Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

The TUC must support the Palestinian march on Gaza with a general strike in...

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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of displaced Palestinian citizens resumed on Wednesday morning their march back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip which Israel...

No immunity over Grenfell Tower atrocity – arrest the real criminals and charge them...

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WITNESSES from the firms responsible for creating a death trap at Grenfell Tower are to be granted immunity from prosecution arising out of any...

Work till you drop! – Capitalism’s programme for the elderly

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CAPITALISM is truly on the rocks! Unemployment is already heading for three million, of which the majority of the unemployed will be aged between 16...

Salute the victorious Palestinian hunger strikers – Forward to the Palestinian state

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WE SALUTE the victory of the heroic 1,600 Palestinian hunger strikers who fought Israel to the brink of death, and remain alive having...

Saudis Execute Shia Leader In Major US–UK Backed Provocation!

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THE Saudi autocrats, the major ally of the US and the UK in the Middle East, alongside Israel, have just thrown barrels of petrol...

US workers on the march – unions must break with Democrats and form...

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THE strike actions of US workers are growing apace and are achieving big successes as the working class begins to use its power. One week...

The Way Forward – Starve The Working Class Says King!

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THE governor of the Bank of England, in his Tuesday night speech detailed the source of the gigantic inflationary rise in living costs that...

Starmer Congratulated By Union Leaders, Now Awaits His National Service Government Call-Up!

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THE election of Starmer as Labour leader has been cheered to the rooftops by both the trade union bureaucracy and the Tory Party-supporting media. His...

Corbyn comes out for a second referendum to sell-out Brexit

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YESTERDAY Jeremy Corbyn launched the Labour Party manifesto for the upcoming elections to the EU parliament: ‘Transforming Britain and Europe: for the many not...

Fire service cut to the bone! Kick Tories out before another deadly fire breaks...

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THE time between a 999 call and fire engines arriving on to the scene of a fire has increased. This is despite the Fire...

Demands ramped up for Labour to slash pensions, benefits and NHS spending to rescue...

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THE DEMANDS for the Labour government to slash all government spending on welfare is reaching a crescendo in the run-up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’...

Russia must recognise the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ‘On recognition in the Russian Federation of the documents and licence plates of vehicles issued to...

Obama’s Second Coming – Full Of Empty Words

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OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...

DECISIVE ACTION NEEDED TO DEfEND THE NHS AND WELFARE STATE

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On Tuesday, NHS North West London announced that it would close A&E departments at Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing Hospitals. Two million west...

Brown insists on wage cuts for workers & billions for bankers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown justified pay cuts for workers in the public services and the billions handed over by the Treasury to the bankrupt...

Police killers escape prosecution – and are exonerated by the CPS

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YESTERDAY the capitalist state looked after its own, and decided that the two armed police officers who shot dead an unarmed man, Harry Stanley,...

Biden begins his presidency with a missile attack on Syria and a refusal to...

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PRESIDENT Biden has begun his presidency with a cowardly missile attack on Syria and a shameful wooing, in the most hypocritical manner possible, of...

Labour Struggles – T0Ries Collapse!

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ALL talk of a Brown ‘electoral bounce’ is sheer drivel or plain self deception after Labour got the votes of just 45 per cent...

Dump ‘Reform’ into the nearest dustbin – Forward to the British Socialist Revolution!

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REFORM UK, a right-wing and ‘anti-working class’ party winning the Runcorn and Helsby parliamentary by-Election on Thursday, was only possible because of the treachery...

Syria Is Right To Press On To Retake Eastern Ghouta From The Terrorists!

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A SYRIAN army statement confirmed yesterday that Syrian government forces will lift the siege on the terrorist-held sections of the Damascus suburb of...

Britain wants to occupy Afghanistan for ‘decades’

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SIR SHERARD Cowper-Coles, the high-flying diplomat who is Ambassador in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio 4 yesterday that British forces would have to stay in...

Act To Stop The Privatisation Of Royal Mail!

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ROYAL MAIL bosses, Chairman Allan Leighton and Chief Executive Adam Crozier, are calling on the Labour government to give the go-ahead for them to...

