Editorials

The Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq is close to death according to independent doctors who have visited him in the hospital where he is being...

THE EU Commission’s President Barroso has been told by the ‘people who matter’, ie by members of the Labour government, that they now...

THE UK’s role in fighting the Islamic State is ‘strikingly modest’ and should be stepped up, the House of Commons Defence Select Committee has...

SINCE the Israeli regime’s war cabinet vote last week to occupy Gaza City and force the removal of its entire Palestinian population of one...

THE UK’s biggest car manufacturer, Vauxhall, with plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton, has admitted its more than 5,000 jobs are under massive threat...

THE general secretary of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, has reacted with fury over the revelations contained in the leaked internal report by the...

US DEFENCE Secretary James Mattis has said that the United States will have no cooperation with the Russian military in Syria, at least...

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...

NHS PATIENTS suffering from the same illness, in the same NHS hospital ward, will now be able to purchase drugs and better care, under...

THE bourgeoisie of Europe woke up on Tuesday morning to discover, to their horror, headlines proclaiming that the third largest economy in Europe had...

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...

A CHARITY rescue vessel, the Alex, on Saturday brought 41 shipwrecked migrants into port in Lampedusa. This is the second boat to defy Italy’s...

THE Gate Gourmet strikers are fighting in the most determined fashion to win back their jobs in the face of a hostile union busting...

AS THE world crisis of the capitalist system deepens, the US under President Joe Biden is preparing for a new world war. Biden is...

THE European banks are heading at speed into a crash that will bring down not just the economies of the 17-nation Eurozone but the...

ON TUESDAY, Tory PM Boris Johnson narrowly avoided defeat on a motion to cut UK foreign aid after a rebellion by Tory MPs. In the...

JUST minutes after the IRA issued a statement that it was giving up its historic armed struggle, the British army began demolishing a watch...

ON TUESDAY night, MPs voted by 329 to 299 to pass a motion in principle to back Boris Johnson’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Almost immediately,...

ELEVEN people have been detained after an attack by Islamists at a Moscow concert hall that killed 137, the head of Russia’s Federal Security...

THERE could not be a greater contrast between the policies of the Ukrainian governing parties to join the EU and NATO as rapidly as...

ON TUESDAY, the Tories unveiled The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill to stamp down on protests and give the police, courts and the...

THE GOVERNMENT of French president Emmanuel Macron went into a full blown crisis this week with riots in Nantes on Saturday where thousands of...

NOT one, but two tuition fee hikes have been announced by the Tory government in the last two weeks: first to £9,250 and then...

HOMELESS people die thirty years before the national average, says the latest research from Sheffield University commissioned by Crisis, the national charity for single...

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

THE US ruling class has finally worked out its line on the military coup that was carried out in Egypt to overthrow the elected...

BA yesterday threw the TGWU’s attempt at a compromise out of the window when it announced that all of its planes will be grounded...

BEST-SELLING Irish novelist Sally Rooney has won massive support from fellow writers and artists for her support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS)...

Striking British Airways cabin crew began another five days of strike action last night. On the eve of the action BA cabin crew told...

AT THE end of January, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading high-tech companies – the so called ‘Magnificent Seven’ –...

PRESIDENT Obama has given his authorisation for US air power to be used to support the forces that the US and Turkey are training,...

DUBAI’S ‘debt repayment’ postponement for six months has brought renewed havoc to European, Asian and North American stock markets. They have all been reminded that...

THE Israeli Netanyahu regime is now working hard at its programme for the ‘final solution’ to the question of Palestine and the Palestinians. The Palestinian...

AMERICAN lawmakers have introduced a bill to prohibit the United States from normalising diplomatic relations with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, and to levy...

THE reactionary parties that were assisted by the EU and the US to take power by the coup on February 22 2014, that placed...

IN THE WEEK when the giant oil and gas company Shell announced record profits of £32.2 billion, on the back of the soaring cost...

THE capitalist state has had to admit that its war on two fronts means that it cannot rely on the British army for strike...

THE TGWU leadership, (now sheltering under the Unite label) has once again dropped a decision by its members to take strike action to...

UNITED States President George Bush declared at the end of last week: ‘I call on all nations that have influence with the (Myanmar) regime...

ON WEDNESDAY, the RMT transport union members won a massive victory in their fight against the ‘pitiful’ pay offer from ScotRail. RMT members at ScotRail,...

THE massacres of the Afghan civilian population by air and missile attacks continue, proving that imperialist armies are in the business of mass murder,...

HUTTON, the Blairite currently doing the dirty work smashing up public sector pensions for Cameron and Osborne, has come up with no surprises. He...

MARGARET Thatcher was ignored by the bourgeoisie for 23 years after she was put out of office by the Tory leadership in 1990. This...

Last Friday, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, issued a dire warning that Britain risks another financial crisis unless the government introduces...

THE United Nations says more than half a million Palestinians have now been displaced in war-torn Gaza, as Israel intensifies its air and ground...