Editorials

YESTERDAY the capitalist state was split over the Blair government’s police state attacks on democratic rights. Two Law Lords attacked Home Office plans,...

EX-CBI boss, Lord Turner’s plans for pensions are just the means chosen by the Blair government to make the working class pay for the...

RUSSIA says the UK shows no interest in conducting a joint investigation into the alleged assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia,...

AFTER all of the Tory propaganda chatter about the ‘recovery has begun’ the reality is that the slump is deepening. The UK’s manufacturing sector,...

THE drive by the Tories and their media supporters to demonise workers and the sick, as the root cause of the crisis that is...

SWEDEN AND FINLAND are expected to apply for NATO membership on May 17th, and no doubt they will be welcomed with ‘open arms’ since...

TORY ministers have instructed the supposedly independent NHS Pay Review Body to cap the wages of frontline health workers to just 2% in 2023-24. At...

A FEW short weeks ago at the Labour Party conference, the ‘left’ shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, proudly announced that the party would no longer...

IN the recent period the government, the Bank of England and the employers have been glorying in the fact that the enlargement of the...

YESTERDAY saw the Prime Minister seeking to reinvent himself as the champion of the people and a supporter of ‘social justice’. Speaking in...

TORY leadership rivals Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have found themselves leading the condemnation of Scotland Yard after a senior officer threatened to prosecute...

JAPANESE Nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just been re-elected and has immediately begun a drive to prepare for war against China and North...

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...

ED MILIBAND, the new Labour Party leader, has made it perfectly clear that his victory does not mean that he is going to oppose...

THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank, amid...

YESTERDAY’S stoppage in defence of pensions saw 90 per cent of PCS members stopping work, the biggest turn-out for strike action in the union’s...

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...

ELEVEN people have been detained after an attack by Islamists at a Moscow concert hall that killed 137, the head of Russia’s Federal Security...

THE TORIES set out their plans to get the collapsing British capitalist economy ‘back on track’ in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech marking the opening of...

THE reactionary Saudi regime – the pride and joy of the United States and UK ruling classes that have armed it to the teeth...

THE SPECTRE of health insurance to ‘top-up’ the NHS has raised its ugly head. It is part of the arsenal of weapons turned on...

ACADEMY school budgets are in a desperate state with eight out of 10 in deficit, say their accountants. ‘Two more years like this and...

THE BRITISH AIRWAYS pilots strike is on for both Monday and Tuesday in an escalating battle over pay. British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) BA...

THE Prime Minister and Chancellor are to ‘now self-isolate as normal’ after both met with Health Secretary Sajid Javid who had tested positively for...

THE contemptuous treatment of the survivors of the fire that killed 80 people at least has been sickening. Last week it emerged that those who...

PRIME Minister Keir Starmer’s attempt to ride two horses at the same time, by forming trading relations or ‘partnerships’ with both the EU and...

LAST Tuesday afternoon, in the House of Commons, the knives were out for the Brexit referendum result, and for the millions of workers who...

THE message from the government over the proposed dissolving of the South London Healthcare Trust and the closure of its major hospitals is...

ON Tuesday evening there was dancing in the streets of Aleppo as residents celebrated the defeat of the Islamist factions that had been armed,...

LAST Wednesday, the trade unions with the support of the majority of the Labour Party constituency parties defeated the government on the vital issue...

LEADERS of the trade unions said they were shocked by PSA Peugeot-Citroën’s announcement on Tuesday that it is closing its Ryton factory in Coventry,...

Up to Wednesday, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer was in a state of complete denial about the depth of the rebellion amongst his own...

LAST Monday the coalition government’s drive to privatise every single public service and completely smash up the welfare state took yet another grotesque turn...

900 construction workers were sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, north Lincolnshire yesterday in what the GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny called ‘a case...

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 Baltimore protests over the police killing of 25-year-old African-American Freddie Gray have spread all over the USA. Gray died of a spinal cord...

TORY Home Secretary Sajid Javid has this week launched a national consultation to assess whether there is a ‘public health duty’ for teachers and...

LABOUR’S defeat in the 2019 general election is a historic one, since its central feature was the way that the safest Labour seats in...

On Monday, the Metropolitan Police issued a warning that it is prepared to make mass arrests at next Saturday’s demonstration in London, which is demanding...

DURING almost a month of Friday demonstrations in Gaza, called the ‘Great March of Return’, the Israeli army has used snipers to shoot dead...

THE UK capitalist economy slumped in the fourth quarter of 2010, contracting by 0.5 per cent, instead of the meagre 0.5 per cent growth...

IN AN INTERVIEW with the Guardian paper yesterday, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, warned that the moves by...

THE cost of living is now rocketing thanks to PM Johnson’s and Foreign Secretary Truss’ determination to inflame the war in the Ukraine and...

TORY MP David Davies has called on ‘abusive protests’ against serving military personnel to be outlawed and intends to amend a parliamentary bill to...

THE revelation yesterday that the News of the World (NoW) newspaper had quietly suspended its assistant editor (news), Ian Edmondson, just before Christmas, has...