Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Gm-Fiat Shock For World’s Motor Workers

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GENERAL Motors is about to end its ‘honeymoon’ relations with the US motor workers’ trade union, the UAW. Up till now the UAW leaders have...

French Health Workers Win Major Victory Over Macron Government!

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THE FRENCH government has been forced by the mass actions of the health workers’ trade unions to concede pay rises worth 8bn euros (£7.2bn)...

Demand the TUC call a general strike to defend NHS workers from Tory pay...

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IF THE Tories hoped that the last minute scramble to head off the anger of NHS workers by increasing the derisory and insulting 1%...

Make sure you attend the ‘Save Ealing Hospital, Save the NHS Conference!’

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THE conference called tomorrow by the West London Council of Action and the All Trades Unions Alliance has come at a critical time. This week...

Starmer announces creation of a ‘standing army’ as the Labour government moves to impose...

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LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’...

Hamas defiant over Trump’s threat to unleash hell on Gaza 

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HAMAS was defiant in its response yesterday to the threats by US president Donald Trump that he would  cancel the ceasefire agreement in Gaza...

May wants to rip up the basic rights of the working class! Put her...

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IN the seven short weeks since Tory Prime Minister Theresa May announced out of the blue that she was calling a snap general election,...

It’s a sick society, not a ‘sick-note culture’ – as Cameron insults the unemployed

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A ‘UNIVERSAL Credit’ is to be introduced in 2013, to replace all existing benefits. Cameron’s Welfare Bill includes sanctions for those turning down jobs...

Low Paid prevented from having a Family Life

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A CASE brought before the Supreme Court yesterday spotlights the extent to which British capitalism inflicts not just indignity but the denial of the...

UAW refusal to accept immediate wage cuts scuppers bail-out

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THE $14bn (£9.4bn) bail-out deal for the Big Three US car giants has failed to get the support of the US Senate. Its refusal came...

EU is going up in flames! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!

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THE European Union is like a huge powder magazine that started to smoulder even before the Brexit vote in the UK on June 23rd,...

Trump declares he will create 10 million new jobs by a trade war...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is stepping up his trade war onslaught on China as his November presidential election date approaches, and the US continues...

Biden begins his presidency with a missile attack on Syria and a refusal to...

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PRESIDENT Biden has begun his presidency with a cowardly missile attack on Syria and a shameful wooing, in the most hypocritical manner possible, of...

Defend every job! Bring down coalition! Expropriate the bosses!

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UK unemployment rose by 49,000 to almost 2.5 million in the three months to the end of November, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

Drive Out Zero-Hours Contracts

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FIGURES released last Wednesday purport to show the UK unemployment rate for the three months to September fell to 7.4% from 7.6% – a...

Socialist Revolution is the only real answer to the capitalist crisis!

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NEARLY one million people in Britain are just £10 away from falling into poverty according to the new analysis from the leading poverty charity,...

‘NHS Standing On A Burning Platform’ – Time To Deal With The Arsonists!

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THE NHS is standing on a ‘burning platform’ is the stark assessment of Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of...

Unions Must Be Made To Take Action To Secure The Nationalisation Of Tata Steel,...

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THE Unite and GMB trade unions have issued calls for the Johnson Tory government to take action to save 8,000 Tata workers jobs in...

May survives Party conference – but will need Labour’s help to sell-out Brexit!

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THE sight of PM May ‘dancing’ onto the Tory Party conference podium’ no doubt celebrating that she had survived the Tory Party conference thus...

Biden Leads The Charge For Russian Regime Change!

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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden made his first annual State of the Union Address late Tuesday night, opening with an attack on Russia that was...

Lesson of the Shrewsbury Appeal victory and Mittings inquiry – capitalist state must...

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ON WEDNESDAY the leaders of 12 of the largest and most prominent trade unions issued a letter demanding immediate action to ensure transparency in...

