Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Strike wave hits UK as workers rise up against bankrupt capitalism!

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AS CHRISTMAS approaches, the strike wave sweeping Britain is far from abating, in fact it is growing in strength and determination by the day...

Blair’s police state demonising Muslims

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ABU Bakr, the 27 year old English teacher, and one of the nine Muslim men arrested by the police, and put under the media...

Bankers promote permanent austerity! Nationalise the banks through a socialist revolution – the only...

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RICHARD SHARP, a member of the Bank of England’s Financial Stability Committee has warned that the UK is heading for a Venezuelan-style economic crash...

Baa And Virgin Air Industry Workers Are Ready For Action

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NEWS LINE sends its greetings and full support to the British Airports Authority workers who have decided to take strike action at seven major...

Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe

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THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...

Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, says Amnesty!

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‘THERE is strong evidence that Israeli forces committed war crimes in their relentless and massive bombardment of residential areas of Rafah in order to...

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...

Leave the EU with no deal! Forward with the socialist revolution!

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THE VOTES in Parliament on amendments to Theresa May’s Brexit deal saw the counter-revolutionary plots by MPs from all parties to smash the 2016...

No To Imperialist War In West Africa!

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SUFFERING a decisive and humiliating defeat at the hands of the Afghan people has in no way diminished British imperialism’s appetite for military adventures...

The ‘Mortgage Bomb’ is about to explode, pauperising the middle class, with inflation shredding...

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THE news from the mortgage front is grim. Millions of families are experiencing shocking hikes in mortgage rates of hundreds of pounds per month,...

Lesson of De Menezes murder – break up police death squads!

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AT the moment it looks as if a fierce battle is being fought between the Labour government and the opposition parties over the fate...

Rajapakse And His Backers Will Not Defeat The Tamil People

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YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...

Palestinian Factions Meet To Decide On The Way Forward To The State Of Palestine!

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THE Palestinian factions and forces held a meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Saturday, to discuss the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement...

TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers

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THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...

Truss Is Shattered While Johnson Is Posing As The Man To Save UK Capitalism!

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LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...

Working class will refuse to pay the bill for the huge historic crisis of...

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CHANCELLOR Hunt, and Prime Minister Sunak are set to dump the whole historic crisis of out-of-date and senile British capitalism onto the backs of...

The BoE and Brown gamble with workers wages jobs, homes and pensions

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THE Bank of England yesterday launched its government-backed scheme to allow the major banks to swap their dodgy mortgages for UK Treasury Bonds, in...

Junior doctors and student nurses lead the way Now call a general strike!

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THE decision by the BMA on Monday to walk away from the negotiations over the imposition of new contracts for junior doctors and to...

Zero-hours contracts and below legal minimum wages dominate in private care agencies

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ANALYSIS by the GMB union of figures in the national Skills for Care database reveals that care workers employed in the private sector are...

Homelessness rises by 134%! Socialist revolution needed to build millions of council homes!

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HOMELESSNESS has risen by a startling 134% since the Tories came to power in 2010, with the amount of people sleeping on the...

Workers Must Occupy Gm Luton And Ellesmere Port And Demand Their Nationalisation

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NEXT MONDAY June 1 GM will seek Section 11 Bankruptcy, cutting off GM Europe with less cash than is required to see the week...

Israeli government forced to remove metal detectors from Al Aqsa Mosque!

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THE ISRAELI security cabinet decided on Monday night, after massive Palestinian demonstrations and international protests, to remove the metal detectors which had been installed...

Workers shake Labour to its foundations with their vote for Brexit!

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THE EU elections have shattered both the Labour and the Tory parties. With a national turnout of 37%, Labour got 13.6 of the vote, the...

With the Anti-Union Laws waiting on Royal Assent, the TUC must be made to...

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LAST THURSDAY the government made a ‘final offer’ to the NHS consultants, a petty offer that they rejected out of hand. BMA Consultants Committee...

