UK and US complicit in Saudi Arabian war crimes
LAST Saturday saw what was one of the worst atrocities committed in the Yemen since Saudi Arabia, along with its Gulf allies, launched an...
Ruling class full of fear as UK workers demand a break with the EU...
DESPITE the Queen’s plea for ‘reasonableness’ the knives are out for tomorrow’s House of Commons debate on the EU with rival amendments tabled to...
American forces quit Iraq in defeat after 21 years of sanctions and slaughter
EIGHT and a half years after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, 21 years after the deadly UN sanctions were imposed on Iraq...
Cameron Threatens Eu With Bringing Forward Referendum
THE German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned EU leaders that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg’s ex-PM Jean-Claude...
Unions must call a general strike to support Gaza and put an end to...
THE Bureau of the UN General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People reaffirmed last Wednesday night its...
Greek crisis sharpens – the working class must take the power!
AHEAD of today’s summit of the European Union the Greek transport minister issued an open threat that unless striking transport workers returned to work...
Police death squads are ok says ACPO
THERE is no need to change the strategy police use to deal with suicide bombers – to put as many bullets into their brain...
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...
Socialist revolution the answer to youth and workers’ jobs crisis
A REPORT yesterday by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) warns that up to 350,000 youth aged between 19 to 24 face being thrown...
600,000 workers and youth march for Palestine – the TUC must call a general...
600,000 WORKERS AND YOUTH marched from Central London to Whitehall on Saturday in a massive show of strength and solidarity with the masses of...
Israel attacks Gaza and Abbas cancels visit
YESTERDAY an Israeli aircraft bombed a building of the Hamas-run Executive Force in Gaza, killing at least one person and injuring about 45 others....
Bring down the crisis-ridden Tories – forward to a workers government and socialism!
GOVERNMENT plans to increase National Insurance levels for self-employed people – announced in the Budget last week – have been dropped by the Tory...
UK and US imperialism’s drive to war must be answered through the victory of...
IN his ‘Letter to American Workers’, published in Pravda on August 22 1918, after the victorious Russian revolution, Lenin wrote, ‘We are now, as...
UK trade unions must support the Palestinian people and assist them to establish their...
PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi told European diplomats on Tuesday that relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to...
Unite and the major trade unions must defend jobs with occupations and a general...
THE UK government is considering intervening in large UK companies through ‘Project Birch’ to ‘save’ the firms that are going bust by more government...
Gm And Capitalism Go Bust, As Parliament Is Discredited
LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation is one in which the ruling class is unable to rule in the old way – and has...
Working Class Is On The March – It Is Refusing To Pay The Bill...
THE UK working class is on the march, spurred forward by the worldwide crisis of the capitalist system, with Britain very much the weakest...
‘It’s A Social Revolution’ Says Archbishop Of Dublin
IRISH Congress of Trade Unions General Secretary Patricia King has warmly welcomed the overwhelming ‘yes’ vote in the marriage equality (gay marriage) referendum saying...
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...
Workers will not pay for Carillion bankruptcy – drive out the privateers with...
20,000 jobs in the UK and a similar number of jobs abroad are under threat with the collapse of the giant construction company Carillion...
Flybe collapse just the start! Coronavirus has brought the crisis of capitalism to a...
LOW-COST British airline Flybe has collapsed with the loss of 2,000 jobs. The pilots union BALPA has put the blame squarely on the Tory...
Labour Must Pledge To Recognise Palestine And To Stop Arming Israel
700 BRITISH artists have signed a pledge to boycott Israel as long as it ‘continues to deny basic Palestinian rights’. The group, Artists for Palestine...
Labour Cabinet Minister Fears For Her Seat
THE Labour government’s policy to cut, close, reconfigure, and privatise the NHS has caught up with a number of senior government ministers, including leading...
G20 debt pile reaches $135 trillion – Capitalism is breaking apart – forward with...
THIS WEEK the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another warning that the world capitalist financial system is on the verge of a gigantic...
US Trade Unions Ready To Take Action To Bring Down Trump!
IN AN unprecedented move, the American trade union AFL-CIO federation (the US equivalent of the TUC) issued a statement last Friday warning that the...
Greece For Sale – Lock Stock And Barrel!
AT the end of August the EU-imposed Greek prime minister, Antonis Sameras, announced to a disbelieving populace that the £9.3 billion cuts imposed on...
Put Cameron, Hague and Obama on trial, and free Assange!
ACCORDING to William Hague, the Tory Foreign Minister and Acting Prime Minister, Britain has a ‘legal obligation’ to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to...
TUC delegates vote unanimously to fight Tory anti-union laws while TUC general secretary insists...
DELEGATES to the TUC Congress unanimously passed Composite Motion 1 – the Campaign against the Minimum Service Levels (MSL) legislation – which instructs the...
Iraq War Not Over Insists General Odierno
US combat troops have been out of Iraq for only a week and already US generals are questioning President Obama’s judgement about whether the...
Karzai calls for rethink, as Taleban attacks mount
THE Afghan ‘government’ has called for a rethink of the US-led fight against the Taleban, after heavy casualties to civilians caused by US air...
Labour’Shuts Out Black And Asian Masses
THE ‘biggest shake-up of the immigration system in 45 years’ got underway yesterday, according to the Brown government. The ‘shake-up’ is that the British ruling...
GPs denounce Tory plans to roll out vaccine for putting patient lives at risk
VER 1,000 GPs have written to Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock demanding that the government produces a ‘full plan’ for the roll out of...
New generation organises five section strike! TUC must call a General Strike to end...
A NEW generation of workers is now organising themselves into unions and is combining their labour power by striking together. There is no doubt...
The crisis savages the workers while the rich double their wealth
THE total wealth of the richest 1,000 individuals and families in Britain has more than doubled in the last 10 years to £547bn, the...
CWU leaders embrace privatisation!
A BALLOT of CWU members announced this week showed a vote of 94% in favour of a ‘legally binding contract’ between the leadership of...
Government determined to destroy District General Hospitals
THE HSJ (Health Service Journal) has done a service to the NHS, and its tens of millions of users. It has revealed just how...
May government is Thatcherite says the Resolution Foundation
THE just-published Resolution Foundation’s annual audit of living standards shows that the May government, far from seeking to lighten the load of the poor,...
‘Green Shoots’ – A Mirage Of Desperate Capitalists
THE European Central Bank is having nightmares about the state of the 25 banks that underpin the financial system of the Eurozone within the...
Free Assange and Manning! The imperialists must be put on trial for ‘war crimes’!
BRITISH police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in central London on Thursday, which is technically Ecuadorian territory, arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian who...
Italian workers show the way with massive strikes in support of Gaza – demand...
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth took action throughout Italy on Monday after Italian trade unions called a nationwide strike in support of Palestinians in Gaza and...
Abolish The House Of Lords – And The Commons As Well
WEDNESDAY’S vote in the House of Commons when there was a 113 majority for the replacement of the House of Lords by an elected...
Osborne out to grind workers and youth into the ground
IN HIS speech to the Tory faithful yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that he is going to grind the...
Vote Leave – bring down the Tories. For a workers government to defend jobs,...
THE UK Prime Minister, Cameron, has delivered a thinly disguised deadly threat to the UK working class. This is that if it has the...
Duncan Smith’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Peddles Lies!
THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...
Judge Dismisses CWU Appeal In A Few Minutes – Time For A General Strike...
IT TOOK just minutes yesterday for three High Court judges to hear and dismiss an appeal by the postal workers union (CWU) against an...