Editorials

THE US independent ‘democratic socialist’ Senator Bernie Sanders has become front-runner for the Democratic Party nomination to stand against Trump in the presidential election...

THE STRIKING Tube workers brought London to a standstill yesterday, and every London worker and commuter must give them their full support against the...

ANALYSIS by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has found that over 32,000 student nurses in England could drop out of their courses by...

YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that the UK inflation rate had more than doubled in April this year as energy costs...

MPs on the House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls have urged in a draft report that the UK government stop selling arms...

THE giant oil company BP revealed yesterday that its profits more than doubled in the first three months of the year because of the...

IT IS estimated that 7.4 million people in England and Wales have not been to a National Health Service dentist since April 2006, because...

ON MONDAY Hamas reported that the group had agreed terms for a ceasefire plan for Gaza that calls for a 60-day pause in fighting...

THE Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come back from the US convinced that the Labour government must change its position against the use...

THREATS, demands and bullying aimed at the whole world from US President Donald Trump, dominated the Davos Economic Forum in a video call on...

LABOUR leader Miliband’s speech of yesterday was a pre-election attempt to bolster up support from workers by arguing that Labour will be...

AHEAD of MPs considering the Second Reading of the new Counter-Terrorism Bill in Parliament yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for extension of...

A WHITE HOUSE official warned yesterday that the US military is 99 per cent certain to launch a massive military attack on Iran ‘to...

THE working class electors in the safe Labour seat of Dunfermline and Fyfe ignored the crisis at the top of the Liberal Democrats, so...

THE general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), Matt Wrack, has warned that proposals from Home Secretary Theresa May, to bring fire and...

ITALY’S economic crisis is reaching the point of explosion, an explosion that even bourgeois economists fear will bring down the eurozone and the entire...

MANY people were killed or seriously injured in terrorist attacks at Brussels international airport and a city metro station on Tuesday morning. Two explosions hit...

THE MAY government avoided a House of Commons defeat for the Brexit Withdrawal Bill last Tuesday by making promises to the leading Tory Remainer,...

THE TUC, the Equality Trust, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and Runnymede Trust on Tuesday warned that the Strikes Bill,...

SATURDAY saw a vast crowd of 250,000 workers, including very large numbers of enthusiastic and determined youth, take to the streets of London for...

THE Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that ‘Russia has begun implementing a scenario intended to destabilise the Ukrainian economy’, adding that this was ‘despite...

THE great EU referendum crisis in the UK has sharpened after PM Cameron denied his earlier remarks that after he had negotiated a deal...

TOTAL unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to December, down 3,000 on the figure for the previous three months. However, long-term...

LAST Saturday, the Tory leader, Cameron, told the Daily Telegraph that if he should win the General Election he is ready to toughen the...

THE SURPRISE announcement by Theresa May on Sunday that the Tories had plans to put £20 billion of extra funding into the NHS over...

NORWAY is commemorating one year since 77 mainly young people who were members of the Young Socialists, and engaged in a summer school, were...

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...

HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...

AFTER the killing and torture of Baha Mousa in Iraq was supplemented by a court martial that refused to convict those responsible for his...

THE UK’s biggest car manufacturer, Vauxhall, with plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton, has admitted its more than 5,000 jobs are under massive threat...

THE Tory government has now launched war on the elderly, the youth and the working class simultaneously! There is a war on the youth, with...

THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday made the surprise decision to hold UK interest rates at 5.25% instead of the widely...

AFTER Blair and Brown abolished students’ grants and introduced a regime of fee paying for university education – putting an end to free university...

PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) EC member Hanan Ashrawi has strongly condemned Israel’s escalation of its illegal and inhumane measures in and around Jerusalem and...

The gap between the rich and poor has widened in recent years and is greater than at any time in the past 40 years,...

INFLATION is on the rise with the CPI rate increasing from 3.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent, while the RPI rate rose from...

AT the centre of the current media drive to find out, identify, and persecute the individuals, whether bankers and/or politicians who are held to...

THE world crisis of capitalism has now erupted once again and has the deformed workers’ state of China in its sights, and no doubt...

SATURDAY’S mass marches in London, Glasgow and Belfast were marches to bring down the coalition, regardless of the intentions of their TUC organisers who...

LEBANON’s president, Michel Aoun, on Monday condemned an Israeli drone attack on Beirut at the weekend as a ‘declaration of war’ that justifies a...

THE US told the world on Monday that it has 5,113 nuclear war heads operationally deployed. This arsenal is supplemented by the warheads...

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 Academy school project – to replace state owned schools, with ‘independent’, millionaire sponsored, and privately run schools, who hire the staff that...

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...

BY A UNANIMOUS decision eleven judges in the Supreme Court declared that the five-week suspension, or prorogation, of Parliament is ‘unlawful, void and of...