Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Disband the police and go forward to a Workers State and Socialism!

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TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced another government ‘initiative’ this week, this time ordering the police to ‘crackdown on crime’. The very idea that the...

Slump ‘deepening at an alarming pace’

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THE British Chambers of Commerce yesterday published its Fourth Quarter Economic Survey of nearly 6,000 businesses. It highlights what it called ‘a...

Police to be ‘reformed’ along RUC lines

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SIR Ronald Flanagan, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary in England and Wales, and the senior police adviser to the Home Secretary, will publish a...

Eurozone on top of revolutionary volcano

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JUST when the eurozone bankers and capitalist class were congratulating themselves on beating the  reformist Syriza government of Greece into submission, an even bigger...

Gm And Magna Reach Agreement In Principle

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GENERAL Motors and Magna and its Russian partner Sberbank (which includes the Gaz carmaker) have reached an agreement in principle over the contract...

Obama attempts to con Irish workers

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FOR the second time in two weeks Irish workers and youth have been subjected to a powerful imperialist propaganda assault designed to shore up...

Make the TUC demonstration on June 18 a mobilisation for a general strike to...

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THE TUC has called a national demonstration to London’s Parliament Square on Saturday 18th June. Announcing the demonstration the TUC said: ‘On Saturday 18th June,...

British trade unions must take action to support Palestinians

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PALESTINIAN doctors reported on Wednesday evening that five Palestinians, including a child and a woman, were killed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside their  caravan at Heathrow yesterday

Pakistan PM forced to condemn US raid

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THE Pakistani Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, yesterday spelt out that Pakistan cannot accept actions like the recent US cross-border air strike on a village...

Tory Party in meltdown – force TUC to call a general strike to kick...

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TO DESCRIBE the forced decision by Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to abandon his plans to end the 45% top rate of income tax to...

NHSTogether must organise strike action to defend GPs!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown’s government is targeting General Practitioners (GPs) in its rush to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). Two key barriers to a...

Energy bills will force millions into abject poverty – socialist revolution only way forward!

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OVER one-in-eight UK households live in fear that they can’t make any further cuts to spending to pay the massive increase in energy bills...

Support the Shell-HOYER tanker workers!

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IN the last few weeks we have seen the road hauliers take to the streets against the massive increases in petrol and diesel prices...

Cameron and May want to squash basic rights and freedom of speech!

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TORY PM CAMERON has just reprimanded the people of the UK for being ‘over tolerant’ of extremism, signalling that his regime is so unstable...

EU is breaking up! Euro & banks are set to crash. Smash the EU...

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TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond, speaking about the Brexit crisis from the World Economic Forum in Davos, said yesterday: ‘It is absolutely clear that if...

Salafist Provocateurs Playing Israel’s Game!

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A SALAFIST group yesterday claimed responsibility for a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip towards the Israeli town of Ashkelon on Saturday night, as...

Scrap the regional fire control centres!

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THE House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee report on the government’s plan, to replace 46 Fire Control centres with nine new...

PFI, Foundation Trusts and £20bn of Tory cuts are preparing NHS closures & privatisation

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FIGURES publicised by Labour’s shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, have shown that one third of England’s hospitals have been completely full at some time...

Shias And Sunnis Must Form Revolutionary Government In Iraq

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THE Kurdistan Region intelligence chief, Lahur Jangi, has said that according to his estimates there were 400 to 450 British nationals in the ranks...

Universal Credit cannot be reformed – it must be scrapped through mass strike action...

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MORE than 1.2 million people are on Universal Credit, while more than 100 new Jobcentres will be operating it by Christmas. Universal Credit is...

University applications are plummeting! Call General Strike to scrap all uni fees, restore grants...

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SOARING university tuition fees, rents in student halls being hiked up, the complete removal of the student grant and the spiralling cost of living...

Kenyan explosion rooted in land theft and the capitalist crisis

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KENYA has been convulsed for nearly a week by an uprising of the poor and the landless who have been absolutely pauperised by the...

The workers of the world must now come to the aid of the Palestinian...

