Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Labour supports Tory law to give police ‘near total discretion’ to outlaw protests

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Police will have ‘near total discretion’ to ban protests, according to leading human rights lawyer Adam Wagner. ‘Secondary legislation’ introduced by the Tories in parliament...

UK ‘control orders’ are illegal says EU rights body

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EVEN the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles has condemned the issuing of control orders by the British Home Secretary as...

Moroccan leaders stab Palestine in the back with another ‘normalisation’ deal with Israel!

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ISRAEL and Morocco announced they are to ‘normalise ties’ in another US-brokered deal. On Thursday, Morocco became the fourth Arab country since August to strike...

Coalition imposed pay freeze hits workers and middle class

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A report issued on Monday by the independent Resolution Foundation spells out exactly the desperate situation being faced today by the so-called ‘squeezed middle’,...

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...

Workers must call general strikes to break the Israeli siege of Palestine

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THE Hamas Ministry of Health said on Wednesday that 102 Palestinian citizens were martyred and 287 others injured in 5 Israeli massacres in Gaza...

Trump Leaps Into War With Syria – Where He Leads, The UK Ruling Class...

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PRESIDENT Trump in his televised statement on Thursday night insisted that launching a 59-strong cruise missile attack on Syria was ‘in the national security...
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...

New Syria War Planned Using Old ‘Wmd’ Lies!

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THE war drums are beating with increasing intensity for armed intervention by imperialism into Syria to  effect the smashing up of the Assad regime, the...

Brown outlines new attack on teachers and state education!

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‘IN the past those who had the raw material – the coal, the oil and the basic commodities, or the infrastructure – the ports...

Democrats revolt against Obama!

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PRESIDENT Obama’s attempt to establish a cheaper insurance market that would provide full cover for up to 40 million poor Americans is under all-out...

Pompeo Reveals That Soleimani’s Murder Was Part Of A ‘Bigger Strategy Of Deterrence!’

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US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has spilled the beans about the murder of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. He has revealed that it...

Tory Would-Be Leaders Are Paralysed With A Fear Of The Working Class! Bring Them...

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TUESDAY night’s live debate between the five remaining Tory hopefuls to replace Theresa May and become prime minister, was a stark demonstration of the...

Put Blair On Trial!

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THE Fern Britton interview with Tony Blair on the BBC yesterday, squashed all of the notions that are being peddled that Blair was just...

Unions must take action! Occupy Bombardier! Bring down the coalition! Nationalise to...

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THE proposed sacking of 1,500 Bombardier workers in Derby is the beginning of the end for the train construction industry in the UK, and...

Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...

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LAST week, the Tories’ strike-breaking agency worker regulations were thrown out after the High Court ruled they were unlawful. This judgement quashed an appeal by...

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...

TUC must support junior doctors with a general strike!

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THE decision by the British Medical Association to authorise fresh strike action by junior doctors over the imposition of a new work contract is...

Defend Syria – bring down Cameron and Hague

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GILLES DE KERCHOVE, the EU’s anti-terror chief yesterday told the BBC that hundreds of Europeans are now fighting with the counter-revolutionary forces in Syria...

Poverty pay threatens workers as inflation rises and the crisis of capitalism deepens!

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WORKERS’ wages will be slashed even more as inflation hits a peak of 3.4% this year, according to an analysis by the National Institute...

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...

Nuclear Terrorists Attend Seoul Summit

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A WORLD leaders summit in Seoul on nuclear security has called for closer co-operation to tackle the threat of nuclear terrorism. President Obama warned there...

Coalition in crisis, bring it down

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The disarray, confusion and splits within the Tory/LibDem coalition government were brought out sharply over Monday’s announcement by Tory chancellor, George Osborne, that he...

Flammable insulation & cladding, tower blocks built to collapse & fire services stripped to...

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LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan says Londoners have been let down after the Tory government rejected his request for new firefighting equipment.  Tory Home Secretary Amber...

