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THERE is no doubt that Labour’s proposed benefit cuts are a ‘violation of workers rights’ which will harm ill, disabled and poorer workers in...

The abolition of NHS England by merging it with the Department of Health, announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, is the...

CITY AM, the business and financial newspaper, published an opinion piece yesterday which included a lengthy quote from Karl Marx on the profound effects...

FEAR gripped the stockmarkets yesterday after Donald Trump first of all threatened to double tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from Canada to...

Tens of thousands of youth, students and workers participated last Friday evening in fiercely anti-government marches and rallies, held in Athens and ten other...

THE Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he is willing to give up his war with Russia in the Ukraine, and is also...

AT midnight (US time) on Monday, US president Trump made good his threat to impose his long-threatened 25% trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada...

AT midnight (US time) on Monday, US president Trump made good his threat to impose his long-threatened 25% trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada...

History was written last Friday in Greece as truly colossal general strike rallies took place throughout the country when literally hundreds of thousands of...

ELON Musk’s chainsaw wielding stunt with Argentine President Javier Milei before a conservative convention in the US on Thursday was a call to war...

AS the world crisis of capitalism develops at breakneck speed, so the splits between the imperialist nations become more open, pitching the US against...

CARE staff who come to the UK from overseas are having to share beds with other workers, sleep rough, and pay huge fees to...

LAST week, the Bank of England issued a ‘gloomy’ outlook for the UK economy with its growth forecast cut in half from that made...

THE British Medical Association is warning that insufficient government funding for medical students in England for their lengthy degrees is pushing many into financial...

Amid a major slump in the German economy, the profits of the giant Deutsche Bank, the country’s largest, crashed a huge 92 per cent...

THE Hamas Movement has called on the US administration to rescind its proposals for Palestinian displacement and alternative homelands that align with Israeli plans...

THE cringing prostration of Labour prime minster Keir Starmer to US president Donald Trump finally paid off at the weekend when Trump condescended to...

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is committing the Labour government to follow in the footsteps of US president Donald Trump by enthusiastically embracing policies to...

Donald Trump’s speech at his inauguration as US president on Monday did not include a number of the crucial measures he insisted would be...

The Guardian paper has published an exclusive report that revealed that Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water company, diverted cash meant to clean up...

ANALYSIS by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has found that over 32,000 student nurses in England could drop out of their courses by...

STUDENTS protested against the genocide in Gaza clashed with Italian police last Friday. The students reject ‘the war economy’ imposed by Giorgia Meloni’s ‘reactionary and...

Yesterday, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) issued a warning to Labour’s chancellor Rachel Reeves that growth expectations amongst UK companies have taken ‘a...

THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Wednesday hailed the ceasefire agreement forced on the Israeli regime, saying that it has shattered prime minister Benjamin...

Labour yesterday unveiled its much trailed ‘Get Britain Working’ plan, hailed by Starmer’s government as the  ‘biggest employment reforms in a generation’, to drive...

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves turned up at the annual conference of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) yesterday to defend her autumn budget in...

THE STARMER Labour government is launching its war on the sick, the disabled and the unemployed, with the youth particularly targeted, as it brings...

THE NUMBER of people living in poverty in the UK has shot up to 16 million – the highest level since records began in...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions issued a statement on Friday to say they are extremely concerned that the unfolding situation in the...

PANIC has erupted in the UK government after economic data released on Thursday revealed that UK production crashed to just 0.1 per cent of...

ISRAEL’S extreme right wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, on Monday ordered preparations for the Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of Donald...

LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer has met with French president Emmanuel Macron in Paris in a desperate attempt to find a way out of...

INTERNATIONAL financiers, hedge-funds and speculators took just one day to savage Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget on Wednesday with interest rates on UK...

RACHEL Reeves is due to deliver her first Autumn Budget as Labour Chancellor next Wednesday, and is already promising ‘tough decisions’ on cuts and...

KEIR Starmer and Labour Health Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday launched a ‘public consultation’ on their plans to transform the NHS from ‘analogue to digital’ in...

STARMER pledged the Labour government would slash red tape in his speech to the billionaire investors and bankers who gathered in London yesterday at an...

THE Palestinian factions are standing fast! They have said that they will not sign any agreement or deal unless the people’s demands are achieved,...

CLEARLY rattled by Iran’s 180-strong missile barrage, fired at Israel in retaliation for Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon,...

THE governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, yesterday told The Guardian newspaper that the Bank is watching developments in the ongoing war...

FRESH from his defeat at the Labour Party Conference by the successful vote against his policy to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners,...

THE speech by Labour’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves to the party’s annual conference on Monday was nothing more than an appeal to the international financial services...

THIS year’s British TUC Congress in Brighton from 8-11 September took key decisions to align trade unions with the pro-Palestine, pro-peace and anti-war movements,...

In June 2024, the charity Buttle UK concluded an extensive project to explore the lived experiences of children, young people, and families grappling with...

THE immediate ending of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance was necessary to prevent an economic collapse and a run on the banks, declared Lucy...

THE Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was the result of ‘dishonest companies, successive governments, and a lack of strategy by the fire...