Editorials

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to tell workers that major unavoidable tax rises are on the way since she has inherited a £20bn...

THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy last Friday afternoon, when it banned...

YESTERDAY, the USA backed Israel unconditionally and along with the UK pushed through its plan for taking over the Gaza Strip, smashing Hamas and...

FORMER Army chief of staff Lord Dannatt has apologised on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme for allowing British troops to take an anti-malaria drug...

AFTER withdrawing its embassy staff from 20 countries, the US ruling class has now launched a drone blitz on the Yemen, with three drone...

ANYONE who was wondering why, at the TUC Congress, when union leaders were moving resolutions calling for coordinated industrial action against the Brown government’s...

THE annual conference of the TUC, due to start a week tomorrow, is the first conference of the leadership of the trade union movement...

ON December 8, the White House said that the outgoing US President Barack Obama had relaxed the so-called Arms Export Control Act for the...

MARIA MILLER has been forced to resign. After publicly displaying her arrogant determination to defy all the calls for her to go – a...

LAST Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB) abandoned its previously proclaimed policy of ending free money handouts to the banks through quantitative easing (QE)...

THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...

WITH the number of Palestinian dead in Gaza rising to nearly 45,000 due to the US-backed Israeli genocide campaign, the Israeli occupation army’s appetite...

Early yesterday Israel entered al-Shifa hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, with troops, tanks and bulldozers invading the facility where around...

EX-ARMY officer Duncan Smith, the Coalition’s Work and Pensions Secretary, yesterday announced a Universal Credit to replace all benefits, and also ...

WASHINGTON has expressed concern about a plan by the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai to release scores of prisoners considered by the US...

TORY Prime Minister, Liz Truss, unveiled her package of measures to deal with the cost-of-living crisis yesterday. Her ‘bold’ new plan was nothing more...

THE Bank of England, the UKs central bank and guardian of the country’s banking system, along with being responsible for the running of British...

TODAY’S Senior Consultants BMA conference is due to hear a warning from Doctor Jonathan Fielden to Premier-elect Gordon Brown that he...

THE BANK of England is due to meet this week to announce an increase in interest rates, with ‘experts’ predicting an increase of 0.5%...

THE sacked Gate Gourmet workers were locked out almost six months ago on August 10th-11th 2005 by a management and an owner that was...

TENANTS receiving housing benefit have been issued with eviction notices by the largest ‘buy-to-let’ private landlord in the country. Fergus Wilson, who owns 1,000 properties...

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...

THE euphoria over figures released this week that the UK inflation rate in July had dropped to 6.8%, meaning that prices were shooting up...

WRITING in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper the general secretary elect of Unite, Len McClusky, was forced to use the dread words ‘general strike’ in the...

PRESIDENT Trump has described the new ‘utopia’ that the UK faces once it breaks with the EU, and the UK ruling class switches its...

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

ON TUESDAY night, MPs voted by 329 to 299 to pass a motion in principle to back Boris Johnson’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Almost immediately,...

THE POLITICAL and economic crisis over Brexit has reached explosion point this week, with negotiations between the Tory government and the leaders of the...

economic stability in East Asia. This anti-communist idyll theme, has been shaken to the core after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, citing the...

IT HAS emerged that Leveson, whose current inquiry was brought into being by Prime Minister Cameron, complained to the UK’s top civil servant after...

AT this year’s annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) the right-wing of the trade union bureaucracy will attempt to commit the working...

AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...

AFTER a tortuous series of talks in Geneva the Russian Foreign minister Lavrov has announced the signing of five documents which include agreements reached...

YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...

THE world’s banks have now lost £1.8 trillion the Bank of England has reported in its Financial Stability Report. This is as a result of...

PALESTINIAN prisoners are staging a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest against crackdowns and mistreatment by the prison officials. They say their strike,...

YESTERDAY the capitalist state was split over the Blair government’s police state attacks on democratic rights. Two Law Lords attacked Home Office plans,...

THE GENOCIDAL onslaught against the 1.4 million Palestinian men, women and children forced into the tiny city of Rafah on the border with Egypt...

THE HSJ (Health Service Journal) has done a service to the NHS, and its tens of millions of users. It has revealed just how...

THIS Sunday’s 65th Anniversary rally of the assassination of Leon Trotsky by an agent of the Stalinist bureaucracy in 1940 is taking place at...