Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

OPCW aided Douma cover-up and the massive imperialist air strike that was launched by...

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A JUST-LEAKED report by the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) engineers contradicts the chemical watchdog’s official report on the April 2018...

PFI privateers having looted the NHS and the public sector are now pushing for...

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THE EXTENT of the full-scale looting of the country’s public buildings by giant offshore private companies has been highlighted in a report by a...

US assembling coalition to launch war on Iran! Workers of UK & US must...

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IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned that ‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ He was responding to threats from US...

3,000+ refugees have been on hunger strike in detention centres since 2015! Shut them...

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THE HOME Office itself has produced figures showing that more than 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers have been on hunger strike in the last...

40,000 Israeli reservists called up!

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel would ‘not tolerate the firing of rockets on our cities and towns’. His remarks came after...

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...

Trump gambles on his inflationary boom lasting till presidential election day!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump delivered his formal State of the Union address on Tuesday night with the usual boast that under the three years...

Labour must pledge to nationalise Bombardier to defend 14,000 jobs!

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PM May is said to be ‘bitterly disappointed’ that the US Department of Commerce and her friend President Trump have opted to impose a...

Bankrupt Italian Capitalism Is Set To Crash And Bring The Bankrupt Eu Down With...

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ITALY’S economic crisis is reaching the point of explosion, an explosion that even bourgeois economists fear will bring down the eurozone and the entire...

May Government ‘Hanging By A Thread’ – Cme Rings The Alarm Bells For World...

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THE WORLD’S capitalists are ringing the alarm bells at the prospect that the May government will fall. The US CME Group that owns and operates...

UK troops are on the Polish border – while US and UK forces are...

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BRITISH TROOPS are now on the Belarus-Polish border answering a request by the Polish government to give it military support against thousands of Middle...

Workers will demand Unite’s national action against fire and rehire be stepped up to...

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YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...

Capitalism cannot be reformed – forward to socialist revolution

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THIS week sees the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in the Swiss town of Davos, perched high in the Alps, ideally situated for...

Poroshenko crushed in elections – forward to Ukrainian workers taking back power and returning...

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THE WORKERS and small farmers of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the right-wing oligarchs and to the EU and US imperialism when they...

Nurses demand emergency conference to remove union leaders guilty of pay betrayal

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NURSES reacted with fury last week when they received their July pay packets and realised that the 3% pay increase their union, the RCN,...

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...

Labour Reformism Is Rotten To The Core – The Working Class Needs A Revolutionary...

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LABOUR’S defeat in the 2019 general election is a historic one, since its central feature was the way that the safest Labour seats in...

Tories rip up workers health and safety as their bankrupt economy disintegrates!

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TORY CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak did the rounds of press interviews yesterday preparing the way for today’s reopening of non-essential shops and businesses and he...

University applications are plummeting! Call General Strike to scrap all uni fees, restore grants...

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SOARING university tuition fees, rents in student halls being hiked up, the complete removal of the student grant and the spiralling cost of living...

Tories wage starvation war against children of immigrant families and the entire working...

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THE children of immigrant families are being deliberately starved by the Tories as part of their ‘hostile environment’ policy towards immigrant workers. Headteachers and...

Heseltine Looks To Corbyn’s Labour To Stop Brexit!

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MICHAEL HESELTINE, a Tory Deputy Prime Minister under John Major and a notorious enemy of the trade unions, has revealed that he prefers a...

All Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action To Support The Occupation Of...

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HARLAND AND WOLFF shipyard has been occupied by the workforce to prevent its closure. However on Monday, the unions involved revealed that staff had already...

Employment figures mask the real crisis of British capitalism

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THE BIG lie of this minority Tory government is that British capitalism is thriving, its economy is in vigorous good health and that workers...

UK Is £2 Trillion In Debt – Tories Are Ringing The Alarm Bells...

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UK GOVERNMENT debt has risen above £2 trillion and hit £2.004 trillion for July. The debt is £227.6bn more than last year. It is...

