Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

The Working Class Must Intervene To Resolve The Brexit ‘Debate’!

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LAST Tuesday afternoon, in the House of Commons, the knives were out for the Brexit referendum result, and for the millions of workers who...

Labour right-wing plot with Tories to close down Parliament to prevent Brexit

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IT EMERGED at the weekend that the latest stage in a coup to overturn the Brexit referendum result by an alliance of right-wing Labour...

Starmer prepares for reactionary coalition to impose capitalist crisis on workers – Socialist revolution...

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THE MELTDOWN in the Tory vote in last Thursday’s local elections has sent a massive wave of despair throughout Tory MPs and the Tory-supporting...

Labour reach new depths of treachery over NHS

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AT the weekend the new Labour shadow health secretary, Andrew Burnham, delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the NHS with the announcement...

Trump escalates trade war with China and prepares for a shooting war – only...

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THE TRUMP administration has ratcheted up the confrontation with China with an escalation of its economic trade war, coupled with a provocative military build-up...

Build the 4th International in the US

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THE decision of the United Steelworkers of America trade union to follow the lead of the just-failed Democratic contender, John Edwards, whom the steelworkers...

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...

Price Explosion threat to working class

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ENERGY bills will rise by more than 60% within the next few years, a report for the UK’s biggest domestic energy supplier Centrica said...

Bma Oppose Health Rationing

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‘We are not against improving patient referral standards, but we are opposed to referral management to cut costs and ration treatment,’ British Medical Association...

Withdraw British troops from Afghanistan now!

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BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary David Miliband told NATO imperialist military chiefs in Brussels yesterday that the strategy in Afghanistan must be geared to ‘an inclusive...

Death rate rising rapidly – savage Tory cuts to blame!

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MASSIVE Tory cuts are undermining the NHS and threatening the lives of many thousands. There is already an investigation taking place after  whistleblower Sarah Hayes, a...

Labour to let multi-nationals take over NHS Primary Care Trusts

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THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health insurance...

Smash The Zionist Entity! Forward To The State Of Palestine!

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THE decision of an Israeli court to reject that the Israeli army and state were in any way responsible for the 2003 Israeli...

Trade union leaders should resign as well!

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IN a statement on Friday, the day after the general election disaster for reformism, the TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady showed just what a...

World economy on brink of collapse

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THE capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step over the brink into the abyss of collapse with the news that the euro debt...

No war with Syria – answer the £20bn of cuts by kicking out the...

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PM Cameron is due to drive forward Tory war plans both at home and abroad this week. Today, he is meeting President Hollande to prepare...

Stop the pensions sell-out! Sack Barber and Prentis! Call a general strike!

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THE Trade union bureaucracy, led by TUC leader Barber and Unison leader Prentis, have shown clearly, with their position that the trade unions have...

Johnson’s new attack to break up the NHS

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LABOUR’S Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans yesterday to allow well-off patients to make so-called ‘co-payments’ for drugs and extra treatments, while still receiving...

German Ruling Class Gets Ready For Another War With Russia!

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‘WE are witnessing a turning point … the world is not the same anymore,’ said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech last Sunday,...

Increased sanctions on Russia drive the bosses’ war against the working class at home!

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THE MOVE by the US, the UK and EU ruling classes to cut off all oil and gas supplies from Russia is now ‘unstoppable’...

It’s bags of gold for the Taleban, but wage cuts for the workers!

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ALL the ‘we will win the war in Afghanistan’ propaganda has now been dumped as the political leaders of imperialism have begun to grasp...

Brown Trying To Buy Time For Capitalism

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LAST week a Tory MP had to apologise to the House of Commons because he had said that the government should ‘let the recession...

Time for US workers to break with the Democratic Party

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A NEW Gallup poll survey shows that 14% of American households describe poverty wages and the cost of healthcare as their most important financial...

World bankers meet in Washington as crisis erupts across the capitalist financial system

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THE JOINT annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank is taking place in Washington this week under conditions of...

Passchendaele – where imperialism murdered hundreds of thousands of British & German workers

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THE BATTLE of Passchendaele saw 275,000 British soldiers, workers in uniform, killed or wounded alongside 220,000 German workers in uniform. This was a great imperialist...

Yellow jacket uprising spreads across Europe and inspires the masses in the Middle East

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ON MONDAY night, French President Emmanuel Macron used a televised address to the nation to try and head off the insurrectionary wave sweeping the...

End CWU paralysis – reinstate strike actions!

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KARL MARX wrote in his masterpiece ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur,...

The NHS is one of the best!

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THE NHS has been under heavy attack by both Tory and Labour governments for the last 17 years. They want to privatise it and...

Working class must demand the TUC act and not sit back while Gaza is...

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Yesterday Israel announced a ‘total’ blockade of Gaza, including a ban on food, electricity, water, and fuel. Announcing this move to strangle Gaza, Israeli defence...

Iraq a ‘disaster’; NATO can’t win in Afghanistan – Blair and Brown must go!

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FOLLOWING last Friday’s published remarks of Labour Minister Margaret Hodge, one of Blair’s closest political friends, describing the Prime Minister as practising ‘moral imperialism’,...

The Iraq war, the world crisis and the socialist revolution

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MARCH 2008 sees the US and UK armed forces and governments irreparably damaged as a result of their failure to subdue the Iraqi people...

Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis

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THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...

Libyan Counter- Revolutionaries Being Showered With Cash!

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WESTERN and Arab countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia have pledged $1bn for the right-wing stooges of imperialism in Benghazi, at the latest...

Cameron’s ‘Chain Gangs’ For The Unemployed

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THE PCS civil servants trade union yesterday rightly condemned the coalition government’s plans to force the long-term unemployed, and unemployed youth, to do manual...

Tories protect the rich from floods while the rest left to drown

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TORY austerity cuts have meant that poorer areas of the country have been left completely at the mercy of floods, to the extent that...

Coaliton Policies Put The Elderly On The Breadline

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RISING costs and rampant price inflation are leaving half of older people living on the breadline. According to the AGE UK charity nearly half are...

Russia responds to NATO moving eastwards

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A RUSSIAN foreign ministry statement issued on Tuesday evening said: ‘If a US strategic anti-missile shield starts to be deployed near our borders, we...

Hero Mandela dies – Forward to socialism in South Africa

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NELSON Mandela, one of the great heroes of the anti-Apartheid struggle who was jailed for 27 years on Robben Island for his opposition to...

RAF planes bomb Iraq/Syria border areas

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ROYAL Air Force Tornado fighter bombers have joined the US air force in bombing raids in Iraq’s western Al Anbar province, particularly in the...

Congress must call general strike to bring down the Tories and bring in a...

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THE TUC meets in Brighton this week for its most vital Congress in living memory. It meets at a time when the working class...

Trade unions face fresh attacks

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AN OPINION piece in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph pointed to yet further attacks on the trade unions’ rights to organise and represent their members. According to...

First the UK, now Italy – Forward to the European Socialist Revolution!

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THE RAPIDLY unfolding crash of the EU drove the ruling class to take unprecedented action on Sunday to overturn the Italian election result...

Take the PCS civil servants up on ‘full support’ offer

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LAST THURSDAY at 2pm as the postal workers came out on their 48-hour strike, the PCS civil service union sent a special message to...

Take action to defend jobs. Occupy and organise a general strike!

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FACED with the crash of the pound and the enormous 182,000 leap in the number of unemployed in the three months to October, the...

Imperialist powers are preparing for war with Russia by sending in the Islamists!

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ELEVEN people have been detained after an attack by Islamists at a Moscow concert hall that killed 137, the head of Russia’s Federal Security...