Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Free the five and give them full British citizenship

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THE UK government has requested the release of five British residents from US custody at Guantanamo Bay, something which the Blair government, in which...

Greece On The Brink!

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THE Greek working class has been pushed right to the brink of revolution this week with the passage of a bill in the Vouli...

Unions Dither While NHS Logistics Is Sold!

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LAST Wednesday, the trade unions with the support of the majority of the Labour Party constituency parties defeated the government on the vital issue...

Labour to ‘relax’ restrictions on banks risking massive increase in house repossessions!

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is committing the Labour government to follow in the footsteps of US president Donald Trump by enthusiastically embracing policies to...

Hayes & Ward must go! Build a new leadership in the CWU!

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AS 2,000 postal workers were gearing up for a 24-hour strike on Friday against Royal Mail’s plans to close mail centres, Dave Ward, the...

Capitalist state steps back from the brink!

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BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...

TORIES TRY TO BRIBE GPs TO CUT HOSPITAL REFERRALS!

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RESEARCH conducted by the medical magazine Pulse has uncovered the fact that local GP practices are being offered bribes of thousands of pounds to...

‘Hope’ sets sail despite Israeli-Greek-Moldovan deal to stop it

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THE Libyan ship ‘Hope’, a Moldovan-flagged cargo vessel, left a Greek port on Saturday night for Gaza with 2,000 tonnes of supplies, in the...

Trump And Netanyahu Meet Today!

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PRESIDENT Trump and the Israeli leader Netanyahu are set to meet in Washington today just as hundreds of US rabbis have signed an open...
Herts firefighters lobbying Downing Street  during a boycott of a Number 10 reception for ‘Buncefied heroes’

Brown Warns Against Labour ‘Extremists’

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CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday did his best to hand back the political initiative to his politically battered and discredited Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...

World capitalism at risk from imperialist war, bankers and IMF warn

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JAMIE Dimon, boss of America’s largest bank JP Morgan Chase, has issued a stark warning to his investors that the world may be facing...

Unite betrays Ealing strikers – Time to build a revolutionary leadership in the unions

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THE ANGER expressed by Ealing Parking Service workers at the way in which the Unite leadership has sold their strike down the river reflects...
One hundred per cent solid at Hammersmith and Fulham’ council’s Bagley’s Lane Depot

Blair an imperialist from head to foot

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YESTERDAY in Australia, Blair, for all he was worth, was pushing the George Bush imperialist line that ‘we’ have a duty to liberate the...

Defend North Korea Against Imperialist Attack!

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THE US and its South Korean puppets are set to begin their largest ever joint military exercises amid the high tensions that they have...

Defend Jobs With A General Strike To Bring Down The Tories!

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JAGUAR LANDROVER has plunged to a £500m loss in the first three months of this year. The Unite trade union has described the announcement...

Teachers Vote For General Strike

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AT THEIR annual conference last Saturday the NUT (National Union of Teachers) passed a resolution committing the union to a strike ballot over attacks...

Mandelson Gives The Thumbs Down To Luton!

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BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson declared yesterday morning, before he even reached the Luton GM plant, that there would be no nationalisation of GM Luton –...

Defend NHS health care – stop the NHS becoming a business

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‘ONE million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report,’ screamed the capitalist press...

Nemtsov loved by the US and UK ruling classes – hated by the...

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YESTERDAY over 20,000 people marched in Moscow and several thousand in Leningrad to mourn the death of Boris Nemtsov. The vast majority of the Russian...

Take mass action on September 21 to stop NHS privatisation

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UNISON members working for NHS Logistics will take two 24-hour strikes over the next two weeks to fight the Labour plan to privatise the...

Tax Bonanza for NHS Privateers

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The private health companies, that are circling the NHS and salivating at the prospect of making billions of pounds profit out of the sick...

International inquiry finds no basis for Israeli claims against UNRWA that gave US and...

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IN JANUARY, the Israeli regime unleashed a propaganda campaign against UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East,...

MPs SHOW THE WAY ON THE ISSUE OF PAY!

