Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Tory attack on migrants is an attack on the working class!

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MIGRANT workers who work illegally in England and Wales are to face up to six months in prison under especially vindictive anti-migrant proposals to...

Junior doctors have been ‘insulted’ by exclusion from any NHS pay rise. They...

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JUNIOR doctors have been excluded from any NHS pay rise, and they are furious. Yesterday, their union, the British Medical Association (BMA), announced they...

Jobs And War Crisis Piles Up For Obama

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YESTERDAY afternoon Barack Obama was in discussion with his economic advisers and with his allies as the crisis of US imperialism intensified on the...

Nationalise oil and energy industries under workers management and without compensation now!

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Yesterday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published its plan to cut energy bills by re-nationalising energy retail companies. The plan, issued in advance of next...

Irish government disintegrates – forward to a workers and small farmers government

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AFTER the resignation of the Foreign Minister and four other members of the Irish cabinet, the Prime Minister, Cowen has resigned as the...

Business Secretary Cable Tells Vauxhall Workers: You’Re On Your Own!

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LAST MAY the Unite union leaders agreed for their members in the UK that they would provide savings of 106m euros over four years,...

Now send Brown packing – forward to a workers government!

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Blair stood down yesterday, driven out of power by the Iraqi insurgency and the British workers’ determination to defend their welfare state. The disorientated...

DRIVE THE MAY GOVERNMENT OUT! MARCH ON PARLIAMENT ON JULY 1st!

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THE May government has now entered the world of the surreal. It has just about been able to schedule a Queen’s Speech of sorts...

Now is the time to establish the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital!

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ISRAEL’S governing coalition has become a minority in parliament after lawmaker Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi from the Meretz party, quit her post. Zoabi announced her resignation...

Tories Profiteering Out Of The NHS!

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NHS patients from outside the EU are to be charged 150% of the cost of treatment in the NHS. This is part of a ‘crackdown’...

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 ‘putting a knife to China’s neck’

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ON MONDAY the Chinese government issued a document accusing US president Donald Trump’s administration of ‘trade bullyism practices’ that represent the ‘greatest source of...

Bank calls for public spending to be slashed to protect profits!

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THE capitalist class of Britain and Europe have been served with a warning that unless they act quickly to slash all public spending they...

Trade unions must take action NOW to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange!

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, the man who dared to expose imperialist war crimes, must be immediately released from Belmarsh high security prison where he...

President Obama is heading for a fall

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SPEAKING before the NATO summit President Obama made clear that his business in Europe was to raise a war party for Afghanistan, when...

Police chief Blair must resign says Maria Otone de Menezes

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YESTERDAY, the parents of Jean Charles de Menezes retraced the final journey taken by their son, an entirely innocent man who was shot dead...

Blair And Brown Crippling African Health Care!

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THE current Blair drive to have Gordon Brown and himself depicted in the media as the saviours of the African continent has hit the...

Corbyn comes out on top as May is jeered, laughed at and heckled!

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THE separate questioning by SKY’s Faisal Islam, Jeremy Paxman and a small audience, of Labour leader Corbyn and PM May showed just how disorientated...

The lesson from the tower block fire disaster is stop the fire service cuts!

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SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after...

Putin Calls For Referendums In The Donbass And For Workers To Decide To Join...

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ALL WORKERS, youth and trade unionists must support the decision of Russian leader Putin to call up reservists to serve in the Ukraine, and...

TUC prepares for treacherous deal with Labour’s coup leaders

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YESTERDAY morning Angela Eagle, one of the main conspirators behind the right-wing plot to oust Jeremy Corbyn from the leadership, announced publicly for the...

Greek Workers Have No Alternative To Revolution!

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A LEAKED email sent to the Greek Ministries of Finance and Labour from the Troika mafia in Brussels says Greek private sector workers must...

UN Security Council passes resolution to put Trump in supreme control of Gaza

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ON MONDAY, the United Nations Security Council voted by 13 to 0 to pass a US-drafted resolution that effectively puts president Donald Trump in...

