Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Us Capitalism Is On The Rocks! The US Working Class Is Faced With...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump yesterday unveiled his three-phase plan for opening up businesses in America proclaiming, ‘We’re starting our life again. We’re starting rejuvenation...

Reinstate sacked gas workers – demand union leaders call general strike to defeat fire...

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ON WEDNESDAY, up to 500 engineers were sacked by British Gas for refusing to sign a scab, wage-cutting new contract under the company’s fire...

McCluskey’s surrender not enough for the Tories!

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IN his speech to Unite leaders earlier in the week, the union’s general secretary, Len McCluskey, effectively threw in the towel and capitulated to...

NOW is the time for the TUC to call a general strike to support...

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THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...

No Sell-Out Deal With Eu! Forward To Socialism In The UK And To The...

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THE government of Boris Johnson has reached decision point over the EU. It is to be made under conditions of a growing and terrible...

New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity

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FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...

Recession-hit UK and EU diving into economic crash while Trump declares trade war on...

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Yesterday, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) issued a warning to Labour’s chancellor Rachel Reeves that growth expectations amongst UK companies have taken ‘a...

BIS Report – Global ‘Debt Trap’ set to crash world capitalism

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THE SWISS based Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank for central banks’, has issued a new warning about the global ‘debt trap’...

Eu To Throw Irish Workers To The Wolves

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PRESSURE is being piled onto the Irish government to accept a further EU bail-out of between 60bn to 80bn euros, which will mean handing...

Resolve Crisis Of Leadership In Working Class

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THERE is nothing like the crisis of the capitalist system to bring out the essence of the Labour and trade union leaders, as labour...

Working Class Doesn’t Want The Tories

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TO the shock and horror of the Tory Party, the latest YouGov poll shows that its lead over Labour has fallen to just two...

Bring Blair before a tribunal says General Rose

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THE call by retired General, Sir Michael Rose, for the Prime Minister to be impeached by the Privy Council over the invasion of Iraq...

London Is Now A No-Go Area According To The Met Police!

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IN advance of today’s mass demonstrations in support of Palestine, the Tories have launched a campaign to crack down on all opposition to the...

BA getting ready for mass sackings

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THE capitalist press yesterday was full of revelations that the new BA boss, Willie Walsh, recruited after making savage cuts at Aer Lingus, is...

Russia tells Ukraine – pay the market rate

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THE Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that ‘Russia has begun implementing a scenario intended to destabilise the Ukrainian economy’, adding that this was ‘despite...

UN Condemns Eu Over Mass Murder In The Med!

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THE UN refugee agency has said once again that not enough is being done to save the lives of the tens of thousands of...

King Fiddling While Rome Burns!

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THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England, King, spoke to the gathered ranks of big business on Thursday evening at his Mansion House feast,...

Unite The Masses In The Gulf Against Imperialism

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SADDAM HUSSEIN went to his death bravely and heroically, executed by agents of imperialism – the leaders of a puppet government that came to...

No recovery for capitalism from 2008 crash – forward to socialist revolution

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A RECENT analysis by Sky News has shown that the ‘recovery’ of British capitalism since the world banking crash in 2008 is actually smaller...

Lessons of 1926 are vital for today!

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THIS year there is great interest in the 80th anniversary of the general strike of 1926. It is not hard to work out why....

The USA Is Determined To Surrender Afghanistan To The Taliban!

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A SEVEN-DAY ‘reduction in violence’ between the US and the Afghan Taliban began on February 21, with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying,...

Answer corruption with socialist revolution!

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WHEN Shakespeare had his character Marcellus observe in the play Hamlet that ‘something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ he had in mind...

Derisory increase in minimum wage wiped out by inflation!

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APPROXIMATELY 2 million low paid workers will be covered by the increase in the national minimum wage that came into effect yesterday. Under this increase...

End the occupation of Iraq! Bring down the Bush regime!

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A VOTE in the Senate of the United States on Saturday fell just four votes short of the two-thirds needed to debate a resolution...

