Saudi backers of ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Al Nusra Front accuse Qatar of...
LAST month US president, Donald Trump, turned up in Saudi Arabia to give his unqualified support to the ruling Saudi monarchy and their fellow...
Flammable insulation & cladding, tower blocks built to collapse & fire services stripped to...
LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan says Londoners have been let down after the Tory government rejected his request for new firefighting equipment. Tory Home Secretary Amber...
UK steel industry collapses!
YESTERDAY the Tory business secretary, Sajid Javid, convened an emergency summit meeting in Rotherham on the dramatic collapse of the UK steel industry. From the...
Egyptian Army Mobilises For Military Coup
GENERAL Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s army chief, whose force is paid for by the United States, has warned that the current political crisis ‘could...
Johnson’s ‘New Deal’ to rescue capitalism means war against working class
YESTERDAY Boris Johnson set out his policy to rescue British capitalism through spending limitless billions of pounds on investing in everything and anything: ‘infrastructure,...
The Brown government is for the bankers and the bosses!
THOUSANDS of trade unionists will be marching in Manchester today to the Labour Party conference to protest at the ‘breadline wages’ that public sector...
Maude-Miliband Unite To Condemn Pension Strikers
YESTERDAY’S stoppage in defence of pensions saw 90 per cent of PCS members stopping work, the biggest turn-out for strike action in the union’s...
Brown & Mandelson are not talking down the pound, they are planning to scrap...
THE EU Commission’s President Barroso has been told by the ‘people who matter’, ie by members of the Labour government, that they now...
Starmer is making the poor pay for the crisis. The TUC must strike to...
FOLLOWING the failure of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ panic visit to beg, or borrow, £600 million from China, the Labour government of Keir Starmer is...
Queen’s Speech leaked as axe set to fall on public sector and business grants!
THE leaking of the Queen’s budget speech is unprecedented, and is an expression of the depth of the split and the cynicism in the...
German crisis – the beginning of the end for the EU!
A MONTH of intensive talks designed to cobble together a new coalition government in Germany ended late Sunday night when the pro-business Free Democratic...
Tories plan to axe half a million hospital appointments each year in drive to...
HEALTH Secretary Steve Barclay did the rounds of the TV studios on Sunday to declare an all-out war on doctors, nurses and patients, as...
Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
ON TUESDAY over three million French workers took to the streets with massive demonstrations in Paris and Marseilles to make sure that Sarkozy got...
Israel Is Targeting Protection Teams In Gaza As Part Of Its Genocidal Slaughter...
WITH the number of Palestinian dead in Gaza rising to nearly 45,000 due to the US-backed Israeli genocide campaign, the Israeli occupation army’s appetite...
Nationalise Bankrupt Companies – Under Workers’ Control And Management
THE Labour government, after handing tens of billions of pounds to the Northern Rock and the other major banks, in an attempt to save...
The Stalinist theory of one country with two social systems has encouraged the...
THE EVENTS in Hong Kong over the past month have seen thousands of people storming the Hong Kong parliament and raising the Union Jack...
Take strike action to support FBU!
THE London Firefighters one day strike last Saturday has drawn a swift response from the capitalist state, via their mouthpieces in the bourgeois press. Commenting...
The lesson from the tower block fire disaster is stop the fire service cuts!
SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after...
Corbyn, O’Grady and McCluskey are determined to prevent workers from getting rid of Cameron
YESTERDAY, under orders from Tory leader Cameron, most of the King’s horses and most of the King’s men of the major trade trade unions...
Health privateer takes NHS to court over right to profit from health – time...
PRIVATEER Circle Health is once again taking legal action to overturn the decision to cancel its contract to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre. Rushcliffe...
Trotskyism is the Marxism of today
THIS Sunday’s rally marks the 68th anniversary of the assasination of Leon Trotsky, and the 39 years of the Trotskyist daily paper, first published...
Make Hammond’s Budget his last by a general strike to kick the Tories out...
THE Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, closed his autumn budget statement on Wednesday with the announcement that this would be his ‘first and last’. Faithfully obeying...
US imperialism facing defeat – time for working class to take action!
US President Donald Trump continued his increasingly unhinged attacks on all the nations who have refused his pleas, and threats to bail-out American imperialism...
Starmer government returns to PFI in attempt at mass privatisation of Welfare State
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves has commissioned a research paper from the British Infrastructure Taskforce, a group made up of major private investors, to investigate...
‘Refugees are not Terrorists’ – the real terrorists are the bosses and bankers
LAST Saturday thousands of refugees and their supporters marched through the streets of the Italian capital, Rome, venting their anger over the police attack...
Iran – a choreographed crisis at the G20!
Iran informed the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in a letter last Monday that it has a second uranium enrichment plant under...
Bring Down Crisis-Ridden Tories – Quit The Eu Now!
THE PATHETIC political collapse of PM May is the result of the massive hostility of the UK working class to her ripping up the...
‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war
THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...
Obama selects his bourgeois team to save US capitalism
BARACK OBAMA has just been elected by an explosion of popular support and anger that has united the working class and brought the majority...
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...
Resolve Crisis Of Leadership In Working Class
THERE is nothing like the crisis of the capitalist system to bring out the essence of the Labour and trade union leaders, as labour...
UK ports closed down by strikes – now force TUC to call a general...
IT didn’t take long for the working class to move into action following the funeral of Elizabeth II with hundreds of dock workers at...
Unions Dither While NHS Logistics Is Sold!
LAST Wednesday, the trade unions with the support of the majority of the Labour Party constituency parties defeated the government on the vital issue...
Magna to sack 10,000 – Woodley congratulates Mandelson and Brown
THE Unite trade union leadership has reacted to the news that GM has handed over GM Europe to Magna, in a deal bankrolled by...
Labour says ‘full speed ahead’ with police state measures – The unions must call...
GOVERNMENT plans to expand the use of ‘Orwellian’ live-facial recognition camera surveillance to every town and city in England and Wales will allow dangerous...
Aviation is going into the abyss! Nationalise the entire industry through a socialist revolution!
RYANAIR is to cut 3,000 jobs representing 15% of its workforce, it was announced yesterday. British Airways is to cut up to 12,000 jobs and...
Blair Launches ‘Irreversible’ NHS-Education Market!
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that he was poised to make irreversible changes to primary and secondary education by bringing in an education market...
Democrats revolt against Obama!
PRESIDENT Obama’s attempt to establish a cheaper insurance market that would provide full cover for up to 40 million poor Americans is under all-out...
Starmer Warns Of The Risk Of A New World War!
PM Keir Starmer has warned of a ‘risk of escalation’ beyond the Middle East to the rest of the world i.e. a new World...
Brown must end UK support for Rajapakse – Victory to the Tamil Tigers
THE government of Sri Lanka led by President Rajapakse is currently fighting a war on two fronts, on behalf of US and UK imperialism. On...
UK capitalism is in its death agony – It is time to organise the...
THE Bank of England yesterday raised interest rates by the most in 33 years from 2.25% to 3%, and accompanied its action with a...
Spooks fear revolution
THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...
TGWU stops BAA strike while Virgin says get other jobs!
THE TGWU leadership, (now sheltering under the Unite label) has once again dropped a decision by its members to take strike action to...
A Plague Of Locusts
ONCE again the spotlight has been put on the private equity locusts. This time a Financial Times investigation has shown how TPG, CVS and...
THE TORIES ARE PILING HUGE PRESSURES ONTO GPs AND THE NHS!
HUGE PRESSURES are being put onto GPs in England and Wales. They are so great that doctors are beginning to feel that they are...