Editorials

DEFENCE engineering giant BAE Systems confirmed yesterday that it is cutting a further 3,000 jobs at sites across the country, mainly in its military...

DESPITE all the propaganda pumped out by Osborne in his budget speech last week, about UK capitalism ‘walking tall’ and well on the way...

UNITE, with a membership of 1.4 million, wielding the power to strike and shut down vast proportions of industry, has reduced itself to begging...

THE privatisation of the railways has been a complete disaster and for the families of those killed in rail crashes it is a disaster...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump issued his latest threat to Iran on Sunday saying that the ‘clock is ticking’ and telling the Iranians they must...

NATO has developed a tactic for halting the ‘imminent’ spread of nuclear weapons or of other weapons of mass destruction. This is a formula tailor-made...

YESTERDAY’S mass picket lines outside NHS hospitals are a direct result of the fact that the Tory government is insulting workers and will not...

The results of a consultative ballot of 600,000 local government and school members of the Unison union recorded a massive 70% rejection of the...

The disarray, confusion and splits within the Tory/LibDem coalition government were brought out sharply over Monday’s announcement by Tory chancellor, George Osborne, that he...

FOR THE first time since coronavirus erupted in China shutting down Chinese manufacturing, cutting off the supply of vital components and commodities to the...

ANY LINGERING doubts about the morbid terror that is gripping the capitalist class were dispelled this weekend when 50 of the leading bosses from...

TO say that the international banking system and the world stock markets are in a state described as ‘nervous’ is to do great injustice...

THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...

COMMANDER Cressida Dick is to become a deputy assistant commissioner, the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) announced on Tuesday. On July 22 2005 Dick was in...

IN HIS first election speech, Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, expressed his anger and indignation over the policies of austerity ruthlessly carried out by...

This weekend, the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos debated the issue of youth unemployment worldwide, a debate that exposed the mortal terror being...

PRIME Minister Brown was yesterday midway to giving up his ‘there is no timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq’ line – imposed on him...

THE Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in the first major assessment by a leading international economic think tank of the economic impact...

LABOUR MP Jack Straw yesterday announced that he is to run Gordon Brown’s campaign for the Labour leadership. Straw’s declaration was answered in...

ISRAELI police arrested 12 people and used water cannons before dawn on Sunday to disperse furious protesters against the policies of PM Netanyahu. Tens of...

ON THURSDAY, the Israeli Defence Ministry in a statement revealed that the US had given $8.7 billion of military aid to the Zionist state...

THE European Union is like a huge powder magazine that started to smoulder even before the Brexit vote in the UK on June 23rd,...

MEMBER of Hamas political bureau Osama Hamdan said on Sunday that his movement wants ‘joint Palestinian rule’ if the war comes to a halt...

STEEL firm Corus, a subsidiary of India’s Tata Steel cut 3,500 jobs yesterday, 2,500 in the UK out of its 24,000 employees here. ...

TORY Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government unveiled its plans to target the unemployed and others on benefits, depriving them of their entitlements, or...

THE decision of the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King to name and shame the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Darling, as...

OBAMA’S re-election is a product of the refusal of US workers to allow an all-out robber baron of capitalism, Romney, to have control over...

The headline news throughout the bourgeois media yesterday was that Stephen Hester, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had magnanimously bowed to...

LEADERS of the trade unions said they were shocked by PSA Peugeot-Citroën’s announcement on Tuesday that it is closing its Ryton factory in Coventry,...

THE TORIES’ Education Recovery Commissioner for England, Sir Kevan Collins quit last week after 6.7 million school children were starved of the funds they...

WHATEVER the outcome of yesterday’s by-election in Eastleigh, it spells disaster for the Tory-led coalition government. Should the LibDems scrape a win over the Tories...

MILLIONS of workers took to the streets on May Day in countries throughout the world, from Los Angeles to London, Havana to Harare. Several May...

THE OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), the political cloak for NATO, has issued a warning about the agreement to establish an...

US PRESIDENT Trump, dedicated to ‘making America great again’, to further enrich the bosses and the bankers at the expense of the US workers...

US stocks have made huge losses after a major sell-off last Friday on Wall Street. By Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly...

THE French interior minister, Manuel Valls, reacted with shock and horror at the revelations in the French newspaper Le Monde that the US spy...

LEN McCLUSKEY, general secretary of the Unite union, said that Labour Party leader Keir Starmer faces being ‘dumped into the dustbin of history’ in...

SPEAKING at a poorly attended Scottish Labour Party conference yesterday Sir Keir Starmer said the United States ‘is right’ about the UK and Europe...

ON Sunday the Greek working class, youth and rural poor delivered a hammer blow to bankers and the capitalist system when it defied all...

WHILE Olmert and Bush have been, and are, posing as peacemakers with their forthcoming fraud of a peace conference, a most violent and vicious...

COME over as a child from the Caribbean to the UK in the 1960s, go to school in the UK, work an entire life...

YESTERDAY it was alleged that ex-Prime Minister Blair made representations to the Prime Minister concerning the ‘independent inquiry’ into the war in Iraq, which...

THE MASSIVE gap in wealth between workers and the bosses has once again been highlighted in a new report which shows that the chief...

UNIONS have reacted angrily to plans to scrap national pay rates for public sector workers. Chancellor George Osborne is expected to say civil...

AMBULANCE crews in south-east Wales are staging a four-week, unofficial overtime ban to highlight how much the ambulance service now relies on their willingness...