Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Protest against ID cards outside the House of Commons _ one of the police state measures that Clarke was pushing through

Blair axes cabinet, but policies are the same!

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IT WAS all change yesterday in the Blair cabinet and no change at all at the same time, as leading cabinet members were sacked...

Geneva Report Issues Dire Warning!

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JUST six years after the beginning of the 2008 financial collapse – at a time when Cameron and Co. are talking about a recovery,...

The Tory ‘NHS Road to Recovery’ is their plan to privatise the NHS!

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ON TUESDAY, Tory health secretary Savid Javid outlined his ‘new vision for NHS reform’ which turned out to be just a repetition of the...

Syrian opposition demands a no-fly zone!

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THE announcement that the western and Saudi-Qatari backed ‘opposition’ in Syria is no longer committed to the UN Security Council-backed Annan ceasefire comes as...

Right wing Labour puts Corbyn and McDonnell on a very short Leash!

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SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary speaking at a Chatham House conference, has said that Labour will not support any Brexit deal negotiated...

3.1 million children living below poverty line – the TUC advocates doing absolutely nothing!

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This is a treacherous abdication of all responsibility by the trade union leaders for this crisis of poverty. They have not lifted a single...

MAY DAY 2009 – A movement for World Socialist Revolution!

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MILLIONS of workers took to the streets on May Day in countries throughout the world, from Los Angeles to London, Havana to Harare. Several May...

Britain Boarded The Grace 1 Off Gibraltar To Protect US And UK Oil Thieves...

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ON JULY 4th, 30 Royal Marines boarded the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 off Gibraltar, allegedly on orders from the USA, because of suspicions...

The Brown government is for the bankers and the bosses!

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THOUSANDS of trade unionists will be marching in Manchester today to the Labour Party conference to protest at the ‘breadline wages’ that public sector...

Fire doors fail! Millions at risk! Kick Tories out before another fire breaks out!

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FIRE doors in the Grenfell Tower failed, providing further evidence that this horrific tragedy could have been prevented. There is not a shadow of...

Obama Brings In New Iran Oil Sanctions!

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US President Barack Obama has just signed into law a major defence bill which includes tough new sanctions against Iran, as well as allowing...

Labour is selling off school playing fields

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SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls and his predecessor Alan Johnson have given the go-head to the sell-off of 19 school playing fields over the past...

Pentagon launches Africa command centre

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AS PAY negotiations between the American car giants General Motors (GM) and Ford, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have reached a critical point,...

Miliband’s ‘fight door-to-door’ bombast has no answers for workers and youth

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ED MILIBAND kicked-off Labour’s election campaign yesterday with a speech full of bombast and empty promises, but which has at its core the main...

Bank of America: Pound faces ‘existential crisis’ with outlook for British capitalism ‘grim’....

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THE BRITISH pound is facing an ‘existential crisis’ that is only going to get worse according to the Bank of America and the outlook...

Capitalist Crisis Is Driving Forward World Revolution

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THIS Sunday’s 65th Anniversary rally of the assassination of Leon Trotsky by an agent of the Stalinist bureaucracy in 1940 is taking place at...

Indignation is not enough – working class needs socialist policies

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IN HIS first election speech, Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, expressed his anger and indignation over the policies of austerity ruthlessly carried out by...

Answer Osborne with Councils of Action and a General Strike

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In an interview on Sunday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that as far as the coalition government is concerned there...

Johnson is demanding workers learn to live with Omicron to save capitalism!

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ON TUESDAY Britain recorded over 200,000 new Coronavirus cases in one day for the first time during the pandemic. The same day, prime minister Boris...

Saudis oil war is deepening the world crisis

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SAUDI Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, has said the oil producers’ cartel, Opec, will not cut production even if the price falls to $20...

Labour And Trade Union Leaders Move To The Right!

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THE Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Liam Byrne, yesterday joined hands with Cameron and Osborne with his declaration in the Guardian newspaper that Beveridge,...

US, UK Ambassadors Are Run Out Of Libya By Their Former Agents!

