Editorials

SIR Peter Fahy, Greater Manchester Chief Constable and vice-chair of the National Counter-Terrorism Committee, has warned that the fight against ‘extremism’ is leading to...

‘EAT, heat or pay rent’ that is the stark choice facing millions of low paid and unemployed workers living in private rented accommodation in...

LABOUR leader Corbyn was full of confidence as he opened his campaign to be re-elected as leader of the Labour Party yesterday. He said:...

‘THERE is no obligation on the part of employers to provide pensions’, said the National Association of Pension Funds yesterday. This was its response to...

THE House of Commons Select Committee on Health published a report yesterday that set out to legitimise charging for healthcare within the National Health...

OFFICIAL figures have confirmed that consumer price inflation surged to 5.4% in 12 months to December – up from 5.1% month before – the...

THE continuing collapse of the Starmer-led Labour government was on public display on Wednesday when in a pathetic attempt to reassert his absolute control,...

PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...

IT didn’t take long for the Israeli government to carry out its plan to invade Gaza and carry out a pogrom against the Palestinian...

ROYAL Air Force Tornado fighter bombers have joined the US air force in bombing raids in Iraq’s western Al Anbar province, particularly in the...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday said that the US would talk to Iran if it will suspend its nuclear programme. Rice made...

The world crisis of capitalism is asserting itself with a vengeance, defying every attempt by governments and the world financial system to bring it...

THE announcement by the unelected Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, that he is quitting the job  sent the Italian economy into a massive crisis...

WHEN he defected from the Tory Party to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK on Wednesday, MP Robert Jenrick, former Tory shadow justice secretary, launched a...

THE LARGE taxi app company Uber announced yesterday it would start treating over 70,000 of its drivers in the UK as employed workers entitled...

THE Bank of England yesterday held UK interest rates at 4.75% until at least next February. This follows two cuts to the interest rates this...

THE chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) Chris Hopson, representing more than 200 NHS trusts across England, has called for the ripping...

WORKERS and youth in Cairo held mass demonstrations yesterday following the release of the detained Google executive and facebook radical Wael Ghonim. The demonstrators in...

TORY austerity cuts have meant that poorer areas of the country have been left completely at the mercy of floods, to the extent that...

FRENCH bourgeois democracy, and with it French capitalism, is ‘sick’, and both are in a huge existential crisis. On Sunday, a record two-thirds of...

JEREMY Corbyn launched the Labour Party’s Manifesto for the upcoming general election yesterday claiming it is ‘a manifesto for hope that will bring real...

THE closer we get to the new Terminal Five, the more intense the class struggle becomes between the bosses of the BAA (British Airports...

MORE than 1.2 million people are on Universal Credit, while more than 100 new Jobcentres will be operating it by Christmas. Universal Credit is...

THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...

ON the brink of the third anniversary of the Anglo-US invasion of Iraq, the US based Human Rights First organisation has released a report...

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...

THE warning given over the weekend by the head of one of the leading housing associations that the bedroom tax will lead to mass...

IT is an expression of the depth of the crisis of British capitalism, that Duncan Smith, the ex-Tory leader, the would-be Puritan...

THE House of Commons Defence Committee came out in favour on Monday of continuing massacres of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other places by...

THE PLANNED deportation of 50 people to Jamaica, many of whom came to the UK as children, shows that the Tories racist hounding of immigrant...

THE POSTAL workers union, CWU, is now in a headlong collision with a Royal Mail management openly moving to destroy the union as an...

2,500 POST OFFICES are to be closed by 2009 and all that the CWU post office workers union is doing about this massacre is...

THE WEBSITE of Press TV, the official Iranian English language news site, was seized by the US government on Tuesday, in what amounts to...

THE move by the Egyptian military leadership to overthrow the Muslim Brotherhood government of President Mursi represents a decisive development in the Egyptian revolution...

THE decision of the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King to name and shame the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Darling, as...

THE membership, branch leaderships and regional leaderships of the local government trade unions must stop the betrayal of their final salary pensions by union...

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,...

WHILE the TUC and trade union leaders frantically cancelled strikes and conferences as a ‘mark of respect’ over the death of 96-year-old Elizabeth II,...

BOLIVIA’S President Morales has gone from having a conference last week in Havana with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, which established a...

THE TORIES have stepped up their war on youth, pushing through legislation last Friday which strips all young unemployed people under the age of...

THE Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has just warned that we are rapidly heading for a petrol price of £7.40 a gallon, a catastrophe that...

ON Monday the French government effectively collapsed as a direct result of a massive split in the leading ranks of the ruling Socialist Party...

THE Palestinian masses and their organisations must unite to fight their enemy which is the Zionist state of Israel, backed up and supported by...

‘THE whole thing was hell, it was like a war zone,’ fire crew manager Charlie Batterbee, part of the first crew who entered Grenfell...

THE world capitalist crisis is turning the UK into a country composed of a relative handful of the very, very rich, a middle and...