Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

No Respite From The Capitalist Crisis!

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IT is one of the features of the capitalist crisis that it proceeds not in a straight line but through a downward spiral movement...

Defend state education – defeat academies drive

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TEACHERS at Copland School in Wembley, who took part in their fifth one day strike against being forced into academy status yesterday, must be...

Civil Rights lawyers closed down by Tories

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THE law firm that has spent ten years representing the Iraqi victims of the brutal imperialist invasion of their country and the subsequent occupation...

Starmer declares Labour now under ‘new management’ of the bosses – unions must...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer yesterday threw down the gauntlet to the trade union movement when his office announced that ‘Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is...

Stop children and immigrants being used as ‘cash cows’

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EVIDENCE is emerging about the extent to which the Tory policy of creating a ‘hostile climate’ for immigrant workers is being used by the...
A thousand nurses from all over the country attended Thursday’s lobby of parliament organised by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot to defend jobs

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LAST May, MG Rover was closed without a struggle. Last month the closure of Peugeot was announced and this week we have been told...

Capitalism being torn to shreds by coronavirus – forward to world socialist revolution

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CORONAVIRUS sent the world’s stock markets crashing when they opened yesterday morning, with £100 billion wiped off the value of London’s top listed companies. Leading...

Governor of BoE blames workers for inflation – Only a sliding scale of wages...

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WITH INFLATION in the UK running at over 7% and gas and electricity bills shooting up by 54%, millions of workers face being driven...

Obama champions murdering Americans abroad!

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OBAMA, in his speech on Thursday at Fort McNair, presented himself as a president eager to end the foreign wars of the USA, and...

The British ruling class embraces a corpse

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MARGARET Thatcher was ignored by the bourgeoisie for 23 years after she was put out of office by the Tory leadership in 1990. This...

UK steel industry collapse – occupy to defend jobs, nationalise the steel industry

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THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...

Universal Credit can’t be fixed: Abolish it along with the Tories!

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THE TORY government suffered a defeat in the courts this week when the court of appeal dismissed a challenge by the Department for Work...

Trade Unions Must Answer The Hamas Call By Taking General Strike Action...

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HAMAS has called for a worldwide mobilisation against the genocide and mass starvation in Gaza, urging people everywhere to take to the streets on...

Blair And Cameron – Tweedleedum And Tweedledee!

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YESTERDAY the new leader of the Tory Party, David Cameron publicly disowned the Tory Party manifesto, written for the last general election, just seven...

Moroccan Lawyers Demand Cancellation Of Israel Normalisation Deal!

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MOROCCAN lawyers have severely censured the Rabat government over its recent agreement to normalise relations with Israel, and are demanding an immediate reversal of...

Please help us – Hague appeals to Russia & China!

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SPEAKING at the Royal United Services Institute on Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Hague reported that: ‘On January 16th, a terrorist group linked to Al...

NO WAGE OR JOB CUTS! Unions must call a general strike for a sliding...

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IN THE last 48-hours energy bills have risen by over 50%. The pensioners triple lock guarantee has been smashed. Students repayments on their loans...

Obama Prepared To Bomb Syria!

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US President Barack Obama outlined his long-awaited ‘strategy’ on Wednesday night to ‘degrade and ultimately destroy’ the Islamist group ISIL that has established an...

Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!

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THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...

World crisis spurring on world revolution

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THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has forecast that there is a bumpy road ahead for both the national and the...

Starmer calls for ‘coalition of the willing’ as world capitalism tears itself apart 

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer addressed Parliament yesterday reporting on the emergency defence summit of European leaders he’d convened in London at the weekend. This...

Re-nationalise the water companies

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The Guardian paper has published an exclusive report that revealed that Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water company, diverted cash meant to clean up...

US & UK bosses supply, train, and equip the Saudi killing machine! UK trade...

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SAUDI journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who lived for years in the US, walked into the Saudi embassy in Turkey over a week ago, and did...

After April 24: Defeat pay cuts with an extended general strike!

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TENS of thousands of teachers, college lecturers and civil servants are striking today against government-imposed pay cuts. As a result of the action by the...

Don’t stop at the House of Lords! Abolish Parliament and go forward to a...

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ON Wednesday night, a spokesman for the Tory government delivered a blunt message to the House of Lords that they either accepted Brexit or...

Abolish Fees, Restore Grants And Free State Education For All

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A REVIEW of university student fees in England has been launched by Business Secretary Mandelson. The object of the review is to increase, perhaps...

Supermarkets to build schools! End the privatisation nightmare with socialist revolution!

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SUPERMARKET and on-line shopping giants are making a bee-line for our public services, licking their lips at the prospect of multi-million pound profits out...

Miliband’s Labour saves Cameron government

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ON MONDAY evening, Labour Party leader Miliband completely betrayed the interests of the working class, the youth and the majority of the middle class...

Drive Out Zero-Hours Contracts

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FIGURES released last Wednesday purport to show the UK unemployment rate for the three months to September fell to 7.4% from 7.6% – a...

Tory legislation to save capitalism through bringing in a police state

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THE TORIES set out their plans to get the collapsing British capitalist economy ‘back on track’ in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech marking the opening of...

Army Leaks Anti-Iraq War Propaganda

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THE leaking of a Ministry of Defence poll commissioned by senior British army officers has acted as an antidote to the fatuous pro-war propaganda...

Johnson’s Visit To Sweden And Finland Is To Expand The War Against Russia!

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PM BORIS Johnson is visiting Sweden and Finland to expand the war in Ukraine, and specifically to urge both nations to join the NATO...

Smash Imperialism To Get Rid Of Nuclear Weapons!

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WORLD leaders at the Washington summit on nuclear security have heard the direst warnings yet from President Obama of the danger of nuclear...

US healthcare privateer to head NHS England!

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WITH the appointment of Simon Stevens as the new head of NHS England, the Tory-led coalition have put in charge of the day-to-day running...

Bank of England poised to raise interest rate as inflation spirals out of control!

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THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has issued the starkest warning that the UK economy faces a massive inflationary spiral and...

‘Terror attacks’ strengthen the capitalist state

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THE failed terror attacks on Park Lane and Glasgow Airport far from being a huge blow against British imperialism will in fact be welcomed...

Greek working class delivers blow to EU capitalism

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THE victory of Syriza in the Greek election represents a huge blow by the Greek working class against European capitalism. Syriza, the coalition of the...

Israel extends Wall to grab Jerusalem

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THE Israeli Cabinet decided last Sunday to extend the route of the Zionists’ illegal ‘Security Wall’ to grab a large chunk of Palestinian East...

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

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

Answer Osborne’s £25bn cuts with general strike

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IN A speech last November, Cameron declared a permanent ‘austerity war’ against the working class, singling out the unemployed and young people as the...

Special treatment for the servants of the Murdoch empire!

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YESTERDAY, the convicted News of the World journalists who had carried out ‘industrial scale’ hacking on behalf of Murdoch’s News International received lenient sentences. At...

Head teachers up in arms – schools being cut to the bone! All-out strike...

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MORE than 7,000 heads have written a joint letter to 3.5 million families warning of the acute funding crisis in schools. The heads insist...

Kick out union leaders who collaborate with Tories – build the revolutionary leadership in...

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THIS WEEK Unison, the largest public sector union in the country, issued a statement declaring that it ‘stands ready’ to work with the Tory...

The Workers Of The World do Support Palestine – Now Is The Time...

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TENS of thousands marched through central London on Saturday reiterating their calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, for the UK to stop arming...

UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...

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LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...