Bankrupts On Parade!
THE leaders of Labour, ‘New’ or otherwise, chose to debate their leadership credentials yesterday over the Murdoch-owned Sky TV, the centre of the Murdoch...
Super rich Kensington and Chelsea – thousands of empty properties and only 26...
IN 21st century Britain, in the richest borough in London, working class children are being diagnosed with diseases and ailments that belong in the...
Mikhail Gorbachev – Stalinist hero of imperialism, loathed and reviled by working class!
Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR, died in Moscow aged 91 on Tuesday. His death was greeted with an outpouring of fulsome tributes and...
Labour is selling off school playing fields
SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls and his predecessor Alan Johnson have given the go-head to the sell-off of 19 school playing fields over the past...
Keep Profiteers Out Of NHS And Elderly Care
HEALTHCARE as a business is now being exposed as a malicious and very nasty fraud. First we had the Mid Staffs NHS hospital crisis with...
Lagarde says Greek euro exit will ‘probably’ not mean end of euro
THE head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, admitted on Thursday that she could not ‘preclude’ Greece being forced out of the eurozone. This...
TIME TO FIGHT FOR THE NHS – the Junior Doctors have shown the way!
THE official figures for NHS trusts in England for the first three months of the financial year (April to June) have just been released...
Disband the ‘institutionally racist, sexist and broken’ Met Police – forward to a workers’...
THE report by Baroness Louise Casey into the Metropolitan Police yesterday damned the force as ‘institutionally racist, sexist and broken’. The report was commissioned by...
Judges and lawyers demand end to UK arms to Israel. It’s time the TUC...
OVER 600 UK lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including three former supreme court justices, have written to Rishi Sunak warning that the UK...
‘Perfidious Albion’ betrays Palestine again!
THE British ruling class has played a special role as far as Palestine in concerned. In the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917, the United...
Forward to the Third Intifada
THE US SPECIAL envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, who negotiated the basis of the power sharing agreement in the north of Ireland,...
Coalition ready for Mumbai-style heavy weapons battles in cities
UK security chiefs have ordered an acceleration in police heavy weapons training so that they can hold the line against Mumbai-style attacks in UK...
Abolish Fees, Restore Grants And Free State Education For All
A REVIEW of university student fees in England has been launched by Business Secretary Mandelson. The object of the review is to increase, perhaps...
Field cuddles up to Cameron while Tories plan to end free NHS care
JUST days after the failure of the Hoon-Hewitt attempt to remove Gordon Brown as premier, one of Labour’s leading right-wingers, Frank Field, yesterday...
Workers Must Tell Tuc And Starmer ‘Don’t Prop Up Johnson Bring Him Down!’
IN HIS speech outside Downing Street on Monday PM Johnson made it crystal clear that the Tory Party, presiding over the greatest ever crisis...
BA, car output and production crashes!
BRITISH Airways has just announced a loss before tax of £401m for the year to 31 March, a collapse from a profit of £922m...
Trade unions must form a Council of Action in Kensington to requisition the 1,652...
THE HORROR felt by millions of workers after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of many men, women and children...
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,...
Pensions conflict sharpening UK class struggle to explosion point
WITH its threat to bring in new anti-union laws, that will prevent all legal strike action by all trade unions in the UK, if...
Lecturers & students must strike to end all university fees and restore grants!
THE LATEST increase in university tuition fees in England to £9,250 by the Tory government has been launched without any announcement from the Department...
Putin defies Trump – Time to Build 4th International – Forward with World Socialist...
THE peace talks between Russia and the Western powers represented by Donald Trump have hit the buffers with an almighty bang after Russia refused...
West London Council of Action shows the way – Occupy to defend NHS from...
LAST Friday’s mass picket of Ealing Hospital called by the West London Council of Action has shown the way forward for defending the NHS...
Academy head earns £500,000 while over half of multi-academy chains are going bust
THE TORY policy of forcing every school in England to become academies and turn the entire education system into a profit-making business has created...
