Editorials

IT has emerged that it is a question of principle for the Labour government that elderly people who are now living in nursing and...

DAVID Cameron dramatically escalated the British government’s war against refugees fleeing imperialist war in the Middle East and North Africa when he announced...

DEEP splits among the imperialist powers emerged this week over the rapidly growing support for a Palestinian state, at the same time as Trump...

THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week issued a warning that governments across the world are at risk of imploding unless they deal...

ELEVEN people have been detained after an attack by Islamists at a Moscow concert hall that killed 137, the head of Russia’s Federal Security...

OFFICIALS in the House of Commons have installed a tamper alarm to stop Labour MP, Stephen Pound, turning a bust of Oliver Cromwell to...

THE SPLIT in the Tory Party over the planned hike in National Insurance (NI) has got wider and deeper! Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s proposed 1.25...

ISRAEL has detained one million Palestinians since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the West Bank,...

PRIME Minister Blair has been secretly questioned, for a second time, by police investigating allegations that honours were sold for cash by his government....

THE Hamas Movement has accused Israeli occupation forces (IOF) of committing a ‘horrific massacre’ that killed more than 15 Palestinians attempting to access food...

IF THE Tories hoped that the last minute scramble to head off the anger of NHS workers by increasing the derisory and insulting 1%...

THE Palestinian leadership in Ramallah is working on the basis that the peace talks with Israel will fail and that both sides know...

IRISH TUC leader David Begg said on Saturday ‘It appears that the day of reckoning has arrived. The barbarians are at the gates.’ ...

THE reply of the leaders of the CWU postal workers union, Billy Hayes and Dave Ward, to the injunction obtained by the ruthless Royal...

EVERY time Bush and Blair speak, they trumpet their championing of democracy against the corrupt dictatorships that they say exist everywhere outside their...

THE US and its Israeli ally carried on with attacks against cities across Iran following president Donald Trump’s announcement on Monday that he was...

THE Iranian foreign ministry said yesterday that Iran’s armed forces have dealt a heavy blow to US bases and assets across the region, in...

IN JANUARY this year the Tory secretary of state for health, Matt Hancock, told MPs that ‘there is no privatisation on my watch’ of...

THE leaked 90,000 US Afghan war documents once again show – as did the My Lai mass killings of the Vietnamese people – the...

WHILE Israeli settlers, police and troops are running riot in occupied Palestine burning down the homes of Palestinian families and injuring and killing their...

THE TORY Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) have been shrouded in secrecy right from the start as the Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, did...

A JOINT report from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) yesterday revealed the fears in business circles that the ‘credit...

GOVERNMENT plans to expand the use of ‘Orwellian’ live-facial recognition camera surveillance to every town and city in England and Wales will allow dangerous...

BRITISH imperialism, at the height of its power and even up to the 1930s, had at its heart the dictum of sea power, that...

ON Sunday a mass movement of workers led by young people took to the streets of cities across Europe in a powerful demonstration of...

FRESH from his failure to grab Greenland US President Donald Trump has turned his attention to the Iranian Revolution and issued his warning to...

THE Palestinian presidency has expressed its strong condemnation and rejection of the crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces in Jenin camp yesterday evening,...

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

YESTERDAY, US president Joe Biden announced to a joint session of Congress his plans to unleash a massive round of government spending amounting to...

AS Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s 72-hour amnesty deadline for militia fighters in Basra to hand over their weapons ran out yesterday, this leader of...

OBAMA had been facing massive opposition in every State of the Union, with opinion polls saying that he faced defeat in any Congressional vote...

UNITE has revealed that Harrods is the ‘first employer’ to threaten staff with the new law allowing agency workers to break strikes and engage...

THE general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), Jo Grady, delivered a stinging condemnation of Labour leader Keir Starmer yesterday after he...

What started off last month as news, that traces of horsemeat DNA had been discovered by the Irish Food Standards agency in some supermarket beefburgers,...

YESTERDAY the role model for US-UK imperialism was Pontius Pilate, as the US military and Prime Minister Blair sought to wash their hands of...

ISRAELI troops crossed the border into southern Lebanon yesterday in what they described as ‘limited, localised and targeted ground raids’ after approval was given...

CRISIS, the national charity for single homeless people, correctly fears that a massive surge in homelessness is ahead, as it opens its nine Crisis...

BANK SHARES rose rapidly yesterday with the news that the Federal Reserve Bank is to open up the inflationary floodgates and re-prop up the...

THE Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that ‘Russia has begun implementing a scenario intended to destabilise the Ukrainian economy’, adding that this was ‘despite...

THE Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have submitted a motion to next week’s TUC congress calling for the TUC to organise a co-ordinated...

THE RUSSIAN armed forces will destroy US-made M1 Abrams tanks and other NATO military equipment if they are supplied to Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to...

A REPORT released yesterday by the Iraq Fatality Investigations, led by former High Court judge George Newman, has condemned the actions of four British...

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

NEARLY half of all employers (45 per cent) will not be offering jobs to 16-year-old school-leavers and graduates this year. The Chartered Institute of Personnel...

THE MASS strikes and demonstrations throughout France today mark the sharp escalation of the confrontation between French workers and the ‘bankers’ government of president...