Editorials

THE World Economic Forum commenced its annual meeting at the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos this week with US president Donald Trump due to deliver...

RECORD numbers of young people, 835,000 18-24 year-olds, are not in school, college or work in England, official figures are showing. This is an increase...

GRENFELL survivors and relatives of the 72 people killed in the Grenfell Tower inferno are furious that they have been excluded from the inquiry...

OVER 250,000 small firms and companies are destined to collapse this year according to research carried out by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Nearly...

THE Oldham by-election did not go according to the ruling class-Tory script. There was no collapse in the Labour vote. Corbyn was not sacked...

OVER 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday, protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. The protest, organised by the...

AT the Idomeni crossing from Greece into Macedonia refugees are clashing with Macedonian soldiers and police, as they try to reopen the border near...

AT SATURDAY’S march to defend the Welfare State, workers from across the country were clear that action will have to be taken to defend...

LARGE-scale hospital cuts and closures are now being organised for immediately after the next general election. These cuts have been dictated by the current enormously...

OVER the past week, lecturers have been on strike against sackings, parents are occupying schools to stop their closure, and students, angry at high...

IN all of the Greek cities there were clashes throughout yesterday between workers and youth and the riot police, and other Greek special forces....

CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has spoken of the need for a ‘new world order’. He is not embarrassed that this is what President Clinton and...

YESTERDAY’S parliamentary committee sessions saw News International stand brazenly in denial of any knowledge of the phone hacking that took place at the News...

US President Barak Obama, in his speech to both houses of parliament last Wednesday, did little more than restate the old George Bush doctrine...

Euro-zone leaders have taken the desperate measure of risking all on one throw of the dice, after advancing an almost $1 trillion package...

THE Palestinian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that the fatal shooting of a teenage girl by Israeli military forces during a raid in the northern...

THE ORCHESTRATED witch-hunt against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over scurrilous accusations that he and indeed vast numbers of Labour Party members are in fact...

FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...

IN HIS speech on Saturday to the Labour Party Policy Forum Jeremy Corbyn proved that left reformism has absolutely no answers to the crisis...

IN HIS FOURTH of July speech on Saturday US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claimed were...

THE Independent Police Complaints Commission issued a report on Friday detailing the findings of its two and a half year long inquiry into...

THE TORY Party has launched a massive campaign to blame China to cover up their own culpability in the rapid spread of the coronavirus,...

YESTERDAY’S Daily Telegraph Editorial has called for ‘Supporting the Ukraine whatever it takes’ backing the Ukrainian attack on Russia to the hilt. It observed: ‘Faced...

BP’s profits are soaring, it is getting fabulously richer while more and more working class motorists are forced to take their cars...

CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday moved his ‘emergency budget’. He outlined the gravity of the situation by saying that ‘Questions that were asked about...

THE leaking of new guidelines to staff working with the unemployed exposes the barbarity of the coalition government’s onslaught on the sick, vulnerable and...

BRITAIN has apologised to the Chagos Islanders for the ‘shameful’ way it evicted them from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The apology came...

JOHAN Malawana, the Chair of the Junior Doctors Committee, addressing the BMA annual conference in Belfast, told delegates that: ‘This was the year when...

A REPORT yesterday by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) warns that up to 350,000 youth aged between 19 to 24 face being thrown...

THE Arab League, the organisation of the Arab bourgeoisie, last Saturday gave its backing to the indirect Palestinian-Israeli peace talks being pushed by President...

BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...

TODAY the working class and the majority of the middle class must put the Cameron government out of office and return the Labour Party...

THE heads of five major UN agencies have issued a joint appeal to the international community, a code phrase for the imperialist...

‘We are not against improving patient referral standards, but we are opposed to referral management to cut costs and ration treatment,’ British Medical Association...

TEN French soldiers were killed in an ambush by Taleban fighters east of the Afghan capital, Kabul, and 21 were wounded yesterday. This followed Sarkozy’s...

ON TUESDAY Theresa May launched what has been billed as her final attempt to cobble together a parliamentary majority amongst MPs for her ‘new’...

RIGHT WING Labour threw its bomb into the Labour Party conference yesterday when it penned an open letter suggesting that the UK should remain...

THE NEW Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s first recorded words in office as Labour’s Health Secretary were to condemn the National Health Service, telling the...

THE leadership scuffling that is taking place in the Labour Party is underlining one major fact – its crisis is terminal. This is a party...

ALMOST a third of Britain’s 700 biggest businesses paid no corporation tax in 2005-2006, according to a study carried out by the official National...

A REPORT this week from the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the effects of Tory austerity cuts has brought home the fact that...

‘IT simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this...

THE Bank of England governor, Mervyn King got ready for a somersault in economic policy yesterday, when he told the Treasury Select Committee that...

THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that officials from Gaza’s health ministry had told it that at least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by...

BRITISH capitalism is officially in recession as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday. In just three months, the UK economy shrank at a...