Editorials

THE membership, branch leaderships and regional leaderships of the local government trade unions must stop the betrayal of their final salary pensions by union...

EX-CBI boss, Lord Turner’s plans for pensions are just the means chosen by the Blair government to make the working class pay for the...

US President Barack Obama outlined his long-awaited ‘strategy’ on Wednesday night to ‘degrade and ultimately destroy’ the Islamist group ISIL that has established an...

THE WITCHHUNT that the Republican Party has organised against President Obama for having the temerity to propose some relatively benign measures to allow...

PUBLIC sector workers such as firefighters, teachers, and nurses, cannot afford to buy homes in seven out of 10 UK towns, because of the...

LIB DEM leader Nick Clegg has reiterated his original claim there will need to be ‘savage’ spending cuts. Clegg put forward the same...

THE joint general secretaries of Unite, Britain’s biggest union, met with Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling at Number 11 on Thursday for crisis talks on...

THE forty-year-old Libyan revolution is being celebrated with enthusiasm this week by the Libyan masses in Tripoli. The revolution, led by Colonel Gadaffi, put an...

GENERAL Motors and Magna and its Russian partner Sberbank (which includes the Gaz carmaker) have reached an agreement in principle over the contract...

ANGLO-US-FRENCH forces have killed over 100 Libyans and wounded hundreds more in their opening onslaught of cruise missiles, launched from the sea, and bombs...

THE LATEST poll of Russian people has revealed that the number who want a return of the USSR has set a new record. The Levada-Centre...

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the gravest warning yet on the state of the UK economy on Tuesday,...

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...

OVER the New Year the killing of Palestinian men women and children has continued unabated and in the most brutal fashion. On Sunday Israeli forces...

VAUXHALL factories at Ellesmere Port and Luton will close if GM’s talks with the Labour government for the Treasury to take over the financing...

POLICE in the US state of Missouri, in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, are continuing to clash with protesters nightly, amid growing anger...

Earlier this week the Coalition government’s Housing Minister, Grant Shapps, unveiled the government’s plans to destroy the last vestige of affordable social housing. In what...

THE demand for a general strike to bring down the government has been driven by the working class onto the immediate agenda of the...

YESTERDAY the new leader of the Tory Party, David Cameron publicly disowned the Tory Party manifesto, written for the last general election, just seven...

AT PM’s Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Corbyn raised the issue of the UK’s sale of...

THE Council Tax is set to rise by four per cent on average this year, more than double the government’s current rate of inflation...

AFGHANISTAN’S re-run election will be held on November 7th as scheduled, said the Afghan Electoral Commission yesterday. It is to have just one candidate,...

THE RMT railworkers trade union has confirmed that members on Network Rail maintenance have voted by 77% for strike action in response...

OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...

‘OUR time and patience is running out. The country is in a mess and we look to the Government to come up with serious...

IAN TOMLINSON, a 47-year-old news vendor in the City of London, collapsed at 7.25pm on April 1 on his way home from work during...

When US President, Barack Obama, announced on Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a dawn raid by US special forces...

DEMOCRATIC presidents and prime ministers such as Obama and Brown have rushed into the Afghan breach to rubber-stamp their stooge Karzai as the president...

THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that the government was organising an ‘NHS-style crash’ pushing through ‘reforms’ to create an education...

BANKRUPTED Greece, still up to its neck in debt, is to sell five-year bonds, in the country’s first long-term debt sale since its international...

PREMIER Brown’s speech at the Labour Party conference reeked with bourgeois morality and hypocrisy. There is to be a slap on the...

POSTAL workers in towns and cities all over the UK were forced out on unofficial strike yesterday morning when management sought to impose the...

Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...

THE Tory/LibDem coalition cuts to housing benefit come into effect today with devastating consequences for all unemployed or low paid workers who rely on...

ON April 30th 2009 the British army left Basra in Iraq for Afghanistan. This was after negotiating their retreat from Iraq’s second city with...

EVEN sections of the bourgeois media, and the bourgeoisie that it represents, were yesterday able to describe the appearance of the current world...

WITH the world’s attention focussed on the capitalist crisis, the US military have unleashed a series of massive attacks on the Afghan and Pakistani...

THE battle lines are being drawn up in the United States between the vanguard of the working class in the auto industry and the...

LAST Wednesday afternoon, the Unite trade union reps for its tanker driver membership rejected the employers’ offer, and the union was due to present...

‘IT’S wrong that Downing Street thinks it can run the Labour Party: we are an elected party, a democratic party,’ said the Labour Party...

IN THE LATEST attempt to block a no-deal Brexit, Labour leader Corbyn has called on the civil service to move into action and do...

YESTERDAY, a conference was convened in London to organise the intervention into Somalia by imperialist forces, led by the UK, acting under the cover of...

LOSSES AT the state owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) were twice as bad as expected, at £1.13bn and much bigger than the £950...

THE nationalisation of the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac mortgage finance companies by the ultra right wing Bush administration is a forced admission of...

THE International Energy Agency has predicted that oil demand is set to leap beyond the capacity to supply, sending oil prices soaring well...