Tories Are Afraid Of The Power Of The Trade Unions! This Power Must Now...

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THE Tories are now in the grip of a hysteria which has being displayed by newspapers like the Telegraph on a daily basis. It prints...

Labour must condemn any secret talks with the Tories and mobilise to bring them...

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‘I GOT us into this mess, and I will get us out of it’ PM May told the massed ranks of Tory backbenchers at...

Don’t vote to bomb Syria! Victory to Assad – forward to Palestine!

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IN August 2013, MPs rejected by 285-272 votes UK military intervention by the Cameron government to bomb President Bashar al-Assad’s government out of power,...

Union leaders offer to save capitalism

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BORIS JOHNSON’S address to the nation on Sunday night about ‘relaxing’ the lockdown rules has been widely criticised by the leaders of the Labour...

Carney Says Time Is Not Right For Interest Rate Rise!

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THE TIME is not right for an interest rate rise, Bank of England governor Mark Carney said at the Mansion House. In his speech, Carney...

Trump’s ‘deal’ strengthens Israel’s occupation of Palestine and restores colonial control over Gaza

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PRESIDENT Trump, backed by ex-UK Premier Tony Blair, has given Hamas three or four days to respond to his so-called ‘peace plan’. He has...

Reject Eu Diktat Attempt – Leave The Eu At Once !

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THE GIGANTIC farce of the Brexit negotiations hit a brick wall this week with EU officials accusing the British of failing to reveal its...

Tory austerity hits poorest the hardest, time to kick them out!

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A STUDY produced yesterday by the Centre for Cities think tank highlights the reality of Tory austerity cuts that have fallen on the backs...
Gate Gourmet locked out workers in good spirits despite the bitter cold on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

Defeat the Education Bill – no to an education market

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THE government has published its Education Bill, with up to 100 Labour MPs still opposed to it. The Education and Inspection Bill allows schools in...

Wall Street heading for a crash

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THE US Wall Street is fast heading for a crash according to the Bank of America (BoA) as the huge speculative bubble on the...

Workers Must Take Action To Permanently Prorogue Parliament And Bring In Socialism!

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NEXT Tuesday the Supreme Court is to hear the government’s appeal against last Tuesday’s verdict of Scotland’s highest civil court that PM Johnson’s proroguing...

20 per cent government cuts and wage-freezing being planned

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THE moment of truth is fast approaching for British capitalism. The British capitalist economy is in its death agony with falls in production taking place...

Privatisation drive created Mid-Staffs NHS carnage

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RELATIVES of some of the 400 plus patients who died at the Mid-Staffs NHS Trust were unanimous yesterday about the official, just published report,...

Imperialist aggression is the roots of terrorism

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that there is to be more new repressive legislation, on top of the huge powers that the government and...

Right wing Labour wants to make sure that the UK never leaves the European...

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IN LAST Friday’s letter to EU President Donald Tusk the Prime Minister, Theresa May, made it very clear that she had surrendered to the...

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...

Only Gold Is Money, The Rest Is Paper Masquerading As Money

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WEDNESDAY’S announcement by the German central bank (Bundesbank) that it was going to physically repatriate its vast gold holdings from New York and Paris...

Crisis Deepening Rapidly – Socialism The Only Answer

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IN ‘going-broke Britain’ the number of people becoming insolvent in England and Wales in 2009 was 134,142, according to official data from the Insolvency...

Bankrupt McCluskey won’t take action to bring down the Tories!

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IN A statement passed overwhelmingly by Unite’s policy conference in Brighton, the union stressed that its priority is to push for a general election...

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...

Merkel’s Short-Lived Victory

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ON Thursday, the German Parliament (Bundestag) voted by 523 to 85 to increase the funds available to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) from...

Blockade the oil refineries and nationalise the oil industry to slash petrol prices

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THE Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has just warned that we are rapidly heading for a petrol price of £7.40 a gallon, a catastrophe that...