Editorials

IN HIS closing speech to the Tory conference, Cameron pledged that a future Tory government would scrap the Human Rights Act, a position that was...

HUNDREDS of people are reported to have been killed in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities throughout Egypt, and thousands injured after the army leaders...

THE President of the World Bank, Ajay Banga, has warned that the US-Israeli aggression against Iran will have a cascading impact on the global...

THE developing world-wide economic crisis is now bringing the contradictions inside the EU together and sharpening them to the point of a massive transformation...

THE message from the Blair-Brown leadership to the trade unions and their leaders is ‘face up to globalisation or cease to exist’. Even the two’s...

THE former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, has warned that the US economy is heading towards a deepening of the slump...

Labour yesterday unveiled its much trailed ‘Get Britain Working’ plan, hailed by Starmer’s government as the  ‘biggest employment reforms in a generation’, to drive...

OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...

ZIAD Abu Amr, a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), has handed an official letter from President Mahmoud Abbas...

LABOUR MP Bob Marshall Andrews, recently called the Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband a ‘duplicitous traitor’, after Miliband published an article in the Guardian...

THE TRADE union leaders and the Labour Party are currently cementing their role as the most enthusiastic would-be partners of the Tory government and...

IN its just-published Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF has found that ‘Confidence remains fragile despite recent policy actions’, and that the ‘Euro area...

THE reformist trade union leaders are once again, on the pensions issue, showing that they are organically incapable of defending the basic gains of...

GAZA’S unemployment rate is among the world’s highest, at 45.2%, the UN has found. The territory continues to be blockaded by Israel, while the...

Donald Trump’s speech at his inauguration as US president on Monday did not include a number of the crucial measures he insisted would be...

THE Vestas occupation clearly shocked the employer and weakened the Labour government to the point where a mass struggle has to be launched by...

THE House of Representatives in the United States voted by 218 votes to 208 on Wednesday for a Bill to end the US occupation...

THE proposed sacking of 1,500 Bombardier workers in Derby is the beginning of the end for the train construction industry in the UK, and...

THE Tory conference this week stepped up its vicious attack on teachers and their unions with education secretary Michael Gove treating them, as befits...

ON WEDNESDAY South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the death at the age of 91 of George Bizos, the renowned human rights lawyer who...

THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that officials from Gaza’s health ministry had told it that at least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by...

THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...

LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...

ON Wednesday, it was announced that the lengthy negotiations between Tata Steel and the German steel conglomerate, Thyssen-Krupp, have been concluded and that a...

ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump insisted that his ‘peace deal’ between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the Israeli regime was holding despite...

ON MONDAY, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced that she is instructing all 43 police forces in England and Wales to ‘ramp up’ the...

TGWU leader Tony Woodley’s speech at Southall on Monday, and his remarks to journalists both before and after the meeting, were a dereliction of...

ON THURSDAY, the Houthi armed forces launched a rapid attack along Yemen’s western coast seizing control of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast, putting this...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has called talks on Syria in New York for December 18-19. Kerry said that the United States and its...

LABOUR Party leader Miliband spoke yesterday on Labour’s ‘One Nation’ approach to cultural diversity and integration insisting that admission to this select body is...

YESTERDAY’S editorial of the bosses’ and bankers’ Sunday Telegraph gave its marching orders to Labour’s right wing and fake lefts, saying of Labour leader...

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...

PRIME minister Blair, at the last minute, postponed his holiday to try to assist the UN Security Council efforts, headed by France, to fashion...

THE LAST week has seen the Tory drive to have PM May crowned as Empress, via a runaway election victory and a huge majority,...

THE Chinese and Russian representatives at a meeting of the five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and Germany on...

RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s decision to cancel Iran’s invitation to the ‘peace talks’ on Syria,...

THE newly installed Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, yesterday stated that the Met faced its biggest corruption crisis since the 1970s. The crisis, that...

WHAT started last week as a crisis in the international capitalist stock markets is turning into a full-scale crash with Wednesday’s decision by the...

NEARLY three dozen Palestinian civilians, including women and children, have already been murdered by Israeli military forces bombing various neighbourhoods in Rafah in the...

JOHAN Malawana, the Chair of the Junior Doctors Committee, addressing the BMA annual conference in Belfast, told delegates that: ‘This was the year when...

CHANCELLOR Hammond began his Autumn statement yesterday by saying, ‘Our task now is to prepare our economy to be resilient as we exit the...

LOS ANGELES, the second largest city in the US, exploded over the weekend following a massive raid on Friday by federal agents from Immigration...

FIVE hundred and ninety-seven homeless people died on the streets of Britain last year, up from 482 the year before – in fact homeless...

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...

THIS WEEK the deal between the Tory and Ukrainian government to allow Kiev to buy British warships and missiles, using a £1.7 billion-pound loan...