Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

The Tories are split to the hilt! The trade unions must bring them down...

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THE SPLIT in the Tory Party over the planned hike in National Insurance (NI) has got wider and deeper! Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s proposed 1.25...

Tories Are Down – Now They Must Be Put Out!

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THE Tories are down but they are not out! The trade unions must mobilise for action at once to deliver a knock-out blow to...

Tories Ally Themselves With Purnell To Beat The Unemployed

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YESTERDAY in the House of Commons the Tories were glorying in the fact that their votes will make sure that Labour’s bill to force...

Afghan war aid to be quadrupled as education and jobs are slashed!

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BRITISH troops are to to leave Afghanistan by 2014, and a phased withdrawal is due to begin before the end of 2010. This is...

Snap General Election Farce!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Brown, a cautious and bumbling, conservative politician, is due to decide this weekend whether to take a big gamble and call...

Silence from imperialist governments over Gaza ‘aid distribution’ centres used as a death...

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YESTERDAY at least 27 Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured when Israeli occupation troops opened fire on crowds attempting to get food at...

Hero Mandela dies – Forward to socialism in South Africa

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NELSON Mandela, one of the great heroes of the anti-Apartheid struggle who was jailed for 27 years on Robben Island for his opposition to...

Tory leader Badenoch offers to ‘work together’ with Starmer to slash benefits

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YESTERDAY, in a speech in London, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch made an offer to Keir Starmer to work together on a plan to slash...

As Israel steps up its genocidal war the TUC must be forced to call...

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THOUSANDS rallied outside Parliament on Monday night in a powerful demonstration of solidarity with Palestine that directly reflects the support of the overwhelming mass...

People forced into debt to pay for private treatment as Tories slash the NHS!

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69,000 PEOPLE were forced to pay for private medical treatment in the final three months of last year, according to figures from the Private...

Imperialism plotting bigger war! The TUC must call a general strike and kick out...

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US president Joe Biden on his whistlestop visit to Israel on Wednesday, gave the green light to plans for a full-scale ground invasion of...

Tories plan Boot Camps for Youth

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THE Tory attacks on youth have reached a fever pitch over the past week with the announcement of more measures to be taken by...

The markets panic and crash as capitalism heads for a major catastrophe!

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THE stock markets are crashing as the Tory government’s borrowing costs went soaring yesterday to a 15-year high, amid a global shares sell off...

Force Blair out now! Forward to a workers’ government!

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YESTERDAY was a letter writing day for Labour MPs. There were at least three different letters circulating among Labour MPs, including one signed by the...

Turning A New Page In The NHS!

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THE leaders of 10 NHS organisations have called in an open letter for a ‘new page to be turned’ in 2014. Powerful organisations including...

Cameron to sack Gove as IMF warns economy heading for adverse shocks

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THE knives are out for one-time Tory Party hero Michael Gove, the self-styled ‘hammer of the teaching trade unions’, who has had the temerity...

Capitalism Is On Its Knees – Time To Organise World Socialist Revolution!

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SPEAKING at a poorly attended Scottish Labour Party conference yesterday Sir Keir Starmer said the United States ‘is right’ about the UK and Europe...

Macron Beats The War Drums As Capitalist Crisis Deepens!

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A FINANCIAL TIMES report says a senior European defence official has acknowledged that ‘Western special forces’ are unofficially present in Ukraine, despite US-led NATO’s...

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...

A bankrupt budget for a bankrupt economy

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THE AIM of every government in 2008 is to ‘maintain stability through the world economic slowdown’, said Chancellor Darling yesterday in his budget...

Forward With The European Socialist Revolution!

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ON MONDAY in the House of Commons, ex-Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw rounded on the government stating: ‘Instead of sheltering behind complacent language and...

Blair using EU to attack workers’ wages and conditions

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THE Blair government has only one real use for the EU, and that is as a tool for cutting the wages and increasing the...

