Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Ex–Blairite Short Reveals Blair Coup Against Cabinet

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CLARE SHORT, one-time International Development Minister, revealed to the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday just how Blair, with the aid of Goldsmith, deceived the Cabinet and...

PCS strike – No compromise with Tories possible. A general strike to kick them...

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OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...

State Repression Of Youth Being Intensified

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THE CRISIS of the capitalist system has led to huge attacks on working class and middle class youth who are daily being told in...

Karzai dashes to bring Taleban into the government

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WHILE hundreds of Afghan civilians are being killed in General Petraeus’ Afghan surge, and British and US casualties escalate upwards despite the ‘victories’ being...

BA workers reject wage cuts! Renationalise BA Now!

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A MASS meeting of more than 3,000 British Airways cabin crew workers yesterday threw out by a massive majority the airline’s plans to slash...

Stock markets crash as capitalism drives into recession – Socialist revolution only way forward

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THE CRASH on the global stock markets carried on yesterday as the world financial markets reeled from the shock realisation that the once mighty...

Not a very British revolution – just another attempt at a bourgeois coup

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THAT an ex-SAS officer from the 1970s, with current military-police commissioner connections through his succession of security businesses, as well as ‘strong connections to...

UK, US and EU workers must organise the World Socialist Revolution!

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HIGHWAYMAN Trump has spelt it out that a 10% tariff is to be imposed on all UK goods sent to the USA from Britain...

French workers press forward as Stalinists retreat

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MASS meetings of rail and transport workers were voting in France yesterday to continue their strike actions in defence of pensions. The RATP...

‘Prime Minister’ Brown shows the City he is their man

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Gushing Gordon Brown began his speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet on Wednesday night, by exhibiting his fawning subservience to the audience of bankers....

British imperialism stretched to breaking point – forward to the socialist revolution

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JUST a week after Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured President George W Bush, that he had fallen into line with the requirements of the...

British Ruling Class Preparing For A Nuclear War To Defend Capitalism

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THE bankrupt British ruling class is preparing to expand its ‘nuclear deterrent’ by buying a squadron of American jet fighters that have the capacity...

Over 100,000 could die because of fuel poverty in capitalist Britain

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OVER 100,000 people in Britain could literally freeze to death over the next 25 years because they are too poor to afford to adequately...

Corbyn must demand a general election at once!

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AS THE Tory and Labour Party crises deepen, the Bank of England yesterday announced that the outlook for UK financial stability is ‘challenging’. Bank of...

After the Peace Prize – let battle commence!

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AT the same moment as France and Germany were being given a Nobel prize for keeping the peace in Europe, ie not going to...

Bush, Blair, Obama, And Cameron Are The War Criminals!

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THAT the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants against Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, his son and his brother-in-law, on...

Full Support For The Ukrainian Workers!

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GUNFIRE erupted Sunday morning at a checkpoint, established by workers on the outskirts of the city of Slavyansk in Eastern Ukraine. In the skirmishing, one...

Capitalist collapse continues while Brown vows ‘to save the system’

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YESTERDAY two major banks had to be nationalised to prevent a run on the UK and EU banking system. They were the Bradford and...

Abolish The House Of Lords – And The Commons As Well

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WEDNESDAY’S vote in the House of Commons when there was a 113 majority for the replacement of the House of Lords by an elected...

Tory-led House of Commons Committee slaps down Cameron over Syria!

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THE Government has received another slap in the face for its plan to cement relations with the US by pushing a resolution through...

Tories defy court ruling and keep asylum seekers detained at Napier Barracks

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IT HAS been confirmed that the Home Office is determined to keep the dilapidated and dangerous Napier Barracks open for a further four years. The...

Iraqi resistance forces Maliki to back down

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AS Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s 72-hour amnesty deadline for militia fighters in Basra to hand over their weapons ran out yesterday, this leader of...

Truss Must Go And The Tory Government And Her Cronies With Her!

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Monday’s Daily Telegraph had in its editorial an early celebration of a PM Truss ‘victory’ in getting her Tory party to accept the abolition...

