Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Truss government is in a huge crisis. Make the TUC call a general strike...

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THE Tory Party is now in Conference and in the biggest crisis in its history, after its ‘mini budget’ caned the poor and the...

Italy ‘Ungovernable’

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THE bourgeoisie of Europe woke up on Tuesday morning to discover, to their horror, headlines proclaiming that the third largest economy in Europe had...

Tories boost their navy in the Gulf, part of a ‘Maritime Coalition’ against Iran!...

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TORY foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to ‘reverse cuts to the size of the Royal Navy’ if he becomes prime minister. Hunt has...

Hunt Plans To Force The Disabled To Work – Time To Bring Down The...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Budget speech yesterday in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up to a...

The British army enters politics, and won’t tolerate a non-nuclear UK!

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YESTERDAY saw General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the Chief of the Defence Staff openly entering politics and fighting for Tory Party policy, telling SKY TV...

Blair Gang In Disarray After Pm Fails To Vote

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YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair was insisting that he can push through his right wing capitalist ‘reform programme’ despite suffering a double defeat at the...

Japan Boosts Its Military Spending!

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WHILE the US and the UK have reduced their military spending, under pressure from the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system, the new...

PLO US office victory – Now forward to the independent state of Palestine

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THE TRUMP administration performed an abrupt U-turn last week when it reversed a decision made just the week before to close the diplomatic mission...

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...

FBU anger mounting – strike action on the way!

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FIREFIGHTERS risk their lives every time they are called out. They never know what they are going to have to tackle, and often do...

Workers must welcome all refugees and fight alongside them to get rid of capitalism!

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THE FRENCH government is to raze the Calais refugee camp to the ground ‘within days’, forcibly removing every man, woman and child. After six months...

The BoE and Brown gamble with workers wages jobs, homes and pensions

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THE Bank of England yesterday launched its government-backed scheme to allow the major banks to swap their dodgy mortgages for UK Treasury Bonds, in...

THE BANK looks to inflation to pauperise the workers and Middle Class

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THE pound fell sharply on Wednesday against both the dollar and the euro as the money markets were shaken to the core by 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...

Bankrupt British capitalism – down but not yet out! Forward to socialist revolution!

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FEARS over the alleged ‘fiddling’ of government debt figures by Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of Wednesday’s budget panicked the money markets yesterday as interest...

Israeli Army Rehearsing The Taking Of Gaza City!

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BESIEGED GAZA is under a heavy non-stop Israeli siege and onslaught. The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has warned Israel of ‘dangerous consequences’ as the...

Answer Royal Mail’s war on trade unions with a general strike

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THE POSTAL workers union, CWU, is now in a headlong collision with a Royal Mail management openly moving to destroy the union as an...

Israeli Police Cancel Settlers March! Trade Unions Must Take Action Now To Establish Palestinian...

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ISRAELI police yesterday cancelled tomorrow’s annual massive settlers’ march through Jerusalem. The march celebrates the occupation of the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967 and...

No Sackings! Re–Nationalise Steel Industry!

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STEEL firm Corus, a subsidiary of India’s Tata Steel cut 3,500 jobs yesterday, 2,500 in the UK out of its 24,000 employees here. ...

The BBC supports starving the people of Gaza

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THE BBC is part of the British capitalist state whose job it is to look after the interests of the ruling class. It has...

Sunak, Hunt declare war on the UK working class and the masses of Palestine!

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THE British ruling class, for all of its threats against the working class, the youth and the masses of Palestine, is on the run! Its...

Call Day Of Action To Defend The NHS

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A BLOC of twelve trade unions have joined together to campaign against the Labour government’s health service ‘reforms’, that is the Brown-Blair programme for...

The UK Army Drive To Recruit Youth Is Stepped Up As The Crisis Of...

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THE BRITISH armed forces, especially the army, are making a big turn to recruit youth, with military colleges springing up everywhere. More than one-in-10 new...