Anglo-French summit plans new imperialist wars in Africa!

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YESTERDAY, PM Theresa May met with French President Macron in a UK-France Summit that was, however, no ordinary summit. Firstly, it took place at the...

USA supplies Syrian gangs with latest anti-tank weapons

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THE US, UK and Saudi-backed and organised ‘rebels’ who have failed to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, who has the support...

Labour is going to bring a co-payment system into the NHS

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AS the economic crisis deepens, the drive to privatise the NHS is being stepped up on a number of fronts. One is the growing...

‘History at a turning point’ – forward to victory of world socialist revolution

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THE ANNUAL meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos started yesterday on the theme of ‘history at a...

Postal workers want indefinite strike action NOW!

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CWU members have voted, in a 67 per cent turnout, a much bigger turnout than in a British general election, for strike action, with...

Tory ‘crackdown’ on youth inspired by fear of young people as a revolutionary force

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak yesterday launched a ‘crackdown’ on anti-social behaviour and begging, as the centrepiece of government policies in what is a...

Tories routed in Clacton – Labour hangs on in Heywood

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THURSDAY’S by-election in Clacton, caused by the defection to UKIP of the sitting Tory MP, Douglas Carswell, saw the Tory party completely routed. Carswell won...

Supporting Iraq or Palestine is to be a crime!

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RESPONDING immediately to Tory pressure, Prime Minister Blair yesterday launched his programme of draconian attacks on basic rights and liberties, for a reign of...

Israel imitates the Nazis with its murderous attacks on Palestinians!

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ISRAELI forces on Thursday evening sealed off the main entrance to Duma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to...

Stop NHS cuts and privatisation – a general strike to defend the NHS

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THE CRISIS in the NHS has reached a breaking point with NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation issuing an unprecedented joint report calling for...

Miliband wants to break with unions so Labour can form a national government...

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STANDING with the ‘One Nation’ Tory slogan behind him, Labour leader Miliband yesterday outlined his intention to wrest the Labour Party completely away from...

UK at the back of the queue for at least 10 years threatens...

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THE UK could take up to 10 years to negotiate trade deals with the US if it leaves the EU, Barack Obama has said. In...

UNISON, TGWU, and GMB leaders all support Brown’s staged pay cuts!

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ANYONE who was wondering why, at the TUC Congress, when union leaders were moving resolutions calling for coordinated industrial action against the Brown government’s...

Hundreds Of Thousands Being Referred To Foodbanks

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HUNDREDS of thousands of welfare claimants are being denied support by the social services, and are being referred to foodbanks by Job Centre staff...

Occupation must end by November 2016!

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THE European Court ruled yesterday that Hamas be removed from the EU’s terrorism blacklist, a huge gain for the Palestinian people, after Hamas’ leadership...

Defend The Post Office! Stop Royal Mail Privatisation!

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THE CWU revealed yesterday that 9,360 post offices will close once Royal Mail is privatised and the inter-business agreement with the Post Office is...

California’s budget ‘meltdown’

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CALIFORNIA’S Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal state of emergency yesterday in a move to put pressure on members of California State Legislature...

US-Israel Organising Cyber Warfare

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THE New York Times has revealed that the United States and Israel were behind the Stuxnet virus cyber-warfare attack on Iran and its nuclear...
London firefighters demonstrating against cuts earlier this year

The PM’s wife can speak out on rights – but the TUC cannot!

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THE scale of the crisis that has hit capitalist Britain is now so great that it has forced the Prime Minister’s wife, Cherie...

IPCC admits Special Branch acted illegally to assist drawing up ‘blacklist’ for bosses!

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‘POLICE, including Special Branches, supplied information that appeared on the blacklist, funded by the country’s major construction firms, the Consulting Association and/or other agencies,...

Union must end all ‘positive engagement’ with the employers – only occupations and strikes...

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A STORM has erupted over the revelations that a taskforce set up in 2017, with the object of protecting the future of the Ford...