Tory Nationality & Borders Bill will make rescuing refugees from drowning illegal!

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ON MONDAY night, the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (the Policing Bill) passed its third reading in Parliament on its way to...

Workers must apply ‘French tactics’ against a parliament that is trying to steal Brexit!

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BRITISH parliamentary democracy was exposed as nothing more than a chaotic and rapidly collapsing sham on Tuesday when, for the first time in history,...

McDonnell: Those who died in Grenfell were ‘murdered by political decisions!’

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LABOUR shadow chancellor John McDonnell has come out and said openly what the vast majority of people in the country believe – that those...

£16.5bn for the military as Tories plan a war on public sector workers to...

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THE TORIES have exceeded all previous borrowing records, taking the British bosses’ national debt to its highest level ever since records began, reaching £2.3tn....

Mandela mourners boo ANC President Zuma

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THE presence of all of the capitalist world’s leaders could not keep the South African masses quiet about their real feelings for the ANC...

EU 750 billion euros ‘Recovery Fund’ nothing more than a Trojan Horse for...

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LAST Tuesday the emergency summit of leaders of the EU 27 member states finally agreed to a 750 billion euros pandemic recovery fund after...

NHS Care Cancelled Until Further Notice! Time To Get The Tories Out!

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DR RICHARD Fawcett, a Royal Stoke Hospital consultant, has apologised for ‘third world’ conditions in the hospital’s A&E, saying that he was ‘heartbroken’ to...

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...

The IMF sees the writing on the wall with second warning in 24 hours...

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THE International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report has given its second warning in 24 hours about a new financial catastrophe that it sees coming...

Labour becoming the Party of ‘remain’! Break with the EU through socialist revolution!

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TO THE ALARM and anger of all those Labour supporters who voted to break from the EU, Labour is swiftly and openly becoming...

Occupy to stop car plant closures – nationalise the motor industry to defend...

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YESTERDAY, US carmaker Ford announced it will close the car engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, throwing all 1,700 workers out of a job...

Tory government responsible for thousands of unnecessary deaths – time to kick them out!

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YESTERDAY marked the 10th anniversary of the BBC Panorama programme that exposed the shocking treatment of the patients at Winterbourne View, a private hospital...

Developing Oil Crisis Makes It All The More Vital That The Working Class Takes...

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THE SAUDI REGIME, backed to the hilt by the US and the UK, yesterday admitted that the Houthi movement’s drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s...

Socialist revolution the only way to prevent mass unemployment

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THE ANNOUNCEMENT this week by the aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls Royce that it is to slash 4,600 jobs in the UK as part of...

British Capitalism Is On The Rocks! All Life Support Attempts Are Failing As The...

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SUCH is the crisis of British capitalism more than half of the adult population, 27 million people, have had to be financially assisted by...

Tanker attack provocation in the Gulf – US looking to launch war on Iran...

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TWO oil tankers were attacked on Thursday morning in the Gulf of Oman. The Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous and Norway’s Front Altair were abandoned after two...

Tory lies over ‘Syrian gas attack’ exposed!

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THE ENTIRE justification for last Friday’s illegal bombing of Syria by British, US and French forces is falling apart rapidly as the truth emerges. The...

Tories join with Labour to dump Johnson and prepare way for a national government

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YESTERDAY, MPs debated the motion from Labour that would refer the behaviour of prime minister Boris Johnson to the Commons standards committee to investigate...

Half a million children of public servants condemned to poverty by wage and benefit...

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550,000 CHILDREN (1 in 7) with a parent working in the public sector will be forced to live in poverty by the end of...

Restoring nurses’ & midwives’ bursaries – a matter of life or death for...

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THERE is a desperate lack of nurses in the NHS. Currently, overloaded nurses are doing the job of three people, working 12-hour shifts in...

Carney tells banks to find £11.4 billion to save them going bust

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DESPITE all the recent words from Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, about the underlying health of British capitalism, his actions yesterday...