Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Only one answer to mass unemployment – Socialist Revolution

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WHILE firms and businesses are closing down as furlough ends and millions of workers are being thrown out of work, the Tories launched their...

Austerity and Universal Credit to continue!

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TORY chancellor Philip Hammond made a climb down in his budget speech yesterday to Theresa May, but there was no climb down over continuing...

Kick the Tories out on June 8th – Labour must scrap STP mass...

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JONATHAN Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, has responded to reports in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) by warning: ‘With 48 hours to go until...

High Court rules Tory laws on use of agency workers to break strikes is...

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THE Tories suffered a setback yesterday in their drive to legalise strike breaking when the High Court ruled that its agency worker regulations are...

It’s still austerity, more austerity and yet more austerity from Osborne and the Tories

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The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2014, compared to 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the...

Britain Must Stop Arming Saudi Feudalists!

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MPs on the House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls have urged in a draft report that the UK government stop selling arms...

Revolutionary generation will lead British socialist revolution

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LAST Sunday’s News Line Anniversary meeting, which greeted the Young Socialists’ March for Jobs and Free Education, was a historic moment in the history...

Rice Raised The Issue Of Saddam Immediately After The Twin Towers Were Attacked

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SUCH WAS the fawning support, given by Tony Blair to President George Bush, that Christopher Meyer, the ex-UK ambassador to the United States, was...

Junior doctors will vote to reject rotten Hunt-BMA deal!

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THE BMA leadership have allowed themselves to be taken for a ride by Health Secretary Hunt! The government that imposed provocation after provocation onto the...

Capitalism on the brink of destroying humanity – World Socialist Revolution is the only...

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CAPITALISM has dived into the abyss of a world crisis that threatens not simply trade wars but world wars on a scale never seen...

McCluskey and the ideologically-driven Tory cuts

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WRITING in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper the general secretary elect of Unite, Len McClusky, was forced to use the dread words ‘general strike’ in the...

French elections open up struggle for socialist revolution

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THE RESULT of the French Presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron, winning with 65.5% of the vote beating the...

Imperialists and their puppets defeated in Aleppo – Now forward to the Palestinian state!

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ON Tuesday evening there was dancing in the streets of Aleppo as residents celebrated the defeat of the Islamist factions that had been armed,...

Bankrupt Britain must take the revolutionary road – Make the TUC call a general...

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THE leader of Birmingham City Council has apologised to the people of the city and insisted he had ‘no prior notice’ or knowledge of...

Netanyahu rages against genocidal Israeli state being ‘isolated’ and threatened by the mass movement...

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YESTERDAY, the Israeli state deliberately shut down all communication services in Gaza, cutting off approximately 800,000 Palestinians in the Strip from the outside world. This...

Gates and Rice go calling on Putin

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin threatened on Friday in talks with top US administration officials, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates,...

Bosses threaten share crash if Tories are removed from office!

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AS the hysterical Tory media begin to run out of scare stories about Labour Party leader Miliband, the essence of the situation is asserting...

Trade Unions Must Dump Starmer And Labour’s Right Wing And Call A General Strike...

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THE general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey has responded to Labour’s massive council election defeats and its disastrous loss in the Hartlepool...

Socialist revolution only solution to capitalist crisis

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer returned from holiday at the weekend to announce his new ‘robust’ plan to freeze the cap on electricity and gas...

US launches its anti-Iran naval coalition in Gulf! Workers of US & UK rise...

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THE US has launched its naval coalition of anti-Iranian forces seeking to police the Persian Gulf. The anti-Iran coalition includes Australia, Bahrain, the UK,...

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...

Jail those responsible for Grenfell Tower inferno! Join the million march to kick the...

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SEVENTY six people are still unaccounted for after the Grenfell Tower inferno, police confirmed yesterday and also that criminal proceedings have begun to investigate...

Only answer to capitalist crisis – build WRP and sections of 4th International to...

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THE CRISIS in the Tory party sharpened over the weekend, as the requirement to dump the economic collapse of British capitalism onto the backs...

NHS not living with Covid but dying from it

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‘THE GOVERNMENT must be honest about the threat the pandemic still poses,’ the editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Health Service Journal...

TUC must call a general strike to stop US-UK war criminals

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THE UK ruling class, alongside its US masters, is getting ready to attack Syria in a matter of hours. It is to be struck with...

King urinates on the green shoots of recovery

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‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...

King Abdullah Of Jordan Calls For Immediate End To Israeli Aggression!

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KING Abdullah II of Jordan warned yesterday against the catastrophic repercussions of the ongoing Israeli destruction of Gaza, emphasising the urgent need to address...

US pilots confronted Boeing over safety before Ethiopia crash and were ignored!

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SECRET recordings have revealed that the American pilots union confronted US aircraft manufacturer Boeing about the safety of their bestselling 737 Max 8 plane...

Tuc Congress Must Demand All British Troops Out Of Afghanistan!

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WITH ten British troops killed in Helmand province so that just hundreds of people could vote – and after five per cent turned out...

The Chagos Islanders Must Be Returned To Their Homes

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YESTERDAY the Court of Appeal ruled that the Blair government had carried out an Abuse of Power when it overruled the assurance given by...

ECB interest rate cut is last throw of the dice. Forward with European socialist...

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ON Thursday afternoon Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced that the bank has cut its benchmark interest rate from 0.5%...

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...

China, Russia Vote For Security Council Savage Sanctions Against North Korea

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THE UN Security Council last Friday unanimously adopted a new set of draconian US-proposed sanctions against North Korea to further strangle its energy supplies...

EU leaders installing a Greek puppet government

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A SUMMIT of all European Union members planned yesterday was cancelled to allow the Eurozone Finance Ministers to resume their talks held to ...

End privatisation – dump the big business donors

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THE selling of peerages is an old tradition in England that goes well back before the days of Lloyd George. He had an established...

For-profit university bust! End all fees, restore grants, drive private business out of education!...

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AN EXTREMELY controversial for-profit college has gone bust leaving staff and students stranded, prompting unions to demand that the privatisation of education be stopped...

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....

Time to put an end to the institutionally corrupt and racist police force ...

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THE LONG independent report into the murder of 37-year-old private detective Daniel Morgan in south London in 1987 was finally published on Tuesday and...

Hague Beats The War Drums Against Syria

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YESTERDAY saw the spectacle of Foreign Secretary Hague complaining that every Jihadist on the planet was heading for Syria, after both he and his...

Nationalise The Banks To Resolve The Capitalist Crisis

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MORE than $170 billion (£87 billion) has been wiped off the balance sheets of companies worldwide as a result of the collapse of the...

It’s a sick society, not a ‘sick-note culture’ – as Cameron insults the unemployed

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A ‘UNIVERSAL Credit’ is to be introduced in 2013, to replace all existing benefits. Cameron’s Welfare Bill includes sanctions for those turning down jobs...

Two State Solution Was A Trap For Palestinians

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ISRAEL’S tactic in the ongoing ‘peace talks’ with the Palestine National Authority has been to carry on stalling, for the last ten years, agreeing...

Smash all fees – build a new leadership in the NUS!

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TODAY will see the second wave of student anger against the Tory government’s decision to treble tuition fees from around £3,000 to £9,000 a...

US raid on the Yemen kills 57 as Trump prepares for war with Iran

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US FORCES at dawn yesterday carried out a series of ground and air raids against a village in the Yemeni province of Bayda, killing...

Unions Must Take Strike Action To Stop ‘Son Of Star Wars’

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THE real content of the ‘war against terror’ (a tool for promoting imperialist interests and for grabbing the world’s resources) has been proven with...