Editorials

WITH the EU’s bankers and bosses spurring him on, Greece’s ‘socialist’ leader, Papandreou, has vowed to tackle the country’s economic crisis and impose the...

US President Donald Trump has said that Kiev can ‘win all of Ukraine back in its original form,’ marking a major shift in his...

HUNDREDS of state-run schools in England are facing closure as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s war against free state education, it emerged...

NINE thousand children died in Irish ‘mother and baby’ homes run by the Catholic Church throughout the 20th century, a long awaited report has...

THE unity of western governments over previous unconditional support for the state of Israel and its illegal occupation of Palestine was blown apart yesterday...

THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has unleashed yet another broadside against state education and the teaching profession in a speech on Monday where...

RIGHT on cue the European election monitors have said that the re-election of President Lukhashenka was flawed and failed to meet international standards. An EU...

A METROPOLITAN Police officer is facing jail after acting as a recruiter for a banned neo-Nazi terrorist group. PC Benjamin Hannam, from Edmonton in...

THE capitalist crisis and the massive indebtedness of British capitalism, with its national debt closing fast on its GDP of £1.4...

TORY prime minister, David Cameron, is all set to make the biggest gamble of his political life on Wednesday by pushing forward a parliamentary...

ON June 23, the masses of the working class rose up and crushed the Cameron leadership of the Tory party by voting to leave...

AT A press conference held on the Kabul airport tarmac, on Monday afternoon, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the US had been defeated and...

IN the early hours of Friday morning a police raiding party of up to 250 officers broke into a home in Lansdown Road, Forest...

LABOUR leader Corbyn was full of confidence as he opened his campaign to be re-elected as leader of the Labour Party yesterday. He said:...

UKRAINE has agreed the terms of a major minerals deal with the US, a senior official in Kiev has told the BBC. US President...

THE TORY government, using their NHS Long Term Plan have stepped up their war against the health service, attempting to drive through measures that...

THE Hezbollah TV channel yesterday showed a fighter planting a Syrian flag on Al-Qusayr’s clock tower while the Western powers’ surrogate, the Free Syrian...

CHANCELLOR Osborne used his annual address at the Mansion House on Wednesday night to announce that he will be selling off the government’s share...

OVER 100,000 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), will be on strike at the same time as the NUT teachers and...

PRESENT at Labour’s International Investment Summit on Monday were representatives from Lilly – the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. This coincided with an announcement from the...

ISRAEL has detained one million Palestinians since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the West Bank,...

GUNFIRE erupted Sunday morning at a checkpoint, established by workers on the outskirts of the city of Slavyansk in Eastern Ukraine. In the skirmishing, one...

THE killing of four British soldiers in Basra on Sunday with at least three seriously injured, and the killing of six US soldiers in...

THE United Nations says the ongoing Israeli war in Palestine has left the Gaza Strip ‘uninhabitable’ and that the destruction in the Palestinian territory...

BRITISH capitalism is in a desperate economic and political crisis that calls for truly desperate measures by the ruling class. The use of the capitalist...

TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement has been derided for its claims to represent a way out of the economic crisis strangling British capitalism,...

YESTERDAY, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) started a hearing on a case brought by Nicaragua against Germany, which puts the German government in...

The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2014, compared to 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the...

Mark Harper, the latest Tory transport secretary, appeared on the BBC yesterday morning to claim that the government was not responsible for blocking any...

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...

N THE early hours of Monday the military in Myanmar (formerly called Burma) seized power in a coup that saw the country’s leader Aung...

THE Hamas Ministry of Health said on Wednesday that 102 Palestinian citizens were martyred and 287 others injured in 5 Israeli massacres in Gaza...

THE latest available statistics give an indication of just how diseased the Metropolitan Police is, and just how great the need is for it...

THE British Chambers of Commerce yesterday published its Fourth Quarter Economic Survey of nearly 6,000 businesses. It highlights what it called ‘a...

RESIDENTS whose lives were put at risk, and even the management of devastated businesses near the Buncefield oil storage depot in Hertfordshire have been...

EVERY year the Labour government is handing over £40bn to the consortia of financiers, property developers and construction giants in payments for Private Finance...

AFTER all the fake sound and fury of parliamentary question time, with party leaders locked in apparent combat without quarter given or asked for,...

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

BLAIR came clean on at least one issue at his monthly press conference and that was where his loyalties lie. They definitely do not lie...

JUSTICE SECRETARY David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape,...

THOUSANDS of Greek workers, students and youth took to the streets at the weekend in a further extension of the anger that has erupted...

THE National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare says the following about Obama’s debt deal that savages the poor and leaves the rich...

US combat troops have been out of Iraq for only a week and already US generals are questioning President Obama’s judgement about whether the...

THE content of the Bush ‘peace offensive’ was yesterday revealed for the whole world to see when Israeli tanks, supported by artillery fire ...

FOLLOWING the successes of the Syrian army’s drive into Idlib province, President Erdogan of Turkey has begun to carry out his revenge policy. Since the...