Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

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...

Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes

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IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...

General Strike To Defend The Cwu! Smash The Union Busters! Defeat Privatisation!

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POSTAL workers are not surprised at the leak which shows that Royal Mail management, with the support of the Brown government, intends to impose...

Working Class In Ukraine Winning Over The Army

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ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...

Tories are bringing in savage anti-union laws to police the working class as they...

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THE GOVERNMENT has announced what it says is one of the biggest bonfires of financial regulations to allow the City of London to rule...

Trump threatens to destroy North Korea and warns Iran, Cuba and Venezuela!

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PRESIDENT TRUMP began his speech at the UN by immediately patting himself on the back, stating that ‘Fortunately, the United States has done...

Unions must take industrial action to defend the NHS

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THE Labour government is continuing to pressurise NHS Trusts to become Foundation Trust businesses, and is continuing to force through the privatisation process. To...

Lobby the TUC Congress on September 9th – demand it calls a...

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THE mass of the UK workers support the heroic national liberation struggle of the Palestinian people for their state of Palestine, and the enormous...

Israel steps up its war to drive Palestinians from their homes!

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SCORES of armed Israeli settlers attacked the homes of Palestinians in the village of Sebastia in the occupied West Bank province of Nablus on...

Students Under Attack–Restore Free State Education!

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THE NUS has just published its Poverty Commission Report which shows how education costs are rising, condemning students to live in poverty and blighting...

Terminal 5 – BA gets ready for its ‘Wapping’

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THE buzz word in the financial media yesterday was ‘Wapping’. The media was referring to the union busting operation carried through by Rupert Murdoch in...

Workers Must Tell Tuc And Starmer ‘Don’t Prop Up Johnson Bring Him Down!’

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IN HIS speech outside Downing Street on Monday PM Johnson made it crystal clear that the Tory Party, presiding over the greatest ever crisis...

UK Police State Must Be Smashed!

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THE detention of a Guardian employee at Heathrow airport for nine hours was unwarranted and unlawful said Amnesty international yesterday. David Michael Miranda – the...

Rajapakse And His Backers Will Not Defeat The Tamil People

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YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...

Israel military in crisis – calls up 60,000 reservists to occupy Gaza City 

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ON MONDAY Hamas reported that the group had agreed terms for a ceasefire plan for Gaza that calls for a 60-day pause in fighting...

Labour trying to hide jobless figures

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WITH unemployment set to go up by at least one million this year, to three million, the government is in a panic. Its panic is...

Labour told British capitalism needs its own ‘Elon Musk’ to avoid disaster

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Last week, The Daily Telegraph newspaper published an article that clearly set out the dangers of a revolutionary upsurge by workers and youth resulting...

May defends capitalism, Corbyn wants it ‘restructured’. It must be overthrown through the socialist...

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‘THE FREE market economy,’ in other words capitalism, ‘is unquestionably the best, and indeed the only sustainable, means of increasing the living standards of...

Cameron preparing more police state measures

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ON Wednesday, a cabinet level task force set up by Cameron last June to consider proposals for new laws aimed at combating ‘extremism’ published...

Capitalist State Tooling Up F0R Civil War

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A SCOTLAND YARD review into the 2010 summer riots ‘Four Days in August’ shows very clearly that the capitalist state in the UK...

Brown Won’t Retreat From Blair Agenda

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PREMIER Blair got his well deserved come-uppance at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, while the co-author of his policies Gordon Brown was welcomed like...

Capitalism plunging into catastrophic banking crash – time to put it out of its...

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LAST Friday the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed and its assets seized by the American Federal Reserve in the biggest banking crash...

Action needed to stop them smashing the NHS

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NHS England warned yesterday that by 2020-21 the gap between the NHS budget and rising costs could reach £30bn, meaning that when the current...

US inspired attack on South Ossetia backfires

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THE correct intervention of the Russian army to defend the people of South Ossetia against the onslaught of the Georgian army has initially been...

