Editorials

THE US, UK, French, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari-backed ‘Syrian rebels’, who have been armed, equipped, financed and recognised as the representatives of the Syrian...

THE US has sent 75 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq, with many more on the way. They are to be used to try to...

THE Syrian government has said over a long time that it would never use chemical weapons against its own people. Yesterday, the General Command of...

THIS week, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt jetted off to Washington to attend the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the stated...

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...

THE reconstituted House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC), made up of members of four select committees – Business, Innovation and Skills,...

SPEAKING in New Jersey, President Trump has delivered a final warning to North Korea. He said that, ‘North Korea best not make any more threats...

YESTERDAY, a Chinese spacecraft made a giant leap forward in human exploration of space when it became the first ever to land on the...

YESTERDAY at least 27 Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured when Israeli occupation troops opened fire on crowds attempting to get food at...

YESTERDAY the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history of £24.1bn, made up of a £7.9bn trading...

VERY heavy clashes between masses of anti-government protesters and the Bahraini security forces continued into last night, ahead of tomorrow’s F1 Grand Prix. The...

FOR the second day running the bourgeois media have been dominated by the Olympic opening extravaganza organised brilliantly by Danny Boyle, who used and...

UNISON Head of Health, Karen Jennings, has condemned Labour government plans to allow private treatment centres to poach NHS staff, breaking a Labour government...

A dramatic split in the European Union has emerged over plans to ban trade between the EU and illegal Israeli settlements. The split has erupted...

YESTERDAY Adams Childrenswear announced that it had closed down 111 of its stores throughout the UK, and that its remaining 160 shops would stay...

IN her speech to the annual Tolpuddle Martyr’s rally held last Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady lambasted the coalition government over the Transparency...

THIS week the Tory-led coalition is set to announce yet more changes to the education syllabus, changes designed to further Cameron’s pledge to drive...

PRESIDENT BUSH and his military advisors were yesterday poised to announce ‘one last big push’ for victory in Iraq, and that 20,000 more US...

PALESTINIAN resistance movements and their fighters remained defiant after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared on Saturday that the Israeli War Cabinet had decided to...

POSTAL workers throughout the country face crunch time in defence of their jobs and the very existence of their union, the CWU. This was spelt...

HOME SECRETARY Patel has not been humbled in the slightest by the decision of the European Human Rights Court to consider that her attempt...

THE decision by the Bank of England to keep interest rates at 5.25%, the highest level for 16 years, came as no surprise despite...

FOOD prices in the UK continued to surge at the fastest rate in nearly 45 years in April, as inflation fell at a slower...

OFFICIAL figures released last week revealed the total collapse of the Tories’ Test and Trace programme run by private companies. Analysis of these figures show...

DR RICHARD Fawcett, a Royal Stoke Hospital consultant, has apologised for ‘third world’ conditions in the hospital’s A&E, saying that he was ‘heartbroken’ to...

ON Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB), after months of prevarication and splits within its ranks, finally took the decision to launch the eurozone’s...

THERESA May returned from her Easter break to face Tory MPs united in demanding her resignation. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, met...

THE wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth by the bourgeois media, and the way that the TUC has used this massive wave...

THE SECOND and final round of voting for the French Parliament ended on Sunday night with the fascist National Rally (RN) party suffering a...

YESTERDAY, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that he had ordered the Russian military to carry out a special operation in the Donbass region in...

TUNISIAN President Ben Ali has dismissed his interior minister and ordered the release of most of those detained during the current clashes over food...

PRIME Minister Cameron used his usual tactic at prime minister’s questions yesterday, when asked why he brought a criminal into 10 Downing Street...

RESPONDING immediately to Tory pressure, Prime Minister Blair yesterday launched his programme of draconian attacks on basic rights and liberties, for a reign of...

A VIDEO showing President George W Bush being warned on the eve of Hurricane Katrina that the storm could breach New Orleans’ flood defences...

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...

SATURDAY saw demonstrations and occupations taking place in many countries following the example of the Spanish and Greek square occupations that have featured as...

THE report by the charity Oxfam entitled ‘A Tale of Two Britains’ puts definite figures on the simple fact known by every worker that...

ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...

US president Donald Trump has put the price of a permanent seat on his ‘Board of Peace’ at $1 billion in what is being...

ON WEDNESDAY afternoon thousands of US president Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington before storming the US Congress to put a stop to the...

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has admitted defeat in Afghanistan and has decided to keep 5,500 US troops there when he leaves office in 2017, according...

A NEW unity between all Palestinian factions against the common enemy – Israel and the US – is rapidly developing. The leadership of the...

THE decision by Sinn Fein to accept the north of Ireland law courts and the police service wholeheartedly (including the special branch) completes the...

THE Syriza party won the last Greek general election with its declarations that once elected it would put an end to the austerity dictatorship...

DURING a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday, US President Biden proposed that Johnson adopt and join his anti-China crusade, to...