Editorials

ON WEDNESDAY afternoon thousands of US president Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington before storming the US Congress to put a stop to the...

SIR KEIR Starmer, the ex-Director of Public Prosecutions, and currently the leader of the Labour Party, has just engaged in a second key mission...

BY A UNANIMOUS decision eleven judges in the Supreme Court declared that the five-week suspension, or prorogation, of Parliament is ‘unlawful, void and of...

WORKERS and young people will be forgiven if they believe that they are living in some parallel universe that has absolutely no connection with...

THE Israeli murder machine is being allowed to do its worst in the Gaza Strip, with the US and the UK ruling classes standing...

LABOUR leader Keir Starmer instructed his party’s MPs to abstain in last night’s vote on the Tories’ new Covid regulations tier system, thus ensuring...

AS far as the NHS is concerned the vultures are now gathering for the kill. On Monday, News Line publicised a leaked e-mail ...

THE knives are out for one-time Tory Party hero Michael Gove, the self-styled ‘hammer of the teaching trade unions’, who has had the temerity...

THE parliamentary Human Rights Committee report on the government’s latest Counter-Terrorism Bill, before its second reading in the House of Commons, records just...

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown mounted an outspoken attack on members of the RMT railworkers’ union on strike at the London Underground bankrupt maintenance company...

PM MAY yesterday made an appeal for MPs to ‘stand together as democrats and patriots’, to support her withdrawal deal. This is after her resolution...

CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday could not see and would not even hear of a crisis in the British capitalist economy that he has presided...

BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson launched a £20bn loan guarantee scheme for medium and small businesses yesterday, aimed at getting banks to lend to companies...

SPEAKING in the Commons yesterday, Tory culture secretary Nadine Dorries told MPs that Ofcom (the so-called independent regulator of broadcasting in the UK) was...

YESTERDAY, NHS consultants began a 48-hour strike that has propelled a head-on confrontation between doctors and their union, the BMA, and a Tory government...

THE one thing guaranteed by the world economic crisis of the capitalist system, is that all the weakness, greed and corruption of the ruling...

THANKS to the Labour government’s health market the NHS is on the brink of a large number of hospital trust closures and thousands...

A HEARTBREAKING picture of a 9-year-old Palestinian boy who lost both his arms in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City has won the prestigious...

YESTERDAY, Scottish appeal court judges ruled that the decision by the Tory government to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the...

The Labour government is absolutely determined to impress its big business backers and show them that it is ready to take action against ‘slackers’...

THE visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI has only one aim, to make a pact with the British ruling class, to help strengthen...

AMID the media frenzy surrounding the publication of former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s autobiography, A Journey, ballot papers were sent out for the Labour...

AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...

US PRESIDENT Biden is now poised to lift the ban on the UK’s Storm Shadow missiles being fired into Russia by the US-UK’s fascist...

TODAY’S march called by the TUC is a massive demonstration of the anger and hatred felt by the working class, whole sections of the...

STUDENTS going to university this autumn will face £3,000 a year tuition fees for the second year. But the trebling of fees –...

BRITISH forces arrived yesterday in Ukraine to ‘train up Ukrainian troops’ while the US has sent in weapons, to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to...

THE MINISTRY of Health in the Gaza Strip warned yesterday that the electricity generators in hospitals will cease to work within 48 hours as...

TOMORROW will see the moment of truth for both the Tory and Labour Parties when May’s programme for a Brexit that will leave the...

JEREMY Corbyn launched the Labour Party’s Manifesto for the upcoming general election yesterday claiming it is ‘a manifesto for hope that will bring real...

FRESH from his defeat at the Labour Party Conference by the successful vote against his policy to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners,...

THE HARTLEPOOL by-election result and the council by-election results mean that Starmer and Labour’s right wing must be dumped by the trade unions at...

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

Yesterday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened its historic hearings into the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967. The ICJ, the United Nation’s...

BOTH the sheer bankruptcy of British capitalism and the impotence of Tory Prime Minister Theresa May were on public display on Wednesday night as...

ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...

SINCE the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran began, US President Donald Trump has claimed Iran’s military has been ‘degraded’ and that the war...

JUST days after Health Secretary Hunt was found to be acting unlawfully with his plan to close the A&E and other facilities at Lewisham...

THIS week, the Tories’ criminal liability for the deaths of thousands of health care workers, the elderly and the disabled was revealed in two...

THE NUMBER of people forced to claim Universal Credit soared by nearly a million in the past two weeks. According to the Department for Work...

THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...

THE HIGH Court on Tuesday dismissed an attempt by British Airways to secure an interim judgement that would make planned strike action by pilots...

ON MONDAY evening, the political bureau of Hamas announced that it had approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. This surprise move prompted the BBC’s International...

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

AFTER the horror of Grenfell Tower fire, where so many men, women and children burned to death, the big issue is ‘is anyone safe...