Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Bank calls for public spending to be slashed to protect profits!

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THE capitalist class of Britain and Europe have been served with a warning that unless they act quickly to slash all public spending they...

US warns Pakistan over gas pipeline link with Iran

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THE Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Monday officially inaugurated the final construction phase of the Iran-Pakistan gas...

Blair is speeding up the privatisation drive

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ON all fronts the Blair government is speeding up its privatisation offensive, so that his governments can leave as their legacy for big...

Capitalism plunging into catastrophic banking crash – time to put it out of its...

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LAST Friday the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed and its assets seized by the American Federal Reserve in the biggest banking crash...

M&s And Taylor Wimpey Crash As Hauliers Descend On Parliament

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HUNDREDS of hauliers picketed parliament in London yesterday to demonstrate against the rising cost of fuel, and the way that it is destroying their...

300,000 march on Downing Street for Palestine. TUC must call a general strike for...

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THE Palestinian factions are standing fast! They have said that they will not sign any agreement or deal unless the people’s demands are achieved,...

Inflation surge hits working class families!

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THE UK’s CPI inflation rate rose sharply in October to 2.7%, a rise of 0.5%, following increases in tuition fees and food prices, with...

Afghan war not worth fighting, say British workers

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SIR Jock Stirrup, the British army commander, has admitted that the great majority of the British people are opposed to the imperialist war in...

Tories’ education ‘tsar’ quits after schools offered just £50 per pupil per year

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THE TORIES’ Education Recovery Commissioner for England, Sir Kevan Collins quit last week after 6.7 million school children were starved of the funds they...

Cox joins the war criminals with her plan to attack Syria!

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ON Monday evening in the House of Commons Labour MP Jo Cox came to the rescue of Cameron and the Tories when she...

Abolish student loans and debt, and restore grants!

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LAST Monday the coalition government’s drive to privatise every single public service and completely smash up the welfare state took yet another grotesque turn...

Blair, Thatcher lavish praise on fellow Tory Heath

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IN THESE days, when capitalist Britain is being rocked by the world economic crisis and the disaster of its imperialist policies in Iraq and...

The British ruling class embraces a corpse

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MARGARET Thatcher was ignored by the bourgeoisie for 23 years after she was put out of office by the Tory leadership in 1990. This...

The Crisis In The Ukraine

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THE imperialist-backed attempted coup to oust the Ukrainian government and replace it with a pro-imperialist regime, has now taken the open form of a...

Unions must call a general strike to support Palestine! – Kick the Tories out...

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ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’ heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza...

Socialist Revolution Is The Only Alternative Now

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UNITE leader Len McCluskey has pointed out correctly some of the immediate implications of the Miliband-Balls line that Labour will honour and continue with...

The ‘hard truth’ is that the only way out of the capitalist crisis is...

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VARIOUS Tory idealogues are in extreme disarray as the capitalist crisis develops rapidly, with the western imperialist powers willing to gamble on a nuclear...

Workers must support Russia and China as Biden threatens new war!

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AS THE world crisis of the capitalist system deepens, the US under President Joe Biden is preparing for a new world war. Biden is...

Imperialist powers are preparing Middle East war – disarm them with socialist revolutions!

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AT a time when US President Trump and France’s Macron are plotting a permanent US presence in northern Syria, to be supported no...

Benefits slashed while bankers prosper

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Today Parliament votes on the Tory coalition bill to place a 1% cap on all benefits and tax credits for the next three years...

Youth will rise up against savage Tory attacks!

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IT is definitely no fun being young under the Tories! As is well known, the Tories are absolutely desperate to be the party that hammers...

Sack Starmer Not Corbyn – No National Government!

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FORMER LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the Labour Party’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and pay damages of over £500,000 to so-called party...

British Capitalism Is On The Rocks And Needs Replacing With A Nationalised And Planned...

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THE BANK OF ENGLAND has issued a warning that not only will the bankrupted UK economy not grow in the wake of the Rachel...

All out action needed to defend pensions and jobs

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THE CWU is warning that 40,000 jobs will go as a result of increased mechanisation of the Royal Mail system. It is also objecting...

Ukrainian regime to be run by open US imperialist agents

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CITIZENS of the US, Georgia and Lithuania have been granted Ukrainian citizenship in order to be key ministers in the new counter-revolutionary...

Taleban Offensive Actions On The Rise

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THERE is no need for major changes in current Afghan strategy, US president Barack Obama told Congress according to a letter released by the...

Reject Labour’s racist points system!

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A NEW points-based immigration system for workers who want to come to the UK from outside the EU was unveiled by Home Secretary Charles...

Obama Looking For ‘Partners’

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PRESIDENT OBAMA’S annual State of the Union speech was dominated by the internal situation of US capitalism, and his search for Republican partners...

Boeing ‘putting passengers’ lives at risk to maximise profit’ warn pilots

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THE GIANT US aircraft manufacturer Boeing is once again at the centre of a storm over the safety of its planes, this time concerning...

‘Vote Leave’ on June 23 to get rid of Cameron and the Tory...

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ON Monday Tory PM Cameron warned that if the UK leaves the EU it could trigger off another great European war. What a condemnation...

IRAQ – the last rites for the occupation and its stooges

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PRESIDENT George W Bush’s plan to stabilise Iraq through a military ‘surge’ is ‘a lost cause’, said the New York Times last Sunday. The New...

Defend every job, occupy to stop closures, and nationalise the major industries

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YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics produced figures showing the record breaking numbers of unemployed and the record breaking growth of unemployment. UK unemployment...

US Transferring The War Into Pakistan

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THE Chief of the Taleban movement in Pakistan Hakimullah Mehsud yesterday blamed the US firm Blackwater, that had an army of mercenaries operating in...

Irish enforced bail-out will bring EU to breaking point!

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IRISH Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and the Irish government, are being forced onto their knees by the EU and the European Central Bank...

Baby deaths & 4-hour trolley waits! Closures of maternity and A&Es are a...

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AN INQUIRY into baby deaths at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust has been broadened into an investigation of hundreds of deaths nationally, Tory...

Labour seeking state control of inquests

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THE parliamentary Human Rights Committee report on the government’s latest Counter-Terrorism Bill, before its second reading in the House of Commons, records just...

Bosnian Workers And Youth Show The Way In The Balkans

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THE class war has erupted in Bosnia with a vengeance as youth and workers rise up in action, uniting all religions and nationalities in...

Tory war on two fronts against Russia and working class at home

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THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...

Taliban cuts the US-UK imperialist powers down to size – now the US and...

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THE US AND UK imperialist powers have just suffered a historic defeat in Afghanistan. Last week, even as they scuttled out of the country,...

Osborne seeking showdown with unions

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ON Thursday the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, made an emergency statement to parliament on the international economic crisis that is engulfing British capitalism to...

Full Support For Barghouthi

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THE jailed Palestinian leader of the Second Intifada, Marwan al-Barghouthi, has written from his prison cell in Israel to urge the Palestinian leadership...

Eurozone collapsing – forward to United Socialist States of Europe

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This week sees yet another desperate round of talks between the two leaders of the eurozone, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas...

Corporatist union leaders are serving the bosses

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WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...

The answer to ‘Fat Cat Thursday’ – Socialist Revolution

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THE MASSIVE gap in wealth between workers and the bosses has once again been highlighted in a new report which shows that the chief...

Turkish Masses Serve Notice On Erdogan

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THE uprising of the Turkish masses, which began over the future of a park in European Turkey and rapidly spread across the country, including...