Israel is preparing a massive ground attack on Gaza – the TUC must be...
AFTER 21 days of political paralysis, the US House of Representatives finally elected Mike Johnson, a fervent Donald Trump supporter, as its Speaker. Johnson’s first...
US to arm Ukrainian coupists
US imperialism has reacted to the breakdown of talks at the weekend of the Contact Group on Ukrainian reconciliation with threats to massively intervene...
Bush Gives Go-Ahead F0R Iraqi Regime Change
US President George W Bush on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to the US occupation army in Iraq and all those who support the...
Abbas calls for a Government of the State of Palestine!
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday that, ‘We are here today for all of us...
THE STERN REVIEW: Trust me, I’m a banker!
ON WEDNESDAY Sir Nicholas Stern presented his Review of the Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown. Stern is the Chief Economist...
Tories hand billions to private rail companies while demanding workers keep TfL from...
THE TORIES unveiled this week proposals for funding Transport for London (TfL) that will force the working and middle class to bear the huge...
Production down, inflation up, pensioners savings destroyed – the ‘recovery’ so far!
INFLATION may stay above 3% during the rest of this year, according to Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England. He...
‘We want the world to recognise the state of Palestine’ – PM Shtayyeh
THE PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has issued orders to his cabinet members to immediately start work on implementing the decision of the Palestinian...
Ttip Is Dead Says German Economy Minister!
BLURTING out the truth, the German economy minister, Sigmar Gabriel, has pronounced the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a free trade deal long...
US sanctions UN human rights expert after her damning ‘economy of genocide’ report on...
FRANCESCA Albanese, the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has been sanctioned by the US government after she...
Reject BA Sell-Out!
THERE can be only one response by BA cabin crew to the latest attempt by the national leadership of Unite to impose a ‘settlement’...
US trade unions organising for a general strike if Trump refuses to leave
WITH LESS than two weeks to go before the US presidential election on November 3rd, president Donald Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton...
The split in the British ruling class is clearing the way for the British...
THE POUND was sent crashing down yesterday against the US dollar and the euro prompting the bourgeois press to howl about ‘the end of...
Venezuela must not support the Rajapakse regime!
THE Sri Lankan working class, both Tamil and Sinhalese, is suffering under the ‘iron heel’ of the Rajapakse dictatorship. This has killed tens of thousands...
Arrogant Trump Assumes His Bonaparte Pose While Threatening The Lives Of Hundreds Of...
THE ARROGANT would-be dictator Trump has issued the workers of the world with his ultimatum that they must either stand and deliver to him...
Permanent recession for Europe as sanctions on Russia backfire on capitalism. Forward with European...
THE economies of every EU country face permanent recession according to Barclay’s Bank chief economist for the EU, Sylvia Ardagna, under the impact of...
British Capitalism Is Bankrupt – TUC Must Defend Wages And Jobs With A General...
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is expected to mount a billion pound rescue operation to postpone energy-intensive British basic industries from going under, as gas...
Gaza children face death from starvation – the UK trade unions must act to...
THE Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has renewed its warning of an imminent humanitarian disaster in the enclave due to the...
Defend the NHS! Come to NE London Council of Action Conference!
EARLIER this week Chancellor Alistair Darling promised the most draconian cuts in public spending for 20 years as a result of the Labour government’s...
Right wing Labour tosses its bomb into the Labour Party conference!
RIGHT WING Labour threw its bomb into the Labour Party conference yesterday when it penned an open letter suggesting that the UK should remain...
Bush plans coming unstuck in Pakistan
PRESIDENT Musharraf swore in a new caretaker puppet government yesterday to lead crisis-hit Pakistan towards rigged elections in January, when demonstrations and all rallies...
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...
54% increase in energy bills means destitution for millions! Nationalise entire industry! General strike...
YESTERDAY, the energy regulator Ofgem announced the amount by which charges for gas and electricity will shoot up in April as it raised the...
