Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Greek Government Starts A Pogrom!

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GREECE is currently having its books and the success of its austerity measures examined by the EU Troika, made up of the representatives...

Build the revolutionary party in Greece

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THE daily demonstrations of youth and workers are continuing in Greece, over a week after the assassination of the 15-year-old school boy Alexis Grigoropoulos...

The Workers Of The World do Support Palestine – Now Is The Time...

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TENS of thousands marched through central London on Saturday reiterating their calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, for the UK to stop arming...

Chuck Out The New NHS Pay Offer – It’s Divisive, Still Staged And A...

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UNISON yesterday told its members that the barely improved health employers offer which has been approved by the Brown government is ‘the best that...

Students across the US rise up against genocidal war in Gaza showing the way...

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STUDENTS across America have risen up against the barbaric genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza and in support of Palestine in a...

Manufacturing contracts in October for sixth successive month

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AFTER all of the Tory propaganda chatter about the ‘recovery has begun’ the reality is that the slump is deepening. The UK’s manufacturing sector,...

Bankrupt airlines need to be nationalised!

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YESTERDAY BALPA, the pilots’ union, sounded the alarm at the crisis of the major airlines. This has been immeasurably sharpened by the eruption and continuing...

US-UK Being Driven Out Of Afghanistan!

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CURRENTLY, the ‘Friends of Syria’ conference in Tunis is considering the best way for the imperialist powers to intervene in Syria to overthrow president...

Rapidly rising inflation threatens wages, jobs, and homes

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THE UK inflation rate has leapt to an 11-year high of three per cent according to the government’s Consumer Prices Index (CPI) which grossly...

Tory policies to defund and privatise the NHS responsible for Shrewsbury maternity disaster!

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THE INDEPENDENT Ockenden inquiry into maternity provisions at the Shrewsbury NHS Trust has revealed a horrific catalogue of failures contributing to the deaths of...

Palestine Unity Government Formed – Now The World Must End Occupation!

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THE Palestinian unity government has been sworn in, and has the backing of both the Fatah and Hamas movements. The defiant formation of the national...

EU torn apart by Covid pandemic – forward to Socialist United States of...

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THE DEADLY third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is ripping the EU apart over vaccinations and lockdowns. In Germany, with 9,549 new cases and 180...

Blair To Get The Four O’Clock Knock

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THE arrest and questioning of Lord Levy, the man who got millions in donations for Labour’s election campaigns, and the fact that...

Snap General Election Farce!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Brown, a cautious and bumbling, conservative politician, is due to decide this weekend whether to take a big gamble and call...

World Trembles At Prospect Of US Rate Rise!

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JAMES Bullard, the head of the St Louis Fed, told a recent City Week Forum in London that investors are far too complacent and...

Homelessness, fuel poverty & debt! Time to assign capitalism to the dustbin of history!

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AS TEMPERATURES plummet and the cold weather sets in, homeless charity Shelter calculated that over a quarter of a million people will wake up...

Labour adopts coalition cuts

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THE three-day meeting of Labour’s ‘policy forum’ ended on Sunday with a massive vote to commit the Labour Party to carrying on with the...

End TUC collaboration with Tories

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The news this week that Unison, the largest public sector union, has launched a legal challenge to the coalition government’s white paper on the...

Rail fares and inflation are let rip – as wages and benefits are frozen...

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RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are to...

Simpson Aims To Prop Up The Brown Government

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AT a time when the working class is starting to roar like a lion and demand and vote by over 90 per cent majorities...

Hamas denounces the Israeli Military hijacking of the Handala aid ship

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THE Hamas movement has strongly denounced the Israeli military hijacking of the Handala aid ship in international waters and the abduction of its passengers,...

Support The Ys March For Jobs!

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YOUNG people today are under full scale attack from the Tory-led coalition. They are now fighting back. The Young Socialists are marching from...

Israel threatens to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza

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THE DAILY Telegraph reported at the weekend that they had been told by two Israeli officials that daily ‘violations’ by the Palestinian resistance movement...

