Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Kick out trade union leaders collaborating to impose job and wage cuts

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THE ENGINEERING giant Rolls-Royce which manufactures jet engines this week confirmed that it will slash 3,000 jobs across the UK. Already Rolls-Royce has begun the...

Brown warns ‘bumps in the road ahead’

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THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has presided over a capitalist state rescue of the bankrupt banking system, which has seen the deployment of up...

Saddam Murder Within Days

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THE decision to hang the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, and also the Iraqi Vice-President, Taha Yasin Ramadan – whose sentence was increased from life...

Victoria Nuland – The Organiser Of Ukraine Coup Visits Athens!

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IN Greece, the Syriza government, which was elected to break with the Troika of the European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank,...

Bank Of England Dumps The Pound To Make The Working Class Pay For The...

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THE Bank of England on Tuesday insisted that it was dumping the pound and would proceed with its decision to stop supporting the bond...

Novelist Sally Rooney wins massive support for boycotting Israel

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BEST-SELLING Irish novelist Sally Rooney has won massive support from fellow writers and artists for her support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS)...
PATRICA DA SILVA ARMANI (speaking), ALEX PERIERA and VIVIEN MENEZES FIGUEIREDO (behind), cousins of Jean Charles de Menezes at the Stockwell Tube vigil six months after he was shot dead by police

All out for the News Line–Gate Gourmet sacked workers conference

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THE sacked Gate Gourmet workers were locked out almost six months ago on August 10th-11th 2005 by a management and an owner that was...

British capitalism can afford wars but not benefits!

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BOTH Prime Minister Blair and Chancellor Brown insisted yesterday, in support of Works and Pensions minister Hutton, that single parents must look for work...

Get British troops out of Afghanistan now!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...

Crime Pays – For The Banks

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‘BY means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of...

Milburn makes his move for the Labour leadership

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TWO former Cabinet ministers have e-mailed all Labour MPs, calling for an ‘open debate’ on the party’s future. The two are Charles Clarke, the ex-Home...

British capitalism, backward, parasitic, and ripe for revolution

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A REPORT by business research firm Datamonitor says that people in the UK are borrowing on average almost twice that of citizens in other...

Horsemeat Scandal

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What started off last month as news, that traces of horsemeat DNA had been discovered by the Irish Food Standards agency in some supermarket beefburgers,...

Revolution Only Way Forward For Greece And UK

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WORKERS and youth in Greece have spent the last two days outside the Vouli being bombarded and attacked by riot policemen, some on motorbikes...

British banks hit by Dubai collapse

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AFTER the Abu Dhabi stockmarket experienced a record one-day fall of 8.3 per cent, and Dubai’s Financial Market Index fell 7.3 per cent yesterday,...

US Opening Up Second Front In Africa

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MILLIONS of Africans will understandably be fearful at the latest strategic initiative that US President George Bush has just announced. The president has instructed his...

Fortress Israel, armed by the USA, brings in new anti-Palestinian laws and cuts West...

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THE US and Israel have been engaged in intense negotiations for many months to outline America’s military aid to Israel for the next decade. Washington...

All unions must take action to support the postal workers!

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POSTAL workers, members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are on strike today in north-east and south-east London against Royal Mail’s plans to axe...

Afghan war lost – withdraw British troops now!

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THE imperialist invasion of Afghanistan is coming apart at the seams. In fact, the UK troops themselves are now rejecting it, as a legitimate operation,...

Imperialist Vultures Gather Over Syria

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HAVING failed to overthrow President Assad of Syria by force of arms, the imperialist powers are now turning to Russia, and are seeking the...

Tories call junior doctors pay demands unaffordable while bosses gouge huge profits from workers...

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THE CLAIM that last week 196,000 hospital appointments were cancelled has been used by the Tories and their supporters in the media to put...

End The UK Support For Rajapakse

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THE News Line hails the heroic resistance of the Tamil Tigers to the armed forces of the Rajapakse military dictatorship, which is seeking to...

Unions Must Answer Truss Threats By Calling A General Strike To Bring Down The...

