Editorials

BRENDAN BARBER, general secretary of the TUC, who doubles as a director of the Bank of England, has been at it once again, doing...

IPSWICH Hospital, in Suffolk, has been deprived of £2.5m because it provided much-needed care for its patients too quickly. This was discovered by accountants...

THE BANK of England’s Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and voted to increase interest rates by 0.25%, pushing the rate up to 4.25% –...

A COLLISION between Italy and the European Union over a bailout of Italy’s collapsed banking system is getting closer by the day. It is...

DONALD Trump became the first president of the United States to be impeached twice when the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to charge...

THE cuts to local government funding will ‘push councils to breaking point’ according to council leaders. On Thursday the Tory Communities and Local Government minister, Kris Hopkins,...

A POWERFUL car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday, on the first day of the Syrian cease-fire, killing five people and injuring 32. Thus was...

THE THREE G4S guards who unlawfully killed Jimmy Mubenga in 2010 – when he was just 46 years old – using restraint holds as...

YESTERDAY nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%. This is the sixth...

NOW that the ex-Brexit negotiator Davis has called for the Cabinet to rise up against the May government’s permanent Customs Union, and her plan...

SEATTLE’S chief of police has thrown in the towel and quit on the same day that the city council voted to reduce the police...

THE Queen yesterday outlined that her government ‘will legislate in the interests of everyone in our country. It will adopt a one nation approach’. This...

BEFORE the Brexit referendum on June 23rd the masses of British workers refused to capitulate to the vast barrage of propaganda from...

BRITAIN risks running out of gas stockpiles by the end of winter, raising fears of an energy crisis crippling the country, and leaving millions...

YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revised down its estimates of the UK’s economic growth as measured by the country’s Gross Domestic Product...

THE NHS is the greatest of the gains that the working class made in the period immediately after the Second World War. It was brought...

TENS OF thousands of workers and youth are taking part in today’s historic Durham Miners’ Gala at a time when the capitalist system is...

THIS September, students in universities across the country are set to erupt in anger when they return after the £9,000 cap on university tuition...

BA yesterday threw the TGWU’s attempt at a compromise out of the window when it announced that all of its planes will be grounded...

THE big pensions clash between the trade unions and the government is underway after nine unions representing 1.5 million council workers agreed to ballot...

FORTY-THREE Palestinians were killed by Israeli tanks and rocket fire on UN-run schools late on Monday night and during Tuesday. The schools were well...

IRAN’S Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been killed and in fact murdered in a major assault on Iran by Israel and the United States,...

A REVIEW of university student fees in England has been launched by Business Secretary Mandelson. The object of the review is to increase, perhaps...

NOT EVERY bourgeois economic commentator has swallowed the upbeat line peddled by central bankers that capitalism has weathered the storm of its economic crisis...

THE United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met behind closed doors over the situation in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, but failed to reach an...

20,000 junior doctors, medical students, health workers and supporters marched in central London yesterday. As well there were well attended marches in Belfast and...

GREEK students fought a pitched battle with riot police in Athens on Wednesday as the Greek parliament debated new laws to station security personnel...

BRITISH troops are to to leave Afghanistan by 2014, and a phased withdrawal is due to begin before the end of 2010. This is...

THE JEWISH Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies on Monday night launched a demonstration outside the House of Commons accusing Labour leader Jeremy...

Both Jeremy Corbyn and his deputy, shadow chancellor John McDonnell, unveiled their ‘radical’ new plans for saving British capitalism from the anger of the...

THE ANNUAL pay of FTSE 100 chief executives fell during the pandemic but still equates to more than a key worker would earn in...

IN A FRENZIED speech, US President Biden on Thursday accused ex-US President Trump and his supporters in the Republican Party of holding ‘a dagger...

THE US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point – its first increase since 2006. This is after years of...

NINE million people across the UK are living with serious debt problems, according to a new report by the Money Advice Service (MAS). MAS points...

THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday made the surprise decision to hold UK interest rates at 5.25% instead of the widely...

HARD on the heels of the revelations last June from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden that American and British spy agencies can access all...

SPEAKING with Labour’s former Chancellor Lord Darling by his side, in full support, the Tory Chancellor Osborne yesterday pledged violent retribution against the electorate...

IT is one of the features of the capitalist crisis that it proceeds not in a straight line but through a downward spiral movement...

THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued a grim warning of worldwide recession with global debt reaching a staggering record of £64 trillion. In...

NINETEEN members of the six ship ‘Freedom Flotilla’ were yesterday murdered by Israeli special forces in a major war crime, and a larger...

THE US Federal Reserve Bank yesterday launched an unlimited money printing programme to try to halt the collapse of the US ‘economic miracle’, and...

PALESTINIAN prisoners are staging a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest against crackdowns and mistreatment by the prison officials. They say their strike,...

THE German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned a Paris conference of French, German and Italian leaders on Tuesday that youth unemployment of almost 25%...

AT A press conference yesterday morning, prime minister Keir Starmer attempted to reassure workers that the Labour government would protect them from the economic...

AT the Idomeni crossing from Greece into Macedonia refugees are clashing with Macedonian soldiers and police, as they try to reopen the border near...