TUC must support doctors strike and NHS by calling a general strike to kick...
Resident doctors began five days of strike action yesterday following the overwhelming rejection, 83% to 17%, of Labour health secretary Wes Streeting’s latest pathetic...
Labour Pledges More Austerity!
POLITICAL ‘role reversal’ is the phrase being bandied about by bourgeois political commentators as they scratch their heads trying to make comparisons between the...
Capitalist leaders have lost confidence in the system and are preparing for the worst!
THESE are fearful times for the leaders of EU capitalism. The fear factor is not just present in Brussels. Admiral Alan West, who...
Tories Are Split, Divided And Fighting Each Other – Time To Force The...
THE TORY PARTY and its leadership are thrashing around in their death agony. The Tory crisis has reached the stage where Tory ministers have been...
Trump splits US ruling class with demand they give up vast profits in China
ON THE eve of the G7 Summit in France over the weekend US president Donald Trump ordered US companies to leave China and move...
As the capitalist system rushes towards the precipice – the great gains of the...
PANIC gripped the UK ruling class yesterday as the bond markets ‘were thrown into chaos and a crisis’ that is bringing new cost of...
Defend right to asylum – defend right to strike – general strike now!
YESTERDAY the Tories unveiled their ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ along with the admission that the bill itself is illegal under international law, not that this...
Capitalist Crisis Is Driving Forward World Revolution
THIS Sunday’s 65th Anniversary rally of the assassination of Leon Trotsky by an agent of the Stalinist bureaucracy in 1940 is taking place at...
Support the postal workers – Bring down Brown government
GORDON Brown launched his government of national unity yesterday by giving ex-Tory Sean Woodward a job in the cabinet (he defected from the Tories...
Arrogant Carney Rubbishes Miliband!
THIS week, in an attempt to cash in on the universal hatred felt by the working class and middle classes towards banks and bankers,...
The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down Tories!
THE UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says the Israeli military has ‘intentionally killed’ the aid...
Only socialist revolution can stop imperialist war
LAST Friday’s attack by US planes on the Syrian airfield of al-Shayrat was not a one-off military exercise to teach the Syrians a lesson,...
Draghi proposes Central Bank dictatorship – while the German bankers warn of hyper-inflation
SPANISH 10-year bond yields fell yesterday to 5.77%, below 6% for the first time since May, while yields on the equivalent Italian bonds fell...
Defend the Tamil people! Unite the Sri Lankan workers! Bring down the Rajipakse...
THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...
Barclays Vice Chair On NHS Commissioning Board
YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Health told the House of Commons that the government will be taking a step back from the...
Brown, Keynes and revolution
AFTER actively assisting in the creation of trillions of debt, and showing its contempt for the concept of value by selling almost half of...
NHS Executives back away from imposition – Unions must take strike action
HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s contract imposition has already begun to hit the rocks with 10 of the 20 NHS executives who signed the Dalton letter...
Brown prepared to impose ‘unpopular measures’
PRIME MINISTER Brown said yesterday that he will not be diverted from taking ‘unpopular’ decisions to ensure Britain gets through the global credit crunch....
Occupy Grangemouth to defend the union, jobs, wages and pensions
UNITE has urged Grangemouth workers not to give in to Ineos’ ‘menacing’ tactics to sign away their rights, saying it was looking to take...
Labour Party Conference Opens With ‘God Save The King’ Instead Of A Minute’s Silence...
THE opening of the Labour Party conference took a new turn yesterday when the Labour Party leader Starmer, who has played a key part...
The US’ allies in Egypt are at each other’s throats!
THE bloodbath in Egypt last Wednesday, which saw hundreds of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood cut down in cold blood by the Egyptian army,...
US attacks Iran, Russia and China
IRAN has responded with a heroic defiance to the new economic sanctions imposed by the US ruling class that target its military defence, the...
UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...
LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...
What a carry on up the Shatt al-Arab!
THE government was completely undone yesterday after the Secretary of Defence Des Browne firmly bolted the stable door well after all the military horses...
Answer Cameron’s war on two fronts with a General Strike
DAVID Cameron’s speech outlining his ‘five-year plan to fight extremism’ was in reality an outline of the Tory government’s war plans for both the...
Tenants face mass evictions
TENANTS receiving housing benefit have been issued with eviction notices by the largest ‘buy-to-let’ private landlord in the country. Fergus Wilson, who owns 1,000 properties...
Answer the capitalist crisis with a socialist programme
THE deepening capitalist crisis has seen the breakdown of the decisive Doha Round of World Trade Organisation talks, with the United States refusing and...
1917 Revolution Is On Putin’s Mind
YESTERDAY President Putin put himself forward not just as the defender of Russian speakers in Ukraine, but as the Guardian of Order in the...
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...
Johnson Prepared To Starve UK Workers To Aid Ukraine’s War To Weaken Russia!
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have both warned that the war in Ukraine could last years, as Russian...
US Imperialism Has Feet Of Clay – Forward To Victory Of World Socialist Revolution!
THE self-proclaimed image of US invulnerability has registered a huge shock at the latest information that shows that China would defeat the US military...
Johnson demands pensioners and workers must suffer poverty to keep inflation down
TORY prime minister Boris Johnson was interviewed yesterday on ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme and announced that there will be no attempt to increase...
Israel Joins Al Qaeda In Attacking Syria
IN LINE with Obama’s policy of ‘leading from the rear’ (a tactic learnt after receiving some very, very harsh lessons in Iraq and Afghanistan),...
Osborne seeking showdown with unions
ON Thursday the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, made an emergency statement to parliament on the international economic crisis that is engulfing British capitalism to...
State Defends Its Right To Execute Innocents!
YESTERDAY, Lord Stevens, the ex-Metropolitan Police commissioner, urged that there should be no change in the policy of the state, after a completely innocent...
The needs of profit making are a higher morality than bourgeois law
THE High Court yesterday ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption inquiry into a £43bn Saudi arms deal....
Johnson Treats ‘Doormat’ Starmer With Complete Contempt
ON MONDAY night, prime minister Boris Johnson decreed that England’s third national lockdown would legally come into force on Tuesday night with parliament called...
Nut Warns Over Free Schools And Academies
COMMENTING on the latest Education at a Glance report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Christine Blower, General Secretary of the...
Full speed ahead for a slave labour UK economy
COALITION leader Cameron is considering calls to freeze the minimum wage, with the British Chambers of Commerce advising that ‘Britain cannot afford to price...
Starmer splits Labour Party from unions to prove he is ready for a national...
THE sacking by Keir Starmer of Labour MP Sam Tarry from his post as shadow transport minister has sent shock waves throughout the Labour...
TUC prepares for treacherous deal with Labour’s coup leaders
YESTERDAY morning Angela Eagle, one of the main conspirators behind the right-wing plot to oust Jeremy Corbyn from the leadership, announced publicly for the...
January 1– police to get blanket arrest and covert op powers
POLICE are to have blanket arrest and covert operations powers of a type that will make tinpot dictatorships throughout the world green with envy,...
Middle Class Faces Mass Unemployment. It Must Unite With The The Working Class To...
THE CRISIS engulfing British capitalism has drawn the organised working class, along with youth and entire sections of the middle class, into the struggle...
Revolution is the only way forwards!
THE working class of Europe is rising up to fight the savage spending cuts now being imposed by governments across the Continent. When the UK...
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...