Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

We should have been the Thatcherites, Blair tells LP

0
IN his parting speech as Prime Minister to the Labour Party conference, Blair administered his kiss of death to Gordon Brown, telling his Chancellor...

Workers strikes hit the Sarkozy regime

0
FIRST of all the French electorate gave the right wing Sarkozy regime a bloody nose, and now yesterday’s general strike by the public sector...

Hamas Denounces Netanyahu-Pompeo Saudi Mission!

0
PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s secret flight to Saudi Arabia, where he reportedly met with Saudi Crown Prince...

Panic reigns supreme under bankrupt capitalism

0
THE sense of panic and of impending doom is running wild amongst the international banks and the world bourgeoisie as they are forced to...

End Tory benefit and job cuts through socialist revolution

0
YESTERDAY the Tory government was forced to concede that that a further 23,000 tax credit claimants whose benefits had been had been cut by...

Capitalism’s crisis– Socialist revolution, the only solution!

0
THE OFFICIAL annual rate of inflation leapt in February, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Figures published yesterday showed that the Consumer Prices...

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

0
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...

War criminals meet in Brussels

0
THE imperialist criminal states – who supported the war on Iraq in 2003, the Security Council-backed NATO onslaught on Libya in 2011, and then...

US crisis pauses before another leap forward!

0
THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...

Rich 1% ‘Hoovering up’ all the wealth!

0
IN advance of the Tory budget on Wednesday, where chancellor Osborne is due to announce even more savage austerity cuts, the charity Oxfam has...

The UK workers movement and the TUC must give their immediate and decisive support...

0
YAHYA Sinwar, the political leader of the Hamas Movement, has written to Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, the head of the Ansar Allah Movement, conveying his profound...

Sanders takes lead as US workers and youth rise up against capitalist crisis

0
THE US independent ‘democratic socialist’ Senator Bernie Sanders has become front-runner for the Democratic Party nomination to stand against Trump in the presidential election...

Smash the plan for war against Russia! End threat of imperialist war by ...

0
WITH capitalism gripped by a deepening worldwide crisis the British ruling class have pushed themselves forward as the most zealous warmongers doing the bidding...

UK planning for war right across the Mediterranean!

0
THE imperialist powers are now working overtime to explode the Mediterranean region, from Libya to Turkey, into one huge raging fire. The UN Security Council...

FBU must fight against a Police Commissioner controlled ‘Fire Service’

0
THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...

Two-day Greek General Strike – time for all-out indefinite action!

0
LAST week the two main Greek trade union organisations representing workers in the public and private sector called a two-day general strike starting today...

World capitalism is in its death agony – forward with the world socialist revolution

0
YESTERDAY’S ‘solution’ to the economic crisis of Cyprus is simply the decision of the EU bankers and the IMF to completely bankrupt the country...

Scrap the regional fire control centres!

0
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...

Boycott the EU elections and force a break with the EU through a revolutionary...

0
BOTH the sheer bankruptcy of British capitalism and the impotence of Tory Prime Minister Theresa May were on public display on Wednesday night as...

UK trade unions must fight PM Johnson’s decision to oppose Israel going before the...

0
PALESTINE has called upon the international community as well as signatories to the Geneva Conventions to take on their responsibilities concerning protection of Palestinian...

US-UK Beat War Drums Over The Ukraine – Workers Must Get Ready For General...

0
THE United States, and its NATO allies, with the UK in the lead, and the right wing Ukrainian regime out in front are daily...

Israel’s NSO’s Pegasus Project hacks the phones of over 50,000 people worldwide

0
A DETAILED investigation carried out by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based non-profit media organisation, the human rights group Amnesty International and world media organisations has...

Workers have the right to self defence against terrorism & capitalism

0
SIX hundred new armed officers are being  trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring  the...

QC accuses Tories of ‘unbridled passion for deregulation’ and cover up over Grenfell Tower

0
THE PUBLIC inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, that claimed 72 lives in June 2017, entered its second phase yesterday to examine how the...