The struggle to seize Libya’s oil wealth intensifies with the US, Saudis, Egypt and...

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AFTER over a month of fighting to take Libya’s capital, Tripoli, General Khalifa Haftar – who broke with Colonel Gadaffi to flee to the...

Union must end all ‘positive engagement’ with the employers – only occupations and strikes...

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A STORM has erupted over the revelations that a taskforce set up in 2017, with the object of protecting the future of the Ford...

On May Day, on the TUC march on May 12, & on Nakba Day...

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THE ‘GREAT March of Return’ has become the beacon for all Palestinians and the workers of the world to unite in the struggle...

Stock Markets crash and the bosses panic after Trump pledges 50% tariffs on Canadian...

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FEAR gripped the stockmarkets yesterday after Donald Trump first of all threatened to double tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from Canada to...

Build The Revolutionary Leadership Amongst Youth And Workers Worldwide

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THE development of the world capitalist crisis is now affecting every section of the working class and the poor in every part of the...

Having removed Mursi, the Egyptian masses will march forward to socialism

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THE move by the Egyptian military leadership to overthrow the Muslim Brotherhood government of President Mursi represents a decisive development in the Egyptian revolution...

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...

Take the PCS civil servants up on ‘full support’ offer

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LAST THURSDAY at 2pm as the postal workers came out on their 48-hour strike, the PCS civil service union sent a special message to...

British workers must make the TUC call a general strike to bring in the...

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THE United Nations has confirmed that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city...

Outsourcing companies facing ruin – socialist revolution is the only answer!

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IT IS almost exactly one year since the dramatic collapse into bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation of the giant outsourcing and construction company Carillion. At the...

Cameron and Osborne on the way out as Tory Party tears apart – now...

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LAST Wednesday Chancellor Osborne, with all the arrogance of a Tory millionaire born to rule, stood up in parliament and announced that he was...

Bank Of England Dumps The Pound To Make The Working Class Pay For The...

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THE Bank of England on Tuesday insisted that it was dumping the pound and would proceed with its decision to stop supporting the bond...

Crisis of European capitalism deepens – Down with the EU! Forward to the Socialist...

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THE Bank of England delivered its first announcement of 2017 on the economy yesterday, claiming that British capitalism had defied all expectations of a...

Imperialism Playing With Syrian Fire

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SYRIA’S Ba’athist leader Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western action against his country will cause an ‘earthquake’ that will ‘burn the whole region’, and...

‘You must recognise the Palestinian state’ says the Palestinian Ambassador Zomlot

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RECOGNISING the Palestinian state is the prerequisite for peace, not a by-product of peace,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said in an...

Blair’s generation of imperialist war

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After President Bush has informed the world that 20,000 more US troops are to be sent to Iraq, and his Secretary of State, Rice...

Workers hit by inflation leap and huge jobs crisis

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THE UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate rose sharply to 3.4% in March from 3% the month before, official figures show. The Retail...

Pompeo admits US-organised uprising in Venezuela has ‘no popular support’

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US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo had a secret meeting last month with prominent American Jewish leaders in which he spilled the beans on...

Syria’s parliament denounces the 1917 Balfour Declaration as invalid. UK parliament must do the...

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THE Syrian parliament has shown the way to the rest of the world by denouncing as ‘invalid’ the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which handed Palestine...

Tories intend to put an end to the NATIONAL Health Service

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IT IS crystal clear with the Tories seeking to impose even bigger cuts if they are re-elected in May, that under their rule the...

TUC Leaders Waste Time Writing To Truss For ‘A Cast-Iron Assurance’!

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YESTERDAY’S capitalist press was full of dire warnings of the massive increases in taxation that the Truss government is planning, and with it the...

Blair launches anti-Brexit plot as Starmer raises remaining in Single Market and Customs...

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THE wiping out of the Socialist Party and the Republican Party in France, the ruination of the Fifth Republic and the elevation of the...