Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

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...

Supporting Iraq or Palestine is to be a crime!

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RESPONDING immediately to Tory pressure, Prime Minister Blair yesterday launched his programme of draconian attacks on basic rights and liberties, for a reign of...

Doctor Reid seizes the helm!

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YESTERDAY the 24 suspects accused by the state of ‘a plot to commit murder on an unimaginable scale’ by blowing up 10 airliners with...

Quit The Eu Now! Forward To Socialism!

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KEIR Starmer, Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Leaving the EU, will, today in the House of Commons, open a debate for Labour on...

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...

Re-nationalise the energy suppliers – the only way to end preventable deaths

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FIGURES released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a dramatic increase in the number of preventable deaths among the elderly...

King George’s Ilford cancer unit to close for lack of nurses – Get the...

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THE CEDAR CENTRE, the chemotherapy unit at the King George Hospital in Ilford is to shut down on November 12th, because it cannot find...

Bank of England & US Fed continue to pump out free money to attempt...

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England announced that it will be keeping interest rates on hold at the historical low of 0.1%. This was the unanimous...

DRIVE THE MAY GOVERNMENT OUT! MARCH ON PARLIAMENT ON JULY 1st!

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THE May government has now entered the world of the surreal. It has just about been able to schedule a Queen’s Speech of sorts...

Keep Profiteers Out Of NHS And Elderly Care

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HEALTHCARE as a business is now being exposed as a malicious and very nasty fraud. First we had the Mid Staffs NHS hospital crisis with...

1,000 Israeli reservist pilots publicly demand an end to the Gaza War!

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UP to 1,000 Israeli pilots and aircrew published a full-page letter in multiple Israeli newspapers on Thursday directly challenging prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal...

Labour’s crisis deepens the more it embraces Tory austerity!

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THE bourgeois press is awash with the news that Labour leader, Ed Miliband, is facing calls from within his own shadow cabinet for him...

The Banking Standards Commission selects three scapegoats for the capitalist crisis

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THE farcically misnamed Banking Standards Commission (as if the banks had any standards) was created to try and prevent an even bigger banking collapse...

Time For The Working Class To Consign The Bosses To The Dustbin Of ...

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THE US and UK ruling classes are organising Israel to knife the Palestinian people in a desperate attempt to destroy the Palestinian revolution –...

Israel continues its all-out assault on the rights of the Palestinian people and all...

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A PALESTINIAN-FRENCH human rights lawyer whom Israel has stripped of his Jerusalem residency is at imminent risk of deportation, an Israeli group says. The HaMoked...

£65bn PFI Nightmare for the NHS!

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THE PFI Private Finance Initiative was brought in by the Major Tory government, and while it was opposed by Labour in opposition, it was...

The Bankers Are Warming To Jeremy Corbyn – Now That He Is Changing His...

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BORIS Johnson’s Tory government suffered a massive defeat in the House of Commons on Tuesday night when 21 of its MPs rebelled and voted...

Starmer must be sacked now – TUC must call a general strike to bring...

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If Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer believed that sacking Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to the United States would provide him with some...

Wall Street Crashes And With It Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy!

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JUST TEN YEARS after the 2008 great banking disaster began – with the working class still paying the price for it with massively...

Votes scrapped at Labour Party conferences

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THE leaders of big trade unions lined up behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth on Sunday to ensure...

New Israeli Regime ‘Will Work Against Peace’ Says Erekat

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THE new right-wing Israeli coalition government, just formed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, will be belligerent and work against peace, a senior Palestinian official...

Bank of England split over interest rates revealing chaos and demoralisation at the heart...

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THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday made the surprise decision to hold UK interest rates at 5.25% instead of the widely...

Putin lays down law to Soviet states

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THE Putin regime has infuriated the British bourgeoisie by its strengthening of the state owned gas and oil sectors of the Russian economy, at...

Israelis wound hundreds in attack on Kitziot prisoners

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WHILE Olmert and Bush have been, and are, posing as peacemakers with their forthcoming fraud of a peace conference, a most violent and vicious...

GPs must follow junior doctors lead and strike to defend contracts and defend...

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VERY ANGRY BMA GPs met in conference on Saturday where they carried motions to fight ‘underfunding’ and a rapidly growing workload that ‘threatened NHS...

Humanitarian imperialists get ready for a bloodbath

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DESPITE all of the hurrahs coming from the manic bourgeois media, the imperialist powers have a very big problem with Libya, and the Libyan...

US-UK bullies threaten war with Iran!

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THE Tory Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, declared the UK’s readiness to go to war with Iran last Thursday when he threatened that UK and...

Police to be ‘reformed’ along RUC lines

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SIR Ronald Flanagan, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary in England and Wales, and the senior police adviser to the Home Secretary, will publish a...

US Military Chief Undermines The President Over US Troops In Iraq

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THE US’ top military commander General Dempsey has broken ranks with President Obama by telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that US...

Civil war declared as Tories are torn apart by the capitalist crisis – Kick...

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CIVIL WAR in the Tory Party has erupted as Boris Johnson and his allies launch a coordinated attack on PM Rishi Sunak, with the...

PM Sunak Ditches HS2 And Launches Savage Cuts To Smash The Trade Unions!

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THE GMB trade union yesterday slammed the scrapping of the HS2 Northern route, the biggest cut in the rail network since the days of...

Only A Socialist Revolution Can Resolve The Crisis Of Capitalism!

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THE DAY after official figures were released showing that the UK economy was crashing into the deepest depression for 300 years, the governor of...

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...

Tories-Lib Dems want more than £20bn of NHS cuts by 2014

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THE new Tory Secretary of State for Health Lansley was appointed on Wednesday and has immediately put on record that he will...

No Fees Or Loans And Restore Student Grants For All!

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AFTER Blair and Brown abolished students’ grants and introduced a regime of fee paying for university education – putting an end to free university...

French elections open up struggle for socialist revolution

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THE RESULT of the French Presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron, winning with 65.5% of the vote beating the...

Defend The NHS, The Fire Service & The Welfare State By Bringing Down The...

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THE response of the Tory-LibDem government to the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system has been to try to force the working class,...

The working class has the power – now is the time to use it!

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BRITISH Airways’ chief executive Walsh and Unite union joint leader Tony Woodley yesterday met at the TUC headquarters. The talks are now back on and...

Hunt warned by bankers that tax cuts must be funded through savage austerity cuts...

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TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is preparing to deliver a Spring budget on Wednesday 6th March which he has signalled will concentrate on tax cuts...

Free Joe Glenton! End criminal occupation!

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DEMONSTRATIONS will be staged in eight different countries today, from Britain and the United States to Poland and Italy, demanding the release of British...

Revolution is the only way out of capitalist debt crisis

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THE COLLAPSE of the popular discount high street retailer Wilko, with 12,500 of its workers facing being thrown out of a job, has thrown...

Government plans to smash up health and safety laws

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THE Tory-led coalition is pushing full steam ahead with its plans to completely smash up the health and safety legislation and leave hundreds of...

As world crisis deepens the UK working class needs to take power and bring...

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THE working class of the world faces a revolutionary autumn and winter, as the major imperialist powers step up their war in the Ukraine...

Full support for the Gate Gourmet sacked workers demonstration

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THIS Sunday December 4th the Gate Gourmet sacked workers will be marching through Southall to demand that every one of the 700 locked out...

News International bought policemen and state officials, and dictated to political parties

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THE Leveson Inquiry has exposed the diseased nature of British capitalism, its ruling class and its state apparatus. The state, during the period of...