Tories seek to inspire fear as they tell unemployed ‘get on your bike’
EX-ARMY officer Iain Duncan Smith, the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, was yesterday planning just how to force unemployed workers to give up their...
Smith Commission’s anti-working class Trojan Horse
THE Smith Commission has proposed, with the support of all the major parties, that the Scottish Parliament should have the power to set income...
Youth for revolution!
THE massive growth in unemployment sparked by the worldwide financial collapse in the capitalist system in 2008 is hitting youth so hard that the...
TUC Trade Unions Must Support A Palestinian State By Imposing A Boycott Of Israel!
HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on April 27: ‘The oppression of Palestinians has reached a threshold and a permanence that meets...
Syrian Workers Must Take The Power And Bring In A Workers Government And Socialism!
LARGE NUMBERS of workers and youth have occupied the Damascus residence of the just-deposed President Assad, with Damascus placed under a curfew. After the collapse,...
Russia And China Support Greek Privatisation
THE Greek working class and the youth are suffering under the ‘Iron Heel’ of the Troika (the European Union the European Central Bank and...
Putin Calls For Referendums In The Donbass And For Workers To Decide To Join...
ALL WORKERS, youth and trade unionists must support the decision of Russian leader Putin to call up reservists to serve in the Ukraine, and...
US-UK Plays Sectarian Card In Iraq
YESTERDAY the role model for US-UK imperialism was Pontius Pilate, as the US military and Prime Minister Blair sought to wash their hands of...
Socialist revolution is the answer to capitalist austerity and poverty wages
OVER a million public sector workers across Britain are paid poverty level wages according to a report issued yesterday by the Living Wage Foundation. 1.2...
Cameron dreams on while stock markets collapse
IN a radio interview yesterday morning the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, pronounced that the UK economy was seeing a ‘balanced economic recovery.’ All this...
Staffing cuts causing ‘avoidable’ maternal deaths
AN independent inquiry into the unusually large number of maternal deaths in London over the past two years has confirmed that the government policy of...
TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers
THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...
Now is the time to establish the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital!
ISRAEL’S governing coalition has become a minority in parliament after lawmaker Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi from the Meretz party, quit her post. Zoabi announced her resignation...
PM Sunak heaps sanctions on Russia as US, EU and UK workers pay the...
PM SUNAK HAS LOST NO TIME in announcing a series of fresh sanctions against Russia that include a ban on imports of aluminium, diamonds,...
Labour adopts coalition cuts
THE three-day meeting of Labour’s ‘policy forum’ ended on Sunday with a massive vote to commit the Labour Party to carrying on with the...
US assembles imperialist navy in Red Sea to attack Yemen
ON MONDAY, the US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, announced the creation of a ‘multinational security initiative’ – including the UK and major imperialist...
TUC appeal to Osborne – a conscious act of treachery
IN January the European Trades Union Confederation (ETUC) issued the call for trade unionists across the continent to rally on the eve of the...
All out action needed to defend pensions and jobs
THE CWU is warning that 40,000 jobs will go as a result of increased mechanisation of the Royal Mail system. It is also objecting...
Israel in favour of Gaza Truce ONLY when it has crushed Hamas!
ISRAEL on Wednesday said it backed Egyptian efforts to mediate a truce with Hamas in and around Gaza but also at the same time...
Serco boasts of massive profits out of failed test and trace contract
OFFICIAL figures released last week revealed the total collapse of the Tories’ Test and Trace programme run by private companies. Analysis of these figures show...
Capitalism Is On Its Knees – Time To Organise World Socialist Revolution!
SPEAKING at a poorly attended Scottish Labour Party conference yesterday Sir Keir Starmer said the United States ‘is right’ about the UK and Europe...
‘Extraordinary Rendition’ – Blair and Straw hear and see no evil
“WE conclude that the government has a duty to enquire into the allegations of extraordinary rendition and black sites under the Convention against Torture,...