Counter-revolution in the classroom
A report issued yesterday outlining proposals to establish in Manchester an army-run ‘free school’, has given yet another sinister twist to the campaign by...
Education cuts and £9,000 fees destroying the future for youth
AFTER record A-Level results, hundreds of thousands of students will be refused university places this year because of the coalition’s savage cuts policy. After being...
Labour must call to free Palestinian hunger strikers and recognise State of Palestine!
THE Head of the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee Issa Qaraqe said on Friday afternoon, the 26th day of the prisoners’ hunger strike, that negotiations could...
UK-NATO attempt on Gadaffi’s life fails!
THE murderous attack on the home of Saif al Arab, the youngest son of Colonel Gadaffi, killed Saif and three grand children of the...
May’s Britain a hostile place for workers and youth – Now is the time...
DESTITUTION under May’s crippled Tory government is soaring to levels not seen since the Victorian times. The roll-out of Universal Credit has created...
May defends capitalism, Corbyn wants it ‘restructured’. It must be overthrown through the socialist...
‘THE FREE market economy,’ in other words capitalism, ‘is unquestionably the best, and indeed the only sustainable, means of increasing the living standards of...
Junior doctors must call new strike and the BMA and TUC must stop with...
THE BMA warned yesterday that ‘Politically driven mismanagement is undermining patient care in England. It was responding to a report from the King’s Fund...
‘A positive response’ says Bush on Iran
US President George W Bush has welcomed Iran’s initial reaction to a proposal from the EU states designed to achieve a deal with...
Students To Fight Closure Of University Of London Union!
SENIOR academics confirmed yesterday that they are set to shut down the University of London Union, recommending that ‘ULU in its current form ceases’...
Brown, Cameron & Clegg unite to rescue bankrupt capitalism
THE manufacturing sector of the British economy shrank last month at the fastest rate for 17 years, that is since 1992, according to figures...
US Worldwide Torture Network
THE Council of Europe has announced it is investigating 31 reports of unmarked executive aircraft being used by the CIA to transport ‘suspected terrorists’...
US raids Libyan stooges!
THE Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, put into power by a murderous NATO campaign that culminated in the murder of Colonel Gadaffi, has called...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Resolve The Crisis Of Capitalism!
THE DAY after official figures were released showing that the UK economy was crashing into the deepest depression for 300 years, the governor of...
Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU
THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...
Capitalist state uses ‘guilt by association’ to attack youth
A REPORT by Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre For Crime and Justice Studies published last week focuses on the way police and prosecutors collude to...
Occupy And Nationalise UK Gm Plants Now!
BOTH Spain and the UK have refused to sign the Memorandum of Understanding that binds together the Magna-Sberbank-GM deal under which there are...
We Salute The Heroes Of Paris Who Stood Up To 9,180 Riot Police Who...
IN PARIS, on Saturday, against the advice of the more moderate members of the ‘Yellow Vests’ movement, 10,000 French workers and youth demonstrated their...
Answer Labour plans to drive youth off benefits with a general strike to kick...
UNEMPLOYED youth are once again the number-one target for a Labour government, determined to slash the UK’s benefit spending. A year ago, Labour unveiled its...
Brown Favours Bush’s ‘New World Order’
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has spoken of the need for a ‘new world order’. He is not embarrassed that this is what President Clinton and...
No confidence in Gove by heads
At their annual conference the largest head teachers union, NAHT, passed a motion of no-confidence in the Tory education minister Michael Gove and the whole...
Keogh creating a two-tier inferior NHS and proud of it
THE BIG push is on to destroy the national network of A&Es that millions of people depend on, and to convert at least 100...
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,...
Banks are crashing while 140,000 repossessions loom at Northern Rock
THE HSBC bank has just declared a 28 per cent, $3.9bn fall in half year profits. It has written off another $3.7 billion...
The British Government An Accomplice Of The ‘Enemy Of Mankind’
THE BOURGEOIS law courts damned the Brown government yesterday for its role as an accessory to the US and its torturers. The government was told...
The bosses are dumping their crisis onto the backs of workers. It is time...
YESTERDAY nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%. This is the sixth...
Brown’s Policies Are Helping The Tories To Return
BROWN’S ‘bad night for Labour’ was the direct result of a self-inflicted wound – Brown’s Thatcherite policies – that cost Labour up to...
Hands Off Rt! Defend Democratic Rights! Russia Is Not The Enemy! Our...
THE decision by the UK state-owned NatWest Bank to cancel RT’s (Russia Today) UK bank accounts is a crude attempt by...
Nationalise oil and energy industries under workers management and without compensation now!
Yesterday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published its plan to cut energy bills by re-nationalising energy retail companies. The plan, issued in advance of next...
French Government Passes Pensions ‘Reforms’ Without A Vote!
THE French government has chosen the moment – when France, Europe and the world is obsessed by the coronavirus crisis – to launch a...
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...
Nurses demand emergency conference to remove union leaders guilty of pay betrayal
NURSES reacted with fury last week when they received their July pay packets and realised that the 3% pay increase their union, the RCN,...
Occupation of Republic Windows and Doors shows the way to the USA
THE occupation of a relatively small factory in Chicago by its angry workforce, members of the UE trade union, to prevent its closure, has...
Israelis Bomb Gaza And Shell The Lebanon
FOUR Lebanese soldiers were killed and at least four wounded when Israeli tanks opened fire at Lebanese positions on the border with Israel shortly...
TUC Special Congress avoids calling a general strike to defeat Tory anti-strike laws
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak opened Saturday’s Special Congress on ‘the next steps’ in the fight against the Tory anti-strike laws proclaiming: ‘Congress, let...
Stop The Dirty War In The Yemen!
AT PM’s Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Corbyn raised the issue of the UK’s sale of...
Grenfell Inferno – The Government And Council Ignored Warnings!
THE fire that spread like an inferno through the Grenfell Tower block early Wednesday morning has claimed the lives of at least 17 people...
Rees-Mogg warns Tories that attempts to block Johnson will plunge Tory Party into civil...
FORMER Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Conservatives against any attempt to block Boris Johnson if he seeks to stand in another parliamentary...
It’s much later than Brown or Blair think
THE working class electors in the safe Labour seat of Dunfermline and Fyfe ignored the crisis at the top of the Liberal Democrats, so...
Action Needed Now Over Housing Crisis!
HOMELESSNESS among households in England has risen by 54 per cent since 2010 – rising annually every year – shows the latest report by...
Wages rising fast – a sick Tory joke!
THE food bank charity, the Trussell Trust says it has handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the...
Sunak speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet pledges UK support to imperialist war across the...
FRESH from sacking Suella Braverman as Home Secretary in the morning, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak turned up on Monday evening to deliver a speech...
Nicholson warns huge debt crisis facing NHS after May 7
JUST retired NHS chief Sir David Nicholson CBE has left the NHS with a pension pot worth almost £1.9 million, after earning a basic...
Israel extends genocidal war to ‘safe’ city of Rafah
US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken arrived in Egypt yesterday at the start of yet another Middle East tour – his fifth since the...
Carney Says Time Is Not Right For Interest Rate Rise!
THE TIME is not right for an interest rate rise, Bank of England governor Mark Carney said at the Mansion House. In his speech, Carney...
Cuts will push councils to breaking point!
THE cuts to local government funding will ‘push councils to breaking point’ according to council leaders. On Thursday the Tory Communities and Local Government minister, Kris Hopkins,...