Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

You must accept capitalism and its cuts orders Johnson

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YESTERDAY, Alan Johnson, the ex-CWU postal workers leader, warned the trade unions that they must accept the capitalist crisis, and as slaves of capital...

UK capitalism is being torn apart politically and economically

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THE CRISIS restrictions on Greater Manchester by the Tories reveal that the collapse of British capitalism has reached such a point that the unity...

US forced to back down over North Korea and agree talks

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IN A DRAMATIC about face, US Vice President Mike Pence stated yesterday that the Trump administration is now looking at holding diplomatic talks with...

Martial Law plan for the UK as Cameron plans to strike Libya

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THE capitalist press over the weekend was full of ‘revelations’ concerning ‘Operation Temperer’ a plan drawn up by police chiefs to put Britain...

Bring down Brown-Mandelson regime – forward to a workers’ government

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YESTERDAY afternoon the PM’s office was leaking the speech that Brown is due to give to the TUC Congress on Tuesday. It stressed that if...

Zionist pogrom against Palestinians – TUC must be forced to call a general...

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THE invasion of the West Bank city of Jenin by 2,000 Israeli troops backed up by drone and air strikes has so far killed...

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...

‘Great democracies’ rule out free Palestinian elections

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EVERY time Bush and Blair speak, they trumpet their championing of democracy against the corrupt dictatorships that they say exist everywhere outside their...

Ireland – hurtling towards a socialist revolution

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THE right-wing Fine Gael party is set to form a coalition with its traditional partner, the right-wing Labour party, after a ‘political revolution’ which...

Workers strikes hit the Sarkozy regime

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FIRST of all the French electorate gave the right wing Sarkozy regime a bloody nose, and now yesterday’s general strike by the public sector...

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...

Israel is an ‘apartheid regime of Jewish supremacy!’ says Israeli human rights group B’Tselem

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THE Israeli Human Rights group B’Tselem has issued a paper stating that Israel is not a democracy but an ‘apartheid regime’ that systematically oppresses...

Brown and Blair – two sides of the same coin

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WITH Blair’s political reputation destroyed by the Iraq war, and the massive resistance to his attack on the Welfare State, and with the media...

Gove calls for parents to scab

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Over the weekend the Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove issued a call for parents to volunteer to break Thursday’s strike by civil servants and...

Gaza Rises From The Rubble And Celebrates Its Real Heroes!  

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N a moment where the pain of siege merged with tears of joy and victory, Gaza emerged on Monday from beneath the rubble to...

Inflation Out Of Control, Rate Rise On The Way

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INFLATION is on the rise with the CPI rate increasing from 3.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent, while the RPI rate rose from...

US-UK Refuse To Demand Israeli Ceasefire!

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YESTERDAY’S UN Security Council emergency meeting on Gaza ended without the issuing of a resolution after the US and the UK refused to vote...

Hague Must Resign Over Libyan Debacle

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THE latest NATO war crime, the bombing of the Libyan TV station, killing three technicians, was a repeat of a similar war crime,...
Kentish Town FBU chairman Ben Sprung (centre) was among the many trade unionists who joined the Gate Gourmet  locked-out workers six months anniversary picket last Friday

Overthrow British capitalism to end imperialist atrocities

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THE brutalising, maiming, beating and even killing of the ‘subject peoples’ by imperialist troops is part and parcel of the imperialist system and tradition,...

IDS’ war to starve and break the poor!

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JUST how ruthlessly Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is conducting the ruling class’ war on the poor can be seen in...

Only nationalisation under socialism can provide a solution to energy crisis!

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IN THEIR desperation to prevent a complete meltdown of Britain’s food industry the Tories have agreed to pump tens of millions of pounds into...

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...

Growing fears over another bank crash

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THERE were renewed calls yesterday by Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and other political leaders of major capitalist countries for international cooperation to tackle the...

200,000 Israeli settlers have fled occupied Palestinian territories since 2023

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THE Israeli regime is facing an unprecedented wave of negative migration of around 200,000 settlers leaving the occupied territories since October 2023 posing an...

US Congress To Vote On Raising The US Debt Ceiling – Workers Of The World...

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PRESIDENT Biden and his Republican opponents have announced they have agreed in principle to raise the US debt ceiling and to try to avert...

Private hospital forced to close surgery unit!

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A DAMNING report from the Care Quality Commission into the running of a private hospital has finally emerged in public some four months after...

Bin Laden killing opens Obama election campaign

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When US President, Barack Obama, announced on Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a dawn raid by US special forces...

Stop The Airport To Win The BA Cabin Crew Struggle!

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BA has moved closer to a merger with Spanish national carrier Iberia after striking a deal with its pension trustees to ‘neutralise’ its pensions...

‘Do Or Die’ Johnson Has Already Faced An Attempt To Remove Him!

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THE JUST-elected Tory leader Boris Johnson has already faced an attempt to remove him by Tory Minister of State for Europe Sir Alan Duncan,...

Ludicrous Cameron claims Tories are the workers’ party

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CAMERON began his election manifesto speech yesterday morning by insulting the intelligence of the listeners by stating ‘We are the party of working people,...

Morgan Stanley having sleepless nights over the UK

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THE Morgan Stanley bank is worried that the world crisis is going to shatter the already bankrupt UK economy, causing a flight of capital...

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...

TUC Leader O’Grady To Quit – TUC Must Organise General Strike For June 18th!

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THE General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Frances O’Grady, is to step down after nine inglorious years at the helm of the...

US Federal Reserve is too scared to raise interest rates!

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ON Thursday evening, the US Federal Reserve policy committee decided yet again that it did not dare to raise interest rates by a fraction...

Grenfell Tower survivors treated with contempt by Tories – time to kick the government...

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THE contemptuous treatment of the survivors of the fire that killed 80 people at least has been sickening. Last week it emerged that those who...

Support Catalan independence! Down with the Spanish and EU ruling classes! Forward to a...

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CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont has called for a ‘democratic opposition’ to the imposition of direct rule from Madrid after the Spanish government terminated his...

UK, US And EU Workers And Youth Must Support Iranian Revolution – The Enemy...

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FRESH from his failure to grab Greenland US President Donald Trump has turned his attention to the Iranian Revolution and issued his warning to...

Capitalism’s crisis– Socialist revolution, the only solution!

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THE OFFICIAL annual rate of inflation leapt in February, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Figures published yesterday showed that the Consumer Prices...

Trade Union Renegade Doing Blair’s Dirty Work

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THE former CWU postal workers trade union leader, Alan Johnson, yesterday moved into action at the behest of the Prime Minister to urge that...

Trade union inquiry needed into London transport disaster

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YESTERDAY’S tube and bus disaster in London, with 33 dead and hundreds injured, has already been claimed as a terrorist attack, despite the fact...

Britain involved up to its neck in rendition

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LAST week, the House of Commons was told by the Foreign Secretary, Miliband, that it had been deceived in numerous statements by Labour government...

Pakistani workers & farmers pay for the imperialists’ crisis

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EVERY day the number of people affected by the torrential rain and flooding in Pakistan is mounting. More than 20 million have been hit....

Tories crash – now boot them out with a general strike to bring in...

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THE TORIES have crashed with their twin by-elections disasters. They lost Kingswood, where Labour needed an 11-point swing and also lost Wellingborough, where an...

UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...

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LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...

Build the Fourth International throughout Europe

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YESTERDAY Greece was hit by a massive general strike with tens of thousands of workers marching in Athens demanding that there be an...