Editorials

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

TRUE to form, the voice of the trade union bureaucracy, the Stalinist Morning Star counted tens of thousands of marchers on the TUC’s May...

AMIDST all the chaos and downright farce in Parliament on Wednesday only one indisputable fact remains – on the 23rd June 2016 in a...

WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...

‘BUT my argument starts by recognising that tough times will continue,’ said Labour leader Miliband yesterday on his policy for dealing with the crisis. He...

THE Labour Party is defending, welcoming right wing Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the party despite anger from many backbench MPs and workers at...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday said he would deploy the US military to US states that don’t use the National Guard in sufficient...

NHS trade unions have called off (‘suspended’) today’s strike and betrayed their members by accepting the government’s decision not to pay the...

THE PRESIDENT of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was forced to abandon his planned visit to the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos this week and...

UK child poverty levels are double those of 1979, after 27 years of the Thatcher, Major and Blair, Tory and Labour governments, while Brown...

AT LEAST one in 10 landlords are ‘unlawfully’ advertising their flat for rent by saying that they do not accept tenants on housing benefit,...

THE Tory government is in a state of crisis and near collapse as revelations pile up daily about the financial activities of Tory ministers...

SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that the Turkish president Erdogan may be using the ‘coup attempt’ in Turkey to eliminate his opponents...

‘IT’S wrong that Downing Street thinks it can run the Labour Party: we are an elected party, a democratic party,’ said the Labour Party...

THE Tory-led coalition has got working class and middle class families with young children in its sights for savage cuts as it seeks to...

AT MIDNIGHT on Thursday the US tariff war on the rest of the world erupted as Donald Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ levies on imports from foreign...

THE shutdown of the steel industry continued yesterday without a single call from the trade unions for action to stop the closures and defend...

THE new Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has announced that an investigation has uncovered that the Iraqi state was paying the wages of 50,000...

THE announcement by the acting Labour leader, Harriet Harman, during an interview with the BBC on Sunday, that the Labour Party would be fully...

DAITHI McKay, Martina Anderson and Alex Maskey of Sinn Fein have just taken their seats on the Policing Board of the PSNI, the...

AFTER Tuesday’s talks with the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, President Putin spoke about the situation after the US’s 59 cruise missile...

THE closer we get to the new Terminal Five, the more intense the class struggle becomes between the bosses of the BAA (British Airports...

MASSES of workers and youth clashed with the state forces in the Greek capital Athens yesterday, on the first day of a 48-hour general...

The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public...

THE TORY-led coalition is poised to give all power to the employing class through neutering employment tribunals and giving the employers their own ‘charter’...

THE US National Guard have arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, with armed-to-the-teeth state troopers lining the streets and turning the city into a war...

THE General Election on July 4th will feature a shattered Tory Party that has already been wrecked by the developing capitalist crisis, and is...

THE SECOND wave of coronavirus has hit the UK with devastating consequences, and the Tory government’s efforts at bringing in measures to curb the...

FOUR US immigration officers have shot and killed a 37-year-old man, Alex Jeffrey Pretti in front of screaming protesters in an anti-ICE protest in...

A JOINT letter signed by leading politicians in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales was sent to Labour prime minister Keir Starmer yesterday calling for...

UKRAINE’S decision to suspend a deal on closer EU ties and sign a Russian aid agreement instead has helped avoid bankruptcy, Prime Minister Mykola...

THE ‘Home Coming’ British Army ‘welcome home’ parade being mounted in the centre of Belfast this Sunday, in which a number of British army...

YESTERDAY, French workers and youth took to the streets in a massive confrontation with the government of Emmanuel Macron and his plans to privatise...

THE Cypriot parliament yesterday postponed an emergency session on the 7-10% banking tax imposed by the EU on every depositor in the country’s...

THE Octagon private sector consortium has been branded the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’ by a House of Commons committee. MPs on the public accounts...

THE aftermath of the sentencing on Monday of Lucy Letby for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at...

JUNIOR doctors start six days of strike action today, the longest strike by doctors in the history of the NHS, over their demand for...

IN A situation where their NTC proteges are not even sitting securely in the saddle in Libya, the UK and the US ruling classes...

YESTERDAY in Australia, Blair, for all he was worth, was pushing the George Bush imperialist line that ‘we’ have a duty to liberate the...

THE Tory party leadership is now breaking apart at the seams with information about the leadership battle being leaked by the different contenders and...

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...

BLURTING out the truth, the German economy minister, Sigmar Gabriel, has pronounced the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a free trade deal long...

THE Jubilee ‘celebrations’ have turned out to be a petty, momentary diversion for sections of the middle class, away from the real drama...

THE TORY-led coalition is working overtime to privatise the public sector and turn it into a bonanza, a big killing for the big business...

TODAY we are living in the period of the death agony of the world capitalist system. Everywhere the crisis is ripping apart nation states,...