Editorials

ISRAEL faced widespread international condemnation over the killing of eight Palestinian civilians on Friday, including three children while they picnicked on a Gaza beach....

THE brutalising, maiming, beating and even killing of the ‘subject peoples’ by imperialist troops is part and parcel of the imperialist system and tradition,...

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...

WORKING class families and pensioners are being hit hardest by Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget. This is the key finding from a study by the...

THE judge-led inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing at an Ariana Grand concert in May 2017 finally published its finding yesterday after a two-and-a-half-year...

WHAT stood out like a sore thumb when the emergency question was put to Home Secretary May in the House of Commons, on Monday...

THE CRISIS in the Tory party sharpened over the weekend, as the requirement to dump the economic collapse of British capitalism onto the backs...

THE EU leadership last Friday morning at 6am rescued PM May from the debacle of her Northern Ireland crisis, and saved her government by...

THE WORLD’S stock markets plunged upon opening yesterday morning following US president Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Iran that it had 48 hours to open...

A SENIOR member of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has said that there is no real will on the part of the United States...

WITH the Tories set to decide whether they want Boris Johnson or Sunak to continue with the job of completely destroying all of the...

IF TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak harboured any hope that Wednesday’s spending review would reassure anyone that British capitalism could be rescued from complete ruin...

GOVERNMENT borrowing across the most advanced capitalist nations in the world has been hit with the highest interest rate increases in decades, as the...

POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...

THE war preparations by the imperialist nations against Russia took a giant leap forward this week with NATO and non-NATO troops massed in north-western...

INTERVIEWED on Sky’s Sophy Ridge programme on Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady appealed for the Tories to unite with the TUC, saying: ‘Let’s...

WORLD capitalism and in particular British capitalism is in its greatest crisis ever with sections of the Tory party compeletely demoralised by the ‘Oceans...

THE EVENTS in Hong Kong over the past month have seen thousands of people storming the Hong Kong parliament and raising the Union Jack...

YESTERDAY, former Post Office sub-postmasters and mistresses began giving evidence to the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal which has been described as...

‘THEY are trying to break our unity. We reject this deal.’ This is what pickets near to the Gate Gourmet plant told News Line...

DRIVEN forward by the shock of capitalism’s energy catastrophe the working class is now on the march. Unite Wales union NHS members have voted to...

THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who once boasted that he had resolved the crisis of capitalism and its tendency to go from boom to...

SIX hundred new armed officers are being  trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring  the...

As the Welfare Reform Bill progresses through the committee stage of the House of Lords so more evidence is emerging about the catastrophic effect it...

‘WE HAVE no ability to turn the economy around. When the next recession comes it is going to be deeper and last longer than...

THE UNISON leaders who originally accepted the three year sub-inflation pay deal for NHS workers, along with the RCN, without going to ballot, yesterday...

CAPITALISM’S latest scheme to save failed banks claimed the life of an Italian pensioner who lost his £72,000 life savings following the collapse of...

AT the just concluded TUC Congress, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, openly condemned the description of ‘globalisation’ as ‘a race to the...

BRITISH Gas is to increase electricity prices by 12.5% from 15 September, Centrica has revealed, in a move that will drastically slash the living...

THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said yesterday that the number of Palestinians who have been driven from their...

IN THE LATEST update of its Global Financial Stability Report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that ‘complacent’ financial markets are facing a...

THE British ruling class, far from recovering from the Brexit mutiny, when its chosen policy for saving British capitalism – that of ceding...

THE GERMAN economic recession has deepened, with the number of corporate insolvencies in the country sharply increasing in July. Almost a quarter more companies filed...

THIS pathetic minority Tory ‘government’ is so weak that Theresa May is forced today to make a speech begging for the Labour Party and...

WHILE the tragic death of 72 people in the Grenfell inferno threw an immediate spotlight on the criminal disregard of capitalism for human life,...

THE United Nations says more than half a million Palestinians have now been displaced in war-torn Gaza, as Israel intensifies its air and ground...

EARLY results in local council elections in England have seen Labour and the Liberal Democrats gain key councils at the expense of the Conservatives. Labour...

AN agreement has been reached in Minsk to cease fire in Ukraine from midnight Sunday, February 15. Russian President Vladimir Putin commented yesterday that...

ABOUT 1.5 million local council workers are to strike on March 28 to defend their local government pension scheme. It is being described as...

THE BURNING issue of NHS workers’ pay is so explosive that the Tories left it to the very last day that Parliament sits before...

PUBLIC sector workers such as firefighters, teachers, and nurses, cannot afford to buy homes in seven out of 10 UK towns, because of the...

LAST Monday the coalition government’s drive to privatise every single public service and completely smash up the welfare state took yet another grotesque turn...

TORY PM CAMERON has just reprimanded the people of the UK for being ‘over tolerant’ of extremism, signalling that his regime is so unstable...

PM Brown has reacted to the Bank of England chief’s public admonition that the next Budget must not plunge the UK into another flood...

THE result of the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election points to one thing, that the working class and large sections of the middle class...