Editorials

SKY-ROCKETING youth unemployment figures just released reveal that nearly one million young people in the UK are not in employment, up from 500,000 in...

THERE is a growing demoralisation in the ranks of the paid propagandists for British capitalism about the prospects for the British ruling class. Two important...

THE Hamas revolutionary leadership yesterday called for organising mass marches and broad solidarity events in all cities and capitals of the world on the...

The House of Commons Council Housing Group of MPs from all parties yesterday launched its report Support for the Fourth Option for Council Housing. This...

BOTH the capitalist class of the world and the Stalinist bureaucracy, which has been expending trillions of dollars buying US debt, are now issuing...

A just-issued Coalition statement from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament states that: ‘In October, we will mark a year since the start of Israel’s...

NHS trade unions have slammed the ‘poverty’ 3.3 per cent NHS pay ‘deal’ which was imposed on NHS workers by the government on Thursday,...

THE leaking of Department of Health (DoH) documents, including ‘Pay and Workforce Strategy for 2008-11’, reveals the Labour government’s plan to slash NHS...

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...

THE Health Services Journal (HSJ) has just revealed that the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) officials are keeping confidential (that is well hidden) until...

BRITAIN and the US are to share expertise on ‘preventing radicalism’ and tackling domestic ‘violent extremism’, PM Cameron has announced. He warned that both...

INTERNATIONAL Business Machines (IBM), the giant US manufacturer of corporate computers suffered a massive drop in its share price on Monday as panic surrounding...

IN her notorious speech on Wednesday night, at the Lord Mayor’s banquet in London, the Tory Foreign Secretary and would-be successor to Boris Johnson,...

THE Palestinian Centre for Human Rights stated yesterday that the Israeli occupation army’s targeting of the World Central Kitchen team in southern Gaza is...

PM BORIS Johnson has refused to rule out raising taxes again, on the first day of the Tory Party conference and just three weeks...

THE RULES conference of Unite, the largest union donor to the Labour Party, yesterday voted to reject a motion calling to disaffiliate from the...

Last Friday, Tata Steel UK confirmed its devastating plans to axe 2,800 jobs with the closure of two blast furnaces at its Port Talbot...

The resignation by the chief Tory fundraiser and party co-treasurer, Peter Cruddas, late on Saturday gave one more glimpse into the corruption that lies...

IN HIS closing speech to the Tory conference, Cameron pledged that a future Tory government would scrap the Human Rights Act, a position that was...

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

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

WHILE the 15 British sailors were being held in comfortable and well fed custody by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, there was another captive, just...

ANALYSIS by the GMB union of figures in the national Skills for Care database reveals that care workers employed in the private sector are...

THE Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has broken ranks with the IMF and the World Bank and issued a grim warning to the ruling...

Russian president Vladimir Putin, in his address to the Russian parliament yesterday, lay the responsibility for the Russian military action in the Ukraine entirely...

PRIME Minister Brown’s alliance with the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party has paid off with the passage by nine votes of his amendment to the...

ON SUNDAY Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the Netzarim Corridor, the military zone they controlled that cut the north of the Gaza Strip from...

UK economic growth ground to a halt between April and June, according to the latest official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

THE News Line hails the heroic resistance of the Tamil Tigers to the armed forces of the Rajapakse military dictatorship, which is seeking to...

AT a speech delivered to the Royal United Services Institute on Thursday evening, Sir Richard Hermer KC, the Attorney General, and the Labour government’s...

WHILE the British government remains as silent as the grave over the continuing slaughter of Palestinians by the racist Israeli government, and while the...

THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...

THAT BANKRUPT British capitalism and imperialism is unable to stand on its own two feet anymore is obvious. It faces the prospect of the...

THE US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years, as it fights to stabilise prices in the world’s...

LAST week saw a concerted effort by the Tory-led coalition, aided by their friends in the bourgeois press, to deny that a catastrophic housing...

AFTER her ‘Dancing Queen’ performance at the Tory Party conference, which acted as an introduction to extreme grovelling to Labour’s right wing, praising...

ON MONDAY, the United Nations Security Council voted by 13 to 0 to pass a US-drafted resolution that effectively puts president Donald Trump in...

LAST May, MG Rover was closed without a struggle. Last month the closure of Peugeot was announced and this week we have been told...

YESTERDAY Health Secretary Hunt insulted the NHS, and NHS workers, and the intelligence of the working class as a whole, when he labelled the...

YESTERDAY, the Palestinian news agency WAFA detailed that Northern Gaza is being subjected to ‘the most heinous massacres’ by Israeli forces for 20 days...

Early yesterday Israel entered al-Shifa hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, with troops, tanks and bulldozers invading the facility where around...

THE ISRAELI ruling class has been shocked by Syrian missile defences being able to, and Syria having the audacity to, shoot down a US-supplied...

AT THE same time as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf state planes, with US support, are bombing the Yemen and its Houthi Shia rebels,...

THE governor of the bank of England, Mervyn King, has launched a scathing attack on the major UK banks, accusing them of trying to...

AFTER only two days of the annual TUC Congress the message is startlingly clear, the trade union and the working class movement stands at...