Cameron takes a begging bowl to India
PRIME Minister David Cameron and the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government have decamped from London to New Delhi this week to drum up business, such...
NHS privateers off-shore tax haven bonanza exposed
WHILE the NHS is being brought to its knees financially through austerity cuts, with hospitals and entire health authorities facing bankruptcy, NHS privateers are...
Free Julian Assange – Jail The Imperialist Butchers
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was arrested in London yesterday and is now in jail, awaiting hearings to extradite him to Sweden where he will...
The Egyptian Revolution Pushes Forward!
THE leading group representing the Egyptian bourgeoisie, around President Mursi, who is known as Mubarak with a beard, has just been massively shocked by...
Workers, the poor and pensioners are being starved to pay for the Tory crisis....
A LANDMARK research study by the Trussel Trust has revealed the excruciating extent of food poverty across Britain as the working class, the middle...
The capitalist state cannot be reformed – it must be smashed and replaced with...
IN THE TORY leadership campaign, of the six candidates left after the first round of voting five went to Oxford University and every one...
All out for the News Line–Gate Gourmet sacked workers conference
THE sacked Gate Gourmet workers were locked out almost six months ago on August 10th-11th 2005 by a management and an owner that was...
Myanmar – working class intervene with national strikes to bring down military dictatorship
WORKERS across Myanmar (formally Burma) came out on a nationwide general strike yesterday demanding the overthrow of the military dictatorship which was imposed last...
World Crisis Blowing US Trade Union Leaders Apart
THE American workers are facing major problems, caused by the deepening crisis of the world capitalist system. Among these problems are the export of millions...
Put Blair and Brown in the dock over C.difficile deaths
THE blood price paid by the public for the running of the NHS as a business, with the private sector at its centre and...
Free The Prisoners Says Hamas And Stop Zionist Gaza Aggression!
‘LET Christmas celebrations be a global occasion to intensify all forms of global solidarity, to stop the Zionist aggression on Gaza,’ the Hamas Movement...
Tories’ Enabling Act Brings In Open Bourgeois Dictatorship
THE UK government in alliance with the Labour Party has over a three-day period pushed through an emergency law, the Data Retention and Investigatory...
Unions to call for London-wide strike action to defeat Tory attack on TfL workers
RAIL unions have pledged mass industrial action in response to the Tory attacks on the jobs, pay and pensions of workers at TfL (Transport...
Wild optimism at Davos
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, ended last Saturday. The four days of the forum...
Victory To Syria – Down With The US, UK And Israel
THE unprovoked air strike by Israeli forces on a scientific research centre on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus is the opening shot...
Mass arrests in Pakistan – general elections ‘postponed’
GENERAL Pervez Musharraf has carried out his second military coup. The first made him president, and last weekend’s, in his own words, ‘prevented the...
US sanctions on Iran are, in fact, a declaration of war on the Iranian...
PRESIDENT Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton has stated that the United States is exerting ‘unprecedented pressure on the government of Iran to change...
Starving Yemenis Are Eating Leaves – While The UK Supplies Saudis With Bombs And...
YEMENI families are starving with nothing to eat but leaves as Saudi Arabia steps up its deadly bombing campaign using British bombs and missiles...
Make Capitalism History! The Way To End Poverty
TODAY’S Edinburgh march to ‘Make Poverty History’ will be led by Bishops, Cardinals and boss class politicians, in other words, by the religious and...
Euro Crisis Intensifies!
GERMANY’S Chancellor, Angela Merkel, says she is satisfied with the EU deal to help finance the debt-laden eurozone banks without the sovereign state, in...
Call A General Strike Now!
THE demand for a general strike to bring down the government has been driven by the working class onto the immediate agenda of the...
Major tax rises are on the way. Bring down the Labour government and bring...
‘TAX rises are inevitable’ warned economists yesterday, barely 12 months after Labour’s election pledge of ‘No tax rises’. This is after PM Keir Starmer’s...