Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

UK death squads in the north – a warning for today

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LAST night’s Panorama programme, entitled ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Force’, threw yet more light on the murderous activities of the British state in its war...

Hands Off Syria – Smash The Gulf Feudal Regimes

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THE Syrian government has informed the UN envoy, Kofi Annan, that it will respect the cease fire agreement that it is a party to,...

Bangladesh: a paradise for the bosses, and a hell for the workers

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THE arrest of the owner of the collapsed building in Dakha is just a tiny sop to the massive anger felt by Bangladeshi workers...

The Bank is preparing a housing catastrophe

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HOMEOWNERS should prepare for interest rates of five per cent, a 1000 per cent leap from the current 0.5 per cent Bank of England...

Universal Credit can’t be fixed: Abolish it along with the Tories!

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THE TORY government suffered a defeat in the courts this week when the court of appeal dismissed a challenge by the Department for Work...

Bank of England splits over measures required to keep British capitalism afloat!

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ON WEDNESDAY the Adam Smith Institute admonished the Bank of England as ‘worse than useless’, and warned: ‘There is already a major crisis...

Full Support For Barghouthi

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THE jailed Palestinian leader of the Second Intifada, Marwan al-Barghouthi, has written from his prison cell in Israel to urge the Palestinian leadership...

World crisis hits eurozone

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THE announcement by the unelected Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, that he is quitting the job  sent the Italian economy into a massive crisis...

Increased sanctions on Russia drive the bosses’ war against the working class at home!

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THE MOVE by the US, the UK and EU ruling classes to cut off all oil and gas supplies from Russia is now ‘unstoppable’...

Capitalism”s Global Financial Ice Age

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THIS week saw a series of announcements from banks and economists about impending doom for capitalism. On Wednesday, the RBS bank advised all its clients...

UK Pirates Plan Somalia Onslaught!

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YESTERDAY, a conference was convened in London to organise the intervention into Somalia by imperialist forces, led by the UK, acting under the cover of...

We should have been the Thatcherites, Blair tells LP

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IN his parting speech as Prime Minister to the Labour Party conference, Blair administered his kiss of death to Gordon Brown, telling his Chancellor...

Labour MPs being whipped to keep Tories in power!

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer instructed his party’s MPs to abstain in last night’s vote on the Tories’ new Covid regulations tier system, thus ensuring...

Workers must break Fortress Europe with Socialist Revolutions!

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REFUGEE Day, last Wednesday, highlighted the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War with the number forcibly displaced reaching its highest for the...

TORIES FACE WIPE OUT – WHILE LABOUR MPs PLAN EU ELECTIONS COUP!

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WITH THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS fast approaching, the bourgeois democratic system through which the capitalist ruling class has ruled over the working class in the...

Gove calls for parents to scab

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Over the weekend the Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove issued a call for parents to volunteer to break Thursday’s strike by civil servants and...

Bankers dump the dollar and shares and crave for gold!

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THE current heir to the Rothschild banking dynasty, Lord Jacob Rothschild, has pronounced that the game is up, the world’s central banks have shot...

Bank of England warns over £1 trillion of domestic debt

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WITH Coral Eurobet the bookmakers now the most successful British company, with a turnover of £5.4 billion, and with manufacturing industry being slaughtered, no...

‘The war against terror’ – a war that cannot be won!

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IT’S official. The western imperialist states are engaged in a ‘war against terror’, which they have been waging since the Bush-Blair axis was formed...

Now Smash The Bill And Bring Down The Coalition!

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) yesterday carried a 97% vote of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley, with 478 for six against and...

Supermarkets to build schools! End the privatisation nightmare with socialist revolution!

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SUPERMARKET and on-line shopping giants are making a bee-line for our public services, licking their lips at the prospect of multi-million pound profits out...

Massacre of over 800 civilians in Syria by imperialist-supported HTS regime forces

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YESTERDAY it was reported that as many as 1,300 people, including over 800 civilians, were killed in the Syrian cities of Latakia and Tartous...

Trump escalates trade war with China and prepares for a shooting war – only...

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THE TRUMP administration has ratcheted up the confrontation with China with an escalation of its economic trade war, coupled with a provocative military build-up...

