Editorials

THE Palestinian Civil Defence Society (PCDS) reported on Tuesday that it has received numerous appeals regarding people trapped alive under rubble from homes and...

LAST Saturday thousands of steel workers and their families marched in the North-East to stop the closure of the Redcar Corus plant. The closure...

THE European Court of Human Rights has backed the extradition of five men from the UK to the US which intends to put them...

YESTERDAY Chancellor Gordon Brown joined hands with two of the leaders of the capitalist class to signal his willingness to raise the £3,000 cap...

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...

FIVE journalists at the Sun newspaper have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of corrupt payments to the police and other ‘public servants’. A Surrey...

INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...

US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has spilled the beans about the murder of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. He has revealed that it...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has cautioned against rushing to blame Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince over the disappearance and butchering of Saudi journalist...

AFTER calling off last winter’s national strike by their members in Royal Mail without the members’ agreement – and without their members’ demands to...

CRISPIN Blunt, the justice minister, announced yesterday that instructions were being issued to the courts to the effect that unemployed offenders sentenced to the...

LAST October the IMF predicted world output would increase by 2.2 per cent in 2009. Yesterday it changed its tune saying that world output...

A REVIEW of university student fees in England has been launched by Business Secretary Mandelson. The object of the review is to increase, perhaps...

LAST week saw a concerted effort by the Tory-led coalition, aided by their friends in the bourgeois press, to deny that a catastrophic housing...

YESTERDAY, venture capitalists Greybull Capital, who purchased Tata’s steel works in Scunthorpe for £1, launched ‘British Steel’, hoping with the renaming, to...

JCB has announced 400 more redundancies, blaming a ‘significant’ reduction in incoming orders. The redundancies are made up of 297 shop floor jobs and 101...

THE Office of Rail Regulation is to launch an investigation into the ‘major disruption to passengers’ caused by ‘overrunning engineering work’ in London over...

THE rapidly developing crisis in the Ukraine, has placed the issue of the defence of the Ukraine from this imperialist-backed assault, and the brigands...

Tim Davie, director general of the BBC, and Deborah Turness, chief executive of BBC News, both abruptly resigned on Sunday night following a concerted...

THE Pakistani Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, yesterday spelt out that Pakistan cannot accept actions like the recent US cross-border air strike on a village...

THE US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, is currently touring Africa, putting forward the US plan to establish free trade and open markets with...

US President, George W Bush, last Saturday revealed the inseparable connection between imperialism and atrocities when he vetoed Congressional legislation that would have...

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

NURSING STAFF have voted to strike in the majority of NHS hospitals across the UK, and the nurses union, the RCN, has called on...

THE HOUSE of Lords today will be debating the Overseas Operations Bill which gives the British military a licence to kill and torture throughout...

AFTER years of promising that the NHS is ‘safe in our hands’ accompanied by pledges that budgets would be protected with a ring fence...

THE Labour government has outraged a large number of Labour MPs and very many Labour Party members and supporters by proceeding with its plan...

IN THE week that Boris Johnson boasted that the lifting of coronavirus lockdown measures heralded the start of the economic ‘bounce back’, it became...

TURKEY’S state-run Anadolu news agency has reported that the Nural-Din al-Zinki Islamist faction has removed rockets, mortars and missiles from the front line in...

THE knives are out for one-time Tory Party hero Michael Gove, the self-styled ‘hammer of the teaching trade unions’, who has had the temerity...

ONE more Palestinian journalist, along with several members of her family, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s...

THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health insurance...

THE Saudi autocrats, the major ally of the US and the UK in the Middle East, alongside Israel, have just thrown barrels of petrol...

NEARLY 42 million American workers and their families face losing access to food stamps as funding for what is officially called the Supplement Nutritional...

TRUMP’S declaration that he is sending two nuclear submarines into ‘appropriate regions’ to threaten Russia, has made public that he is preparing for the...

PRIME Minister Brown on Sunday promised that bringing in a compulsory community service programme for youth will be a part of his next general...

THE crisis of the European Union’s attempts to overcome the contradictions of European capitalism has landed the Tory Party into the gravest crisis of...

‘WE ARE not animals!’ women incarcerated in the notorious Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre have scrawled across their T-shirts. More than 120 women have...

YESTERDAY Home Secretary Reid dismissed the many appeals for a change in British Foreign Policy from a multitude of community and political leaders, who...

FIVE hundred and ninety-seven homeless people died on the streets of Britain last year, up from 482 the year before – in fact homeless...

MONDAY 11th September will be the 50th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Chilean military, led by general Augusto Pinochet, backed by...

BRITISH IMPERIALISM was run out of Basra and Iraq, and is about to be run out of Afghanistan. However, it is still organising new...

PM May is said to be ‘bitterly disappointed’ that the US Department of Commerce and her friend President Trump have opted to impose a...

THE NHS crisis is ‘like being in a war,’ Patrick Carter, who advises Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, told the Royal College of Anaesthetists’...

US PRESIDENT Biden is now poised to lift the ban on the UK’s Storm Shadow missiles being fired into Russia by the US-UK’s fascist...