Editorials

THE US, EU and Asian stockmarkets have taken yet another hit as the decline and fall of the US capitalist economy continues. On Thursday, the...

THE Unite trade union has described Honda’s decision to press ahead with the closure of its Swindon plant by 2021 as a ‘body-blow of...

THE US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Russia that it must not recognise the elections that are due to take place this...

JUST 50 days after being elected with an unassailable landslide 141-seat majority, the Labour government has replaced the hated Tory austerity cuts with Labour...

August is traditionally the month when politicians, bankers and bureaucrats across Europe take an extended break away from the chaos of the economic meltdown...

THE newly installed Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, yesterday stated that the Met faced its biggest corruption crisis since the 1970s. The crisis, that...

ON TUESDAY the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, issued a damning report that...

ON Saturday 10th May, the News Line and the All Trades Union Alliance – the industrial arm of the Workers Revolutionary Party – will...

THE two wings of the bourgeoisie are now going at it hammer and tongs to both exploit and abuse workers from the new EU...

Testifying to MPs at the Treasury Committee yesterday, Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, issued a sharp rebuke to Labour chancellor Rachel...

THE prospects for the 2015 May 7 general election – taking place after more than five years of savage austerity measures that have...

Just six weeks in power and the Tory government are so weak and divided that they can only survive through the treacherous support of...

ON TUESDAY Prime Minister Blair began his ‘genuine intellectual debate about the nature of liberty in a modern developed society such as our own.’ ...

THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has blurted out the truth that has been more than obvious for a number of years to millions...

WITHOUT enough staff, the NHS is increasingly close to collapse,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive,...

NOT EVERY bourgeois economic commentator has swallowed the upbeat line peddled by central bankers that capitalism has weathered the storm of its economic crisis...

SIR Jock Stirrup, the British army commander, has admitted that the great majority of the British people are opposed to the imperialist war in...

THE Hamas Movement has called upon the Arab and Islamic governments and the world’s free people to take all possible measures to break the...

THE HEAD of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has delivered a stark New Year warning that a third of the world economy...

UK CAPITALISM is in crisis. After the falls in sterling, and the rampant oil, gas and food inflation, the ruling class is desperate and...

ON Wednesday, the FTSE 100 had its biggest fall since August last year with almost 30 billion pounds wiped off the value of the...

BOLIVIA’S President Morales has gone from having a conference last week in Havana with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, which established a...

THESE are truly desperate times for the Tories. Their government is selling out Brexit. Their party is split and divided, with Boris Johnson challenging...

The ex-Home Secretary Blunkett was forced to resign after interfering to get his lover’s nanny special treatment from the passport office, and then seeking...

GREECE’S Syriza government has drawn up its plan to renegotiate with the EU. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won a confidence vote on Tuesday evening,...

PRESIDENT Bush and Premier Blair have admitted their chronic incompetence over the prosecution of the war in Iraq, and have appealed to the rest...

US IMPERIALISM is currently stoking up a war crisis from Ukraine to the China Seas as it seeks a way out of its economic...

AFTER the Tories’ defeat at the hands of a defector to UKIP in the recent Clacton by-election, David Cameron vowed that he would ‘throw...

AS EXPECTED, the early results of the local council and Wales and Scotland regional elections yesterday morning showed a total wipeout of the Labour...

PM MAY, placed into office after the Cameron-Osborne 2016 EU referendum disaster, has continued to display the complete disorientation of the Tory Party and...

THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says that if there is a capitalist government in office in 2016 it will have to find an...

THE developing world-wide economic crisis is now bringing the contradictions inside the EU together and sharpening them to the point of a massive transformation...

THE Head of the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee Issa Qaraqe said on Friday afternoon, the 26th day of the prisoners’ hunger strike, that negotiations could...

THE US, UK and Saudi-backed and organised ‘rebels’ who have failed to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, who has the support...

ON NOVEMBER 2nd 1917, during the first great imperialist war, the UK ruling class committed one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century...

THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said yesterday that the number of Palestinians who have been driven from their...

THE CRISIS restrictions on Greater Manchester by the Tories reveal that the collapse of British capitalism has reached such a point that the unity...

Yesterday, in a speech delivered in the Hertfordshire town of Stevenage, Labour leader, Ed Miliband, reiterated his pledge that the next Labour government would...

PRESIDENT Karzai is refusing to agree to a re-run of the Afghan general election, meaning that Karzai and his master President Obama are at...

LABOUR leader Miliband has once again revealed the absolute bankruptcy of reformism. In a speech made yesterday he denied that there were laws governing...

GRANT Shapps, the Tory secretary of state for energy security and net zero, yesterday unveiled the government’s latest strategy to achieve net zero emissions...

AFTER the disgraceful sell out of final salary pensions by union leaders of the NHS, civil service and local government trade unions, the basic...

RUSSIAN troops have completed their training drills in Belarus, very close to neighbouring Ukraine, and will begin returning to their bases, the Ministry of...

ABOUT 73,000 carworkers, members of the 600,000-strong United Automobile Workers (UAW) trade union, went on indefinite strike at 11am on Monday at General Motors’...

YESTERDAY’S statement by Theresa May to parliament on the range of ‘reprisals’ against Russia for the alleged involvement of the Russian state in the...