There Must Be Action To Halt Royal Mail And NHS Privatisation

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THE Royal Mail faces privatisation this summer after the passage of the Postal Services Bill through parliament yesterday after its third reading. The legislation will...

No support for imperialist war in Syria – forward with world socialist revolution

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TODAY, the House of Commons is to engage in an emergency debate on Britain joining the US bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria. In this...

End the legal thievery of the super-rich with expropriation and a socialist revolution!

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THE SECRET hidden world of the mega rich, giant corporations, hedge funds, politicians, heads of State and the Queen has had the spotlight thrown...

Corporations and businesses face bankruptcy across UK & Europe as loan defaults double in...

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A WAVE of companies across the UK and the rest of Europe will be forced into bankruptcy as new figures show that the default...

Children subjected to horrific pain and torture techniques. End UK state brutality with a...

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CHILDREN locked up in the UK are subjected to horrific pain, inhuman and degrading treatment, cruel restraining techniques and solitary confinement, a damning report...

Zionist pogrom against Palestinians – TUC must be forced to call a general...

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THE invasion of the West Bank city of Jenin by 2,000 Israeli troops backed up by drone and air strikes has so far killed...

BBC publicly expresses ‘desperate concern’ for journalists in Gaza being starved to death

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THE BBC, along with three leading news agencies, has issued a statement expressing their concern for journalists in Gaza who are facing starvation and...

The Great Pension Robbery – Contributions have tripled! This government must go! Call...

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MILLIONS of workers, as of yesterday, have been hit for six. The amount that comes out of their wages in pension contributions now...

Crisis Forces Osborne To Re-Write His Budget!

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LAST November 25th in his Autumn Statement Chancellor Osborne was full of praise for the way that allegedly the UK was now full set...

China shocked by US plans for massive new tariffs!

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THE CHINESE government has said that it is ‘shocked’ after the US government announced plans for massive new tariffs, escalating the trade war between...

President Trump Panics – And Pledges To Send In The Nuclear Submarines!

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TRUMP’S declaration that he is sending two nuclear submarines into ‘appropriate regions’ to threaten Russia, has made public that he is preparing for the...

World Crisis Driving Capitalism Into Wars And Revolutions – Time To Carry Out The...

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WITH the US, EU and the UK capitalist economies and regimes in a growing and desperate economic and political crisis, the imperialist powers are...

Israel still seeking to grab the Gaza Strip and the occupied territories

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ISRAEL continues to declare that northern Gaza is out of bounds for the Palestinian people, while at the same time the Israeli army and...

Join the YS lobby of the TUC on September 11 to call a general...

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THE GRENFELL Tower disaster was a turning point for the working class where the callous and ruthless nature of the ruling class was exposed...

Tory war on refugees is a class issue for the working class

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IN THEIR latest attack on refugees the Tories are preparing to use nets to disable boats and dinghies attempting the dangerous Channel crossing. This tactic...

Patients & staff paying price of £1bn NHS under-spend

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LABOUR ministers are boasting that the projected £983m under-spend in the National Health Service are evidence that it has regained its ‘financial footing’. Health Secretary...

US and Israel step up the war against the Palestinian masses!

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PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi, on Monday, condemned the decision of the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation to strip the High Court of...

Eu Bosses Strangle Greek Democracy!

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MERKEL, Sarkozy and Cameron are all united on one central issue, the Greek workers must not have the slightest ‘democratic’ say over the draconian...

Meet Tory payback time for working class with a general strike to kick them...

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THE END of September is ‘payback time’ for the working class as far as the Tories are concerned. This is when all the debt incurred...

Inflation Out Of Control, Rate Rise On The Way

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INFLATION is on the rise with the CPI rate increasing from 3.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent, while the RPI rate rose from...

Teachers At War With The Government!

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THE two biggest teachers unions have begun their annual conferences, where they will challenge the government over pay, Ofsted inspections and England’s Academies and...

Treasury Secretary’s insistence that America will not run out of cash only increases fears that...

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ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, felt compelled to appear on a US news channel to insist to the public...