Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Labour’s Programme Requires A Socialist Revolution To Carry It Out!

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LABOUR’S manifesto has caused consternation within the ranks of the Tory press, with yesterday’s Telegraph editorial claiming it ‘amounts to nothing short of dismantling...

End Tory benefit and job cuts through socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY the Tory government was forced to concede that that a further 23,000 tax credit claimants whose benefits had been had been cut by...

Don’t let Cameron bomb Syria – Forward to the victory of Syria and the...

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THE capitalist media and its Tory masters are working around the clock to drum up a majority for Cameron, made up of Tories and...

Occupy NHS Logistics on October 1 – trade unions must take strike action!

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WEDNESDAY’S twin votes at the Labour Party conference against NHS privatisation emphasised for all to see just how great is the isolation of the...

Bush Gives Go-Ahead F0R Iraqi Regime Change

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US President George W Bush on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to the US occupation army in Iraq and all those who support the...

Blair To Get The Four O’Clock Knock

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THE arrest and questioning of Lord Levy, the man who got millions in donations for Labour’s election campaigns, and the fact that...

Stalinist Putin condemns Lenin, but has kept his party card!

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LENIN wrote ‘The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self Determination’ in July 1916, just months after the Easter Rising in Dublin...

Israel calls for Iran to be expelled from the United Nations

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THE Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. He also said that ‘a world without the...

Unite Leaders Refuse To Fight The Bosses And The Tories!

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UNITE, the UK’s biggest trade union, is on the front line of the class struggle as ‘fire and rehire bosses’ at BA and other...

Tuc Must Call General Strike To Kick Out Starmer’s Government

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THE continuing collapse of the Starmer-led Labour government was on public display on Wednesday when in a pathetic attempt to reassert his absolute control,...

Drive Privateers Out Of The NHS!

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THERE are more and more tragedies which prove that private companies, whose purpose is solely to make profits, have no place in the NHS. We...

US workers and youth begin mobilising for revolution!

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THE Communications Workers of America Executive Board has endorsed the youth-led Occupy Wall Street Movement. Occupy Wall Street youth campaigners have joined...

Labour government splitting apart as ministers prepare for a national government!

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YESTERDAY, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that splits had erupted in the heart of Keir Starmer’s Cabinet between deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and...

Take Strike Action To Defend The NHS

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THE Royal College of Nursing, the nurses trade union, yesterday announced that it is seeking a judicial review to force the Blair government to...

Recognise Palestinian State Immediately – Smash ‘Deal Of Century’ With International Mass Action

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THE Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saeb Erekat has just condemned US President Donald Trump’s so-called ‘deal of the century’, due...
Two gem miners working knee deep in water with a sieve – are paid no wages and get only meals

Kick out the yellow trade union leaders

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THE GATE GOURMET bosses were cock-a-hoop yesterday, and no wonder – after the leader of the TUC, Barber, and the leaders of the...

Cameron Favours New Anti-Union Laws

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LAST Saturday, the Tory leader, Cameron, told the Daily Telegraph that if he should win the General Election he is ready to toughen the...

Johnson’s Visit To Sweden And Finland Is To Expand The War Against Russia!

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PM BORIS Johnson is visiting Sweden and Finland to expand the war in Ukraine, and specifically to urge both nations to join the NATO...

Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!

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INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...

UK-France defeated by the Libyan masses!

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AFTER months of bombing and killing civilians, the Libyan imperialist adventure is nearing its end after both the UK and French governments have...

TUC leader O’Grady makes PM May a unity offer!

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IN a lecture to the London School of Economics (LSE) on Tuesday TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady made a ‘national government’ call to the...

Revealed – plan for US imperialism to take complete control of Gaza after Palestinians...

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ON Sunday, the Washington Post paper reported details of a 38-page ‘prospectus’ that is circulating ‘within the Trump administration’ laying out plans to ‘take...

Google, Apple and Facebook facilitate international internet slave trade says UN!