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‘OUR right to self-determination is inalienable. It is not tied to a timeframe’, Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Thursday said...

Duncan Smith – Coalition Slave Master

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THE Coalition’s Duncan Smith, an ex-army officer, is proposing to discipline the unemployed with forced slave labour, as part of the Coalition’s plan to...

NATO is being broken apart by imperialist rivalries – a Labour government must quit...

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YESTERDAY the two-day summit of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) opened in London to celebrate 70 years of this imperialist war machine. Trump joined the...

BofE house price warning!

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SIR Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, is a very worried man – with good reason. What is keeping him awake...

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH – TUC MUST ORGANISE GENERAL STRIKE for FEBRUARY 1!

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YESTERDAY’S mass picket lines outside NHS hospitals are a direct result of the fact that the Tory government is insulting workers and will not...

Billionaire steps in to bail out the Labour Party

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LAKSHMI Mittal, the Indian-born billionaire has donated £2m to the Labour Party, it was revealed yesterday. The fifth richest man in the world, who owns...

Pope Arrives To Organise Counter-Revolutionaries

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THE visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI has only one aim, to make a pact with the British ruling class, to help strengthen...

Reid rants against foreigners ‘stealing our benefits’

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YESTERDAY Home Secretary John Reid showed that patriotism is indeed the last refuge of a scoundrel when he attacked foreigners for ‘stealing our benefits’....

Wages still being slashed by price rises!

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THE CPI rate of inflation fell to 1.5% in the year to May 2014, down from 1.8% in April, according to the Office of...

Defend every job, occupy to stop closures, and nationalise the major industries

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics produced figures showing the record breaking numbers of unemployed and the record breaking growth of unemployment. UK unemployment...

Trump Leaps Into War With Syria – Where He Leads, The UK Ruling Class...

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PRESIDENT Trump in his televised statement on Thursday night insisted that launching a 59-strong cruise missile attack on Syria was ‘in the national security...

Doctors, NHS staff & nurses are gearing up for pay strike action! All trade...

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MONDAY is the anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service (July 5th 1948) and Johnson’s Tories have marked the event by refusing...

Grenfell crisis – many millions are living in unsafe buildings eight years after the...

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NEW research has found that 136 firefighters who were exposed to toxic smoke at Grenfell are now suffering from occupational diseases. 1 in 4...

Obama hosts Afghanistan and Pakistan war summit

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ON THE eve of a meeting between US President Barack Obama, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari in...

Obama Warning For Russia And China

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PRESIDENT Obama’s State of the Union message saw the ‘lame-duck’ president, into the last period of his rule, seeking to convince US workers that...

Out with Hunt, out with the rotten coalition!

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LABOUR is to demand a parliamentary vote over Culture Secretary Hunt’s breaching of the ministerial code, by refusing to take responsibility for the actions...

Gaza Residents Are Hit By Aid Strike!

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THERE has been a very bitter winter in Palestine especially in the war ravaged Gaza Strip where tens of thousands of Gazans’ homes were...

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...

A new war on Gaza is ‘not far away’ and will be ‘the bloodiest...

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A NEW war between Israel and Palestinian factions in the occupied Gaza Strip ‘is not far away’, and ‘will be deadlier and more destructive...

With stockmarkets crashing it is time to smash capitalism and go forward to world...

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AMID world stock markets crashing, and the head of the IMF revealing she has ‘sleepless nights’ over the dangerous risks of collapses in the...

While NHS workers scrabble for PPE Tories pay £1 million a day to keep...

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A MASSIVE mountain of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is currently sitting on Felixstowe docks while frontline healthcare workers are still being forced to work...

Parliament Is Up To Its Neck In Sleaze – It Must Be Closed Down...

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EX-TORY MP Owen Paterson has been a paid consultant for clinical diagnostics company Randox since 2015, and for meat distributor Lynn’s Country Foods since...

UK carriers are ready to be deployed against the Houthis. UK workers must kick...

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THE UK’s aircraft carriers are ready to be deployed to fight the Houthis, and to threaten war with the Iranian revolution, was the message...