Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Capitalist Debt Crisis Demands A Socialist Revolution!

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THE deepening world capitalist crisis is poised to see entire nation states defaulting, plunging their banks into an even more desperate crisis, deepening the...

Global debt crisis threatens to bring down governments, the Bank for International Settlements warns....

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THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week issued a warning that governments across the world are at risk of imploding unless they deal...

Don’t vote to bomb Syria! Victory to Assad – forward to Palestine!

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IN August 2013, MPs rejected by 285-272 votes UK military intervention by the Cameron government to bomb President Bashar al-Assad’s government out of power,...

TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers

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THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...

Workers Must Take Action To Put An End To Capitalism

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THE TIME is here when workers must respond to the growing chorus from the professional servants of the bourgeoisie for savage, and even more...

Capitalist State Is Preparing For Seven-Day Blackouts In UK!

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THE UK CAPITALIST STATE is currently engaged in a war on two fronts. The first is to aid the right wing Ukrainian regime with hundreds...
Alessandro Pereira outside Downing Street after presenting a letter to Blair

Put police death squad chiefs on trial for murder

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DOCUMENTS leaked from the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) show that on July 21, a young Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, was shot seven...

Imperialist drive to war with Russia takes leap forward

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THE war preparations by the imperialist nations against Russia took a giant leap forward this week with NATO and non-NATO troops massed in north-western...

Working class must call general strikes to force implementation of UN resolution on Gaza...

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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members on Monday finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the genocidal war being waged...

Police demand sources for Dowler leak

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THE Metropolitan police are seeking a court order to force Guardian journalists to reveal their sources for the information that Milly Dowler’s ...

EU slumps while UK inflation rises!

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THE eurozone economy shrank in the third quarter from April to June by 0.2%, with France having a third consecutive quarter of no growth...

Trump seeks to blame China as he orders US workers back to work

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is seeking a scapegoat for the inevitable deaths of millions of people following a forced return to work while the...

No To Propping Up Backward Capitalism – Overthrow It With Socialist Revolutions

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BOTH Washington and London were yesterday involved in a desperate race against the clock. Labour let it be known, Sunday mid morning, that it will...

Demagogue Brown ‘names and shames’ the public sector

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THE PCS trade union yesterday accused the bankers’ Prime Minister, Gordon Brown of ‘beginning a bidding war on who can cut the most.’ The...

The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general strike to kick...

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LIZ Truss appeared outside 10 Downing Street at 1.30pm yesterday to announce that she was resigning following a meeting with the Chairman of the...

Anti-Russian campaign of the US and UK ruling classes leads to the assassination of...

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THE assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, on Monday by an ex-policeman Mevlut Altintas – who was sacked after the failure...

World Dollar Debt Crisis!

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YET another authoritative report detailing the developing world banking crisis has surfaced – a report which if shorn of its dry academic language paints...

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...

Trade unions need their own political representation

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AMID the media frenzy surrounding the publication of former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s autobiography, A Journey, ballot papers were sent out for the Labour...

Afghanistan – A Graveyard For Imperialist Adventurers

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THE debacle of the rigged Afghan elections, held under the guns of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, is just a reflection of an even...

US workers taking the revolutionary road

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THE Baltimore protests over the police killing of 25-year-old African-American Freddie Gray have spread all over the USA. Gray died of a spinal cord...

Brown and unions summoned to rescue Tories from oblivion!

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SO dire is the Tory crisis over the EU referendum that Cameron and pro-EU Tories have been forced to ‘step-back’ from the leadership of...

Haiti one year on – hungry masses live in tents, under threat from cholera...

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ALMOST one year after the Haitian earthquake that made millions homeless, the working class and the poor of Haiti are still suffering. They are still...

Airbus Workers Take To The Streets!

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STRIKES and protest marches are taking place at Airbus plants in France and Germany for a third day after it was announced that over...

Havoc In The Eurozone!

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THE noose strangling the entire capitalist economy of Europe tightened round the neck of Germany yesterday with the news that the powerful Asian investment...

Free the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ volunteers! Organise an armada to break the Gaza blockade!Forward to...

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NINETEEN members of the six ship ‘Freedom Flotilla’ were yesterday murdered by Israeli special forces in a major war crime, and a larger...

Eight Out Of Ten Academy Schools Are In Deficit!

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ACADEMY school budgets are in a desperate state with eight out of 10 in deficit, say their accountants. ‘Two more years like this and...

Russia tells Ukraine – pay the market rate

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THE Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that ‘Russia has begun implementing a scenario intended to destabilise the Ukrainian economy’, adding that this was ‘despite...

NHS held to ransom by Cyber terrorists – Hunt must resign and the...

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ON FRIDAY afternoon a terrorist cyber attack was launched on the NHS in England and Scotland that brought it to a standstill in many...

TUC must be made to call a general strike to put an end to...

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THE International Monetary Fund has openly condemned the UK government over its tax cuts that handed billions to the rich, warning that the measures...

Israeli Fury At Palestinian Unity!

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PALESTINIAN president, Mahmud Abbas, and Hamas leader, Khaled Mishaal, yesterday signed the Palestinian Unity Agreement in Cairo, putting an end to the split in...

Putin defies Trump – Time to Build 4th International – Forward with World Socialist...

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THE peace talks between Russia and the Western powers represented by Donald Trump have hit the buffers with an almighty bang after Russia refused...

Trump’s ‘war on two fronts’ against ‘millions of illegal immigrants’ at home...

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THE US military is sending an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East as it builds up war tensions to try to intimidate Iran...

Unions Must Be Made To Take Action To Defend Steel Industry Jobs And Pensions!

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THE TORY government is on the brink of a savage attack on Tata Steel workers’ pensions, and after four weeks of consultation will be...

Hamas Pledges That Assassinations Will Not Succeed In Breaking Its Will!

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THE Hamas Movement has affirmed that the assassinations carried out by Israel against resistance leaders ‘will not succeed in breaking its will or extinguishing...

Post Office scandal piles pressure on all main political parties

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On Monday, the House of Commons was treated to the sight of MPs from all the political parties united in an orchestrated show of...

Capitalism about to bounce over the edge of the precipice!

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IN THE week that Boris Johnson boasted that the lifting of coronavirus lockdown measures heralded the start of the economic ‘bounce back’, it became...

Imperialist illusions of reshaping the Middle East are shattered – forward to the world...

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Wednesday hailed the ceasefire agreement forced on the Israeli regime, saying that it has shattered prime minister Benjamin...

US Threatens North Korea With War

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‘WE are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea, we are not going to accept it,’ US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher...

Truss And The Bosses Declare War On The Workers While Leading Labourites Seek To...

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PM TRUSS, with her new team in place after clearing out the discredited Johnson gang, is now seeking to save British capitalism from its...

Obama, Cameron Sign Up For War In Syria

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US President Barack Obama has signed a covert, secret order authorising the CIA and other US state agencies to support the Syrian counter-revolutionaries, the...

Osborne’s ‘city states’ are part of the break-up of British capitalism

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OSBORNE’S plans for English cities to have mayors and combined authorities with powers over housing, health care, transport, planning and policing mean that London,...

Murdoch’s Poodle Hunt Gets Health Privatisation Job

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HEALTH Secretary Andrew Lansley has been demoted to the role of Leader of the House of Commons. This is after his health goose was cooked...

China is not the enemy – the enemy is at home – forward to...

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THE CHINESE People’s REPUBLIC is now the number one enemy for US imperialism and its UK ‘running dog’. The war is on all fronts,...

Chagos Islanders are determined to return to their homes!

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NEXT week the British government will be hauled kicking and screaming before judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague over...