Editorials

DESPITE seven days of devastating non-stop aerial bombardment by the US-Israeli aggressor and their huge war machine, the defiant defence of Iran to protect...

THE French Socialist government has said it will raise Value Added Tax and cut public spending, kicking the working class and the poor in...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, the man who dared to expose imperialist war crimes, must be immediately released from Belmarsh high security prison where he...

IT was reported yesterday that a survey of the top professional ‘money managers’ revealed that these investment experts believe that the world’s leading stock...

LABOUR’S right wing were furious on Friday after the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party conference blocked a vote on single market membership. Instead,...

IRAN’S supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has welcomed President Obama’s change of rhetoric in relation to Iran but has however stated that what...

On Tuesday, NHS North West London announced that it would close A&E departments at Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing Hospitals. Two million west...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday outlined his new national security strategy. He stressed: ‘When the American people speak, all of us should...

THIS WEEK Unison, the largest public sector union in the country, issued a statement declaring that it ‘stands ready’ to work with the Tory...

SHOWING contempt for parliament, the watchdog for university access (Offa) yesterday gave the green light to all universities to increase tuition fees in England...

SYRIA’S deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, has hailed Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement’s assistance to Syria, and its struggle for survival, saying...

THE arrest and questioning of Lord Levy, the man who got millions in donations for Labour’s election campaigns, and the fact that...

THE FRENCH government has been forced by the mass actions of the health workers’ trade unions to concede pay rises worth 8bn euros (£7.2bn)...

THE UK’s largest car maker, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), yesterday announced a massive pre-tax loss of £354 million for the six months to September...

After President Bush has informed the world that 20,000 more US troops are to be sent to Iraq, and his Secretary of State, Rice...

THE provocative sacking of over 650 workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery – who walked out to demand that a recently negotiated trade union...

KING Charles yesterday outlined his new Labour government’s law-making plans in his speech to Parliament. The Labour Party now has an overall majority over all...

LAST month the Parliamentary Education Committee was warned by the Office for Students (OfS), the higher education regulator for England, that it fears 24...

THE US bosses have ramped up their ongoing campaign of economic and political sanctions against China. The House of Representatives has passed a bill...

THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...

EX-Special Boat Service operative Ashdown can recognise a major defeat when it stares him in the face, and refuses to go away. He has called...

AFTER calling off last winter’s national strike by their members in Royal Mail without the members’ agreement – and without their members’ demands to...

AT LEAST 40 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison of ‘Megiddo’ have joined the prisoners’ open-ended mass hunger strike, said the strikers Media Committee...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer questions yesterday as to whether the United States government operates CIA secret prisons outside of...

THE giant oil company BP revealed yesterday that its profits more than doubled in the first three months of the year because of the...

METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has quit! Millions will be cheering the news, and demanding that the whole Met Police force be disbanded...

THE BRITISH AIRWAYS pilots strike is on for both Monday and Tuesday in an escalating battle over pay. British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) BA...

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

HUNDREDS of thousands of Iranians marched defiantly in Tehran and other Iranian cites yesterday in solidarity with Palestine against Israeli genocide, for a Palestinian...

Europe is lurching to the left after the revolutionary uprising in France, and the defeat of Berlusconi in Italy. Millions of French workers and youth...

THE divided town of Mitrovica was in turmoil yesterday morning, after UNMIK police and KFOR troops, in a major provocation, stormed a local court...

THE picture painted by Home Secretary May of the police doing their duty in the Snowden affair, as they saw it, without any government...

WITH business sure that the Bank of England is due to raise interest rates to at least five per cent, warnings are being made...

NEARLY a quarter of a million French workers have taken part in mass rallies across the country against the French fascists, calling on the...

US Defence Secretary Gates, and the new US military commander in Afghanistan, General Petraeus have recently been canvassing in London for a doubling of...

TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has issued the call for workers to go without heating this winter to support the imperialist war on Russia. Appearing before...

BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...

IN A speech yesterday, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, promised to privatise every public service in the country, to ‘open up’ public services...

THE announcement by the CWU of a programme of two 48-hour national strikes across all sections of Royal Mail, along with a programme of...

PRESIDENT Trump has told the US people he has changed his mind about Afghanistan being a futile conflict, and that now the US, and...

PM MAY last Monday afternoon, in her first statement to MPs in parliament since her Florence speech last month and her debacle at the...

Last week’s collapses on Wall Street and on the Japanese stock market emphasised to the whole world that the capitalist crisis is deepening. The...

TORY CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak did the rounds of press interviews yesterday preparing the way for today’s reopening of non-essential shops and businesses and he...

BARACK Obama, the Democratic Party candidate, was elected the 44th President of the United States of America on Tuesday, with an overwhelming vote giving...

‘I SEND this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...