German and UK military chiefs say ‘we must rearm’ and prepare for war with...
BRITAIN and Germany’s highest ranking military chiefs have just made an unprecedented joint appeal to the workers of Europe to accept the ‘moral case’...
Tory MPs demand May resigns while Labour refuses to call for her removal
THERESA May returned from her Easter break to face Tory MPs united in demanding her resignation. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, met...
British capitalism is bankrupt! Build the WRP and the Fourth International to lead...
AMIDST a crashing pound and the soaring cost of a Labour government that is borrowing billions, Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves fled to China on...
Message to marchers – bring down coalition to give workers and youth a future!
TODAY’S march called by the TUC is a massive demonstration of the anger and hatred felt by the working class, whole sections of the...
UK troops are on the Polish border – while US and UK forces are...
BRITISH TROOPS are now on the Belarus-Polish border answering a request by the Polish government to give it military support against thousands of Middle...
Full Support For The Ukrainian Workers!
GUNFIRE erupted Sunday morning at a checkpoint, established by workers on the outskirts of the city of Slavyansk in Eastern Ukraine. In the skirmishing, one...
No gagging of Pitchford Inquiry into police spies and police provocateurs!
THE Pitchford Inquiry into police undercover operations directed against various protest movements – trades unions, political movements and MPs – is to be gagged...
Bring down Blair; bring in a workers’ government
THE crisis of the Blair government has intensified to the point where the government is now more deeply split and divided than ever, while...
Egypt bombs Derna and pledges Libyan intervention
EGYPT’S Air Force, on Monday morning bombed Islamic State positions in Derna, Libya, after IS beheaded 21 Coptic Christian Egyptians. The city was also bombed...
It is the tyranny of the minority that must be ended through socialist...
THE ‘tyranny of the majority’ should not dictate exit from the EU, former Tory PM John Major said yesterday, in remarks that have sparked...
Police killers escape prosecution – and are exonerated by the CPS
YESTERDAY the capitalist state looked after its own, and decided that the two armed police officers who shot dead an unarmed man, Harry Stanley,...
Syrian Army poised for victory in Aleppo
THE news at the weekend that the Syrian army had successfully driven Jaysh al-Fateh out of the western areas around Aleppo marks another decisive...
New right-wing party to replace Tories being organised as spectre of revolution haunts British...
AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the...
PCS strike – No compromise with Tories possible. A general strike to kick them...
OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...
Trump fears spectre of socialist revolution
ON TUESDAY, US President Donald Trump delivered his second address to the UN General Council but instead of the normal Trump arm-waving threats to...
Tory war on refugees is a class issue for the working class
IN THEIR latest attack on refugees the Tories are preparing to use nets to disable boats and dinghies attempting the dangerous Channel crossing. This tactic...
CWU must organise national industrial action ballot!
BEING able to force the Brown-Mandelson government to ‘shelve’ the bill for the part-privatisation of the Royal Mail proves that the working class is...
Household Debt Now At £1.47 Trillion!
HOUSEHOLD debt has grown for the 26th consecutive month, reaching £1.47 trillion according to the Radical Centre for Social Justice (RCSJ). Household debt has soared...
Pensions crisis will revolutionise millions
‘THERE is no obligation on the part of employers to provide pensions’, said the National Association of Pension Funds yesterday. This was its response to...
SOVIET WORKERS AND YOUTH WANT THE USSR RESTORED!
THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...
Grenfell Tower survivors treated with contempt by Tories – time to kick the government...
THE contemptuous treatment of the survivors of the fire that killed 80 people at least has been sickening. Last week it emerged that those who...
Trump Says Bin Salman Innocent Until Proven Guilty – After Khashoggi Is Butchered In...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has cautioned against rushing to blame Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince over the disappearance and butchering of Saudi journalist...
Tenants face mass evictions
TENANTS receiving housing benefit have been issued with eviction notices by the largest ‘buy-to-let’ private landlord in the country. Fergus Wilson, who owns 1,000 properties...
TUC must call a general strike to defend national agreements and stop NHS...
THE NHS trade unions have split with Unison and the RCN voting at the national NHS Staff Council on Tuesday, to support changes that...
US is complicit in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp massacre that killed 274 Palestinians!
ON Friday, Israeli forces launched a murderous attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza with bombs directed at its market place, which...
Only Socialist Revolution can force a break with the EU
TOM Watson, the right wing deputy leader of the Labour Party, escaped being unceremoniously chucked out of his position over the weekend following an...
No evidence for ‘street cleaners’ plot’ against Pope
TO ADD to the drama surrounding the visit of the Pope – who set the scene with his, and his associates’ attacks on...
Miliband’s ‘national interest’ is an ‘imperialist interest’
FOREIGN Secretary Miliband declared to his audience, right at the start of his Oxford College speech last Tuesday evening, that ‘we’ must not let...
Obama issues his orders over EU Referendum to his UK puppet state!
US President, Barak Obama, has issued his ultimatum to the British ruling class – stay in the EU or else! In a lengthy article in...
British Capitalism At The Centre Of The Capitalist Crisis
THE worldwide capitalist crisis drove the pound down on Friday into an unprecedented collapse. The pound slumped 9.6 US cents to $1.52 at...
Renationalise railways or regime change says ASLEF
ASLEF is the first trade union to call for ‘regime change’, a change in the leadership of the Labour government if it continues to...
PFI debts are strangling NHS
LAST Friday, the ‘independent’ health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), finally issued its report on healthcare provision at the Barts Healthcare Trust,...
‘Blair and Straw have a great deal to answer for,’ says Alex Salmond
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...
Brown To Support US Air Strikes On Iran
YESTERDAY the bourgeois media reported that Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who came to office pledging that the UK would cease to be Bush’s...
The CWU leaders are refusing to fight for their membership
THE unsolicited public display of pacifism yesterday by the CWU leadership, in the face of the most vicious daily attacks on their membership...
USA supplies Syrian gangs with latest anti-tank weapons
THE US, UK and Saudi-backed and organised ‘rebels’ who have failed to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, who has the support...
Paper tiger union leaders ‘pause for peace’ at Grangemouth
THE just concluded 48-hour strike by the Grangemouth oil refinery workers was a magnificent success and showed to the entire world the power that...
Darling Robs The Poor To Prop Up The Bankers
CHANCELLOR Darling yesterday admitted that the Labour government, cold-bloodedly, in the last budget, abolished the 10p tax rate for the lower paid, knowing that...
Gm And Capitalism Go Bust, As Parliament Is Discredited
LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation is one in which the ruling class is unable to rule in the old way – and has...
NATO plans for war on Russia as capitalism crashes! Forward with world revolution
IN WHAT was described as a ‘historic first’, a UK navy destroyer, HMS Duncan, was placed under the direct command of NATO and ordered...
ECB interest rate cut is last throw of the dice. Forward with European socialist...
ON Thursday afternoon Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced that the bank has cut its benchmark interest rate from 0.5%...
US-UK Being Driven Out Of Afghanistan!
CURRENTLY, the ‘Friends of Syria’ conference in Tunis is considering the best way for the imperialist powers to intervene in Syria to overthrow president...
Bring Out All The Unions To Defend The NHS!
THE situation could not be clearer. The whole of the trade union movement and the majority of non-trade unionists support the 24-hour strike actions...
Bank of England to ‘crucify the consumer’
NOT ONLY has the world crisis of capitalism now been accepted as the reality by even the most sceptical of the bourgeoisie, its different...
Johnson moves to put the skids under Prescott
THE Blairite cabinet, faced with the working class rejecting Blair, his war on Iraq, his onslaught on the Welfare State, and with popular revulsion...