Unite Leader Graham Condemns Lammy For Refusing To Support BA Striking Workers

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THE leader of the Unite trade union has hit back at comments by David Lammy MP, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, on Sunday, that he...

A general strike to bring down the Tories is the only programme for victory...

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MICK LYNCH, general secretary of the RMT rail workers union, has denounced Labour leader Keir Starmer for being ‘not on the side of workers’...

The way to peace in the Ukraine is to restore the Soviet Union!

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THE MAYOR of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, has split the Ukrainian leadership over the issue of Russian sovereignty over the Crimea. Rejecting President Zelensky’s refusal to...

Palestinians warn that UK troops on the ground in Gaza under pretext of supporting...

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PALESTINIANS have warned Britain and other Western countries backing the US, against deploying troops on the ground in the besieged Gaza Strip under the...

UK economy speeds into bankruptcy – demand TUC call a general strike to kick...

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THE SPEED of the UK economy crashing into complete bankruptcy is breathtaking, as it leaves the Tory government along with the Bank of England...

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...

RBS bankers joked about destroying the US housing market

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THIS week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a load of emails and transcripts of phone conversations between senior executives of RBS, the...

Syria refuses to give way to imperialism

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THE news that the Obama regime is demanding the complete withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters from Syria marks a decisive development in the increasingly desperate...

Egyptian Revolution Drives Zionism Into Massive Crisis!

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PALESTINIANS are poised to march in their millions on 15th September both inside and outside the occupied territories, and throughout the world, including...

Hands off Palestine Action! Demand TUC call a general strike to bring down Starmer...

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Over 300,000 marched in London on Saturday, in a powerful demonstration of support for a Palestinian state and against the genocidal war being waged...

Tory attack on migrants is an attack on the working class!

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MIGRANT workers who work illegally in England and Wales are to face up to six months in prison under especially vindictive anti-migrant proposals to...

US imperialism preparing war on Iran – workers must stop this war by overthrowing...

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THIS week US imperialism ratcheted up its preparations for an all-out military war against Iran. On Monday, Donald Trump’s national security advisor and warmonger-in-chief John...

Unemployment at 7.7 per cent – food banks facing huge demand

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UK jobless officially fell to 2.49m in the latest government figures, for the three months to August, showing a slight fall of 18,000, not...

What Should Be Done About Gordon Brown

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DAVID Miliband yesterday urged the Labour Party to rally behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is facing mounting opposition in the working class because...

Labour stands by crumbling capitalism to the end

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ON Monday Chancellor Darling opened his pre-budget report with a piece of cheerful idiocy, saying that he was ‘confident that the UK, as an...

Britain Is Aiding US Torture Machine

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer questions yesterday as to whether the United States government operates CIA secret prisons outside of...

Israel is preparing a massive ground attack on Gaza – the TUC must be...

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AFTER 21 days of political paralysis, the US House of Representatives finally elected Mike Johnson, a fervent Donald Trump supporter, as its Speaker. Johnson’s first...

Nati0Nalise Gm Vauxhall And Ellesmere Port!

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VAUXHALL factories at Ellesmere Port and Luton will close if GM’s talks with the Labour government for the Treasury to take over the financing...

Landlords ban DSS tenants! End the housing crisis through putting an end to...

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AT LEAST one in 10 landlords are ‘unlawfully’ advertising their flat for rent by saying that they do not accept tenants on housing benefit,...

British capitalism about ‘to fall off a cliff’ – Lobby the TUC on Monday...

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The Daily Telegraph has in recent months published a number of articles that have questioned not just the continued existence of the Tory government...

Hamas warns that Israel is stepping up its massacres in order to isolate the...

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THE Hamas Movement has described what is happening in northern Gaza and Jabalia as a ‘full-fledged genocide’, expressing its belief that the Israeli ‘Generals’...