Editorials

MORE than 150 contributors to The New York Times have announced a boycott of the paper’s opinion section, protesting its ‘clear bias’ in its...

THE Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval of a plan to occupy Gaza, following the Palestinian factions’ acceptance...

THE Israeli Human Rights group B’Tselem has issued a paper stating that Israel is not a democracy but an ‘apartheid regime’ that systematically oppresses...

ASSISTANT Scotland Yard Commissioner John Yates – who reviewed a Metropolitan police investigation into phone hacking and decided not to proceed to examine at...

GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said he is confident that agreement can be reached with creditors over the repayment of ‘Greece’s debts’,...

THE full effects of the coalition’s bedroom tax, which was introduced last April, have been highlighted in two reports published on Wednesday and revealed...

WITH business sure that the Bank of England is due to raise interest rates to at least five per cent, warnings are being made...

THE capitalist EU is being battered senseless this week by an economic crisis that is relentless and a working class that is refusing to...

The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure leapt from 4.7% in August to 5.2% in December, with the Retail Prices Index (RPI), which includes the...

AFTER the disgraceful sell out of final salary pensions by union leaders of the NHS, civil service and local government trade unions, the basic...

EX-PM Blair could be made to stand trial for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq, Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn has said. Corbyn correctly...

THE Office for National Statistics said yesterday that UK unemployment rose by 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December,...

500,000 workers, youth and pensioners marched through London on Saturday. Unlike the Labour leaders they were in total opposition to all of the savage cuts...

On Saturday, president Joe Biden rushed to sign off the deal reached with the Republican Party to suspend the $31.4 trillion US debt ceiling...

ECONOMISTS at the multi-national financial advice service PwC have issued a stark warning that nearly 30,000 businesses in the UK will collapse under the...

THE Israeli inquiry into its July 2006 attack on the Lebanon has found that it was ‘a large and serious failure’. It also...

THE CHIEF Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, in his ninth and final annual review, has warned that Tory PM Johnson’s promise to hire 20,000...

INCREASINGLY strident calls to defeat Russia’s military defence of the Donbass reached fever pitch yesterday ahead of the one-off ‘peace’ meeting between US President...

WEDNESDAY’S Queen’s Speech began with an evasion that her government would continue to seek a ‘high-wage low-welfare economy’. This was said at a time when...

THE unfolding saga of the proposed nuclear power station, Hinkley Point C in Somerset, reached a new level of farce late on Thursday when...

SAAD Iqbal Madni, was kidnapped by the CIA while visiting relatives in Indonesia. He was then transited through the British colonial possession of Diego...

PM Starmer’s latest policy U-turn, of abandoning the protection against unfair dismissal from day-one for new employees in the Employment Rights Bill, created a...

THE government of Sri Lanka led by President Rajapakse is currently fighting a war on two fronts, on behalf of US and UK imperialism. On...

FACED with an £18 billion debt mountain, the privatised Thames Water company yesterday set out its survival plans that involve increasing bills to £627...

WITH 21 TORY MPS having the whip removed from them, now being joined by more Tory defectors like Amber Rudd, and while Labour makes...

THE United Nations (UN) has raised the alarm over the health condition of hunger-striking Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...

BUSH flew into London yesterday after sending a public order to Gordon Brown, via the Observer newspaper. This was that Brown must not announce...

THE law firm that has spent ten years representing the Iraqi victims of the brutal imperialist invasion of their country and the subsequent occupation...

TODAY is exactly two decades after the terror attacks on the United States on 11 September, 2001. That morning, Al-Qaeda-affiliated hijackers flew two Boeing...

PM MAY makes a lot of noise about her concern for the ‘just about managing’, ie the middle classes in crisis-ridden Britain. In fact,...

THE US dollar is reeling against the euro. The US sub-mortgage crisis is deepening, with housing starts down by 10 per cent in September, while...

AN official review into government funding of universities led by Lord Browne, the former chief executive of BP, will not be published until after...

THE Metropolitan Police chief Blair was yesterday forgiven by the Attorney General for secretly tapping at least one of their conversations ‘for future reference’. It...

LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer addressed Parliament yesterday reporting on the emergency defence summit of European leaders he’d convened in London at the weekend. This...

YESTERDAY’S ‘solution’ to the economic crisis of Cyprus is simply the decision of the EU bankers and the IMF to completely bankrupt the country...

LABOUR leader Keir Starmer suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party over his remarks on Thursday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn’s...

THE defence review will send a ‘message to Moscow’ about Britain’s ‘readiness to fight if required’, Defence Secretary John Healey has told the BBC. Ripping...

Russia’s super-rich oligarchs, who made their fortunes by stealing or purchasing for a pittance chunks of the Soviet nationalised and planned economy under the...

A BALLOT of CWU members announced this week showed a vote of 94% in favour of a ‘legally binding contract’ between the leadership of...

WITH the North Shropshire by-election looming on Thursday, just two days after the vote in Parliament on Boris Johnson’s Plan B to try and...

MORE than half a million civil servants are to be told that they will have to pay a lot more towards their pensions. This is...

THE DEMAND for a National Government to rescue the British economy from bankruptcy is rapidly emerging in the bourgeois press, as the only way...

THOUSANDS of deaths by workers who contracted Covid in the course of their jobs have gone unreported in the official figures, according to research...

THE Cameron-led debate in the House of Commons on Monday disclosed a Tory Party split down the middle, with Boris Johnson leading a revolt...

MARCH 2008 sees the US and UK armed forces and governments irreparably damaged as a result of their failure to subdue the Iraqi people...