Editorials

THE US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended, at an Asia-Pacific conference of regional defence ministers and military chiefs, the US drive to develop...

WORKERS throughout the world have experienced, through massive job losses and huge wage cuts, just how the world crisis of the capitalist system is...

THE TORY defence secretary Ben Wallace has been ordered by a judge to come up with an explanation as to why the British government...

Yesterday, extreme right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro conceded defeat to Lula da Silva in the Brazilian presidential election. Bolsonaro had originally reacted to the defeat by claiming...

ISRAEL has rejected the UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and is determined to carry...

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

THREATS, demands and bullying aimed at the whole world from US President Donald Trump, dominated the Davos Economic Forum in a video call on...

LATE on Sunday, a deliberate Israeli drone attack hit a tent for journalists located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, killing...

US stocks have made huge losses after a major sell-off last Friday on Wall Street. By Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly...

GREEN party MP Caroline Lucas has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the case of an undercover police officer and his possible involvement in...

THE TORY government’s plan for a police state dictatorship over the trade unions and all public protest movements took a big hit yesterday when...

FOLLOWING a mass walkout by armed police over the decision to charge an unnamed armed police officer with murder over the shooting of 24-year-old...

ON the eve of the Afghan conference in London this week, UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take control...

TRUE to form the CWU leadership is declining to give any kind of leadership to its massive membership on the vital issue of the...

YESTERDAY two major banks had to be nationalised to prevent a run on the UK and EU banking system. They were the Bradford and...

THE UK’s National Debt has risen to more than £3 trillion after the UK government was forced to borrow much more than it had...

DITCHING his opposition to a new third runway at Heathrow airport on Thursday, Ed Miliband, the UK Energy Secretary, not only cravenly abandoned his...

LABOUR’S shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, delivered a speech yesterday laying out the priorities for the first 100 days of a Labour government. Within 100 days...

Yesterday, the Telegraph newspaper confirmed a massive milestone in the collapse of British capitalism into bankruptcy when it pointed to the latest official figures...

THE government’s financial watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), issued its latest report on Thursday, warning that British public finances are in a...

THE International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report has given its second warning in 24 hours about a new financial catastrophe that it sees coming...

THE SOARING price of energy has cost Europe $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the beginning of the biggest, deepest economic crisis...

AT a press conference on Wednesday evening, US president Joe Biden announced that American imperialism was prepared for an all-out war in the Middle...

CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday could not see and would not even hear of a crisis in the British capitalist economy that he has presided...

A new report, Care in Crisis, issued by Age UK spells out exactly what the Tory-led coalition’s destruction of the welfare state means for...

LAST Friday, Fitch ratings agency became the second of the world’s three big credit agencies to strip Britain of its top notch triple-A credit...

YOUTH across Europe are a revolutionary force that are ready to rise up against the ‘generation in power’ in their countries and in the...

WITH the Tory Party in its greatest crisis ever – as the capitalist world crisis intensifies and the Tory party brings in new savage...

ON August 10, 2005 Gate Gourmet, owned by Texas Pacific, locked out in a pre-planned operation over 800 workers, an assault that was calculated...

ON SUNDAY Prime Minister May in a panic-stricken move, after the Tory Party’s defeat in the council elections, urged Labour leader Corbyn to ‘put...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s threat of extradition to the US became even more imminent yesterday as the High Court ruled in favour of the...

THE WEEKEND saw the bloodiest crackdown by the Myanmar military dictatorship when police and soldiers opened fire on demonstrators killing at least 18 and...

THE selling of peerages is an old tradition in England that goes well back before the days of Lloyd George. He had an established...

A SPLIT and divided Tory Party is facing electoral wipeout as the number of infighting Tory factions grow and lash out at each other,...

WHILE President George Bush was condemning EU leaders for not sending more forces to Afghanistan to fight the Taleban, officials of the main central...

SIX months into Israel’s criminal war on Gaza, Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters have been engaged in intense combat around the city of Khan...

THERESA May’s virtual declaration of war against Russia last Wednesday received its most enthusiastic support from right-wing Labour MPs who rushed forward to...

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

METRONET, the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) within London Underground, has collapsed financially after years of failure to provide services required by the capital’s transport system. It...

HOUSEHOLD debt in UK is worse than at any time on record a new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. Credit cards,...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has visited Mariupol and vowed that new comfortable residential quarters for the people will continue being constructed in Mariupol in...

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...

YESTERDAY, Lord Stevens, the ex-Metropolitan Police commissioner, urged that there should be no change in the policy of the state, after a completely innocent...

The propagandists for the bourgeois order are rushing to try and defend the capitalist system as being blameless as far as the crisis is...

PRESIDENT Trump and his military chiefs believe the US’ nuclear weapons are seen as too big to be used, and that this means that...