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Israeli Murder Machine Continues Operations Despite Phony ‘Peace Plan!’

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at...

Call Strike Action Across Public Sector Against Brown’s Wage Cutting Policy

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ON Tuesday the GMB annual conference decided that a sub-inflation cap on pay negotiations is completely unacceptable to GMB public service members. The...

The knife without a blade as Hunt defies May!

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MAY’S ‘reshuffle’ that never was continues her recent career in which everything that could go wrong has, but such is the feebleness of...

No To Imperialist War In West Africa!

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SUFFERING a decisive and humiliating defeat at the hands of the Afghan people has in no way diminished British imperialism’s appetite for military adventures...

Get British troops out of Afghanistan now!

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...

Israelis Bomb Gaza And Shell The Lebanon

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FOUR Lebanese soldiers were killed and at least four wounded when Israeli tanks opened fire at Lebanese positions on the border with Israel shortly...

Lonmin forced to withdraw their sack threat!

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UK-OWNED platinum mining giant Lonmin (the world’s third largest platinum producer) has been forced by the strength and defiance of the miners, supported by...

The world’s capitalists quake in their boots as coronavirus shuts down Chinese factories halting...

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‘THE WORKSHOP of the world is closed,’ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote in the Telegraph on Thursday predicting a colossal disaster for capitalism if the massive...

Generals threaten coup against Macron as France and Europe face bankruptcy

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LAST WEEK, an explosive letter from 25 senior retired French generals was published in the right-wing Valeurs Actuelles magazine threatening President Macron with an...

The Banks Are All Northern Rocks!

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TEXAS PACIFIC GROUP’S decision to cut and run, taking with it the £179 million that was to be used to buy 23 per cent...

Israel bombs ‘safe’ Rafah camp with Palestinians ‘burnt alive’ in melting tents

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ON SUNDAY night, Israeli planes launched a devastating attack on a tent camp in the Tel Al Sultan neighbourhood in western Rafah which is...

Labour has no answer to the problems that the working class and middle class...

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MILIBAND’S Labour Party yesterday said that if it was the government it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job. This...

There Is No Christmas Truce For Palestinians As Israel Attacks Both Gaza And The...

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ISRAELI warplanes at dawn yesterday launched a series of airstrikes against several posts across the besieged Gaza Strip, causing extensive material damage. WAFA’s correspondent reported...

Tory split looms as King warns on new housing disaster

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LORD Howe, who is credited with bringing Thatcher down, now seems to be about to perform the same service for PM David Cameron, with...

US planning peace talks while building Gaza’s ‘wall of steel’

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IT seems that the United States is preparing the ground to make the Palestinians an offer that they will not be able to refuse...

Millions must march for Palestine on Saturday August 3 – They must also instruct...

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A FORMER Lebanese lawmaker Naser Kandeel said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the US featured a planned coordination...

Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU

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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...

Call national strike action to defeat Royal Mail and Brown

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AFTER weeks of secret talks, which were extended by a further week and were conducted behind the backs of the CWU membership, the Royal...

Wealthiest 5 richer than poorest 20%

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THE report by the charity Oxfam entitled ‘A Tale of Two Britains’ puts definite figures on the simple fact known by every worker that...

Johnson Calls A National Lockdown ‘The Nuclear Option’ As Far As Capitalism Is...

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PM BORIS JOHNSON in an interview in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph stated that the Tories were determined that there would be no further national lockdown...

Truss Reveals That She Is Planning Huge Wage Cuts For Workers – Kick The...

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AT A TIME when the cost of living is rocketing Tory leadership contender Truss has been forced to publicly scrap her plan to link...

World’s Stock Markets Set For Financial Crash!

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IT was reported yesterday that a survey of the top professional ‘money managers’ revealed that these investment experts believe that the world’s leading stock...

Bring Down The May Government – Forward To A Socialist UK And A...