Hamas & Fatah agree to Palestinian elections to form government to defeat Zionism and...

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A NEW unity between all Palestinian factions against the common enemy – Israel and the US – is rapidly developing. The leadership of the...

Defend the Royal Mail – Form a public sector alliance – Bring down the...

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FOLLOWING the publication of the coalition’s Postal Services Bill, Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, said: ‘The government has wasted no time in flogging...

Lesson of the Shrewsbury Appeal victory and Mittings inquiry – capitalist state must...

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ON WEDNESDAY the leaders of 12 of the largest and most prominent trade unions issued a letter demanding immediate action to ensure transparency in...

Defend Public Services through a general strike

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ON THE day that MPs were voting on going to war once again in the Middle East, a very senior civil servant made it...

Build millions of council houses to solve housing crisis

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PUBLIC sector workers such as firefighters, teachers, and nurses, cannot afford to buy homes in seven out of 10 UK towns, because of the...

Household Debt Now At £1.47 Trillion!

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HOUSEHOLD debt has grown for the 26th consecutive month, reaching £1.47 trillion according to the Radical Centre for Social Justice (RCSJ). Household debt has soared...

Students Will Fight For A Future

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UP to 100,000 students marched through London yesterday to protest against £9,000-a-year tuition fees, and the way that the Tory-LibDem coalition is turning back...

Balls Agrees With The Tories!

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THE Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, engaged in a nauseating charade on Wednesday of verbally attacking his Tory opposite number whilst at the same...

Congress Must Sack O’Grady And Mobilise To Bring Down The Tories!

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THE ‘leader’ of the Trade Union Congress, Frances O’Grady yesterday stabbed millions of workers in the back when she declared on The Andrew Marr...

Mubarak regime offers 15 per cent rise in pay and pensions!

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WORKERS and youth in Cairo held mass demonstrations yesterday following the release of the detained Google executive and facebook radical Wael Ghonim. The demonstrators in...

Birmingham bin workers deliver blow to Labour government wage-cutting – time to build a...

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The overwhelming vote by 400 Birmingham bin workers on Monday to reject a pay cutting offer from their employer was a decisive blow against...

TUC must call a general strike to defend Palestinians and support the State of...

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THERE is no doubt that the recent massive demonstrations where hundreds of thousands of UK youth marched, with many chanting for a State of...

US-UK in a stampede to quit Afghanistan!

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IN the light of President Obama’s determination to quit Afghanistan, and his acknowledgement that the US has been talking to the Taleban, the UK’s...

Hands Off Syria – Forward to World Revolution

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THE imperialist military alliance, NATO, meets today at the request of Turkey which will be invoking Article 4 of its treaty which covers threats...

Time for the working class to bury British capitalism

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Sir Gus O’Donnell, the most senior civil servant in the country, has broken cover with the public admission that the crisis of the capitalist...

Capitalism has reached the end of the road – it’s time for a...

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THE economic and political crisis gripping capitalism is causing despair and despondency amongst the bourgeoisie and its media representatives at the highest levels. This week,...

UK workers must support the Hamas call for action against genocide!

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in a statement on Wednesday, called on the ‘free people of the world to escalate popular protest’ against the...

Tories declare war on trade unions – defend the right to strike with a...

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TODAY’S Queen’s speech includes plans by the Tories to make all-out strikes by rail unions and other transport workers illegal. Tory transport secretary Grant Shapps...

Union leaders in Brown’s top pocket

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The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure leapt from 4.7% in August to 5.2% in December, with the Retail Prices Index (RPI), which includes the...

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...

The Israelis are bombing Palestine and killing thousands. The TUC must call a...

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ISRAEL’S air force has delivered strikes on some 60 Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the press office of...

Stop All Arms Supplies To Israel – Impose Worldwide Trade Boycott

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HAMAS has accused Israel of violating the temporary ceasefire on Tuesday. It’s spokesman Moussa Abu Marzouq said on Wednesday that Israel ‘ended the truce...