A desperate Trump warns ‘clock is ticking’ as US threatens to escalate war on Iran
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump issued his latest threat to Iran on Sunday saying that the ‘clock is ticking’ and telling the Iranians they must...
Accept £4 billion of London NHS cuts or pay for treatment says NHS England
LONDON Hospitals are at ‘breaking point’ according to a report from NHS England over a £4 billion funding gap. NHS England (London region) director Dr...
NOW is the time for the TUC to call a general strike to support...
THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...
Left Fabianism cannot beat the bosses! Forward to the British socialist revolution!
LABOUR Leader Corbyn, launching Labour’s manifesto at Bradford University yesterday, sought to launch a gradual Fabian ‘revolution’, at a snail’s pace, to begin to...
The continuing collapse of leadership in the FBU
THE leadership of the FBU ignominiously collapsed at yesterday’s FBU recall conference, held to decide on industrial action to defend the final salary pensions...
Palestine erupts on 44th anniversary of Six-Day-war
IN 1967, Israel, in the infamous ‘Six-Day War’, used its air power, and its backing from the Western powers, to defeat Arab armies and...
Arab bourgeoisie – an agency of imperialism
THE Viva Palestina convoy has found out that, when it comes to preventing aid reaching the much-battered and besieged Gaza Strip, the Mubarak...
‘Red lights flashing’ – Cameron signals more cuts
WRITING in the Guardian yesterday, David Cameron announced that, following his meeting with world leaders at the G20 conference in Brisbane, he has suddenly...
By Recognising The Golan Heights As Part Of Israel, Trump Is Opting For A...
ON MONDAY, US President Donald Trump signed a declaration that recognised Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over Syria’s Golan Heights. The strategically important Golan Heights are recognised in...
Credit Suisse sold at knockdown price in last ditch attempt to avert world banking...
THE CAPITALIST world banking system hurtled even deeper into a massive crash this weekend when the central banks of Europe, UK and US forced...
Tories join with Labour to dump Johnson and prepare way for a national government
YESTERDAY, MPs debated the motion from Labour that would refer the behaviour of prime minister Boris Johnson to the Commons standards committee to investigate...
Forward To Jerusalem!
THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...
Trump gambles on his inflationary boom lasting till presidential election day!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump delivered his formal State of the Union address on Tuesday night with the usual boast that under the three years...
Osborne’s ‘city states’ are part of the break-up of British capitalism
OSBORNE’S plans for English cities to have mayors and combined authorities with powers over housing, health care, transport, planning and policing mean that London,...
Panicky Putin seeks to ward off workers uprising
PRIME Minister Vladimir Putin is currently acting like a frantic one man fire brigade seeking to hose down the growing anger of the Russian...
150 Plus Contributors To The New York Times Organise Boycott For Palestine!
MORE than 150 contributors to The New York Times have announced a boycott of the paper’s opinion section, protesting its ‘clear bias’ in its...
Rice calls for US-Africa open markets deal
THE US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, is currently touring Africa, putting forward the US plan to establish free trade and open markets with...
Cameron and May want to squash basic rights and freedom of speech!
TORY PM CAMERON has just reprimanded the people of the UK for being ‘over tolerant’ of extremism, signalling that his regime is so unstable...
WikiLeaks reveals US gangster diplomacy
THE latest WikiLeaks release of US documents reveals the essence of US diplomacy, and it stinks to high heaven with its intense imperialist antagonism...
Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring the Tories down and bring...
EVERY day brings a new savage attack by this Tory government on the NHS. At the beginning of the week the shock announcement broke that...
Syria’s parliament denounces the 1917 Balfour Declaration as invalid. UK parliament must do the...
THE Syrian parliament has shown the way to the rest of the world by denouncing as ‘invalid’ the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which handed Palestine...
Bush defends waterboarding and torture
US President, George W Bush, last Saturday revealed the inseparable connection between imperialism and atrocities when he vetoed Congressional legislation that would have...
Blair proclaims summary justice for the masses
ON TUESDAY Prime Minister Blair began his ‘genuine intellectual debate about the nature of liberty in a modern developed society such as our own.’ ...
‘No strategy to deal with crisis’ – ruling class
‘WE HAVE no ability to turn the economy around. When the next recession comes it is going to be deeper and last longer than...
US crisis intensifies!
THE US dollar, reflecting the crisis of the US capitalist economy, is now sinking fast against both the euro and the pound sterling. Rising...
Workers want the Tories out but don’t want Miliband and Balls back
THIS IS the message that is coming out of the Bradford West by-election where Respect candidate George Galloway was ‘unexpectedly’, out of the blue,...
Economic Crisis Is Smashing Up Europe!
YESTERDAY official statistics for France show that core inflation had actually fallen into negative figures, - 0.2%, for the first time in recorded history...
TAKE ACTION IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE – CALL GENERAL STRIKES IN US, EU and...
NABIL Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, warned on Sunday of the grave consequences of Israel’s threats to carry out what could be...
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...
US escalates war on Iran – TUC must be forced to call general strike...
ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump issued his latest threat that American military forces would force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Dubbed ‘Project...
Sinn Fein Ready To Embrace The Psni
THE decision by Sinn Fein to accept the north of Ireland law courts and the police service wholeheartedly (including the special branch) completes the...
Down With The US ‘Proximity Talks’
US VICE-PRESIDENT Joe Biden is in Israel where he has declared that the just agreed ‘proximity talks’, which will see US envoy George Mitchell...
Corporatist union leaders are serving the bosses
WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...
Nationalise BA – Get Rid Of Work-For-Nothing Capitalism
THE Willie Walsh plan for rescuing BA from the capitalist crisis is quite straightforward. He has gone beyond wage cuts, he wants ‘his’ 40,000...
Tuition fees must go!
STUDENTS going to university this autumn will face £3,000 a year tuition fees for the second year. But the trebling of fees –...
Financial Crisis Worsening, Says The Imf
IN its just-published Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF has found that ‘Confidence remains fragile despite recent policy actions’, and that the ‘Euro area...
Abandon The ‘Fantasy Of The Right To Return’ Demands Netanyahu
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu put the final nails into the coffin of the two state solution when he urged, on Monday, that...
Hands off Serwotka – Sack the Coalition!
AT a time when the whole of the working class and the middle class is under the most savage attacks from the Tory Lib-Dem...
Sunak wants to abolish university degrees that don’t churn out ‘high earners’
YESTERDAY, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak announced the latest attack on higher education with proposals to ‘limit the access’ to university degrees in England...
Trump and Pompeo encourage Zionist Israel, while Biden prepares to accept land seizures!
ISRAEL is in a race against time to create a fait accompli in Palestine before US President Donald Trump leaves office, Palestinian Prime Minister...
World Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes In Defence Of Iran And Palestine!
US PRESIDENT Trump has pledged to give Iran a beating after it fired ballistic missiles at American bases in Jordan. The US and Saudi Arabia...
US And UK Ruling Classes Have Been Undermined By Defeat In Afghanistan!
THE RULING US Democratic Party, led by President Biden, was yesterday being pressed by its NATO allies to delay the US rapid retreat (rout)...
Car industry collapses in UK and Europe under impact of capitalist crisis
THE BRITISH car industry is steadily collapsing as a result of the world economic crisis, figures produced yesterday highlighted. According to the Society of Motor...
Gove declares war on state education! Kick the Tories out!
THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has unleashed yet another broadside against state education and the teaching profession in a speech on Monday where...
Army publicly breaks with the Blair government
YESTERDAY’S statement by the army commander in chief, Dannatt, represented a major intervention into politics by a bourgeois officer corps that is supposed to...