Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Tories defy court ruling and keep asylum seekers detained at Napier Barracks

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IT HAS been confirmed that the Home Office is determined to keep the dilapidated and dangerous Napier Barracks open for a further four years. The...

TUC Trade Unions Must Support A Palestinian State By Imposing A Boycott Of Israel!

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HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on April 27: ‘The oppression of Palestinians has reached a threshold and a permanence that meets...

US imperialism is discussing Israeli air strikes on Iran’s oil industry!

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CLEARLY rattled by Iran’s 180-strong missile barrage, fired at Israel in retaliation for Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon,...

Japan Rearming To Back US Aggression Against China

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THE Japanese government, ignoring yet again its own constitution, which bans Japan having aggressive military forces, has approved a new national security strategy, and...

Answer Tory plans to use military as strike breakers with a general strike...

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With nurses and thousands of NHS workers planning to take national strike action next month over their demands for pay increases to protect them...

BA workers reject wage cuts! Renationalise BA Now!

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A MASS meeting of more than 3,000 British Airways cabin crew workers yesterday threw out by a massive majority the airline’s plans to slash...

Removing the Blair gang is a matter of vital public safety

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair announced yesterday at his monthly press conference that he would not ‘give an inch to terrorism’, and vowed to combat...

Forward to a Workers Government in both the UK and Palestine!

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HAMAS has commented on the statements of the Zionist War Minister Katz that blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza ‘is a pressure method’. The Hamas...

China’s Historic Space Achievement demonstrates the strength of a planned economy

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YESTERDAY, a Chinese spacecraft made a giant leap forward in human exploration of space when it became the first ever to land on the...

Bosses and bankers agree capitalism is ‘broken’ – time to put an end...

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ANY LINGERING doubts about the morbid terror that is gripping the capitalist class were dispelled this weekend when 50 of the leading bosses from...

Labour plans to criminalise the entire working class

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THE government is planning ‘behaviour orders’ for people considered to be at risk of committing a violent crime. Class prejudice, ie racial and working...

Only Socialist Revolution will end capitalist inequality

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The US is on the verge of slipping below bankrupt Greece on a world index of wealth inequality – this is the stark conclusion...

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...

Anti-Brexit Coup Underway – Workers Must Take Action To Force UK Out Of Eu...

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ON FRIDAY PM MAY let it be known that if she did not think that her EU deal would be agreed by parliament she...

Stephen Hawking defends the NHS – and exposes the Tories – while the TUC...

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THE FAMOUS Cambridge University scientist Stephen Hawking has spoken up to defend the NHS and has publicly exposed the Tory plan to privatise it...

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...

Tories to wield privatisation axe!

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AFTER years of promising that the NHS is ‘safe in our hands’ accompanied by pledges that budgets would be protected with a ring fence...

Johnson blurts out that greed is ‘good’ for capitalism

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IN A VIDEO call with Tory backbenchers on Tuesday night, prime minister Boris Johnson boasted that capitalist greed was responsible for the UK’s vaccination...

Bush, Blair Admit Stupidity And Incompetence

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PRESIDENT Bush and Premier Blair have admitted their chronic incompetence over the prosecution of the war in Iraq, and have appealed to the rest...

Unison Leaders Vote For Another Blairite Government

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FOR the whole period that Labour Left MP John McDonnell was seeking to get the backing of the 40 plus MPs that would have...

Lagarde says Greek euro exit will ‘probably’ not mean end of euro

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THE head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, admitted on Thursday that she could not ‘preclude’ Greece being forced out of the eurozone. This...

Return The Malvinas To Argentina!

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PERU has cancelled a visit by a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Montrose, that had been due this week. Peruvian Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo said: ‘This...

Now is the time to form a Palestinian government of national unity

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‘YOU do not want peace at all. You have destroyed all chances of peace and you should bear all the responsibility,’ Palestinian President Abbas...

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...

Vote ‘Leave’ – Bring Down Cameron – Forward To Socialist United States Of Europe!

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THE mass of the working class and the majority of the middle class must vote to ‘Leave’ the EU today to strike a body...

Abolish The Gangmasters!

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THE scandal of the gangmasters has caused uproar in the working class, but the leaders of the trade union movement are helping to cover...

Drive the fascists off the streets – forward to workers power and socialism!

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LAST Friday night, a racist gang attacked and seriously injured a teenage asylum seeker in Croydon. The Kurdish Iranian boy, age 17, was waiting with...

A general strike to bring down the Tories is the only programme for victory...

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MICK LYNCH, general secretary of the RMT rail workers union, has denounced Labour leader Keir Starmer for being ‘not on the side of workers’...

Israel declares UN agency UNRWA a terrorist organisation and bans it from providing any...

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The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on Monday passed a motion banning UNRWA (the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency) from operating inside Israel and occupied...

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...

Splits and crisis dominate Europe

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LAST weekend the French government collapsed as the splits within the cabinet turned into open warfare between President Holland and his finance minister, Arnaud...

US workers taking action to drive up wages and defend their jobs

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THE once-mighty US economy is facing a wave of strikes by powerful sections of the working class who are determined to drive up their...

Biden insists on Israel’s right to commit genocide in Gaza while Tories insist arrest...

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US president Joe Biden has defended American imperialism’s Israeli ally and denounced the decision of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, to...

Adam Smith rubbishes the Bank of England and its fake stress testing!

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THE Adam Smith Institute has just ‘lampooned’ the Bank of England stress tests – which sought to show that the UK’s banking system is...

Gold Shooting Upwards As The Dollar Plunges!

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THE price of gold hit a record of 1,111.20 dollars an ounce in trading in London on Monday, as the dollar weakened after a...

Palestinians warn Israel over Jabal al-Baba ethnic cleansing!

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday warned Israel that the Jabal al-Baba community to the east of Jerusalem is a red line, warning...

MODERNITY = mass murder, executions and ID cards

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BLAIR yesterday announced the latest line of government spin – that compulsory ID cards, state-run mass fingerprinting and DNA bases, along with no-jury trials...

Cut in interest rates by the Fed will accelerate capitalism’s world crash

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THE US CENTRAL Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday performed an abrupt U-turn on its policy of attempting to hold back the vast amount of...

Tories pushing health insurance to smash NHS! Organise general strike NOW!

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THE SPECTRE of health insurance to ‘top-up’ the NHS has raised its ugly head. It is part of the arsenal of weapons turned on...

Capitalism is ‘At War’ – answer Cameron with general strike

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BRITISH capitalism is ‘at war’ Cameron told the bosses yesterday, an ‘economic war’ which requires the state to rip up the rule book, strip off...

Chase Farm Closure Kills!

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THE death of 2-year-old Muhammad Hashir Maveed last Wednesday is a tragic warning of the cost to human life that must inevitably result from...

Working class must respond to Zionist regime’s plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza by calling general...

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WHILE US president Donald Trump was meeting with Israeli leader Benjamín Netanyahu on Monday, ostensibly to discuss a ‘peace plan’ for Gaza, the Israeli...

British Ruling Class Preparing For A Nuclear War To Defend Capitalism

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THE bankrupt British ruling class is preparing to expand its ‘nuclear deterrent’ by buying a squadron of American jet fighters that have the capacity...

Time for the trade unions to take action to remove broken coalition

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The Sunday Mirror/ComRes survey of 2,002 voters has rattled the cages of the major political parties. It shows that Labour is leading with the support...

Nato Wants 2,500 More Troops In Afghanistan

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ANOTHER British soldier has died after a shooting in the Iraqi town of Al-Qurna, north of Basra. The soldier was the 118th member of...