Editorials

THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour Party was absolutely correct to expel Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former ‘spin doctor’, for voting...

THE HAMAS Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Sunday that 47 Palestinians were martyred and 139 injured in six Israeli massacres in the...

HOME SECRETARY Alan Johnson is introducing new police state powers for councils next week. These will not be discussed in the House of Commons...

ISRAEL, on Saturday evening, committed over 200 tanks and 20,000 troops to an invasion of Gaza, covered by artillery fire and fire from warships...

THE policy of the Labour government, as far as the NHS is concerned, is to hand over more and more of the NHS budget...

THE just announced 1,000 strong mass sackings at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire which includes 750 compulsory redundancies, as well as 370 nurses...

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...

THE coalition, as expected, has signalled to the bankers that their multi-million bonuses are safe, emboldening the head of Barclays to tell the House...

BOTH Wall Street and the London stock markets made record advances yesterday. The FTSE 100 index rocketed upwards on Friday morning adding £80billion to share...

THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the ‘deal of the century’, which they said was a plan for ‘transfer’...

IN January the European Trades Union Confederation (ETUC) issued the call for trade unionists across the continent to rally on the eve of the...

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...

LAST night’s Panorama programme, entitled ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Force’, threw yet more light on the murderous activities of the British state in its war...

YESTERDAY the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 5.25%, the 14th time in a row that rates have been increased as the...

ON TUESDAY, Tory PM Boris Johnson narrowly avoided defeat on a motion to cut UK foreign aid after a rebellion by Tory MPs. In the...

A NEW report from the Costs of War Project at Brown University has exposed the death toll of imperialist wars across the globe. It...

RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, announced on Thursday that Ireland will not take part in next year’s Eurovision song contest if Israel is a contestant,...

SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary speaking at a Chatham House conference, has said that Labour will not support any Brexit deal negotiated...

AN ACADEMIC who created an app which ‘harvested’ data from 50 million people now says he has been made ‘a scapegoat’ for the scandal...

EIGHT and a half years after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, 21 years after the deadly UN sanctions were imposed on Iraq...

THE Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have warned of a dangerous escalation in the systematic repression carried out...

OVER the weekend, President Bush made personal phone calls to both the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in...

ON Thursday night, the giant TV screen that looks down on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange spelt out the message ‘Trump...

FROM Friday 1 April, the Greater Manchester authorities have taken over a £6 billion health and social care budget to serve a population of...

ISRAEL IS currently preventing gas from entering the Gaza Strip and is selling it to Egypt – while Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip are...

THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Scotland has voted overwhelmingly to reject the final pay offer from the nationalist SNP government, meaning Scottish...

THE wave of ‘wildcat strikes’ that are taking place in power stations and oil terminals throughout the UK have the full support of the...

In an interview on Sunday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that as far as the coalition government is concerned there...

UK registered unemployment from April to June 2015 was at 1.85 million, up 25,000 from the previous quarter while the ONS figures showed that...

GROWING demand on A&E departments will make them unsustainable if effective action is not taken quickly, according to MPs on the Health Committee. Launching a...

SPIRALLING public spending and interest payments on government debt have forced Chancellor Rachel Reeves to borrow £18 billion last month, the highest August figure...

THE leader of Birmingham City Council has apologised to the people of the city and insisted he had ‘no prior notice’ or knowledge of...

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown’s government is targeting General Practitioners (GPs) in its rush to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). Two key barriers to a...

THE architects of the Common Market, the forerunner of the European Union, freely admitted that they were seeking to carry out peacefully what Adolf...

TODAY the working class is fighting against a crisis-ridden capitalist system whose banks and industries have collapsed, and whose political leaders, such as the...

On the picket line at Greenford Mail Centre in west London yesterday morning, CWU member Stephen Byrne told News Line: ‘Today and tomorrow are...

ON WEDNESDAY, the US vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demanding ‘an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’ in Gaza. The draft resolution also...

UK inflation will quadruple to about 4% in the second half of next year and cut disposable income, the National Institute for Economic and...

IT is a monstrous betrayal of the Palestinian people that the FIFA Congress immersed itself in the corrupt affairs of billionaire, big business soccer,...

THE foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany and Xavier Solana the EU’s ‘Foreign Minister’, met on...

THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued a grim warning of worldwide recession with global debt reaching a staggering record of £64 trillion. In...

SPEAKING in Madrid yesterday, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the recognition of a Palestinian state is ‘in Europe’s geopolitical interests’. The Spanish...

AT a time when the whole of the working class and the middle class is under the most savage attacks from the Tory Lib-Dem...

AS the economic crisis deepens, the drive to privatise the NHS is being stepped up on a number of fronts. One is the growing...

THE Hamas Movement has called on the world’s free people and the Arab and Islamic nations to actively participate in massive and angry rallies...