Editorials

THE United Nations says the ongoing Israeli war in Palestine has left the Gaza Strip ‘uninhabitable’ and that the destruction in the Palestinian territory...

IN HIS first interview since becoming the coalition Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt spelt out bluntly that capitalism could no longer afford a national health...

THE major British banks want to be able to use a ‘wider range’ of collateral, meaning their very dodgy mortgage portfolios, for the billions...

FOR many years the Labour Party projected itself as the champion of the working class, hence its very close ties with the trade unions,...

PRESIDENT Obama is to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq to boost the Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State (IS) militants, nearly doubling the...

THE US Federal Reserve Bank yesterday launched an unlimited money printing programme to try to halt the collapse of the US ‘economic miracle’, and...

UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness said yesterday that large regions of the Gaza Strip are a ‘disaster area’. Furthermore he called on the world community to...

‘END this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare in England.’ This was the call from Dr Hamish Meldrum, the Chairman of...

YESTERDAY Gordon Brown attempted to revive his political credibility, severely damaged after the Northern Rock and Child Benefit details crises by delivering a speech...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has condemned the Israeli army killing of four young Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and...

THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in a statement on Wednesday, called on the ‘free people of the world to escalate popular protest’ against the...

AFTER all the fake sound and fury of parliamentary question time, with party leaders locked in apparent combat without quarter given or asked for,...

THE court that convicted President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to be hung for crimes against humanity was a creation of imperialism, made up of...

SAMANTHA Power, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, did not waste any time in attacking the Russian veto of the imperialists’ ...

THE Tory Party yesterday called for restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania when these countries shortly join the EU. The Tory Party immigration...

YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...

‘71 DEAD. And still no arrests? How come?’ read three large billboards on trucks demanding justice following the Grenfell Tower fire. They were...

THE SUMMIT between North Korean President Kim Jong-un and US President Trump was cancelled by Trump on Thursday. It was US National Security Adviser...

EARLIER this week, Apple was priced on the US stock market at $2.3tn (£1.7tn), more than the combined ‘value’ of the entire FTSE 100. The...

IN PARIS, on Saturday, against the advice of the more moderate members of the ‘Yellow Vests’ movement, 10,000 French workers and youth demonstrated their...

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another dire warning about the economic crisis raging throughout the world yesterday with its head, Kristalina Georgieva, saying...

HUNDREDS of houses have been flooded across the country over these last months, and angry residents are demanding to know why nothing has been...

CHANCELLOR Darling said on Sunday that pay rises for people ‘from the boardroom to the shopfloor’ need to be ‘consistent’ with the 2% inflation...

THE pound fell below $1.49 against the dollar on Friday, close to a three-year low. Sterling traded as low as $1.4858 at one point. The...

YESTERDAY, 93 Democrat members of the US House of Representatives issued an official letter calling on the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to open...

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 Palestinian factions are standing fast! They have said that they will not sign any agreement or deal unless the people’s demands are achieved,...

THE Japanese government, ignoring yet again its own constitution, which bans Japan having aggressive military forces, has approved a new national security strategy, and...

ED BALLS, the Schools Minister, and the former economics advisor to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, over the weekend dropped his political master right...

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 Chancellor George Osborne lashed out at Germany’s ‘Iron Chancellor’ Merkel before the meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels yesterday. He attacked Merkel...

LAST Friday’s attack by US planes on the Syrian airfield of al-Shayrat was not a one-off military exercise to teach the Syrians a lesson,...

CHANCELLOR Brown’s budget yesterday outlined savage attacks on the working class, particularly low paid workers. His decision to abolish the 10 pence tax rate...

PRESIDENT Trump’s racist comments, made while speaking privately to US lawmakers in the Oval Office on Thursday, in fact show a bourgeois leader who...

THE mass of the UK workers support the heroic national liberation struggle of the Palestinian people for their state of Palestine, and the enormous...

THE leadership of the FBU ignominiously collapsed at yesterday’s FBU recall conference, held to decide on industrial action to defend the final salary pensions...

THE US and Israel have been engaged in intense negotiations for many months to outline America’s military aid to Israel for the next decade. Washington...

THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Tories, headed by Cameron, Osborne and Hunt, have picked their quarrel with the junior doctors. It is...

YESTERDAY the Tory government announced its plans to save the profits of the private rail companies by bankrolling them for another 18 months. In March,...

YESTERDAY PM Cameron pledged that a Tory government will introduce a law, within 100 days of taking office, guaranteeing no rise in income tax...

AN inquiry ordered by the UN Human Rights Council said on Wednesday that Israel violated human rights law and international humanitarian law when its...

AS THE END of the Tory furlough scheme looms, the reality of millions of workers being thrown on the scrapheap in the coming months...

WEDNESDAY’S vote in the House of Commons when there was a 113 majority for the replacement of the House of Lords by an elected...

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...

FIVE Tory advisors to Prime Minister Boris Johnson have now resigned. They are leaving the sinking ship while more Tory MPs have handed in...