Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

US–UK organising a long and bloody war in Afghanistan/Pakistan

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THERE are currently more than 70,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan under Nato command. The Obama administration plans to send in an additional 21,000 troops. 12,000...

Charles pushes confrontation with Russia

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PRINCE Charles’s comparison of President Putin with Hitler, and Putin’s actions in the Ukraine as comparable with Hitler’s treatment of the peoples of...

Time To Destroy The Anti-Union Laws With A General Strike And A Socialist Revolution!

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THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...

Israeli Murder Machine Continues Operations Despite Phony ‘Peace Plan!’

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at...

‘Wrong body’ insult confirms racist state

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Just one week after a demonstration in London by the United Families and Friends Campaign against deaths in police custody has come the shocking...

EU using rubber bullets and stun grenades against refugees!

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AT the Idomeni crossing from Greece into Macedonia refugees are clashing with Macedonian soldiers and police, as they try to reopen the border near...

Imperialists Getting Their Fingers Badly Burned In Ukraine As Bread Prices Rise Worldwide

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THE front page of yesterday’s Daily Telegraph carried an article headlined ‘Vladimir Putin “weaponising” world’s food supplies.’ This story of the dastardly Putin being responsible...

Forward to the State of Palestine! The UK trade unions must call a...

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday issued a statement on the occasion of the ‘International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People’, stressing that the...

US to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist movement

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THE US yesterday raised tensions considerably between itself and Iran by declaring that the main body of armed men maintained by the Iranian...

The crisis savages the workers while the rich double their wealth

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THE total wealth of the richest 1,000 individuals and families in Britain has more than doubled in the last 10 years to £547bn, the...

Imperialists declare war on Libya – by permission of the Russian and Chinese...

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THE vote by the United Nations security council to impose and police a no-fly zone over Libya is a declaration of war by imperialism...

Unemployment is soaring! Defending the ‘right to work’ means getting rid of capitalism!

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UNEMPLOYMENT is set to soar to levels not seen since The Great Depression, the ‘Hungry 1930s’, when workers starved. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...

Capitalism Is In Its Greatest Ever Crisis – Forward To The General Strike And...

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THE SAME British capitalism that has been egging on the Ukraine to start World War III by attacking Russia is now shivering with fear...

Justice – Just Another Bourgeois Commodity For Sale

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THE Coalition’s ‘Justice Secretary’ Chris Grayling plans to make further savage cuts in the £2bn legal aid bill in England and Wales, to...

Imperialism responsible for Libyan detention centre bombing atrocity

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THE BOMBING of a detention centre holding 600 refugees in the Libyan capital Tripoli last Wednesday killed at least 44 people and wounded over...

Students and universities under savage coalition attack

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IN ORDER that the universities can have their budgets slashed and be privatised or closed, students are to be charged up to £9,000 a...

Tories go from class war at home to war preparations abroad!

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THE Tory class war at home means permanent austerity for the working class, with anti-union laws brought in to further chain up trade unions,...

Blairites back-off and concede to Brown

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OH how the mighty have fallen. It was not so long ago that Blairites were queuing up to challenge Gordon Brown for the premiership....

Tories prepare for perfect storm of anger from workers – General strike now to...

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AS THE annual conference of the TUC, this year conducted on-line, opens, the GMB union released analysis of official data showing that 100,000 care...

The TUC must answer Hunt’s declaration of a vicious war on workers with a...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement has been derided for its claims to represent a way out of the economic crisis strangling British capitalism,...

A bankers budget from a bankers government

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DESPITE all the government statements against leaking government information before it is to go before the House of Commons, the Treasury was at it...

Brown’s worthless apology for imperialist child trafficking

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FOR centuries British capitalism has sought to export its surplus populations and its trouble makers to the rest of the world. Rebellious trade unionists such...

National Guard ‘armed, locked and loaded’ in New Orleans

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LOUISIANA State Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin have deployed 300 heavily-armed National Guard troops and 60 state police on the streets of...

Labour Must Sack Starmer! TUC Must Call General Strike To Support Palestine!

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DESPITE the massive support world-wide and in the UK for the Palestinian masses’ drive to establish their own state on their own historic lands,...

Tories plan poverty and austerity for workers to bail out bankrupt capitalism!

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LAST week, the outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, bluntly warned that the rapid increase in inflation would make the...

Johnson’s answer to recession – sell off social housing!

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TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared in Blackpool yesterday to deliver what was billed as his great ‘reset speech’, to shore up his leadership...

US privateers are already taking over NHS services!

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THE ENDLESSLY repeated slogan that ‘The NHS is Not for Sale’ is completely empty in the face of the fact that US companies and...

World economy on brink of collapse

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THE capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step over the brink into the abyss of collapse with the news that the euro debt...

May Government In Its Death Agony – Labour Must Act To Bring Tory Government...

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PM MAY is battling for her survival and the survival of her government with the big bosses and bankers desperate to prevent her fall...

Savage Israeli occupation lashes out at Palestinians!

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THE Fatah movement in southern Hebron declared a day of mourning on Wednesday after a 17-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces who had...

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...

Bank of England splits over measures required to keep British capitalism afloat!

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ON WEDNESDAY the Adam Smith Institute admonished the Bank of England as ‘worse than useless’, and warned: ‘There is already a major crisis...

Trade Unions Must Take Action Alongside The Junior Doctors!

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TODAY’S strike by junior doctors has the support of 100% of workers across the country. They are not fooled by all the Tory propaganda that...

End Tory benefit and job cuts through socialist revolution

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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...

GMB condemns Sedgefield council house privatisation

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THE GMB Annual Congress has condemned the decision of the Labour government to privatise the council house stock in Prime Minister Blair’s own constituency,...

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...

Shares crashing as oil nears $100 a barrel

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THE US dollar is reeling against the euro. The US sub-mortgage crisis is deepening, with housing starts down by 10 per cent in September, while...

Meet Tory payback time for working class with a general strike to kick them...

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THE END of September is ‘payback time’ for the working class as far as the Tories are concerned. This is when all the debt incurred...

Zionist Friedman appointed US ambassador to Israel!

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BY appointing David Friedman as the US ambassador to Israel, President Trump has unceremoniously stomped on any remaining illusions that he will restore genuine...

EU on brink of economic collapse

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THE CONTINUED economic collapse of the EU was highlighted yesterday when it was officially acknowledged that Italy, the third largest economy in Europe, has...

Tory Austerity forces parents to rely on baby banks for essentials – time to...

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IN LAST year’s autumn budget Tory chancellor Philip Hammond claimed that ‘austerity is coming to an end’ in Britain. Hammond’s claim backed up Theresa May’s...

Turkish crisis strengthens the Syrian people and President Assad

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SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that the Turkish president Erdogan may be using the ‘coup attempt’ in Turkey to eliminate his opponents...

British capitalism is bust, time to put it out of its misery

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FOR THE first time a comprehensive analysis of the economic and social impact of the war waged by the Tory government under Margaret Thatcher...

France on the brink as government imposes anti-union laws!

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THE French Socialist government’s cabinet has opted for a dictatorship over the working class by agreeing to force through its anti-trade union legislation, invoking...

Imperialism planning new crimes in Syria

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The UN mission in Libya has just voiced its ‘deep concern’ over the daily and murderous violence in Libya, where innocent people are now...