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HMS Enterprise has arrived near to Tripoli to evacuate any remaining British people who want to leave Libya, after the British embassy was shut...

Labour’s first 100 days will see the working class using its power to drive...

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LABOUR’S shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, delivered a speech yesterday laying out the priorities for the first 100 days of a Labour government. Within 100 days...

Italian Banks on verge of crash following Renzi’s defeat

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THE defeat for the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, in Sunday’s referendum to change the Italian constitution and concentrate the political power in his...

Massive Food Price Rises Driving Forward World Revolution

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FOOD riots and major strike actions are erupting all over the capitalist world, driven forward by a doubling of food prices in many countries,...

Brown, Mitchell and Obama threaten Palestinians with a dirty deal

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PALESTINIANS are once again being threatened with a dirty deal after the Netanyahu-Brown meeting in London. After a Brown declaration that Britain is Israel’s ‘true...

Greek workers on the march to socialist revolution

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THE Greek working class, Greek youth and the majority of the middle class and the small farmers have battled the EU imposed austerity programmes...

Financial Crisis Worsening, Says The Imf

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IN its just-published Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF has found that ‘Confidence remains fragile despite recent policy actions’, and that the ‘Euro area...

720,000 UK companies on verge of collapse putting 10 million jobs at risk!

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AS THE DATE for the Tory government to end its financial support to British companies looms so the warnings about a cataclysmic crash of...

Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’

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TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...

Britain’s ‘Black Hundreds’ Seeking State Support

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UP to 1,500 English Defence League racists, plus foreign supporters, marched through Luton on Saturday, escorted by police from 27 forces as well as...

Stop Royal Mail being thrown to the private equity wolves!

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POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...

Bankrupt Britain is heading for revolution!

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THE OECD has warned that the British capitalist economy is the sick man of the capitalist world and is currently experiencing a record fall...

Capitalism diving into recession and hyperinflation – time to put it out of its...

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YESTERDAY morning, Tory ministers had to submit to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) their plans to impose the cuts demanded by Chancellor Jeremy...

Students To Fight Closure Of University Of London Union!

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SENIOR academics confirmed yesterday that they are set to shut down the University of London Union, recommending that ‘ULU in its current form ceases’...

Support the Junior Doctors with a general strike!

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20,000 junior doctors, medical students, health workers and supporters marched in central London yesterday. As well there were well attended marches in Belfast and...

Only socialist revolution can stop imperialist war

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LAST Friday’s attack by US planes on the Syrian airfield of al-Shayrat was not a one-off military exercise to teach the Syrians a lesson,...

Duncan Smith’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Peddles Lies!

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THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...

NHS to pay for bank crisis – time to bury capitalism not the NHS

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IN HIS first interview since becoming the coalition Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt spelt out bluntly that capitalism could no longer afford a national health...

Tories mired in scandal over Cameron and Greensill as financial collapse the ‘canary in...

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THE MOST recent development in the collapse of Greensill Capital has been the revelations of all the lobbying for government bail-outs by ex-Tory prime...

May begs EU for further delay! Workers must rise for a ‘no deal’ break...

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TORY PM Theresa May has written to the President of the European Council Donald Tusk begging for yet another delay to Brexit, this time...

Hamas Heroes Are Not Defeated And Await The Assistance Of The Workers Of The...

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EVEN US intelligence agencies estimate that the death toll among Hamas fighters from Israel’s ongoing attempt to crush the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza...

Tories call for May to go while Labour considers a pro-EU deal to save...

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ON SUNDAY Prime Minister May in a panic-stricken move, after the Tory Party’s defeat in the council elections, urged Labour leader Corbyn to ‘put...

Tories savage poor but grovel to Clinton and US

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THE bankers coalition has set the scene for next Wednesday’s cuts announcements in true Bullingham Club style, by declaring that ‘welfare cheats’ equal muggers,...

Pogromist Johnson Speaks Up For The Security Services

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BORIS JOHNSON writes in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, in the wake of the Rigby trial, ‘the most important question now is how we prevent other...