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HE INTERNET is being used to promote a modern day online slave market, where women and children are being sold into domestic servitude. This...

Only socialist revolution can stop imperialist war

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LAST Friday’s attack by US planes on the Syrian airfield of al-Shayrat was not a one-off military exercise to teach the Syrians a lesson,...

The Unity Of The Working Class With The Oppressed Nations Is The Way To...

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IRAN launched a multiple missile attack against two bases in Iraq that contain US troops and other coalition forces on Wednesday night in retaliation...

Bank of England follows US Fed in driving up interest rates to ‘save’ capitalism!

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England (BofE) hiked up the interest rate by 0.25% to 1.25%, its highest level in 13 years – the first...

Tories split and turn on each other while TUC Congress refuses to take general...

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THE Tory Party is now split and divided as the world- wide capitalist crisis deepens and the weakness of the imperialist powers becomes more...

Gates and Rice go calling on Putin

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin threatened on Friday in talks with top US administration officials, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates,...

Blair, Brown Step Up War On The Public Sector

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BLAIR and Brown stepped up the new Labour assault on the public sector yesterday. Brown even had the cheek to blame service sector workers’...

Defend North Korea! Prevent nuclear war by a revolutionary disarming of imperialism!

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IN AN OPEN declaration that it is prepared to plunge the world into a nuclear war US imperialism has threatened that it ‘is prepared...

Build revolutionary leadership in South African strike struggle!

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THE South African 300,000-strong National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has called a one-day solidarity strike with the 1.3m public sector trade unionists who have...

Sack Gove, May and Cameron! TUC must call a general strike to bring down...

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EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove, who has carried forward the privatisation battle against the teaching trade unions, and driven forward the Free School-Academy agenda,...

British capitalism is bust, time to put it out of its misery

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FOR THE first time a comprehensive analysis of the economic and social impact of the war waged by the Tory government under Margaret Thatcher...

New generation organises five section strike! TUC must call a General Strike to end...

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A NEW generation of workers is now organising themselves into unions and is combining their labour power by striking together. There is no doubt...

Labour and the bosses knifing pensions and pensioners

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A SURVEY from pensions advisers Origen published yesterday shows that companies are continuing to either close their final salary pensions schemes or end admission...

Tories tell May she must bring in strike ban law!

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SUNDAY saw the Tory Telegraph accuse PM May of ‘refusing to curb the power of striking trade unions despite a growing backlash from...

Middle Class Faces Mass Unemployment. It Must Unite With The The Working Class To...

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THE CRISIS engulfing British capitalism has drawn the organised working class, along with youth and entire sections of the middle class, into the struggle...

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...

TUC organises a day of inaction against Tory union-busting laws!

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IT was with much fanfare that the TUC announced on the 10th January that it would hold a national ‘protect the right to strike’...

Shut down Campsfield – repeal all racist immigration acts

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ONCE again yesterday morning, Campsfield detention camp was on fire, with coachloads of prison officers, the ‘tornado team’ armed with riot shields, arriving and...

Irish Union Votes To Repudiate Bank Debt!

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The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union is to contact ‘like-minded unions’ to seek ‘international legal opinion regarding the possibility of mounting a successful legal...

Kiev, EU and US facing defeat in East Ukraine!

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UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...

Tories declare war on unions

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THE Tory-led coalition, faced with this Thursday’s one-day strike by two million workers, is driving forward preparations for new anti-union laws which will make...
Chairman NORMAN CANDY (CWU London Divisional Committee) opening the mass rally against privatisation in central London yesterday

Iraq war veterans sent into New Orleans

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YESTERDAY 300 Arkansas national guards were sent into the hurricane hit city of New Orleans, after having just returned from Iraq. The Governor of Louisiana,...

The US is being humiliated in Iraq – not Saddam

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IT IS the United States of America that is being humiliated in Iraq and not Saddam Hussein. The idea that putting pictures – provided by...