Break with the EU NOW! Forward to a socialist UK!

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FOLLOWING the intervention of ex-PM Tony Blair to demand that the UK remains in the EU, all the counter-revolutionary, anti-working class forces have begun...

‘Remainer’ May gives the UK parliament the final say!

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PM MAY yesterday told a Lancaster House press conference of her government’s plan to quit the dictatorial EU and its Single Market. Harkening back to...

Balls to make workers pay for Bank debts

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IN yesterday’s speech Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, committed any future Labour government to savage attacks on all the gains of the welfare state in...

A desperate ruling class forced to wheel out Gordon Brown to ‘save the day’...

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WITH THE Tory government of Theresa May staggering from one crisis to another this week over the issue of Brexit, the desperation of the...

Forward To The General Strike And A Workers Government!

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THE Daily Telegraph newspaper used its front page yesterday to kickstart a campaign for the police to enforce the Labour government’s latest terror laws...

PM May hammers the poor as 7,585 families receive 50p housing benefit!

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PM MAY makes a lot of noise about her concern for the ‘just about managing’, ie the middle classes in crisis-ridden Britain. In fact,...

PM Johnson signs up for US President Biden’s anti-China crusade!

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DURING a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday, US President Biden proposed that Johnson adopt and join his anti-China crusade, to...

IMF warns stock markets on verge of collapse – socialist revolution the only answer...

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IN THE LATEST update of its Global Financial Stability Report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that ‘complacent’ financial markets are facing a...

Trump and Musk tear up bourgeois democracy to wage war on workers in US 

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ELON Musk has launched a campaign of slashing jobs and closing federal departments with nothing but contempt for Congress. Musk, the world’s richest man, was...

Down With The US-Israel Axis – Forward To A UK Workers Government That Will...

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ISRAEL celebrated the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem on Monday, recognising the city as the ‘the capital of Israel’ by massacring 60...

No more cuts! Defend the public services!

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THE Newquay disaster proves what most people knew to be the case – that cuts in the fire service inevitably cost lives. Newquay is...

The bankers are in charge as Hunt postpones fiscal statement until November 17th

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TORY Chancellor Hunt announced yesterday that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed...

French workers are battling a Macron dictatorship while workers are now taking strike action...

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THOUSANDS of French workers have blocked a key highway around Paris and have stepped up strike action at oil refineries in a new massive...

Clinton threatens ‘catastrophic assault’ on the Syrian state!

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THE ‘Friends of Syria’ meeting in Paris on Friday saw the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, frantically beating the war drums against Syria,...

Forward To The British Socialist Revolution!

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THE DAILY Telegraph has been speculating on: ‘What would a 21st century British coup look like?’ in an opinion piece written by Paul...

Imperialists keep out of Zimbabwe! Forward to a workers and small farmers government

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THE MUGABE regime has been beaten in the polls by the trade union backed Movement for Democratic Change and is now considering its options...

Palestinians rising up against Israeli drive to ethnically cleanse them from Jerusalem

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ISRAELI forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning, firing rubber-coated bullets, tear gas and sound bombs at Palestinian worshippers, wounding hundreds in a...

Irish banks ‘death spiral’ – forward to socialist revolution

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THE latest stage in the complete disintegration of the Irish banking system was described by one analyst of the capitalist market as a ‘death...

Palestinians Set To March On Gaza! The UK And US Trade Unions Must Take...

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ON the day the Palestinian death toll in the Gaza genocide reached 40,000, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas defiantly announced he will visit Gaza, the...

Nationalise the pharmaceutical corporations!

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A REPORT into the expenditure of the National Health Service on drugs, published by the government’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday, reveals that...

Britain’s ‘Treasure Islands’ for the super rich – while it’s super austerity for...

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THE ‘Panama papers’ leak of 11 million documents shows that the rich and infamous worldwide, including heads of state, are avoiding taxation...