Rescue us from Syrian quagmire! US–UK call out to Putin!

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THE US and UK are stuck deep into the Syrian quagmire – a quagmire of their own making. They have achieved a situation where millions...

Pompeo admits US-organised uprising in Venezuela has ‘no popular support’

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US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo had a secret meeting last month with prominent American Jewish leaders in which he spilled the beans on...

Greek students erupt against state controlling universities with riot police

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GREEK students fought a pitched battle with riot police in Athens on Wednesday as the Greek parliament debated new laws to station security personnel...

170,000 workers marched for Palestine last Saturday. Trade unions must call a general...

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THE WHO (World Health Organisation) has joined the United Nations in urging Israel to immediately rescind orders for the imminent invasion of Gaza which...

Withdraw all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan

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THE fact that six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to remain in Afghanistan to support the 4,000 British troops who are being assembled in...

Victory To The Arab Socialist Revolution!

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THE world capitalist crisis is driving forward the working class and poor of the world to carry through the world socialist revolution, and replace...

Poodle Brown can’t say no to Bush

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PRIME MINISTER Brown showed yesterday, at his joint press conference with President Bush, that such is the historic decline and collapse of the power...

Tories have blood on their hands over Channel drownings

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TWENTY-SEVEN people, including a pregnant woman and three children, were drowned attempting to cross the Channel in an inflatable boat on Wednesday – the...
Demonstration in London on January 26 demanding the release of Omar Deghayes and all other detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp

Workers Of The World Unite Against Imperialism

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THE sight of Danish embassies burning in Beirut and Damascus leaves no doubt as to the depth of anger of Muslim people at the...

Simpson-Woodley and Lord Digby Jones are marching for a government subsidised two day week

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WHILE workers today are marching in Birmingham to defend their jobs, their leaders are marching along with Lord Digby Jones, the Tory ex-CBI chief...

US–UK organising Palestinian civil war

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THERE is no doubt that the US and UK ruling classes are hard at work seeking to organise a Palestinian civil war. The object is...

End all immigration control!

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THE death of a 40-year-old woman at Yarl’s Wood on Sunday has once again thrown the spotlight on the privately-run immigration removal centre. According to...

Lobby the TUC on September 7th! Demand it calls a general strike to bring...

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INDIVIDUAL US military personnel assisting the war crimes of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza and the Palestinian West Bank territory could be prosecuted...

Bankers failing to stem capitalism’s chronic crisis

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THE Bank of Japan (BoJ) took emergency measures yesterday in a desperate attempt to rescue the country’s stagnant economy (growth rate 0.4%) and boost...

Backward Britain – Reading shuts Physics Department

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THE backwardness of British capitalism was revealed yesterday for all to see when Reading University shut down its Physics Department. As usual, the reality is...

Austria now Europe’s ‘Lehman Brothers’ nightmare

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A ‘LEHMAN BROTHERS debt crisis’ in the heartland of Europe is how the news that a major Austrian bank collapsed last week was described...

Vote ‘NO’ and organise Greek Socialist Revolution!

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THE Syriza party won the last Greek general election with its declarations that once elected it would put an end to the austerity dictatorship...

Israel attacks Gaza and Abbas cancels visit

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YESTERDAY an Israeli aircraft bombed a building of the Hamas-run Executive Force in Gaza, killing at least one person and injuring about 45 others....

Labour Must Sack Starmer! TUC Must Call General Strike To Support Palestine!

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DESPITE the massive support world-wide and in the UK for the Palestinian masses’ drive to establish their own state on their own historic lands,...

US-Egyptian Coup Under Way In Libya!

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THE drive by General Khalifa Haftat to overthrow the remnants of the Libyan government, and take on and defeat the Al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood...

The lesson of Orgreave is smash the capitalist state!

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THE Independent Police Complaints Commission issued a report on Friday detailing the findings of its two and a half year long inquiry into...

314,000 Sackings In Three Months As Tories And Bosses Blitz Workers’ Jobs!

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THE UK’s unemployment rate has risen to 4.8% in the three months to September, up from 4.5%, as the coronavirus continues to blitz workers’...