Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Johnson Has Been Forced Out – Now The TUC Must Act To Bring Down...

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BORIS Johnson finally resigned as Prime Minister early yesterday after more than 50 Tory ministers and aides jumped ship and left him floundering to...

Junior doctors must call new strike and the BMA and TUC must stop with...

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THE BMA warned yesterday that ‘Politically driven mismanagement is undermining patient care in England. It was responding to a report from the King’s Fund...

The US raises its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling as capitalism races towards the precipice!

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THE US House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, while also attaching sweeping, massive...

Israel bombs ‘safe’ Rafah camp with Palestinians ‘burnt alive’ in melting tents

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ON SUNDAY night, Israeli planes launched a devastating attack on a tent camp in the Tel Al Sultan neighbourhood in western Rafah which is...

Hedge fund speculators make super-profits out of starving millions across the world

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A REPORT compiled by Unearthed, the investigative unit of the Greenpeace environmentalist organisation, and the independent journalist organisation Lighthouse Reports has thrown a light...

Nurses and doctors strike to defend NHS while Starmer joins with Tories to denounce...

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YESTERDAY, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) opened the ballot for strike action by nurses in response to the Tory pay offer of a...

Brics Challenge To Almighty Dollar!

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MOSCOW believes that the US capitalists are targeting it with sanctions ‘because the events in Ukraine have not developed the way Washington scripted them,’...

Terminal 5 – BA gets ready for its ‘Wapping’

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THE buzz word in the financial media yesterday was ‘Wapping’. The media was referring to the union busting operation carried through by Rupert Murdoch in...

MPs’ Committee blames councils over homeless and dodges government!

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THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...

Crazy UK capitalism won’t dump disaster prone nuclear power

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GUNTHER Oettinger, the EU’s energy commissioner, has compared the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster – with its repeated explosions of nuclear material and...

Build Millions Of Council Homes To House The Homeless

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HOMELESS people die thirty years before the national average, says the latest research from Sheffield University commissioned by Crisis, the national charity for single...

Israeli land robbery continues as Human Rights Watch condemns Hamas!

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ISRAEL has ordered Palestinian landowners to evacuate their land in the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli authorities...

Expropriate the bosses and bankers!

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YESTERDAY in Warwick, Labour leader Miliband mustered a battery of very ‘moral’ arguments about ‘fairness’, and the colonial origins of non-dom status, as if...

Russian strike on foreign mercenary centre in Ukraine a massive blow against imperialist war...

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ON SUNDAY morning around 30 cruise missiles fired by the Russian military hit the mis-named International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in western Ukraine, which...

US Patriots In Gulf Prepare Way For Israeli Strike At Iran

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THE US has moved to prepare the way for an Israeli strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities by deploying missile shields in Qatar, the UAE,...

Answer Plot To Revoke Article 50 With A Socialist Revolution

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THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected an attempt by the UK government to prevent the European Court of Justice (ECJ) judges hearing a legal...

Make the TUC demonstration on June 18 a mobilisation for a general strike to...

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THE TUC has called a national demonstration to London’s Parliament Square on Saturday 18th June. Announcing the demonstration the TUC said: ‘On Saturday 18th June,...

Libyan Land War Looms!

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FIRST of all they embraced Gadaffi like a long lost brother in 2004, just one year after the mass slaughter in Iraq. The...

Hamas Ready To Form A National Unity Government!

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ADDRESSING a national meeting of the leaders of Palestinian political factions in Gaza City on Saturday, Ismail Haniyah, the head of the Hamas political...

Bosses and bankers agree capitalism is ‘broken’ – time to put an end...

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ANY LINGERING doubts about the morbid terror that is gripping the capitalist class were dispelled this weekend when 50 of the leading bosses from...

Crisis of German Capitalism nears breaking point – the Banks must be nationalised under...

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Amid a major slump in the German economy, the profits of the giant Deutsche Bank, the country’s largest, crashed a huge 92 per cent...

Kick May And The Tories Out Now With A General Strike! Forward To...

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PM MAY yesterday morning announced she was resigning as Tory leader and Prime Minister in two weeks on June 7. May said that the...

