Editorials

DAVID Cameron’s speech outlining his ‘five-year plan to fight extremism’ was in reality an outline of the Tory government’s war plans for both the...

TWO British Labour MPs were detained and deported by Israel on Saturday after they had attempted to enter the country as part of a...

YOU can tell that the split and divided Tory party and capitalist class in the UK are in very serious trouble when they have...

ON Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB), after months of prevarication and splits within its ranks, finally took the decision to launch the eurozone’s...

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

IN AN INTERVIEW with the Guardian paper yesterday, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, warned that the moves by...

GERMANY’S Chancellor, Angela Merkel, says she is satisfied with the EU deal to help finance the debt-laden eurozone banks without the sovereign state, in...

ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’ heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza...

FOR years the Italian banking system has been kept on a life-support system of government bailouts as it sinks under the weight of astronomical...

THE TORIES unveiled this week proposals for funding Transport for London (TfL) that will force the working and middle class to bear the huge...

MASSIVE Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah ‘are not the end of the story’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared – after Israeli jets bombed...

PM Cameron earlier last week insisted he would remain Prime Minister even if he lost the June 23 referendum. This position has been challenged in...

THE massive growth in unemployment sparked by the worldwide financial collapse in the capitalist system in 2008 is hitting youth so hard that the...

WITH petrol poised to rise to £7.40 a gallon, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has intervened to rub salt into the gaping wounds...

PRESIDENT Trump’s efforts to smash ex-President Obama’s healthcare system, which provides cheaper health insurance for the low paid and the poor (Obamacare), have...

LEADERS of the major capitalist states, and the leaders of Russia and China, who have linked their fate to the future of the crisis...

THE resolution of the United Nations Security Council condemning violence in Zimbabwe, carried with both China and Russia voting for the motion, ...

THE Tory Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, declared the UK’s readiness to go to war with Iran last Thursday when he threatened that UK and...

THE battle lines are being drawn up in the United States between the vanguard of the working class in the auto industry and the...

Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC, and other trade union leaders met secretly with David Cameron last week, the first such meeting between...

CITY AM, the business and financial newspaper, published an opinion piece yesterday which included a lengthy quote from Karl Marx on the profound effects...

THE Bureau of the UN General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People reaffirmed last Wednesday night its...

YESTERDAY, Boris Johnson announced new emergency laws making social gatherings of more than six people illegal in England from next Monday. This law applies to...

AFTER weeks of speculation it was finally confirmed yesterday that the giant but bankrupt General Motors was pulling out of Europe, selling off its...

London Underground is closed down today as Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) members staged another 24-hour strike over jobs, pensions and in defence of...

EX-PRESIDENT Donald Trump has welcomed his impeachment acquittal on the charge of ‘inciting insurrection’, saying, his political movement ‘to Make America Great Again’ has...

THE GATE GOURMET bosses were cock-a-hoop yesterday, and no wonder – after the leader of the TUC, Barber, and the leaders of the...

FRENCH police have arrested several suspects over the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine massacre in Paris, which killed 12 people to ‘avenge an insult to...

EX-PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF has not been lying in his political grave for six months and already the lawyers are marching against the new regime of...

HISTORICALLY, the term Star Chamber is synonymous with feudal oppression and dictatorship over the people and over parliament, specifically with the attempts of...

private equity firm 3i on Thursday listed its 3i Infrastructure fund on the London stock market only to see it sink to the bottom...

THE HEADLINE of The Sunday Telegraph’s editorial yesterday is very much to the point. It insists: ‘The teaching unions must be defeated,’ and continues,...

BY A UNANIMOUS vote on Tuesday the disciplinary panel of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee overturned the suspension of former leader Jeremy Corbyn...

THE pound fell below $1.49 against the dollar on Friday, close to a three-year low. Sterling traded as low as $1.4858 at one point. The...

AN Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that the Iranian government hopes that the International Atomic Energy Agency will produce an unbiased report on...

‘THIS is a tremendous demonstration of the anger of the British people against what Blair has done in Iraq and is threatening to do...

THE Coalition’s Duncan Smith, an ex-army officer, is proposing to discipline the unemployed with forced slave labour, as part of the Coalition’s plan to...

UK capitalism is now the sick man of the capitalist world. Its economy is going broke while the Tories openly discuss knifing the NHS,...

REFORM UK, a right-wing and ‘anti-working class’ party winning the Runcorn and Helsby parliamentary by-Election on Thursday, was only possible because of the treachery...

THE CWU trade union representing postal workers says Royal Mail’s chief executive Simon Thompson is to blame for a round of strikes in the...

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

PANIC gripped the UK ruling class yesterday as the bond markets ‘were thrown into chaos and a crisis’ that is bringing new cost of...

THE US RULING CLASS has hit its debt limit, with the Treasury Department now taking measures to try to prevent a devastating default. Reaching the...

YESTERDAY, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak announced the latest attack on higher education with proposals to ‘limit the access’ to university degrees in England...

ON August 10, 2005 Gate Gourmet, owned by Texas Pacific, locked out in a pre-planned operation over 800 workers, an assault that was calculated...