Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Putin cuddles up to the West over Ukraine!

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SUNDAY night’s meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has shown conclusively the counter-revolutionary nature of...

Call A National All-Out Postal Strike To Renationalise The Postal Service!

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ON MONDAY, it was announced that over 97% of Communication Workers Union (CWU) members working in Royal Mail had voted for national strike action...

TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION TO FORCE PM MAY TO RETURN VENEZUELA’S GOLD AT...

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LAST Wednesday US national security advisor John Bolton threatened that the US administration was putting every foreign bank ‘on notice’ if they failed to...

NAO report exposes the scandal of the Southern GTR Rail franchise

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TRAIN staff and angry commuters have been protesting up and down the country at the 3.4% hikes in rail fares. Many commuters have seen...

Abbas calls for a Government of the State of Palestine!

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday that, ‘We are here today for all of us...

International Criminal Court Has Jurisdiction Over Israeli War Crimes In Palestine!

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THE International Criminal Court ruled on Friday that it has jurisdiction over war crimes and atrocities committed in the Palestinian territories and can thus...

Crisis Forces Osborne To Re-Write His Budget!

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LAST November 25th in his Autumn Statement Chancellor Osborne was full of praise for the way that allegedly the UK was now full set...

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...

Free Julian Assange! Imperialists are the real war criminals!

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JULIAN Assange’s extradition hearing resumed in London yesterday with the US government once again throwing in new charges at the last moment. According to reports,...

Kick out the Tories to end Universal Credit attacks on benefits!

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ON SUNDAY the Guardian newspaper published a letter signed by 30 Labour MPs and the one Green Party MP expressing their concern about the...

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...

Bankrupt McCluskey won’t take action to bring down the Tories!

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IN A statement passed overwhelmingly by Unite’s policy conference in Brighton, the union stressed that its priority is to push for a general election...

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...

Don’t let them drive the trade unions out of politics

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IT IS now becoming obvious that the furore over parliamentary expenses and their alleged misuse, involving at least one leading Tory MP, was just...

Tories declare war on unions

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THE Tory-led coalition, faced with this Thursday’s one-day strike by two million workers, is driving forward preparations for new anti-union laws which will make...

UK ‘pirates’ are doing the USA’s dirty work policing the Med to keep out...

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IRAN has summoned the UK ambassador after UK marines illegally seized an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar. British Royal Marines swooped in...

A desperate ruling class forced to wheel out Gordon Brown to ‘save the day’...

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WITH THE Tory government of Theresa May staggering from one crisis to another this week over the issue of Brexit, the desperation of the...

Capitalism about to bounce over the edge of the precipice!

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IN THE week that Boris Johnson boasted that the lifting of coronavirus lockdown measures heralded the start of the economic ‘bounce back’, it became...

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...

President Trump Refuses To Meet The Family Of Jacob Blake!

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THE FATHER of Jacob Blake, the black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, refused to ‘play politics’ with his son’s life’ when President...

Step Up The Struggle For Palestine

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas has pledged that he will submit a resolution to the UN Security Council to make a decision that the Israeli occupation...

While Israel Lifts Its Lockdown, The Palestinian People Are Dying In Droves!

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THE PALESTINIAN Authority’s Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission said yesterday that the Israeli occupation authorities are maintaining the unfair policy of medical negligence of...

Greek austerity is set to continue! Only way out is through the European...

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GREECE has completed a three-year eurozone emergency loan programme worth 61.9bn euros (£55bn; $70.8bn). This was part of the biggest bailout in global financial...

Furious Postal Workers Are Now Ready For Decisive Action!

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THE CWU stands absolutely united in its anger at the Royal Mail bosses and the ruling class’ High Court following Wednesday’s ‘outrageous’ decision to...

McDonnell makes his bid to lead government of national unity – while Corbyn calls...

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JOHN McDONNELL made his bid to lead the proposed government of national unity to smash Brexit during his interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today...

Judge Dismisses CWU Appeal In A Few Minutes – Time For A General Strike...

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IT TOOK just minutes yesterday for three High Court judges to hear and dismiss an appeal by the postal workers union (CWU) against an...

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...

Support Catalan independence! Down with the Spanish and EU ruling classes! Forward to a...

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CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont has called for a ‘democratic opposition’ to the imposition of direct rule from Madrid after the Spanish government terminated his...

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...

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...

Bank of England pledges to ride to the rescue of capitalism!

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THE BANK of England yesterday vowed that it would ride to the rescue of the world’s financial markets by joining with other central banks...

Tories Greet NHS 70Th Annniversary With More NHS Cuts!

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WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...

Unite Leaders Refuse To Fight The Bosses And The Tories!

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UNITE, the UK’s biggest trade union, is on the front line of the class struggle as ‘fire and rehire bosses’ at BA and other...

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...

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...

120,540 children live in temporary accommodation!

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THE scale of the housing crisis today is revealed in a report issued by the Local Government Authority (LGA) which exposes the scandal that...

Union leaders offer to save capitalism

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BORIS JOHNSON’S address to the nation on Sunday night about ‘relaxing’ the lockdown rules has been widely criticised by the leaders of the Labour...

Economic crisis of capitalism can only be resolved with socialist revolution

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THE PLUNGE of world capitalism over the precipice of an almighty crash has become so obvious that a sense of panic is gripping bourgeois...

£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....

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...

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...

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...

Defend North Korea’s right to defend itself from Imperialist War

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IN HIS New Year speech North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un warned US imperialism not to start a nuclear war against the country saying that...

Meet Tory payback time for working class with a general strike to kick them...

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THE END of September is ‘payback time’ for the working class as far as the Tories are concerned. This is when all the debt incurred...

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...