Editorials

LAST night’s BBC Panorama programme revealed yet more evidence of unlawful killings of Afghans by members of the Special Air Service (SAS) during the...

THE eleventh hour climbdown by Tory health minister Jeremy Hunt over imposing new contracts on junior doctors has wounded him and exposed the weakness...

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...

WHAT began as a Black Lives Matter movement sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has developed into a nationwide movement...

WORKERS earning wages, employed in respected professions are sleeping in the streets and working during the day, or night is something shockingly new to...

OBAMA’S re-election is a product of the refusal of US workers to allow an all-out robber baron of capitalism, Romney, to have control over...

SPEAKING at the International Institute for Strategic Studies conference in Singapore last Friday, US Secretary of Defence, Leon Panetta, made it clear that the...

THE UK CPI inflation rate rose to to 4.4% in February from the January figure of 4%, while the RPI inflation rate which includes...

THE Troika of the IMF, the ECB and the EU have imposed such a massive austerity programme onto the backs of the Greek working...

THE US, UK and Saudi-backed and organised ‘rebels’ who have failed to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, who has the support...

THIS year’s British TUC Congress in Brighton from 8-11 September took key decisions to align trade unions with the pro-Palestine, pro-peace and anti-war movements,...

THE Police Federation has demanded that the Home Secretary resign after her refusal to backdate their 2.5 per cent pay award, and has decided...

ISRAEL is in a race against time to create a fait accompli in Palestine before US President Donald Trump leaves office, Palestinian Prime Minister...

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...

THE US’ top military commander General Dempsey has broken ranks with President Obama by telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that US...

THE NEWLY-appointed head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued the starkest warning yet that world capitalism is on the point of...

IT IS now becoming obvious that the furore over parliamentary expenses and their alleged misuse, involving at least one leading Tory MP, was just...

THE TUC General Council statement issued on Saturday constitutes a betrayal of the working class and the trade unions. It seeks to divert...

JUST BEFORE his talks with President Abbas on Monday, President Obama said: ‘I think everybody understands the outlines of what a peace deal would...

THE World Economic Forum meeting in Davos to celebrate capitalism finds the assembled chief executives, politicians and would-be prophets much more pessimistic and frightened...

A ‘LEHMAN BROTHERS debt crisis’ in the heartland of Europe is how the news that a major Austrian bank collapsed last week was described...

LORD Heseltine is notorious for his closure of the mining industry in 1993, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the Major...

THE French government is threatening Iran with retribution if it does not give up its nuclear energy programme. The French Prime Minister, De Villepin, one...

US TROOPS are back in military bases in north eastern Syria which they had previously evacuated ahead of Turkey’s military action against Kurdish forces...

YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...

THE GMB warned yesterday of 200,000 council job losses in England, with many more to take place in the rest of the UK. GMB national...

OXFAM warned yesterday that average prices of staple crops will more than double in 20 years if urgent action is not taken to change...

Last Friday, Reuters news agency published a photograph of a hastily scribbled reminder on the notepad of US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent of a...

THE Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said yesterday that the government should ban strikes by workers in essential services, adding that this...

LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer spelt out his intention to build up Britain’s capitalist state to take ‘control’ of people’s lives. Starmer made this declaration...

ON TUESDAY, Tory health secretary Savid Javid outlined his ‘new vision for NHS reform’ which turned out to be just a repetition of the...

THE US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, who was recently transferred from Afghanistan, last Monday threatened the Syrian government with war. He accused Syria of...

THE OPPOSITION leader Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of the Regions, has won the Ukrainian presidential election, and has defeated Prime Minister...

AS FAR as this reactionary coalition government is concerned, anybody who is sick for more than four weeks in a year is probably engaging...

FORMER Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has been installed as Health Secretary to replace the disgraced Matt Hancock, with a remit to...

TORY prime minister David Cameron has promised that British imperialism is prepared to wage a war lasting decades throughout Africa and the Middle East...

NHS managers have warned in a report from the NHS Confederation that the Lansley NHS White Paper will lead to hospital closures and constitutes...

THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...

THE DAILY Telegraph has been speculating on: ‘What would a 21st century British coup look like?’ in an opinion piece written by Paul...

LAST Wednesday, the trade unions with the support of the majority of the Labour Party constituency parties defeated the government on the vital issue...

TRUE to form, Brown the bankers’ prime minister, opened his speech on apprentices yesterday by hailing the employers saying: ‘I am delighted to join...

IN A speech last November, Cameron declared a permanent ‘austerity war’ against the working class, singling out the unemployed and young people as the...

THE Brown government rails on about ‘breaches of human rights’ allegedly taking place in Zimbabwe and Burma, and makes all kinds of allegations...

PM Brown has rejected out of hand the trade union demand for a Windfall Tax on the oil, gas and energy companies, that are...

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