The TUC supports the UK and US war plan for the Ukraine, and demands...
THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor...
Bp Leads Shares Crash As Banking Crisis Grows!
OIL giant BP’s share price has fallen nearly 17 per cent to £4.12, its lowest level since March 2009. The sharp sell-off came as it...
TUC leaders plead while workers starve
IN advance of the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announcing to parliament on Wednesday his spending review, which will detail exactly how he intends to...
By 278 votes to 0 MPs vote for extending the Universal Credit top-up beyond...
THE TORY government was delivered a massive blow on Monday evening when it was defeated by 278 votes to 0 when MPs voted for...
Shutting down News of the World won’t end Murdoch-Cameron crisis
RUPERT Murdoch has moved with great ruthlessness to try to make sure that he takes over BSkyB by shutting down the News of the...
UK ruling class is demanding £20 billion more in military spending to prepare a...
JUST days after the British armed forces supported the illegal seizure of the empty Russian-flagged oil tanker, the Marinera, by the US military in...
Delphi Battle Looms For US Trade Unions
THE battle lines are being drawn up in the United States between the vanguard of the working class in the auto industry and the...
Barbaric anti-homeless spikes scandal
THE picture showing one-inch-long metal spikes driven into the pavement in the doorway of a block of luxury flats in central London in order...
UK political crisis emerges over demands for ceasefire in Gaza!
THE House of Commons dived headlong into a political crisis as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support for...
Workers action shakes Rajapakse
A FIERCE struggle has erupted in Sri Lanka between the military-police dictatorship of Mahinda Rajapakse and over a hundred thousand garment workers in the...
Austerity Forever Pledges Cameron
IN an interview given to the Daily Telegraph, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, declared that ‘austerity’ will be forever as far as he...
Close the EU’s concentration camps!
THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...
Public services face privatisation catastrophe! Renationalise the lot under workers’ control!
THE COLLAPSES of Carillion, of East Coast Rail, of academy chain after academy chain, and now with the NAO report that private outsourcing giant...
The working class in its essence is Trotskyist – Now build up its ...
WORLDWIDE the class struggle is being driven forward by the deepening world crisis of capitalism. This dictates to the bourgeoisie that its survival depends...
After the US-UK defeat in Afghanistan, al-Houthi calls on the US and Saudis to...
AT A press conference held on the Kabul airport tarmac, on Monday afternoon, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the US had been defeated and...
Wages still being slashed by price rises!
THE CPI rate of inflation fell to 1.5% in the year to May 2014, down from 1.8% in April, according to the Office of...
Not a general election but a general strike now!
TODAY’S lobby of Parliament called by the TUC represents a complete avoidance of the real fight to the finish between the working class and...
The EU Remains In Charge As All Parties Await Its Decision On Extending Eu...
THE EU is definitely still in charge of Brexit and the ‘Brexit debate’. MPs await its decision today after Tory leader Johnson dumped the ‘no...
No Free Ride For The Tories
THE terrorist atrocity in Manchester last Monday night which killed 22 young people at a pop concert has been seized upon by the Tories...
Reject BA Sell-Out!
THERE can be only one response by BA cabin crew to the latest attempt by the national leadership of Unite to impose a ‘settlement’...
The US raises its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling as capitalism races towards the precipice!
THE US House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, while also attaching sweeping, massive...
Answer Labour’s war on benefits with a general strike to kick them out and...
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...
TUC warns interest rate increases driving unemployment but has no answer except to beg...
YESTERDAY the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 5.25%, the 14th time in a row that rates have been increased as the...
Israel calls for the US to take action against Syria
SYRIA yesterday condemned the UN report into the assassination of the former Lebanese Premier, Hariri – a report which pointed the finger of blame...
Unemployment And Poverty Soaring!
THE Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) confirmed what people already know, when it predicted yesterday that unemployment is set to rise, this...
Iraq and Afghanistan – imperialists coming under the hammer
US CASUALTIES are now mounting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, while at home the anti-war and anti-Bush movement is growing by leaps and bounds,...
Scrap the Special Immigration Commission
AT a time when the government is still seeking to extend the period the police have for holding a person without charging them from...
Capitalism’s ‘storm clouds’ herald revolution
AT THE end of last week the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announced that all his stated austerity plans in last autumn’s budget statement were...
After 10 years of austerity, and a boom in billionaires and paupers, workers will...
A REPORT this week from the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the effects of Tory austerity cuts has brought home the fact that...
Tories routed in Clacton – Labour hangs on in Heywood
THURSDAY’S by-election in Clacton, caused by the defection to UKIP of the sitting Tory MP, Douglas Carswell, saw the Tory party completely routed. Carswell won...
Bring down the Irish government to smash the Water Tax!
OVER 150,000 people took part in nationwide protests last Saturday against the introduction of savage water charges throughout the Republic of Ireland. Up to 100...
NATO’s arms being exported from Libya to terrorists everywhere
THE NATO armed intervention that supported the Islamist revolt in Libya succeeded in murdering Colonel Gadaffi and smashed up the most advanced and prosperous...
Starmer clears out Corbynite Long-Bailey to clear the way for a national government with...
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has unceremoniously sacked shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. This is the MP who was the main contender standing against...
Savage Spanish cuts will stoke a fire that no firewall can keep at bay
THE Spanish government is to cut 27bn euros (£22.5bn) from its budget this year. Among the measures are the freezing of public sector...
Unemployment and slave labour – the bourgeois future for youth
‘UK unemployment falls to 2.56 million’, is the fraudulent headline, with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith declaring: ‘It’s the private sector...
Trump escalates his war against Iran and the workers of the world!
IN what amounts to a declaration of war between US imperialism and Iran, US president Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that a massive US...
Put an end to bankrupt capitalism! Forward to the victory of the world socialist...
THE CRISIS of capitalism is now acute. It has reached the point of explosion, with its very life blood – gas and electricity now...
Union leaders must take action to bring down the Tories – and reject working with...
THE WORLD Health Organisation has issued its ‘Test, Test and Test’ call as its main policy to lay the basis for dealing with the...
UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages,...
WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on...
Labour marshalling its strikebreakers
THE capitalist state has had to admit that its war on two fronts means that it cannot rely on the British army for strike...
Obama, Biden look to Putin!
VICE-PRESIDENT BIDEN took the stage at the 45th Munich Security Conference on Saturday to spell out that the US understood that it now needed...
Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions
THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...
No Respite From The Capitalist Crisis!
IT is one of the features of the capitalist crisis that it proceeds not in a straight line but through a downward spiral movement...
Unite Helps Bosses Cut Workers’ Wages
THE UNITE trade union leaders yesterday were in full flight praising Toyota workers for taking their advice and assisting the bosses by accepting a...
Sack Gove not teachers, stop privatisation of schools
TEACHERS in England returned to work this week facing an all-out assault on their jobs, their pay and the very existence of free state...