Editorials

THE Troika of the IMF, the ECB and the EU have imposed such a massive austerity programme onto the backs of the Greek working...

LABOUR leader Corbyn was full of confidence as he opened his campaign to be re-elected as leader of the Labour Party yesterday. He said:...

THE Royal Bank of Scotland was rescued with billions of taxpayers’ money after it made the biggest losses in the history of British banking,...

THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...

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...

WEDNESDAY’S announcement by the German central bank (Bundesbank) that it was going to physically repatriate its vast gold holdings from New York and Paris...

RUSSIA, Belarus and Kazakhstan have just signed the historic Eurasian Economic Union. It comes into effect in January 2015, and will get rid of...

THAT the Health and Social Care Act is all about privatising the NHS and handing it over to the private sector via the new...

THE ‘tyranny of the majority’ should not dictate exit from the EU, former Tory PM John Major said yesterday, in remarks that have sparked...

US President Barack Obama has signed in a wave of steep spending cuts that will take $85bn (£56bn) from the US federal budget this...

RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are to...

TONY WOODLEY the TGWU leader and co-leader of the new UNITE trade union has already presided over the closure of a large chunk of...

STUDENTS going to university this autumn will face £3,000 a year tuition fees for the second year. But the trebling of fees –...

AS IS to be expected the imperialists, with Britain in the lead, are engaging in an economic blockade, black propaganda, etc to get rid...

AT the same time as leading members of the Bush administration are seeking to shut down the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp after experiencing...

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

THE leaders of Labour, ‘New’ or otherwise, chose to debate their leadership credentials yesterday over the Murdoch-owned Sky TV, the centre of the Murdoch...

JUNIOR DOCTORS are to be turned into slaves by Health Secretary Hunt who is carrying his threat out to impose a contract on them...

THE victory of the Hamas movement in the fighting in the Gaza Strip is a huge setback for the imperialist diplomacy of the US...

THE death of 2-year-old Muhammad Hashir Maveed last Wednesday is a tragic warning of the cost to human life that must inevitably result from...

ON the eve of the Labour Party conference, Ed Miliband has sought to win the support of the middle classes, and also drive a...

NEXT Tuesday the doctors’ trade union, the BMA, meets in London for an extraordinary Special Representative Meeting (SRM). 350 representatives of its 140,000 members,...

A WORLD leaders summit in Seoul on nuclear security has called for closer co-operation to tackle the threat of nuclear terrorism. President Obama warned there...

UKRAINE’S President Viktor Yushchenko was engaged in desperate talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday in Kazakhstan trying to get a better deal for...

HOMELESSNESS among households in England has risen by 54 per cent since 2010 – rising annually every year – shows the latest report by...

POWERGEN, the energy monopoly, is putting up the prices of its gas and electricity services by 18.4 per cent and 9.7 per cent, next...

GORDON Brown was putting on a show of humbleness last night when he admitted on TV that he was not perfect but had made...

IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...

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

AT her press conference in London yesterday the US Secretary of State, Clinton, volunteered that the Taleban attack on the headquarters of the Pakistani...

THE capitalist EU is being battered senseless this week by an economic crisis that is relentless and a working class that is refusing to...

AN Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that the Iranian government hopes that the International Atomic Energy Agency will produce an unbiased report on...

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

THE news that the United States and Britain are going to the United Nations security council to push for UN sanctions against 18 top...

TWO hundred firefighters and control room staff were joined by thousands of angry local residents in a 13-mile march from Camborne to Falmouth on...

DEREK Simpson, the Unite co-leader, was brought onto the Andrew Marr Show last Sunday to deliberately attempt to undermine the struggle in the trade...

PM Brown has rejected out of hand the trade union demand for a Windfall Tax on the oil, gas and energy companies, that are...

YESTERDAY in the aftermath of the bombing in Gaza that killed five leading Hamas fighters, and a five-year-old girl, accusations and counter-accusations were being...

LAST THURSDAY at 2pm as the postal workers came out on their 48-hour strike, the PCS civil service union sent a special message to...

BARACK OBAMA, United States President-elect, announced the latest appointments to his White House cabinet on Monday. He made Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, confirmed that...

LARGE numbers of people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants from the ISIS pro-Al Qaeda group effectively...

UKRAINE’S central bank has sharply raised interest rates from 19.5% to 30% in an effort to curb inflation and prop up its beleaguered currency...

CURRENTLY the Ukrainian parliament is under siege by fascist bands led by the Svoboda and Right Sector movements demanding that MPs pass a law recognising...

A US Congressional report has revealed that US officials refused to prosecute HSBC for money laundering in 2012 because of grave concerns within the...

LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...