Editorials

YESTERDAY the TUC leader Brendan Barber, who organised the betrayal of the 760 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers, and before that organised the betrayal of...

THE Council of Europe has announced it is investigating 31 reports of unmarked executive aircraft being used by the CIA to transport ‘suspected terrorists’...

THE Syriza party won the last Greek general election with its declarations that once elected it would put an end to the austerity dictatorship...

PRESIDENT Obama’s inaugural address was Churchillian in tone, but lacking in concrete content, limiting itself to spelling out that the US ruling class was...

THE PALESTINIAN President, Mahmoud Abbas has called for more popular resistance and warned ‘We should not underestimate it’. He has called for further visits to...

THE death of Fidel Castro, the leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution sees millions of Cubans mourning their leader who secured the independence of...

RESPONDING immediately to Tory pressure, Prime Minister Blair yesterday launched his programme of draconian attacks on basic rights and liberties, for a reign of...

TRAIN drivers and other workers at the French state railway SNFC began three months of rolling stoppages on Monday evening, as trade unions push...

BLURTING out the truth, the German economy minister, Sigmar Gabriel, has pronounced the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a free trade deal long...

LABOUR leader, Jeremy Corbyn, completed his first reshuffle of the shadow cabinet after a tortuous round of negotiations designed to keep the right-wing of...

JUST how ruthlessly Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is conducting the ruling class’ war on the poor can be seen in...

CURRENTLY a great deal of propaganda hot air is being expended hailing the action that British forces are taking to ‘liberate’ the town of...

PRESIDENT Trump has described the new ‘utopia’ that the UK faces once it breaks with the EU, and the UK ruling class switches its...

THE DAILY Telegraph reported at the weekend that they had been told by two Israeli officials that daily ‘violations’ by the Palestinian resistance movement...

TURKEY and Israel are to announce an agreement on the normalisation of bilateral ties, ending six years of a freeze in relations, after a...

THE blood price paid by the public for the running of the NHS as a business, with the private sector at its centre and...

ONCE AGAIN the Labour Party leadership of Brown and Darling have shown where their class allegiance lies – and at great cost to the...

THIS week, The Guardian newspaper, using the Freedom of Information Act, published the Labour government’s own internal assessment of the impact of the planned...

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

THE Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have warned of a dangerous escalation in the systematic repression carried out...

THE imperialist military alliance, NATO, meets today at the request of Turkey which will be invoking Article 4 of its treaty which covers threats...

THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England, King, spoke to the gathered ranks of big business on Thursday evening at his Mansion House feast,...

OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...

ON WEDNESDAY, the US vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demanding ‘an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’ in Gaza. The draft resolution also...

AS WE approach the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration in which British imperialism pledged to hand over somebody else’s country to conquest and...

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

AFTER actively assisting in the creation of trillions of debt, and showing its contempt for the concept of value by selling almost half of...

THE determined drive by the Tory government to cut the pay and conditions of every NHS worker, as a prelude to the ultimate aim...

‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...

WITH the Tories set to decide whether they want Boris Johnson or Sunak to continue with the job of completely destroying all of the...

LABOUR MPs were queuing up to warn that Keir Starmer’s days as Prime Minister are numbered following a disastrous day in Parliament on Wednesday...

ON SUNDAY, hundreds of workers from Gate Gourmet, who were locked out and sacked by the company on August 10, 2005, are marching with...

THE MYANMAR embassy in London was taken over by representatives of the country’s military junta on Wednesday with the previous Ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn...

THE Syrian government has said over a long time that it would never use chemical weapons against its own people. Yesterday, the General Command of...

JOHN McDONNELL the newly appointed Labour shadow chancellor, made his first speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday outlining the ‘new economics’ that he...

IN MONDAY’S Daily Telegraph, Roger Bootle spells out the ‘fallacy’ in its business section that economic growth is the key to Britain’s survival as...

BOTH American generals and ex-British ambassadors have been predicting that Iraq is either on the brink of civil war or that it has already...

THE News Line sends greetings to the striking German and the locked-out British Gate Gourmet workers, who are today marching through Hounslow. The German workers...

MORE than 100,000 people are expected to take part in the anti-war demonstration in London today, according to its organisers, the Stop the War...

A REPORT by Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre For Crime and Justice Studies published last week focuses on the way police and prosecutors collude to...

YESTERDAY, Zionist mobs were attacking Palestinians all over the occupied territories seeking to seize their homes and land and drive them off it. Israeli occupation...

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 Metropolitan Police arrested two pro-Palestine protesters for shouting ‘Globalise the Intifada’ at a peaceful demonstration outside the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday night,...

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 DAMNING report from the Care Quality Commission into the running of a private hospital has finally emerged in public some four months after...