Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Capitalism On The Rocks – Forward To Socialism

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THE number out of work in the UK rose by 137,000 to 1.86 million in the three months to October – the highest level...

Boycott Israel – Arm the Palestinian masses! Forward to the Palestinian state with Jerusalem...

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HAMAS and Fatah have given sharply different responses to the adoption of Monday’s United Nations Security Council vote in favour of the Trump plan...

Housing bubble set to burst!

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LAST week saw a concerted effort by the Tory-led coalition, aided by their friends in the bourgeois press, to deny that a catastrophic housing...

Osborne’s ‘city states’ are part of the break-up of British capitalism

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OSBORNE’S plans for English cities to have mayors and combined authorities with powers over housing, health care, transport, planning and policing mean that London,...

Hands off Palestine – no annexations! Arab workers must remove ‘recognition’ regimes!

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FOLLOWING the refusal of the Arab League to condemn the UAE for its recognition of the state of Israel, Bahrain has now followed the...

Brown orders troop retreat from Basra City

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BRITISH troops retreated from Basra City, quitting their base in the Presidential Palace on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the dead...

Agree to robbery with violence or face eviction – Troika warns Cyprus

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MPs in Cyprus have been told to agree, by Monday, on a series of bills to raise 6bn euros off the backs of the...

Boeing shares crash – company stands accused of cost cutting that risked air safety

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THE US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has been brought to its knees following two catastrophic crashes of its bestselling aircraft, the short haul 737 Max...

Scrap the Hinkley Point C nuclear deal!

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THE unfolding saga of the proposed nuclear power station, Hinkley Point C in Somerset, reached a new level of farce late on Thursday when...

World Bank Predicts Widespread Economic Destruction Ahead!

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THE WORLD Bank stated yesterday that 90% of the world’s economies have been plunged into a slump by the coronavirus pandemic, inflicting global carnage...

Israeli high school students refuse to serve and oppose the oppression of the Palestinians!

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HUNDREDS of Israeli high school students in a ‘Youth Against Dictatorship’ statement have announced that they will refuse to serve in the Israeli military...

Private equity group to ‘cut and slash’ Chrysler

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DAIMLERCHRYSLER is selling a 80.1 per cent share in its crisis-hit American Chrysler division to the private equity group Cerberus for $7.4bn. President George...

Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...

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...

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...

Times Rich List shows that austerity UK has become a paradise for the...

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THE just-published Sunday Times rich list shows that in austerity-hit UK – where millions of workers have not had a rise in the ten...

The Death Penalty For Breivik – No Platform For Fascists!

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THE fascist who killed 77 people, the majority of them at a youth school of the Norwegian Young Socialists, in bomb and gun attacks...

Forward With The South African Socialist Revolution!

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THE decision by the ANC government to talk to the Amcu trade union, which has won away from the NUM majority membership status in...

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...

270,000 civil servants to strike!

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UP to 270,000 civil and public servants from across the UK are set to launch a month of industrial action, with a 48 hour...

Putin Warns Usa Of Dangers In Attacking Iran

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IN his ‘Address to the Nation’ last Wednesday, the Russian leader, President Vladimir Putin, was forced to deal with the fact that Nato is...

Russia resisting regime change in Syria!

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RUSSIA said yesterday that it strongly disagreed with changes to its draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria made by the western imperialist powers. ‘Unfortunately,...

Iraq and Afghanistan – imperialists coming under the hammer

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US CASUALTIES are now mounting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, while at home the anti-war and anti-Bush movement is growing by leaps and bounds,...

Unite campaign for ‘Workers Economy’ is a campaign for a Starmer-led win in 2025!

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THE Unite trade union has issued a press release that dangles before its members and the working class the pledge that the union would...

Universities in crisis – courses slashed, thousands to be sacked and fees to soar!

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UNIVERSITIES are being hit hard by the capitalist crisis with thousands of jobs and courses going, and with students facing a lifting of the...

Capitalist collapse continues while Brown vows ‘to save the system’

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YESTERDAY two major banks had to be nationalised to prevent a run on the UK and EU banking system. They were the Bradford and...

US civil war on unions – forward with world revolution

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The civil war by US capitalism against its own working class has erupted with a vengeance in the state of Wisconsin. In this state, the...

The return of Duncan Smith, Cameron’s Workhouse Master

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THE announcement that Iain Duncan Smith has been re-appointed as Work and Pensions Secretary and charged by Cameron to step up the Tory onslaught...

Trump gambles on his inflationary boom lasting till presidential election day!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump delivered his formal State of the Union address on Tuesday night with the usual boast that under the three years...

Obama champions murdering Americans abroad!

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OBAMA, in his speech on Thursday at Fort McNair, presented himself as a president eager to end the foreign wars of the USA, and...

Big Business Demands Billi0Ns More To Save Their Bankrupt Economy!

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BIG BUSINESS warned yesterday that, with the return of the lockdown by PM Johnson, thousands of firms will go to the wall. They demanded...

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...

Boycott Israel To Demand A Palestinian State

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THE Israeli armed forces, under orders from the Israeli government, are continuing to attack defenceless Palestinian women, children and men in the Gaza Strip,...

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...

Occupy And Nationalise Vauxhall Plants

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THREE companies have bid to take over GM Europe from the crisis-stricken US giant. They are Italian carmaker Fiat, Canadian parts maker Magna and...

brown proposes to rob the workers to rescue the bankers

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YESTERDAY saw the big international push get under way to try to rescue the bankers of the world from the crisis of their capitalist...

Smash the surveillance society – smash the capitalist state!

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HARD on the heels of the revelations last June from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden that American and British spy agencies can access all...

World capitalism hanging over the brink

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WHAT bourgeois economists thought was unthinkable just a few days ago is now about to happen. In just four days time the United States is...

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...

Renationalise The Royal Mail!

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SHARES in the privatised Royal Mail are down 2.5% after Ofcom ruled the universal postal service, which obliges the Royal Mail to deliver across...

The English Revolution of 1640s becomes burning issue today

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THE FRONT page of The Daily Telegraph yesterday led with an article headed: ‘John McDonnell threatens to march on the palace and tell the...

FBI warns of revolution! Now is the time to build 4th International in the...

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THE DIRECTOR of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray, told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the US ruling class has lost...

Blair’s Iraq adventure bites the dust

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday had a meeting with the long standing CIA agent and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, who is now posing as the...

As Zionist Mobs Launch Attacks On Palestinians Hamas Calls To Establish The Palestinian State

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YESTERDAY, Zionist mobs were attacking Palestinians all over the occupied territories seeking to seize their homes and land and drive them off it. Israeli occupation...

Almost 100,000 youth flee Ukraine as the imperialist powers seek to provoke an imperialist...

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NEARLY 100,000 men of fighting age have fled Ukraine in the last two months, as the fascist-supported regime of Volodymyr Zelensky desperately scrambles to...