As Imperialism Hits The Rocks – Forward To The Victory Of The World Socialist...

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US AND UK-backed Islamists are on the run from their last stronghold in Idlib province in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported...

Smash Brown’s budget cuts, and wage freeze policy

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told the House of Commons last Thursday that he will reduce the Whitehall budget by up to 20 per cent in...

Labour-Tory Race To The Right!

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TEACHERS will have to be re-licensed every few years or face the sack under a future Labour government. This is the just unveilled position of...

Trade Unions Must Take Action To Smash The Bedroom Tax!

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TODAY is the day when the outrageous Bedroom Tax begins and hundreds of thousands of working people will see between 14% and 25% of...

Bankrupt Britain Faces Huge Welfare Cuts!

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IN HIS Autumn Statement on the economy, Chancellor Osborne outlined many more years of severe austerity with billions more in welfare cuts to be...

South Africa crashes into economic depression – socialist revolution is the only way forward

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ON WEDNESDAY South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the death at the age of 91 of George Bizos, the renowned human rights lawyer who...

Kick Out Hancock And The Tories – Forward To The UK Socialist Revolution!

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WHEN The Daily Telegraph headlined on Saturday that ‘Reckless Hancock left care homes to fend for themselves’ the message was clear. It is that...

Worst NHS winter crisis ever! NHS unions must join health strike in the north...

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A&Es axed, children’s hospitals closed, nurses driven out because of overwork and under-pay, junior doctors at the point of exhaustion, GP surgeries shut down,...

Turning A New Page In The NHS!

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THE leaders of 10 NHS organisations have called in an open letter for a ‘new page to be turned’ in 2014. Powerful organisations including...

Johnson Pleads For Compromise – The Working Class Must Finish The Job!

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BORIS Johnson revealed his plans for a Brexit deal at the Tory Party conference yesterday before formally putting his proposals to the EU. Johnson’s deal...

UK bans Chinese ambassador to step foot in Parliament! The enemy is at home...

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THE UK government stepped up its war with China this week when it took the decision to ban the Chinese ambassador to the UK...

McCluskey must meet with Gate Gourmet sacked workers!

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LEN McCluskey, winner of the election for the post of Unite general secretary, said on Wednesday that ‘I have a huge agenda in front...

Time for the working class to bury British capitalism

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Sir Gus O’Donnell, the most senior civil servant in the country, has broken cover with the public admission that the crisis of the capitalist...

After Afghan Disaster, UK Ruling Class Is Determined That UK Workers Must Pay For...

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THE HUMILIATING hiding that the UK ruling class has taken from the Taliban in Afghanistan, where the US and the UK have squandered tens...

Johnson Declares War On Youth With ‘Chain Gang’ Threat

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PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has declared war on youth in the UK with his ‘Beating Crime Plan’ which labels youth as ‘criminal’ and targets...

French Socialist government turns on the workers

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THE French Socialist government has said it will raise Value Added Tax and cut public spending, kicking the working class and the poor in...

Bring down the Irish government to smash the Water Tax!

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OVER 150,000 people took part in nationwide protests last Saturday against the introduction of savage water charges throughout the Republic of Ireland. Up to 100...

CBI bosses turn on Labour for not hitting working class harder

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves turned up at the annual conference of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) yesterday to defend her autumn budget in...

A Heinous Crime Against Humanity – Killing Of Palestinian Three-Year-Old Is Condemned!

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PALESTINIAN prisoners held under Israel's so-called administrative detention policy are defiantly planning a mass open-ended hunger strike in protest at their unlawful and indefinite...

Doctors, NHS staff & nurses are gearing up for pay strike action! All trade...

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MONDAY is the anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service (July 5th 1948) and Johnson’s Tories have marked the event by refusing...

Action Needed Now Over Housing Crisis!

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HOMELESSNESS among households in England has risen by 54 per cent since 2010 – rising annually every year – shows the latest report by...