NHS privateer investigated for ‘unsafe’ GP Service

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Serco, the country’s top privateer in the NHS and other public services, is under investigation over allegations that it ran an ‘unsafe’ GP out-of-hours...

BA Cabin Crew strikers need a strategy to win – demand Unite bring out...

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TODAY BA mixed fleet cabin crew start another round of four days of strike action against poverty level wages that has meant them relying...

Qe Tapering Leading To A Crash

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WHAT started last week as a crisis in the international capitalist stock markets is turning into a full-scale crash with Wednesday’s decision by the...

The future of bankrupt British capitalism is tied to a collapsing US economy –...

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THE INAUGURATION of Joe Biden as president of the United States on Wednesday was enthusiastically greeted by prime minister Boris Johnson saying: ‘When you...

Unite must stop Heathrow to win the BA struggle!

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Striking British Airways cabin crew began another five days of strike action last night. On the eve of the action BA cabin crew told...

TUC must heed the call from Palestinian trade unions and call a general strike...

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THE UN agency for Palestinian refugees yesterday issued the latest dire warning that time is running out for any chance of averting a catastrophic...

Imperialist Crisis Deepens

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JUST days after the mid-term elections dealt a decisive blow to his administration, Bush with the support of the Democrats has seen to it...

SOUTH AFRICA: Legacy of the revolution betrayed

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THE fighting in Johannesburg and its surrounding black townships, over the past week – with more than 23 people being killed, pitched battles with...

IMF demands destruction of welfare state to save capitalism from debt crisis Answer bankers...

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THE IMF (International Monetary Fund) this week sounded the alarm bells for the world capitalist crisis when it announced the real scale of the...

Tories-Lib Dems want more than £20bn of NHS cuts by 2014

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THE new Tory Secretary of State for Health Lansley was appointed on Wednesday and has immediately put on record that he will...

Social care starved of funds – one million without support

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A new report, Care in Crisis, issued by Age UK spells out exactly what the Tory-led coalition’s destruction of the welfare state means for...

Luxury liners are going in – but the aid is nowhere to be seen...

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THE fact that Luxury cruise liners are still docking in Haitian ports, not very far from the epicentre of the earthquake, which has killed...

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...

Starmer’s latest U-turn as Labour government reels from another crisis – time to bring...

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Labour prime minister Keir Starmer performed yet another abrupt U-turn yesterday when he was forced to abandon plans to cancel 30 local government elections in...

Out with Hunt, out with the rotten coalition!

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LABOUR is to demand a parliamentary vote over Culture Secretary Hunt’s breaching of the ministerial code, by refusing to take responsibility for the actions...

Labour has no answer to the problems that the working class and middle class...

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MILIBAND’S Labour Party yesterday said that if it was the government it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job. This...

Homelessness is growing like a plague – Nationalise the banks and the building industry...

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THE homelessness rate across England is at its highest since 2018, after Tory government policies have forced a record number of families to live...

Zionists intervene to try and prevent Corbyn-led Labour government!

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WITH THE Tory government split, divided, and on the rocks after refusing to carry out the 2016 referendum instruction to ‘Leave the EU’, the...

Establish the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in 2017!

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THE Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saeb Erekat has denounced the ongoing escalation by the Israeli government against its Palestinian citizens as...

Bush’s Wall Street Bail-Out Defeated

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PRESIDENT George Bush’s Bill for a $700bn package of measures to bail out the Wall Street banks and large financial institutions in the United...

Us Capitalism Is On The Rocks! The US Working Class Is Faced With...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump yesterday unveiled his three-phase plan for opening up businesses in America proclaiming, ‘We’re starting our life again. We’re starting rejuvenation...

Greek Crisis Set To Explode Under Eu!

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GREECE’S Syriza government has drawn up its plan to renegotiate with the EU. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won a confidence vote on Tuesday evening,...

Unison Leaders Vote For Another Blairite Government

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FOR the whole period that Labour Left MP John McDonnell was seeking to get the backing of the 40 plus MPs that would have...