Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

The US’ allies in Egypt are at each other’s throats!

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THE bloodbath in Egypt last Wednesday, which saw hundreds of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood cut down in cold blood by the Egyptian army,...

Time For A Ceasefire In Palestine And For Socialist Revolutions In The UK, US...

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CONDEMNATIONS have poured in from countries world-wide after the United States once again vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that demanded an immediate...

Forward with the Egyptian revolution

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HUNDREDS of people are reported to have been killed in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities throughout Egypt, and thousands injured after the army leaders...

Baby deaths & 4-hour trolley waits! Closures of maternity and A&Es are a...

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AN INQUIRY into baby deaths at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust has been broadened into an investigation of hundreds of deaths nationally, Tory...

Tories to prop up Blair over Trident, the shape of things to come

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LARGE numbers of Labour MPs are opposed to Blair’s programme to renew the Trident submarine based, nuclear weapons delivery system. The eventual cost...

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

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

Sack Gove, May and Cameron! TUC must call a general strike to bring down...

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EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove, who has carried forward the privatisation battle against the teaching trade unions, and driven forward the Free School-Academy agenda,...

Murdoch – the police – the government and the state

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THE admission by Met police chief Sir Paul Stephenson, that Murdoch’s News International was paying serving police officers, comes as no shock to those...

Take Action To Stop US-UK-Israel Attack On Iran

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WHAT is being termed as a coalition of trade unions (Unison, the GMB and Amicus), charities and faith groups yesterday warned Tony Blair that...

THE TUC must oppose NATO’s war on Russia and insist it will not stand...

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WORKERS throughout Europe are on the march against NATO’s developing war against Russia and the massive attacks on their living standards that it has...

After Bercow’s attempt to knife Brexit the UK must make a ‘No Deal’ exit...

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SPEAKER Bercow’s ruling, preventing PM May making a third attempt to get her deal with the EU through the House of Commons, was a...

Government forced to revive the NHS Trusts it was bankrupting

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IN the face of the rising anger of junior doctors, nurses, consultants, ancillary workers and patients over the Labour government’s policy of deliberately crashing...

War of words between puppet Karzai and US

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THE Afghan puppet president, Karzai, has gone to Washington and been forced, by rising Afghan anger, to publicly complain about the actions of the...

Bush In Middle East To Organise New War Against Hezbollah

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US President George W Bush has arrived in the Middle East and has vowed to bolster up the Lebanese army and to tackle Hezbollah,...

Putin Defies The Imperialists Diktat And Visits Mariupol Promising To Rapidly Rebuild The City!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has visited Mariupol and vowed that new comfortable residential quarters for the people will continue being constructed in Mariupol in...

Shut down the House of Lords and purge the House of Commons! Leave the...

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THE MAY government avoided a House of Commons defeat for the Brexit Withdrawal Bill last Tuesday by making promises to the leading Tory Remainer,...

Workers Worldwide Must React To Trump’s 48-Hour Nuclear Deadline By Calling General Strikes To...

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SIR KEIR STARMER has been informed by US imperialism's stooge, Israel, that Iran has developed inter-continental ballistic missiles capable of striking London ‘and dozens...

BIS predicts deflation and depression

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LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...

Tax Cuts For The Rich – The Scrap Heap For The Workers

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TWENTY five right wing ruling class economists have worked out the way to revive the dying capitalist economy, and it is, while continuing the...

Cameron Get Out – follow Harper’s lead!

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HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...

Workers must take action to force through the 2016 Referendum decision to leave the...

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BREXIT Secretary Raab announced yesterday that ‘Today, I want to set out the steps we in government and you in business, the public sector...

Woodley And Barber Know No Shame!

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Trade union leaders in Europe have warned that the present ‘spectacular growth’ of the private equity venture capitalist deals is ‘unsustainable’ and ‘stoking up...

Tory-Lib Dem Butchers Outline The Task Ahead

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TORY CHANCELLOR Osborne provided an outline of his £6.2bn of spending cuts for 2010-11 yesterday, with Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laws...

