Editorials

THE CONVICTION and life sentence of Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard was most certainly not the case of...

EIGHT police officers have been taken hostage in Ecuador during an escalating revolutionary uprising that has forced the government to flee from the capital,...

THE UAW leaders are prepared to ‘suspend’ all of the gains of US autoworkers to try and assist the big bosses of GM, Chrysler,...

THE Israeli regime is facing an unprecedented wave of negative migration of around 200,000 settlers leaving the occupied territories since October 2023 posing an...

THE annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) that starts this Sunday in Brighton is taking place as British capitalism is crumbling under...

WHEN it comes to fraud and stealing vast amounts of money the banks make your average burglar or spiv look like the rank amateurs...

THE postal workers dispute intensified yesterday when, with Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool already out on unofficial strike, the action was spreading all over the...

SINCE Labour took office in 1997, house prices have gone up four times more quickly than workers’ pay, according to figures published by the...

THE DIVISIONS within the Tory Party are rapidly sharpening, with an ever widening gulf between those who want to remain in the EU and...

AS SOON as the Northern Ireland Assembly election results were announced on Saturday confirming that Sinn Fein was now the biggest party, the US,...

BOTH the Tories and Labour suffered huge defeats in the council elections yesterday for their cowardly refusal to implement the 2016 EU referendum result. Polls...

PRESIDENT Trump has described the new ‘utopia’ that the UK faces once it breaks with the EU, and the UK ruling class switches its...

UK economic growth for the last quarter of 2011 has been revised downwards to a 0.3% contraction, another body blow to those who had...

ISRAELI forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning, firing rubber-coated bullets, tear gas and sound bombs at Palestinian worshippers, wounding hundreds in a...

DRACONIAN repressive measures are now being proposed, off the cuff, thick and fast, as the Blair government races to put an end to the...

THE CPI rate of inflation fell to 1.5% in the year to May 2014, down from 1.8% in April, according to the Office of...

GERMAN Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble has said Standard & Poor’s (S&P) threat to downgrade all eurozone countries, and saddle them with ruinous interest charges...

THE CHINESE People’s REPUBLIC is now the number one enemy for US imperialism and its UK ‘running dog’. The war is on all fronts,...

THE capitalist state used to be the mailed fist concealed within the velvet glove in Britain. Its real power was covered by the parliamentary...

THE old world order of an all-powerful American capitalist system engaging in a rule-based and peaceful relationship with its allies in the UK and...

Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves was making her pitch yesterday to the bankers and business bosses that any future Labour government would be a...

SNP foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond spoke up for millions of British people yesterday when he highlighted the role that one-time Labour PM Blair...

THE ‘YELLOW Vests’ who have been out on the streets of France every Saturday for over a year have joined forces with the mighty...

SIMON Stevens the new Chief Executive of NHS England is no stranger to the NHS and the struggle to privatise it. He was chief...

THE TORY government have turned their fire against one of the most vulnerable sections of society: disabled people. The government has launched a three-pronged attack:...

YESTERDAY Adams Childrenswear announced that it had closed down 111 of its stores throughout the UK, and that its remaining 160 shops would stay...

NEARLY a quarter of a million French workers have taken part in mass rallies across the country against the French fascists, calling on the...

‘WE are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea, we are not going to accept it,’ US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher...

Rising unemployment is a national emergency declared the TUC yesterday after the government revealed that 150,000 workers had lost their jobs in the last...

THE heads of the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury have been forced to try to calm fears that the nation’s two largest mortgage...

AS EXPECTED, the early results of the local council and Wales and Scotland regional elections yesterday morning showed a total wipeout of the Labour...

THE President of the crisis-ridden EU Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso yesterday told the BBC that the inclusion of Russia in any future...

LAKSHMI Mittal, the Indian-born billionaire has donated £2m to the Labour Party, it was revealed yesterday. The fifth richest man in the world, who owns...

UP to 1,000 Israeli pilots and aircrew published a full-page letter in multiple Israeli newspapers on Thursday directly challenging prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal...

THE STRIKING Tube workers brought London to a standstill yesterday, and every London worker and commuter must give them their full support against the...

FOR SOME time Labour has been promoting the theme that the very idea of a job for life is reactionary, and has been glorifying...

NHS staff who have suffered a 15% pay cut since 2010 have been offered a ‘new deal’ from the government. A leaked document shows...

TORY Health Secretary Matt Hancock was grilled for four hours by two Parliamentary Committees on Thursday, in which he insisted that ‘There was never...

THIS week the UN announced that 300 migrants had drowned after being forced into unseaworthy boats in a desperate attempt to escape the wars...

THE TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, in his New Year’s message said that his two fears for 2008 were the dangers of a banking...

EVERY time Bush and Blair speak, they trumpet their championing of democracy against the corrupt dictatorships that they say exist everywhere outside their...

ALI AL-HAYIK, the head of Gaza’s Federation of Industries and the Palestinian Businessmen Association on the Gaza Strip, warned yesterday that dozens of factories...

THE buzz word in the financial media yesterday was ‘Wapping’. The media was referring to the union busting operation carried through by Rupert Murdoch in...

THE TIME is here when workers must respond to the growing chorus from the professional servants of the bourgeoisie for savage, and even more...

TODAY junior doctors launch four days of strike action throughout the NHS in England over the demand for a 35% pay increase to make...