Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

The bankers are in charge as Hunt postpones fiscal statement until November 17th

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TORY Chancellor Hunt announced yesterday that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed...

Palestine and Syria are in the same front standing against America and Israel’s rotten...

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ZIAD Abu Amr, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), has handed an official letter from President Mahmoud Abbas...

Support the Junior Doctors with a general strike!

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20,000 junior doctors, medical students, health workers and supporters marched in central London yesterday. As well there were well attended marches in Belfast and...

Sinn Fein Wins The Election But Drops All References To United Ireland!

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AS SOON as the Northern Ireland Assembly election results were announced on Saturday confirming that Sinn Fein was now the biggest party, the US,...

Starmer declares Labour now under ‘new management’ of the bosses – unions must...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer yesterday threw down the gauntlet to the trade union movement when his office announced that ‘Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is...

Tories aim to drive NHS back to 1930s – bring the coalition down with...

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Dr Mark Porter, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) Hospital Consultants Committee, in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, has spelt out clearly...

M&s And Taylor Wimpey Crash As Hauliers Descend On Parliament

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HUNDREDS of hauliers picketed parliament in London yesterday to demonstrate against the rising cost of fuel, and the way that it is destroying their...

The world’s capitalists quake in their boots as coronavirus shuts down Chinese factories halting...

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‘THE WORKSHOP of the world is closed,’ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote in the Telegraph on Thursday predicting a colossal disaster for capitalism if the massive...

Canada Bans Arms Sales To Israel – UK And US Workers Must Force Their...

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A CANADIAN government official said that Canada will stop exporting weapons to Israel due to the continued international criticism of its ongoing war on...

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...

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...

Crisis Deepening – Revolution Not Recovery Is On The Agenda

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THE CBI bosses organisation yesterday foresaw a ‘recovery’ from the capitalist crisis, but was forced by circumstances beyond its control to admit that, at...

PCS strike – No compromise with Tories possible. A general strike to kick them...

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OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...

New right-wing party to replace Tories being organised as spectre of revolution haunts British...

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AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the...

EU on brink of economic collapse

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THE CONTINUED economic collapse of the EU was highlighted yesterday when it was officially acknowledged that Italy, the third largest economy in Europe, has...

Pna And Fatah Want To Disarm Fighters

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ONE can now see why the Zionists and the US government were so keen to get rid of Yasser Arafat. He not only refused to...

Unions must call a general strike to support Palestine! – Kick the Tories out...

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ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’ heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza...

Tory ‘war on terror’ used in war on Junior Doctors

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EMAILS, made public this week, between the Tory government and the head of NHS England, Sir Bruce Keogh, reveal the way the Tories attempted...

TUC must stand up for the disabled against the Tory government!

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THE UN has slammed the UK, which it says has violated the Convention on Disabled People’s Rights. A damning UN report released yesterday states that...

Demoralised Simpson says Cameron rather than Miliband!

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ON the eve of the TUC Congress, the TUC leader, Brendan Barber, has issued a call to the Brown government to tax the rich. There...

Labour support group props up Cameron

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THE Cameron-led debate in the House of Commons on Monday disclosed a Tory Party split down the middle, with Boris Johnson leading a revolt...

Labour crisis deepens in face of collapsing economy!

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PM Keir Starmer’s Labour government, still reeling from its major retreats over the welfare cuts to incapacity PIP benefits and the winter fuel payments,...

Ferguson erupts as police killer goes free

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THE US town of Ferguson, Missouri erupted yesterday after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against a white policeman, Darren Wilson, ...

Capitalist state gives support to Walsh’s diktat!

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THE decision by a Judge in chambers to rule the BA strike action illegal is a major blow at the legal right to strike. It...

Broken Hague Stands Down While Gove Is Terminated By Cameron!

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WILLIAM Hague has stood down as foreign secretary, but will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons till the next...

TUC must immediately act to stop Clarence House staff sackings by the monarchy and...

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THE PCS trade union has called for the proposed staff redundancies at Clarence House to be halted and pledged to support every member of...

Soros financing Pro-EU campaign in UK – Workers must demand that the UK quits...

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US-HUNGARIAN billionaire George Soros has denounced Brexit as an ‘immensely damaging process’ for both the United Kingdom and the European Union, and has arrived...

British Capitalist Economy Down The Pan!

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THE latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) GDP figures show two quarters – six months – of zero growth in the British capitalist...

Austerity Forever Pledges Cameron

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IN an interview given to the Daily Telegraph, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, declared that ‘austerity’ will be forever as far as he...

Mass murder in the Med!

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THIS week the UN announced that 300 migrants had drowned after being forced into unseaworthy boats in a desperate attempt to escape the wars...

US-UK Forces Must Quit Afghanistan Now!

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THE position of the imperialist powers in Afghanistan has become completely untenable. Their forces are not wanted either by the Taleban or the mass...

Youth Are Showing The Way! Now The Trade Unions Must Call A General Strike...

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THE Israeli occupation army is continuing its aggression against the city of Jenin in Occupied Palestine for the second day in a row, leaving...

BIS predicts deflation and depression

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LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...

Britain is set to rearm with the working class paying the full bill with...

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THE Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he is willing to give up his war with Russia in the Ukraine, and is also...

Corporatist union leaders are serving the bosses

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WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...

Full support for the Tube workers!

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THE STRIKING Tube workers brought London to a standstill yesterday, and every London worker and commuter must give them their full support against the...

Answer Hunt’s ‘eye-watering’ austerity cuts to restore the confidence of the bankers with...

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THE UNITE trade union kicked off a campaign yesterday morning to call on Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt to ‘use...

Finland joins NATO as imperialism ramps up war drive

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YESTERDAY Finland formally joined NATO, becoming the 31st member of the US-led imperialist military bloc in what NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, described as ‘The...

General Strike To Defend The Cwu! Smash The Union Busters! Defeat Privatisation!

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POSTAL workers are not surprised at the leak which shows that Royal Mail management, with the support of the Brown government, intends to impose...

Don’t watch the Tamils being slaughtered – join the Parliament Square protests!

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THE Sri Lanka Army yesterday stepped up its murderous shelling of its so-called ‘safety zone’ in the Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal and Vadduvaakal areas of north-east...

Saab goes bust as GM’s Opel-Vauxhall crisis deepens

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GM’S crisis has deepened with the collapse of its deal to sell Saab, and as the EU states do battle over whose plants are...

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...

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...

The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...

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THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...

Labour Continues To Persecute The Poor

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LABOUR’S leaders love the rich and have no time for the poor. As a government, Labour turned Britain into a second tax-free home for Russian...