Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

French workers press forward as Stalinists retreat

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MASS meetings of rail and transport workers were voting in France yesterday to continue their strike actions in defence of pensions. The RATP...

Britain, Germany, Spain And The US Poised On The Brink Of Recession

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THE European Commission stated yesterday that the UK, Germany and Spain, key members of the EU, with Germany being the world’s biggest exporter, are...

Royal Navy warship sent to the Med to force refugee boats back to Libya!

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YESTERDAY, David Cameron formally announced that the Tory government would be sending a Royal Navy warship to the coast of Libya as part of...

Putin Moves To Reassure Western ‘Partners!’

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WITH the shelling and bombing of eastern Ukraine still taking place, and with tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in southern Russia, President Vladimir...

Arrest the criminals and charge them for the murder of every man, woman and...

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‘71 DEAD. And still no arrests? How come?’ read three large billboards on trucks demanding justice following the Grenfell Tower fire. They were...

Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ comes a huge cropper!

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BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...

Postal workers want indefinite strike action NOW!

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CWU members have voted, in a 67 per cent turnout, a much bigger turnout than in a British general election, for strike action, with...

Gaza children face death from starvation – the UK trade unions must act to...

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has renewed its warning of an imminent humanitarian disaster in the enclave due to the...

Hamas Condemns Arab States Joining NATO Anti-Russian War Manoeuvres!

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HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement which recently fought a successful 11 day war with Israel against its occupation of Palestine, has condemned the participation...

Unions Must Fight Savage Bbc Job Cuts

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THE BBC backed up by the Brown government is set to ride roughshod over its workforce pushing through 2,700 job cuts, with up...

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...

Russian Military Chief Warns Don’t Attack Iran

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AN Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that the Iranian government hopes that the International Atomic Energy Agency will produce an unbiased report on...

No amount of pressure will force the Tories to even talk about pay –...

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TENS of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers across England walked out yesterday at the start of two days of strike action. Members of the...

Forward With The Cuban Revolution!

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THE death of Fidel Castro, the leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution sees millions of Cubans mourning their leader who secured the independence of...

Occupy to stop NHS closures! Bring down Coalition to defend the NHS!

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THE Tory Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, announced yesterday that, following the legal period required for consultation, he was implementing the threat made last month...

TUC must take the lead in the establishment of the state of Palestine by...

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MASSIVE Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah ‘are not the end of the story’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared – after Israeli jets bombed...
‘Young Reapers’ – mowing down the ‘CPE’ first job contract

Blair’s policies split Labour and aid the Tories

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‘IT’S wrong that Downing Street thinks it can run the Labour Party: we are an elected party, a democratic party,’ said the Labour Party...

Imperialist Crisis Deepens In The Middle East!

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PALESTINIANS are demanding that the US-sponsored ‘peace talks’ with Israel are called off after Israeli troops murdered three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,...

‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war

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THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...

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,...

Imperialism Playing With Syrian Fire

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SYRIA’S Ba’athist leader Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western action against his country will cause an ‘earthquake’ that will ‘burn the whole region’, and...

Lobby the TUC on 27 April to demand they take action to support the...

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THE lobby of the TUC general council meeting tomorrow is crucial for the fight, not just in defence of the junior doctors, but to...

Build The Revolutionary Leadership Amongst Youth And Workers Worldwide

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THE development of the world capitalist crisis is now affecting every section of the working class and the poor in every part of the...

Blair’s decisive moment of NHS transition

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LABOUR’S re-spun campaign to close local Accident and Emergency Departments, and entire District General Hospitals, in favour of Regional Centres of Excellence got under...

Action Needed Now Over Housing Crisis!

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HOMELESSNESS among households in England has risen by 54 per cent since 2010 – rising annually every year – shows the latest report by...
Kentish Town FBU chairman Ben Sprung (centre) was among the many trade unionists who joined the Gate Gourmet  locked-out workers six months anniversary picket last Friday

Overthrow British capitalism to end imperialist atrocities

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THE brutalising, maiming, beating and even killing of the ‘subject peoples’ by imperialist troops is part and parcel of the imperialist system and tradition,...

Chinese Stalinists Feeling The Anger Of The Masses

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THIS week, as part of the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party, the party general secretary and China’s president, Ho...

Mursi supports imperialist drive to overthrow Assad!

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PRESIDENT MURSI caused a Syrian walk-out at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Tehran yesterday when he attacked the Syrian government and supported the...

Egyptian Revolution Set To Leap Forward

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THE Egyptian revolution moved into a decisive stage yesterday with the announcement by the election committee overseeing the recent final run-off  for president that...

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...

GMB, Unison and Unite refuse to call action to bring down coalition

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‘WORKING people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life.’ This is the...

Socialist revolution is the only way to smash capitalist police state!

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ON TUESDAY, the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, US president Joe Biden met with Floyd family members. The meeting...

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...

‘Great democracies’ rule out free Palestinian elections

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EVERY time Bush and Blair speak, they trumpet their championing of democracy against the corrupt dictatorships that they say exist everywhere outside their...

Tories are planning a state of emergency so as to ban all strikes!

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AT prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Rishi Sunak told MPs that he was planning ‘tough’ legislation to outlaw strikes completely. However, the right wing press...

French revolution – spreading throughout Europe

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FRANCE has been shaken for the past six months by an eruption of anger by the education trade unions and by student and school...

Working class will refuse to pay the bill for the huge historic crisis of...

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CHANCELLOR Hunt, and Prime Minister Sunak are set to dump the whole historic crisis of out-of-date and senile British capitalism onto the backs of...

Royal Mail getting ready for New Year war!

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BRENDAN Barber has won another battle honour from the employers. His first was at Gate Gourmet, which publicly congratulated him on its website for the...

UN Security Council passes resolution to put Trump in supreme control of Gaza

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ON MONDAY, the United Nations Security Council voted by 13 to 0 to pass a US-drafted resolution that effectively puts president Donald Trump in...

Workers will not pay for Carillion bankruptcy – drive out the privateers with...

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20,000 jobs in the UK and a similar number of jobs abroad are under threat with the collapse of the giant construction company Carillion...

Bomb Gadaffi Out Of Power Urges General Richards

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THE NATO war that was supposedly being waged to defend Libyan civilians must be stepped up and Libya’s infrastructure destroyed if Colonel Gadaffi is...

The TUC must now call mass general strike action in support of Palestine and...

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THE Hamas movement said on Saturday that the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the northern Gaza Strip and the Israeli occupation army’s attacks on...

No safe zones in Gaza as Israel steps up war in the south

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SINCE the start of the Israeli genocidal war in Gaza, the Israeli regime has ordered the forced evacuation of Palestinians from the north of...

Unlimited Bonuses For The Bankers As Workers Face Runaway Inflation And Poverty!

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THE new Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is reported to be preparing to scrap the cap on the multi-million pound bonuses bankers award themselves. Originally the...

Working class must call general strikes to force implementation of UN resolution on Gaza...

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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members on Monday finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the genocidal war being waged...