May threatens internment, more secret police powers, plus Syrian intervention to fight terror!

0
ON SUNDAY morning, not long after the latest terrorist attack, PM May, in her statement following the Cobra Security Committee meeting, expressed her indignation...

TUC must back railworkers, and postal workers and call a general strike to bring...

0
THE EMERGENCY anti-union regulations, passed in the House of Commons by 289 votes to 202 on Monday night, are set to be used to...
TGWU official OLIVER RICHARDSON being confronted by Gate Gourmet pickets yesterday morning who want their jobs back

TGWU leaders and TUC committed to 675 Gate Gourmet redundancies

0
YESTERDAY morning Gate Gourmet strikers were dismissing and rubbishing the letters that they have been receiving from the company. These offered them a minimum pittance...

The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Stop Israel’s Mass Murder!

0
AN international human rights organisation says Israel is pressing ahead with a ‘systematic policy of targeting civilians’ in the Gaza Strip, including bombardment of...

Household debt £300bn! Council evictions soar! Bring capitalism down!

0
HOUSEHOLD debt in UK is worse than at any time on record a new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. Credit cards,...

Major warns Johnson of the fate of Charles I as fear of revolution grips...

0
IN AN interview yesterday morning ex-Tory prime minister John Major stated that he would personally take Boris Johnson to court if he attempts to...

American revolution will replace the failed American dream

0
UAW car workers President Ron Gettelfinger last Thursday lifted the lid just a little on the lives of tens of millions of US workers,...

Bank of England is damned by House of Lords committee for not bringing down...

0
WHEN Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Chancellor Jeremy Hunt boasted last week that they were responsible for bringing down the official inflation...

UK Must Not Appoint New EU Commissioner – Time To Quit The EU Without...

0
THE EU HAS begun its legal action against the UK to attempt to force it to either appoint a new UK EU Commissioner, or...

Assad the main enemy, not IS say the US, France and the UK!

0
ON Tuesday morning in New York President Putin said that determining the fate of Syria should be in the hands of the Syrians,...

Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU

0
THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...

Brown pledges 150 private NHS hospitals and self treatment by 15 million ‘expert patients’

0
GORDON Brown made clear yesterday that his intention was to continue with the Blairite NHS counter-revolution. The message was that there were ‘no no-go...

Take action to smash the ‘rigged’ capitalist system!

0
ON Saturday the Daily Telegraph disclosed to the world – ‘that moderate Labour MPs are plotting to undermine Mr Corbyn by staging resignations...

Workers of the world unite in the struggle for socialism!

0
THE UK authorities issued National Insurance numbers to 713,000 overseas workers in the year to April 2007. The WRP and the News Line are pleased...

Now Organise The General Strike!

0
SATURDAY’S mass marches in London, Glasgow and Belfast were marches to bring down the coalition, regardless of the intentions of their TUC organisers who...

Bailing out banks and sacking public sector workers splits the unions

0
THE UNISON and Unite trade unions have split. The former has formed an alliance with the EU public sector trade unions ver.di and CGIL and...

300,000 march on Downing Street for Palestine. TUC must call a general strike for...

0
THE Palestinian factions are standing fast! They have said that they will not sign any agreement or deal unless the people’s demands are achieved,...

Corbyn comes out for a second referendum to sell-out Brexit

0
YESTERDAY Jeremy Corbyn launched the Labour Party manifesto for the upcoming elections to the EU parliament: ‘Transforming Britain and Europe: for the many not...

Imperialists step up war preparations against Iran

0
A report from the director of US national intelligence, James Clapper, issued last Tuesday signalled that imperialism’s war preparations against Iran have reached the...

Afghan crisis – more combat troops to be sent

0
THE British government’s Defence Secretary, Des Browne, said yesterday that he would be making a statement to the House of Commons as soon as...

Netanyahu in secret talks with Obama

0
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and United States President Barack Obama held two sessions of secret talks at the White House yesterday, lasting a...