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ONE HUNDRED years after the Balfour Declaration, the PLO and the Palestinian masses are demanding that the UK government apologise for it and its...

Israeli worthless promise to de-escalate violence against Palestinians immediately followed by murderous settler attack

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ON SUNDAY, a meeting in Jordan between top Israeli and Palestinian officials, called in a bid to halt the surge in deadly violence by...

US prepares no-fly zone over Syria

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THE news that the US secretary of state, John Kerry, was forced to scrap a planned visit to Israel in order to attend an...

Stalinist Putin condemns Lenin, but has kept his party card!

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LENIN wrote ‘The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self Determination’ in July 1916, just months after the Easter Rising in Dublin...

Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova heading for huge upheavals!

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THE Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, travelled to Brussels yesterday morning to sign, along with Georgia and Moldova, the ‘partnership’ agreement with the European Union. It...

Stop The Bosses Plan To Smash Trade Unions – Recall The Tuc To...

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PM Sunak yesterday accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of causing ‘misery for millions’ with the ‘cruelly timed’ pay rise walk-outs by rail workers. He...

Britain ordered to slash spending on welfare benefits or face huge tax rises

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BRITAIN must cut spending on welfare benefits or face a miserable cycle of repeated tax rises every year, JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank,...

Discontented generals enter into politics

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THE formation of the United Kingdom National Defence Association (UKNDA) led by ex-chiefs of the general staff and politicians such as David Owen is...

Human Rights Watch Denounces Israeli Apartheid Crimes!

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AN international leading human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Israeli authorities in a 213-page report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed:...

Cuts will push councils to breaking point!

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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,...

Unite leaders betray airport workers – for an emergency conference to elect a...

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THE BETRAYAL by the leadership of the Unite union plunged to new depths last week in the negotiations between the union and the management...

Tensions rise in the Baltics and the Balkans!

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LAST WEEK the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice visited Moscow to meet with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. She insisted that although Russia...

Defend the NHS – make the TUC call a general strike

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WITH 23,000 beds being cut from hospital wards over the last four years alone, the entire trade union movement must immediately move into action...

New Axis Of Evil Threatens War With Syria!

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THE new axis of evil, the leaders of the US, France and the UK, have come together to threaten Syria with war, with US...

Shell bites the dust – forward to the political revolution

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THE massive Royal Shell energy giant, which purchased the Sakhalin-2 concession for a song from Boris Yeltsin, was yesterday brought down to earth with...

Mass Hospital Closures On The Way

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HEALTH Minister Mike O’Brien has responded to the findings of the government-established Care Quality Commission (CQC). This has just claimed that one in eight of...

Tory policies to defund and privatise the NHS responsible for Shrewsbury maternity disaster!

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THE INDEPENDENT Ockenden inquiry into maternity provisions at the Shrewsbury NHS Trust has revealed a horrific catalogue of failures contributing to the deaths of...

CBI demands pay cuts in the private and public sectors

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The CBI and ‘recruitment experts’ Harvey Nash revealed yesterday that half of all employers are planning to freeze pay altogether, and that only 4%...

Coalition imposed pay freeze hits workers and middle class

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A report issued on Monday by the independent Resolution Foundation spells out exactly the desperate situation being faced today by the so-called ‘squeezed middle’,...

Tuc Must Call General Strike To Kick Out Starmer’s Government

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THE continuing collapse of the Starmer-led Labour government was on public display on Wednesday when in a pathetic attempt to reassert his absolute control,...

BMA Is Hoping For NHS Deal While The Labour Government Is Getting Ready For...

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) is calling on the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, to focus his time and attention on offering a deal that...

Tory war on two fronts against Russia and working class at home

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THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...

Defend the Royal Mail – bring down the coalition!

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The Tory-led coalition’s Business Secretary, Vince Cable, yesterday launched a demagogic attack on ‘spiv’ and ‘gambling’ bankers and their bonuses at the LibDem Conference. This...