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THE Margaret Thatcher look-alike, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, is seeking to sound like, look like and act like Margaret Thatcher, as she vows to...

The Essence Of The Easter Rising!

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THE bourgeois media has been awash this weekend with coverage of the centenary celebrations of the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin, with reports on...

Iran Has The Right To Nuclear Power

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THE Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, made it very clear last Wednesday what Iran’s position is on its right to develop...

‘Oppressed will rise all over the world’ – says Iranian president

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Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad has hailed his election win as a new Islamic revolution which he said he hoped would now spread its way...

Palestinians defiant in face of US attacks – Victory to Palestinian Revolution

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THE TRUMP administration announced yesterday that it will shut the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) diplomatic office in Washington with US national security advisor John...

Assange extradition decision Monday! Unions must call industrial action to prevent any attempt...

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange is facing a sentence of up to 175 years in a high-security ‘Supermax’ prison if he is extradited from the...

Lansley calls to ‘break down the system’

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TORY coalition Health Secretary Andrew Lansley addressed the BMA doctors union conference in Brighton yesterday, telling delegates: ‘Every step we take we must take...

A billionaires’ paradise – the UK under Blair and Brown

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IN the last 12 months the working class and the vast majority of the middle class have desperately struggled under a huge and...

No Second Referendum! Bring Down The Tories! Forward To A Workers Government And...

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EX-UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that ‘we should have a second referendum on EU membership.’ This is the biggest personal surrender note for...

Take action to defend jobs. Occupy and organise a general strike!

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FACED with the crash of the pound and the enormous 182,000 leap in the number of unemployed in the three months to October, the...

Recall TUC to demand an indefinite general strike to kick out the Tories

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At its annual conference yesterday, the leaders of the National Education Union (NEU) reported that the latest Tory pay offer was rejected by an...

Tories are being whipped into line by the international banks!

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‘A SPEECH to calm the party and the country’ was how the Tory-supporting Daily Mail greeted the speech by newly installed prime minister Rishi...

TUC must call a general strike in support of the RMT and to bring...

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch joined the picket line at London’s Euston Station yesterday morning after pay talks with the Tories collapsed on Monday. Earlier,...

Unions Must Call Action To Halt Tory Law Equating Journalism With Terrorism! They Must...

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THE NUJ is warning that Home Office plans to ‘reform’ The Official Secrets Act ‘are a severe threat to journalism’. It is calling on...

Tory Party Crisis Deepens – Time For The Trade Unions To Get Rid Of...

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THE TUC trade unions have a duty, and have the power to end the death agony of the Johnson government. Even bankers have remarked...

EU preparing Greek ‘regime change’!

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THE debt talks between Greece and its international creditors collapsed on Thursday night with German Chancellor Merkel telling the Greek PM Tsipras to shut...

Hamas Insists On The Right Of Self Defence Against Israeli Zionist Gangsters!

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has categorically rejected UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who labelled and condemned the revolutionary resistance of the Palestinian people against...

Blunkett quits against Blair’s wishes

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YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair made it clear to the House of Commons during Question Time, that he had urged his Cabinet colleague, Blunkett,...

NOW is the time for the TUC to call a general strike to support...

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THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...

French workers confront Macron’s Thatcherite assault

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TRAIN drivers and other workers at the French state railway SNFC began three months of rolling stoppages on Monday evening, as trade unions push...

Kerry Calls In Stalinist Bureaucracy To ‘Resolve’ Syrian Crisis

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IN its hour of need – with Syria resisting massively the attempt at ‘regime change’ organised by the US-UK-Turkey axis, and carried out by...

National action to defend JDE workers – force TUC to call a ...

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LAST Wednesday the international coffee giant JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) issued dismissal notices to nearly 300 of its workers at the Banbury plant who...

US vetos Ukraine ceasefire – tells Poroshenko to make war!

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ON MONDAY evening Russia invited Ukrainian border guards and international observers to oversee the Russian side of the border with Ukraine, in an 11th-hour...