Government Plans Secret Courts!

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A REPORT issued yesterday by the civil rights group Amnesty describes the proposed Justice and Security Bill as being straight out of a Franz...

Miliband’s ‘fight door-to-door’ bombast has no answers for workers and youth

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ED MILIBAND kicked-off Labour’s election campaign yesterday with a speech full of bombast and empty promises, but which has at its core the main...

YELTSIN – the hero of western capitalism, a corrupt and criminal Stalinist

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THE bourgeois media and bourgeois political leaders have made it perfectly clear in the last few days that Boris Yeltsin, the...

Trade Unions Must Act To Secure Nurses’ & Doctors’ Pay Rise!

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PM BORIS JOHNSON has said that there is a ‘moral duty’ to get all children back into schools in England next month. Writing in...

Clashes In Israel While President Biden Fears That Netanyahu Will Address Congress!

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CLASHES have broken out between the Israeli police and anti-regime protesters in Tel Aviv and across the occupied territories, with demonstrators demanding new elections...

Chile erupts as youth and workers take on the military in fight against austerity

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CHILE erupted over the weekend, with mass demonstrations and riots spreading from the capital Santiago to other major cities, as workers and youth rose...

To fight mass unemployment bring down Brown government

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The number of UK unemployed rose by 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, taking the official unemployment rate to 5.7% from...

End the NHS cuts! Reopen the A&Es!

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FINANCIAL pressures could get in the way of the drive to improve care following the Stafford Hospital scandal, experts said yesterday, confirming the obvious,...

Putin Makes An Offer To Africa That The Capitalists Are Incapable Of Making!

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has told a summit of African leaders that Russia will give them tens of thousands of tonnes of grain within...

Nationalise all Industry and Banks – not just Railways

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THE demand for the re-nationalisation of the railways and public transport is becoming unstoppable, as workers and the vast majority of the middle classes...

Smash imperialism to defeat terrorism

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YESTERDAY Home Secretary Reid dismissed the many appeals for a change in British Foreign Policy from a multitude of community and political leaders, who...

Now Act To Defend The NHS!

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THE WITCHHUNT that the Republican Party has organised against President Obama for having the temerity to propose some relatively benign measures to allow...

Build the WRP!

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AT SATURDAY’S march to defend the Welfare State, workers from across the country were clear that action will have to be taken to defend...

Netanyahu rages against genocidal Israeli state being ‘isolated’ and threatened by the mass movement...

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YESTERDAY, the Israeli state deliberately shut down all communication services in Gaza, cutting off approximately 800,000 Palestinians in the Strip from the outside world. This...

Abolish the monarchy – forward to a workers’ republic and socialism!

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DETAILS of the settlement between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre to end her claim that she was forced to have sex with the Duke...

Obama selects his bourgeois team to save US capitalism

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BARACK OBAMA has just been elected by an explosion of popular support and anger that has united the working class and brought the majority...

Video intercept proves UK troops are operating in Ukraine as NATO risks nuclear war...

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THE RELEASE last Friday of a video call between senior German military leaders has caused a massive row within the NATO countries with its...

UK workers must bring down Trump’s Tories to leave the EU and bring in...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has named three of his Tory candidates to replace May as the prime minister of his choice. All three of Trump’s...

Charge G4S With The Mubenga Killing!

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THE THREE G4S guards who unlawfully killed Jimmy Mubenga in 2010 – when he was just 46 years old – using restraint holds as...

Austria now Europe’s ‘Lehman Brothers’ nightmare

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A ‘LEHMAN BROTHERS debt crisis’ in the heartland of Europe is how the news that a major Austrian bank collapsed last week was described...

‘At war’ Obama speaks about taking difficult decisions

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PRESIDENT Obama’s inaugural address was Churchillian in tone, but lacking in concrete content, limiting itself to spelling out that the US ruling class was...

Brexit Moment Of Truth Fast Approaching! The Working Class Must Be Ready To Take...

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YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is...