Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

City Link Closure The Prelude To New Year Class Showdown!

0
THE Christmas Day announcement that parcel delivery firm City Link had gone into administration was ‘disgraceful’, the RMT said yesterday. Its general secretary Mick...

Tsipras organising Greek regime change!

0
AFTER a request by Prime Minister Tsipras, the Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos convened, Monday afternoon 6th of July, a meeting of the Political Leaders...

Baha Mousa – British Army Torture Inquiry Opens

0
was kept with other Iraqis under the control of British troops, and with the knowledge of their officers and various intelligence officials. They were systematically...

Sudanese Masses Resistance Forces Junta To Agree To Murder Trial For Military Officers!

0
EIGHT SENIOR military officers are to be charged in Sudan with crimes against humanity over their part in the mass killing of over 150...

Trade union inquiry needed into London transport disaster

0
YESTERDAY’S tube and bus disaster in London, with 33 dead and hundreds injured, has already been claimed as a terrorist attack, despite the fact...

French And UK Workers Must Unite To Bring Down Macron And Johnson With Socialist...

0
THE imperialist powers are not only in their greatest crisis ever, they are completely split and divided. The UK is prepared to take legal action...

TUC Must Smash The ‘Minimum Service Levels’ Anti-Union Laws!

0
The TUC has responded to the Tory government's 'Minimum Service Levels:  issuing work notices’ document outlining how a trade union should operate as a...

Workers must unite to fight savage cuts and closures!

0
THE deepening capitalist crisis is creating the conditions for a showdown between Labour and Capital – over who runs this country, and for whose...

Oil Heading For $200 A Barrel

0
OIL reached a new record price above 120 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, with New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for...

Quit The Eu Now! Forward To Socialism!

0
KEIR Starmer, Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Leaving the EU, will, today in the House of Commons, open a debate for Labour on...

EU is breaking up! Euro & banks are set to crash. Smash the EU...

0
TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond, speaking about the Brexit crisis from the World Economic Forum in Davos, said yesterday: ‘It is absolutely clear that if...

Renationalise the Royal Mail – new leadership required for CWU

0
THE full price for the capitulation of the CWU leadership over the privatisation of Royal Mail is now rapidly emerging. The union, which halted...

Defend The NHS, The Fire Service & The Welfare State By Bringing Down The...

0
THE response of the Tory-LibDem government to the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system has been to try to force the working class,...

German and UK military chiefs say ‘we must rearm’ and prepare for war with...

0
BRITAIN and Germany’s highest ranking military chiefs have just made an unprecedented joint appeal to the workers of Europe to accept the ‘moral case’...

US Getting Ready For War With China!

0
SPEAKING at the International Institute for Strategic Studies conference in Singapore last Friday, US Secretary of Defence, Leon Panetta, made it clear that the...

US crisis pauses before another leap forward!

0
THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...

No let-up in NHS crisis – trade unions must act

0
WITH the dust barely settled on both the Labour and Tory Party conferences, the brutal reality of the economic crisis gripping British capitalism is...

Zionist parliament finalises ‘death penalty’ bill targeting Palestinian abductees

0
On Sunday, news outlets across Israel revealed the finalised plans by the Zionist regime to carry out executions of Palestinians abducted by the Israeli...

Bosses are taking the axe to the Welfare State, pensions and the NHS! Forward...

0
IN MONDAY’S Daily Telegraph, Roger Bootle spells out the ‘fallacy’ in its business section that economic growth is the key to Britain’s survival as...

Johnson Prepared To Starve UK Workers To Aid Ukraine’s War To Weaken Russia!

0
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have both warned that the war in Ukraine could last years, as Russian...

On the eve of massive cuts – the cry goes up to ‘redefine ...

0
THE number of children living in poverty in the UK remains 2.3 million, government figures show. This situation has seen thousands of families depending on...

Workers forced Brexit through! Now bring down Johnson to bring in a workers government...

0
AT ELEVEN pm last night, Britain officially left the European Union. After a long, hard and determined struggle Brexit has actually happened and the...

Israeli blockade killing babies in Gaza as humanitarian appeals ignored

0
THE MINISTRY of Health in the Gaza Strip warned yesterday that the electricity generators in hospitals will cease to work within 48 hours as...

