Editorials

SYRIA’S Ba’athist leader Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western action against his country will cause an ‘earthquake’ that will ‘burn the whole region’, and...

SUCH WAS the fawning support, given by Tony Blair to President George Bush, that Christopher Meyer, the ex-UK ambassador to the United States, was...

ADDRESSING the bosses of the Scottish CBI, Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured them that his government will not be giving workers, the poor and...

LAST Sunday the president of the National Union of Students (NUS), Aaron Porter, made a surprise visit to a meeting of students occupying University...

IN HIS first election speech, Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, expressed his anger and indignation over the policies of austerity ruthlessly carried out by...

PM SUNAK HAS LOST NO TIME in announcing a series of fresh sanctions against Russia that include a ban on imports of aluminium, diamonds,...

THE PCS trade union has responded to Labour’s huge civil service cuts pronouncements. A shocked and shaken PCS said: ‘The impact of making cuts will...

‘THIS IS a time for revolution not patching,’ said Anthony Painter, Director of Action & Research at the Royal Society of Arts, calling for...

PERU has cancelled a visit by a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Montrose, that had been due this week. Peruvian Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo said: ‘This...

The Institute of Directors (IoD) has proposed a 24-point plan to the Tory-led coalition government to save British capitalism. Central to their ‘blueprint for growth’ is...

TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been in Washington this week attending the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, the main economic...

HISTORICALLY, the term Star Chamber is synonymous with feudal oppression and dictatorship over the people and over parliament, specifically with the attempts of...

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...

IN August 2005 800 Gate Gourmet workers were sacked by megaphone in the car park of the Heathrow company. The TGWU, led by Tony...

THE bloody massacre of 85 Libyan men, women and children by NATO in the town of Zlitan exposes once and for all that when...

THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, in a letter to the House of Commons Treasury select committee has warned that efforts...

PM May has gone out of her way to insult the Palestinian people by declaring her pride in the 100th anniversary of the Balfour...

UNISON accused the government yesterday of a ‘fundamental breach of trust’. This was after the Department of Health placed an advertisement in the official...

ON MONDAY trading on the Wall Street stock market in New Century Financial shares was halted, as the second largest US sub-prime mortgage lender...

AFTER weeks of speculation it was finally confirmed yesterday that the giant but bankrupt General Motors was pulling out of Europe, selling off its...

US President Donald Trump rolled into Britain on Tuesday night, his second state visit as President, to bask in the adulation of PM Keir...

GILLES DE KERCHOVE, the EU’s anti-terror chief yesterday told the BBC that hundreds of Europeans are now fighting with the counter-revolutionary forces in Syria...

THE CRISIS that has erupted this week over the question of the Tory government’s determination to keep schools open in the face of the...

THE FORMER Bank of England Governor Mark Carney yesterday warned that China’s ‘zero-Covid’ strategy is ‘at risk of derailing the global economy and driving...

IN September 2014 HSBC settled claims that it made false representations in selling mortgage bonds to the giant US mortgage companies Fannie Mae and...

THE OECD has in effect, accused the Bank of England and the Coalition government of blindly organising another banking disaster, under the cover of...

FOUR Lebanese soldiers were killed and at least four wounded when Israeli tanks opened fire at Lebanese positions on the border with Israel shortly...

LENIN wrote ‘The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self Determination’ in July 1916, just months after the Easter Rising in Dublin...

THE TORY plan to cut Working and Child Tax Credits has succeeded in splitting the Tory party and creating divisions even in the Tory...

GERMAN Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy on Saturday decreed that the preservation of the euro required a 70bn euro currency reserve fund and...

THE USA and the UK have launched their new crusade on the pretext of saving the Christians and the Yazidis of Iraq from the...

OVER half of UK companies are planning to push up prices in the next three months according to the latest research by the British...

A POLITICALLY ‘sick’ Prime Minister Blair was yesterday delivered another major blow, this time at the hands of the US State Department, when...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, the man who dared to expose imperialist war crimes, must be immediately released from Belmarsh high security prison where he...

CURRENTLY the UK and US supported Sri Lankan army is mounting an all-out assault on the besieged Tamil Tiger forces and the over 100,000...

TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced another government ‘initiative’ this week, this time ordering the police to ‘crackdown on crime’. The very idea that the...

UP to 1.5 million fixed rate mortgage holders are going to have to renegotiate their mortgages in the New Year. Many of them are already...

THE Northern Rock bank, recently nationalised by the government has made a £585m loss for the first six months of the year, but the...

THE Metropolitan Police is considering its tactics after the failure of its containment and ‘kettling’ policies in Parliament square last Thursday, when...

YESTERDAY’S tube and bus disaster in London, with 33 dead and hundreds injured, has already been claimed as a terrorist attack, despite the fact...

LORD FROST has delivered a heavy blow at the John- son government with his resignation letter of last Saturday. He wrote: ‘You know my concerns...

TENS of thousands of junior doctors struck yesterday and made it very clear that they are not a protest movement, and that their first...

SHARES in the privatised Royal Mail are down 2.5% after Ofcom ruled the universal postal service, which obliges the Royal Mail to deliver across...

THE Iranian foreign ministry denounced the attack carried out by the US early on Tuesday morning as ‘an act of bad faith’ and a...

THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) opened its meeting at the Swiss resort of Davos this week under the storm clouds of an economic and...