Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

No education cuts Restore free state education

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CHANCELLOR Darling has announced that £600m will be ‘saved’ by 2012/13 from across ‘higher education, science and research budgets, including student support’, meaning...

Murder in the Med – a product of the capitalist crisis

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THE appalling death of up to 950 people fleeing the war-torn regions of the Middle East and North Africa has prompted the political representatives...

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...

Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership

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THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...

Trade unions must reject Coalition attack on the unemployed and the poor

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EX-ARMY officer Duncan Smith, the Coalition’s Work and Pensions Secretary, yesterday announced a Universal Credit to replace all benefits, and also ...

Care Homes Crisis

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FOUR Seasons Health Care, the largest provider of care homers for the elderly in Britain, has announced that it is going bust, losing £26...

Renationalise gas and electricity to deal with massive price rises

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YESTERDAY British Gas raised its gas and electricity prices by a massive 22 per cent, on top of a 14 per cent mark-up imposed...

Toxic Tories lash out at immigrants and the poor

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PEOPLE who do not speak fluent English will be barred from public sector jobs which involve working directly with the public, the government has...

Kwarteng Sacked – Truss On Borrowed Time – Working Class Must Kick Tories Out!

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KWASI Kwarteng was sacked yesterday afternoon as Tory Chancellor, just weeks after he announced huge unfunded tax cuts that triggered a financial crisis by...

Starmer – the Labour Party ‘fit to govern’ for bosses and the bankers...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer, in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday, pledged that he is ‘not just pro-business’ but wants to...

Trade union inquiry needed into London transport disaster

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YESTERDAY’S tube and bus disaster in London, with 33 dead and hundreds injured, has already been claimed as a terrorist attack, despite the fact...

Workers must take action to put an end to rail privatisation!

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TORY MP Sir Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, told the House of Commons and Transport Secretary Chris Grayling yesterday, that the Rail Industry...

Victory To The Arab Socialist Revolution!

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THE world capitalist crisis is driving forward the working class and poor of the world to carry through the world socialist revolution, and replace...

Tuc Must Call A General Strike Now To Support The Palestinian Masses By Bringing...

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THE United Nations says the ongoing Israeli war in Palestine has left the Gaza Strip ‘uninhabitable’ and that the destruction in the Palestinian territory...

Unions must take strike action to stop lifting of Covid-19 restrictions on July 19th!

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HE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) doctors’ trade union has spelt it out that pressing ahead with lifting final Covid-19 restrictions in England on July...

US Transferring The War Into Pakistan

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THE Chief of the Taleban movement in Pakistan Hakimullah Mehsud yesterday blamed the US firm Blackwater, that had an army of mercenaries operating in...

Kelly plans new attacks on council tenants

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RUTH Kelly, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has backed proposals to end the long-term secure tenancies of working-class families living in...

The UK workers movement and the TUC must give their immediate and decisive support...

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YAHYA Sinwar, the political leader of the Hamas Movement, has written to Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, the head of the Ansar Allah Movement, conveying his profound...

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...

Chaos reigns as Tory Chancellor gets instructions from IMF and advice from Strictly Come...

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has delivered a thinly veiled instruction to the Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, to scrap his autumn budget statement due...

Tories plan a ‘British Guantanamo Bay’ in Rwanda for refugees fleeing imperialist wars

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YESTERDAY, Tory Prime Minister, and convicted criminal, Boris Johnson, announced the plan to give refugees and asylum seekers seeking shelter from imperialist war a...

Miliband is a fraud!

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ED Miliband’s speech to the National Policy Forum was devoted to the theme that Labour, while ‘going beyond’ the completely discredited open worship of...

Western-Backed Syrian Opposition Committing War Crimes!

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THE US, UK, French, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari-backed ‘Syrian rebels’, who have been armed, equipped, financed and recognised as the representatives of the Syrian...

There Must Be Action To Halt Royal Mail And NHS Privatisation

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THE Royal Mail faces privatisation this summer after the passage of the Postal Services Bill through parliament yesterday after its third reading. The legislation will...

Royal Mail shares frenzy grips bankrupt bosses

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TODAY is the official starting day of trading on the stock exchange in Royal Mail shares, a sell-off that has been greeted in the...

Cameron supervised the destruction of Guardian hard drives

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THE picture painted by Home Secretary May of the police doing their duty in the Snowden affair, as they saw it, without any government...

No Second Referendum! Bring Down The Tories! Forward To A Workers Government And...

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EX-UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that ‘we should have a second referendum on EU membership.’ This is the biggest personal surrender note for...

‘The Next Global Shock Will Be Like An Earthquake!’

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EUROZONE manufacturing activity has hit a three-year low at the same time as the banking crisis is reaching explosion point. Greece has run out...

Royal Mail workers must set the date for their all out strike action!

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ON TUESDAY, postal workers delivered a massive 94.5% YES vote to strike in defence of their jobs, pay and conditions and the very existence...

The TUC Must Make Its Stand! Now Is The Time To Call A General...

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THE annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) that starts this Sunday in Brighton is taking place as British capitalism is crumbling under...

The way to peace in the Ukraine is to restore the Soviet Union!

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THE MAYOR of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, has split the Ukrainian leadership over the issue of Russian sovereignty over the Crimea. Rejecting President Zelensky’s refusal to...

Blair Targets Disabled For Massive Cuts

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LABOUR was yesterday mounting a new onslaught on the disabled. The target is the 2.7 million people currently on Incapacity Benefit. The aim is...

Workers begin to occupy their plants and demand nationalisation!

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BRITISH capitalism is on the rocks and has started to break apart! This is the significance of the total outstanding government debt of the...

Stop The Dirty War In The Yemen!

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AT PM’s Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Corbyn raised the issue of the UK’s sale of...

The TUC must give its full support to the State of Palestine at once!

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THE International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to unveil an online electronic platform to allow the Palestinians to sue Israelis who commit war crimes. A...

US seizure of Press TV a declaration of war against Iran!

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THE WEBSITE of Press TV, the official Iranian English language news site, was seized by the US government on Tuesday, in what amounts to...

Bosses Declare War On Workers With An 80% Hike In Electricity And Gas Bills...

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THE UK’s energy bills are set to jump 80 per cent to an average of £3,549 per year from October, regulator Ofgem announced on...

Tory war on two fronts against Russia and working class at home

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THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...

No ‘windfall tax’ – nationalise the energy companies

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TORY ministers are in a state of despair over the complete inability of the Johnson government to come up with any measures to ‘help’...

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...

US Spy Agencies Pull Rug From Beneath Bush And Cheney

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THE Iranian government has welcomed the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report, to which all the US spying agencies contributed, which states that Iran...

Murdoch’s Man, Hunt Savages The NHS With A View To Privatise

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Local AFL-CIO leaders and trade unionists from across the United States were in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday to ask members of Congress to...

Tories declare class war to the finish – time for trade unions to organise...

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ON THE EVE of the unprecedented strike by nurses and ambulance workers, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak said that he will not ‘back down’...

Yellen signs up to Gordon Brown’s ‘no more boom or bust’ on the brink...

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IN A SPEECH in London last Tuesday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, announced to a disbelieving world that the...

Tory lies over ‘Syrian gas attack’ exposed!

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THE ENTIRE justification for last Friday’s illegal bombing of Syria by British, US and French forces is falling apart rapidly as the truth emerges. The...