£350m Government bailout for delayed Crossrail
The government has given London Mayor Sadiq Khan a £350m loan to cover additional costs caused by delays to the Crossrail project.
The financial help...
Yemen in danger of big famine – NO PROFIT IN PEACE!
HALF of Yemen’s population are facing “pre-famine conditions,” a United Nations report warned today as the war-ravaged country’s humanitarian catastrophe deepens.
The UN humanitarian chief...
Tory MEP leader tells German Socialist MEP that Nazis ‘want the...
HERE is a famous often-used quote, “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
Tory MEP leader tells German Socialist MEP that...
Chuka Umunna: ‘Remain campaigners must drop calls for new Brexit vote’
In 2016 Chuka Umunna urged Remain campaigners to abandon calls for a second referendum or risk being seen as a metropolitan elite “who think they...
The creeping privatisation of healthcare
Problematic EU policies and the corporate lobby push
Privatisation in its various guises is “spreading across Europe’s health services like a rash”, writes John Lister of Keep Our...
The EU ‘people’s vote’ has already taken place — and the...
THERE is a particular poignancy in seeing politicians who ignored up to two million people marching against mass slaughter in Iraq now insisting that...
Pedo gangs and racists off our streets: The working class has...
The left is making errors that have allowed the far right a hearing among ordinary people they should never have been gifted, writes ALEX...
Corporations Global Masters the Road to 21st Century Serfdom.
The majority of the richest bodies in the world are transnationals, not government's, poverty campaigners recently stated.
The top 10 corporations brought in a combined...
Impending EU-Tory neoliberal stitch-up must be undone
This weekend crunch negotiations are taking place in Brussels ahead of next week’s EU summit.
The outcome is unpredictable. On both sides the stakes are...
The EU Brexit negotiations and Ireland – the empire strikes back.
DOUG NICHOLLS looks at the desperation of the EU Brexit negotiators and their threat to Ireland
JOSE MANUEL BARROSO was president of the EU and...