Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

European workers moving inexorably to revolution

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THE CALL for European-wide, co-ordinated strike action to defeat the EU ‘austerity’ measures made by the leader of the Greek TUC is a sure...

Trade unions must unite to defend bursaries and stop hospital closures!

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TWO very important NHS trade union conferences are currently taking place this week, the RCN, nurses union, and the BMA doctors. Already the RCN supported...
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...

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,...

Arrogant Israel changes Arafat street name as Palestinian masses get ready for the Third...

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AN Arab town council in Jatt, in Israel (occupied Palestine), has been forced to change a street name called after the former Palestinian leader...

Biden administration in crisis over Israeli failure to defeat Hamas

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CHUCK SCHUMER, the Democratic Senate majority leader, described as the highest ranking Jewish official in the United States and top ally of president Joe...

The bosses refuse to back May! Now is the time for a general strike...

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A PLAN by the Tories to demonstrate that the bosses of Britain’s leading companies are firmly behind the chaotic Brexit negotiations blew up in...

Biden in Kiev trying to shore up coupist regime

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US Vice-President Joe Biden told the assembled right wingers at the Ukraine parliament yesterday that the US stands with the country’s new leaders in...

Support the firefighters and the postal workers

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FIRE chiefs in Warwickshire are planning to close seven fire stations and axe a third of fire appliances with the loss of one hundred...

Russia And China Support Greek Privatisation

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THE Greek working class and the youth are suffering under the ‘Iron Heel’ of the Troika (the European Union the European Central Bank and...

Lesson from by-elections: Labour Party’s finished! Build the revolutionary party!

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JEREMY Corbyn MP, leader of the Labour Party, said yesterday on the Stoke-on-Trent Central and Copeland by-elections results that ‘Labour’s victory in Stoke is...

Police chief rejects Orwellian Britain

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THE deputy chief constable of Hampshire Ian Readhead said yesterday that Britain could become a surveillance society with cameras on every street corner. As...

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...

DEFEND THE NHS – DOWN WITH TORY ANTI-UNION LAWS – MAKE TUC CALL A...

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NURSES will ‘absolutely not’ pause a 48-hour strike in England on May 1st, said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday – and it...

Brown Wants To Introduce Youth Conscription

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PRIME Minister Brown on Sunday promised that bringing in a compulsory community service programme for youth will be a part of his next general...

Young Workers Are Sleeping In The Streets, While The Bosses And Bankers Get Richer...

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WORKERS earning wages, employed in respected professions are sleeping in the streets and working during the day, or night is something shockingly new to...

Labour pledges limitless billions to arm Ukraine while refusing to support workers’ pay demands

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IN A speech yesterday at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Labour’s shadow defence secretary, John Healey, pledged that any future Labour government would...

Workers And Students Must Organise General Strikes To Smash Tories & Support Gaza!

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NEARLY three dozen Palestinian civilians, including women and children, have already been murdered by Israeli military forces bombing various neighbourhoods in Rafah in the...

US economy has crashed into recession – time to put capitalism out of its...

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THE US, the most powerful economy in the world, has already crashed into a recession that will shatter the capitalist world. This is the inescapable...

Wolf in sheep’s clothing at the TUC

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THE ‘Wolf’, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, at yesterday’s TUC Congress, sought to explain to the ‘sheep’, the working class,...

Bring Down May Government! Quit The Eu Now! Forward To A Workers Government And...

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THE MAY government is now in a full Brexit retreat, a retreat that is turning into a rout! There is to be a vote this...

Tory Big Brother will be spying on everybody!

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THE News International empire’s phone hacking and spying, and the way that it sought to regulate the government and bend the police force to...

Warning – Police Are Armed And Dangerous!

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THAT the times are really changing was rammed home once again yesterday. People are angrily reacting to the news that 4,000 highly trained police officers...

Oecd Calls For A Giant Firewall!

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UK economic growth for the last quarter of 2011 has been revised downwards to a 0.3% contraction, another body blow to those who had...

Liz Truss speech calls for ‘new’ party to wage class war against working class!