Bangladesh: a paradise for the bosses, and a hell for the workers

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THE arrest of the owner of the collapsed building in Dakha is just a tiny sop to the massive anger felt by Bangladeshi workers...

Israeli unions are striking for a Gaza ceasefire! The UK TUC must call a...

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A NATIONWIDE strike swept across Israel yesterday, intensifying the mass pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree an immediate cease-fire and a prisoner...

UK political crisis explodes as Parliament refuses to support immediate ceasefire!

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THE House of Commons tied itself up into knots on Wednesday as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support...

Johnson Getting Ready To Follow Trump, End The Lockdown And Bring In Millions Of...

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THE MASSIVE ‘Black Lives Matter’ marches this weekend saw millions of workers internationally and tens of thousands of youth and workers in the UK...

Brown orders troop retreat from Basra City

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BRITISH troops retreated from Basra City, quitting their base in the Presidential Palace on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the dead...

Israeli Army Rehearsing The Taking Of Gaza City!

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BESIEGED GAZA is under a heavy non-stop Israeli siege and onslaught. The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has warned Israel of ‘dangerous consequences’ as the...

‘Fools Gold’ Sends Stock Markets Rocketing Upwards

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BOTH Wall Street and the London stock markets made record advances yesterday. The FTSE 100 index rocketed upwards on Friday morning adding £80billion to share...

General Strike to defend the NHS!

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On the eve of its annual conference the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has produced damning evidence that explodes the lies that the savage...

WTO warns that a bigger crash than 2008 is on the way! Forward with...

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THE WORLD Trade Organisation chief Roberto Azevedo said on Wednesday that the economic collapse and job losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic would be...

Bank of England splits over rate cut – time to nationalise the banks!

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THE Bank of England’s crisis came out in the open at yesterday’s meeting as the Bank’s governor Andrew Bailey was opposed by two of...

Labour’s Budget seeks to dump the British bosses’ debt crisis onto the backs of...

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ON Wednesday October 30, Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to deliver the first Autumn budget by Starmer’s government. The ground work for this budget...

Close the EU’s concentration camps!

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THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...

‘Wrong body’ insult confirms racist state

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Just one week after a demonstration in London by the United Families and Friends Campaign against deaths in police custody has come the shocking...

Defend university education! Forward to the British socialist revolution!

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‘LET THEM FAIL!’ declared yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in response to repeated calls for emergency government funding to rescue endangered English universities as the economic...

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...

Bring down Brown-Mandelson regime – forward to a workers’ government

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YESTERDAY afternoon the PM’s office was leaking the speech that Brown is due to give to the TUC Congress on Tuesday. It stressed that if...

After The Care Homes Massacre – Kick The Tories Out Now!

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THE damning report released yesterday by the Public Accounts Committee on the effect of Tory policies towards the elderly in care homes came as...

End all complicity with Zionist genocide – demand TUC call a general strike to...

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ON THURSDAY, Palestinians commemorated the 77th anniversary of Nakba, the Catastrophe, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land by...

UK Pirates Plan Somalia Onslaught!

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YESTERDAY, a conference was convened in London to organise the intervention into Somalia by imperialist forces, led by the UK, acting under the cover of...

Deutsche Bank collapse will crash the world’s banking system!

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DEUTSCHE Bank, the largest and most important bank in Europe, sacked its British born chief executive John Cryan after just three years in the...

Stop Royal Mail privatisation – No to mass sackings!

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THE CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes yesterday warned that the Brown government and the Royal Mail top management are planning to sack...

Global debt crisis threatens to bring down governments, the Bank for International Settlements warns....

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THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week issued a warning that governments across the world are at risk of imploding unless they deal...

Forward with the Greek socialist revolution

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THE Greek working class remains undefeated as the clashes between teachers and students with the riot police in Salonica on Thursday have proven. The source...

Expropriate The Venture Capitalists

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WE are living in the period of the death agony of the capitalist system. It is only natural then, that out of the shadows should...