Ealing A&E saved! Now Maternity & Children’s wards must be re-opened!

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THE PLANS to close Ealing and Charing Cross A&Es have been scrapped after a mass campaign by the West London Council of Action secured...

Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Shows Her Tory Hand, Declaring There Will Be No Wealth...

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WITH the Tory Party split and divided, Labour is now revealing its own pro-Tory proposals to make the working class pay for the continuing...

Unions must call general strikes to support Gaza and end imperialist war drive

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ON MONDAY, Israeli warplanes bombed the Iranian consulate, which is situated next to the embassy building in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing seven Iranian...

Stop the NHS being privatised! Defend funds for services – don’t use them for...

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The abolition of NHS England by merging it with the Department of Health, announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, is the...

Israelis Bomb Gaza And Shell The Lebanon

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FOUR Lebanese soldiers were killed and at least four wounded when Israeli tanks opened fire at Lebanese positions on the border with Israel shortly...

Poroshenko’s anti-Russian provocations are a sign that his end is near and that ...

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ALL RUSSIAN men aged between 16-60 have been banned from entering the Ukraine in a further ratcheting up of tensions by the Poroshenko dictatorship,...

Free first class medical care and accommodation for the sick and elderly

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ONCE again PM Gordon Brown and the Labour Party have revealed that while they rushed to handing over £150 billion to the bankers, they...

Mursi follows on from Mubarak as the US’ man in Cairo

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PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...

Expel Hutton And Field From The Lab0Ur Party!

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EX-LABOUR cabinet minister John Hutton, a 100 per cent Blairite, has joined the Tory-LibDem coalition, and been appointed by it to head a commission...

World capitalism is in its death agony – forward with the world socialist revolution

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YESTERDAY’S ‘solution’ to the economic crisis of Cyprus is simply the decision of the EU bankers and the IMF to completely bankrupt the country...

Ukrainian Right Wing Draws Closer To Nato

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THE decision by the Ukrainian government to offer joint use of missile attack and space early warning systems to the Western powers...

Trade Unions Must Take Action To Smash The Bedroom Tax!

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TODAY is the day when the outrageous Bedroom Tax begins and hundreds of thousands of working people will see between 14% and 25% of...

UNISON ‘ready to strike’ while Brown is bringing bosses into his cabinet

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‘I SEND this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...

Occupy And Nationalise Ellesmere Port And Luton Stellantis Car Plants

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ONE of the world’s biggest carmakers, Stellantis, has called on the Tory government to renegotiate part of the Brexit deal or risk losing parts...

Trades unions must take action to end NHS privatisation

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‘END this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare in England.’ This was the call from Dr Hamish Meldrum, the Chairman of...

Geneva Report Issues Dire Warning!

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JUST six years after the beginning of the 2008 financial collapse – at a time when Cameron and Co. are talking about a recovery,...

Police chief Blair must resign says Maria Otone de Menezes

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YESTERDAY, the parents of Jean Charles de Menezes retraced the final journey taken by their son, an entirely innocent man who was shot dead...

Israel To Invade Gaza After Bombing And Starving Its Population! The TUC Must...

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THE WHO (World Health Organisation) has joined the United Nations in urging Israel to immediately halt its invasion of Gaza which has already been...

CWU must spread the action to the entire public sector

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THE reality of the situation facing postal workers is that after two series of mass strike actions during which they have shown they are...

Hammond on the rocks of bankrupt British capitalism!

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CHANCELLOR Hammond began his Autumn statement yesterday by saying, ‘Our task now is to prepare our economy to be resilient as we exit the...

NHS faces privatisation – kick out the coalition now!

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EVERY week without fail, doctors, medical journals, and health experts produce authoritative studies that ram home the fact that under this Tory-led coalition government...

TUC remains silent on Truss’s class war preparations – Join the lobby of the...

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TORY prime minister Liz Truss didn’t waste time. She fled the country immediately after the meltdown of her government at the Tory Party conference. Yesterday...

Tory new definition of terrorism in a crackdown on all opposition to Zionist...

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MICHAEL Gove, the Tory Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, is due this week to unveil plans to ban individuals and...