Clinton pledges continuing war to ‘get rid’ of Assad

0
DEMOCRATIC Party Presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, is to order a ‘full review’ of the United States’ strategy on Syria as a ‘first key task’...

Over A Million Pensioners Are Now Working

0
THE petty 5,000 fall in the number of the unemployed (that is the number of workless who are calculated to be looking for...

Examine practicalities of a general strike by organising it now!

0
THE TUC Congress was dominated by the growing mass anger of the working class at the Tory-led coalition policy of wage freezing and massive...

308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla 308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla blockade busters

0
ON May 31 this year, Israeli commandos abseiled onto the deck of the ‘Mavi Marmara’, which was sailing in international waters on its way...

Public Debt doubles – overthrow bankrupt capitalism

0
The coalition government will be forced to accept this month that the bank bailout has more than doubled the size of the Public Debt...

Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum seekers on to...

0
THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...

Hamas Insists On The Right Of Self Defence Against Israeli Zionist Gangsters!

0
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has categorically rejected UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who labelled and condemned the revolutionary resistance of the Palestinian people against...

Workers Reject Tories And Lib-Dems, Now Take Action To Get The Coalition Out!

0
THE Tories and the LibDems were whipped around the country in the council elections, with Labour retaking Liverpool and numerous cities and towns, as...

Hamas Calls For The Working People Of The World To Take Part In Massive...

0
THE Hamas Movement has called on the world’s free people and the Arab and Islamic nations to actively participate in massive and angry rallies...

Queen’s Speech leaked as axe set to fall on public sector and business grants!

0
THE leaking of the Queen’s budget speech is unprecedented, and is an expression of the depth of the split and the cynicism in the...

Trade Union Bureaucracy Resumes Its Full Support For Pension Busting!

0
ON December 20th the major local government trade unions, after coming under massive attack from their local government members, suspended their support, agreed on...

Homelessness in rural England rises by a third in a year! Socialist revolution to...

0
HOMELESSNESS in rural England has soared by as much as a third between 2012 and 2018, new figures released yesterday have shown. As rich...
Marchers in London on the 3rd anniversary of the war on Iraq demand no attack on Iran

EU moves to suspend all aid to Palestine

0
YESTERDAY the European Union followed the example of the US and suspended its aid to the Palestine National Authority. The EU has given $400...

Windrush and Grenfell Tower prove one thing – this Tory government must...

0
PRESS reports this week revealed that vulnerable members of the Windrush generation are still being forced to live in conditions of complete destitution, forced...

Dempsey’s Five Deadly Options

0
THE US chief of staff, General Dempsey, has written an Open Letter to the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, Carl Levin, about the...

The laws of the capitalist crisis dominate

0
AT the centre of the current media drive to find out, identify, and persecute the individuals, whether bankers and/or politicians who are held to...

Workers Worldwide Must React To Trump’s 48-Hour Nuclear Deadline By Calling General Strikes To...

0
SIR KEIR STARMER has been informed by US imperialism's stooge, Israel, that Iran has developed inter-continental ballistic missiles capable of striking London ‘and dozens...

Kick out TUC leaders who warn of a tsunami of job losses but refuse...

0
NEW ANALYSIS by the research group the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) has shown that unemployment in the UK will be a massive increase...

Stop The Whole Public Sect0R On April 24

0
THE NUT conference has made it perfectly clear that teachers have had enough of the wage cutting and privatisation policies of the Brown government....

Portuguese economic and political crisis reaches explosion point!

0
PORTUGAL’S borrowing costs have jumped to over 7%, meaning that it will shortly have to seek another IMF-EU bailout, by offering even more cuts...

Corbyn, O’Grady and McCluskey are determined to prevent workers from getting rid of Cameron

0
YESTERDAY, under orders from Tory leader Cameron, most of the King’s horses and most of the King’s men of the major trade trade unions...

BA’s nail in the coffin of legal strike actions – by courtesy of Unite’s...

0
THE UNITE trade union leadership announced yesterday that after the cabin crew membership ‘voted last month overwhelmingly, and for the third time, to take...