Editorials

A SURVEY conducted this week by BBC Radio 5 Live has revealed that more than one third of people in Britain live in fear...

THE MELTDOWN in the Tory vote in last Thursday’s local elections has sent a massive wave of despair throughout Tory MPs and the Tory-supporting...

ON the eve of the Labour Party conference, Ed Miliband has sought to win the support of the middle classes, and also drive a...

AMERICA’S largest manufacturing company, General Motors (GM), announced on Monday that its losses were $1.6bn in the three months to the end of September,...

THE Independent Police Complaints Commission issued a report on Friday detailing the findings of its two and a half year long inquiry into...

PRESIDENT Obama yesterday gave the go-ahead for a massive attack on the Afghan people in which tens of thousands of men, women and children...

THE decision on Thursday by the administrators to close all 163 BHS stores and throw 11,000 workers out of a job with immediate effect...

THE sacking of the Ukrainian prosecutor-general, Svyatoslav Piskun by President Yushchenko has brought the Ukraine to the brink of a civil war...

THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...

JUST days after the failure of the Hoon-Hewitt attempt to remove Gordon Brown as premier, one of Labour’s leading right-wingers, Frank Field, yesterday...

THE number of people worldwide who have died from Covid-19 has passed one million, reaching 1,002,296 with 33,378,462 infected, the Johns Hopkins University reported...

WHEN the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss launched her notorious mini-budget in September 2022 that came close to crashing the UK economy, one...

CORONAVIRUS is spreading around the world, sparking a global economic collapse. For seven days in a row financial markets have fallen. The crisis has...

IN the United States it has just been revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has been secretly collecting the internal documents of...

ARGENTINA is to raise the UK militarisation of the Malvinas Islands (Falklands) at the United Nations. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner...

BP’s profits are soaring, it is getting fabulously richer while more and more working class motorists are forced to take their cars...

IT is rapidly becoming crystal clear how important it is to vote ‘Leave’ in the June 23rd referendum on the EU. A ‘Leave’ vote will...

ON FRIDAY £60 billion was wiped off the UK’s leading companies. The FTSE 100 plunged by 3.62%. In the US a rate cut saw...

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

JUST imagine the furore there would be if British migrants to India were told that they would have to be conversant in Hindi, be...

THE purchasing power of workers’ pay packets is falling at the fastest rate since 2001. Between March and May, pay, excluding bonuses, was down 2.8%...

ON FRIDAY afternoon a terrorist cyber attack was launched on the NHS in England and Scotland that brought it to a standstill in many...

THE ‘biggest shake-up of the immigration system in 45 years’ got underway yesterday, according to the Brown government. The ‘shake-up’ is that the British ruling...

PALESTINIAN youth and workers marched very bravely all over the occupied territories last Friday on Land Day, and they were met as usual by...

THE CHIEF Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, in his ninth and final annual review, has warned that Tory PM Johnson’s promise to hire 20,000...

THE TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that all those behind the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi should be brought to justice,...

David Cameron has convened a summit at Downing Street this afternoon to discuss the ‘implementation of NHS reforms’ with a ‘range of national healthcare...

SRI LANKAN MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country’s new president, despite his extreme unpopularity with Sri Lankan workers and youth...

THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...

WEDNESDAY’S humiliating defeat of the Tory government over the EU Withdrawal Bill signalled the emergence of a bloc between the Labour Party, now firmly...

WITH a Civil War raging inside the completely split Tory Party there could be no better time for taking on the Tory regime, defeating...

THIS week the ‘big guns’ of the capitalist world banking system will each be holding their regular monthly meetings with only one question on...

THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) acting general secretary, Professor Nicola Ranger, opened the union’s annual conference yesterday declaring a ‘national emergency’ in the...

A REPORT by the Henry Jackson Society, published yesterday, named Saudi Arabia as the main foreign promoter of Islamic extremism in Britain, stating that...

IT emerged yesterday that the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, has been lobbying the Tory home secretary for changes in the...

TWO weeks ago the Labour government’s work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall called the two-child benefit cap ‘a stain on our society’, and this...

YESTERDAY the bourgeois media was full of the thoughts of police chiefs who are preparing for a ‘summer of rage’, and pointing to the...

THE CLADDING (HPL) that encased the Bolton students’ accommodation block that was engulfed in flames last week was found, after examination by scientists, to...

THE coalition government has published its plans to turn Britain into one big prison with its own version of the US’ two strikes and...

THE United Nations has confirmed that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city...

YESTERDAY Finland formally joined NATO, becoming the 31st member of the US-led imperialist military bloc in what NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, described as ‘The...

ISRAEL’S illegal annexation of Palestinian land due to start yesterday failed to materialise as the entire scheme was plunged into disarray. July 1 had been...

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

TORY ministers are in a state of despair over the complete inability of the Johnson government to come up with any measures to ‘help’...

THE content of the ‘devolution campaign’, which has now developed into the ‘Home Rule for England campaign’ was revealed yesterday when Tory Justice Secretary...