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MEMBERS of Parliament will receive an 11% pay rise following the publication of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority recommendations later on this week The rise...

Demand the TUC bring down the Tories

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ON Thursday Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, delivered a speech proclaiming that as far as the government is concerned ‘the matter is closed’: he...

World Bank Report – capitalism  stands on brink of financial crash

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THE WORLD stands on the brink of a financial crash according to the latest biannual Global Economic Prospects report from the World Bank. This warns...

Union leaders go easy on Brown’s bosses’ budget

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CHANCELLOR Brown’s budget yesterday outlined savage attacks on the working class, particularly low paid workers. His decision to abolish the 10 pence tax rate...

Organise general strike to defend CWU

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ROYAL Mail, backed by Brown and Mandelson, are making no secret of the fact that they intend to stamp on the CWU, in order...

Government forced to revive the NHS Trusts it was bankrupting

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IN the face of the rising anger of junior doctors, nurses, consultants, ancillary workers and patients over the Labour government’s policy of deliberately crashing...

Targeted assassination of journalists as Zionist regime plans military occupation and massacre of Palestinians...

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LATE on Sunday, a deliberate Israeli drone attack hit a tent for journalists located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, killing...

AS THE CAPITALIST CRISIS DEEPENS, MPs WANT A DICTATORSHIP OVER THE INTERNET!

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THE UK faces a ‘democratic crisis’ with voters being targeted with ‘pernicious views’ and data being manipulated, a parliamentary MPs committee warns. According to...

Israeli Terrorists Are Being Given A Free Hand To Blind Palestinian Journalists!

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THE Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh showed solidarity with photojournalist Moath Amarneh during the Palestinian cabinet meeting yesterday in the occupied West Bank city...

General Rose supports the Iraqis right to fight occupiers

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GENERAL Rose, who was the commander of the UN forces in Bosnia, has just publicly supported the right of the Iraqi insurgents to fight...

Accessories To Murder!

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THE Israeli Cabinet, after its weekly meeting on Sunday, issued a statement that it was greatly encouraged by the ‘low-key’ international response to its...

The debt of the British capitalist class is equal to the country’s economic output...

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OFFICIAL data shows that the UK state debt is equal to the country’s economic output for the first time since the 1960s, amid the...

Workers Must Take Action To Put An End To Capitalism

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THE TIME is here when workers must respond to the growing chorus from the professional servants of the bourgeoisie for savage, and even more...

Turkish Masses Serve Notice On Erdogan

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THE uprising of the Turkish masses, which began over the future of a park in European Turkey and rapidly spread across the country, including...

More British Troops For Iraq!

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WITHOUT any vote in the House of Commons hundreds of British troops are to be sent to Iraq, which is already being bombed by...

US shale oil bites the dust – Forward to the US socialist revolution!

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THE PRICE of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history, destroying the shale gas ‘miracle’ that was going to liberate...

Carney steps up his anti-May war!

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THE war between the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, and Tory prime minister Theresa May was stepped up on Wednesday when...

Dollar fall heralds a deepening capitalist crisis and world revolution

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ON FRIDAY, the exchange rate of the dollar plunged down against other major world currencies and gold rose by 1.2 per cent to $638.5...

Hunt’s Autumn budget – brings in the open dictatorship of the bankers!

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YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn budget – the second budget from the government in under two months. The first was the disastrous...

Tory government acted illegally! It has no right to rule and must be...

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THE Supreme Court yesterday dealt a death blow to the Tory strategy to make it financially impossible for workers to take their employers...

Miliband’s ‘national interest’ is an ‘imperialist interest’

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FOREIGN Secretary Miliband declared to his audience, right at the start of his Oxford College speech last Tuesday evening, that ‘we’ must not let...

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...
Iraqis are determined to throw out the US-British occupation

Gate Gourmet Locked Out Workers Reject Woodley’s Rotten Compromise

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TGWU leader Tony Woodley’s speech at Southall on Monday, and his remarks to journalists both before and after the meeting, were a dereliction of...