Hayman gets a CBE while Met chief Blair puts his holidays first
THE ‘shoot to kill’ section of the Metropolitan Police force is proceeding full speed ahead, knowing that it has the complete support of the...
No Cash For Operations – While £900 Million Pfi Scheme Collapses
EX-LABOUR MP Alice Mahon is considering taking the NHS to the High Court after the service refused to allow her access to a drug...
‘You must recognise the Palestinian state’ says the Palestinian Ambassador Zomlot
RECOGNISING the Palestinian state is the prerequisite for peace, not a by-product of peace,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said in an...
Capitalism cannot be reformed – it must be overthrown with Socialist Revolution.
IN HIS speech on Saturday to the Labour Party Policy Forum Jeremy Corbyn proved that left reformism has absolutely no answers to the crisis...
Social care starved of funds – one million without support
A new report, Care in Crisis, issued by Age UK spells out exactly what the Tory-led coalition’s destruction of the welfare state means for...
No secret talks! Reinstate the strikes! Sack Hayes and Ward!
THE CWU postal workers top leadership, Hayes and Ward, on Thursday called off the rolling strikes and suspended all strike action, except in the...
Don’t Stop At Dumping Slavers, Dump The UK And US Ruling Classes With Socialist...
THE TORY leadership reacted in fury this week after the statue of the notorious slave trader Edward Colston was torn down and dumped in...
Imperialism planning new crimes in Syria
The UN mission in Libya has just voiced its ‘deep concern’ over the daily and murderous violence in Libya, where innocent people are now...
National strike action to defend the Royal Mail and its workforce
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday warned that Royal Mail were planning sacking between eight and twenty per cent of the workforce, with London...
Global gas crisis busting EU and NATO apart! Forward to United Socialist States of...
A MAJOR global gas crisis has brought the crisis of the EU and the NATO military alliance to a head. The wholesale cost of gas...
GM BOMBSHELL – Magna out & GM Europe heads for ‘restructuring in earnest’
GM, now owned by the US government, has dropped a bombshell by turning down its deal with Magna and the Russian state-owned Sberbank, at...
Right wing coupists routed in Labour NEC elections!
SUPPORTERS of Labour leader Corbyn have swept the board in elections to Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, routing the right wing and giving it...
‘Vile police’ and Tory grandees battle it out!
A PETTY incident – the refusal of Downing Street police officers to allow the Tory chief whip to ride his bicycle through the gates...
Defend Palestinians against Israeli military terror!
TEN members of the Palestinian resistance movement, members of the Al-Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad, were killed in missile attacks by Israeli warplanes in...
Rudd gone – May government and British capitalism next!
THERE is a growing demoralisation in the ranks of the paid propagandists for British capitalism about the prospects for the British ruling class. Two important...
New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity
FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...
Ruling Class Targets The Political Levy
THERE has been a frenzied hue and cry raging for weeks now over the minor mistakes of Labour cabinet ministers over relatively minor...
Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!
THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...
Governor King Breaks Ranks With Osborne
UK PUBLIC sector borrowing has hit a record high of £14.4bn. After more than two years of Tory austerity measures, the deficit for August...
Re-nationalise the energy suppliers – the only way to end preventable deaths
FIGURES released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a dramatic increase in the number of preventable deaths among the elderly...
Portuguese economic and political crisis reaches explosion point!
PORTUGAL’S borrowing costs have jumped to over 7%, meaning that it will shortly have to seek another IMF-EU bailout, by offering even more cuts...
‘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...
Tories intend to put an end to the NATIONAL Health Service
IT IS crystal clear with the Tories seeking to impose even bigger cuts if they are re-elected in May, that under their rule the...
US engulfed by political crisis as Biden is forced out
ON SUNDAY, US president Joe Biden caved in to the demands of senior Democrats and the Wall Street supporters of the party to step...
Defend jobs, wages and rights – bring down Brown government
PRIME Minister Brown’s alliance with the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party has paid off with the passage by nine votes of his amendment to the...
Teachers At War With The Government!
THE two biggest teachers unions have begun their annual conferences, where they will challenge the government over pay, Ofsted inspections and England’s Academies and...
Workers Of The World Unite To Smash Racism And To Win Socialism!
MICHAEL Fallon, Tory defence secretary, did an Enoch Powell (he made his anti-immigrant ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech in 1968) when he claimed on Sunday...
Bank of England & US Fed continue to pump out free money to attempt...
YESTERDAY, the Bank of England announced that it will be keeping interest rates on hold at the historical low of 0.1%. This was the unanimous...
Make the TUC call a general strike to bring down Labour and to bring...
DESPITE Labour’s election manifesto pledges and repeated promise of ‘No tax increases’ on income, National Insurance or VAT, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning a...
Massive strike action by US workers demands $15 an hour nationwide!
FAST food workers in 15 cities across America came out on strike on Tuesday demanding a nationwide $15 minimum wage, union recognition rights and...
Manchester Arena bombing Inquiry condemns MI5, police & private security but lets the Tories...
POLICE and private security failed to apprehend the Manchester bomber, the damning report published by the public inquiry has concluded. Inquiry chairman Sir John...
Call a national postal strike and bring out all the public sector
ROYAL Mail chairman Allan Leighton reiterated yesterday that the organisation cannot afford to improve its 2.5 per cent pay offer, despite staff voting 77...
Banking disaster overshadows Brown-Darling budget
BLACKSTONE, the world’s biggest private equity capitalist raider, has reported a collapse in its profits in the last three months...
Trade Unions Must Take Action Alongside The Junior Doctors!
TODAY’S strike by junior doctors has the support of 100% of workers across the country. They are not fooled by all the Tory propaganda that...
Russia wins Round One in the struggle for Central Asia
THE Russian government and armed forces have turned the tables on the imperialist powers and their surrogates who launched the vicious surprise attack on...
A desperate ruling class forced to wheel out Gordon Brown to ‘save the day’...
WITH THE Tory government of Theresa May staggering from one crisis to another this week over the issue of Brexit, the desperation of the...
Starmer clears out Corbynite Long-Bailey to clear the way for a national government with...
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has unceremoniously sacked shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. This is the MP who was the main contender standing against...
Carney warning over banks ‘too big to fail’
UK economic output rose by 0.8% between July and September, official GDP figures show. The data adds to a 0.7% GDP rise in the...
Workers Must Support Corbyn Against The Tory And Labour Witch-Hunters!
THE BOURGEOIS media and Labour’s right wing pro-Zionists have no shame, as their attempts to label Labour leader Corbyn an anti-Semite show – otherwise...
Cameron shows his contempt for parliament
TORY leader Cameron was allowed to bluff his way through yesterday’s debate, on his special statement on the Murdoch-Coulson scandal, held after it caused...
Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tory-Led Coalition
THE TUC met yesterday afternoon to discuss pay and pensions and the planned mass demonstration and day of action on March 26 against the...
Savage Israeli occupation lashes out at Palestinians!
THE Fatah movement in southern Hebron declared a day of mourning on Wednesday after a 17-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces who had...
Tory war on two fronts – against the working class at home and...
LAST week Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the Tory offensive against the rights, conditions and wages of every worker. This is the strategy behind the...
UK living standards ‘to fall behind Malta’ as UK capitalism crashes under debt
ON Monday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its latest updated figures which showed that the average person now has £38 less to...
War on the unemployed – bring down the coalition
THE news this weekend that the private companies are bidding for 40 new welfare contracts represents another stage in the Tory-LibDem coalition’s relentless drive...