Editorials

ON MONDAY night, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen announced that, after a high level meeting, Britain...

SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saed Erekat said yesterday that the international community has failed in its responsibility to correct the...

IN ‘going-broke Britain’ the number of people becoming insolvent in England and Wales in 2009 was 134,142, according to official data from the Insolvency...

WITH PM May seeking a miracle rescue by the EU getting rid of the backstop, in the real world a coup is being launched...

THE SUDANESE military regime has once again shown its contempt for any real peace talks in the country, and its confidence that since it...

NEXT Tuesday the doctors’ trade union, the BMA, meets in London for an extraordinary Special Representative Meeting (SRM). 350 representatives of its 140,000 members,...

CIVIL WAR in the Tory Party has erupted as Boris Johnson and his allies launch a coordinated attack on PM Rishi Sunak, with the...

THE Israeli occupation forces in Palestine are continuing with their genocide and have committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the...

ECHOING the strident and alarmist calls to prepare for war against Russia from UK military chiefs, Al Carns, Labour’s UK Armed Forces Minister, warned...

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

WHILE welcoming the limited ‘humanitarian pause’ in the Gaza war to allow the polio vaccination of young Gazan children by the World Health Organisation...

WE are living in the period of the death agony of the capitalist system. It is only natural then, that out of the shadows should...

LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...

AT A press conference held on the Kabul airport tarmac, on Monday afternoon, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the US had been defeated and...

THE historic crisis of world capitalism has come to a head with a vengeance, with both the once mighty US economy and the European...

A VIDEO showing President George W Bush being warned on the eve of Hurricane Katrina that the storm could breach New Orleans’ flood defences...

THE collapse of the construction company Carillion has again thrown a spotlight on the systematic theft and looting of billions of pounds from workers’...

JEREMY Corbyn will not be a Labour candidate at the next general election, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has said. Corbyn the former...

FOLLOWING 17m plus workers voting to ‘Leave’ in the 2016 EU Referendum, the UK is leaving the EU on March 29th 2019, two years...

CHILCOT opened his report of his inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war yesterday by stating that it was not the job of his very...

THE speech by Labour’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves to the party’s annual conference on Monday was nothing more than an appeal to the international financial services...

US TREASURY Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday warned congressional leaders that the Treasury will run out of cash next month and the federal government...

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is now in intensive care at St Thomas’ hospital, laid low by the coronovirus, perfectly reflecting the state of British...

LABOUR’S health secretary Wes Streeting yesterday unveiled his new ‘trimmed down’ mandate for the NHS. Declaring that he would bring the health service ‘back to...

WE ARE now reaching the moment of truth in the struggle to carry out the result of the 2016 referendum which instructed Parliament that...

FIGURES released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a dramatic increase in the number of preventable deaths among the elderly...

A HEARTBREAKING picture of a 9-year-old Palestinian boy who lost both his arms in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City has won the prestigious...

THE American workers are facing major problems, caused by the deepening crisis of the world capitalist system. Among these problems are the export of millions...

ALMOST 50,000 resident (junior) hospital doctors started their 5-day strike yesterday against the government’s refusal to fund their claim for a pay increase of...

WORKERS and young people will be forgiven if they believe that they are living in some parallel universe that has absolutely no connection with...

LAST night’s BBC Panorama programme revealed yet more evidence of unlawful killings of Afghans by members of the Special Air Service (SAS) during the...

IN THESE days, when capitalist Britain is being rocked by the world economic crisis and the disaster of its imperialist policies in Iraq and...

PM MAY, under the guise of adopting a ‘one nation’ policy which treasures the poor and the needy much more than the rich, has...

Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...

HOMELESSNESS among households in England has risen by 54 per cent since 2010 – rising annually every year – shows the latest report by...

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...

WORLDWIDE the class struggle is being driven forward by the deepening world crisis of capitalism. This dictates to the bourgeoisie that its survival depends...

SYRIAN army troops yesterday moved swiftly to march into northern Syria to confront Turkish invasion forces just hours after the Syrian government reached an...

IN HIS State of the Union address last week, US president Donald Trump boasted that under his leadership the American economy had undergone a...

British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union has...

THE victory of the Hamas movement in the fighting in the Gaza Strip is a huge setback for the imperialist diplomacy of the US...

A REPORT from the independent health think-tank, the King’s Fund, has revealed that the NHS is systematically being destroyed through government-imposed financial cuts. The Fund...

EVERY WORKER AND YOUTH must take to the streets for this Saturday’s million strong: ‘Kick the Tories out march. Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell...

PRIME Minister Blair on Saturday, at a Unions 21 conference, urged unions to modernise to ‘seize the opportunities of globalisation and the changing nature...

THE uprising that took place in Tottenham on Saturday night came 48 hours after the police shooting of a local man, Mark Duggan, and...