Editorials

THE UK’s unemployment figure rose to 5.1% in the three months to December, a five-year high, official figures from the Office for National Statistics...

THE unelected and EU-imposed Greek ‘interim’ PM, Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank who played a major part in getting Greece...

A LEAKED document obtained by the Labour Party has revealed that the Treasury faces a black hole of up to £16bn in its finances...

AT the weekend the new Labour shadow health secretary, Andrew Burnham, delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the NHS with the announcement...

DEEP splits among the imperialist powers emerged this week over the rapidly growing support for a Palestinian state, at the same time as Trump...

ON Monday September 12 the TUC Annual Congress was lobbied by 300 of the over 700 locked out Gate Gourmet workers. The Congress then passed...

ROLLS-ROYCE has issued an ultimatum to the just formed Burnham Labour government that it must back a £3bn plan for new short-haul jet engines...

CONFRONTED with the appalling crisis in NHS hospitals’ A&E emergency services, the Labour government plans to restrict access to emergency departments, to save money...

PRESIDENT Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton has stated that the United States is exerting ‘unprecedented pressure on the government of Iran to change...

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

ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...

CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...

ON Tuesday, at the Prime Minister’s monthly press conference, the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson confessed that he did not know how many jobs...

At their annual conference the largest head teachers union, NAHT, passed a motion of no-confidence in the Tory education minister Michael Gove and the whole...

THE International Monetary Fund has warned that Greece’s debts are on an ‘explosive path’ in its first annual review of the country’s economy since...

THE RMT announced yesterday that the ‘RMT joins the whole nation in paying its respects to Queen Elizabeth' and that ‘the planned railway strike...

THE current Israeli-American ruling class war on Iran and Palestine is continuing for the twentieth consecutive day, amid a marked escalation in the pace,...

COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...

DESPITE all of the promises and the pledges made by Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer that he would improve living standards, the exact opposite is...

THE reaction of the Brown government to the eruption of the capitalist crisis has been to champion the interests of the banks, pledging to...

SIR Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, is a very worried man – with good reason. What is keeping him awake...

THE RESIGNATION of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary was only delayed until he was faced with dying from shame if he held back any...

THE government has been dealt a blow in the House of Lords after the Lords voted to delay tax credit cuts, until an independent...

On Saturday, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak issued a New Year’s Message that was an attempt to shore up the Labour government in the...

THE new Israeli government, which includes known fascists, is now engaging in murderous attacks on the Palestinian people as it pushes to create many...

Donald Trump’s belligerent ‘last-chance’ threat to Iran to resume diplomatic talks about abandoning its nuclear programme or face US military attacks in two weeks,...

GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...

THE IMF (International Monetary Fund) this week sounded the alarm bells for the world capitalist crisis when it announced the real scale of the...

THE capitalist media has been forced, in recent days, to reveal some of the misdoings of the great banks that stand astride the...

GORDON Brown in his budget got rid of the lowest rate of tax, 10p in the pound, thereby setting out to further punish the...

BRITISH oil giant Shell has halted its Red Sea shipments after US-UK strikes in the Yemen against the Houthis. The UK-based energy giant Shell has...

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...

THE FEDERAL government will shut down tomorrow as Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress are in a bitter dispute over budget cuts to...

THE just published survey of the NHS, carried out for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) trade union, found that 90 per cent of...

LABOUR leader Keir Starmer returned from holiday at the weekend to announce his new ‘robust’ plan to freeze the cap on electricity and gas...

BOTH American generals and ex-British ambassadors have been predicting that Iraq is either on the brink of civil war or that it has already...

STARMER’S Labour government is in a state of complete meltdown, with the prime minister himself struggling to keep his job under the impact of...

CHINESE Stalinist leader President Hu Jintao has sent Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Vice President Xi Jinping on international visits in a vain attempt...

BERNIE SANDERS, the US Senator, issued a live video on Tuesday warning that a war by the US against Iran would be ‘many times...

THE crisis in Palestine and the crisis in the Middle East is deepening rapidly to the point where its contradictions are sharpening to the...

THE HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stevens, yesterday released the report ‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’, a report that makes...

ANY Israeli attempt to displace Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to Jordan will be considered a ‘declaration of war’, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman...

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...

UNITE has revealed that Harrods is the ‘first employer’ to threaten staff with the new law allowing agency workers to break strikes and engage...

WHEN at the beginning of the year the Red Cross, known for going into countries plagued by war and epidemics, declared a ‘Humanitarian Disaster’...