Editorials

THE jobs crisis in the UK is sharpening to boiling point in the motor car industry and in the power construction industry, affecting...

THE Danish parliament has just voted to rob asylum seekers of their valuables – so that they pay for their upkeep. This policy immediately brings...

THE Labour Party conference yesterday morning opened to boos and jeers from delegates furious at the Labour leadership’s manoeuvres to shunt the crunch vote...

AN unrepentant Gary Lineker insisted yesterday that he stood fully with his tweets condemning the Tory ‘Illegal Migrants Bill’ and that he has no...

PM Cameron is facing a direct legal challenge over a new version of the ministerial code which has been produced and which omits a...

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 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in the first major assessment by a leading international economic think tank of the economic impact...

CHANCELLOR Darling has told his cabinet colleagues there will be no more money made available for schools, hospitals or transport. These vital services face cuts,...

THE Thatcherite dream of creating a nation of home owners is already a nightmare for millions struggling to make their mortgage repayments. It is...

YESTERDAY the new head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, officially took up the reins from the outgoing Sir Mervyn King. Carney, formerly head...

IRISH capitalism, its banks and industries have been entirely bankrupted, and what national sovereignty the country had has also been destroyed, after the...

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

YESTERDAY was an historic day, with Prime Minister Brown pledging to bail out the banks. At the TUC Congress, Labour Party leader Brown told...

THE LONG independent report into the murder of 37-year-old private detective Daniel Morgan in south London in 1987 was finally published on Tuesday and...

THE court that convicted President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to be hung for crimes against humanity was a creation of imperialism, made up of...

YESTERDAY, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivered what was billed as a keynote speech that would outline once and for all the policies Labour...

THE French Socialist government has said it will raise Value Added Tax and cut public spending, kicking the working class and the poor in...

IN THEIR desperation to prevent a complete meltdown of Britain’s food industry the Tories have agreed to pump tens of millions of pounds into...

THERE is no need to change the strategy police use to deal with suicide bombers – to put as many bullets into their brain...

FORMER State Prosecutor Starmer, who has worked tirelessly to keep whistleblower Julian Assange in jail, has given advance warning of just what he intends...

LAST Friday, at the NATO summit, the outgoing US Defence Secretary Bill Gates flayed NATO savagely and ridiculed the military alliance, threatening that the...

The news yesterday that the cost of borrowing for Spain has jumped to over 6% will inevitably mean that for the country to stagger...

THE NUMBER of people claiming unemployment benefit in the UK soared to 2.1 million in April – the first full month of the coronavirus...

POLLS showing that the campaign for Scottish independence could win the referendum, due to take place in nine days time, has caused panic amongst...

THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) won a massive victory not only for their members but for all public service workers when the employment tribunal...

THE nationalisation of the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac mortgage finance companies by the ultra right wing Bush administration is a forced admission of...

THE Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, and now controls both Houses of Congress, turning the final...

LEADERS of the major capitalist states, and the leaders of Russia and China, who have linked their fate to the future of the crisis...

THE defeat for the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, in Sunday’s referendum to change the Italian constitution and concentrate the political power in his...

BROWN and the Treasury have announced that they prefer a private sector ‘solution’ to the Northern Rock bank crisis, while Brown’s spin doctors have...

THE rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation in the UK in September, rose to 5.2% from 4.5% the month before. A huge leap in...

PRIME Minister David Cameron promised yesterday that there are ‘painful cuts ahead’ that will last for years, and that he would be carrying out...

STRIKE action during COP26 (The United Nations Climate Change Conference), from Sunday October 31 to Friday 12 November, is to go ahead after the...

JUST a few months ago, the then Defence Minister John Reid was telling the media – while trying to douse public concern...

YESTERDAY evening, former US president Donald Trump, accompanied by a US Secret Service Motorcade, swept up to Fulton county jail and handed himself in...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is ‘shocked’ after Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon to force refugees – men,...

POLICE in the US state of Missouri, in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, are continuing to clash with protesters nightly, amid growing anger...

NHS patients from outside the EU are to be charged 150% of the cost of treatment in the NHS. This is part of a ‘crackdown’...

THE coalition’s ex-Defence Secretary, Fox, put forward his demands for the Tory-led coalition’s March 21 crisis budget yesterday in the Financial Times. It was a...

PM BORIS JOHNSON in an interview in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph stated that the Tories were determined that there would be no further national lockdown...

PM Cameron is due to drive forward Tory war plans both at home and abroad this week. Today, he is meeting President Hollande to prepare...

THE bankrupt British ruling class is preparing to expand its ‘nuclear deterrent’ by buying a squadron of American jet fighters that have the capacity...

THE great EU referendum crisis in the UK has sharpened after PM Cameron denied his earlier remarks that after he had negotiated a deal...

THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza has confirmed that the Israeli occupation has utterly failed in its attempt to distribute aid within ‘racial...

STARMER’S Labour government is in a state of complete meltdown, with the prime minister himself struggling to keep his job under the impact of...