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IT was almost exactly one year ago that the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a mini-budget that...

Time to put an end to the institutionally corrupt and racist police force ...

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THE LONG independent report into the murder of 37-year-old private detective Daniel Morgan in south London in 1987 was finally published on Tuesday and...

Victory to the Palestinians; forward to the Palestinian state; drive imperialism out of the...

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FIERCE clashes are continuing between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth organised in Popular Committees across all of the West Bank districts. The Palestinian Red Crescent...

Solidarity action over Lineker sacking causes Tories to crumble – now is time to...

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BOTH the BBC and the Tories were in a state of meltdown over the weekend following the decision of the BBC bosses, urged on...

10 million workers will be hit by tax increases as Labour ‘picks the side’...

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LOWEST paid workers will be hit the hardest by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves budget’s ‘stealth tax’ unveiled on Wednesday. Reeves desperate to avoid accusations of...

Royal Mail shares frenzy grips bankrupt bosses

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TODAY is the official starting day of trading on the stock exchange in Royal Mail shares, a sell-off that has been greeted in the...

Unions must take strike action to stop lifting of Covid-19 restrictions on July 19th!

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HE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) doctors’ trade union has spelt it out that pressing ahead with lifting final Covid-19 restrictions in England on July...

Northern Rock sold at a loss as dictatorships rule in EU!

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NORTHERN Rock (NR) plc is being sold to Virgin Money by the coalition government for £747m. After Northern Rock was nationalised in 2008 it...

Shooting at the UK’s Afghan Sandhurst!

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THE ‘row’ that left an Afghan officer cadet dead and three NATO troops injured at the UK-established ‘Sandhurst in the Sand’ in Helmand province...

Afghan defeat for UK imperialism – now smash them at home

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AN influential group of MPs have finally admitted publicly what everyone already knows – that the invasion of Afghanistan by NATO troops, led by...

Revolution – only way out for Ireland and Europe!

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THE Irish Government’s guaranteeing 100 per cent of all banking deposits has resulted in the Irish state drowning in a bottomless pit of bail-outs....

US capital Washington DC in recession as unemployment soars

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LAST week, Mark Zandi, the chief economic analyst at the giant investment bank Moody’s, described the US as being ‘on the precipice of recession’. The...

Socialist revolution the only road for youth!

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The Centre for Cities has predicted that the number of long-term unemployed young people, between 16 and 24 years of age in Britain, will...

Labour splits emerging as Starmer faces ‘mother of all rebellions’

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FOLLOWING Prime Minister’s Questions session in Parliament on Wednesday left wing Labour MP Richard Burgon went on social media warning that Keir Starmer will...

The way to peace in the Ukraine is to restore the Soviet Union!

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THE MAYOR of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, has split the Ukrainian leadership over the issue of Russian sovereignty over the Crimea. Rejecting President Zelensky’s refusal to...

Occupy the steel works! Force TUC to call a general strike to bring down...

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BRITISH capitalism is bankrupt. The ruling class, abetted by the trade union leaders, are letting the historic steel industry go to the wall. Five months...
Gate Gourmet locked-out worker PARMJIT bains addressing the conference

Huge $8.6bn loss at General Motors

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GENERAL Motors (GM) bosses admitted on Thursday that their losses for 2005 were $8.6bn, their largest since 1992 when the board of directors was...

Defence Secretary Hagel cements US-Japan imperialist alliance

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SPEAKING in Japan alongside Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera on Saturday, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel pledged the US’ ‘complete and absolute commitment to...

Palestinian leadership condemns international community after fatal shooting of teenage girl by Zionists!

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THE Palestinian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that the fatal shooting of a teenage girl by Israeli military forces during a raid in the northern...

TUC leader O’Grady makes PM May a unity offer!

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IN a lecture to the London School of Economics (LSE) on Tuesday TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady made a ‘national government’ call to the...

Tory policy is to drive the sick back to work to ‘rescue’ a collapsing...

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THE drive by the Tories and their media supporters to demonise workers and the sick, as the root cause of the crisis that is...