Socialist Revolution Is The Only Alternative Now

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UNITE leader Len McCluskey has pointed out correctly some of the immediate implications of the Miliband-Balls line that Labour will honour and continue with...

Take strike action to defend wages and jobs

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RAPIDLY rising food, gas, electricity and petrol prices pushed up the cost of living in January, even according to the government’s rigged inflation rate...

US Ruling Class Split At Home And Abroad

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PRESIDENT Obama attacked the Republicans on Monday over an incendiary letter, sent by them to Iran’s leaders, seeking to sabotage his foreign policy...

World banking crisis driving world revolution!

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LAST WEEK the Bank of England (BoE) finally confessed that it doesn’t understand its own quantitative easing programme (QE) – the central, in fact...

US seeking to destroy Venezuela – UK workers must take action

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AFTER the failure at the Guri hydroelectric power plant left much of Venezuela without power last Thursday night, Venezuelan authorities, after a huge effort,...

TUC urges Tories to ‘withdraw from the brink’. Stop pleading and call a general...

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THE TORY government is refusing to hold any serious negotiations with the rail trade unions for the simple reason that it is introducing anti-strike...

Don’t go to A&E, ‘walking wounded’ told!

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CONFRONTED with the appalling crisis in NHS hospitals’ A&E emergency services, the Labour government plans to restrict access to emergency departments, to save money...

Cameron’s ‘Chain Gangs’ For The Unemployed

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THE PCS civil servants trade union yesterday rightly condemned the coalition government’s plans to force the long-term unemployed, and unemployed youth, to do manual...

Hamas demands prosecution of ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ for war crimes against Palestinians

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IN RESPONSE to the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) announcement on Monday that it is closing its operation in Gaza, the Hamas resistance movement...

TUC must take the lead in the establishment of the state of Palestine by...

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MASSIVE Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah ‘are not the end of the story’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared – after Israeli jets bombed...

Saudi Arabia issues its demands to Qatar – submit or be crushed

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YESTERDAY, Saudi Arabia issued a set of 13 wide-ranging demands to Qatar which it insists have to be met before the sanctions imposed on...

Workers must take action to bring down the May government and break with the...

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THE RESIGNATION of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary was only delayed until he was faced with dying from shame if he held back any...

Sack the RBS bankers! Workers management of the nationalised banks!

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CITY Minister Lord Myners yesterday said shareholders should take action to stop million pound bonuses after Royal Bank of Scotland directors threatened to resign...

Alleged stonethrowers charged with attempted murder or targeted by snipers!

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‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...

Holbrooke, Blair, Thaci, mafia wars and organ theft

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THE Council of Europe has named the Kosovo Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, as a mafia leader who organised the sale of drugs and weapons...

PNA leaders bankrupt – unions must boycott Israel

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The leak of confidential documents covering the ‘peace’ negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel reveals starkly the bankruptcy and futility of...

Zionists deliberately targeting Christians in Palestine

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GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has announced that the Israeli occupation army has killed 20 Palestinian Christians in the Gaza Strip during over 14...

UK Trade Unions And Unions Worldwide Must Take Action Against Israel!

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229 Arab and international human rights organisations and networks have strongly condemned the assassination of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after she...
The locked-out Gate Gourmet workers fighting for their reinstatement will continue their daily demonstrations on the grass bank

Stop The Airports, Call Out The Tgwu And The Tuc!

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It has just been confirmed what we already knew – that the Gate Gourmet bosses, in a well planned action, provoked a walk-out by...

Labour plan to drive sick back to work or off benefits with weight-loss injections

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PRESENT at Labour’s International Investment Summit on Monday were representatives from Lilly – the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. This coincided with an announcement from the...

Victory to Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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TEXAS PACIFIC and its Gate Gourmet protege are not renowned for making apologies. In fact the opposite is the case. They are renowned for...

US Ex-Soldier Diplomat Resigns In Protest At Afghan War

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WHILE President Obama remains undecided and continues to dither about what the US strategy should be in Afghanistan, his diplomats are making their...

Time to smash Brown’s public sector reform (privatisation)

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PREMIER Brown’s pre-budget comment piece in the Financial Times was written so that he could talk directly to his constituency, the bosses. He...