Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Britain’s household debt time-bomb

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DESPITE all the propaganda pumped out by Osborne in his budget speech last week, about UK capitalism ‘walking tall’ and well on the way...

When The Victim Becomes The Criminal

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STUDENT Alfie Meadows, who underwent an emergency brain operation after his head was broken by a police truncheon, when he was kettled during a...

US closes Yemen embassy

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THE US emphasised that it had gone to war on the territory of the Yemen yesterday, by closing its embassy in the Yemeni...

Trump boasts that stock markets have gained $6 trillion since his election!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday outlined his new national security strategy. He stressed: ‘When the American people speak, all of us should...

3,000 new settler homes planned! Trade unions must take action to end Israeli...

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ISRAEL has approved more than 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank. Settlers have spent the last weeks engaging in a reign of...

Tories face ‘historic defeat’ in elections – forward to kicking them out and bringing...

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THE TORIES face a ‘historic defeat’ in Thursday’s local elections, with a top Tory polling expert predicting they are on course to lose over...

Union leaders are fiddling while the NHS burns! General Strike now to win...

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THE BURNING issue of NHS workers’ pay is so explosive that the Tories left it to the very last day that Parliament sits before...

Crisis Of Capitalism Reaches The Point Of Explosion! Socialist Revolution Is The Only...

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EUROPEAN leaders are set to meet today for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine. They are frightened that Russia and the USA...

Victory to Syria! Defeat imperialist war drive with world socialist revolution!

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THE DEATHS of dozens of civilians including young children in Syrian town Khan Sheikhoun has been seized on by imperialism as a weapon to...

Homelessness is growing like a plague – Nationalise the banks and the building industry...

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THE homelessness rate across England is at its highest since 2018, after Tory government policies have forced a record number of families to live...

Banking ‘reforms’ won’t stop them collapsing

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Yesterday in parliament the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, announced that the coalition government intended to accept ‘in full’ the proposals on reforming the banks...

You Can’t Reform The Capitalist State – It Must Be Overthrown!

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NEVILLE LAWRENCE, the father of Stephen Lawrence, the teenager who was murdered by a racist gang in 1993, said yesterday that he was very...

Tory policies to defund and privatise the NHS responsible for Shrewsbury maternity disaster!

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THE INDEPENDENT Ockenden inquiry into maternity provisions at the Shrewsbury NHS Trust has revealed a horrific catalogue of failures contributing to the deaths of...

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...

Massacre of over 800 civilians in Syria by imperialist-supported HTS regime forces

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YESTERDAY it was reported that as many as 1,300 people, including over 800 civilians, were killed in the Syrian cities of Latakia and Tartous...

A victory for the ‘March 15’ revolutionary youth

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THE force of the Arab revolution, sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East, yesterday won a new victory when the campaign of the...

Israel launches ground attack on Gaza City as UN inquiry finds Israeli State officially...

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YESTERDAY, the Israeli Zionist state started its ground attack on Gaza City following weeks of heavy bombardment that has reduced it to rubble accompanied...

Ashdown – Not Wanted In Afghanistan

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FOLLOWING the recent expulsion by the Afghan puppet government of two British diplomats – they were carrying out secret negotiations with the Taleban in...

Supreme Court votes for EU again, as Labour demands a ‘meaningful vote’ to frustrate...

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AS EXPECTED, the Supreme Court has ruled against the government’s appeal, challenging its previous verdict that Parliament must vote on whether the government can...

Gaza – Israeli soldiers admit killing Palestinians without restrictions, out of ‘boredom’!

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THE Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Wednesday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into recent confessions by Israeli soldiers...

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...

Trade unions must take action to stop A&E closures!

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IN an attempt to shift the blame for the crisis in the NHS away from the massive cuts inflicted on it by the Tory-led...

Backstabber Starmer Is Splitting Labour. He Wants To Be Part Of A Tory-Led...

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JEREMY Corbyn will not be a Labour candidate at the next general election, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has said. Corbyn the former...

