘judicial activists’ as security risks

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Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...

Stop Tory drive to war in Libya with a general strike

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THE imperialist war drums are beating with a vengeance as advanced preparations for a direct military intervention into Libya by Britain, Italy, France and...

Bankers gripped by fear are relying on ‘hope’!

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THE new Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Charles Bean said yesterday that when the so-called ‘credit crunch’ began last August central...

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...

Gripped with crisis UK, US & French leaders abandon World Economic Forum

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THE ANNUAL get-together of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos has been hit by a number of notable absences...

TUC must call a general strike to halt Tory drive to runaway inflation and...

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US stocks have made huge losses after a major sell-off last Friday on Wall Street. By Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly...

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...

Merkel’s ‘Grand Coalition’ – Germany’s crisis deepens!

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ANGELA MERKEL, the leader of Germany’s right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU), announced on Monday: ‘We have the basis for coalition talks. The CDU will...

Saddam Murder Within Days

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THE decision to hang the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, and also the Iraqi Vice-President, Taha Yasin Ramadan – whose sentence was increased from life...

BofE keeps interest rates at record level and promises further rises!

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AS WIDELY predicted, the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday voted to hold the UK key base interest rate at 5.25% while...

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...

Coalition lies on NHS privatisation exposed – trade unions must act

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THE oft repeated claim by Tory prime minister Cameron that the coalition will not privatise the National Health Service has finally been exposed for...

Time To Sack The Leadership Of The FBU!

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YESTERDAY’S closure of ten London fire stations, with the loss of 552 firefighter jobs and the axing of 14 fire engines, shows how little...

Starmer announces creation of a ‘standing army’ as the Labour government moves to impose...

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’...

BRING DOWN TORIES TO QUIT THE EU – DESELECT ALL LABOUR MPs WILLING TO...

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AFTER her ‘Dancing Queen’ performance at the Tory Party conference, which acted as an introduction to extreme grovelling to Labour’s right wing, praising...

Down With US Plan For Middle East Nato – Forward With Struggle For...

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JORDAN’S King Abdullah II told CNBC television news network last week that he supports the formation of a NATO-style military alliance in the Middle...

German election crisis for Merkel

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The economic and political crisis in the Eurozone countries is now firmly expressing itself in Germany, the dominant capitalist nation in Europe and the...

Trump’s tax cuts for corporations will lead to the ‘mother of all crashes’

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LAST Wednesday US president Donald Trump unveiled what he called the ‘biggest tax cuts in history’ – tax cuts only for the giant corporations...

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...