Editorials

THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, finally admitted publicly that British and world capitalism faced their ‘worst crisis ever’, a crisis...

IN HIS speech outside Downing Street on Monday PM Johnson made it crystal clear that the Tory Party, presiding over the greatest ever crisis...

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...

CITIZENS of the US, Georgia and Lithuania have been granted Ukrainian citizenship in order to be key ministers in the new counter-revolutionary...

British Banks have been recapitalised by the working class, who were not consulted by the government before the Prime Minister took the decision...

US imperialism has reacted to the breakdown of talks at the weekend of the Contact Group on Ukrainian reconciliation with threats to massively intervene...

SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls and his predecessor Alan Johnson have given the go-head to the sell-off of 19 school playing fields over the past...

THE DEEP political and economic crisis engulfing British capitalism and the ruling class was forcibly expressed when yesterday’s Daily Telegraph published a comment article...

THE Madleen ship, part of the Freedom Flotilla launched from Italy, is approaching the shores of Gaza amid concerns that the Israeli occupation army...

A new report by the Incomes Data Services and the High Pay Commission has thrown the spotlight on the issue of pensions, and the...

THE UK government stepped up its war with China this week when it took the decision to ban the Chinese ambassador to the UK...

IAN TOMLINSON, a 47-year-old news vendor in the City of London, collapsed at 7.25pm on April 1 on his way home from work during...

LEADING bourgeois economists are making doom laden predictions about the effect of Donald Trump’s pledges to ‘make America great’ through trade wars and expelling...

AS Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s 72-hour amnesty deadline for militia fighters in Basra to hand over their weapons ran out yesterday, this leader of...

OVER 100,000 people in Britain could literally freeze to death over the next 25 years because they are too poor to afford to adequately...

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

ON FRIDAY PM MAY let it be known that if she did not think that her EU deal would be agreed by parliament she...

THE former military dictator of Pakistan, Musharraf who came to power by a military coup in 1999, and was the main ally in the...

INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...

PALESTINIAN voters in the West Bank have delivered a blow to the Fatah movement in local elections which saw Fatah winning two-fifths of...

THE deepening capitalist crisis has seen the breakdown of the decisive Doha Round of World Trade Organisation talks, with the United States refusing and...

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...

US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken arrived in Egypt yesterday at the start of yet another Middle East tour – his fifth since the...

GOLD prices fell back five per cent on Thursday after peaking at a record $5,500 an ounce on Monday as speculators took their profits...

COMMUNITIES Secretary Hazel Blears has resigned from the cabinet, on the eve of the local government and EU elections, delivering a major blow to...

PRESIDENT BUSH’S officials confirmed yesterday that Iran had agreed to hold talks with the US on Iraq. The Iranian communique said: ‘Following consultations between...

MERVYN KING, the head of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, has added his name to the number of the capitalist world’s...

WITH more than 100 million gallons of oil already freed to spew all over the US Gulf coast, the ‘special relationship’ between the US...

NEXT week, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, will be announcing the results of his spending review to parliament, outlining £20 billion of austerity cuts...

On Monday the LibDem leader, Nick Clegg, added his views to the emerging consensus between Labour and the Tories that the problem with British...

EVEN the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles has condemned the issuing of control orders by the British Home Secretary as...

KARL MARX was able to show that one of the fundamental contradictions of the capitalist system was the conflict between the need of the...

PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas’ summit with the Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, which was due today, has been cancelled after Abbas said he was opposed to...

A just-issued Coalition statement from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament states that: ‘In October, we will mark a year since the start of Israel’s...

THE UK ruling class, alongside its US masters, is getting ready to attack Syria in a matter of hours. It is to be struck with...

THE wave of ‘wildcat strikes’ that are taking place in power stations and oil terminals throughout the UK have the full support of the...

THE Omicron strain of the Coronavirus now accounts for more than 73% of new US cases of Covid-19, up from 13% just a week...

THE Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has had his plans for a government veto over the law courts made public after a leak of his...

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...

JUST minutes after the IRA issued a statement that it was giving up its historic armed struggle, the British army began demolishing a watch...

COMMUNITIES Secretary Ruth Kelly, launching a Commission on Integration and Cohesion yesterday, declared: ‘I believe that we should celebrate and clearly articulate the benefits...

PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...

YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...

LABOUR’S affiliated trade unions yesterday said that the Prime Minister ‘will not lead Labour into the next election’, and called on the party to...

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