US Fed emergency rate cut fails to halt crash – only socialist revolution can...

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FOR THE second time in less than two weeks the US Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to near zero on Sunday, a desperate last...

Coalition Will Not Be Shifted Away From NHS Privatisation

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THE Coalition’s ‘blueprint’ for the privatisation of the NHS has suffered a set-back when it became clear last week that even supporters of privatisation...

Boots Joins The NHS Privatisation Drive

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CHEMIST giant Boots wants to breach the NHS system by bringing GPs and consultants into its stores as part of an alleged drive to...

Trade unions must take action NOW to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange!

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, the man who dared to expose imperialist war crimes, must be immediately released from Belmarsh high security prison where he...

Bank Of England Dumps The Pound To Make The Working Class Pay For The...

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THE Bank of England on Tuesday insisted that it was dumping the pound and would proceed with its decision to stop supporting the bond...

Bankrupt Democrats unable to smash Trump – US trade unions must break with them...

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THE US presidential election is on a knife edge as Donald Trump confounded all the polls that predicted a landslide for his Democratic Party...

Labour manifesto – a recipe for selling off the NHS and the Welfare State!

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THEY say that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and Gordon Brown proved the point yesterday when he began his forward to...

Bourgeois Lunacy At Rbs

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YESTERDAY the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history of £24.1bn, made up of a £7.9bn trading...

Oil giants make huge profits – nationalise oil and energy industries now!

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WHILE workers face skyrocketing energy bills forcing millions to go without heat this winter the giant oil and gas company Shell has announced annual...

Biden Leads The Charge For Russian Regime Change!

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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden made his first annual State of the Union Address late Tuesday night, opening with an attack on Russia that was...

All Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action To Support The Occupation Of...

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HARLAND AND WOLFF shipyard has been occupied by the workforce to prevent its closure. However on Monday, the unions involved revealed that staff had already...

SOUTH AFRICA: Legacy of the revolution betrayed

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THE fighting in Johannesburg and its surrounding black townships, over the past week – with more than 23 people being killed, pitched battles with...

Mikhail Gorbachev – Stalinist hero of imperialism, loathed and reviled by working class!

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Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR, died in Moscow aged 91 on Tuesday. His death was greeted with an outpouring of fulsome tributes and...

New Axis Of Evil Threatens War With Syria!

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THE new axis of evil, the leaders of the US, France and the UK, have come together to threaten Syria with war, with US...

Answer Labour’s war on benefits with a general strike to kick them out and...

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Labour yesterday unveiled its much trailed ‘Get Britain Working’ plan, hailed by Starmer’s government as the  ‘biggest employment reforms in a generation’, to drive...

Workers must apply ‘French tactics’ against a parliament that is trying to steal Brexit!

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BRITISH parliamentary democracy was exposed as nothing more than a chaotic and rapidly collapsing sham on Tuesday when, for the first time in history,...

New head of IMF warns $19 trillion debt time bomb will crash world economy

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THE NEWLY-appointed head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued the starkest warning yet that world capitalism is on the point of...

Hamas Insists On The Right Of Self Defence Against Israeli Zionist Gangsters!

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has categorically rejected UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who labelled and condemned the revolutionary resistance of the Palestinian people against...
Teachers marching in Athens last month

Irish Trade Unions Put The Tuc To Shame

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LAST Friday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a 100,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin, with demonstrations in many other Irish cities and...

Tories Will Have The Power ‘To Censor The Internet’ To Silence Opposition To Imperialist...

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THE TORY government is attempting to assume the absolute power to censor the internet as part of its new Online Safety Bill – a...

Labour told British capitalism needs its own ‘Elon Musk’ to avoid disaster

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Last week, The Daily Telegraph newspaper published an article that clearly set out the dangers of a revolutionary upsurge by workers and youth resulting...

Labour To Slash The Benefits Of The Sick And The ‘Suspect’

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The Labour government is absolutely determined to impress its big business backers and show them that it is ready to take action against ‘slackers’...