Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Don’t let P&O get away with murder – Make the TUC and labour leaders...

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YESTERDAY, Chancellor Sunak pledged to help the masses ‘where we can make a difference’, as households face soaring living costs, to the extent that...

Welcome All Refugees – Forward To The Socialist United States Of Europe!

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THE European Union was yesterday reeling, split and divided over the issue of taking quotas of refugees from the masses flooding into Europe. These masses...

Labour Mayor Andy Burnham reveals Labour MPs want him to oust Starmer

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THE Labour Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph newspaper yesterday said that many Labour MPs have been privately...

Labour’s cuts to disability benefits hit 700,000 families – time to kick out Starmer...

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THIS week, The Guardian newspaper, using the Freedom of Information Act, published the Labour government’s own internal assessment of the impact of the planned...

Raising the white flag over Basra airfield

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THE rotting reality behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spin concerning the ‘reconfiguration’ of British troops in southern Iraq is the complete demoralisation of the...

Economic Crisis Deepening! More Austerity And A Banking Crash On The Way!

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A LEAKED document obtained by the Labour Party has revealed that the Treasury faces a black hole of up to £16bn in its finances...

THE TUC Congress must call a general strike in support of the workers...

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THE Hamas Movement declared on Tuesday that the US administration bears direct responsibility for the continuation of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip. The Movement...

Coalition plan to beat the poorest to aid the richest

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SO FAR trillions of pounds have been spent by the state, using taxpayers’ money, to rescue, prop up and save bankrupt banks and...

Unreal capitalism deserves to perish!

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THE crash of the British banks continued yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland declared a £27bn loss for 2008 on Monday and its share...

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...

US Steps Up Missile Attacks On Pakistan

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WITH the world’s attention focussed on the capitalist crisis, the US military have unleashed a series of massive attacks on the Afghan and Pakistani...

Take action to stop NHS cuts and closures

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IT is now obvious that the Labour government is setting out, at breakneck speed, to privatise the NHS. It has set up private treatment centres...

Workers march in London! Time to call general strike!

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YESTERDAY, steelworkers were marching for their jobs to parliament, defending an industry that is being deliberately destroyed, while university lecturers were taking the first...

TUC on its knees – time for a revolutionary leadership!

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THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...

American dream turns to nightmare!

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HUNDREDS of US cities are going bust, either destroyed by the banking and property collapse or by the crisis of the major US industries. The...

Make Hammond’s Budget his last by a general strike to kick the Tories out...

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THE Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, closed his autumn budget statement on Wednesday with the announcement that this would be his ‘first and last’. Faithfully obeying...

Unite leaders drop any criticism of Starmer – now is time to build a...

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THE RULES conference of Unite, the largest union donor to the Labour Party, yesterday voted to reject a motion calling to disaffiliate from the...

Build the WRP to deal with the TUC right wing

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AT the Trades Union Congress in Brighton this week, delegates have given a relatively timid expression of the determination of millions of workers to...

Tories tearing themselves apart – time for a general strike to kick them out!

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THE political crisis tearing the Tory government apart has assumed epic proportions over the release of Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and private notebooks to...

Europe on strike from France, to Greece, from Germany to the UK – forward...

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THE strike wave is spreading throughout Europe! In France workers are making it crystal clear that they will never allow the increases in the retirement...

Daily Telegraph warns capitalism has entered its ‘final act’ with UK the ‘tinderbox’ of...

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Such is the depth of the crisis in British capitalism that even the ultra-loyal Tory press can no longer pretend that the working class...

Economic tsunami to hit Japan

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‘We have been humbled by nature’ the Japanese ambassador to Britain said of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that has devastated northern Japan with...

100 women on hunger strike! Shut down Yarl’s Wood and ALL detention centres!

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‘WE ARE not animals!’ women incarcerated in the notorious Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre have scrawled across their T-shirts. More than 120 women have...

The Great Pension Robbery – Contributions have tripled! This government must go! Call...

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MILLIONS of workers, as of yesterday, have been hit for six. The amount that comes out of their wages in pension contributions now...

US Ruling Class Admit Strategic Defeat In Iraq

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WITH 400 billion dollars already spent on digging US imperialism into a very deep hole in Iraq, the Baker committee of elder statesmen or...

Inflationary crisis driving revolution across EU and UK! Time to build the Fourth...

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AS INFLATION soars and the cost of petrol rapidly rises, workers across Europe are being forced to protest, with strikes spreading like wildfire. European energy...

Pentagon rails against the ‘Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act!’

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US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has issued a warning that legislation allowing families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia...

Osborne to lend billions to the bosses that the banks turn away

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AT THE Tory Party conference on Monday, Chancellor Osborne outlined the three mistakes made by government, the bosses and the bankers which...

UK, France and Canada threats of ‘concrete action’ over starvation in Gaza driven by...

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YESTERDAY Labour prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney issued what was called a stark warning to...

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...

The great betrayal – NHS union leaders call off strike action!

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NHS trade unions have called off (‘suspended’) today’s strike and betrayed their members by accepting the government’s decision not to pay the...

Tuc Must Defend Palestinians And Call A General Strike To Completely Boycott Israel...

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THE Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has just announced in a statement that Ahmed Badr Abdullah Abu Ali, a resident of Yatta city in the...

‘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...

Lobby TUC April 24 – make them call a general strike

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THE News Line calls for a massive lobby of the next meeting of the TUC General Council on Wednesday 24th April, to demand the...

Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Shows Her Tory Hand, Declaring There Will Be No Wealth...

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WITH the Tory Party split and divided, Labour is now revealing its own pro-Tory proposals to make the working class pay for the continuing...

Ex–Blairite Short Reveals Blair Coup Against Cabinet

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CLARE SHORT, one-time International Development Minister, revealed to the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday just how Blair, with the aid of Goldsmith, deceived the Cabinet and...

UK death squads in the north – a warning for today

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LAST night’s Panorama programme, entitled ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Force’, threw yet more light on the murderous activities of the British state in its war...

Any attempt to ban Rail and Post strikes must be met with a general...

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THE DECEMBER 12 general election will take place in the middle of an unprecedented wave of strikes as workers show their revolutionary determination to...

Iran Is Not The Villain Of The ‘Nuclear Threat’

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PRESIDENT Obama made it crystal clear in his 11.45pm Saturday night address, over the just-signed six-month interim nuclear agreement with Iran, that he is...

Covid pandemic report attempts to exonerate the Tories but herd immunity is still alive...

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THE COVID report by two parliamentary select committees published this week has been correctly universally greeted as a damning indictment of the Tory government’s...

Met chief’s agenda – police ‘justice’ and troops on the streets!

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, presented his ‘wish list’ of latest demands to the Labour government, when speaking to the Police Superintendents’ Conference...

Blair Gang In Disarray After Pm Fails To Vote

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YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair was insisting that he can push through his right wing capitalist ‘reform programme’ despite suffering a double defeat at the...

G7 nations unanimous in support of Israeli war crimes in Gaza!

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THE United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Wednesday issued a damning statement that Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in...

Hamas answers Israeli massacre with a call for the Third Intifada

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YESTERDAY, not content with killing over 300 Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza, and seriously wounding 900, Israel was massing tanks on the...

White House interns demand Biden calls a permanent ceasefire in Gaza!

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AS ISRAEL ramps up its war efforts to slaughter even more Palestinians in southern Gaza, in the US a group of White House interns...